Zhang Chen stood amid the crowd and listened for a while before finally understanding. The so-called "Medicine Boy/Girl" was no good assignment. Once those selected as Medicine Boys/Girls entered the mountains, none of them ever came back out.
But what concerned Zhang Chen most now was not whether the Medicine Boys/Girls had come out alive, but whether this Queen Mother of the West was the same Queen Mother of the West from his memories.
Or rather, what relationship did she have with the Queen Mother of the West in his memories?
A flicker of astonishment appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes as he looked into the distance. His gaze was full of surprise, countless thoughts flashing through his mind. Seeing the panic on the faces of the surrounding tribespeople, Zhang Chen felt that this so-called Medicine Boy/Girl assignment was anything but a good destination.
"I heard that once you become a Medicine Boy/Girl and enter Kunlun Mountain, you'll be chosen as a child to test medicines. One careless mistake, and you'll be poisoned to death by the pills. My child can't become a Medicine Boy/Girl!" someone cried out, their face filled with terror.
"Exactly. I heard that beneath the cliffs west of Kunlun Mountain, the bones have already piled up into heaps. They all belonged to Medicine Boys/Girls whose intestines were pierced by the pills."
"West Kunlun recruits tens of thousands of Medicine Boys/Girls every year, year after year. It's practically eating people!"
The hushed whispers of the crowd made Zhang Chen's heart quake wildly. Tens of thousands of Medicine Boys/Girls recruited every year? And every single year at that? Just how many Medicine Boys/Girls had Kunlun Mountain taken in?
"Uncle, how long has Kunlun Mountain been recruiting Medicine Boys/Girls?" Zhang Chen asked a man beside him.
The man glanced