Chapter 1380 No Human Taste

"My fellow Taoist, my name is Xuan Ye. I came here today to discuss something with you. I have no ill intentions."

The owl flapped its wings and whispered to the starling.

"So it's fellow Taoist Xuan Ye, but they are..." The starling looked at us with great vigilance. Seeing this, Xiao Qi jumped up, stepped on a cloud and approached the starling, saying, "Wow, your feathers are so beautiful, can you give me some?"

"Uh, this is not possible." The starling subconsciously shrank back, and then sniffed and said, "The aura on you... makes me feel familiar."

"Hehe, right, everyone says so, my name is Xiao Qi, what's yours?" Xiao Qi said proudly.

"Xiao Ba." said the starling.

"My name is Xiao Qi, and your name is Xiao Ba. Oh, you will be my little brother from now on." Xiao Qi walked over and patted the little head of the starling, looking like a big sister.

As for the starling, it looked dazed, obviously not understanding how it could become someone else's little brother after just meeting him.

"Xiao Qi seems to have an aura that these monsters can't resist, and they are also very willing to get close to Xiao Qi. This should be the power of destiny, right?" I murmured in a low voice while watching Xiao Qi chatting with the starling.

A few minutes later, Xiao Qi flew back with a proud look on his face and said to me, "Xiao Ba invited us to visit them. Am I awesome?"

I touched Xiao Qi's head, then bowed to Xiao Ba, and the group quickly flew to a cave in the distance.

This cave doesn't look big from the outside, but it's a different world inside. At this moment, there are more than ten wild monsters resting in the cave, including foxes with white fur, goats, birds with bright feathers that I can't name, and even a wild boar that is snoring loudly.

"Everyone, these are my friends. They come here to find out something." After entering the cave, the starling said to the other wild monsters.

"What are you looking for?" The wild boar spirit woke up at some point and asked in a deep voice with a pair of black eyes.

"Oh, that's it. They are very curious about our hometown before and want to know what happened there. Boss Zhu, can you tell me about it?" The starling asked.

The wild boar spirit shook its head when it heard the words, then turned over, sniffed, looked at Xiao Qi, and said, "If she asks about important matters, I will tell her, but if others ask, I won't tell them."

"I'm the one asking." Xiao Qi jumped up quickly: "Hello, Brother Zhu, can you tell me about it?"

"Oh, okay." The wild boar spirit nodded, then lay on the ground, thought for a while, and said, "Before, we lived in a very fertile forest. There were many companions like us, there was sweet spring water, endless pigpen grass, and..." "

This wild boar spirit doesn't seem to be very smart." Mu Yunxi narrowed his eyes, then looked at me, and said, "How about, let me just slap him to death and search his soul directly."

The corner of my mouth twitched when I heard the words, and I turned to look at Mu Yunxi, motioning her not to speak.

But Mu Yunxi was right about one thing. This wild boar spirit was not very smart. There was still a gleam of wisdom in his eyes. He just reminisced about his hometown for more than half an hour.

Just when Xiao Qi was beginning to feel drowsy, the goat spirit beside her couldn't help but interrupt the wild boar spirit and said, "Old Zhu, let's get to the point. The little girl is sleepy."

"Oh." The wild boar spirit nodded, and then said, "But one day, something happened that completely changed the tranquility there..."

"Originally, our place was beautiful with clear water and green mountains. But suddenly one day, a very strong smell of corpses spread from the underground. Then, all kinds of strange...people appeared. They built a small village in the woods and lived in that small village. They were very cruel and killed any animals in the woods they saw. Even those of us who had some skills were no match for them. They seemed to feel no pain and were very dull. We couldn't kill them no matter what we did. We really couldn't beat them, so we had no choice but to escape."

At this point, the expression on the wild boar demon's face dimmed, and his eyes were full of sadness. The other demons also lowered their heads, with a hint of sadness in their eyes.

As for Mu Yunxi and I, we couldn't help but look at each other, and we both saw a hint of astonishment in each other's eyes.

"The underground suddenly filled with a strong smell of corpses? Could it be that...the place where they lived before was near the corpse field?" I frowned, and then looked at Mu Yunxi with an inquiring look.

"Although nearly a hundred years have passed, I can no longer remember the specific location of the corpse field, but I still know the approximate direction. It should be in the west, about a few hundred kilometers away from us. There is indeed a primitive old forest there, but when I went there, there were no mountain spirits and wild monsters in the old forest. Maybe...they felt my breath and didn't dare to come out." Mu Yunxi said lightly.

I nodded and asked, "Fellow Daoist, where was the place where you lived before?"

"Oh, go west all the way, it's about three hundred kilometers away." The wild boar spirit said without hesitation, and then asked, "Are you going there? I advise you not to go. Those people who suddenly appeared are too weird. There are many of them, but they never communicate with each other. Whatever they do, it seems as if someone is giving them instructions. Although they don't communicate, they can cooperate perfectly. For example, when building a house, everyone has a clear division of labor. The whole village is almost silent, and no one has ever spoken a word."

"Could it be a corpse?" I asked with a frown.

The wild boar spirit shook its head: "No, if it was a corpse, I would be able to sense it. However, they don't look like humans because they don't have any human smell."

"No human smell?" I was stunned, then squinted and murmured: "Neither humans nor corpses, then what are these 'people' that suddenly appeared?"

Just as I was secretly thinking, Wang Wanzhi on the side suddenly spoke: "Brother Zhu, before we came here, has anyone come here and asked you the same question?"

"Oh, yes, one of them... looks a bit like you. He is very powerful, but also a very nice person. He didn't make things difficult for us. He just gave us some food and then left." said the wild boar spirit.

"Go to my brother!" Wang Wanzhi's eyes lit up and she said, "My brother must have gone to the hometown they mentioned. Brother Qianyu, let's go quickly?"

I nodded and then clasped my fists to the wild boar spirit. After thanking him, we left quickly.

"Xiaoqi, come and play often!" Myna waved to Xiaoqi.

"Hey, you guys should not go there. It's very dangerous..."

We could hear the wild boar spirit moving away from us, but we were so fast that we flew a thousand meters away in the blink of an eye