The devastated Night Fall Town was too painful for me to look at, so all I could do was help the suffering residents in small ways. Replace broken windows, collect scattered vegetables and fruits on the ground...

Although compared to typhoons and tsunamis, this level of disaster was insignificant, but it was still an undeserved calamity.

The residents of Night Fall Town showed a strange optimism when they saw us coming to help. It was as if as long as the few of us were safe, they were willing to make any sacrifice.

Back at the bar, the messy tables and chairs and water stains on the floor already told us how much this cabin had been ravaged. Park, who was stronger, and Leya, who could fly, were still doing the cleanup work. Wolfrang and Simmon started tidying up the bar, and my wife and I joined them. My wife remained silent, perhaps influenced by me, losing her usual cheerfulness and liveliness.

I couldn't calm down, not because our honeymoon was interrupted, but because I had seen too many things I didn't want to see.

After finishing the cleanup, Wolfrang brought a few chairs and sat down with us at the bar.

"Sorry for making both of you xxxx."

"No, I should be the one apologizing..."

"It's okay, we've been through this before."

"..."

I didn't know what to say, not because my language was lacking.

Wolfrang then chatted with us for a while, roughly saying not to worry. According to him, he was the first line of defense protecting Night Fall Town's wealth, capable of taking down twenty soldiers alone. I knew he was boasting; Wolfrang could at most hold off twenty soldiers, considering they had twenty guns.

Those gold coins were the property of every person in Night Fall Town. As the most powerful monsters in Night Fall Town, they had the responsibility to protect their most valuable possessions. As for my wife and me, at that time we were purely protecting ourselves from being discovered; they didn't consider us as combatants. I understood, they didn't want to involve outsiders.

"Do the kingdom and the Kingdom need those gold coins?"

"Well... they do, but not as gold coins."

"Oh..."

The Kingdom needed the gold coins, but not as currency. That meant the Kingdom didn't use gold coins as money; they were likely considered a valuable metal.

"And those blue and white ones, the humans, who are they?"

"Tialie."

Tialie was the name of a military unit in the kingdom, though I didn't quite understand which kind it was. I simply referred to them as "city guard." Perhaps calling them "city guard" was too light; they should be called blue and white devils.

We didn't stay in Night Fall Town for lunch; we simply said goodbye to Wolfrang and Simmon and returned home. My wife and I didn't communicate much on the way, and the good mood we had maintained was completely gone due to this catastrophe.

"Lalalalala~ Lalala~"

My wife stood behind me and suddenly hummed a song. I knew she wanted to sing the song "Treading Waves" that I had sung before, but she clearly didn't remember the lyrics or the melody...

"It goes like this, lalalalala~ lalalala~"

"Hehe."

She hugged my neck and transferred her weight to my back.

"Wife, can we only protect ourselves?"

"Well~ Maybe I should protect you?"

"Then I'll protect you too, is that okay?"

"Can you do it?"

"I..."

Yes, I couldn't even protect my own wife, let alone the residents of Night Fall Town.

"So, let's have a meal!"

"Okay, huh?"

"Eating, isn't it a happy thing?"

"Well, um, you're... right."

A woman who can eat is happy; this statement doesn't make much sense, but I'm willing to believe it. Medusa may not understand me, even though she's my wife, but she can still help me get over the sadness in her own way, and that's enough.

"So, what are we going to eat?"

With her leaning against my back, I started preparing the belated lunch. Returning home, everything seemed to go back to a fairy tale. There was no cruel army or tormented residents, as if nothing had happened. The only reminder of those terrifying scenes was the pistol on my waist.For such a long time, many of the goals I set in my diary have not been achieved, but inadvertently I have also improved my life in many ways. For example, the storage of meat. I can eat the meat I obtain from the long-necked rabbit for a week, but because I cannot preserve it for a long time, I can usually only eat it for three or four days, and the remaining meat will become infested with worms and spoil.

