It was a girl around sixteen years old. Because she was wearing a mask, Xia Yu couldn’t see her face clearly. However, judging from her lively eyes, she should be a beauty.
So, is this the plot of Beauty and the Beast now?
Where is the tallest building in the world? Is the plane ready?
After letting his thoughts wander a bit, Xia Yu turned his attention back to the girl.
When the girl approached within two meters of him, she slowed her pace cautiously. After all, Xia Yu was currently in the form of a bear; only someone with an abnormal mind wouldn’t be afraid at all.
Seeing the girl’s wary look, Xia Yu suddenly raised his paw mischievously.
The girl immediately stepped backward.
However, Xia Yu didn’t lunge at her. Instead, he placed his paw on his bear head and started scratching.
When the girl realized it was a false alarm, she approached again.
This time, when she came within less than half a meter of him, Xia Yu suddenly opened his huge, bloody mouth.
The girl closed her eyes in fear, bracing herself for her doom.
After a while, feeling no pain, she opened her eyes and saw Bear Yu yawning.
Internally, the girl scolded herself for being too anxious. She didn’t know all of this was just Xia Yu playing with her.
Standing in front of Bear Yu, the girl began to remove his bandages—though they were mostly gauze.
Underneath the gauze, Xia Yu’s terrible wounds were revealed.
The girl took some herbs from her nearby medical kit and started dressing his wounds.
Xia Yu sniffed the herbs; they were just ordinary wound treatments, not particularly effective for a bear.
Nevertheless, they were a token of the girl’s kindness, and the medicine did have a pain-relieving effect.
Xia Yu could vaguely sense the bear’s happy emotions.
His and the brown bear’s bond had not even reached a true Level 1 yet, so he could only feel relatively obvious or intense emotions.
In other words, the brown bear really liked this girl.
Xia Yu extended his bear paw and patted the girl’s head encouragingly.
After a brief moment of concern, the girl’s face lit up with a bright smile.
She then said a sentence. The language she used was close to Chinese, but the pronunciation was somewhat different—somewhat like a local dialect.
Xia Yu, with his Language Level 3 ability, quickly figured out the origin of the language.
It was the language of District 232, a very small district.
As for additional information about this district, Xia Yu didn’t know much.
Since the girl was speaking the language of District 232, Xia Yu must now be in District 232 as well.
This gave Xia Yu a bit of a headache. Although small, District 232 was a sovereign region, so the Xia and Yu families might not be able to intervene. Recovering the brown bear might prove difficult.
Well, he’d just have to wait and see for now.
Xia Yu looked at the girl again.
What she had just said was “Poor thing.”
Indeed, a bear that had been shot could be considered pitiful.
After saying that, the girl fell silent. After wrapping the gauze, she cautiously reached out and touched Bear Yu’s ear.
Xia Yu was quite curious where the girl had found the courage to touch a bear’s ear.
Even among warrior cultures, people wouldn’t recklessly approach a bear in the wild without caution.
After spending about half an hour with Bear Yu, the girl stood up and waved goodbye to him: “Stay in this cave and don’t run off!”
Xia Yu waved his paw to show he understood.
After letting the girl walk for five minutes, Xia Yu followed her trail by tracking her scent in the air.
An hour later, he finally emerged from the woods, and the view suddenly opened up.
He stood on a hilltop, below which lay a small village.
On the road in front of the village, the girl was walking.
Bears couldn’t enter villages, and Xia Yu had no intention of going in either. He carefully circled the village and found a wooden signpost with the village’s name.
The village was called Zhongjia Village.
After learning the name, Xia Yu followed a footpath made by the villagers, trying to find a way out of the forest. However, after walking for an hour, he found the path was getting too long.
With his leg still injured, he couldn’t continue forward. He rested for a while on the spot and then returned the way he came.
Back in the cave, Xia Yu set aside the issue of recovering the bear for now and instead focused on how to practice bear skills.
Strength training was simple—weightlifting would do. But endurance training was more challenging.
Was he supposed to run a marathon as a bear?
Maybe he could do push-ups?
With his leg still injured, running a marathon was out of the question, and weightlifting movements weren’t possible either. That left push-ups as the only option.
Bear Yu lowered his body and began practicing.
Eight hours passed, and Xia Yu returned to his own body.
It was already late at night. Xia Yu opened his skill menu and checked—none of the bear’s skills had appeared yet. He had spent too much time separating from the bear, and his practice time had been insufficient.
Putting that aside for now, Xia Yu opened his laptop and searched online for information about District 232.
District 232 had a population of just under two million, mostly mountainous and forested. Its political system was constitutional monarchy.
Although technically constitutional monarchy, most affairs were still managed by the monarch, making it effectively a monarchy, albeit with a monarch possessing less power than before.
These weren’t the most important details, though. After skimming through, Xia Yu began searching for the most crucial information.
He looked up Zhongjia Village in District 232 to find its location, but neither maps nor forums had any information about this place.
After searching for an hour and receiving no results even after posting questions, Xia Yu returned to reviewing general information about District 232.
District 232 had recently experienced a terrorist-style rebellion, during which the royal family was completely wiped out. The current government was newly established, but the people of District 232 had, throughout their long history, become accustomed to the presence and leadership of a monarch. They did not recognize the new government, which lacked royal bloodline connections, and the country was currently in a state of great disorder.
With even basic order difficult to maintain, naturally map updates had also ceased.
Where Zhongjia Village was located remained completely unknown.
Xia Yu needed to find more obvious landmarks, such as mountain names or major road names, to determine the bear’s location and proceed with its recovery.
But that would have to wait until the day after tomorrow.
He had already used up today’s game session. Tomorrow was Zhong Yunxin’s school day, and he needed to log into An Siyao’s body to intercept Zhong Yunxin’s clothes.
After sleeping for a while, at six in the morning, Xia Yu entered An Siyao’s body.
At seven o’clock, Zhong Yunxin happily prepared to get into the car at Xia Yu’s doorstep when An Siyao’s car pulled up in front of her.
Seeing An Siyao getting out of the car, Zhong Yunxin obediently put down her suitcase and went back inside to retrieve the suitcase containing her regular clothes.
In the car, she sadly bid farewell to all her outfits.
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