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    Anmu

    There was only the sound of wind and no sound of rain outside the house. When the rain stopped and the wind was still there, was he considered successful?Is the Dragon King Statue completed?Anle was confused. He wanted to ask Grandpa An, but he definitely couldn’t do it tonight.Fortunately, the rain has stopped. At least Longyin Village will not be damaged by heavy rain.

    The doors and windows were rattled by the strong wind. Although the wind force had weakened a bit, it was still a force that should not be underestimated.Can the house in Longyin Village be sustained?Anle couldn’t help but become worried again and wanted to check the condition of the house.

    “What’s wrong?” An Xiaoyu asked after noticing Anle getting up.

    “House…”

    “No problem,” An Xiaoyu understood Anle’s words before he finished speaking, and said warmly, “When building a house, the foundation was laid very firmly and it can withstand it.”

    Anle breathed a sigh of relief, lay back again, and murmured: “That’s good.”

    “What are you doing at the Dragon King Temple?” An Xiaoyu tucked Anle into bed and asked.

    “Didn’t Grandpa An tell you?”

    “He said you went to pray for the village.”

    “Hmm…”

    “Is it because of the Dragon King statue?” An Xiaoyu turned over, turned to Anle, and asked seriously: “Do you really think the typhoon was because we broke the Dragon King statue?”

    “What do you think?” Anle asked.

    After a long time, An Xiaoyu said, “It’s just a coincidence.” The sound was very soft, as if the speaker didn’t believe it either, and just said it to make himself believe it.

    “Well, that’s a coincidence.” Anle said seriously.

    After finishing speaking, the two of them were speechless for a long time.

    An Xiaoyu asked in a low voice: “Anle, is it okay to cross the line?”

    “Huh?” Anle reacted for a while before he understood what An Xiaoyu was talking about. After he made up Xiaomei, just as the fire bed was built, they shared quilts and slept again.

    But there was no fire bed tonight, so Anle nodded.

    “What happened at the Dragon King Temple?” An Xiaoyu asked as he hugged Anle.

    “Nothing happened.” Anle said.

    “You said you’ve had enough of pretending and you want to leave.”

    “I’m talking angrily.”

    After a while, An Xiaoyu whispered: “But you seemed aggrieved at that time. You don’t want to be Anle anymore, right?”

    Anle was silent for a moment and said, “No, I want to be Anle.”

    After a long time, An Xiaoyu said: “I can stay and help you persuade the villagers to change the village rules. The village rules stipulate that villagers over ten years old have the right to vote. There are 356 villagers over ten years old in Longyin Village, and there are 89 people over ten years old and under twenty-seven years old. These people are curious about the outside world and can be easily persuaded.”

    “Grandpa An won’t agree,” An Le said. “Grandpa An doesn’t want the peaceful life in Longyin Village to be broken.”

    An Xiaoyu said: “The village chief can be replaced if more than half of the villagers agree.”

    “You want to elect a new village chief?” Anle suddenly became angry at An Xiaoyu, pushed An Xiaoyu’s arm away, and said coldly: “Impossible.”

    “I’m sorry, don’t be angry.” An Xiaoyu immediately apologized in a low voice.

    An Le was startled. He didn’t expect An Xiaoyu’s apology to come so smoothly and naturally. He sounded pitiful. He was a little at a loss for a moment and said calmly: “No, it’s okay. Go to sleep, go to sleep.”

    “Then I…” An Xiaoyu tentatively stretched out his hand, wanting to touch Anle.

    An Le was speechless, silently rolling his eyes, cursing the “double-standard mermaid” in his heart, and said angrily: “Cuddle me, hug me, aren’t you very angry? Why are you afraid of the cold? How can you hug yourself to get warmth?”

    An Xiaoyu hugged Anle honestly and defended, “It was my mother who asked me to pay more attention to your body temperature.”

    “…You have the most reasons,” Anle turned over and muttered, “It’s really unfair.”

    “What’s unfair?” An Xiaoyu chuckled.

    “It’s not fair anywhere.”

    “What’s unfair?”

    Anle turned over vigorously and said angrily: “Why can’t I hug you?”

    Sleeping beside her every day, unable to be touched or touched, Anle endured all her anger and had no place to vent her anger!

    An Xiaoyu suddenly stopped talking. After a long while, he said hesitantly: “I…can’t stand you…touching me…”

    “What do you mean?! Why didn’t you say you couldn’t bear it when you hugged me?!” Anle became even more angry. When she thought that the person was leaving soon, Anle wanted to ignore her.

    Anle suddenly felt that Grandpa An was right, they were married after a first marriage, and they were a real couple with a marriage certificate.

    Since we are husband and wife, we must fulfill our obligations as husband and wife.

    Anle thought that it would be a good choice for Bawang to force the bow.So Anle became bold.

    “I must hug you tonight.” An Le ignored An Xiaoyu’s resistance, determined to satisfy his own desires before letting him go, and started to touch An Xiaoyu.

    “Anle, Anle.” An Xiaoyu called Anle’s name in a low voice while blocking Anle’s hands from wandering around.

    Every sound sounded like a murmur of affection, and Anle became even more excited when she heard it, wishing she could skin the mermaid.

    When he was about to be skinned, An Xiaoyu finally used his real strength. He held Anle’s wrists with one hand and pushed Anle’s body away with the other hand. He gasped and begged: “Don’t move, don’t move.”

