The sky collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, I found myself transported to Nanluoguxiang.

The two had just approached the threshing ground at the entrance of Kaoshantun Village.

It was immediately spotted by sharp-eyed villagers.

"Oh dear! It's the fourth brother! What happened to him?!"

"Fourth Brother! Are you alright?!"

Several villagers who were working in the threshing ground dropped what they were doing and rushed over in surprise.

When they saw Zhao Laosi's tattered sheepskin coat soaked in blood and his pale, bloodless face, they all gasped in horror.

A hot-blooded young man glanced at Li Kaixin, who was standing next to him, but whose clothes were tattered but whose body was clean, and anger immediately welled up on his face.

Pointing at Li Kaixin, he questioned, "It was you, wasn't it! Yesterday, Fourth Brother said he was bringing a city person into the mountains today."

"Did you run into some danger and just run away, leaving Fourth Brother in this mess!"

Upon hearing this, several villagers who were watching looked at Li Kaixin with suspicion and dissatisfaction.

Although Zhao Laosi was weak, he suddenly became excited upon hearing this. He struggled to stand up straight and, with all his might, explained loudly:

"What...what nonsense are you spouting!"

"It's a pack of wolves! My brother and I were on a sunny slope... and we ran into a huge pack of wolves."

"If it weren't for your amazing marksmanship, bro, I'd be dead in the mountains today. We fought off the wolves together!"

"It's you, brother, you've saved...saved me so many times!"

Zhao Laosi's breathing was unsteady and intermittent, but he tried his best to explain the matter clearly.

Just then, the village chief, who had received the news, and a woman wearing a patched cotton-padded coat with an anxious expression, along with two teenagers, rushed over.

The villagers who were watching automatically made way for them.

When Zhao Laosi's wife saw her husband's gruesome state, covered in blood, her legs went weak, and she threw herself onto Zhao Laosi.

With a sob in her voice, she cried out, "Husband! What happened to you? Good heavens! You were perfectly fine when I left this morning!"

Zhao Laosi quickly endured the pain to comfort his wife, "It's alright, it's alright, why are you crying!"

"It's scary to look at. I was bitten a few times by that beast, but I'll be fine after a few days. I won't die."

He emphasized again, pointing to Li Kaixin, "We owe everything to this guy today; he saved me. He's our family's benefactor!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Laosi's wife looked up at Li Kaixin with tearful eyes.

She did harbor some resentment towards the young man from the city, feeling that he was the one who had caused her husband to suffer such a calamity.

Hearing what the head of the household said in person, that bit of resentment instantly turned into endless gratitude.

He immediately knelt down before Li Kaixin, pleading, "Brother! Thank you! Thank you for saving my master!"

Li Kaixin dared not accept such a generous gift and quickly stepped aside to avoid it.

He reached out to help her up, saying, "Sister-in-law, please don't do this! Brother Zhao was in danger because he was trying to bring me into the mountains. It's only right that I help him."

Zhao Laosi looked at the village chief, who had a furrowed brow and was panting.

He said in a serious tone, "Village chief... something unusual happened today! We encountered a large pack of dozens of wolves on the sunny slope."

"That place... in previous years there were at most a few roe deer and wild deer, and the creatures from the deep mountains rarely went there."

"I think it's a wild beast from the deep mountains that's about to come down. We need to warn everyone in the village to be careful."

The village chief's surname was Zhang. He was a man in his fifties with a dark and steady face.

He initially thought that the two wolf carcasses that Zhao Laosi and Li Kaixin brought down were just ordinary encounters with two wolves, and that he had been accidentally injured.

Upon hearing about the large pack of dozens of wolves and the location on the sunny slope, his expression suddenly changed.

The sunny slope is not too far from the village, and the appearance of a large wolf pack there is an extremely dangerous sign for Kaoshan Village.

Seeing that the village chief remained silent, Zhao Laosi assumed he didn't believe him and hurriedly said, "Village chief, I didn't lie."

"If you don't believe me, let the hunting team go check out the sunny slope right now! There... there are still a lot of wolf carcasses we haven't brought down yet!"

Village Chief Zhang took a deep breath, made a decisive decision, and said in a deep voice, "I believe you! Fourth Brother, go check on your injuries first!"

He immediately turned to the several strong and burly men around him, each carrying a hunting rifle, and gave them instructions.

"Tiezhu! Take a few men and go check out the sunny slope right now! Bring your weapons, and be careful!"

