This place looks like a nice environment, but surprisingly no one dares to come here!
Leaving all that delicious food to fill their stomachs and living freely, while they themselves are so hungry that they resort to robbery—are these people out of their minds?
What kind of spirits or monsters are they? Aren't they just made up by people to scare others?
You actually believe that?!
Looks like I'm still not hungry enough!
If you're really starving, you'll forget all about morality and laws. You'll even be eating people. Why would you remember any rumors or stories?
Survival is the most important thing. We're starving to death, who cares about ghosts and monsters!
If we don't feed them soon, they'll turn into monsters. Well, then we'll all be in the same group, so we won't have to be afraid of them!
When asked why they still dared to rob people on the road in this place, their answers were quite reasonable and well-founded!
Well, it's broad daylight, the spirit is asleep and won't come out. The sun is shining brightly, so there's nothing to worry about. Spirits are afraid of light and will die if exposed to it. Besides, this place is perfect for robbery!
They're happy with the smaller crowd; if there were more people, it would be harder for them to grab anything!
Su Nanxi and Mo Qinghe were speechless. What kind of nonsense logic was this? They were just fooling themselves!
Su Nanxi said irritably, "You misheard. Spirits don't distinguish between day and night; they can appear even in broad daylight!"
These words terrified those men. They were in deep trouble!
They've trespassed into the territory of spirits to rob them; they're asking for trouble!
If the monsters blame them, they won't need to search for food anymore; they can just wait to be captured and eaten by the monsters!
Who said that spirits don't come out during the day?
Some of them didn't believe it. "You're the one lying! Spirits only come out at night. My great-grandmother saw one. It had two bright eyes and walked upright. It didn't dare to come out during the day!"
Su Nanxi sighed. She could make up those stories too, and she could make them even more elaborate and detailed!
Do you really think she wasted all those years of schooling? Although she wasn't a top student, she was at least someone who loved reading, even if she only read textbooks!
What a jumble of books! In those curious years of youth, who didn't secretly read through baskets of them!
The more bizarre and fantastical the story, the more attractive it becomes, and the more people want to read it!
These stories are so easy to come up with, they're much more real than this!
What these people say can only fool those who are ignorant and uneducated!
That being said, even if there are any spirits or monsters, according to them, it's broad daylight now, and they're probably asleep and starving. This is a perfect opportunity, so why not go find something to eat!
That's some really unique thought process!
"You don't know, our ancestors have never dared to come here! At night, will-o'-the-wisps float everywhere, and you can hear ghostly wails—it's terrifying! Even during the day, it's no good. When they wake up at night and find they've been disturbed, they'll definitely come back for revenge!"
"Yes! We only dare to hide in the roadside bushes for a bit, we wouldn't dare go any further in! There are indeed a lot of wild fruits inside, some of them are ripe, but we really don't dare to go in! If we go in, we'll be caught and eaten raw!"
"It's just that this place is quite deserted. We happened to see you walking by when we arrived, so we're keeping watch over you here. Few people usually pass through here; everyone goes in groups, rarely just two or three people at a time! Everyone's afraid something might suddenly jump out! This is truly our first time robbing someone here. We know we were wrong, please help us!"
Su Nanxi and the other two were at a loss for words, both afraid of death and determined to come!
A complex contradiction!
If you're really starving to death, then don't think about it too much!
These people don't look like professionals; they're dressed in rags and clearly live in poverty. It makes sense, though; with this level of skill, they'd be beaten to death in no time if they tried to rob someone!
It was only because we ran into them this time that we met them. If we had encountered someone else with a heart of stone, this desolate mountain wilderness would have been their burial ground!
These days, nobody's having an easy time. If someone dares to steal someone else's life-saving food, that person will fight them to the death!
These people are unable to move, which was indeed done by Su Nanxi. She didn't want to use a knife because these people were no match for her at all. She could solve everything with just one move. Without a challenge, it would be very boring!
Besides, these people look like they come from poor families. If you can break them, then break them; if you can't, then it's not too late to pull out your knife.
Unexpectedly, Su Nanxi pulled out a knife, and the faces of those people all changed, turning deathly pale, which was quite frightening. If they had seen it themselves, they would have thought they had seen a monster!
This person is completely unreasonable! They've already explained their predicament, so why do they still insist on killing them all?
They're immobilized now; taking them down would be as easy as chopping radishes with your eyes closed!
Wasn't this supposed to be a discussion? How could you resort to violence at the slightest disagreement? That's incredibly uncivilized!
The knife didn't belong to Su Nanxi; it was taken from them. It was a well-sharpened woodcutter's knife that gleamed with a bright, cold light when held up to the sun!
Su Nanxi just wanted to see the wood-chopping knife and, incidentally, the people's reactions. Good, they were all terrified!
Hey! If you don't have that much guts, you shouldn't be robbing people. You're not cut out for this line of work!
They'll be scared to death sooner or later!
She hasn't even done anything yet, her mental fortitude is lacking!
The scene was filled with wails and cries as people begged Su Nanxi to spare them and let them go, promising to repay her in the future!
They also said that it was their first time doing it, they didn't succeed, and no one was hurt, so they would never dare to do it again!
I made many promises, just to save my life!
Su Nanxi didn't say anything, just quietly fiddled with the wood-chopping knife for a while. But she wasn't really looking at the knife; instead, she was looking through it in another direction. Her ears weren't idle either; she was listening to other sounds through the croaking noises.
While those people were still begging for mercy, Su Nanxi suddenly slammed her wood-chopping knife into the ground with a loud clang, and the scene instantly fell silent!
It's as if the pause button has been pressed; the person is no longer moving or speaking, remaining in the same position as before!
Suddenly it became so quiet you could hear a pin drop!
That's a bit scary!
Yes, those people looked at Su Nanxi with terrified expressions, but dared not move, as if they had forgotten to move!
Su Nanxi, the culprit, acted as if nothing had happened, casually clapping her hands and speaking in a slightly irritatingly indifferent tone, "This hatchet isn't very good quality! It can't even be stuck in a deep hole!"
She seemed to be talking to herself, and just as the others were about to speak, she interrupted, "This ground is so hard! Ugh! With the sun so bright, who else is out here besides us?!"
Everyone was confused, wondering who they were talking about.
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