"Yes, Lord. I'll do my best."
Attendant Five blushed as she took the scarecrow's head from Ethan's hands. [T/N: Qin Wu →Attendant Five]
But just at that moment, Ethan's finger accidentally brushed against Attendant Five's finger. Attendant Five instantly reacted as if she had been electrocuted, quickly pulling her hand back, and the scarecrow's head went "gulu gulu" as it dropped to the ground, rolling several times!
The scarecrow's head happened to land face up. At this moment, it looked at the blushing Attendant Five, and at Ethan with a stunned expression.
It immediately understood everything.
["So it turns out I'm the third wheel. So it turns out I'm Miss Attendant Five's backup!"]
["Waaah! Miss Attendant Five likes you. I finally see it now!"]
["Why do you have to hurt me this deeply on Valentine's Day!"]
"S-sorry!"
Attendant Five hurriedly apologized, then quickly picked up the scarecrow's head from the ground.
But the scarecrow kept rambling on, ["Waaah! Under the lemon tree grows lemon fruit, under the lemon tree there's only me. Turns out I'm that lemon fruit!"]
["Terrible news! This is basically a super shockwave aimed at single dogs! Ethan (author), you're really not human!"]
["Why is it that you're so inhuman, yet so many people still like you…"]
"Shut up!"
Ethan was really driven mad by the scarecrow's noise and snapped angrily.
Attendant Five thought Ethan was scolding her. After all, she couldn't hear the scarecrow's voice. Her face turned even redder as she said, "S-sorry, Lord. I really didn't mean it."
"No, I wasn't talking about you."
Ethan said, half laughing and half crying, "Anyway… I'll leave the scarecrow to you. Sorry to trouble you, but take it back to its room right now. Just looking at it annoys me."
"Yes, Lord."
"Oh right," Ethan had only taken two steps before suddenly adding, "I put all the scarecrow's remaining parts into the warehouse. Later, just use whatever you think is usable. If something can't be used, take new items from the warehouse to replace them."
["I want gemstone earrings, and I want shiny beast-hide clothes, and a pretty cowboy hat too!",] the scarecrow was still shouting like crazy.
Ethan ignored the scarecrow and walked straight away.
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[The Cemetery]
Attendant Five chose a piece of open land behind the villa for the cemetery.
She had planted quite a few flowers here, and many of them were already blooming, making the place look very beautiful.
In the very center of the cemetery, a small pit had already been dug.
After all, No. 39's body couldn't be brought back.
They could only set up a symbolic grave with clothes.
Ethan sighed, then spoke to everyone, "Three minutes of silence, to mourn the warrior of our Seventh District, No. 39."
"No. 39!"
Everyone shouted in unison, then lowered their heads.
Even though he still didn't have an official name, this No. 39 now represented his formal name.
As for why Ethan wanted to hold such a funeral, it was also because he hoped the residents would feel that, here with him, they weren't treated as mere tools. Their lord still regarded them as people.
Sure enough…
At this very moment.
Herb Three, the group leader of No. 39, began to cry as she said, "Thank you, Lord, for still being willing to hold a funeral for people like us!"
"Thank you, Lord, for letting us still have a place to belong after death!"
"May No. 39 rest in peace in heaven!"
Everyone knelt on one knee before Ethan.
[Resident Loyalty +5]
[Resident Loyalty +3]
[Resident Loyalty…]
As the loyalty kept increasing, Ethan immediately noticed that several more residents had reached max loyalty, and three of them even awakened various skills.
One person awakened Great Strength Creates Miracles.
The other two awakened danger prediction abilities.
All of them were very good skills.
And the two residents who awakened danger prediction just happened to be members of Stone Six's and Hunter Five's teams.
That way, when they explored the wilderness, they could avoid danger as much as possible.
"Bury him!"
With Ethan's order, several young ladies from the duty group carefully placed No. 39's belongings, one by one, into the grave.
Attendant Five thoughtfully handed out a small white daisy to each person, letting everyone walk to the edge of the grave in turn and offer the white flower in their hands to the one inside.
Only after everyone had finished paying their respects did the young ladies from the duty group refill the grave with soil.
Above the grave, a wooden tombstone was erected.
On it were written two large characters: 39.
It was quite thoughtful.
Ethan sighed. It seemed he still had to do his best to level up his residents.
At the very least, they needed to have some ability to protect themselves in this foggy world. Otherwise, it would end up like today. They wouldn't even know how they died before already lying forever in this cold grave.
After the memorial ceremony ended, Ethan then led the residents back to the cafeteria to eat.
But just at this moment…
"Lord, something's wrong!"
Cook Four, who had been nowhere to be seen ever since Ethan returned, hurriedly ran out from inside the villa.
She was shouting as she ran, "Lord, the beehive you brought back suddenly caught fire for some reason, and no matter how I try to put it out, I can't extinguish it!"
"The beehive caught fire?"
Hearing this, Ethan was also shocked. He immediately rushed toward the villa.
Although after Ethan picked up the beehive, he didn't know what the bees inside were useful for, that didn't stop him from placing high hopes on the pets inside.
After all, pets that can usually be tamed are rarely bad.
Slimes excluded.
So… Ethan had long instructed Cook Four to take good care of these bees every day, feeding them well and treating them well.
But who would have thought that before the bees even had a chance to show their abilities, the beehive would be burned?
Just as Ethan reached the entrance of the villa… he could already see thick black smoke pouring out nonstop from inside, and in the villa's main hall, a large area was glowing red. One look and it was obvious there was a fire.
"What on earth is going on?"
Ethan rushed into the villa and saw that the beehive had already been burned pitch black, with only half of it left.
But the bees themselves seemed completely fine. They all flew out of the hive, and dense swarms of bees circled around the charred hive. Only then did Ethan notice that the bees' abdomens were actually glowing with red points of light.
'Just like fireflies.'
[Intermediate Spirit Pet – Evolved Murder Bee: Evolved from the larvae of mutated murder bees. Possesses pheromone-based communication abilities. If the spirit pet's master can learn "The Art of Language · Skills of Heart-to-Heart Communication", the evolved murder bees can be trained into communication tools.]
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