Chapter Thirty Return to the Inn

  Fu Chuan and several others chased after them, and they did manage to pick up many of Li Baobao's belongings. However, for two consecutive days, they didn't see any signs of the wild man. Fu Chuan was unusually calm; he knew that he couldn't afford to panic, because if he panicked, Li Baobao would be doomed.

  Xing Chengtian followed the fluorescent powder sprinkled on the wild man's body all the way, but after looking at the direction for two days, he felt that something was wrong, "This is not right."

  "What's wrong?" Fu Chuan asked.

  "This direction is north, it's the direction we entered the forest in. The wild man is heading north, can't communicate, if he keeps going like this, I reckon they'll be out of the forest soon, what are we still chasing after?" Xing Chengtian finally realized that the wild man was trying to take Li Baobao away.

  Fu Chuan asked in a hurry, "Why did he take the baby out of the forest?" This doesn't make sense at all. That savage obviously had an ulterior motive for taking Li Baobao away. He's so weird and has a 'woman' by his side, making him a big target. Is this savage stupid or what?

  This fake wild man is really stupid, Xing Chengtian didn't guess wrong that this wild man isn't the real legendary wild man or Bigfoot, but rather a couple who killed the hunters in the forest and hid there after their army was defeated. This child is actually the hunter's child, they kept the child as a living mouth also for a purpose. The thing of human eating human happened from time to time in that chaotic era, they were a group of scattered soldiers who had lost discipline and humanity, in the forest, they ate everything that could be eaten, after everything in the forest was eaten up, they thought of eating humans, under extreme hunger, what can't be eaten?

  The child was nothing more than the food they carried with them, they found a 'cave' at the waterfall and saw the treasure inside, they went crazy, from the start people were killing each other for the treasure, the remaining ones were torn apart by an unknown power in the 'cave', and no one knew what happened to that child in the end.

  The savage threw Li Baobao out of the forest, and at the edge of the forest, it wouldn't speak, but only pointed into the forest and made some sounds that Li Baobao couldn't understand, however, in this situation, Li Baobao felt that it didn't seem to want to harm him.

  Li Baobao got up from the mud and walked in front of it. Maybe what she said, it could understand. She asked it: "You don't want to hurt me, do you?"

  It nodded and handed a wild fruit to Li Baobao, which is a gesture of goodwill in the animal kingdom. Li Baobao continued to ask: "You just want me to leave here, right?"

  It nodded and pointed into the forest, shouting. Li Baobao knew it meant that the forest was very dangerous, so it pushed her away to leave.

  Li Baobao finally understood, it turned out that its meaning was danger in the forest, it took her away just to take her out of there. No wonder after being taken away by it, Li Baobao didn't see any green mist on the route they took, that route should be the only passage.

  Just then, Fu Chuan and the others arrived. Fu Chuan was about to take action, but Li Baobao blocked his way. She shouted at him, "Brother, don't!"

  Fu Chuan's bow and arrow were already loaded, Fu Chuan saw Li Baobao blocking the thing in front of him, he quickly raised his bow and arrow towards the sky and shouted: "Get out of here!"

  Fu Chuan was furious, showing no mercy to anyone. He was already angry with Li Baobao and Xing Chengtian for not telling him before putting themselves in danger, and now she was actually defending the person who had kidnapped her, which made Fu Chuan even angrier.

  Li Baobao said to Chuan, "It's not trying to hurt me, it just wants to take me out of the forest. Look for yourself, we're already at the edge of the forest now. If we keep walking on this road, we can get out of the forest."

  Fu Xiang looked around and suddenly remembered that during their pursuit, they hadn't seen any zombies or the green fog. Xing Chengtian said: "He led us to a safe path."

  Li Baobao ran towards Fu Chuan and said: "Brother, if we keep going straight ahead, we can get out of here."

  Fu Chuan's eyebrows were tightly locked, he said: "Before this matter is 'sorted' out, I will not leave."

  "You took three sheep and they walked."

  "No, why don't you go? We can't win it anyway. Let's go." Li Baobao knew that some things couldn't be solved by her and Fu Chuan, but this time Fu Chuan was very insistent. Li Baobao refused to let go, and Fu Chuan had to forcibly shake off her hand.

  Fu Xiang turned around and pushed Li Baobao to one side, scolding her loudly: "You're such a troublesome woman! I didn't ask you to come, but you came anyway and now you won't listen. This is exactly what I hate the most about you. I don't want to owe you anything!"

