Otherworldly Singer: Pure-hearted Wolves and Fiery Love

Seeing Xiao Xinghe take off his shoes and walk inside, the girl chased after him and asked, "Want to have lunch together, brother?"

She walked with a somewhat hesitant gait, taking several small steps to catch up with Xiao Xinghe.

Xiao Xinghe walked to his mother's room, opened the door a crack, peeked inside, closed the door, and then turned back to gently pat his younger sister Xiao Jin's head.

He said, "I'll go buy you some food, and I'll cook tonight."

Xiao Jin smiled happily: "Okay, I'll go finish making the shoes and then come out to help my brother."

Her voice was still so soft and faint.

Xiao Xinghe didn't pay much attention. Seeing his sister go to her own room, he looked around the house.

The house is a bit old but very clean.

Upon entering the living room, Xiao Xinghe lit incense for his father's photo in the black and white album, placed it in the incense burner, and then went to the kitchen to check on the family's recent food situation.

The Xiao family was both ordinary and lucky. When Xiao's father was young, he joined the army. His face was disfigured by a strange beast, so he could no longer serve as a soldier and became a mercenary. He felt that the capital was safe and wanted to make plans for his future marriage and children. After getting married, he moved from another place to the capital.

Before Xiao Xinghe turned 18, his father went out to pick up a deliveryman to save his brother, but he died in the process.

The family actually had a lot of money, but Xiao's father had a good relationship with his comrades who had worked together in the past. When a comrade passed away unexpectedly, this man would give more money to the comrade's relatives, which is why the Xiao family's assets were never high.

Everyone says Xiao's father is stupid and pretends to be rich.

Xiao Xinghe also thought so.

However, after Xiao's father passed away, his remaining comrades-in-arms did not take care of their family.

Now, Xiao Xinghe's mercenary group leader is an old friend of Xiao's father. Thanks to the help of these uncles, Xiao Xinghe and his sister are still attending the best junior high and primary schools, and Xiao's mother still has tailor orders to take on.

Xiao Ma is hard of hearing and always feels it's a burden on her husband's old comrades. She plans to take Xiao Xinghe and her daughter Xiao Jin to the black market to do business selling exotic animal skin clothing.

Just look at Xiao Xinghe; you can tell he's good-looking, so his parents must have had great genes.

In fact, because Xiao's father couldn't bear to see his wife and children suffer, Xiao's mother stayed at home all year round. She never lacked food, drink, or other necessities. In addition, she was beautiful when she was young, so she still retains her charm.

The black market is orderly, but it can also become chaotic at times.

Besides, a pretty young girl like Xiao Jin appeared in such a place.

The accident happened on the very first day of setting up the stall.

At the time, an old man carrying a little boy was quite pitiful while collecting goods. Xiao Jin felt compassion and gave away more of her own scraps of raw material, which was practically free.

Xiao's mother did not stop her.

The old man saw that the mother and daughter were beautiful and kind-hearted. Upon learning they were a widow and widow, he immediately declared he would marry them. It turned out the old man only looked old; he was actually ten years older than Xiao's mother. The little boy was someone he had adopted, intending to care for him in his old age.

If an old man like that dares to harass the Xiao family mother and daughter, it wouldn't be surprising if all sorts of strange and bad people appeared later.

Although the old man was chased away by his old comrade-in-arms who came to take care of Xiao's mother that day.

The second time...

There was a male stall owner who insisted that Xiao Jin liked him, and went around telling people that she was his girlfriend. He even boasted that Xiao Jin had already accepted his family's betrothal gifts.

Xiao's mother endured it again and again.

But those bad guys felt more and more that the Xiao family was easy to bully.

When things escalated to the point where five young men harassed and followed Xiao Jin to school, and even nearly dragged her to a public restroom to commit indecent acts, Xiao's mother was completely terrified.

Fortunately, Xiao Xinghe arrived in time. Hearing that someone had taken his younger sister, who had just finished school, he chased after them and stabbed the five troublemakers to death. This saved his sister, Xiao Jin, from harm.

But it was precisely because Xiao Xinghe committed a murder.

Xiao Xinghe, who already possessed over 50 points of standard combat nuclear energy, was unable to attend the training camp in the capital, let alone participate in the opportunity to collectively activate his combat nuclear energy.

He was detained in the law enforcement bureau for a week. He wasn't mistreated because Xiao Xinghe met Zhou Qiyuan. Although Zhou Qiyuan was a newcomer, he had the backing of the Zhou family, who were still recruiting talent everywhere. When Zhou Qiyuan took on Xiao Xinghe's case, he took extra care of Xiao Xinghe.

However, Xiao Xinghe had offended five people, and those five families refused to let them off the hook. If it weren't for the intervention of Xiao's father's old comrades-in-arms, who were guilty of wrongdoing, the matter would have been settled only after the Xiao family paid some money.

However, the incident caused significant post-traumatic stress disorder.

