CHAPTER 1851: CHAPTER 874 LOOKING AT THE GOLD MINE_2

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The girl cautiously blinked her eyelashes quickly and then slowly opened them a crack: "It’s so dark, I can’t see anything?"

"There are stars in the sky..." Yan Fei prompted her.

The girl continued to slowly open her eyes. When her eyes were only open a tiny slit, she couldn’t see the bright places clearly, but as they opened wider, she saw the vast expanse of starlight.

Years later, people would have long forgotten the feeling of looking up at the sky at night and seeing countless stars. But fortunately, Yanfei and the others still often looked at them. When she saw so many stars, the girl’s heart gradually calmed down.

Then she began to tentatively, slowly turn her head to look around.

No matter how many stars there were, the primeval world in the mountains was still extremely dark. There were dark mountains all around, the sound of the forests being blown by the wind, and in the distance, faint beast roars.

Even nearby, nothing could be seen, only a portion of the mountain seemed to be missing, looking pitch black.

"Why is it night here too?" the girl asked cautiously. "I can’t see anything, it’s so dark and scary..."

It was only then that Yan Fei suddenly thought of a question: logically, when he was at home, night and day were consistent with the dinosaur world. When he arrived here, shouldn’t it be the opposite? How come it was still the same with nighttime and daytime as where he was?

He only thought about this question for a moment and then ignored it.

Because he clearly felt that his wife was getting more tense because of the wilderness and darkness around them.

"Why don’t I take you to the base to have a look?" Yan Fei thought for a moment and asked. "There are quite a lot of people there, all working for our family."

Using ’our family’ was to let his wife accept the fact that he had a large group of laborers. Otherwise, he was afraid she might suddenly start talking about equality for everyone in the dinosaur world, which would be quite a fun challenge for him.

"No..." The girl suddenly buried her head in his arms again. "I want to go back first."

Then let’s go back!

At the instant those words were spoken, she felt something, opened her eyes, and saw that the two of them were on the hotel bed, with that guy holding her and laughing foolishly at her!

"We’re back already?" For the rapidly changing situation, the girl who hadn’t quite got her bearings yet asked subconsciously.

"Yes." Yan Fei nodded. "Just think about going in, and think about coming out."

After pausing for a moment, he added with a bitter face: "Otherwise, why do you think I often got inexplicably beaten by grandpa later on..."

"Haha..." The girl couldn’t help but laugh.

In an instant, she could think of countless times hearing the cries of fool from the courtyard wall next door. Usually, the crying was accompanied by something like "I won’t dare anymore, I won’t dare again."

At that time, she actually felt a bit lucky that even though her own father didn’t like her very much, probably because she was a girl, he seldom hit her for making mistakes—though frankly, Old Xu’s gloomy face every day, like everyone owed him a meat debt, scared the three girls into not daring to make mistakes without even scolding them.

"Want me to take you to my secret cave next time?" Yan Fei suddenly thought of something else and said. "It’s the first little island I found. I found a cave on the cliff, my very first secret base. Oh, by the way, there are a lot of Compsognathus and Pterosaurs on that island, no large terrestrial dinosaurs. The chicken soup and eggs we first ate were actually Compsognathus and Pterosaur eggs. There are still many treasures of mine in that cave now!"

"Really, then take me there quickly." The girl immediately became interested. The words "secret base" were still quite tempting to her. She wanted to see what this guy had been doing there alone.

Although she had heard all his stories, at that time, the girl only thought he was bragging, and some she had almost forgotten. And without thinking, she knew he was surely hiding a lot from her; he couldn’t have told her everything.

"Then wait a moment..." Yan Fei said, placing her securely on the bed. "I’ll go turn on the light."

With that, he disappeared.

Watching him suddenly disappear and then look at the empty bedroom, the girl suddenly couldn’t help but feel afraid—even though the bedroom couldn’t be truly empty, it was only because he wasn’t there.

Fortunately, before she could do anything, Yan Fei appeared back beside her, expertly holding her: "Let’s go!"

