"What the hell do those assholes amount to?!" Bai Yun said bitterly. "A-Tian, we don't need to be afraid of them at all. Who's scared of whom when it comes to numbers?"
"We might get a moment's satisfaction now, but there's still a long road ahead," Shen Gun advised. "No need to get angry. Cultivation is all about a thin stream flowing steadily."
"It's fine. Don't get angry over them," Lin Lin said too. "This forest is so big. Surely we can find somewhere to make camp."
They continued exploring and finally found another suitable spot.
It was a small dirt slope, with a cave on its western side that had clearly been dug out by Pokémon.
"There's a ready-made cave here!" Lin Lin said excitedly.
"Don't rush." Su Han remained calm. "This cave was clearly dug out by Pokémon. We don't know whether its original owners still live here."
"Come on, Bai Yun. Let's go take a look."
"I'll go too," Yu Fei said.
The three boys slowly approached the cave. They couldn't see anything inside its pitch-black depths, but they could smell a foul stench.
The three of them frowned and covered their noses, but the closer they got, the stronger the stench in the air became.
Clear claw marks were visible on the earthen walls around the cave. Some were new and some old; there was no telling how many years they had been there.
"Get ready. I'll test the waters first." Cheng Tian picked up a fairly large rock from the ground and hurled it into the cave.
"Thud, thud, thud..." Darkness quickly swallowed the rock. From outside, all they could hear was the sound of it growing more and more distant.
"Sss, squeak, squeak..." A disturbance gradually arose from the pitch-black cave. Hearing it,