Ancient Eden

Chapter 82

(26.3)

When Mu Qing opened her eyes, the sky was already slightly bright, and her head felt a little heavy.

Using the morning light that was coming through the cave entrance to look around, she saw that it was indeed a low cave, not deep at all, it looked very dirty, and the ground was black. It looked like a layer of greasy and unidentifiable stuff.

Seeing a puddle of dark red blood near the entrance of the cave, it dawned on her that it was probably layers of blood that had accumulated over the years that had formed that pool. It was no wonder that last night when she was thrown in, she smelled a bad stench. And she also knew what she had hit last night. It was a large pile of animal skeletons. It looked like this was a place used specially for slaughter.

Da Wu was sitting on the ground near the cave entrance with his eyes closed. The blood marks on his body had been washed away by yesterday’s rain, but his ear wound was beginning to swell and turn white. His complexion looked like a dead man’s.

Mu Qing hesitated, but finally did not approach him. In fact, even if she got close, she could not help him even a little.

As if he sensed her looking at him, Da Wu suddenly opened his eyes.

Mu Qing was a little surprised, she originally thought he was dying, but now it did not look like it. His eyes were still very bright, at least, it was better than she thought.

In a way, perhaps the tenacity and ability to endure of the people here was completely incomparable to modern people like her.

Da Wu only gave her an indifferent look and then closed his eyes.

Mu Qing also stopped paying attention to him and just continued to examine the place.

She was suddenly startled.

She seemed to have seen what looked like a human skull among the pile of animal skeletons and immediately went over to pick it up.

She might not recognize other parts of the human skeleton, but it was indeed a human skull, with two hollow holes in the skull staring back at her.

Mu Qing quickly dropped the skull back on the ground, feeling a tingling in the bottom of her heart.

There were human bones mixed with animal skeletons here, did this mean that if there was a lack of food, the people in this tribe would also eat the captives as food? Those bones on the ground had been broken apart, it was obvious that they had been broken apart to suck the marrow inside.

She had a hunch that the people here had not mentioned her when they went to deliver their message. If Da Wu was redeemed back, she would be the only one left here. If Li Mang did not know her whereabouts and asked him about it, she did not expect Da Wu to willingly open his mouth and tell him.

Then there were only two ways left for her in the future, either give birth to children for one of the men here or be eaten as food.

Mu Qing felt that she couldn’t think about this any longer, so she stood on the slippery sharp stone surface and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

She needed to distract herself. If she kept thinking like this, she would really go crazy.

Although the rain had stopped, the sky outside was still gloomy.

Outside the cave, there was a bare open space with some rocks piled up, and then there was a jungle beyond. And there were two people standing nearby, acting as guards.

There was nothing attractive to be seen.

During the day, the guards delivered food once. It was two pieces of meat that looked like they had been roasted on the fire, but the meat inside was still bloody.

Da Wu picked up a big piece of meat from the ground, and ate it in a clean sweep. Then he looked at the piece of meat in Mu Qing’s hand somewhat greedily, it was very obvious from his expression that he had not had enough.

He needed to maintain his strength to wait for the tribe to come to his rescue, and so did Mu Qing. She also needed energy to maintain her life, and look for an appropriate opportunity to survive.

So she pretended not to see him, sat far away from him, and did her best to eat the piece of meat in her hand and swallow it into her stomach. Just in case, when Da Wu fell asleep from extreme exhaustion, she took that opportunity to hide a broken bone in the corner where she was used to sit. The bone was thick and crude, with a sharp fracture. ｂｅｄ𝚗ｏ𝚟𝚎𝚕.𝚌𝚘ｍ

For the first time in three days, she ate something that made her stomach full. That made her completely ignore her sense of sight and taste.

Translator : Laura

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