The strong man's words left Bob speechless. He also stopped talking and stood aside, coldly watching the two frail little girls being taken away by the two strong men.
Although his daughter looked at him with pleading eyes, and although in his heart he still thought he was her father.
"Bonnie, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought you here..." Seeing that her father was unwilling to save them, Leila sobbed and whispered an apology to Bonnie.
She was full of regret at this moment. If she had known that something like this would happen, she would not have asked her friend to come...
Not knowing whether she heard her friend's apology or not, Bonnie didn't respond all the time. She just trembled and cried instinctively.
"Grr..."
A low growl like that of a fierce dog came, which made all five people present stunned.
The two strong men subconsciously turned their heads and saw a scene that horrified them to death. They loosened their grip on the girls, allowing the two girls to break free.
In the depths of the hazy forest, the outline of a huge and astonishing beast was extremely clear. Its single eye, which glowed faintly, was looking at the two strong men with great malice, and the low growl like a warning from a fierce dog also indicated this.
Although the two strong men were underworld thugs, had killed people, and had heard some rumors about magical beasts, facing one in person was completely different from what they had imagined. The feeling that their lives were not completely in their own control made them tremble.
Bob also saw the figure of the beast. His lips trembled, and his crotch was wet. Then he shouted out: "My God! Don't come over!"
When the shout came out, Bob had already started to flee. The two strong men woke up as if from a dream and also ran away desperately, no longer caring about their target this time.
Since breaking free from the restraint, Leila and Bonnie had been hugging each other tightly. They didn't look at the surrounding environment but only heard the shouts of the three men.
They knew that something had happened that frightened the three men, but they didn't dare to look up to confirm.
After a few seconds, Leila summoned up the courage to slowly raise her head. There was no one else around except them. She tried to look in the direction where the dog - like growl had come from, and there was no abnormality there either.
"I... we should go, Bonnie. Get up quickly." She struggled to help up her frightened friend, patted the dust on the other's skirt, and then patted her own. Then they walked towards Dude Town with great vigilance.
...
Inside the room.
Glen was packing things, preparing to take the beast into the deep forest around Byeck Town to hunt later, and then sell the prey in Dude Town.
And this was the temporary source of income he had thought of.
Just as he had finished packing the tools, suddenly he heard a slight noise outside the room. Glen put down the things and opened the door.
The beast's ferocious large face appeared outside the door. Its single eye stared at him, and sticky saliva dripped down.
"What's the matter?" Glen raised his eyebrows and said.
The beast licked its nose, opened its big mouth slightly, and let out a series of incomprehensible whines, which were very human - like and also very funny.
Others surely couldn't understand what it wanted to express, but Glen could.
"You mean that the two girls met three men outside and those men wanted to bully them, and you scared those three men away?" Glen tentatively said what the beast meant.
Finally, he narrowed his eyes slightly and murmured in a low voice: "Normally, no one would come near here and just happen to stop Leila and them... Heh, the target was either Leila or Bonnie. Anyway, it's good that they are okay."
Looking up and seeing that the beast was still standing there, fixedly looking at him, Glen didn't understand why, but noticed the eagerness in its eyes. He paused for a moment and said, "You did a good job."
The beast that received the compliment immediately showed an extremely excited state, like a frisky big dog jumping and bouncing in Glen's front yard.
This change surprised Glen a great deal. He quickly made the beast stop, lest it trample his yard.
So you are such a beast... Glen, who grabbed the beast, was speechless.
The just - now movement might have alerted some neighbors because Glen felt several gazes falling here.
He just casually looked at the house where one of the gazes came from, and then gave the beast an order to wait for him outside the town. After it left, he went to get the tools he had just prepared.
Inside a two - story house, behind a second - floor window, a puppet in a blue vest put down a corner of the curtain, and the room became dim again. Only the faint candlelight on the table illuminated the room.
"That new neighbor is too noisy. It will disturb Ena." The puppet made a strange sound, but without any intonation.
"Palindes, you are too stingy. It's already boring here. Isn't it better to be a bit more lively?" Another voice rang out, also without any intonation, but it was a lovely female voice.
"I'm concerned about you, my sister. I don't want anyone to hurt you again. This is unacceptable to me."
The puppet in the blue vest walked to the wooden table, and its joints made a creaking sound.
"No one will hurt me here. You are making a fuss over nothing, Palindes. We should try to go out. When the master made us, he surely didn't want us to become homebodies!"
Another puppet with female features approached the candlelight, showing its appearance.
Compared with Palindes, the puppet in the blue vest, Ena was obviously more lifelike and more like a human. She had delicate facial features, smooth blond hair, and an elegant dress, like a princess in a fairy tale. It could be seen that her maker had put a lot of effort into her.
"Ena, I know you have had enough of this life here over the years, but until we hear from the master, we'd better not show ourselves to outsiders." Palindes continued to persuade, and this time his tone could be clearly heard as being well - intentioned.
"Locking ourselves in this closed place, how can we possibly get news from the master? Even if there is news about the master outside, how can it reach here? You wooden - headed fool!"
Ena's words left Palindes speechless.
Seeing that her brother had nothing to say, Ena slowed down her tone and whispered, "My dearest brother, the master may be looking for us everywhere. Even if we don't go to look for her, we should at least walk around nearby and inquire about the news! If we keep staying here all the time, mushrooms will grow on my body..."
Palindes wanted to say that mushrooms won't grow on our bodies, but it was meaningless to discuss this, so he relented and said, "All right, but we can only walk around nearby. We mustn't go any farther."
"Brother, I love you!" Ena kissed Palindes on the face with a smack.
...
Outside the town.
Glen rode on the beast and shuttled through the thick deep forest. He had noticed a lot of animal footprints and droppings near here when he first transmigrated, so hunting should not be difficult.
With a werewolf - like physique, various scents in the air couldn't escape his nose. At this time, he was tracking a group of wild boars. He had remembered this smell last time, so it was relatively easy to find them