"What, what do you want to do?!"
In the darkness of night,
A demon with fluffed-up feathers, and two people holding weapons were in a standoff.
Hearing the question, Huo Ling'er glanced strangely at the person on night duty.
She was the one who was scared, okay?
"What, you're not letting me move?"
She grumbled.
She couldn't defeat the one called Er Hao, but there was no reason she couldn't defeat these two.
Although she didn't know how these people managed to occupy this place.
She certainly didn't feel any sense of danger from these two.
Ignoring their reactions,
Huo Ling'er quickly smoothed her feathers, making them neat, beautiful, and sleek again.
The two on night duty stared nervously for a while,
Seeing that she indeed made no other 'attack' or 'escape' moves.
Their tensed nerves finally relaxed a little.
They lowered their raised weapons.
But they still kept a close watch on the demon's movements.
Compared to the tension of the night shift guards,
Inside the stone house,
Some people were also tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
"Why aren't you sleeping yet?" someone asked softly.
"I can't sleep," the person tossing and turning replied in a low voice.
As soon as the words fell,
Many people in the room half-supported themselves, turning their heads to look over.
"I can't sleep either."
"Me too... hehe..."
Although they were tired all day,
The thought of what happened today made their minds exceptionally alert.
"I'm afraid that when I wake up, I'll find out it was all a dream."
Someone whispered in the stone house.
The men looked at the crystal stones emitting a faint blue light above their heads, lying on the spacious stone beds.
Feeling the warmth that came after a hearty meal.
Everything felt so real, yet so unreal.
It wasn't that no one had resisted before,
But most were whipped to death before they could even start.
The gap in strength,
Made everyone choose to obey, choose to remain silent.
Choose numbness.
Leaving only the instinct for survival: to live.
But now,
Something they could only dream of had succeeded.
And it was led by a child.
This was something they could never have imagined.
The stone house fell silent for a moment,
A slightly excited voice asked:
"Hey, what do you think it's like outside?"
Most of the people here,
Had been here since birth. Except for the few places they had to go for work, they had never been anywhere else.
But this topic was clearly a good start.
Scattered answers began to emerge in the room.
"Who knows. Maybe it's the same as here?"
"Outside must be better than here. Look at the thing the boss wears, called 'clothes'. It looks very detailed.
They were probably accidentally captured by some careless demon."
"I heard those demons chatting before, they said there's a lion with five heads!"
"Five heads? Who do they listen to? Who eats first?"
They spoke one after another.
Sharing their guesses about the outside world, and what they had overheard.
Then piecing together a 'world outside'.
Until late at night,
The physical fatigue pressed down wave after wave.
Everyone finally fell into a deep sleep.
...
The next day.
Everyone woke up early.
Although no demons came with whips to call them, their previous biological clocks remained.
After getting up, they all remembered what happened yesterday.
They pinched themselves, felt the real pain, and then laughed foolishly.
"So it really wasn't a dream, hehehe..."
"That chicken soup last night was really fragrant... can we eat it again today?"
"What are we eating so early in the morning? It's time to eat when the sun is high."
Here, there was no such thing as breakfast.
"I know it's not mealtime yet..."
The person who was craving food looked at the demon corpses nearby and chuckled,
"But there's so much here, it shouldn't be a problem to eat one more meal, right?"
The person next to him couldn't help but pat his stomach.
"You've made me want to eat too, hahaha..."
Gurgle—
A loud sound of an empty stomach echoed.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.
Didn't they just have a big meal last night? There was no reason to be hungry so soon!
Where their gazes converged, Er Hao was touching his stomach, smiling nonchalantly: "Hehe... I'm hungry."
Earlier, on his way to find Yi Hao,
He had eaten something poisonous and almost died.
He had been in a coma for three days and three nights, and all the food in his stomach had been digested.
Thinking of the chicken soup from last night, Yi Hao also craved it.
He patted his stomach and grinned, showing all eight teeth, "How about we have another meal?"
Everyone who was already craving food shouted in unison: "Good!"
...
After the meal.
Yi Hao held a stone bowl the size of a washbasin, filled with a bowl of hawk soup and some meat.
That hawk demon was huge, and it took several pots to finish cooking.
Holding this bowl of soup, he and Er Hao went to the stone wall.
The stone bowl was steaming hot, and the aroma was enticing.
Huo Ling'er, who had been standing on the stone wall all night, couldn't help but swallow.
Her stomach rumbled.
This scene also attracted the attention of the people below the wall.
Everyone, having just eaten their fill, was either cleaning the stone pots or sitting on the ground resting.
Seeing their leader approach the demon, everyone noticed and instinctively quieted their actions.
Paying attention to the commotion over there.
Besides curiosity, it was just curiosity.
—What is the leader going to do?
This was the thought of everyone present.
On the stone wall—
Er Hao glanced at Huo Ling'er, "You're too high, squat down."
Huo Ling'er obediently squatted down, her wings hanging to her sides.
A bird's legs are already slender, and her two claws were like high heels.
After Huo Ling'er squatted down, she was at eye level with the two children.
Yi Hao held the stone bowl and waved it in front of Huo Ling'er, "Do you want to eat?"
Huo Ling'er nodded honestly.
Yi Hao: "This is demon meat, do you eat it too?"
Huo Ling'er, without suspicion, nodded again.
This meat was still fresh, and there should still be residual demonic energy in it.
Therefore, it would be more delicious than ordinary meat.
Yi Hao and Er Hao exchanged a glance, then handed the stone bowl over.
"Here, eat it."
Huo Ling'er immediately took the stone bowl, blew on it twice, gulped twice, and exhaled twice towards the sky.
Then she blew again, and took two big gulps...
In a short while, she drank the meat soup in the stone bowl clean.
Licking her lips, she still felt unsatisfied.
During this process,
Yi Hao and Er Hao also looked at her curiously.
Yi Hao asked, "Your nest was raided by us, why are you still so calm?"
Huo Ling'er opened her beautiful big eyes. Her face was small and delicate, instantly reminding people of small birds with beautiful feathers on the branches in the mountains.
She tilted her head and thought for two seconds, then said, "I'm not dead."
Her expression was sincere and innocent, as if asking: Should I not be calm?
???
Below the stone wall, the people who were listening intently swayed.
What kind of answer is this?
Are demons all cold-blooded animals?
Even if they worked together as fellow workers for a long time, they should have some feelings, right?
However, even if she was sad and distressed, she probably couldn't defeat the leader and the others.
As everyone was secretly clicking their tongues.
On the stone wall, the two children showed expressions of sudden realization.
"Oh ~ that's right!"
Everyone: ???
Is that so?
So that's how it is?
So it's like this!
...