Sleep!

Tang Fei returned to the living room. The old man and Little Fatty were sitting at the table, each holding a large bowl and drinking mutton soup.

"Brother, it's time to eat," Little Fatty said, looking up at Tang Fei and greeting him. "I saved the meat broth for you."

"Okay."

Tang Fei walked over and sat down, picking up his large bowl and starting to eat. There was soup and meat, seasoned with salt, and a sprinkle of chili for decoration. Today was a good improvement to their lives.

"Is that little woman dealt with?" the old man asked, slurping his soup without looking up.

"She's been dealt with," Tang Fei replied.

"What are you planning to do?" the old man asked.

Tang Fei looked up at the old man and asked, "What do you mean?"

"She came from New Star, and she arrived in an escape pod. What was she escaping from? And who wanted to kill her?" the old man asked.

He chewed on a large piece of lamb liver and looked at Tang Fei. "Most importantly, will those people come looking for us?"

"We agreed that she would leave once her injuries healed a bit," Tang Fei said.

"Hmm, that's one way to handle it," the old man nodded. "But that's not like you."

"What?" Tang Fei looked up at the old man.

"With your cowardly nature, you wouldn't easily bring a stranger home. What's going on today?" the old man questioned.

"How can you call me cowardly? I'm just being cautious," Tang Fei argued indignantly.

He paused, then explained, "I just thought it wasn't right to leave someone in the wilderness. Especially since she was seriously injured and couldn't move easily. Leaving her there would have been a death sentence."

"Speak plainly."

"I originally intended to leave her, but she looked at me, and our eyes met." Tang Fei became a little embarrassed. "I thought she was quite beautiful, so I carried her back."

"Brother, I think she's quite beautiful too," Fatty chimed in. "She's just too thin, doesn't look like she has much strength, not suitable for stone fighting."

Smack!

The old man hit Little Fatty on the head and cursed, "What's it to you?"

Little Fatty looked wronged but didn't dare argue with the old man. He quickly picked up his bowl and slurped his soup.

"Don't always hit him," Tang Fei frowned, looking at Little Fatty. "And don't hit his head; you'll make him stupid."

"With his intelligence, hitting him is just helping him open up," the old man said, displeased with Tang Fei interfering with his methods of educating Little Fatty. "We're talking about you now. You thought she was good-looking, so you carried her back. Do you want to keep her?"

"Do you think I can keep her?" Tang Fei asked.

"No."

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"I'm not trying to discourage you," the old man said, seeing Tang Fei fall silent. He thought Tang Fei's young heart had been hurt. It was natural for a young man to be attracted to someone, so he tried to comfort him. "Think about her face and figure, her clothes and demeanor, the aura she exudes with every move. Do you think this barren land can keep someone like that?"

"Does she like that you haven't showered in a long time, or that you haven't cut your hair in years? Or perhaps she enjoys the thrill of never knowing where the next meal is coming from? You need to know your place."

"When did you ever see her make any moves?" Tang Fei pouted. He hated it when the old man put on that act of pretending to know things to lecture him. "When you saw her, she was still unconscious."

"Imagination. Pure imagination, do you understand? With that kind of face and aura, if she wore a long evening gown with a slit up to here..." As the old man spoke, he lewdly gestured a large V-shape at his chest. "Or if she wore a handsome Phoenix Empire uniform, how radiant would she be?"

"Oh, she said her name was Phoenix," Tang Fei said.

The old man's expression stiffened for a moment, then he relaxed and said, "There are probably eight thousand Phoenixes in the Phoenix Empire. It's nothing special."

Tang Fei nodded, looking at the old man with a puzzled expression. "You seem very familiar with the Phoenix Empire? You talk as if you've been to New Star."

"Have I never seen a pig run just because I haven't eaten pork? Have you forgotten who I am? I'm the most famous guide in the Hate Mountain settlement. When VIPs from New Star wanted to explore tombs, could they do without me? I've heard them talk about many things on New Star."

"Look at you getting all proud," Tang Fei couldn't help but pour cold water on the old man. "You've only heard a few things from others, and you act like you've lived there for many years."

"I wouldn't go there! What's so good about New Star? It's not as good as our Hate Mountain," the old man said, crunching on the double-headed sheep meat in his mouth. "Here, we eat whatever we want, we fight stones if we want, we don't shower if we don't want to. Can they compare?"

