Huli firmly told everyone that she had buried her father and mother beneath this woodland, very, very deep. Even though the ground was now riddled with pits and ravines of all sizes, the place where she had buried them had to be here.
Now, she began digging.
With a demon fox's strength, as long as hunger did not affect her, she could dig very quickly even with her bare hands.
Soft soil was constantly thrown out of the pit. Yu Sheng and Eileen stood quietly beside it, watching, while not far away, the trio of Li Lin and the others—who did not understand the situation but had now vaguely grasped something—looked on as well.
Eileen sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder and watched Huli dig below. She could not help speaking again. "Um... why don't we come back next time? It's been quite a while. The Hunger Entity might pop out again soon, and then we'll have to fight it all over again..."
"It won't. I can sense it... I've been here for many years. I know when it appears." Huli raised her head from the huge pit. "It isn't in this pit. It should be... beside it."
As she spoke, the fox girl climbed out of the pit, stood in the middle of the wasteland to determine the direction, then quickly went to a nearby patch of ground and continued digging with all her strength.
Eileen opened her mouth, apparently wanting to say something else, but Yu Sheng gently patted her arm.
"Don't say anything. Let her dig. If she doesn't find them, she'll remain trapped here forever, even if she gets out."
Eileen pursed her lips, but her voice rang out in Yu Sheng's mind. "I'm not worried she'll dig up something. I'm worried she won't dig up anything