My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

The group quickly carried the man and the fetal bag next to him up.

The man was still asleep, but the fetus was moving.

Joey was startled.

"The meat bun is moving! Is it... coming out?"

Hua Ran nudged Qiao Yi again.

"My lady, please don't say that. At this stage, our baby can hear everything that's being said outside. She'll be unhappy. What do you mean by 'meat bun'? She's a clean and tidy baby!"

Sure enough, after Hua Ran said that, the fetus didn't move at first, and then rolled towards Hua Ran.

Inugami looked a little flustered.

“Good baby, roll over to me, I’ll hug you.”

Even with Inugami's hands outstretched, the meat bun still rolled towards Hanazono.

Hanazono laughed proudly, her little shoulders twitching as she bumped into Inugami's shoulder.

"See? Kids like me~ Do you know why? Because I'm not mean, I'm gentle, even if you ate shit, I'd still be willing to be your friend~ I'm very tolerant~"

Hanazono's words seemed to be directed at Inugami.

But actually, his eyes were still on Joey, on the tall, thin man.

The little facial expressions seem to be saying something.

"My lady~ Look at me, not only am I so good at taking care of children, but I'm also adept at soothing the unborn child and caring for the baby~ Let's have several litters of little foxes~"

Looking at Hua Ran's expression, Qiao Yi felt the message conveyed in an instant.

She really understood!

Inugami glared fiercely at Hanazono, wanting to curse, but afraid that the baby in the amniotic sac would hear.

We have no choice but to swallow this anger for now.

Hanazono happily hugged the "meat bun," feeling a sense of victory, whether towards Inugami or the tall, thin man.

A short while later, the man lying on the ground slowly woke up.

He twitched his fingers and exhaled.

Before he even opened his eyes, his first words were about his child.

"My child...my child..."

Hua Ran quickly handed over the "meat bun" and said, "The child is here and safe. Don't worry."

Upon hearing someone respond to him, the man immediately opened his eyes and staggered to his feet.

He watched Joey and the others cautiously.

He shuffled backward.

Joey quickly said, "No, no, no! If we go any further, we'll fall!"

Only men curl themselves up into a ball.

Qiao Yi turned around, looked coldly at the tall, thin man, and asked in a cold voice, "You said that Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu took all the people who were still conscious to another room and never came out again, so why is this man here?"

“I don’t know… but I saw them go into that room, which was another room opposite this one.”

The man who had just woken up spoke first.

"Young lady, do you know Young Master Qiao Zan?"

"Ah... I know him."

The man stated that he, his child, and several of his cousins ​​did indeed enter a room with Qiao Zan and Qiao Yu, because someone had entered their dream and instructed them to do so.

Once inside, he lost consciousness.

I don't know how I got here, nor do I know how much time has passed since that day.

The tall, thin man immediately pledged his loyalty, saying, "Hey, Yiyi, listen to me, I wasn't lying, was I?"

At that moment, Joey immediately turned around.

Because she felt her gaze.

It flashed by.

She asked Hua Ran, "Have you noticed anything?"

Hua Ran shook her head.

Inugami and Joe also shook their heads.

Joey suddenly realized something: that gaze was deliberately meant for her to notice.

She asked the awakened man again when the strange occurrences in the village first began.

The man initially said almost the same thing as the tall, thin man, but then he suddenly changed his mind.

"Young lady, are you like Young Master Qiao and the others, someone who saved us? I remembered something while I was unconscious, and I don't know how we suddenly lost our memories!"

He grabbed Joey's arm urgently.

Hua Ran felt a pang of jealousy and directly offered her hand.

"Hold my hand, brother~ My wife doesn't like other men touching her."

The man immediately understood, swallowed hard, and apologized to Joey.

To reassure the man, Joey said, "I came here to save people. At least I can save this meat bun—oops, I mean, this child."

The man nodded.

He added, "When I woke up just now, I thought it was a dream, but the more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed, as if it really had happened."

He swallowed several times, trying to calm himself down.

He continued, "In the first six months, the village was peaceful and the villagers got along well with each other. Rather than saying that a family suddenly ate strange meat, it was more accurate to say that we...we offended the auspicious beast."

Ok?

Joey was a little confused.

Have I offended the auspicious beast?

Qilin Village... Qilin?

Joey opened her mouth and mouthed the words, and the man immediately gasped and nodded.

"It was indeed a sudden clap of thunder; overnight, all the livestock were gone."

But later, when the villagers stayed indoors, they kept hearing running sounds outside. We were all very puzzled at the time. Logically, overnight, everything in the village—chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, even the smallest insects—should have died.

He said they quietly opened the window and peeked out.

I saw something very tall, with the head of a sheep, a horn, the claws of a wolf, and the tail of a dragon from an ancient painting.

They all thought it was a monster, and that it was the monster that caused all the livestock to die.

So they stayed indoors even more.

But later, when they were starving, some villagers saw that the monster was always wandering outside, so they suggested killing the monster and eating its meat.

Upon hearing this, Joey raised an eyebrow.

"You killed it and ate it?"

The man felt guilty, but he still nodded.

"I ate it, but I only ate a small bite!"

At that time, I needed to nourish the fetus with my qi and blood, so even when I was extremely hungry, I wouldn't eat!

Because that meat looked weird, it made me hallucinate, and I almost ate my own unborn child!

He also said that because he had come to his senses from the hallucination, he told his siblings not to eat it either.

He didn't know if this was the reason his family remained sober, but he was willing to do anything for his child.

Joey sat down directly on the ground.

One hand rests on the bent leg.

"How could the flesh of a Qilin drive someone mad?"

The Qilin is an auspicious beast; where it is present, it is rare for strange phenomena or calamities to occur, unless…

The people in your village already possessed unchangeable human nature before they ate the flesh of the Qilin.

That's because human nature is still filled with great evil.

The man pursed his lips, lowered his head, and twisted his hands together.

He suddenly seemed to lose all his strength.

He said, "Yes...you're right, young lady. Ha...this village, even before that monster appeared, had already begun plotting to kill and eat people..."

The villagers' philosophy was that as long as they could survive, and survive to the end, it would be better if everyone else died, so that there would be plenty of human flesh to eat..."