Chapter 133: The Letter

　Cream Puff wiggled so hard that Archibald had to let go of the massager and hold him with both hands to prevent him from falling.

　Without the pressure of the massager, Cream Puff immediately got up, but he stood up too fast and could not stand firmly. With an oompf he fell back on Archibald’s lap, four paws in the air.

　Cream Puff was stunned for a moment, then swayed around a few times like a little turtle, but couldn’t get up.

　Archibald was about to reach out to help, but saw that Cream Puff had given up struggling and spread out into a blanket on Archibald’s lap.

　”Ummh!”

　After lying down comfortably, Cream Puff began to express his opinion, stretched out his short paws and gestured while talking in a serious milky voice: “Umm! Umm!”

　While he was talking, his head sometimes looked this way, sometimes that way, like the dean criticizing his students — you, yes I’m talking about you!

　Archibald: “…”

　Although he didn’t understand what Cream Puff was saying, he could sense Cream Puff’s resistance.

　Yang Yang was amused and stretched out his hand to scratch Cream Puff’s soft belly: “Do you not like your two grandpas?”

　Yang Yang scratched with his hand, and Cream Puff suddenly shrank like a slime, his tail wrapped around Yang Yang’s wrist and the four short paws hugged Yang Yang’s hand. His wholy cub’s body curled up around his fingers, like a caramel-colored fur glove, tightly clasped on Yang Yang’s hand.

　Feeling that he was hanging firmly, Cream Puff put his head on the back of Yang Yang’s hand and made a happy sound: “Mmm!”

　He caught big daddy!

　Yang Yang: “…”

　Yang Yang couldn’t help but laugh. He raised up his hand and looked at it, hei, it really lifted up with Cream Puff, but he also felt that Cream Puff’s body was sliding down.

　”You.”

　Yang Yang stretched out his other hand, hugged Cream Puff’s little body, then brought him closer and kissed him, “Okay, I’ll let you sleep here. But wait until your own room is ready. After that, you will have to go back to your room to sleep.”

　Cream Puff had seen his room and he didn’t dislike it—— after all, it was right next to his dads, and there were several passages through which he could come.

　Cream Puff let go of Yang Yang’s hand and responded: “Um!”

　Okay!

　Yang Yang laughed and said deliberately: “Your two grandpas would be very sad if they knew that you don’t want to sleep with them.”

　Cream Puff blinked his round eyes, tilted his head and looked at Yang Yang, looking innocent and cute.

　——Aiya, why didn’t he understand what big daddy was saying?

　”Little rascal.”

　Yang Yang laughed and put Cream Puff back on Archibald’s lap— the nursing cream hadn’t been applied yet.

　Cream Puff consciously spread out his limbs and lay down, wagging his tail in a good mood, rubbing against Archibald’s belly and sweeping it over and over.

　Archibald looked at the little one who ruined his beautiful plan, and could only swallow his anger, also having to gently smooth out Cream Puff’s disheveled fur.

　Then he turned to look at Yang Yang— that look was as aggrieved and pitiful as when Cream Puff that was begging for milk.

　Yang Yang pursed his lips and smiled, then leaned over and kissed Archibald again, “Cream Puff’s room will be finished in at most three days.”

　Archibald understood and finally smiled, then turned his head to get closer and deepened the kiss.

　Of course, with Cream Puff here, the two young fathers could only get a brief taste before they had to get down to business before the flames arose.

　Yang Yang looked at the chip in his hand and asked Archibald: “Can my terminal open this chip?”

　Archibald: “Our current terminal can’t, but the savings chip wristband dad gave you can. It’s specifically made for storage chips and can be embedded with various types of chips.”

　After hearing this, Yang Yang took out the rich gold wristband from the storage space, and five spots Archibald had taken chips from were still empty.

　Yang Yang inserted the chip in his hand into an empty slot. After activation, a storage list immediately popped up on the wristband.

　There were two options in the list, randomly numbered 1 and 2, and Yang Yang took them both out.

　What fell in his hand was a letter and a small wooden box.

　Yang Yang first put the box on his lap, then opened the letter and started reading it.

　Archibald was applying nursing ointment to Cream Puff, and glanced briefly at it. He roughly saw that there were only two pages of letter paper inside. The writing wasn’t very refined, but it was neat.

　As Yang Yang read the letter, his face became more and more solemn, and his eyebrows could not help but frown.

　Archibald frowned when he saw this, but did not disturb Yang Yang. After Yang Yang finished reading the letter, he asked: “What’s wrong? What’s written in it?”

　Yang Yang put down the letter, took a breath, and then looked at Archibald, saying: “This was written by the old village chief. There are some things in it that he hasn’t told us. —I’ll massage Cream Puff, you can see for yourself.”

　Yang Yang handed to both the letter and the box to Archibald and took Cream Puff from him, then caught the massager and continued massaging nursing cream on Cream Puff.

　Cream Puff was relaxing again now and his eyes were half-closed. However, he seemed to know that it was Yang Yang who was holding him, so he hooked his tail in the air a few times, before catching Yang Yang’s wrist that was supporting him, and curled it around it, then he calmed down again.

　Yang Yang felt the softness on her wrist. The heavy feeling caused by the letter just now seemed to be swept away by this soft touch, and he felt much more relaxed.

　However, this heavy feeling was conveyed to Archibald along with the letter.

