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Chapter 115 - 56 Life is about Struggle_1

Chapter 115: Chapter 56 Life is about Struggle_1

In fact, Yan Fei didn’t take the matter of lending money seriously.

But after school, he couldn’t escape, as a group of students came over.

The leader was also a student from the small town, who didn’t care about Yan Fei’s age when face to face, and went straight to calling him Brother Fei. He was incredibly polite, sharing a long-winded speech Yan Fei didn’t quite understand. But it boiled down to this: now that Yan Fei had stepped in, the money didn’t need to be repaid, and it’d be forgotten.

After their confident strut away, they left Yan Fei dumbfounded.

What he didn’t know was, when Zhang Qiang showed up with the money, they were taken aback. Someone was actually paying? After a few questions, they found out it was money borrowed from Yan Fei, and suddenly, they lost their composure.

They never intended on taking the money, especially not from Yan Fei. Who would dare?

After all, everyone in the street knew the Si Family’s Brothers had been bested by Yan Fei, even forced to jump into the river. Now with their notorious reputation, who would dare take his money? The tale becomes more ludicrous each time it’s told, especially given the brothers’ unpopularity. As for Yan Fei’s reputed ruthlessness, that’s a given. They wouldn’t just get burnt by this money, it was as if they’re accepting a warrant from Yama himself. Who would dare?

So they came over, initially nervous, but after seeing how approachable Yan Fei was, they felt as if they were given unprecedented respect. Look at that, a reputation the brothers failed to acquire but they did. They walked away so pompously that anyone passing by might have thought they’d been specially admitted to County No.1 High School!

Even Zhang Qiang was lost. This honest child probably didn’t know about Yan Fei’s ’glorious exploits,’ let alone his notorious school desk mate, otherwise, he wouldn’t have dared to ask Yan Fei for money.

Anyway, the money was returned shortly after it was lent. Yan Fei didn’t mind and Yang Qian, who was already on good terms with him, now acted even more friendly. They absolutely clung to him.

This doesn’t indicate that the children are opportunistic, it’s simply their innocent nature, having Yan Fei as a close friend was something to boast about.

As for Yan Fei, the protagonist, from beginning to end, he never really understood the cause and effect and went home all confused.

Yan Fei returned home for something definite, not anything trivial, Heizi needs to be disciplined. He’d been dealt with once, he should behave for at least a few days, or else he’ll become a ’model worker’ continually disciplined in the future.

At night, he earnestly had his four dogs sniff around Heizi’s bed, then warned Heizi that if he ran tonight, he wouldn’t go after him himself but would send the dogs.

The four mongrels were actually smart, but they weren’t trained. Who knows where they’ll go once let loose? It was just to scare Heizi.

Having scared Heizi, Yan Fei returned to his room and ’went to sleep.’

Actually, he slipped out again from the small front window, creating the illusion of being in bed by latching the door from the inside.

The small window is too small for a person to slip through, but a Compsognathus and cinerous vulture definitely wouldn’t be a problem. Even if the hole was smaller, he could transform into a smaller animal, like a rat-sized one from the dinosaur world’s forest. But he was too lazy to change into them.

However, this gave him an idea. He should kill a few attractive small animals in the future and transform into them. Small enough not to attract attention, they might come in handy!

After leaving the cattle farm, he patrolled around before heading to the paper factory again.

Several days had passed after Yan Fei had turned into an Iguanodon and caused a commotion. It was high time to repeat the fun.

The TV had said, life is about activity. What counts as activity? In rural areas, there’s plenty of work to do. Who has the time to engage in physical activity? Isn’t that just messing around? Therefore, life is about messing around. The moment you stop messing around, life becomes dull.

In fact, just a couple of days after the paper factory had shut down, the boss couldn’t take it anymore. They did not operate at night but started working during the day. These last couple of days, even the night shifts had resumed.

Thus, the paper factory was bustling even at night.

Now, there are more people working the night shift at the paper factory, with four alone stationed at the gate, all young men. With the increase in reward comes an increase in bravery; these were the fresh talents of the factory, each with abundant courage and fortitude. For the sake of the money, they all bravely assured that they were not afraid of ghosts or monsters.

With the pay being high, they felt awkward just staying inside the small guardhouse. The four of them, each equipped with cheap plastic batons and flashlights, patrolled around the factory, leaving no nook or corner unexamined.

While strolling along the wall near the river side of the factory, they heard a frog croaking.

As strange as it may seem, hearing a frog croaking wasn’t unusual, but finding a living frog in the vicinity of the factory was.

At first, they didn’t think much of it. They figured a frog must have strayed in from somewhere, as the factory was in the outskirts, which was quite normal.

But soon one of the more observant among them stopped in his tracks.

The three others, who were walking ahead, turned around when they noticed him lagging behind. One of them shouted back, "Why have you stopped?"

"Don’t you guys find it strange? There are machines rumbling inside the factory, but we can still hear a frog croaking outside the wall," the one who had stopped, caught up with them and noted.

Croak... Croak...

Before the three could respond, two consecutive croaks rang out and now they all sensed something was off.

What kind of frog was this? Its voice was too loud, wasn’t it?

Anything unusual could be a monster!

The group became unsettled, exchanging glances. Even though they tried to shrug it off and laugh about it, they kept close together, their walking pace noticeably quicker, nearly developing into a jog.

Croak... Croak...

Several more croaks echoed, followed by a wooshing sound. A dark shadow as broad as a face swooped briefly over their heads, before landing with a thud not far from them.

As they looked back to see what it was, they immediately felt a chill crawl up their spines. The chill spread up whichever part it reached, causing it to turn numb. For the braver ones, it only caused their foreheads to break out in a cold sweat, but for the less courageous, it made their legs shake uncontrollably.

Don’t underestimate the scariness of a frog. Recently, two popular television series, one a swordsman tale about twin protagonists, and the other a mythology featuring a snake spirit, both had terrifying scenes involving frogs.

In the swordsman series, a villain who grew up in a dried-up well could manipulate countless frogs and become invisible, leading to a suspenseful nighttime battle with the protagonist in the woods. In the mythological series, the frog was a full-on demon.

These days, people hardly have access to a lot of information. It’s still fresh in everyone’s minds that the factory was at the heart of monster legends not too long ago. People can say they’re not afraid because they’ve been offered a large bounty, but how terrified they truly are, only they know. The sudden appearance of a basin-sized frog, is as scary as it gets.

Just as they saw the frog opening its mouth and croaking, they could see rows of sharp teeth inside. A toothed frog, wasn’t that horrific?

The four men instinctively wanted to run, but before they could, the frog hopped.

Within the blink of an eye, it bounced off the chest of the man who was walking at the front.

Although the force was not strong enough to knock him down flat on his back, he did just that. The fear had already consumed him, leaving him with only a fraction of his original strength. Attacked all of a sudden, he didn’t stand a chance.

After a single attack, the frog didn’t strike again. Instead, it made a few leaps and landed atop a nearby factory roof. From there, it let out a croak towards the men and remained still, watching them.