Harvesting Fantasies Chapter 2

Seeing this pair of eyes, Avery's breath was choked, and he even thought he was hallucinating. Those eyes seemed to see Avery in the house through the gap, revealing a strong greed.

Avery was stunned and asked: "Am I having a nightmare..."

Before his question was answered, the pair of scary eyes above his head disappeared. However, before Avery could recover, he saw a thin pink tongue coming in from the small hole.

The tongue was extremely long, and there was transparent mucus on it. It shot towards Avery's location. Fortunately, Avery reacted quickly and dodged under the bed, avoiding the tongue's attack. He staggered, opened the door, and ran outside. Only after seeing clearly what was on his roof did he freeze in place.

I saw a huge reptile attached to the roof of the old house. The animal's skin was gray-black, its eyeballs were bulging, and its limbs were easily fixed on the slippery bricks and tiles - it was clearly a giant gecko!

The gecko also noticed Avery's movement, slowly turned its head and looked towards Avery. Seeing that the situation was not good, Avery turned around and tried to escape, but the next moment he heard a sound of breaking air behind him, as if something was stabbing towards him!

Before Avery could react, he felt his waist tighten and his vision turned upside down. He let out a cry and was rolled up by the giant gecko's tongue.

This is how geckos eat. As long as they wrap their tongues around a living thing, they will eat it into their mouths. Avery watched himself getting closer and closer to the giant gecko. Just when he was about to be swallowed by the creature, the gecko suddenly froze, with fear in its huge eyes.

Avery was thus suspended in mid-air. He could not fully digest all the bizarre things for a while, but his instinct for survival made him make the right decision. While the gecko was stunned, he took out the keychain in his trouser pocket and slashed it hard at the tongue that was wrapped around him.

It was not known whether it was because of the pain or some other reason, but the gecko actually let go of Avery. Avery fell to the ground from mid-air and saw a thick dark mass floating above his head.

There seemed to be something hidden in the darkness, but Avery couldn't see it clearly.

The gecko seemed to be extremely afraid of the darkness. It turned around and jumped off the roof and tried to escape, but the darkness quickly spread and enveloped the gecko.

Then, Avery heard a sound like chewing meat. The gecko was covered in darkness with only a small part of its tail exposed. Avery watched the tail twisting and struggling, then the movements became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no movement.

The sound of chewing meat gradually became quieter, replaced by the crunching sound of biting bones. Avery slowly got up from the ground, intending to take this opportunity to leave here, but just after taking two steps forward, he felt dizzy and fell to the ground. Just before he completely fainted, he seemed to vaguely see a big orange-yellow eye...

The next day, Avery was woken up by a knock on the door. He got up from the bed and stayed there for a while before staggering to open the door.

"What's wrong, Avery? You look so ugly!" Hunter saw Avery opening the door and was shocked by his expression, "Did you go to catch ghosts in the middle of the night last night?!"

When the word "ghost" was mentioned, Avery's face became even uglier. He said, "I seemed to have had a very scary dream last night." As he spoke, he looked up at the roof and did not see any signs of damage on it.

"Horrible dream?" Hunter asked, "Are you too tired..."

Avery looked dazed: "Yes... maybe."

"Are you going to the market in town today?" Hunter asked, "Or should we take a rest at home for a day?"

"Go ahead." Avery shook his head to sober himself up a little, "I still need to buy some daily necessities."

"Okay, let's go straight to town to have breakfast." Hunter glanced at his watch, "Uncle Chen and his team are heading to town in their car."

Shuifu Village is quite far from the town. It takes a whole day to walk there, and more than two hours to take a car. There are only two small trucks in their village. If villagers want to go to the town, they can wait until the day when the owner of the truck is buying goods and give some money for the fare. The one called Uncle Chen by Hunter is one of them. His family has a lot of fields, and this time he went to the town to buy some fertilizer.

The two men walked to the entrance of the village, said hello to Uncle Chen, and got into the driver's seat.

After Avery paid the taxi fare, Hunter handed him a cigarette with a smile. Uncle Chen took it and lit it, then asked Avery what he wanted to buy while chatting.

"I want to raise a piglet." Avery said, "and buy some seeds."

Uncle Chen said, "Okay, there are piglets for sale in town. I'll help you pick them out when the time comes. Don't let them rip you off."

