Chapter 7: The Pitfall System

To be honest, Li Zhaodi couldn’t think of anyone else besides Luo Xingci who would treat them like this. Usually, even when the Luo family had conflicts with others outside, they would only argue verbally and wouldn’t catch rats and throw them on their beds. Old Lady Luo narrowed her eyes. Although she thought Luo Xingci wasn’t that bold, she really couldn’t think of anyone else. Besides, that bitch’s personality had changed drastically yesterday. Maybe she was really possessed by a ghost. Could it be that woman coming back for revenge? Thinking about this, Old Lady Luo shivered. Then she thought again. When that woman was alive, she wasn’t her opponent, and even more so after she died. She couldn’t even defeat her when she was alive, so she wouldn’t be able to defeat her after death. Wu Haixia had been bitten several times.

Thinking about the snakes from last night, her face turned pale, “Father, Mother, I will definitely find that bitch Luo Xingci today!” Luo Jianmin showed the bite marks on his arm, “Mother, could those snakes be poisonous? Will I die? Or is the poison already in my body? Woohoo, I don’t want to die.” He was most afraid of death. What would happen to his wife and children if he died like this? Li Zhaodi rolled her eyes and sneered, “Lao San, don’t you recognize this snake? It’s just a common Chinese water snake, where’s the poison? To be blunt, even if you die, don’t worry, your wife will have someone to take care of her.” She wasn’t trying to be mean, but based on her understanding of Wu Haixia, that woman wouldn’t be a widow. Maybe a few days after Luo Jianmin died, she would run away with her lover. Old Man Luo didn’t say anything the whole time. No one knew what he was thinking. His cloudy eyes were fixed on the room where Luo Xingci used to live, as if they were filled with poison. “Grandpa, Grandma, Father, Mother, what are you all doing sitting at the door? Don’t you have to go to work?” At this moment, Luo Jianmin’s son, Luo Jiapeng, saw them all sitting at the door. He shook off his grandmother’s hand and rushed towards them, knocking Luo Jianmin to the ground with a thud.

“Father, why are you so useless? Even I, a six-year-old child, can knock you down.” He looked around and didn’t see his sister, so he shouted, “Where’s my sister? Where did she go? Did you bully her again? Why are you so vicious?” Wu Haixia listened to her son. The whole time, it was as if he hadn’t seen his mother. As soon as he came back, he was looking for that bitch. She was so angry. She pretended to be in pain and howled a few times, but she didn’t even get a glance from her son. She was even angrier at Luo Xingci. After her mother brought Luo Jiapeng back, she saw that the whole family seemed to be in a bit of a mess. She didn’t stay long, afraid that the Luo family would ask her for money later. She ran away without asking what had happened. It was a joke, if she asked, what if they blamed her later? Luo Jiapeng didn’t care about them. Who told them to bully his sister? He went into the chicken coop and took an egg and ran out.

“Jiapeng, where are you going? Come back, come back here.” Wu Haixia saw him running with an egg and shouted at him from behind, “Luo Jiapeng, why don’t you ask what happened at home? You don’t care about your family at all.” Luo Jiapeng stopped and turned around, tilting his head. He said word by word, “What’s the point of asking? I’m not a doctor, what can I do? Besides, I’m still a child. Why don’t you ever care about my sister? Humph, I hate you!” He ran away without looking back. Wu Haixia was even angrier. She didn’t know what was going on. It was clearly her son, why was he so attached to that bitch Luo Xingci? And he would secretly save things for that bitch to eat, and he never shared anything with his mother. After Luo Jiapeng ran out, he saw someone on the road and asked if they had seen his sister. Luo Xingci didn’t know that Luo Jiapeng was looking for her. At this time, she was exercising. She ran around the forest for a few laps and was sweating profusely. After eating breakfast, she took her chopping knife and went into the deep mountains.

The deep mountains in the Luo family village were a place no one dared to go. It was said that during the famine, Old Man Luo and several of his peers from the village went into the mountains. They found several ginseng plants in the mountains. No one knew what happened to them, but only Old Man Luo came down the mountain, covered in blood. The other three people who went up the mountain were all eaten by wild animals, and the ginseng plants disappeared. The matter was never investigated, and no one dared to go to the deep mountains after that. Luo Xingci found many tender green wild vegetables along the way, and she also found some wood ear mushrooms and other things. She put them all in her basket. Suddenly, she twitched her ears. There was a rustling sound in the dense bushes not far away. Luo Xingci gripped her chopping knife and slowly moved to the big tree beside her. When the thing in the bushes ran out, she quickly climbed up the tree.

A wild boar weighing over three hundred pounds rushed out of the bushes and stopped where Luo Xingci had been standing. Then, it used its head to ram the tree she had climbed up, and it made a hissing sound. Luo Xingci was scared out of her wits. She silently called out to her space, “Old Six, are you there? Wild boar, wild boar, do you have any kind of tranquilizer?” Looking at the wild boar on the ground, her mouth was watering. She knew that she couldn’t come to the deep mountains with her current skills, but she had her space. Then she slapped her head in annoyance. Why didn’t she choose to go into her space just now? She was so stupid. Old Six’s voice immediately rang out, “Yes, master, do you want a strong tranquilizer, or a super strong one? I have…” It was about to introduce the tranquilizers in detail, but Luo Xingci interrupted impatiently.

“What super strong, just give it to me, don’t talk nonsense.” If it kept talking, the wild boar would run away. In a moment, Luo Xingci had a package in her hand. She looked at the wild boar on the ground with a mischievous smile. She thought to herself: This wild boar will be mine soon. She had already decided what she wanted to eat for lunch. “Master, just sprinkle it, you don’t need to get close. This is a super strong tranquilizer. Even if a god came, they would faint.” Old Six seemed very excited, its voice full of joy. She sprinkled the tranquilizer towards the wild boar. The wild boar seemed to sense danger and ran a few steps before collapsing on the ground.

 Luo Xingci rubbed her little hands. As she stepped on the next branch, she saw the wild boar that had just fainted ‘whoosh’ into the woods and disappear. Luo Xingci was dumbfounded. She suppressed her anger and asked, “Didn’t you say this was a super strong tranquilizer? That’s it? I was ready to run, and that’s all? You have to give me an explanation today.” She sat on the branch, wanting to take Old Six, that unreliable bastard, out and whip its corpse.