"There are no wild beasts on New Star, no acid rain, and you don't have to fight stones every day. I heard they use machines," Fatty interjected.

"You know nothing!" The old man glanced at Fatty. "There are people up there, densely packed people. Human hearts are far more terrifying than the fangs of wild beasts."

"You've never fought a wild beast, so what do you know?" Tang Fei countered from the side.

Ever since he could remember, he had to grab a shovel and dig for mountain earthworms and field mice.

From childhood to adulthood, he had shouldered the burden of his family's livelihood.

"Nonsense. Weren't you two raised by me, feeding you and changing your diapers when you were little? Could you hunt as soon as you crawled out of your mother's womb? If I hadn't gone hunting back then, what would you two have eaten? What would you have drunk?" the old man cursed angrily.

Tang Fei and Little Fatty fell silent.

The old man was speaking the truth, and they couldn't refute it.

The old man looked at Tang Fei and said, "Don't be too upset. People who don't belong here are just passersby in life. It's like the prey you bring back every day. Today it's a double-headed sheep, tomorrow it's a wild boar. The end result is just that you eat it."

Tang Fei was shocked. "Didn't we agree that we don't eat people?"

Smack!

The old man slapped Tang Fei on the head, saying with disappointment, "I wasn't talking about eating that."

"Then how do we eat?"

"Sleep. I said sleep."

"Why should I sleep with her? Isn't it better for me to sleep alone in a bed? It's big and wide, I can sleep however I want, roll around however I want."

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The old man looked at Tang Fei, then at Little Fatty who had buried his head in the big bowl, and thought that the adolescent issues of these two brats also needed to be taken seriously.

But how should he educate them in this regard?

He couldn't find a woman to demonstrate it for them on the spot.

Besides, he couldn't find a woman.

Of course, there were quite a few women in the human settlement. With his robust physique and his skill at building stone houses, he figured there would be plenty of women willing to sleep with him.

He just wasn't interested in them.

"Anyway, the 'eating' I'm talking about is not the same as the 'eating' you're thinking of, and the 'sleeping' I'm talking about is not the same as your usual sleeping," the old man said, looking exasperated. "Anyway, when this young lady leaves, don't you go crying about it."

"How could I? I can't wait for her to leave," Tang Fei said.

The old man looked at Tang Fei with doubt and asked, "Why?"

"We agreed that after she returns to New Star, she will give me a flying car, three pulse guns, and a ton of supplies as thanks for saving her life."

"Think about it, with these, I can drive a flying car out to find prey, carry a pulse gun, and kill anyone who stands in my way. Even if I encounter a mutated King Kong Tiger, I can rip off its hind legs and make them into skewers for you."

"Are you stupid?" The old man stared at Tang Fei with surprise, feeling that all his years of education had been a complete failure. "You believe a woman's words?"

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"Didn't I tell you the story of 'The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber'? What did Zhang Wuji's mother say to him? Don't believe women, the prettier they are, the more they lie. That young lady you brought back is so good-looking, with a chest and a butt, she must be a great liar."

Tang Fei looked at the old man and said with a smile, "Even without these things, I would still have brought her back, wouldn't I?"

"That's true," the old man nodded. "You're all bark and no bite. If you weren't always helping out those orphans and widows outside, our lives wouldn't be like this."

"They've helped us a lot too, mending and patching things for us three old men all the time. It's just returning the favor. Since we were going to save her anyway, if she's willing to repay us, and gives us things we need, then that's all the better. If not... we can just consider it a good deed, like saving a stray cat or a stray dog. Don't you think so?"

The old man looked at Tang Fei and asked, "Did she really promise to give these things?"

"Yes," Tang Fei nodded. "At least, that's what she said."

"Hurry up and get a bowl, ladle some meat broth." The old man urged.

"What for?"

"We can't let our honored guest who has traveled a long way go hungry. She's weak now and can't eat meat, so give her more broth that's easier to swallow. Mutton is nourishing and will help her recover faster so she can leave sooner. If such a beautiful young lady gets lost, her family elders must be worried sick."

"Got it," Tang Fei agreed.

Little Fatty looked up at the old man, then at Tang Fei who was busy ladling the soup, and sighed softly.