"I think something extraordinary may have appeared deep in the Great Wilderness and drawn the Primordial Remnant Species from the surrounding lands."
Shi Yunfeng's voice rang out.
"Could it be the Mountain Treasure?" another elderly voice asked, startled.
"Then..."
They suddenly stopped talking. Someone had come to report that the stranger the village had taken in today had arrived.
Meng Chuan merely smiled at their reaction. It was perfectly normal to be wary of a stranger.
Meng Chuan had heard Shi Yunfeng and the others talking from far away. It was not as though they had said those things in front of him.
Was it a problem for an ordinary mortal to have slightly better hearing?
Clearly not.
"Young friend Yuan, is something the matter?" Shi Yunfeng and the others came out to ask Meng Chuan.
At his age, there was nothing wrong with addressing someone who looked no older than his early twenties that way.
"I came to thank you again for taking me in, Chief Shi," Meng Chuan said. "And if there's anything I can help with in the village, just say the word. I won't refuse."
Shi Yunfeng and the others exchanged glances, unsure whether Meng Chuan was merely being polite.
In the end, they invited him into Shi Linhu's courtyard as well.
"Chief, it's been some time since we last went into the mountains. We're running low on food," Shi Linhu said. It was hardly a matter that had to be kept secret.
As long as Meng Chuan stayed here, he would notice them going out to hunt for food even if they said nothing.
"The mountains haven't been very peaceful lately," Shi Yunfeng said worriedly.
In the Great Wilderness, hunting was their chief source of food.
"If it's a matter of going into the mountains,