Chapter 3: 003 Monsters of the Dead Bone Forest (Part 3)

But it's just because they ate some people, which led the villagers down there to report to the county, and then the human iron cavalry and Taoist priests came into the forest, captured them all, took their monster cores, and killed them!

"Who said I want to go capture people to eat?" Wang Wu looked at Shu Niang, smiling, "Of course I wouldn't do such a thing; I'm not stupid."

"Well, then what are you planning to do?" Hearing Wang Wu say that, Shu Niang felt somewhat relieved, but then she also asked doubtfully:

"Hehe..." Wang Wu chuckled, first flipped the roasted rabbit in his hand, also flipped Shu Niang's roasted rabbit, then said:

Since you asked that, I'll tell you: I plan to go to the human town and gather some supplies for winter.

"Are you crazy?" Shu Niang asked, face full of shock: "Going to the human side? You forgot how you met me??"

"I know that, of course." Wang Wu said, "But I have a method, although I can't be sure it will actually work; I'll try it first, and if it doesn't work, I have other ways."

"Don't mess around!" Shu Niang still felt uneasy, "If it really doesn't work, we can go to Si Hun Shan to try our luck; we're monsters, ordinary ghosts and monsters can't harm us..."

"What if we encounter other monsters?" Wang Wu asked.

"This..."

Not all monsters are as kind as Shu Niang and her kind; Wang Wu learned this from Wu Er Niang.

Monsters eat people, and also eat their own kind. After all, before taking human form, some animals are on other animals' menus, and there's no reason to say that after taking human form, a tiger monster wouldn't eat a sheep monster.

Moreover, all monsters, whether they were herbivores or carnivores before taking human form, become omnivores after transformation. And a monster that was herbivorous before transformation may even have a greater appetite for meat than some monsters that were carnivorous before transformation.

But this is all part of the food chain; of course, the term "food chain" didn't come from Wu Er Niang's mouth—it's vocabulary from Wang Wu's hometown.

Monsters eat people, people eat monsters; in this world, that's just natural. Everyone is just part of the food chain.

When there's little food, people will also eat their own kind, except they don't normally include other monsters in their diet like monsters do.

People also eat people, and cannibalism is not uncommon in this world.

"But even so..." After a moment of silence, Shu Niang still didn't quite agree with Wang Wu's idea, "We can't just go to the human side to try our luck; that's no different from us going to Si Hun Shan..."

"Don't worry." Wang Wu stuck a branch into the ground, patted Shu Niang's shoulder, "I naturally have preparations; you don't need to worry, I know what I'm doing."

Moreover, if you don't believe me, I can give you a demonstration.

After saying that, Wang Wu got up from the ground, walked toward a spot outside the door, and his figure quickly disappeared from Shu Niang's sight.

After about a minute and a half, his figure reappeared from the woods not far away. He stopped at a distance of over twenty meters from Shu Niang, holding a bundle wrapped in cloth.

Even though it was over twenty meters away, when Wang Wu raised the thing in his hand, Shu Niang still felt a wave of energy that made her extremely uncomfortable.

"This, this is..." Looking at Wang Wu holding the unwrapped bundle, although his facial expression was equally unpleasant, he clearly wasn't affected, Shu Niang widened her eyes and asked:

"You, what you have in your hand is...?"

"That's right, it's a Monster-detecting Stone." Wang Wu laughed, tossed the stone in his hand up and caught it, nodding.

Monster-detecting Stones are the most common items in human society in this world; they can make monsters that approach them feel uncomfortable, not just monsters but also other things.

They make these things feel extremely uncomfortable, so they dare not approach, and even their forms may change.

Ghosts, demons, and anomalies.

Monsters, demons, ghosts, and anomalies are actually four different things, and the latter three are far more dangerous than monsters. For monsters, those three are also enemies.

Humans become ghosts, monsters become demons. And anomalies are...

"Why... why can you hold it directly in your hand?" Looking at Wang Wu, who is almost unaffected by the Monster-detecting Stone, Shu Niang exclaimed in shock.

Although monsters aren't very afraid of Monster-detecting Stones, in reality the harm they can cause to monsters isn't as great as that caused by the latter two.

But having a monster directly grab the Monster-detecting Stone with its hand is obviously unlikely.

Even a great monster could manage this if the Monster-detecting Stone were just this small; if it were too large, even an ordinary great monster couldn't withstand it.

It wouldn't cause much substantive harm, but it would definitely be extremely unpleasant, agonizing.

"You, you've awakened divine abilities!?"

Seeing Wang Wu actually holding a Monster-detecting Stone in his hand, after a moment of shock, Shu Niang immediately thought of a possibility. This was also the greatest possibility.

Monsters can awaken divine abilities, and all monsters will. Unlike humans, who have various cultivation methods within their race, monsters also have this, but monsters like Wang Wu and his kind have no access to these things.

Therefore, a large portion of monsters in this world rely on divine abilities.

They are illiterate and lack culture; aside from their innate strong physiques, it's this "divine ability."

Some monsters can indeed hide in human society, and these monsters, aside from a few that rely on special techniques, all others do so because of their divine abilities.

"Haha." Wang Wu laughed happily, "I guess so."

"Wu Lang!!!"

After receiving Wang Wu's affirmative answer, Shu Niang didn't even care about the roasted rabbit in her hand; she threw it away and lunged at Wang Wu.

Then she was forced to retreat by the energy wave emitted from the Monster-detecting Stone.

"Ah! Wu Lang! Quickly throw this thing away, throw it away!"

Seeing that Shu Niang couldn't even get within ten meters of him, Wang Wu turned around, first went back to put the stone back where it was, then returned to his cave entrance.

Without the Monster-detecting Stone, Shu Niang lunged and grabbed Wang Wu.

"You're really amazing! Wu Lang!"

Wang Wu's "Wu" is the "Wu" of martial arts, but to the monsters it's just the "Wu" of one-two-three-four-five; Wang Wu doesn't care about that, so he's never corrected it.

"Haha." Wang Wu picked up Shu Niang and spun around once, then set her down on the ground, "All right, I still have some things to do today; I need to go ask Zhu San Niang some questions. I won't eat the rabbit meat—you can eat it yourself."

"Now it gets dark early, so you should go back early tonight; don't stay out too late." Wang Wu said.

"I naturally know that." Shu Niang replied with a giggle.

(End of chapter)