    An Le’s hand was clamped in mid-air. Hearing An Xiaoyu’s plea, he was stunned for a long time before he woke up.He walked away from An Xiaoyu and said in a low voice, “I know, let me go, I won’t tease you anymore.”

    A night of silence.

    I didn’t know what time it was when I woke up. The sky was dark and the wind seemed to have weakened a lot.Anle was thinking about the Dragon King statue and went to Anmu’s house together.As soon as I went out, I met Anshun who was also coming against the wind.

    “Anle—” Anshun looked hurriedly and shouted through the wind.

    “We’ll talk about it when we get back! An Xiaoyu is at his parents’ house.” An Le also shouted, leaving An Shun behind and striding towards An Mu’s house. An Xiaojin ran in front of An Le to clear the way.

    But there is no one in the Anmu family.Anle searched around but couldn’t find it. Just when he was about to ask An Linmian, An Xiaojin howled a few times and led Anle to the beach.

    Village chief Anmu is also at the beach.The wind at the beach became stronger and sand was flying all over the sky. Anle used her fox fur to block the wind and sand while squinting her eyes and walking towards Anmu.

    “Grandpa An, what are you doing here-” An Le saw the answer before the question was finished.

    Anle opened her eyes wide, ignoring the wind and sand, and stared at the sea in a daze.The wind blows from the land to the sea, and at the end of the sea, where there should have been dense fog, now there is a clear line of sea and sky.

    The thick fog has dissipated?!

    Anshun went to them to tell them about this?

    Anle stared at the sea in disbelief.

    “What’s going on?” Anle murmured.

    “The wind has blown away the fog.” Anmu replied calmly, looking at the sea.

    The fog has blown away?

    Is there no fog in Longyin Village?

    Can they go out?

    Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

    What will happen to Longyin Village without the protection of white mist?

    Many thoughts came together, one after another, flashing through Anle’s mind. Randomly, Anle grabbed the most important one and asked: “Will you come back?”

    He remembered that Anshun said that the fog appeared later.

    Anmu shook his head slowly.

    “Won’t come back?” Anle blurted out, and the tone when he spoke was anxious that he didn’t expect. It turned out that he didn’t want the white mist to disappear, and Anle realized this.

    “I don’t know.” Anmu’s voice seemed a bit older. “No one knows how the white mist came. On the third day after the village chief Anshui led the whole village to worship the Dragon King, the white mist suddenly appeared.”

    “Another Dragon King statue?!” Anle was surprised, but this time he accepted it much better, “Is it possible that there really is a Dragon King God?”

    Anmu did not answer this question, but said: “For the past two hundred years, Longyin Village has always regarded the thick fog as protection. We can live a peaceful life here without any competition from the world because our existence is not known to the world.”

    “But we have to go out sooner or later,” Anle said. “Longyin Village has not achieved true self-sufficiency, has it? There is no smelting plant in Longyin Village, and many production equipment are consuming the savings of the ancestors. Longyin Village cannot escape from the world for a long time, this may be an opportunity. The outside world is developing, but Longyin Village has been stagnant. If things go on like this, one day, when Longyin Village must be born, it will be difficult for us to adapt to the outside life.”

    “Anle,” Anmu sighed deeply and said, “It may not be better outside. At least, Longyin Village should not go out within a hundred years.”

    “Why?” Anle asked.

    An Mu said: “There is war outside.”

    “That was two hundred years ago.”

    “Two hundred years is not a long time,” An Mu said, “War will not break out just once. Anle, you should be very clear that human development takes time, and now is not the best time for Longyin Island to appear.”

    “Grandpa An,” An Le suddenly raised his head and stared at An Mu, saying word by word, “Are you from the future like me?”

    Anmu looked at Anle for a long time, then nodded slowly and said, “Yes, I am from the future just like you.”

    Unexpected, but also reasonable.Hearing this answer, Anle wasn’t too surprised, but just felt like “it’s true”.

    “How did you find out?” Anmu asked.

    There are too many loopholes, Anle thought. He should have noticed it from the beginning, from the beginning of the mermaid story.

    “There is no such thing as ‘mermaid’ in this world,” An Le sighed with a smile. “People here call it ‘mermaid’. ‘Mermaid’ came from Western countries. Moreover, Grandpa An, the prototype of the story you told is obviously the snail girl and Snow White.”

    Now that I think back to the story of the mermaid, Anle is a bit dumbfounded. Mermaids don’t know how to wash, cook and serve people. They use their songs to seduce humans into becoming slaves.

    “But Grandpa An, since you come from the future, why is Longyin Village still so backward? Not even a match? If there were even a little bit of modern things in the village, I wouldn’t have discovered that you are a time traveler until now. Did you travel through time more recently? You haven’t entered modern society yet? Or are you like me, even though you have never come from the future, you can’t do anything?”

    Anmu smiled and shook his head and said, “I come from a very far future.”

    “When?” Anle asked.

    Anmu looked at the ocean and said slowly: “The end of mankind.”

    “Huh?” Anle’s mind went blank for a moment, and after a long time he murmured: “The end of mankind? Is it possible that mankind…is extinct?!”

    Anle opened her mouth and looked at Anmu in disbelief. Anmu nodded sadly.

    “The end not just for humanity, but for all life on earth.”

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