After transmigrating, he supported his family by working at a garbage dump.

Xu Wenjie crouched down and peered out the window.

As dusk settles and the snowfall becomes sparse, the courtyard is quiet, and everything seems no different from usual.

Except for the stove where Zhang He had been cooking rice, which was now billowing thick smoke, it looked like something had extinguished the fire.

Just then, a strong wind howled past.

A loud crash came from the courtyard, making the people inside the house tense.

What fell over?

Zhang He also moved closer, craning her neck behind Xu Wenjie, but she couldn't see anything.

"They're rummaging through the food inside."

Xu Wenjie was too calm.

Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, his tone was firm and his face was full of certainty.

But Xu Zhuzhu knew that her father, even when he was so calm, was actually not very confident.

The newly made bamboo curtain completely surrounded the stove shed, blocking the view from the window, so they couldn't see what was happening inside at all.

As luck would have it, not long after the sound of rummaging through drawers and cabinets was heard, a grayish wolf cub, so hungry that it was just a skeleton, crawled out from under the bamboo curtain.

And it was holding a red thing in its mouth—a sausage.

They had just brought it back from the garbage dump these past two days. She was thinking of saving it for Xu Zhuzhu so that she could go to town after the snow stopped, buy some rice noodles, and then stir-fry rice noodles for the two siblings.

“That’s what Zhuzhu loves to eat.”

Zhang He was a little anxious, and her voice suddenly became trembling.

Sure enough, before the words were even finished, the wolf cub stopped moving when it had emerged halfway out of the hole.

It looked around, its gaze settling on the window, its small eyes revealing alertness and unease.

The claw marks that tore Zhang He's clothes were wider and stronger, clearly not from a wolf cub. There must be a mother wolf nearby, but it's unknown how many there are.

Just as she thought this, a dark shadow suddenly pounced on her from below the window. In the darkness, its sharp claws flashed coldly as it viciously clawed at the window on Zhang He's side.

Xu Zhuzhu and her brother, who were further away from the window, saw everything clearly and were immediately startled. "Mother! Be careful!"

In the blink of an eye, Xu Wenjie reached out and pushed Zhang He down, causing the two of them to fall heavily onto the bed.

The window paper made of snakeskin was torn to shreds the moment the wolf extended its claws.

A cold wind rushed in through the window, extinguishing the only dim light in the room, plunging it into darkness.

Xu Zhuzhu had never been attacked by wolves before, not even in the wild, let alone in the village.

Her heart was pounding; she couldn't tell if it was nervousness or fear.

The only light in the room came from the flickering charcoal brazier and the beads in Xu Wenjie's hand.

At this moment, the bead was emitting a faint red light, and at this very moment, that red light appeared particularly eerie.

Zhang He was so frightened that she dared not speak, her wide eyes tightly covering her mouth.

Xu Wenjie patted Zhang He on the back reassuringly and used sign language to guide her to get off the bed and lead her and the two children to the corner of the wall.

"Don't go near the window," Xu Wenjie whispered in his ear.

Their windows are at least 1.8 meters high, yet this wolf managed to pounce on them.

Xu Zhuzhu didn't know how powerful a wolf's jumping ability was, but she witnessed it today.

Zhang He held the two children in her arms, her brows furrowed, and she silently looked at Xu Wenjie, her eyes full of worry.

Outside the window, along the base of the wall, came the rustling sound of footsteps, as if the wolf was pacing back and forth, seemingly at a loss.

His father, holding a dagger in one hand and a stool in the other, leaned against the window, his eyes fixed on the window, a cold glint in them.

If it were just a mother wolf with a cub, Xu Zhuzhu was sure her father wouldn't be afraid at all, but she feared the situation might not be like that...

All she could do was pray that things wouldn't get any worse.

Just then, the wolf outside the window pounced on the window again. This time, without the snakeskin bag blocking its way, it used its front paws to climb onto the window and leaned half its body into the room.

It spotted the mother and her two children in the corner at a glance.