Avery smiled and thanked him.

Then Uncle Chen asked about Avery's recent situation. After learning that he planned to stay here for a long time, he reminded him of some things that needed attention, such as the land had to be plowed immediately so that it would be easier to plant seeds. Farming was based on the season. If you wasted time and missed the spring, you would have to wait until the next season.

Avery listened and nodded from time to time. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Shuifu Village is small to begin with, and everyone can help each other if there is anything.

The truck drove through the mountain road and arrived at the town market. Unlike the silence at night, the town was bustling during the day. Both sides of the road were lined with vendors selling all kinds of things, including food, useful things, and many seeds and livestock.

Uncle Chen said that he had to prepare the goods first, and asked Hunter and Avery to buy what they wanted first, and then the three of them would meet at the place where the piglets were sold.

Avery nodded in agreement and entered the market with Hunter.

"What do you want to eat?" Hunter said, "The dumplings there are delicious."

Avery said: "Then try it?"

Hunter: "Hey, let's walk."

Avery followed Hunter to a small shop next to the market and ordered two baskets of steaming hot dumplings, two bowls of soy milk and two fried dough sticks.

Avery picked up the steamed bun, took a bite of half of it and hummed, "Delicious." The steamed bun was filled with braised pork, with a thin skin and large fillings. When you bite it open, you will find the gravy. There is also chopped lotus root in it, which dilutes the greasiness of the meat. The taste is very good.

"It's delicious, isn't it?" Hunter said, "Every time I come to his house, I can eat a few baskets. Why don't you try this dipping sauce?"

Upon hearing this, Avery dipped his tongue in the dipping sauce, which contained chili peppers, vinegar, and chopped green onions. It tasted completely different, spicy and delicious with a rich meaty aroma, making it impossible to stop eating.

Avery narrowed his eyes in satisfaction and smiled: "How much can you eat by yourself?"

"Me?" Hunter said, "Three or four baskets are no problem...but if you eat too much, it won't be a good lunch."

"Oh." Avery picked up another one and was about to put it in his mouth, but he felt a gaze on his back. He turned his head in confusion and saw a man in white standing behind him, looking at him intently.

Avery was very familiar with the man's appearance. He was the man he met on the mountain road when he was taking a taxi that day.

"Hello... hello." Being stared at like this, Avery silently put down the chopsticks in his hand, "Hello..." He wanted to say something, but didn't know how to start.

Unexpectedly, while he was hesitating, the man had already walked up to him.

Hunter whispered, "Who is this?" The man was handsome, with slightly droopy eyes and a lazy look. His thin lips were pursed into an arc, and all his attention seemed to be on Avery... No, not on Avery. After repeated confirmation, Hunter realized that the man seemed to be staring at the steamed buns in front of Avery.

Avery: "......" He also discovered the man's target, so after hesitating for a moment, he politely asked, "Do you want to eat?"

The man glanced at Avery and nodded decisively.

Avery quickly ordered two more baskets of dumplings. The man didn't even use chopsticks. He just picked up one and put it into his mouth. Avery wanted to remind him that the dumplings were a little hot, but seeing his appearance, he seemed to be completely unaffected. He ate one after another without stopping for a moment.

Avery asked quietly, "Is it delicious?"

The man paused and nodded.

Avery: "Do you want more?"

The man nodded again.

Avery ordered two more cages. Although he didn't know who the man was, he vaguely felt that it was the man in front of him who saved his life that night.

One basket, two baskets, three baskets... the steamers in front of him were stacked higher and higher, and Hunter's eyes were getting bigger and bigger.

"fcuk, he's already eaten twenty cages." Hunter said horrified.

Avery tried to remain calm: "It's okay, he won't get sick."

Hunter: "Is this a problem of stretching?"

Avery: "What's the problem?"

Hunter: "Do you have enough money with you..."

Avery: "Is that enough?"

A basket of eight dumplings here costs twelve yuan. The man in white has eaten nearly twenty baskets. Avery suspects that he can have another twenty baskets, so he can only touch his wallet to comfort himself that it is worth buying his life for more than four hundred yuan.

The man ate too much, and the people around him looked at him in surprise. Avery and Hunter were speechless looking at the tall steamer in front of them. Finally, when Avery asked the boss to bring five more steamers, the man waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need it.

