Chapter 80 The Cave
Su Meng couldn't be happier to act on her own.
She wouldn't obediently wait in the same place.
Huo Zhenhua went rock climbing to get a better understanding of the situation, so she went to the other side of the island.
As Su Meng walked, she harvested medicinal herbs with her mind, and every now and then she would catch a few pheasants and rabbits that flew in front of her.
She even got into a fight with the monkey that was hanging from a tree branch and provoking her the whole way.
The monkey chattered incoherently at her, and when Su Meng ignored it, it threw pebbles and pine cones at her and even spat on her.
Frustrated beyond measure, Su Meng pulled out her slingshot.
At that very moment, in a cave on the island, Su Meng and her companions accidentally broke the village's curse, and the man in black robes, after suffering a backlash, slowly awoke.
He propped himself up and slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His dark eyes gazed at the cave ceiling, a cold smile slowly spreading from them to behind his ears.
After a moment, he burst into laughter.
The laughter startled the bats in the cave, and dark shadows flew out from the depths of the cave, circling above his head.
Then, as if guided by a spirit, it flew toward an iron cage suspended in mid-air.
They relentlessly rammed into the iron cage.
The iron cage shook back and forth, finally waking the person inside.
From a distance, the man in black robes seemed to see the other person's eyelids flutter slightly, as if he was about to wake up.
He coughed twice, clutching his chest, and then said to himself, "Your Su family has finally arrived. Are you happy?"
The person in the cage forced open their eyes, their chapped lips trembled, and then they closed their eyes weakly, ultimately unable to utter a sound.
The man in black robes sneered, "You Su family members are really capable, you actually managed to break my Heavenly Fiend Formation."
Tell me, who from your Su family has come? Your second uncle or your daughter?
Oh! Your daughter must have been killed by Shen Wuyang.
That's your good second uncle.
But your dear second uncle, that young master of the Su family, probably won't care whether you live or die.
Upon hearing this, the person in the cage, Su Mianzhi, finally opened his eyes again and managed to utter a single word with difficulty: "No!"
It seemed as if he had used all the strength of his life to utter that one word.
He slumped in the cage like a martial artist who had been hit by a muscle-relaxing drug, his back hunched and his head hanging limply.
He was completely listless and energetic, like a lump of mud.
Ever since Ah Da left and never returned, he had a premonition that Ah Da might have been murdered.
Then, his daughter might also... have been murdered.
When he heard with his own ears that Shen Wuyang had killed his daughter, the last bit of hope he had left crumbled instantly.
Fate is so unfair. His wife is dead, his daughter is dead, and the fate of his son, who was given away as an infant, is unknown. It seems that there is little meaning in his life.
It would be better to... die!
The thought had barely formed in his mind when his already pale face turned deathly ashen.
His whole body was shrouded in a thick aura of death.
Startled, the bats circling around him shrieked and fled!
The man in the black robe lifted his eyelids, seemingly pleased to see people struggling on the brink of death.
He said coldly, "I'll let you go home as long as you tell me where the green bead is."
Perhaps there's still time to save your daughter; maybe she's still waiting for you.
Hearing the word "daughter," Su Mianzhi's consciousness, which was sinking, became slightly clearer, and his breathing became heavier.
The man in black chuckled, just about to provoke him further, when he saw someone rush in through the cave entrance.
He lay prostrate on the ground a distance away, his voice trembling as he said, "Sheqi has failed!"
The man in black robes glared angrily, raising his right hand high as if to kill the man in revenge.
However, as soon as he mustered his strength, he felt a sharp pain in his chest and suddenly spat out another mouthful of blood.
Then, he calmly ordered: "I understand! Make sure the villagers are kept on the island and not allowed to go out."
This place is only a day's flight from the Southeast Military Region, and he doesn't want to attract the army.
The person on the ground grunted and continued to report: "Master, Shen Wuyang is back!"
He didn't bring back a single penny, and he was also shot.
Upon hearing this, the man in black robes flew into a rage and smashed the chair beneath him with a single blow. "Fool! Go check if there are any tails behind you."
Getting a gunshot wound means either you've offended gangsters or the military.
That idiot still has the nerve to come back? Isn't he afraid of being followed and having his hideout raided?
The people on the ground were gone, and Su Mianzhi's aura became even more peaceful, as if his whole being was radiating joy.
The man in black sneered, "You'd better tell me the whereabouts of the green bead, or none of your Su family members will escape."
Meanwhile, Su Meng was angrily chasing the monkey, running to a distance of 100 meters from the cave.
Suddenly, she saw a person abruptly emerge from the rocks, and was so startled that she bumped into the little monkey's bottom. "A ghost!"
The little monkey stared blankly at the person, gestured at her, and then hopped and skipped up to the top of the mountain.
Su Meng silently wiped her forehead and quietly approached.
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that it was a large rock, sculpted by nature and integrated into the mountainside.
The bottom of the large rock is 50 centimeters away from the mountain, and behind it is a cave entrance that is about two meters high and three meters wide.
A cool breeze wafted out of the cave.
Su Meng couldn't help but shiver, her whole body tensed up inexplicably, her scalp tingled, and she silently gripped her pistol tightly.
She didn't want to take any risks.
But her legs seemed to have a mind of their own, uncontrollably wanting to get closer and go inside.
It seemed as if some kind of magic was drawing her in.
She thought that if that person left from here, there must be someone inside, or they were doing something secret inside.
She should go... and take a look.
Su Meng tiptoed into the cave, following the cave walls, and amplified her five senses to the extreme.
Finally, she caught a human voice, very distant and indistinct.
Su Meng was overjoyed and couldn't help but quicken her pace.
A dozen minutes later, I heard people talking ahead.
"You said that if you die, your Su family line will truly end."
What's the point of keeping that secret?
"It's just a bead; it never belonged to your Su family in the first place."
Upon hearing this, Su Meng was startled.
So, there are members of her Su family among them.
He was pressing him about what the bead was, and who in the Su family was inside it.
Just as Su Meng was about to move closer, she heard the person speak again.
"You said Shen Wuyang is back, he must have squandered all of your Su family's fortune. If you know what's good for you, I'll help you find out where your daughter is."
The air suddenly became quiet!
There was not a sound inside the cave.
Su Meng covered her wildly beating heart, afraid that its pounding would disturb the person speaking.
He seemed... he should be talking to her father.
Her father should still be alive.
very nice!
My father is still alive!
Su Meng's eyes were throbbing with pain. She tried to calm her breathing and quietly moved towards the corner not far away.
Under the dim light of an oil lamp, a person shrouded in a black robe sat on the blue stone steps, with a shattered wooden chair behind him.
He propped his head up and looked up at the cage in mid-air, his obsession almost tangible.
So it seems that the dark figure in the cage is her father.
Su Meng licked the tears that had dripped into the corner of her mouth and dug her nails into her palms.
My heart felt as if it had been squeezed tightly, almost crushed into dust.
It turns out that her father was being held captive in this dark and gloomy cave!
She released her fingers, blew away the cartilage powder in her palm, her gaze fixed on the cage in mid-air, but her peripheral vision didn't miss the calm madman.
Suddenly, the man in black twitched his nostrils a few times and turned his head...
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