Ye Qingning was hit so hard that stars appeared in her eyes, and it took her a while to realize what was happening in her buzzing head.
She struggled to get up, and with the help of the torch on the stone wall, she slowly got a clear view of the situation indoors.
This is a cave, not large in area, with a lot of hay on the ground. Besides her, there is another woman in the stone room.
The woman was holding a baby in her arms, and she was shivering while holding her child.
This girl was none other than the missing Yuexiu. Her face was pale, she held the baby in her arms tightly, and looked at Ye Qingning who was thrown in by the mandrill in horror.
"Yuexiu." Ye Qingning was taken aback. She quickly stepped forward and asked, "How are you? Did they hurt you?"
"Don't eat me, please don't eat me." As soon as she touched her, Yuexiu screamed in horror. She shrank back desperately, holding the child tightly in her arms for fear of being snatched away.
"Don't be afraid, it's me, I'm Ye Qingning, we've met before." Ye Qingning hugged her quickly and comforted her.
"Yes, it's you?" Only then did Yuexiu see Ye Qingning clearly, and her delicate face calmed down for a moment. Then, she suddenly plunged into Ye Qingning's arms and burst into tears.
"Don't be afraid, Yuexiu is not afraid, we will be fine." Ye Qingning hugged her and comforted her: "Someone will save us, don't worry."
After being comforted for a long time, Yuexiu's expression finally calmed down, and she cried: "I'm sorry, Miss Ye, it was me who caused you trouble, I'm really sorry."
"Why are you saying this? No one has troubled me. You disappeared and everyone is worried about you." Ye Qingning hugged her and said: "What is going on? Can you tell me?"
"But, but..." Yuexiu's expression was still a little nervous, and there were some things she still didn't dare to say.
"We've come to this point, is there anything else you dare not say?" Ye Qingning stamped her feet anxiously: "Speak up quickly and we will help you."
"Miss Ye, the people in this village may appear kind on the surface, but in fact they are not what you think." Yuexiu calmed down and spoke out all the words she had hidden in her heart.
"Because their village has little contact with the outside world, and every year many children enter the holy land they call to practice Gu. Once these selected children enter the Gu tribe, they will never come out again."
"The reason why these children don't come out is because they say they are cultivating inside and then coming out as adults, or there are other reasons? And are these children from their local area or from other places?" Ye Qingning asked seriously.
"There are children from their villagers, and there are also people kidnapped and trafficked from other places."
"As for practice? Degu?" Yuexiu smiled, and she smiled miserably: "When I was first captured here, I was not married to my current husband, but was imprisoned in a place in their holy land."
"There was a group of people there who regarded us as their tools to have children and reproduce. I was very scared at the time. I was caught there with a group of women. I pretended to be comatose, and only then did I learn some of their secrets."
"What secret?" Ye Qingning held her breath.
"Of all their children who are selected to enter the Holy Land, some will indeed stand out and become the heirs of the Gu clan, but their practice is like raising Gu. They lock a group of children together and don't let them eat or drink. Starving them makes them ferocious.
Send, then pick up all available weapons, knock down the opponent, and eat the opponent's flesh and blood raw."
"Only the child who survives in the end is qualified to inherit their Gu clan inheritance. This method is actually the way to raise Gu." Yue Xiu burst into tears.
Ye Qingning looked horrified. Six or seven-year-old children were sent to that dark place, and then their survival was determined by raising gu in this way. How cruel is this to do such a cruel thing?
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"How did you escape?" Ye Qingning asked.
"Some of the women caught there every year will be used as fertility tools by the people in the Holy Land, while some will be sent to the village to be married off by villagers with ordinary qualifications as wives."
Yuexiu paused for another moment: "I was sent outside together with five women and forced to marry my current husband. Except for me, the other four did not live for more than a year and were beaten to death for running away.
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Speaking of this, Yuexiu's body trembled involuntarily. It was obvious that those things were a nightmare for her and would never go away.
"It will be okay, it will get better." Ye Qingning patted her shoulder to comfort her.
"I knew that if I ran away, I would be beaten to death, so I behaved like never before and saved my life." Yuexiu burst into tears: "But here, women, especially foreign women, have the lowest status.
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"I know that if I run away without complete assurance, I will definitely fail, so I can only be patient. I want to go home and see my parents."
"Don't worry, we will go out, we will." Ye Qingning looked firm: "I will take you out together."
"Really?" Yuexiu raised her head and looked at Ye Qingning with tears in her eyes: "To be honest, from the moment I saw you, I knew my savior was coming."
Ye Qingning looked at her with a complicated expression. This woman, who was about the same age as her, had to endure more than she did.
But she never imagined that beneath the friendly smiling faces of these villagers, there were such gloomy hearts.
"Do these mandrills have anything to do with the people of the Wu tribe?" Ye Qingning suddenly thought of these terrifying creatures.
"In a coexisting relationship, there should be some kind of agreement between these mandrills and the elders of the Wu clan. They will regularly put food on these mandrills, so the mandrills guard the woods in front of the holy land, and those who get close will die." Yuexiu said: "I am here three times.
They have never come out in years, but I don’t know why they came out today.”
"Put food in?" Ye Qingning looked at Yuexiu with some confusion.
"That's it..." Yuexiu gritted her teeth: "The corpses of those eliminated children, these mandrills are very scary. They are cruel by nature and like to capture women and children, then play with them like toys until they die, and finally eat them."
Ye Qingning's body trembled involuntarily. Everything he saw and heard in this kind of cannibalistic place was horrifying.
She never imagined that such a terrible place still existed in today's society.
At this moment, the baby in Yuexiu's arms began to cry.
Mandrills are cruel and irritable by nature. Today, they suffered heavy casualties from Chen Yu's Lichen attacks. The few remaining mandrills were extremely agitated.
Now, when the baby cries, it makes these things extremely irritable. With a roar, a two-meter-tall mandrill rushed into the cave and let out a terrifying roar at the baby in Yuexiu's arms.