"Are you full?" Avery said, "Don't worry, I can still afford this meal. Eat until you are full before leaving."

"Are you full?" Hearing this, the man suddenly turned his head and stared at Avery seriously, "I haven't eaten enough for a long time."

Avery: "......"

The man asked, "Can you feed me enough?"

"Haha, I'll try?" For some reason, being stared at by the man's black eyes, Avery broke out in a layer of sweat on his back. He didn't dare to refuse directly, so he could only express his thoughts in a more tactful way.

"Oh," the man said, "that's good."

Avery breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could completely relax, the man said, "My name is Nathan Bai, I will come to find you." He stretched out his hand and threw a small cloth bag on the table, "This is the deposit."

Avery was stunned, but in the short moment he was stunned, the man had already stood up and disappeared into the crowd.

"What is this?" Hunter touched the pocket on the table with some curiosity, "What is this? Is it money?"

Avery opened his pocket, and when he saw what was inside, his expression froze, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

Hunter saw Avery's strange expression, so he leaned over and saw what was in the black bag. He was stunned: "What is this? A bug?"

Avery shook his head, but did not explain what was in the bag. Instead, he sealed the bag. Perhaps others could not recognize this thing, but Avery knew it clearly - it was a gecko's tail, still throbbing slightly, as if it had just been cut off from the gecko. Everything he encountered last night was indeed not a dream.

Hunter muttered quietly beside him: "That guy said he wanted to come find you, was he kidding?"

Avery glanced at Hunter: "Is...right?"

After they said this, they looked at each other, and saw some worry in each other's eyes. They both had a bad premonition...

After the man left, Avery took his wallet and calmly paid the bill, then followed Hunter to pick some seeds for the family.

Avery's family has a total of eight acres of land, all of which have been rented out to others. This year, the lease of two acres has expired, so Avery plans to grow some vegetables for his own consumption.

"Then what do you grow?" Hunter asked.

"Grow a little bit of everything." Avery had no experience in farming, so he thought he would start with two acres of land this year to practice, "Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, and other things that we usually eat."

"Okay." Hunter asked while picking seeds for Avery, "You don't know anything at the beginning, so you can practice first. Two acres of land is not much anyway."

Avery nodded, and the two of them selected some seeds of various kinds and asked the boss to pack them up and put them in their backpacks.

After selecting the seeds, Avery went to buy some daily necessities, such as pots and seasonings for the kitchen. Hunter also asked him to buy some screens to cover the windows, as the mosquitoes at night were very poisonous.

Avery said that he was not bitten by mosquitoes at all.

Hunter still didn't believe it. It could be said that it was a coincidence before, but it had been a few days and Avery was still fine. That was really weird. Who knew that after searching Avery's arm, he didn't find a mosquito bite. So he could only say with hatred that these mosquitoes were really wild boars that would not eat fine bran. They didn't bite Avery, who had smooth skin, but came to bite him...

Avery stood nearby and thought of the huge gecko on the roof of his house. Well, it seems that the main food of geckos is mosquitoes.

After choosing what to choose, it’s almost time to go find Uncle Chen.

Avery and Hunter carried their things to the place where piglets were sold next to the market. This place was a small livestock trading market. As soon as Avery entered, he saw a shop selling calves.

Hunter: "Come this way, how many are you going to buy?"

"Both." Avery said, "One is too lonely."

Hunter paused for a moment after hearing this, looked at Avery, and said seriously: "I have something to remind you, don't give it a name when you buy the pig back."

"I know that." Avery said, "Once you give a name, you have an attachment to it. When you were a child, didn't you name your pig Xiaohua?"

"Yes." Hunter fell into reminiscence and said with emotion, "I liked Xiaohua very much at that time, and I gave it the tenderest pig grass every day."

Avery: "Yeah, in the end Xiaohua was killed by your father and you cried for the whole afternoon. By the way, how did they coax you?"

Hunter: "I made a bowl of braised pork."

Avery: "......"

Hunter: "It smells really good."

Avery: "......"That's fine too.

As they were talking, they arrived at the place where they bought piglets and saw Uncle Chen already chatting with the owner of the piglet seller. Uncle Chen waved when he saw Avery and the others coming, saying, "Come here! I picked two for you!"

