But that's too easy to say; there's nowhere left to fly on the clouds.
The entire forest came alive, the earth rolled and surged toward them, and blood-stained, sharp branches covered the sky from all sides, piercing them relentlessly!
The three demons were already pale with fright, and Pipa's eyes were brimming with tears: "Atong, what is going on? What is in this forest? Didn't we capture that red-eyed pheasant demon and take care of it?"
Tong Su said, "We only dealt with the Red-Eyed Pheasant Demon, not this entire forest."
“The forest, what happened to the forest?” The fox gripped its twin swords tremblingly, trying to muster its courage. “I didn’t notice anything wrong with the forest—before it started eating people!”
Tong Su's face tightened: "Fine, you've brought up cannibalism. Then let me ask you, you should know the difference between the cannibalism of the demon race and the witch race, right?"
“I know! Those who eat flesh and blood are just the Witch Clan—but, A-Tong, isn’t the Witch Clan’s cannibalism just the Red-Eyed Pheasant Demon in disguise?”
“Some of them are fake. Do you remember when we first encountered the Red-Eyed Pheasant Demon, it was chasing after the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe?”
Tong Su took a breath and then said:
"It thought I was a mortal and wanted to kill me. It did want to tear me in half—but it wanted to tear me in half and then drain my blood and vital energy, not eat me whole."
The pheasant's face paled: "It never intended to eat flesh and blood! We saw many mutilated corpses on the road, assuming it did it on purpose, deliberately faked them, just to make people think they came from the witch clan..."
Tong Su shook her head: "That's not all. I learned from the elders of the tribe that this forest only appeared a month ago—that's the first problem. A forest this large could grow overnight, isn't that strange in itself? And there aren't any birds, beasts, or insects in the forest. Where did they all go?"
"Where did they go?" The three demons and the others asked in unison, stunned.
Tong Su said, "Where did it go? Of course it was eaten, eaten by this forest!"
"ah?!"
"There isn't a single weed or fallen leaf on the ground because this forest didn't grow normally at all; there's turned-up soil on the ground because tree roots are constantly being pulled out to prey on passing birds, beasts, and humans! That's why there's such a strong, rotten, and gloomy smell in the air!"
"But—but, Ah Tong, what does this have to do with you saying it's not a demon eating people?"
Tong Su asked, "Let me ask you, the people of the Xuanyuan tribe discovered that there were witches who ate people, and we also discovered that there were demons impersonating the witches, so we concluded that the ones eating people in the forest were just demons, right?"
"yes."
"That's not right! Only demons eat people, so why are there so many mutilated corpses?"
Everyone turned pale, their bodies trembled, and they stammered, "So, so the truth is..."
Tong Su said, "So the truth is that the Witch Clan has been eating people in this forest for a long time! After the Red-Eyed Pheasant Demon arrived, it found the corpses left by the Witch Clan. The Witch Clan did not want to alert them, so they temporarily restrained their behavior. However, the Red-Eyed Pheasant Demon thought that it had left, so it simply occupied this auspicious place and began to pretend that the Witch Clan was eating people."
"You thought it was gone?"
"Yes, the red-eyed pheasant demon thought the shaman was gone. It ate people, left corpses lying around, and deliberately tore apart the skins it had eaten. The real shaman in the forest also hid its own leftover corpses among them, which made the people of the Xuanyuan tribe even more convinced that the one causing trouble was indeed a shaman!"
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