He picked up the enamel cup and took a look. He found that the water inside was still warm. "The water is still warm. I guess the person left not long ago."
"Forget about the lighter, but why is there an electric kettle? This style is so out of place," Tang Mianmian picked up an electric kettle in the corner, "Is there electricity in this room? How do I boil water?"
Xiao Tangqiu leaned over to take a look: "This electric kettle seems to be broken. It must have been used as an ordinary kettle."
"Even if it's broken, where did this electric kettle come from? It doesn't fit in with the style of this village..." Tang Mianmian complained.
At this moment, Duan Hongzhen suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Someone is coming. Should we hide?"
Xiao Tangqiu nodded: "Let's hide first. It would be bad if those people saw us and ran away."
Because of countless previous experiences, several people decided to hide first and then wait for an opportunity to act.
Soon, a group of people walked in from the village entrance. They were dressed very strangely. Some of them were wearing primitive clothes, while others were wearing modern clothes that were outdated but still neat. It was like people from two different worlds mixed together.
Although this group of people were dressed very differently, they all held a large piece of meat in their hands, as if they had just returned from a vegetable market or a slaughterhouse.
They took their respective pieces of meat back to their respective houses. Soon, a middle-aged man in modern clothes also walked into their house with a piece of meat.
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other, and pounced on the middle-aged man the moment he closed the door. One of them grabbed the middle-aged man, and the other covered his mouth to prevent him from shouting.
"Mmmm!" Xiao Tangqiu was responsible for covering the middle-aged man's mouth. Although his task was simple, he could feel the middle-aged man's amazing strength. He struggled desperately like a beast, but fortunately, he was no longer the weakling he used to be, and he covered the middle-aged man's mouth tightly.
Xiao Tangqiu said coldly: "Don't shout, or we will kill you!"
He covered the middle-aged man's mouth with one hand and took out his crossbow with the other hand and pointed it at the middle-aged man's throat.
"Do you understand what I'm saying? If so, nod!"
The middle-aged man glared at Xiao Tangqiu fiercely, then nodded.
Xiao Tangqiu pointed a crossbow at the middle-aged man's throat and then let go. The middle-aged man did not shout, but struggled even more violently.
Duan Hongzhen, who was standing by, took the meat from the middle-aged man's hand, took a look at it, and then raised his eyebrows: "What kind of meat is this?"
The middle-aged man didn't answer. Xiao Tangqiu poked the middle-aged man's throat with the crossbow: "Is it human flesh?"
The middle-aged man answered reluctantly, his voice hoarse and unpleasant: "No..."
Xiao Tangqiu then asked, "What kind of meat is this?"
The middle-aged man said hoarsely: "The bark of the sacred tree..."
"Sacred tree? The bark of a tree?" Duan Hongzhen sneered at the side. "What a joke! How can this thing be tree bark? It's clearly the flesh of some animal!"
The middle-aged man glared at Duan Hongzhen resentfully: "Don't insult our sacred tree! This is the bark of our sacred tree!"
"The sacred tree?" Bai Yushan suddenly became excited. She grabbed the large piece of meat and said, "Quick! Tell me about the tree in detail!"
The middle-aged man was clearly filled with hostility towards Xiao Tangqiu and the other strangers who had suddenly barged in. However, under the threat of the crossbow, he could only reluctantly say in a hoarse voice, "There is a sacred tree in the center of this island..."
It turns out that there is a sacred tree on the island. All the people on the island respect and worship the sacred tree very much because the sacred tree is the source of their life and the only source of food on the island. Everyone gathers under the sacred tree every evening and begs the sacred tree for food.
"The only source of food?" Xiao Tangqiu frowned. "What do you mean? Is there no other food on the island? No other animals? Even if there are no animals on the island, aren't there fish in the sea?"
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