Avery walked over and saw two pink and tender little piglets tied up next to Uncle Chen. The piglets were just born and were still quite clean. They were pink and tender and were lying on the ground humming. They looked very cute.

Hunter looked at the piglet and said: "So tender..."

Avery: "...Do you remember Xiaohua?"

Hunter: "Don't mention the sad past anymore."

Avery thought to himself, that’s not what you said when you ate the braised pork.

"This batch of piglets is of good quality." Uncle Chen said, "We raise a small number of pigs, so we don't have to be so picky. Are you going to eat them yourself or sell them for meat?"

"Eat it yourself." Avery said.

"Oh, that's fine." Uncle Chen nodded.

The standards for raising pigs are strict now. If the number exceeds a certain level, a breeding license must be obtained. However, in a remote place like Shuifu Village, there are no such strict regulations, especially for people like Avery who raise pigs for their own consumption.

Avery was very satisfied with the pig that Uncle Chen picked. When he took out his wallet to pay and leave, he heard a shrill pig cry from the side. The cry was so shrill and piercing that it attracted everyone's attention.

"What is that?" Uncle Chen asked in confusion, "Boss, did you get a wild boar?"

The owner of the pig shop shook his head and said, "I didn't get it. I just picked it up by accident on the roadside a few days ago. It seemed to have been knocked unconscious by a car. It wouldn't eat anything I fed it. It looked like it wouldn't live much longer, so I thought I'd just bring it here and sell it."

"Wild boar?" Avery became interested and asked, "Can I take a look?" He had never seen a real wild boar.

The boss waved his hand and signaled Lu to help himself to the wine.

The few of them walked a few steps towards where the pigs were squealing, and saw two small black balls of flesh huddled in the corner of the fence. The slightly larger one was making a miserable cry. Avery met its gaze and discovered that its small eyes were filled with sad tears.

"Is it crying?" Avery didn't expect that a pig could be so smart.

"Is that so?" Hunter said, "But is this thing a wild boar? How come it has fangs at such a young age?" Normally, fangs develop slowly and cannot be present at birth.

"Yeah, this pig looks a little weird, maybe it's a mutation." The boss next to him didn't take it seriously, "And there's a male and a female, and the female has fangs too."

The two little balls of flesh had huddled in the corner, but now they seemed to have understood their conversation and began to look over here, their shouts becoming quieter. It was not known if it was Avery's illusion, but he actually heard a hint of flattery in their voices.

"Boss, what are you going to do with these two pigs?" Avery asked.

The boss said: "They don't want to eat. If they can't sell, just kill them and eat the meat."

Avery said: "How much meat can it have when it's so small?"

The boss asked, "Why, do you want to buy it?"

Avery said, "Look at these two and they are pitiful. I want to ask if I can add a little money and you can sell these two to me together."

The boss was a little hesitant.

Uncle Chen said, "Old Xu, this pig doesn't have much meat to begin with, and it looks sickly. I'm worried about eating it. It's better to sell it at a low price and see if it can be kept alive."

After being persuaded by the old customer, the boss relented and agreed to sell the two black piglets together to Avery at a lower price. Avery paid the money, took the black piglet out of the pen, and put it into Uncle Chen's truck with the other two piglets.

The two black meat balls seemed to be very disgusted with the other two piglets, and were unwilling to get close to their own kind. Avery sat beside them and watched the little movements of the two. He helplessly reached out and gently pulled the ear of the smaller one, saying: "We are all the same kind, why are you disgusted?"

The smaller one hummed twice and actually shed tears, looking extremely aggrieved.

Seeing this, the big one started to snort at Avery fiercely, but at this moment, its small body was only so fierce. Avery reached out and flicked his forehead, saying, "You are still fierce to me? But I rescued you two from there. I am your savior. How can you treat your savior like this?"

Seeing this, Hunter laughed out loud: "Jiu'er, what are you saying to the pigs? Do they really understand?"

As a result, before he finished speaking, he saw the big black piglet bending its front legs and bowing to Avery.

Hunter's smile froze: "fcuk, is this pig a spirit?"

Avery: "......It seems so."

Hunter: "That... this pig spirit..."

Avery: "?"

Hunter: "Is it delicious?"

Avery: ... To be honest, Xiaohua's death was not unjust.