  "Get out of here right now!"

  "Get out!"

  These words made Li Baobao cry like a child, and Xing Chengtian also felt that Fu Chuan's words were excessive. He wanted to persuade him a few words, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was scolded by Fu Chuan too. Not to mention San Yang, who wanted to help Li Baobao up, was kicked by Fu Chuan.

  Fuhe threw Li Baobao's luggage on the ground and said ruthlessly, "It ends here today. We go our separate ways. I won't believe what that thing says either. I'll return to the forest, and you get out of here immediately!"

  Li Baobao had never been insulted like this before, and she looked at Fu Chuan, wiping away her tears. "Fu Chuan, for the rest of my life, I'd rather care about pigs and dogs than care about you!"

  "I, Li Baobao, swear to heaven, from now on you can forget about me, Li Baobao, giving you another glance!"

  Just then, a loud thunderclap boomed in the clear sky. Li Baobao's eyes became resolute and lost their luster. She carried the bottle and walked forward on the road ahead. In less than two hours, she would be able to leave this forest and return to the town at the foot of the mountain.

  Fu Chuan led a group of people back into the forest, and he followed them. Halfway through, when they were resting by the stream, Xing Chengtian walked over to the wild man's side and sat down.

  "Did you take her away just to make her leave?"

  The savage nodded, the savage picked up a wooden stick from the gap between the stones, and drew on the ground. Xing Chengtian looked at it seriously. The savage drew a huge circle on the ground, with a person inside, and many people standing around. Xing Chengtian didn't know what it meant. "Do you want to tell me where it is?"

  The savage nodded and pointed to the location of Shi Yin's village. Xing Chengtian suddenly understood, "You want to tell me that it is inside the village, right?"

  The savage nodded again, and with a stroke of his brush, he drew a semicircle towards Xing Chengtian. Then, he blew air at Xing Chengtian, who thought for a long time before saying: "You're trying to tell me that it's been inside all along, watching us, and then it will hide again, right?"

  The savage gave a thumbs up to Xing Chengtian, the savage wasn't unable to speak, but rather he had lost the ability to speak over the years.

  Xing Chengtian said to Chuan: "It's right in Shi 'Yin' village, we've been fooled by it all along."

  Fu Xiang nodded in agreement, "We can only return to the inn for now. I'll use the talisman to temporarily protect the inn from being invaded by evil spirits, and then think of a way to sneak into the camp to find it."

  Xing Chengtian agreed with Fu Chuan's idea, but returning to the inn was not an easy task. Fu Chuan had to clear out the zombies outside the inn first.

  It took them a whole day and night to get back outside the inn, but outside the inn were all corpses. The large gate of the inn was open, and there should be no survivors inside either.

  Fu Chuan let them go in first, Fu Chuan stood outside the 'door', his feet on the ground, and his toes drew a circle on the ground. The corpses rushed towards him after hearing the noise, but just as they were about to touch Fu Chuan's body, the talisman had taken effect and blocked all the corpses outside the inn. Then the glow of the spell covered the entire inn. The effective period of the spell was only three days, during which they had to get along and enter the Stone 'Yin' village to eliminate the enemy.

  The gate of the inn on San Yang Guan, then searched around to see if there were any fish that had fallen into the net. The inn had been vacant for some time, and Fu Chuan said: "We'll stay on the first floor, don't scatter, it's easy to get into trouble when scattered."

  Xing Chengtian naturally understood and let San Yang gather his things before starting to set up the tent.

  The stone 'yin' village outside was shrouded in a green mist, and it was impossible to get in. Even wearing thick anti-toxic masks, it was impossible to withstand those evil spirits, which seeped into every pore.

  Xing Chengtian stood by the window, gazing through the eerie atmosphere towards the village below. "Actually, we should have thought of it long ago. It may have been hiding in plain sight all along."

  Xing Chengtian finally knew the outline of some things, "There was no such thing as Shi Ji Niangniang reincarnating here to harm people. It was that great witch who borrowed the power of the stone to make those dead people his servants, helping him find more souls to help him rebuild Tian Ri and restore energy."

  "All these years, it has been controlling those souls, preventing them from transcending, which is also why Li Baobao's fifth uncle would risk being reduced to ashes to find you."

