Translator: Amber.es | Editor: Cookie🍪 | Proofreader: Bubbles
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Dabao was currently playing with the dog in the yard. When Wen Mingyi walked out, he gave the child a bag of potato chips and together, they teased the puppy.
“Thank you, gege,” Dabao said happily. For the past few days, he had been fed snacks by Wen Mingyi every day, he was now Wen Mingyi’s little fan. Even Wen Mingyi’s pickiness about food was not told to his mother. Sometimes, he even volunteered to help Wen Mingyi eat some dishes!
“Why don’t you go and play with the other children?” Wen Mingyi asked him. “The other children are playing in the school playground.”
“I want to play with Xiao Huang.”1Nickname for Little Yellow. Dabao squeezed Xiao Huang’s paws and added, “The animation will start in a little while, I want to watch the animation. After I watch it, I’ll go play.”
Wen Mingyi touched this lost little child’s head when he heard these words, and then touched the puppy on the ground. “You play with the puppy first, I’m going out.”
“En. Gege, bye bye.”
“Bye bye.” Wen Mingyi smiled and returned to the school playground.
The children were still playing there, and when they saw him coming, they all gathered around, shouting out ‘Gege’ one after another.
Wen Mingyi gave the biscuits to the little girl who was closest to him and the potato chips to the little boy who was closest to him. Finally, he passed the chocolate in his hands and immediately started to teach on the spot. “You have a box of biscuits, right?”
The little girl nodded.
“You have a bag of potato chips.”
The little boy also nodded.
“I have a box of chocolates.” Wen Mingyi asked them, “Have you eaten chocolate before?”
Some nodded while others shook their heads.
Wen Mingyi looked at the boys and girls holding cookies and potato chips in front of him, “So, what if we want to try them all?”
A child answered very cleverly, “I’ll exchange with you.”
“That’s right.” Wen Mingyi opened the chocolates and gave them one piece each. “If you eat it alone, you can only eat one flavor. If everyone exchanges theirs with another, you can eat several flavors.”
The children nodded happily.
Wen Mingyi finished dividing, placed the remaining few into his pocket, clapped his hands and told them, “Go and play ba. You can share the biscuits and potato chips with yourselves.”
“Thank you gege.”
“You’re welcome.” Wen Mingyi smiled.
He finished dividing the snacks, and seeing that it was not time for shooting yet, he planned to go back and rest for a while. However, just a few steps away, he heard a loud dog barking not far away.
The dog barked very loudly, shouting out, “Something is going to happen, something is going to happen!”
Wen Mingyi was surprised. What happened?
He called a child over and questioned him, “Whose dog is barking?”
“Doudou’s dog,” the little girl whispered, “That side only has Doudou’s house.”
“Douduo’s dog doesn’t bark,” the chubby boy retorted. “Douduo’s dog is very good.”
Wen Mingyi listened to the dog’s barking and thought of what the little boy said, feeling that something was wrong.
He told the children to go home early and walked towards Doudou’s house by himself. When he arrived, the courtyard was peaceful.
Several aunts were leaning on the door frame, eating melon seeds while briefly discussing the family’s patriarch. Seeing him close by, they asked politely, “Is there anything wrong?”
“Nothing, just passing by,” Wen Mingyi said.
The aunt grinned, grabbed a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and handed it over. “Eat some melon seeds.”
“No, thank you.” Wen Mingyi glanced at the yard. The dog was still barking.
This was a big adult dog. Likely because they were afraid it might scare people, it was tied up.
“Why does it keep barking?” Wen Mingyi asked.
The aunt thought his question was a little funny. “Dogs ma. How can it not bark? Don’t worry, dogs that bark don’t bite people. Our family’s dog doesn’t bite.”
Wen Mingyi saw that she didn’t mention the reason, so he had to leave first, walking slowly towards Zhang-jie‘s house.
Along the way, he continuously heard the barking of dogs. Some aggressive, some scared, and some shouting out, “Let me out, let me out!”
There were no cats in this village. Only a few households reared dogs. There was nothing wrong with the barking of a family’s dog, but all the dogs were barking; it was abnormal.
When he returned to Zhang-jie‘s house, Wen Mingyi found that the little yellow dog raised by Dabao was also barking. It barked and ran around in the yard anxiously. Dabao didn’t take it seriously and was watching cartoons at home.
The signal here was poor; there were not many channels that the TV could broadcast, let alone cartoons, so Dabao treasured every time something was broadcasted.
Wen Mingyi listened to the little yellow dog yelling, “Something is going to happen, something is going to happen, wu wu wu.”
He approached it puzzledly and asked, “What’s going on?”
The little yellow dog couldn’t explain, but he instinctively felt fear. “I’m afraid!”
Wen Mingyi touched its head and comforted it. “Don’t be afraid, it’s okay.”
