Luo Jiujiang rested for a while, and only went into the dense forest after the spiritual energy in his body recovered a little.
But after walking just two or three miles, he tripped and fell into a snow cave. Inside, a dozen skinny, pale-faced men were waiting anxiously. Seeing Luo Jiujiang take the bait, they were overjoyed, shouting "Live meat on the hook!" and swarming around him fiercely.
These dozen people all had the cultivation level of the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining. No matter which one of them was picked out, Luo Jiujiang could beat him up from head to toe in less than a meal's time.
However, he had just fought with the scarred man and had used up most of his energy. These dozen people relied on their numbers and were all hungry men who didn't even care about their lives. They pounced on him like wolves and tigers, grabbing his feet, waist and neck. Some people were one step late, and after a moment of hesitation, they reached out to pull Luo Jiujiang's hair.
...This is probably the most unforgettable fight Luo Jiujiang has ever had in his life.
Luo Jiujiang had called the group fights he'd fought on the Seven Islands, all driven by youthful fervor, jokes. He'd also called the brutal beating his master inflicted on him by a group of iron golems murder. As for this current fight, if Luo Jiujiang had to define it, he'd probably just call it a ghost.
I saw more than a dozen hungry ghosts with green eyes.
During this time, someone's weapon was cut off by Luo Jiujiang's knife. Without saying a word, he raised his hand and scratched Luo Jiujiang in the face with his nails. It seemed that he was about to transform from a hungry ghost into a female ghost. Luo Jiujiang was so frightened that he hit him with the back of his knife and knocked him out on the spot.
The entire snow cave was in chaos. If someone stood outside and looked in, they would probably only see a dark, smoky mess. After about a quarter of an hour, Luo Jiujiang had tied the hands and feet of the last person tightly, and then he let out a long sigh of relief.
Earlier, his master had surrounded him with a dozen puppets, but those puppets were either trying to break his arms and legs or pierce his heart and lungs. Of all the martial arts styles he had fought, none were like this group of people. Their first reaction when they saw an opening was to bite them.
These are not human beings at all, they are just a group of starving dogs.
Luo Jiujiang took a deep breath, tied up his messed-up hair, wiped the blood off his face with his thumb - he didn't know where these people learned this shrewish trick - and then picked out a person who looked somewhat rational from the dozen people who had not been knocked unconscious by him to ask a question.
"You just called me..."
"Live meat." The man's eyes were numb and glazed, only showing a hint of life when he looked at Luo Jiujiang. His gaze was like a barbed tongue, and the moment he saw Luo Jiujiang, he wanted to lick a piece of his flesh alive.
The meaning of this name is self-evident. Hearing it, Luo Jiujiang felt goose bumps running up his spine, and in the blink of an eye, they covered his back densely.
"You're just here...catching people to eat? Do you always catch them?" Luo Jiujiang asked softly. Actually, there's a more appropriate word, but using the word "hunting" here is simply chilling.
"If we can't catch anyone, we'll eat each other." The man didn't shy away from this topic. It was unclear whether he was desperate or was so hungry that he had no brains left.
"Don't you have anything else to eat? This is a forest. Even if we could just peel the bark and eat it, how could we..."
"We can't chop down the trees outside," the man said bluntly. "If we dig three feet deep under the snow, we might be able to dig up some plant roots to eat. But if we rely solely on those to fill our stomachs, our bodies will freeze solid."
Luo Jiujiang asked the skinny man many more questions. The man did not hide anything. Although his voice was weak and his sentences were as short as possible, he answered every question after all.
It was not until this time that Luo Jiujiang figured out where he was.
In terms of nature, this world resembles an arena where life and death are gambled. Every now and then, a new group of people arrives. Some are pursued by their enemies and left with nowhere to go, some are wanted for their crimes, and some are betrayed by their relatives and friends, filled with resentment...
They have only one thing in common, which is that they all chose to live a life walking on the edge of a knife.
Regardless of who came before, this land welcomes everyone equally. It tolerates all evil and cruelty because the system it implements is more evil than evil and more cruel than cruelty.
The land was exceptionally barren, with few animals and few plants. The dense forest was vast, but ordinary people couldn't even scratch a hole in the bark. Besides providing protection from the wind and snow, it was of little use.
And everything here, whether it is food, clothes, magic tools, secret books... all can only be exchanged for one thing.
That thing is a piece of card the size of an adult's little finger, with the same specifications, either red or green, and five green cards are equivalent to one red one.
Luo Jiujiang immediately thought of the bag he had found on the scarred man's fur coat. He calmly took out a piece and waved it in front of the man's eyes: "This?"
The man remained silent for a moment, only straining his head to peer at Luo Jiujiang's neck. Only after Luo Jiujiang asked again did he numbly reply, "No wonder you didn't know. The red ones are taken alive, the green ones are taken dead."
Luo Jiujiang felt a sense of foreboding again: "What is meant by taking alive? And what about taking dead?"
"Literally." The man's hands were tied tightly by Luo Jiujiang, along with his body. He couldn't lift his arms no matter what, so he simply tilted his neck to show Luo Jiujiang a look. Luo Jiujiang was surprised to find a red sign that looked just like the one on his hand embedded in the flesh of the man's neck!
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