Setting Sail

Staring at each other!

After a full ten minutes or so, Bai Yang raised his hands and placed them on Little Cat's shoulders.

"Sit down first."

"Oh."

Little Cat obediently sat down and looked at him. He sat down across from her as well.

Organizing his words in his mind, Bai Yang looked into Little Cat's eyes and said very seriously, one word at a time: "I understand what you mean..."

"Then will you take me, Young Master?"

Little Cat interrupted Bai Yang anxiously.

"..."

Bai Yang opened his mouth, then suddenly laughed. Why the hell was he agonizing over this? If heaven offered a gift and you didn't take it, you'd get struck by lightning!

Staring at Little Cat very seriously, he said, "From now on, you're my woman!"

Hearing the answer she wanted, Little Cat smiled. She smiled very happily, and the gloom was swept away.

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Suddenly, a mess of strange noises came from outside the house, followed by the sound of a crowd leaving...

Damn, Bai Yang was startled. So there were a lot of people eavesdropping outside?

Little Cat wiped her tears and looked at Bai Yang with a smile so tender it was like water.

Bai Yang felt extremely awkward, with a thrilling sense of guilt in his heart!

This girl belonged to him now. He hadn't spent any effort chasing her; she'd thrown herself at him. Jealous, huh...

Seeing the glaring small wound on Little Cat's neck, Bai Yang slapped his forehead and stood up, saying, "Wait for me."

He got up, went back to his own room, then flashed back to the villa on Earth, grabbed the first-aid kit, and flashed back again.

He put the first-aid kit on the table, opened it, took out the alcohol and cotton, wet the cotton, then came to Little Cat's side and said, "Be good, don't move. It might sting a little."

Little Cat blinked at him, nodded, and stayed perfectly still.

Bai Yang brought the alcohol-soaked cotton close, one hand steadying her shoulder. Maybe because their relationship had 'changed,' the touch made them both tremble slightly, as if shocked...

"Calm down, calm down. It's meat in the bowl, no need to get excited."

Calming himself down inwardly, he carefully wiped the bloodstains on her neck. When the alcohol touched the wound, Bai Yang clearly felt her muscles flinch from the pain, but she stayed obediently still.

Bai Yang leaned down. Their heads were only a few centimeters apart. Her warm, slightly sweet breath brushed against his ears and face, tickling him, making his mind wander. This girl, he could do whatever he wanted with her... ahem... stop...

The wound was tiny, just a scratch on the skin. After cleaning the blood, he put a band-aid on it, and that was it.

Bai Yang felt a bit dazed. Just like that, out of nowhere, he had a girl of his own. The feeling was incredibly strange, making it all seem unreal!

Little Cat's neck was long and beautiful, like a swan's. Her skin was a healthy wheat color, wild yet smooth as Dove chocolate.

The women here dressed very casually. The upper body was wrapped in a rough chest band, the lower body in a pair of shorts. Little Cat was dressed the same way. Above her chest band, there was nothing. Her slender waist was bare, and her two long legs had no cover either, comparable to fashionable girls back on Earth.

While treating the wound on her neck, if he lowered his head just a little, he'd see the deep cleavage squeezed out by the chest band over her full breasts, and below that, her straight, long legs. Damn, it almost made him, a young man full of vigor, lose control...

"I need to get her some clothes. With this outfit, I'd be losing out..."

He hadn't thought much of it before, since the women here were all pretty much the same. But now, with a different mindset, his selfish side was fully exposed.

Good heavens, Little Cat exercised often, and her figure was downright devilish. Especially her full chest—Bai Yang couldn't imagine how stunning it would be if she wore a bra!

He didn't dare think about it anymore...

Throughout the whole process, Little Cat's eyes were slightly narrowed. Her gaze was no longer anxious, but carried three parts shyness, three parts anticipation, three parts happiness, and one part fear...

A man serving a woman—this was something that didn't exist in Little Cat's understanding.