As a modern person living in the city, I have not learned anything about wilderness survival, so I use the most direct association method.

How do I store meat at home? With a refrigerator.

Why can a refrigerator store meat? Because it is cold.

So what is something here that is cold? Cold Creek!

First, divide the meat into two portions, one portion is the amount that can be eaten within three days, and the remaining portion is placed in a wooden basin and submerged in the water of the cold creek, with some large stones placed on top of the wooden basin to weigh it down. This way, the cold creek becomes a natural refrigerator.

The only drawback is that it requires the use of a wooden basin, and the taste of the meat is not very good after being soaked in water.

In addition to storing meat, there is also the so-called "agriculture". Actually, until now, I have never really done any planting. What I have done is simply transplanting wild yam from the outdoors to the cultivated land in front of my own house. This can only be considered as a storage method and cannot be regarded as true agriculture that achieves a "plant-harvest" cycle. But I have placed my hopes on my knowledge, and I believe that regardless of which world it is, most plants follow the laws of nature.

Now it is already autumn, and I think plants should be producing seeds or fruits. If they don't produce seeds, then I will continue to search for these plants until I understand their life cycle by next spring.

In addition to these yam-like crops, I also bought some vegetable seeds in Night Fall Town as a backup plan. However, considering that it is already autumn, I can only wait until spring to start planting.

As for the cleanliness of the cave, it has also improved a lot. Because I bought a lot of things, the originally spacious cave suddenly seemed small. However, this has also prompted us to clean more thoroughly. The more things we have, the more we need to organize them neatly.

Sitting on the bed with her and looking at the tidy "house," I understand why people need a home. No matter what pain or hardships you experience outside, as long as you return home, a sense of happiness fills you. Here, there is the warmest bed, the most familiar food, and the person who loves you the most.

This is also why people are willing to do anything to protect their homes, and if this emotion is magnified, it becomes defending the country.

Since returning from Night Fall Town, time has passed like the water in the cold creek, and our lives have become more peaceful. Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the passionate honeymoon phase has gradually cooled with the weather. In fact, when it comes down to it, we are not officially married, we just live together because we love each other.

For a long time, I haven't visited Night Fall Town again. One reason is that I have bought almost everything that needed to be bought, and the other reason is because of that incident. Although the people in the town are very welcoming and have accepted us, that incident is still a hurdle in my heart. I might have caused trouble by going there.

After about eighty days, the leaves started turning yellow, and when she and I went for a walk, we could hear the crunching sound beneath our feet. The forest also became quieter, and the animals commonly seen in summer became less common, making hunting more time-consuming. However, as the weather got colder, some annoying insects also became less common.

According to my memory, I used the fur of the long-necked rabbit to make a brown shawl for her. The final product looked more like a combination of a scarf and a shawl, but she still liked it very much and often wore it around her neck. However, there was no progress in preparing for winter. The production of the woolen quilt failed three times in a row, and no matter what I did, I couldn't make the wool stay stable inside the quilt.

I forgot to ask about the cotton quilt when I was in Night Fall Town, and there are only about thirty days left until winter arrives. Whenever I think about this, I can't help but feel a little nervous.

"What's wrong, honey?"

"It's nothing, I was just thinking, it's going to be very cold in the future, right?"

"Yeah, it will be."

My wife wrapped her body around in front of me, her bright eyes staring at my face. The slightly raised corners of her eyes that I found strange at the time now exude a charming aroma.

"I will also feel very cold..."

She grabbed my hand and placed it on her chest. The soft sensation that came before was as cold as she had said, and the trembling of her heartbeat reached my palm, slowly touching her collarbone, shoulders, and neck. I let out a sigh of relief in my heart. My wife is not just a figment of my imagination."No, it's not cold."

"You are not cold today, not cold tomorrow, and not cold in the future."

As long as there is a hint of warmth left in my body, I will share that warmth with you.