The light suddenly dimmed.

A small cave, not big, with tables, chairs, benches, and an oil lamp emitting light, illuminating the whole small cave.

The ground was spread with an old mat, piled with a bunch of miscellaneous stuff beside it...

Wind couldn’t blow into the cave from outside, but the faint sound of waves could be heard.

"Is this your secret base?" Xu Xiaoyan asked curiously. "Put me down."

Because the space was cramped and there was light, the girl’s courage increased, and she actively asked to be put down.

Yan Fei put her down and saw her start wandering around.

Then he felt much more relieved, feeling that she was still afraid the first time they came in, but after a few times, she shouldn’t be anymore, right? Moreover, there were many old things here, although not valuable, that should give the girl a touch of familiarity—so that she wouldn’t be too scared, Yan Sanfen had put in quite a bit of thought.

The first thing the girl looked at was the table with the oil lamp on it, and there were some paper things piled on it. She casually picked up a bundle and exclaimed, "Paper factory’s?"

"Yes!" Yan Fei chuckled. "Otherwise, why do you think our county sued the paper factory for so long with no results, and how come it suddenly met with disaster and closed down. Otherwise, could our cattle farm have developed this big?"

This was indeed true. Initially, it was out of righteous indignation that the paper factory was shut down. But it played a crucial role in the subsequent development of the cattle farm. If that river was still black and frightening, its stench detectable from afar, then for the cattle farm to develop, it had to find another place.

Especially the River Heart Island, it definitely couldn’t be built. Yan Fei wasn’t foolish enough to build a small island amid a stinky ditch. Was he that keen on dying early? If the river had remained polluted, an island in the middle would mean a short life.

Thinking about it, it seemed like a passive move that ended up playing a dragon-slaying role, really quite fortunate.

"What about the later rumors of transforming into a monster?" The girl didn’t get entangled with how the paper factory was, being from Sancha River township, there was natural hatred for that paper factory. Even if Yan Fei did it, she wouldn’t have any sympathy for the paper factory—people who haven’t seen that river’s pollution might not understand this sentiment. Anyone with a home near such a river would only feel that Yan Fei’s methods were too lenient.

In fact, looking back, Yan Fei himself thought he was too lenient back then, only messing around so the factory couldn’t operate. To be truly absolute, he should have caught the boss and sent him to the dinosaur world to work as a laborer for life, still not enough to vent his anger.

"Transformation into a monster was me!" Yan Fei answered carefully, afraid the girl would have some negative imagination. "Actually, I could transform into a dinosaur. No one in our rural area had ever seen a dinosaur back then."

"And the giant python?" The girl pressed on.

"...that was me too." Yan Fei replied and immediately remedied. "Don’t be scared. It’s not frightening. Actually, the black backpack you always carry is made from python skin. Real python skin. Didn’t I tell you before? What’s so scary about that, lots of people carry snake skin and crocodile skin bags, don’t they?"

Crocodile skin items were relatively common, although those dozens-of-dollars so-called crocodile skin items around Sancha River were mostly fake, but the patterns looked pretty similar.

Hearing him say this, the girl was silent for a while and accepted the fact—as she’d already experienced and personally visited another world, was there anything else she couldn’t accept? Besides, Yan Fei had already told her before that the bag was made from python skin.

"Then can you transform now and show me?" The girl suddenly widened her eyes, summoning her courage to stare at him.

"Now?" Yan Fei was startled. "How about we wait until we return to the hotel? The lighting there is good, you can see clearly."

"..."

Silence, still silence.

Probably feeling still unprepared mentally, the girl thought about it for a while, gritted her teeth, and nodded lightly.

Yan Fei was immediately delighted and began to rummage through his pile of miscellaneous things: "Look, there are many things from childhood here. These are childhood sticker pictures, hmm, these few are candy wrappers. Right, you sneaked these candy wrappers from home for me to eat, I couldn’t bear to throw them away, and put them here. And my slingshot, and here are marbles, this is..."