Yi Xin was so shocked by what she had just seen that her heart was still pounding so she did not hear Lu Chen's words clearly. She asked in a low voice, "Who are you talking about?"
However, Lu Chen's hand was still covering her mouth, causing her words to sound muffled. Only then did Lu Chen realize that and let go of his hand.
Yi Xin heaved a sigh of relief. After taking a few breaths, she looked at the place where the Bloodthirsty Demon Flower had been and could not help but turn pale.
If Lu Chen hadn't stopped her, and if the two of them had walked up to the puppy with a broken leg and thrown that bloody piece of meat at it, Yi Xin didn't even dare to imagine what the consequences would have been.
"This place is too dangerous. Let's go." Yi Xin said to Lu Chen in a low voice. At the same time, she swore to herself that she would never come to a place like this again.
However, Lu Chen did not seem to have any intention of leaving immediately. He looked coldly in the direction that the mysterious black figure had disappeared in. It was a dense forest, and no one knew where it led to.
"Let's go and take a look."
When she heard the first half of Lu Chen's words, Yi Xin heaved a sigh of relief and a gratified expression appeared on her face. However, before the smile could fully appear on her pretty face, her expression froze again.
"W-what are we going to see?" She stuttered.
Lu Chen did not speak and walked towards the forest in the valley. He looked calm, but when Yi Xin looked at him from the side, she noticed that his eyes seemed to be exceptionally bright. There was even an icy coldness that she had never felt from this man before. It was as if a sharp blade was slowly being unsheathed, emitting the scent of blood.
"A barbarian who strayed from the group in the Disorienting Lands …" A low voice seemed to come from his mouth. It sounded like he was talking to himself, but it also sounded like he was laughing coldly.
Yi Xin stood rooted to the ground. For a moment, she was at a loss. From the bloody and violent scene just now, the mysterious black figure hiding in the dark was obviously very ferocious. It would be very dangerous to go and look for it rashly. However, she did not understand why Lu Chen, who had been very cautious most of the time, would suddenly act out of character and insist on finding trouble with the black figure.
Wouldn't it be better to just leave this place?
After all, neither of them were injured, right?
She hesitated for a long time. When she looked up, she realized that Lu Chen had already walked far away. Seeing that he was about to reach the edge of the forest, Yi Xin could not help but feel a little afraid. She didn't have much worldly experience, so she was a little afraid of the Disorienting Lands after last night's experience. Lu Chen was her most trustworthy backer at the moment. At that moment, she couldn't help but call out, "Big Brother Lu, wait for me." As she spoke, she jogged to catch up to him.
…
Walking into the forest, Yi Xin felt that the surrounding light had suddenly dimmed. The temperature was also slightly lower than outside. She guessed that it was because the forest was too dense. There were many short shrubs in the forest. Who knew how many years of fallen leaves had formed a thick layer on the ground. When she walked on it, she felt that it was soft under her feet. The air was filled with the smell of the leaves and rotten soil under her feet.
It didn't take Lu Chen much effort to find a hidden path in the forest, and then he walked along it.
The path was intermittent and strange. Sometimes, it would suddenly disappear. However, no one knew what kind of strange ability Lu Chen had. Every time this happened, he would carefully observe the surroundings and find some traces in some inconspicuous corner. From there, he would rediscover the path.
Some of the traces were faint bloodstains from the short leaves. Some were leaves that had just fallen. There were even some that were almost unrecognizable footprints on the withered leaves. However, Lu Chen still managed to find them one by one.
Yi Xin followed behind Lu Chen. Her eyes were filled with shock and horror. Ever since she was young, she had embarked on the path of immortal cultivation. All she knew was cultivation techniques. At most, she would spar with her fellow disciples. She had never seen anything like this before.
She looked at the back of the man in front of her and suddenly felt a sense of trepidation. If … if one day, she became this man's prey, she would definitely have nowhere to run, right?
She could vaguely sense that this man named Lu Chen seemed to exist on the other side of the cultivation world that she was familiar with. Before coming to the Chaotic Lands, she knew nothing about the things in that dark world.
Lu Chen's movements were practiced and efficient. Sometimes, his movements were so sharp that Yi Xin felt that there were some hidden traces. It was as if he knew the location beforehand and found it with incredible speed. Or perhaps, he seemed to be familiar with the habits of the black shadow in front of him …
About an hour later, Lu Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks and stopped Yi Xin.
In front of them, outside the dense thicket, there was an open space about half an acre in size. A large boulder abruptly rose up to form a slope, and under the boulder was a cave entrance.
The ground outside the cave was a mess. There were things that looked like garbage everywhere. There were charred stones, broken wooden sticks, and bones of different sizes. At a cursory glance, most of them were small animal bones.
"Huff … huff … huff …"
A strange sound came from the cave. It sounded like heavy breathing. Not long after, a black shadow walked out. It was indeed the strange man who had appeared in the valley of the Bloodthirsty Demon Flowers.
Now that they were closer, Lu Chen and Yi Xin could see more clearly than before. Soon, they realized that this "person" wasn't young. Apart from the fact that he was all skin and bones, even his gait made him look like an old man who was out of breath.
But even so, this strange man's ferociousness didn't diminish at all. When he walked out, he was still holding the bloody leopard's leg in his hand. He sat on a huge rock and opened his mouth to chew on it.
Blood flowed down the corner of his mouth. He looked like a wild beast.
Yi Xin's body trembled. She felt a wave of nausea in her stomach. She almost vomited from this scene. Fortunately, she knew that this was not the time. She forced herself to bear with it. But she did not dare to look at this barbaric man drinking blood. She shrank her body back. Just as she was about to tell Lu Chen not to cause trouble and leave first, her body suddenly froze.
Lu Chen had already vanished from her side at some point in time.
Yi Xin was shocked. She turned her head and looked around. After a while, she suddenly realized that Lu Chen's figure was already at the edge of the shrubs not far from the cave. He was right behind the 'strange man' and was slowly approaching.
The straight line distance between the two seemed to be less than ten feet.
For a moment, Yi Xin only felt that her heart was suddenly in her throat. She was so nervous that she even held her breath. Around the cave, it was even more silent. Only the strange man seemed to be unknowingly gnawing on flesh and blood like a wild beast.
However, amidst this tranquility, a wave of miserable dog barks suddenly resounded from within the cave, and it broke the silence here.
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