Xiao Jin became somewhat withdrawn and depressed, even refusing to go to school. It was only afterward that she realized two female classmates had tricked her into going to the food street behind the school on the day of the incident, just so they could help the five men humiliate her. Afterward, rumors spread throughout the class group chat, and some classmates even called to deliberately annoy her, pressing her to tell her if she had really been sexually assaulted.

Because of her beauty, she was isolated by other students at school, and was often inexplicably mocked and pointed at.

Xiao Jin dared not leave home.

Xiao's mother was also somewhat scared and desperate, blaming herself for not protecting her child and delaying the child's future development.

Anyway, the Xiao family is in complete chaos.

Xiao Xinghe planned to join the army directly, entrusting his mother and sister to a few trustworthy people.

Later, because Xiao Xinghe was too outstanding in the military camp, he offended the Qiao family. After a series of twists and turns, Xiao Xinghe finally chose to return to become a mercenary.

They sold their increasingly chaotic old house and moved here.

Living next door, Xiao Xinghe rented the house from his former neighbor to avoid the possibility of bad people coming from next door. Besides, he needed to tidy up frequently and his return times were unpredictable; if they lived together, it would cause his mother and sister to worry too much.

Xiao Jin stopped going to school a few years ago because she had far too little combat energy. She stayed home and helped her mother with some business. Xiao Xinghe would buy groceries for his mother and sister and give them enough savings to live comfortably. The mother and daughter had long been accustomed to this quiet lifestyle.

Xiao Xinghe went out to buy groceries, and after thinking for a moment, he decided to send a message to Zhou Qiqi about the situation at home.

[Xiao Xinghe: Qiqi, I have something I want to tell you. I have my mom and younger sister at home, and they used to… If I go hunting this week, if possible, could you please help them if you see them needing assistance? I'm sorry, I'm really worried about them.]

Xiao Xinghe revealed everything about his family's past.

Now that his strength has increased, it's still a bit difficult for him to hunt high-level beasts by himself. His mercenary friends can't keep up with his strength, and each family has many members. If anyone dies, Xiao Xinghe will be held responsible.

He could only go hunting alone.

Xiao's father didn't know many comrades-in-arms. Besides the mercenary group leader, he only had three uncles left. And those three uncles might not be able to take care of things here in time.

Xiao Xinghe had no choice but to ask Zhou Qiqi for help.

Even if it means being humble and submissive, even if it means feigning pitifulness.

Since it involved his family, Xiao Xinghe had no choice but to ask Zhou Qiqi for help.

As for the families of his comrades-in-arms whom Xiao Xinghe had sponsored and helped? They were all ordinary people, and he couldn't offer them any assistance.

***

Zhou Qiqi stared in disbelief at the vehicles in the garage.

"Zhou Laosan actually has something like this in his garage?!"

This is absolutely outrageous.

Zhou Qiqi rushed over, touching this and that.

The exquisite mechanical body is inlaid with animal beads that resemble eyes.

As Zhou Qiqi touched it.

The beast beads immediately began to glow, and as the headlights illuminated, a mixed mechanical sound appeared.

"Initiate detection..."

"Beep~ Personnel verification passed, confirmed to be a member of the Zhou family."

"Access to information website... Data update... Confirmed to be Zhou Nanxiao's direct descendant, with driving rights."

Zhou Qiqi's eyes lit up: "Wow!"

Sister Zhang was somewhat surprised: "A beast-bead modified car?! Isn't this a new type of car that has only been fully promoted in the last three years? How could... how could it be in this warehouse?!"

Zhou Laosan has been dead for seven years.

The development of modified beast beads into cars has only occurred in recent years.

However, Sister Zhang quickly remembered that the safes in various wealthy families were new technological products created more than ten years ago by combining technology with animal beads.

The principle behind modifying a car with beast beads is probably similar.

I just didn't expect that Zhou Laosan had already developed it while he was still alive...

When Zhou Qiqi was surprised, she felt her phone vibrate. She took it out and saw Xiao Xinghe's message.

"Although his description is subjective and influenced by personal feelings... a mother and sister who are bullied and stay at home and refuse to go out must not have a bad temper."

So Zhou Qiqi replied to Xiao Xinghe: [No problem, what time are you coming tonight?]

Uncle Wei, who was waiting outside, glanced at Qin Ye.

He coughed softly, gesturing for the young master to come and talk to him elsewhere.

After understanding, Qin Ye made an excuse to go somewhere else with Uncle Wei, without letting Uncle Wu and the club manager follow.

"Young Master," Uncle Wei asked with a smile, "Are you going to stay at Miss Zhou's place again tonight?"

(The safe Zhou Mian placed when Zhou Lin stole the manuscript earlier was a product similar to this one, with beast orbs providing the power. The world-building of this story is somewhat similar to steampunk, belonging to an alternate world of technology.)

(I've only looked at the donations from the last seven days, and there seem to be some omissions; I'll add them later.)