Sean looked at the unhappy husky bumping its head against his girlfriend Bella and cursed in a low voice, “fuck you, Angi. What a shitload of misfortune I have brought up.”

  Bella who heard it gave him a glare. The latter shrugged his shoulders and forced out an ugly smile.

  Sean then calmly said to the crowd, “look, we will meet the wolves sooner or later since we are moving into the forest, right?”

  “We aren’t saying anything so don’t worry. Nobody would hate our little sweetheart Angi. Right, Zoel?” said Eva, a cool looking young woman with short blonde hairs.

  Another cool looking beautiful young woman with green hairs nodded in support.

  “Wait a minute, why aren’t anybody talking about why we have two moons at the sky?” asked Fred.

  Everyone stared at him for a few seconds without saying anything. It scared him a bit.

  So, Fred shrugged and said weakly, “well, I’m just asking.”

  Dwight who had neatly combed hairs and nicely trimmed short beard let out a few rings of smoke and said, “didn’t you already prepare your mind when we suddenly appeared here in the morning?”

  The scene fell into a short silence.

  Some stared at the campfire, some looked at their beloved and some simply looked up at the sky.

  “So, are we good?” Sean asked and broke the silence.

  Kanghi said, “don’t worry. This is just a small problem. Every rancher has to face these guys every once in a while.”

  “Yes, this is just a small problem. We even had a chat without any issue and without any fear when we suddenly appeared here at this place in the morning,” Sven said loudly from his pickup truck.

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  He carried two travel bags like nothing and walked back to the group sitting around the campfire. Behind him, Elizabeth held several rifles and followed him closely.

  “We have nine men here as well as eight women, two kids and a dog. And the point is we have nine men. Do you know how many soldiers are in a fully functional squad in army?” he said as he put down the travel bags onto the sandy ground.

  “Eight men,” said John calmly in a firm voice.

  “Exactly! And we have nine men here which is enough to form a squad,” Sven said and gestured Elizabeth to put down the rifles beside the travel bags.

  Then, he pointed at the two helpless guys of the group and said calmly, “we are going to form two teams with each made of four guys. I’m going to take Colin, Fred and Dwight as the first team. John, you lead Sean, Justin and Graham as the second team. Kanghi can be our overseer.”

  “Is there any problem with my arrangement?” he asked.

  Zoel, the girl with green hairs, immediately raised her left hand high.

  Sven pointed at her and asked, “lady, you’re called Zoel, right? Okay Zoel, what is your problem?”

  “What about us? Although we are women, we are not weak. We can also contribute,” she said.

  Beside John who was with his usual cold face, several men broke into smiles and some laughed.

  “Ladies, it is not that we want to hit you but this is our duty. If you want to do something, you can do the cooking part. As for fighting, leave it to us,” said Dwight.

  Several men nodded at his speech showing their agreement. The women looked at each other.

  Elizabeth suddenly kicked Sven’s leg and winked at him.

  The latter felt clueless at her sudden physical prompt so he said, “you can just speak it out freely if you wanna tell something. There’s no need to kick me like that.”

  All of a sudden, everyone looked at Elizabeth in silence waiting for her to talk.

  Elizabeth kicked Sven a few more times and coughed.

  She looked at the crowd and said, “I agree that men need to take on the fighting part. But, I don’t agree with women should only do the cooking thing. We can’t rely on you guys all the time. I mean there will always be time when we only have us and have to rely on ourselves.”

  All the women looked her with a new look. Then, they glanced and nodded at each other.

  Bella stood up and said while walking towards Elizabeth, “agree. Women also need to learn how to fight. Since we have guns, it will be alright as long as we can shoot properly. Right?”

  Then, she hugged Elizabeth, kissed her cheeks, squatted down and picked up a rifle.

  The other women also stood up one by one and walked over to choose their gun.