It bared its sharp fangs, which gleamed with a chilling light in the night. The greed in its eyes manifested as saliva dripping from its mouth, making no attempt to conceal its desire for the mother and her two children.

However, precisely because its attention was focused on the mother and her two children, it overlooked Xu Wenjie directly below it.

At this moment, Xu Wenjie, standing under the wall, gripped the dagger in reverse. A sharp glint flashed, and the black wolf's outstretched front paws were immediately torn open. If it weren't for the flesh still connecting the paws, the paws would have been severed from his body.

"Ouch—"

The black wolf howled in pain, and before it could react, Xu Wenjie picked up the stool in his hand and smashed it against the wolf's head until it was knocked out of the window.

With a loud thud and a casual howl, Black Wolf collapsed to the ground.

Unexpectedly, a cacophony of howls erupted outside. Xu Zhuzhu listened carefully and realized something was wrong; there were at least seven or eight wolves among the chaotic howls.

It's a pack of wolves!

The wolf howling suddenly stopped, and at that moment came the sound of claws scratching at the door. Then another wolf pounced on the window.

Then, another one! And one more!

Although her father managed to swat the wolf away in time, he was too weak to do it all by himself. Seeing this, Zhang He quickly grabbed a stool and asked him to help.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, Xu Zhuzhu heard a sound coming from the base of the wall behind her. She looked through the small gap and saw that there were two wolves scratching at the base of the wall where her father had patched it with a wooden board.

That cunning beast has even learned to use feints!

Xu Zhuzhu cursed inwardly.

Xu An, who also noticed this, gripped Xu Zhuzhu's hand tightly, shielding her behind him, and said in a trembling voice, "Father, there are some here too!"

On the other side, it was fine once or twice, but the wolf kept attacking, and her father and mother were clearly struggling to cope, unable to spare any attention for this side.

They're all hungry wolves!

They won't give up until they catch their prey.

Xu Zhuzhu quickly suggested to her father that they should hide at the garbage station first and come back when it gets light.

If it were just one wolf, Xu Wenjie could certainly handle it, but if it were a pack of wolves, he wouldn't have the ability. Considering the safety of his wife and children, Xu Wenjie agreed without hesitation.

Xu Zhuzhu acted immediately.

"Brother! Quickly grab my clothes!"

As she spoke, she held Xu Wenjie's hand with one hand and Zhang He's hand with the other, silently reciting in her mind. The image of the garbage station flashed by, and when she opened her eyes again, they were already at the garbage station.

Compared to my home, which was besieged by wolves, this garbage dump, though smelly, is at least safe.

Zhang He's tense mood finally relaxed a bit.

However, Xu Zhuzhu, who is always sensitive to smells, wrinkled her nose at this moment as a strong smell of blood emanated from Xu Wenjie and entered her nostrils.

"What is the taste?"

She thought it was blood from the wolf her father had just scratched, but when she looked down, she suddenly saw blood dripping down the ground.

Xu Zhuzhu was startled. She looked up and saw a deep claw mark on her father's shoulder. "Daddy, are you hurt?"

Xu Wenjie, however, was unaware of his own injury. "What injury?"

Zhang He also noticed it, and her face immediately turned pale. "Husband, your shoulder!"

Xu Wenjie was frowning, still reeling from the wolf attack, when he saw the mother and her two children looking at him with worry and confusion, glancing at his shoulder: "What happened?"

As if the blood that had been left behind wasn't even on his body, his father's bewildered expression didn't seem fake at all.

Didn't her father feel any pain?

Just as everyone was wondering, a red bead flew out of Xu Wenjie's sleeve.

It hung above Xu Wenjie's head, emitting an even stronger red light that completely surrounded him.

To everyone's astonishment, Xu Wenjie's wounds, and even his clothes, seemed to heal themselves perfectly, as if they could repair themselves instantly...

Xu Zhuzhu was dumbfounded. Good heavens, wasn't this a bit too much of a cheat code for her?