Although he said so, his heart was uneasy.
The dogs in the village were barking and they were all upset, but Wen Mingyi couldn’t see what was going to happen. Not only could he not see it, the other people here were the same. They were as usual, moving about in their usual manner. The children were playing; the adults were staying at home. Wen Mingyi glanced at Zhang-jie’s room. She was still mending the shoes’ insoles, stitch by stitch, seriously.
Humans did not have any response to whatever was going on but the animals were restless.
Wen Mingyi reacted almost instantaneously. The thing that animals were able to detect quicker than humans, that could cause people to be terrified about, was natural disasters. Only natural disasters could produce such an effect!
Wen Mingyi quickly recalled the natural disasters he had learned in high school, almost instantly locking on to an objective.
He picked up the mobile phone and wanted to contact Yu Xuanwen, but found that the mobile phone had no signal again. Wen Mingyi did not hesitate and ran directly to Yu Xuanwen’s residence.
Yu Xuanwen was currently resting. In his dream, he had some vague inspiration for his new movie but was roughly awakened.
Wen Mingyi grasped the village chief with one hand, and with the other, released Yu Xuanwen who was awakened by him, and said anxiously, “Director Yu, something is going to happen.”
Yu Xuanwen was not awake yet. Angered from being woken, he scolded, “Get out, don’t disturb Laozi in his sleep.”
“Something is going to happen in the village!” Wen Mingyi saw that he didn’t seem to be awake, and leaned close to his ear with a loud “Ho!”.
This single sound successfully woke Yu Xuanwen up.
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Now that he was fully awake, Wen Mingyi summarized, “Let’s evacuate this village first. You can organize the actors and staff. We need to leave now! Immediately!”
After he finished speaking, he looked at the village chief. “You’ll have to call the villagers. Gather them together and immediately leave!”
The village chief was puzzled. “What’s going on? Why do we need to leave?”
“I’m not sure. If I guessed correctly, it might be an earthquake. The dogs in the village are all barking and the poultry aren’t entering their cages. These are signs before an earthquake. It’s not too late to leave now!”
The village chief felt that he was thinking too much. “Xiao Wen2Little Wen, this…”
“There is no time. You hurry up to gather your people, let them all come here. We have to leave now!”
The village chief gave a helpless look at Yu Xuanwen, and Yu Xuanwen was also a little confused. He could only persuade Wen Mingyi, “Xiao Wen, I know you are still a student and—”
“Director Yu, please believe me once. My hunch is always accurate. If it won’t happen, I won’t come to you at all. Filming is very important, but we also have to live in order to show the content of the shooting to everyone, right?”
“The main idea is—”
“Let’s leave first. If nothing happens later, I will bear all the cost of this filming!” Wen Mingyi interrupted him. “I will pay for all the damages. I will bear all the costs. Is this okay?”
Yu Xuanwen froze. Wen Mingyi directly pulled at his quilt. Yu Xuanwen saw that his anxiety was not fake, and remembered that he was the top scorer of this year’s liberal arts. His knowledge reserves should be relatively rich. Perhaps his guess was right. Yes, human lives were important. Not afraid of ten thousands; only afraid of what ifs!
Yu Xuanwen got out of bed and told him, “I’ll believe you once. But if it is really an earthquake, is it too late for us to leave?”
“Not too late!” Wen Mingyi declared. He didn’t know why he was so sure. From the time he knew it was a natural disaster, his first thought was to leave here.
As if the moment they left this place, it would be alright.
Wen Mingyi could not describe it, but his current existence itself could not be explained by science. He was reborn, he could turn into a cat or a dog. Inside of him, there was a part of animal intuition. The dogs in the village were barking, and his heart was trembling inside. His subconscious animal instincts told him to leave, and to leave quickly.
He believed in this part of his beast instincts.
“Hurry up,” he urged. “Village chief, hurry up.”
The village chief always thought that this was impossible. Their village had been peaceful for so many years, how could there be an earthquake? These people from the city really liked to make a fuss. He was about to speak when Wen Mingyi interrupted him, “You separate from us. For every household, every person you succeed, I’ll give you all one thousand yuan. Bring the dogs. The dogs will also get one thousand!”
Village chief: ! ! !
“If everything’s okay, you’ll all be back in two days, earning a thousand for nothing. No loss!”
Village chief: …
The village chief thought what he said made sense!
Yu Xuanwen and the village chief immediately divided into two groups, gathering their actors on one hand and villagers on the other.
This poor village didn’t even have a village’s broadcasting radio. Fortunately, the village chief had a big loudspeaker. Yu Xuanwen raised the loudspeaker and shouted, “All the actors and crew members, including the actors’ agents and assistants, immediately gather at the village chief’s house within 15 minutes! If anyone fails to gather, he will be directly fired and fined 5 million!”