"Yes, Village Chief!"

The man in the lead responded, selected three or four people, and immediately ran quickly towards the direction of the mountain.

Meanwhile, Village Chief Zhang called out to several villagers, "Come on, a few of you, lend a hand and get Lao Si to the clinic first!"

Immediately, some kind-hearted villagers pushed over a wooden cart, and everyone carefully helped Zhao Laosi onto it and made him lie down.

And so, the villagers gathered at the village entrance split into two groups.

Led by Tiezhu, they headed towards the sunny slope.

The other group followed the cart, escorting Zhao Laosi and Li Kaixin to the clinic.

On the way to the clinic.

Li Kaixin only then realized that the clinic was located in the center of several villages, some distance from Kaoshantun.

The cart creaked along the dirt road, with Zhao Laosi's wife following closely beside it, wiping away tears from time to time.

Li Kaixin walked silently to one side, her feelings complicated.

Meanwhile, the hunting team led by Tiezhu, relying on their agility and familiarity with the mountain paths, quickly arrived at the sunny slope.

When the group of people pushed aside the last bush and saw the scene on the slope, everyone was frozen in place as if by a spell, their pupils contracting violently!

What lies before me is no longer the grassy slope of my memory; it is clearly a battlefield.

The corpses of more than twenty gray wolves lay scattered in pools of blood, the pungent, nauseating stench of blood almost solidifying in the air.

"Oh my...oh my mother!"

A young team member's voice trembled, and his legs felt weak.

Tie Zhu's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed hard. Even as an old hunter, he had never seen such a brutal fight.

How fierce must a person be to kill so many wolves?

Tie Zhu no longer doubted Zhao Laosi's words, and felt an indescribable awe for the unfamiliar young man from the city.

Meanwhile, Li Kaixin and the others finally arrived at the clinic.

It was a slightly dilapidated bungalow.

Upon seeing the person covered in blood being helped in, the only doctor inside, a middle-aged man in a white coat and glasses, rushed over and immediately asked the villager at the front of the group a question.

"What happened? How did you get injured like this?"

The villager hurriedly said, "Doctor, please look, my fourth brother was bitten by a wolf and looks like this."

Without further ado, the doctor helped Zhao Laosi up while examining his wounds.

Upon seeing the crushed herbs applied to the wound, his brows immediately furrowed, and he asked in a reproachful tone:

"What kind of rubbish are you applying? Who gave you permission to use herbal remedies like this? What if it gets infected?"

Seeing this, Li Kaixin immediately stepped forward and explained, "Doctor, we're applying Sanguisorba officinalis and Bletilla striata, both commonly used hemostatic herbs from the mountains. We tried to make them as clean as possible when we applied them."

Upon hearing this, the doctor glanced at Li Kaixin with some surprise, noticing that Li Kaixin spoke clearly and logically, and that the herbs he mentioned were indeed the right remedy.

His expression softened slightly: "Hmm, at least he has some common sense."

Without another word, he immediately got to work, carefully cleaning away the herbal residue and re-washing the wound with alcohol.

Zhao Laosi grimaced in pain, but stubbornly kept quiet.

After cleaning, the doctor skillfully sprinkled anti-inflammatory powder on the wounds and carefully bandaged the deeper ones with clean gauze.

"The wound is a bit deep, but fortunately it didn't damage the bone or major blood vessels. Change the dressing on time, take some anti-inflammatory medication, keep it dry, and rest for a while. The medication and treatment fee will cost a total of two yuan."

The doctor said this while prescribing the medicine.

The villagers who had been escorted looked at each other; they had left in a hurry and none of them had any money on them.

Zhao Laosi's wife looked troubled and wrung her hands anxiously.

Without saying a word, Li Kaixin immediately took out two one-yuan bills from his pocket—actually from the secret realm space—and handed them over: "Doctor, here's your money."

The doctor took the money, handed the medicine to Zhao Laosi's wife, and gave her a few more instructions.

Zhao Laosi lay on the cart, watching Li Kaixin pay, his lips moving slightly.

He said weakly but firmly, "Brother, I'll pay you back when I get back."

Zhao Laosi's wife repeatedly expressed her gratitude, saying, "Thank you so much, brother! Thank you so much for today!"

"Brother Zhao, sister-in-law, you're too kind. It's all my pleasure," Li Kaixin waved his hand dismissively.

During the conversation.

The group helped Zhao Laosi back onto the cart and slowly returned towards Kaoshantun.