　The letter briefly described the village chief’s experiences, but the doctor from thirty years ago was not like what old village chief had told them— because he had a guilty conscience, he confessed to the old village chief and helped the villagers.

　On the contrary, the doctor was pretending to confess and was acting from beginning to end.

　But the old village chief didn’t realize it at the beginning. It was the second year after that, when he accidentally overheard the doctor’s communications with others, that he discovered the doctor had never actually repented.

　But by then, it was too late.

　There was also the massacre of the village twenty years ago. In fact, it was not a massacre of the village, but a kidnapping. Only the old, weak and sick were mercilessly killed. The others were taken away and they still didn’t know where they were now.

　The surviving people were not those who escaped the hunting, but the ones that the old village chief managed to take away in desperation after discovering something was wrong.

　After that, they hid, but unexpectedly they met Dr. Lu later.

　But from the old village chief’s observations, it didn’t seem like Dr. Lu was sent by the mysterious man, but more like her own unauthorized action. But regardless of anything, it was obvious that she had something to do with the mysterious man.

　Although the old village chief and Dr. Lu each took what they needed and didn’t trust each other, he knew that they didn’t have long to live. So after knowing that the military was going to start a winter camp there, the old village chief had an idea to first feel out the situation inside the military and then expose children to the outside world.

　Unexpectedly, by a mistake, Yang Yang and Archibald arrived in the village first.

　At the end of the letter, the old village chief also made it clear that they had left their current residence and there was no need to try to find them.

　In addition to describing what the village had experienced, the letter also mentioned two very important things.

　The first thing was that the old village chief later deliberately paid attention to the doctor’s whereabouts and found out that the person who contacted the doctor was from the military, but it wasn’t the mysterious person that hada planned everything. They also talk about “that noble” that none of the doctors had met, however everything they did was to provide “that noble” with high-quality medicine.

　The second item was the box.

　The letter said that the contents of the box was used medicine. The source of these medicines was extracted from the soul palaces of people whose souls had materialized after death, and from the soul palaces of fetuses that were implanted with medicinal stone chips but died.

　Archibald’s face turned cold after reading the letter— he originally thought that using villagers as guinea pigs was going too far, but he didn’t expect that what the mysterious man really did was to use people as medicine ingredients.

　When Yang Yang saw Archibald like this, he didn’t say anything to persuade him. He just said something to divert Archibald’s attention: “Open the box and take a look.”

　Archibald took a breath and calmed down a little. Then picked up the box and opened it.

　The wooden box was only half the size of a palm and it was padded with a black animal skin. On the black animal skin, there were seven or eight transparent crystals of different sizes, smoke gray. The biggest one was as big as half a thumb and the smallest one was only as big as a grain of rice.

　If he didn’t know what this thing was in advance, even if Yang Yang saw it, he would probably just think of it as ordinary glass.

　Archibald picked up one, looked at it, and shook his head: “I don’t sense any soul power, and I have never seen such a thing.”

　In fact, he never knew that soul crystals could be generated in the human soul palace.

　Yang Yang had no clue at this moment, but he knew that this might be related to the true medicinal properties of the medicine stone. ——The person who knew the medicine stone best was Ya Qing. If you gave this thing to him, maybe he would recognise it.

　But Yang Yang still didn’t trust Ya Qing, or in other words, didn’t trust sickness inside of him.

　Yang Yang: “I’ll ask Dad tomorrow if he’d seen it before. Put the things here and I’ll take them in later.”

　Archibald understood that Yang Yang wanted to put them into the Soul Cube and nodded; “Okay.”

　Soul Cube was Yang Yang’s secret. According to Yang Yang, the only things placed in it was living food or very valuable things, and the rest was placed in storage chips. ——Yang Yang also used regular storage chips, so as not to arouse suspicion from others, and also to conceal the storage ability of his Soul Cube.

　Yang Yang finished massaging Cream Puff to the tip of his tail, raised his head and glanced at Archibald, and said: “You go take a bath first, I’ll wash him after I finish massaging him.”

　Archibald didn’t move after hearing this. He glanced at the sleepy Cream Puff and said meaningfully: “I think he is about to fall asleep.”

　Yang Yang: “…”

　Yang Yang looked upright, “Lord Duke, we just promise the child, don’t set a bad example for him of going back on your word.”

　As if to echo Yang Yang’s words, Cream Puff, who was about to fall asleep in a daze, suddenly woke up with a jolt, half-opened his squinted eyes, and shook his little head, looking around.

　——En, big daddy and little daddy are all here, he was not abandoned. He can continue to sleep with peace of mind.

　Archibald: “…”

　Yang Yang pursed his lips and said happily: “See—? Go take a shower.”

　Archibald had no choice but to sigh and enter the bathroom.

　Yang Yang watched Archibald leave, the smile on his lips never falling.

　After a while, Yang Yang finished applying the nursing cream to Cream Puff, Cream Puff had already entered into a light sleep. Yang Yang did not dare to move Cream Puff as to not wake him up, planning to wait until he fell asleep deeply before putting him into his den.

　Yang Yang turned sideways, carefully picked up the letter and the box and put them away. The letter disappeared in a blink of an eye, but the box stayed in place and did not disappear.

　At the same time, the long-lost alarm feedback from the Soul Cube sounded in Yang Yang’s mind.

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Cream Puff: Cream Puff Is Watching U.jpg

Archibald: ………..( feeling very complicated )

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