The crew were taken aback. They speculated what had happened to Director Yu, who was the one to do something that shouldn’t be done, annoying him until this much?
Seeing this, the village chief continued, “To thank the villagers for their cooperation, the crew is now issuing rewards to everyone. Every household can receive it. One person has one thousand. If there is a dog in the house, bring a dog with you. Another one thousand! In fifteen minutes, come and collect it quickly!”
A thousand yuan was really too tempting for the villagers here. Within a short time, the villagers assembled. The aunt who had no dog in the family also hugged her chicken and asked the village chief, “Can chickens also count?”
Wen Mingyi: …Y-yes ba.
After the people on both sides had assembled, they were ready to leave the village.
Upon hearing that, many villagers were unwilling. “I haven’t finished my work yet, I won’t head out.”
“I haven’t packed my things.”
The village chief explained as the villagers retorted. Some people didn’t care about the money anymore, so they turned around and prepared to leave. Wen Mingyi took the horn from the village chief’s hand and calmly, like an indifferent money-spending machine, “Immediately get in the car. Upon reaching the city, I’ll go withdraw money. Two thousand per person.”
The villagers who were about to leave: …
“I don’t believe it.” The old man holding the dog glanced at him, turned around and was about to leave.
“Three thousand, plus five hundred for the dog.”
The old man: …
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Wen Mingyi sternly said, “What are you still doing? Get in the car! Don’t want money anymore?!”
Yu Xuanwen and Kang Jie glanced at each other.
“Xiao Wen’s family is quite rich,” Yu Xuanwen said.
“I guess,” Kang Jie said. “It’s just that he’s making such a big noise now. If nothing happens in the end, it would be embarrassing.”
“Xiao Wen said he will pay for the loss.”
Kang Jie: ? ? ? ?
Yu Xuanwen: “For him to say that, the family should be rather rich.”
The crew stuffed important shooting equipment into the car, while the others were thrown away in their hurry. Several cars were crammed with people, majestically driving out of the village.
When they came, they packed a lot of suitcases, but when they left, they didn’t take anything in order to save their lives. The villagers began to feel that there might be some danger. Seeing them in such a hurry, the villagers couldn’t help but feel a little scared. They discussed in low voices, again and again, and then they harped on what things they didn’t manage to bring along.
The village chief shouted, “If we let you take it, you’d still be packing at home. They’re not worth any money; don’t think about them anymore.”
This was a fact. So the people who were harping on it could only silently shut their mouths, looking out at the familiar mountains and rivers outside the window as the car accelerated forth.
Wen Mingyi held the little yellow dog in his arms and asked him3Raws’ pronouns was a ‘he’., “Still scared?”
The little yellow dog shook its head. “Not scared anymore.”
Wen Mingyi breathed a sigh of relief. He looked out the window. Along the road were mountains and trees throughout. It was fortunate, Wen Mingyi thought, there were no other villages along the way, no other people would be injured or killed.
Human beings were simply too weak in the face of natural disasters.
So weak that Wen Mingyi felt frightened and dreadful.
When the car drove until the edges of the city, the driver went to the gas station for a rest stop. Others also came out to breathe fresh air. The distance from the village where they were filming was rather far, but Yu Xuanwen wanted to drive farther because he was afraid of further accidents.
Suddenly, the ground shook and the mountains trembled. The dogs inside the car and outside the car began to bark. Wen Mingyi heard screams in his ears, but he had no time to take care of it. He felt the ground under his feet shaking. A memory of his geography teacher mentioning that an earthquake would first have longitudinal waves and then transverse waves, popped into his mind.
For the first time, Wen Mingyi used his life to review this knowledge point.
The author has something to say:
Ming Ming: I am a money-spending machine with no emotions.
Wen Mingyi used ‘Withdraw Money’ ability. All personnel’s HP -50!
Don’t worry too much about this chapter. Before the earthquake, the animals would move away. I was afraid I remembered it incorrectly so I checked it again. Dogs will bark wildly, but since I can’t understand the dogs, I don’t know what they are barking about? Also don’t know when they will feel abnormal and start barking, so I just wrote it like this, don’t be too serious~~
Ming Ming’s letting everyone evacuate first, because he has animal nature in his body, so he has their intuition. But we don’t have this intuition. So before the earthquake, everyone please still follow the teacher’s instructions and avoid dangers scientifically. Of course, for natural disasters, if possible, I hope that everyone will not encounter them. Safety is the most important thing.
3 thoughts on “Chapter 54 – Emergency evacuation! Something happened in the village!”
It’s interesting how animals still have those instincts. All the “allmighty” humans mostly laugh about them and then boom catastrophe is here and the humans are dead :3
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Well except us people with creaky knees :p we can feel the storms brewing in our joints (like literally it hurts) lol
I still remember the tension that gripped me as I read this chapter when it was updated years ago on here. It’s as good as ever! <3