"Damn it, why are you still wandering around the village?"
"Everyone's gone into the woods to hunt prey. Aren't you afraid that if you go too late, you won't even get a piece of intestine?"
The woman stood by the roadside opposite the pigsty, seemingly talking to someone, but the young man saw no one nearby.
His heart tightened again.
Anyone with a normal mind would understand that the woman could not possibly be talking to herself. There had to be something invisible standing there.
And invisible things were the most terrifying!
"Don't worry. My brothers have already gone over. At worst, they can still get a leg. There have been thieves visiting the village frequently lately, so I have to stay behind and keep watch."
A hoarse, middle-aged man's voice rang out.
The place remained empty.
But that cold, hollow aura could not be concealed at all, making the young man hiding in the pigsty shudder. He had clearly seen nothing, yet he could feel that someone was standing by the roadside.
"Prey? They went out?"
The young man sharply caught two key words.
"So this village isn't empty. Everyone went out of the village to hunt prey."
"Is it that forest?"
He looked toward the pitch-black forest outside the village.
"That strange sound I heard... Could it have been made by the villagers?"
In such an eerie village, the prey they spoke of certainly could not be ordinary wild animals. They might even be living people who had mistakenly wandered into this area, just like him.
"Luckily, I left quickly. If the villagers in the forest had discovered me, I might have become prey too."
The young man felt somewhat fortunate that he had acted decisively.
If he had been even a little curious or hesitant, like the