The prince disliked her, and the legitimate daughter was reborn and married to the regent

"Is this... a beast?"

Yun Nian muttered hesitantly, and Huo Daiyu, impatient, gently put her down, turned around and flew up, stopping at the edge of the pit and looking through.

"Ah? What is this?"

It was hard to describe the thing curled up in the corner of the cage. It looked like an ugly monster born from the limbs of several ferocious animals.

At least from Yun Nian's perspective, the monster's eyes could not be seen. Its fur and scales were intertwined, revealing an indescribably disgusting and terrifying appearance.

"It's so ugly, this thing. And why does it look like it's dying? There are too many wounds on its body."

Huo Daiyu, who was chattering non-stop, also took a look at Shen Ningsi. With just a slight glance, Shen Ningsi covered her mouth and frowned.

"Is it hurt?"

Yun Nian shook his head, and finally managed to expel the white and rotten wounds from his mind. Those wounds looked like they were cut by a sharp weapon.

"It's a sword!"

She thought to herself that it was clearly a mark of a sword scratch. If she was not mistaken, it must have been left by Wei Qingjue.

When he came to find her, blood was still dripping from the sword. If he had taken the wrong path and ended up in the beast's territory, he would most likely have fought this monster.

This was good news for her. After all, between a wounded monster and a vigorous and energetic monster, the former was obviously easier to deal with.

She was thinking over here, and the poor girls on the opposite side saw the three of them were obviously calm, and they pushed one of them over hesitantly.

"You guys, aren't you afraid?"

The person who came was a woman with sad eyebrows and red and swollen eyes. Her clothes were floating on her body, like a skeleton wearing ill-fitting clothes. She looked a little scary.

Yun Nian did not speak. The woman hesitated again, wondering if she had misjudged something. She hesitated for a moment, looked at the hopeful eyes of the person behind her, and then asked,

"We have been here for several days. We have no food, no water, and we don't even have the strength to climb up. I think that young lady seems to be able to get out easily. I wonder if she can..."

She bit her lip. Yun Nian took a step forward and patted her back gently, signaling her to speak slower.

"Don't worry, we are here to save people."

She motioned Shen Ningsi and Huo Daiyu to come closer and take the women to the top of the pit first. It was damp down there and they might have already been chilled.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

Before she could even scream, the skinny woman felt her body lighten and fly up into the air, landing on the hard ground mixed with rocks and dirt.

Huo Daiyu, who was about to continue, suddenly changed his expression and immediately took her back into the pit.

Shen Ningsi raised her eyebrows and was about to ask, but she saw her hand being held down. Yun Nian shook her head at her.

"Someone..."

Someone came to the outskirts of the cave entrance. The sound of footsteps on the stones and gravel was particularly clear to her, but she didn't know why no one had come in yet.

"Someone? Are they here again?"

The skinny woman trembled, tears welled up in her eyes, and she turned around and threw herself into the arms of the girls, crying.

"Oh my God, what should we do now? It's going to eat one of our companions again. This time, let me go. I'm not afraid of death. As long as you survive, it's fine."

There was a mournful and dead silence all around. Yun Nian looked up and waved to his friend.

The three of them slowly approached the girls and waved their hands to indicate that they had no ill intentions.

"Are the 'they' you're talking about the people guarding you?"

But didn't Nun Shanmiao say that no one was helping her? Yun Nian thought that there would be no one guarding here. However, if there was no one guarding, she and Lan Yin would not be so relieved to leave.

Hearing her question, the skinny woman stopped crying, looked at the particularly gentle and serious pupils with red eyes, and spoke with sobs,

"They are them. They appear at least once a day. Soon after they appear, the cage will be lowered, and then the monster will eat one of us."

As she spoke, she began to cry again, as if she had seen her own fate and was complaining about it.

Yun Nian had a headache and winked at Shen Ningsi. She then stepped forward and gently comforted him.

"Don't cry, we are here to save you. We will never let that monster hurt you. So, you have to tell us what the people outside are, how this monster attacks, and how you got here."

But the woman was still sobbing, as if her crying point was pressed, and she just stammered. The other girls were very quiet and silent.

"I'm asking you a question? Don't you understand?"

Huo Daiyu impatiently grabbed a stone and crushed it into pieces.

"If you don't answer our questions properly, I will crush you like this stone."

When this move was made, the woman was so scared that she immediately shut her mouth, carefully checked the faces of the three people, and then told them her experience.

Her name was Lan Yu, and she was the daughter of a butcher. A few days ago, she went to the city to buy some medicinal herbs for her seriously ill mother. Unfortunately, the herbs were expensive, and she didn't have enough money.

She happened to meet a woman who said she could help her. Seeing that she was kind, she agreed. But she was thrown into the pit.

"Where are the others?"

Yun Nian spoke suddenly. Lan Yu shook her head and nodded her chin.

"They are similar to me. They were either kidnapped or tricked. When I first arrived, there were more than 30 people here. In the blink of an eye, there were only a dozen of us left."

Her sight followed Yun Nian's back and fell on the dark-colored pit wall. That was the blood of the people who had been swallowed as they struggled.

"They seem to be a little bit strange, don't they?"

One hand reached out to the face of the girl behind Lan Yu and pinched her cheek. Yun Nian then tried to pull her eyelids.

"They seem to be somewhat confused?"

She frowned and Lan Yu started to cry again.

"If an ordinary woman saw such a scene, she would either go crazy or become stupid. How many people can bear to see their friends being eaten by monsters?"

Lan Yu gave a bitter smile.

"If I hadn't been used to seeing the bleeding and slaughtering of pigs, I would have become like them."

She shook her head and wanted to say something, but the cage holding the beast began to shake violently.

"coming soon!"

Lan Yu screamed and hurriedly protected the girls behind her.