  "After we came here, we always locked our target on 'holes' and 'caves', but neglected the village."

  "The people in the village are no longer human, they've been dead for over a hundred years. Look at those villagers, maybe they've already become zombies, it's just an illusion to deceive us."

  Fuhe heard Xing Chengtian say this, he nodded and responded: "That's a good idea, it's indeed like that. Sometimes I also think that this matter is destined to be solved by me in a mysterious way."

  Xing Chengtian was still puzzled about one thing and asked: "What is the point of his resurrection?"

  "You won't understand, a spirit buried underground for thousands of years would yearn to relive the day," Fu Chuan said. Xing Chengtian took out the last bottle of white wine from his bag, "Tonight, we'll drink till we're drunk."

  Fuhe also wanted to drink, but Xing Chengtian was the tapeworm in his belly.

  At night, Fu Chuan couldn't sleep. He had always found it strange what his master said to him in the past. He didn't believe in the existence of gods, but he believed in the existence of demons and monsters. He thought this was a form that should exist in space, while gods seemed too far away for him. If there really were gods, he tended to think that those ancient so-called gods were actually aliens who existed on Earth, only leaving after the planet became unsuitable for their survival. Those so-called divine beasts were also products of their failed technology. Once, Fu Chuan had asked Xie Lian where he came from, but unexpectedly, that beast had cursed at him.

  Fu Chuan had encountered some tough business before, but not as difficult as this time. So Fu Chuan just scolded Li Baobao away. He didn't want to be distracted by protecting that girl with Li Baobao around, so it's best for her to leave now.

  He knew he had just scolded her too severely, but if he didn't scold her to the point, that girl would still think Pei Chuan was joking with her.

  At this time, the savage who had been sleeping opened his eyes and crawled towards Fu Chuan. He patted Fu Chuan's shoulder, actually he didn't have any malicious intentions towards this so-called savage, it's just that he couldn't speak, so when they couldn't communicate, it was quite frustrating. The last time he wasn't intentionally trying to make a killing gesture, but just wanted to scare him.

  The savage said: "Resurrect, 'woman'."

  Fuhe didn't know why the savage was saying these words in his ear, but he always spoke in a scattered way, yet every time he spoke, it was very helpful to their affairs.

  Fu Xiang thought for a moment, and finally, he sat up from the ground. He also finally understood why Ye Fan took Li Bao Bao away. It was because: "You want to tell me that you took her away just because you didn't want her to be caught, because the resurrection ritual needs a 'female' person, right?"

  The savage nodded and lay down to sleep, closing his eyes as if he had fulfilled his wish. Fu Chuan also did the same, saying: "That little girl should be lying in the hotel at the foot of the mountain taking a hot bath now."

  In the early morning, everyone sat in the kitchen, San Yang was responsible for making breakfast. There were many things to eat in the inn, and there were many canned meats. Although they had expired for a long time, when opened, the aroma filled the air, and they didn't spoil at all. They just needed some minor processing to become delicious dishes.

  Three sheep made a lot of dishes together, and the savage naturally followed them. However, the savage did not understand the rules of human society at all, although he was indeed a person.

  Xing Chengtian was very patient in teaching him not to squat on the ground to eat, Xing Chengtian taught him to use a knife and fork, and also to drink water with a cup, he learned quickly, he had no name, everyone still called him "wild man", he couldn't understand either.

  "Do you think he can still be saved?" Fu Chuan asked Xing Chengtian.

  Xing Chengtian smiled and said: "He was originally a human being. Living in the wilderness can change him, and that hot tearful society can also change him back."

  Xing Chengtian told Fu Chuan that he felt the wild man should still retain some fragmented memories of human society, and his humanity had not been completely extinguished. He said that from the moment he left the danger zone with Li Baobao, he knew that Li Baobao was the only one among them who had ever been good to him, so he did not want Li Baobao to get hurt.

  Fu Chuan thought it made sense and said: "Then in the future when we can go out, let's just abandon him at an orphanage."

  Xing Chengtian joked: "The orphanage doesn't accept wild people, does it?"

  Fu Chuan didn't think of a good way either, so he turned to Ye Ren and asked, "Can you take us into the village?" Fu Chuan's hands made a jumping motion.

  The savage thought for a moment and then shook his head directly. He had been living here all the time, and perhaps it was already a god in his heart. A servant would not resist God.