No matter which tribe it is, it is a threat to Yunwen and me. Now that we have heard it, we cannot ignore it. I pulled Yunwen and we hid in the bushes together, leaning against a tree, to see if anyone would pass by here. However, there were only a few footsteps, and when they sounded, they were accompanied by a dull echo, which showed that we were in a cave.

Is there someone in the cave? But this area is the territory of the Wutu tribe. According to Bai Lu, this is the back mountain they manage themselves, where they collect devil flowers and raise devil flies. So how come there are foreigners in the cave? Could they be relatives?

No matter what, since we are in the cave, there is no need to be too scared. We should be careful. It is late at night and I believe they may just get up to relieve themselves or something like that and they will rest after a while. Yunwen and I waited here for a while, until there was no sound, and then we slowly moved forward, trying to tiptoe up the hillside, preparing to climb up the Devil's Claw Mountain.

Just as we were approaching the slope, Yunwen suddenly stopped me and said, "Yes, there is the sound of a woman crying."

It was extremely dark here, and the things around were baring their fangs and claws, each one as enchanting as a ghost. Yunwen's sudden remark was enough to scare me a lot. I also noticed the sound, but according to my speculation, it was just the echo of the wind blowing in the valley. This is how I comforted myself. I was about to explain it to Yunwen, but suddenly I was stunned.

Because at the same time I heard a baby crying, I was scared and my face turned pale. Could it be that there was such a dirty thing in this place? Yunwen was close to me, wishing she could get into me. I was also very uneasy. It was late at night, and this was too weird.

I held the Golden Sword high up and waved it around, fearing that something might come close to me but I was unaware of it. However, while waving it, the light of the Golden Sword also illuminated a strange place for me. It was a narrow hole, about the width of a basketball. It was obviously not a work of art, but a man-made one. The way it was dug was rather crude, and the purpose was unclear. What could such a hole be used for? It was just enough to put your head and hands in, or was it just done out of boredom?

"What a weird place. Are there something wrong with the brain circuits of these Wutu people?" I was saying.

Suddenly, the baby's cry came again, and this time I clearly heard the sound coming from the cave. I couldn't help but open my eyes wide in fear, and my throat was dry. Things were not over yet. The cave illuminated by the Golden Que Sword seemed to have movement, and something was about to come out. I wanted to retreat, but at this time I was already confused, my hands and feet were out of control, and I looked at the front tremblingly.

At this moment, a sinister and terrifying face appeared under the golden light. I was so scared that I almost dropped my sword. Yunwen was so scared that she threw herself into my arms. I closed my eyes. Although I had trained my courage, I had heard a lot of strange things since I was a child in the countryside. I was still scared about that kind of purely dirty thing and its sudden appearance.

"What the hell is that?" I planned to use the Golden Sword to scare it away, and let the sword hang over his head, but he still didn't react at all.

Looking more closely, I saw that his nostrils were contracting, and the dust at the edge of the cave entrance was blown up, which showed that he was breathing. In addition, when I calmed down, I found that there were shadows on his body, which showed that he was not a ghost, nor a phantom, but a living thing. At this time, he muttered a lot and retreated. As he retreated, I saw more scenes inside the cave.

I shook Yunwen, already shocked to the point of not knowing what to do. I saw many brown-skinned men and women in the cave, wearing only some hay and leaves to cover their bodies. Some were squatting with their heads down, some were lying on the ground, or looking at the ceiling in despair. Some of the women were holding babies, hiding in a corner, covering their eyes. The scary thing was that very few of them had intact bodies, some had lost arms, some had legs removed, and their wounds had long been infected. Those shocking scars were left on their living bodies so inadvertently.

Except for the babies, everyone here had dull eyes and looked like animals. There was some rotten fish meat and some sticky, rotten stuff on the ground. I thought it was just vomit at first, but after looking at it for a long time, I realized that it was not vomit, but the food they depended on for survival, because there were many handprints on it, which showed that they scooped it up with their hands and ate it, just like feeding pigs.

But there were so many people in the cave with infected wounds that could not be treated, but not a single one died. They were all still alive and strong. This did surprise me, but it was a matter that I could not bear thinking about carefully, because it was extremely terrifying!

In the dim cave, like a prison, none of these people with broken arms who were fed like animals died, nor did they resist. This reminded me of the human bones scattered all over the Wutu tribe. I was thinking, how could they have so many human bones, and some of them were fresh? After all, there couldn't be so many people on the island, and they couldn't eat all the bones. There must be at least hundreds of human bones there. Even if another tribe ate them all, they couldn't have that many.

Now I vaguely understand where those inexhaustible human bones come from.

Yunwen still had her eyes closed. I shook her, but she shook her head vigorously and refused to open her eyes.

"I don't want to look! I don't want to look!" Yunwen repeated in fear.

I sighed and said, "It's okay. The person who just appeared was a living person, and a pitiful one at that."

After listening to me, Yunwen slowly opened her eyes and looked into the cave. For a moment, she was just like me, from fear at the beginning to disbelief later. Following my analysis and explanation, she became a little angry at the end. She said, "No wonder, no wonder the man who showed his face just now said please spare them. I thought it was the same as the female ghost who likes to say 'save me', just to scare people."

"It seems that the situation is like this. They heard us talking just now, so they were startled and heard footsteps. Later, we hid, and they thought they would be quiet after we left. But when we passed by here, their tense nerves were further affected, so there were women crying and babies shouting. All this is because these poor people thought we were the cannibalistic Wutu people, so they had these reactions, and because of this, the man begged us to bypass them." I said.

"How abominable! They actually treat humans as animals. They are simply devils on earth. Zhou Bo, we are all the descendants of Milong designated by Senior Li Mufeng. That being the case, we should also inherit his nature of doing good and helping others. He saved us, and we should also inherit it and save other poor people. So I dare to ask you, please go with me to save them, okay? Otherwise, those babies and those people can only live in hell on earth forever. It's too pitiful." Yunwen said.

"Of course I won't stand by and watch someone die. You and I know this tacitly, so why bother begging? Let's go. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Whether it's for the sake of passing on virtues or out of our own kindness, since we've seen it, we can't just ignore it." I said.

Yunwen held his hand tightly, her eyes full of affection, and said, "That's great, I know my Zhou Bo thinks the same as I do, that's great! However, this will delay our own flower picking time, and it's almost dawn, is it okay?"

"It's okay, at worst we can die together," I said.

She smiled and nodded.

Next, we set out to search near the mountain road. After a while of groping, we finally found a cave, but it was blocked by a stone door. It was impossible for those little guys to open and close the stone door by themselves, so there must be some kind of switch here. So I touched the wall of the cave, fumbled around, knocked and hammered all the way, and finally heard a place with different sound quality from other places. I pushed it inside, and the stone door opened immediately.

Just like Taiqiong Cave or other caves, this stone door was also set up with some kind of mechanism, so it was particularly difficult to open. It was no problem to go in, but the only trouble was that the sound of opening the door was too loud. The dull sound of "dong dong dong" caused the entire valley to echo.

It would be difficult to prevent the group of Wutu people at the foot of the mountain from hearing it, and if they were alert and caught up, then the plan to collect the devil flowers would be ruined!