Chapter 100 Wolfish Ambitions
That's food poisoning!
She discovered a fishpond storing seawater, filled with a lot of seafood. Ning Xuan planned to add some of the ingredients that Katerina used to make potions.
These materials are special; they don't cause itching when touched or used directly, but they do contain itching-inducing ingredients. This is a specialty of the forest where Katerina lives; it's not found anywhere else there.
Therefore, Ning Xuan was not worried that these materials would be extracted and made into medicine. She just wanted professionals to test them and find that they contained itchy ingredients. She also knew that these people must have eaten the seafood in the ingredients, which caused the collective poisoning.
Coincidentally, the village did have a seafood meal today, which was brought over by those few good-for-nothings as a reward for the people stationed here.
Having dealt with the issues of combat skills and the itching potion, Ning Xuan remained invisible, watching the group of children in front of her, her heart filled with repeated shock.
The children, the oldest being about fourteen or fifteen years old and the youngest about six or seven, included both boys and girls. They had large and small wounds all over their bodies and faces, some already scabbed over and others still bleeding.
Meanwhile, they were gathered around a pit, trying to figure out how to pull the person out.
The pit was about 2 meters high and filled with countless crabs. Besides the crabs, there was also a boy and a girl whose bodies were covered with crabs.
Because their guards suddenly started writhing on the ground in pain and itching, they began to try to save their companions in the pit.
Ning Xuan quickly used her spiritual power to knock the crabs off the two children and pry open their claws. Then she placed the two children's hands on the wooden sticks that the other child was extending down.
The two children were covered in wounds and had almost no strength left. Ning Xuan used her spiritual power to support the two children and help them, successfully rescuing them.
Once the people were rescued, the group of children all surrounded them.
"Waaaaah, it's all because you two were trying to save us! Ninth Brother and Second Sister, you deliberately slowed down, and now you're the last two in both the men's and women's teams, waaaaah..."
"Seventeenth and Nineteenth, don't cry. You were just punished yesterday. If you're punished again today, you'll lose your lives. Your second sister and I can handle it. Don't cry~"
Then the others started surrounding the two, some cleaning their wounds, some feeding them water, and others talking about the strange behavior of the guards.
"Big brother, big sister, do you think we can take this opportunity to escape now that they've all fallen?"
"We're not sure if they've all collapsed, or if it's just our area. Let's observe first."
"I guess they've all collapsed. These people have been lying here shouting and yelling for a while, but no one has come over yet. I just ran over a bit and saw that the people nearby were like that too."
"Little Twelve, you're too impulsive. If you get caught, you're finished. Don't be so impulsive in the future. Discuss things with us first."
Little Twelve touched his nose to indicate that he understood.
Then the group of children discussed it for a while, and a few of the older ones who were also more agile went out to check the situation, while the others waited where they were.
After listening for a while, and with the people's testimonies, Ning Xuan learned that these children had been captured and brought here for training. Once the training was successful, they would be sent out to do missions.
Moreover, a last-place elimination and punishment system is being piloted here. Every day during training, the last person in the men's team and the last person in the women's team will be thrown into a crab pit and have to stay in it for half an hour.
If you are last for 7 consecutive days, you will be subject to more severe punishment. If you are last for a whole month, you will be thrown into the sea to be fed to sharks.
Initially, they were supposed to be thrown into the sea for seven consecutive days, but later they probably felt that this would result in too much loss of personnel, so they changed the plan.
These children, who shared a common experience, quickly discovered the loophole in the rules: if they found that a friend had been in last place multiple times in a row, in order to save their friend, the second-to-last person would become the last person.
So these children haven't suffered any losses for six months, but someone still has to be punished every day.
It is said that the two children, who are now called "Big Brother" and "Big Sister" by their children, are about to be sent out on missions.
The children were all numbered, and if someone left, the next child would move up in order. Although they exchanged names in private, they were not allowed to call each other by name here because someone was always watching. So they got used to calling people by their numbers.
Ning Xuan looked at these children and saw that although they had gone through so much suffering, they were still able to keep their true selves. Their usual indifference and ruthlessness were just an act for others to see. Her eyes welled up with tears.
Fortunately, Lu Yan and his group arrived. Before they even got close to the island, they discovered a watchtower and the people who were with them mentioned the military deployment there. Lu Yan and his group were mentally prepared for a firefight.
Upon getting closer, they discovered that these people, like the villagers, had all collapsed.
What are we waiting for? Let's get them all together and tie them up.
While trapping the people, Lu Yan arranged for someone to go find the group of children.
The children who had come out to investigate also saw Lu Yan and his group. Initially worried they were bad guys, they turned and ran, but Lu Yan stopped them, saying, "No need to run, all the bad guys are down. We're here to rescue you!"
The children were initially quite scared and didn't quite believe it, but they began to believe it after seeing Lu Yan's men tie up the bad guys who usually beat and punished them.
Then he led Lu Yan toward their training area.
When Lu Yan saw the group of injured children, his serious face was filled with heartache. They were so young, yet they had suffered so much.
Fortunately, because those people confessed, Lu Yan and his group brought medical personnel with them this time. Two medical personnel first treated and bandaged the wounds of the two children who had just been pulled out of the pit and whose wounds were still bleeding.
After bandaging the wound, Lu Yan ordered his men to take the children away first, as they needed to clean up the hideout.
Next, Lu Yan and his team found a large number of weapons and medicines on the island, and also destroyed a laboratory.
Then, on the other side of the island, they rescued more than a dozen pregnant girls.
What puzzled Lu Yan was that several of the victims had just given birth, but not a single baby was seen on the island.
This was something the villagers hadn't explained, so Lu Yan simply asked the girl trapped there.
From them, Lu Yan learned about their other evil deeds, which were utterly inhuman and treacherous!
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