Only after the time it took to drink a cup of tea did the figures of Xiao Hua and the other four emerge nearby. Their expressions were all different. Xiao Hua and the others wore looks of utter disbelief; Xiao Mao's face was even somewhat pale, and an indescribable strangeness still lingered in his eyes. Fairy Hongxia bit her lip tightly, her brows knitted, looking nauseated beyond measure.
Jiu Xia's eyes gleamed as she looked at the dried droplets of blood on the ground, seemingly lost in thought.
"Let's go," Li Zongbao said calmly. "The people of Million Meng Mountain truly are uncivilized! This... this is clearly just an ordinary field mouse. Even mortals might not eat one raw, yet they... they ate it just like that! Sigh, who knows whether they eat people too!"
Xiao Hua felt a wave of nausea as well. Other wild animals would have been one thing, but the image of a rat was simply too revolting. He truly had not imagined that anyone could eat rats raw!
Seeing Xiao Mao's frightened appearance and the pallor on his face, Xiao Hua did not ask anything. He knew Xiao Mao had never seen anything so disgusting.
The five did not speak much afterward, traveling quietly. Their flying speed had clearly increased; all of them wanted to leave the place where the natives gathered as quickly as possible!
Yet along the mountain path ahead, there were more and more natives. Xiao Hua and the others had to evade them from time to time. Although they did not see anyone eating raw rats again, they were growing impatient. Jiu Xia, however, still looked as though she understood everything in her heart and showed no urgency.
Seeing this, Xiao Hua was truly puzzled. He could not understand what Jiu