NOVEL NEXT 9: Unexpected Joy
Regarding feeding someone, Gu Yu had absolutely no experience.
Fortunately, Gu Mengyao was quite obedient. After accepting Gu Yu’s feeding a few times, her cheeks turned red and she began to pick up meat with her own chopsticks.
Meanwhile, her little brother Gu Qingheng, seeing his sister taking meat, couldn’t help but reach for some himself. The satisfied expression on his face as he stuffed it into his mouth made Gu Yu want to laugh.
Although the meat was delicious, a stomach that hadn’t touched oil for a long time couldn’t accept too much… So after eating a few pieces of meat, Gu Yu forced himself to stop and dry-chewed the corn buns.
There would be many opportunities to eat meat in the future. He couldn’t let his body develop problems now.
Thus, in this warm atmosphere, the lunch filled all three of their stomachs.
Afterward, while Gu Mengyao and her brother took their afternoon nap, Gu Yu used the excuse of walking off his full stomach to slip out.
Although he didn’t know how to make money, staying cooped up in the house wouldn’t give him any ideas.
It was better to go out and look around, and also test his newly acquired space to see what abilities it had.
During the meal, Gu Yu had secretly placed steaming hot chicken meat into his space. Now, about an hour later, in the autumn temperature, it should have cooled down.
But when Gu Yu took the chicken meat out of the space, it was still steaming hot.
Clearly, Gu Yu’s space preserved freshness.
Besides this, it gave Gu Yu another unexpected surprise.
This space could actually retrieve objects from a distance.
Within a range of ten meters from Gu Yu, as long as he concentrated his thoughts on an object, he could directly collect it into his space.
After sending tree branches into and out of his space multiple times, and controlling branches from his space to appear in his hand, Gu Yu immediately became excited.
Since he could store and retrieve items like this, wouldn’t he be able to directly collect prey into his space when he encountered it?
With the idea of giving it a try, Gu Yu walked into the mountains, one foot deep and one foot shallow, while keeping his eyes on the surroundings, ready to look for prey to experiment with.
As a result, a fat white rabbit crouching in the dried grass was particularly obvious in front of Gu Yu.
Before the rabbit’s red eyes could detect Gu Yu’s figure, Gu Yu had already struck first, directly collecting the rabbit into his space.
The entire series of actions happened in the blink of an eye. After the rabbit disappeared from the spot, the joy in Gu Yu’s eyes finally showed.
Then, taking the rabbit out of the space and holding it as it frantically struggled, Gu Yu directly smashed the rabbit’s head with a stone, killing it before putting it back into his space.
When you can’t even eat your fill, being soft-hearted is simply a joke.
Also, once he had money, he would definitely buy a handy knife.
Heaven truly doesn’t cut off all paths for a man. Just as Gu Yu was thinking that the family couldn’t rely solely on Gu Mengyao’s hunting, he discovered the convenience of the space. It was like being handed a pillow while feeling sleepy—he had found a path to wealth.
At just thirteen years old with a thin, scrawny frame, Gu Mengyao frequently traveled in the mountains, and Gu Yu worried that some accident might happen.
Hunters made money quickly by killing wild animals, but that was because the mountains were dangerous. Otherwise, people wouldn’t bother farming—they’d just go into the mountains to hunt and make money.
People being bitten to death by wild beasts in the mountains was not uncommon in Yang Village.
Gu Mengyao’s father had died this way, so Gu Yu didn’t want Gu Mengyao to continue risking her life hunting… When he made money later, he would buy some land, and they could live comfortably just on the rental income.
Thinking about future arrangements and the goal of becoming a landlord made Gu Yu more hopeful about his future life.
Along the way, Gu Yu collected wild pheasants and rabbits into his space, and even caught a roe deer.
Roe deer meat was much better than pheasant or rabbit, and the price would definitely be higher.
If only he could come across a tiger, that would be great…
Perhaps heaven sensed Gu Yu’s wish. As he unwittingly walked deeper into the mountains, a huge wild boar suddenly appeared before him.
Its massive body, long tusks, and a pair of vigilant eyes staring at him made Gu Yu freeze in fear. He thought that forget about tigers, even the pig in front of him could take his little life.
The reason was simple—because at this moment, Gu Yu’s space had no effect.
[The wild boar is too large, exceeding the space’s capacity. Collection refused.]
Damn it, was this playing with him?
How could the space fail at this crucial moment? Being rammed by such a large wild boar would definitely send him to meet the King of Hell.