Not daring to look into Little Cat's watery eyes, Bai Yang packed up the first-aid kit while changing the subject. "Little Cat, tell me what you know."

"What does Young Master want to know?"

"Everything you know. The people here, the places around you, what you've seen, what you've learned. I want to know it all..."

Bai Yang gestured as he spoke.

Little Cat blinked, a little disappointed. She thought for a moment and said:

"The people in the village live by hunting. We gather wild fruits and herbs to trade for salt and iron tools... In this jungle, there are many, many villages like ours, scattered everywhere. We mountain folk don't know how to read. There's a lot we don't understand. The farthest we've ever been is Deyang Town. Grandpa went to a big city once when he was young, so he's the village chief. This world is very, very, very big. I've heard that people outside are very, very powerful. They're divided into divine path cultivators and martial path cultivators, but we don't understand any of it..."

Little Cat said a lot, but it was all vague and often incoherent. On top of that, Bai Yang couldn't understand much of it, so he didn't form a clear picture in his mind. He only had a fuzzy understanding of this world.

This world was huge—how huge, he didn't know. There were very, very powerful people in this world, but he had no clear concept of just how powerful they were.

"When do you go to that Deyang Town to trade?" Bai Yang gestured a few times and asked.

"I don't know. You'd have to ask Grandpa. Usually, when we've stored up enough furs, dried meat, herbs, and wine, we take them to Deyang Town to trade. Grandpa decides that."

"I see."

Bai Yang scratched his head. You people don't even have a fixed market day?

"I'll go ask Grandpa for you," Little Cat said.

Seeing Bai Yang's troubled expression, Little Cat took the initiative to help him by going to ask around, returning shortly after.

"I asked Grandpa. About three more days, and we can head to Deyang Town to trade..."

A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these days, Bai Yang was busy running back and forth, mainly making several trips to the Earth side, having Xiong Da specially cast a set of Titanium Alloy Equipment for Little Cat. After all, since Little Cat was 'his person,' he had to consider her safety. Because a single mold was used to make just one set of armor, Bai Yang spent a full five hundred thousand, and that was at a friend's price!

Bai Yang personally measured Little Cat's dimensions, and he didn't miss out on copping a feel along the way...

Bai Yang wasn't a 'vegetarian,' but he hadn't pushed the young girl over these past few days. There was a vicious woman called Aunt Flo standing in the way, preventing him from doing anything naughty...

Poor unlucky Bai Yang. He simply couldn't stand the local method of dealing with Aunt Flo using cloth strips mixed with plant ash, so he had to teach the girl how to use Sanitary Pads...

Aside from that, he also had to drop by his parents' place from time to time to maintain his presence, lest he become a missing person. The rest of his time was spent almost entirely in the village, where his language skills improved by a tiny bit...

Early one morning, the villagers were bustling with activity, even skipping their usual morning exercises, creating a scene of lively fervor.

Today was the day the villagers were heading to the so-called Deyang Town for trade.

Bai Yang, wearing a white T-shirt, jeans, outdoor leather boots, and a black trench coat, squatted listlessly on a large rock by the river in the middle of the village, watching the villagers busy themselves.

Behind him stood Little Cat, fully armed and never leaving his side. A few meters away was Zhao Shi, the fully armed captain of the guard.

On the river in the village, there were no boats, only four wooden rafts over thirty meters long. Under the villagers' efforts, the rafts were piled high with furs, smoked meat, large jars of Hundred Fruit Brew, and some plants and rough cloth that Bai Yang didn't recognize.

If Bai Yang hadn't strongly advised against it, the cloth he had given the villagers would have been sold too...

After a full two or three hours of hard work, the goods were finally loaded. Besides the cargo, each of the four rafts also carried twenty to thirty fully armed burly men.

As the morning sun rose, Bai Yang stepped to the front of the first raft, pointed forward, and shouted loudly:

"Move out...!"