Blood mingled with the damp air. It had an unsettling odor. Su Xuan turned his head and saw a teenager, about thirteen or fourteen years old, holding a short knife in one hand and a wild rabbit weighing five or six pounds in the other. Fresh blood was dripping from the rabbit. The youth possessed a maturity, coldness, and wildness that was utterly unlike his peers. He stood there like a merciless young leopard. His very presence was intimidating. "Little Fang, you’ve gone hunting rabbits again?" the old village chief said hastily to the youth. "We have guests! Hurry up and get that cleaned up, don’t scare them!" The youth didn’t speak. He just glanced at Su Xuan and the others, then carried the rabbit to a tree in the yard. He hung it up and, with a few deft strokes of his knife, skinned the rabbit cleanly... Su Zimo quickly turned her head away. "Haha, don’t be scared, everyone!" the old village chief hurriedly explained. "Little Fang is a bit reclusive and doesn’t communicate much. This is his... special way of welcoming you. You know, like slaughtering a cow or sheep for honored guests. Hehe, hehehe!" Then he looked toward the young girl standing at the door and smiled warmly. "Xiao Yun is much more lively and enthusiastic. Come, Xiao Yun, let me introduce you. These big brothers and sisters are here to help with the disaster relief, and now they’ve come to your family’s home..." "Understood! Thank you, big brothers and big sisters!" The pretty girl, Xiao Yun, was indeed very warm. As soon as the village chief finished speaking, she immediately bowed to Su Xuan and the others. Guo Yuxiang couldn’t help but glance toward the collar of Xiao Yun’s T-shirt. But when he recalled her frightening brother, he immediately averted his gaze. He certainly didn’t want to end up like that poor rabbit, hung from a tree and flayed with a knife... "You all haven’t eaten dinner yet, have you?" Xiao Yun asked, giving everyone a radiant smile. "I’ll go prepare it right away!" Without even waiting to receive the disaster relief supplies, she hurried into the kitchen to get to work. Smoke from the chimney began to rise in the wind. THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! Her brother, silent as ever, had entered the kitchen and was chopping the freshly skinned rabbit into pieces with a cleaver. Xiao Yun glanced at her brother. "Brother, we have a lot of guests. One rabbit won’t be enough." Her brother’s gaze fell on the large black dog wandering in the courtyard. "Then we’ll kill Da Hei." "But Da Hei is pregnant with wolf pups!" Xiao Yun protested. Her brother looked toward the old village chief. The old village chief hurriedly looked up at the sky. "Ah, what fine weather we’re having today!" Suddenly, Xiao Yun’s eyes lit up as if she’d remembered something. She blinked. "There are still two ’fried dough sticks’ in the jar under the bed. Let’s use those to treat our guests!" "Okay," her brother replied. Xiao Yun hopped out of the kitchen. She went into the other room and brought out a jar from under the bed. Right in front of Su Xuan and the others, she reached her fair little hand into the jar and pulled out two venomous snakes with golden stripes! In the blink of an eye, using her small hands, she had snapped both snakes dead! The scene left everyone completely dumbfounded. "I don’t think we should eat here," Guo Yuxiang stammered, his legs trembling and his face pale. "And we definitely shouldn’t stay the night! Let’s just deliver the supplies and get out of here!" Lu Dachun was no better off; he had already started backing toward the courtyard entrance. It was already getting dark, and they were in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by wild mountains. They were staying with a pair of incredibly strange siblings who behaved in incredibly strange ways. Adding to the unease, the large black dog kept drooling whenever it looked at them. Even the seemingly ordinary old village chief was acting quite peculiar... Damn it! Isn’t this just like being in a horror movie?! Su Zimo also felt a chill run down her spine. She couldn’t help but lower her voice and whisper to Su Xuan, who was standing right beside her. "Su Xuan... these two have lived alone for years. They might have... psychological problems." But she suddenly realized Su Xuan was gone. Hey, Su Xuan! Where are you? "Where’s Brother Su?" Guo Yuxiang exclaimed, suddenly noticing Su Xuan was gone. "He was standing right there a second ago!" Lu Dachun said. "Yes, right beside me!" Su Zimo added. The two Kangnai medical staffers could only say, "We were just watching the siblings..." A living person had vanished from right under their noses, making the eerie atmosphere even more bizarre. Guo Yuxiang tried to analyze the situation calmly. "Do you think Brother Su got scared and ran off?" Su Zimo shook her head. "He’s not a coward. Have you already forgotten how he risked his life to save you?" "Maybe there’s something strange about this yard," Lu Dachun mused. He remembered a horror movie where a few tourists wandered into an old house and then disappeared one by one. They never even found their bodies. Just as everyone was confused and letting their imaginations run wild, a burst of hearty laughter came from outside the courtyard. Clutching a handful of something, Su Xuan came running back from outside the courtyard. Beaming, he went straight into the frightening kitchen and stood right in front of the unnerving brother and sister. The moment Xiao Yun saw what was in Su Xuan’s hands, her eyes lit up. "Cicada nymphs!" Her brother, Little Fang, had his eyes light up as well. "Good stuff!" Su Xuan smiled and nodded. "This disaster hasn’t been all bad. The heavy rain saturated the soil, so these cicada nymphs seized the opportunity to emerge. They’ve brought us a delicacy!" "Yes! Yes!" the siblings nodded eagerly. Xiao Yun quickly grabbed a dented aluminum basin to take the cicada nymphs from Su Xuan, but then she frowned. "This isn’t enough." Her brother frowned too. "It’s too little." "Don’t worry," Su Xuan said. "When I do something, I make sure it’s more than enough. Look here, you two." Su Xuan pulled open each of his pockets, revealing they were all stuffed with cicada nymphs. He emptied them all into the basin, filling it more than halfway. "Now this is enough!" the sister said. "This is definitely enough!" the brother added. The two siblings looked up at Su Xuan, and a warm smile spread across both their faces—a smile the old village chief had never seen on them before. Th-this... Holy crap, Brother Su is on another level! He instantly hit it off with those two little monsters! He even got their approval! They look like they’re his own kind! Guo Yuxiang was dumbfounded. Su Zimo was dumbfounded. Lu Dachun was dumbfounded. Follow current novels on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✶𝕟𝕖𝕥 Even the two Kangnai medical staffers, who had seen their fair share of strange people and events, were utterly dumbfounded. The male staffer spoke. "I could tell at a glance those two have psychological issues." "Yes, I saw it too," the female staffer added. "But Mr. Su managed to get through to them in just a few minutes. That’s far more impressive than any of our Kangnai psychologists." "I have a psychologist’s license," the male staffer admitted, "and I have to say, I’m no match for him." Village Chief Sun interjected, "To be honest, the siblings do have a mental illness. In the last five years, your Mr. Su is the first stranger to get close to them, and the first person to ever make them smile." Hearing this, Su Zimo didn’t know what came over her. A tender chord in her heart trembled, and her eyes began to well up. She took a deep breath, walked to Su Xuan’s side, and whispered, "Su Xuan, can you tell me why you did that?" Su Xuan just whispered a single sentence in reply. And Su Zimo’s tears began to fall...