Chapter 65: Beasts hunt only to fill their bellies; they never kill for amusement!

Scenes that had only ever been seen on television or in movies were now appearing before their eyes in reality.

Xie Yaoyao even saw a man whose hands had been ground down until they were dripping with blood, yet the two overseers behind him were joking as they supervised him to continue working, seemingly betting on how long this slave could hold out.

Tears and sweat streaked his cheeks, but he could only peel the bark of the Black Rock Iron Tree over and over again with his bare palms. The trails of blood left on the bark proved that human palms were not as hard or rough as the bark.

He did not dare to slack off in the slightest, because two fresh corpses were hanging from a wooden frame not far away, swaying with the breeze in the forest.

And such cruel scenes could be seen everywhere in the vast logging camp.

What Xie Yaoyao found most incomprehensible was that there were actually two Travelers among the team of overseers; it looked like they had accepted overseer-type missions.

He could not fathom how Travelers who had received modern education could ignore all this suffering, and even be eager to participate in it.

But then he thought of the insane events committed by those beasts from the Land of the Rising Sun during the Second World War.

The bottom line of human nature is often even lower than that of beasts.

Beasts hunt only to fill their bellies; they never kill for amusement!

Vivian, beside him, could no longer endure it; she took the great sword from her back and was about to charge up, but was grabbed by Xie Yaoyao.

Vivian went against her usual naive and cute demeanor from the journey, her heroic eyes glaring red at Xie Yaoyao, who was holding her arm.

That expression seemed to say, "If you don't give me an explanation, I'll use you to sacrifice my sword first."

Xie Yaoyao pointed to a bulletin board on the edge of the logging camp, then lowered his voice and said.

"Look there."

Although the distance was a bit far, as the two of them had their physical fitness enhanced by professional entries, they could naturally see the notice posted on it, the most conspicuous of which was a beautiful face.

It was precisely the wanted poster of Vivian, her venerable self.

Vivian was very unconvinced, also lowering her voice, and said viciously.

"I see it, so what! I was just about to rush in and kill these inhumane guys; am I afraid they'll recognize me?"

Xie Yaoyao shook his head and said.

"No, I'm not worried that they'll recognize you; on the contrary, I'm worried that they won't!"

Under Vivian's puzzled gaze, Xie Yaoyao continued.

"There are forests everywhere here, which is very convenient for escaping. It would certainly be satisfying for us to rush in and kill, but it's inevitable that some will slip through the net."

"My meaning is that since they haven't discovered us yet, I will first set traps around the logging camp, and then wait until night falls to round them all up."

"By then, with you, the beautiful knight-errant who is on the wanted list for liberating slaves, coming forward, it will naturally be very easy to appease those slaves."

"With no one escaping to report the news, we can maximize the time for these slaves to relocate and escape."

Vivian was immediately persuaded by Xie Yaoyao's simple plan; she was very happy that this temporary companion could hold a kind heart like hers.

"Ling, you are still the one who considers things thoroughly! Fine, I will listen to everything you say; tell me what to do next."

"You don't need to do anything; just stay here and conserve your energy, and wait until it's dark to rush in and fight."

Xie Yaoyao did not count on this person to help set up traps or anything; he would thank the heavens if she didn't cause trouble and drag him down.

Moreover, Xie Yaoyao's traps were not the same thing as the traps from when he was a Hunter.

After once again instructing Vivian to hide carefully, Xie Yaoyao began to wander around the logging camp.

Natural Force shone, and before long, Xie Yaoyao had a handful of seeds in his hand. Then, Xie Yaoyao began to bury these seeds in the soil around the logging camp.

Although Xie Yaoyao could directly create Spiked Vines, Man-eating Flowers, and other plants to fight during battle, doing so would consume a large amount of Natural Force.

If these seeds were buried in the ground in advance, then Xie Yaoyao would only need to use a very small portion of Natural Force to complete the attack.

Time passed, the sky gradually darkened, and Xie Yaoyao also diligently completed the sowing work.

Only when he returned to the starting position did he find that Vivian, who should have been staying in place to rest, had disappeared, and even Helai'er, whom Xie Yaoyao had asked to stay invisible and watch over her, had also disappeared.

Xie Yaoyao could not care about the fatigue of just sowing and decisively contacted Helai'er.

"Gaga! Yao, don't worry, Miss Vivian is very safe."

Finding Helai'er's consciousness in the Mental Space, Xie Yaoyao immediately switched to Helai'er's perspective.

In an extremely crowded wooden hut, a large group of ragged slaves were lying on the ground in a mess to rest; having worked all day, they could only forget the hunger in their bellies by sleeping.

Clearly, this was a female slave dormitory, and Xie Yaoyao immediately found the location of this wooden hut through the moonlight shining through the narrow window.

And in the corner of the wooden hut, Vivian, wearing her hooded cloak, was sneakily applying medicine to a little girl.

The little girl looked only seven or eight years old; at this moment, there was a bloody wound on her back, clearly the handiwork of the logging camp overseers.

The little girl was very sensible and did not struggle or cry out at all.

Her large, water-blue eyes were full of joy; clearly, she had recognized that the big sister who had snuck in to treat her wounds was the knight-errant on the wanted poster.

Mother had said that the knight-errant was a hero sent by the gods to save them.

Xie Yaoyao was very surprised.

It wasn't that he was surprised that Vivian would sneak in to treat the little girl's wounds, but rather that this person had actually not exploded on the spot and jumped out to hack people.

Xie Yaoyao believed that this person must have seen the little girl being beaten with her own eyes.

It seemed that this person was not as brainlessly impulsive as he had imagined.

Although Vivian had been very careful to control the light produced during the treatment, that golden light was so dazzling in the pitch-black slave wooden hut.

Immediately, many slaves were awakened.

Watching the wound on the little girl's back instantly recover in this soft golden light, all the slaves were stunned by this miracle-like scene.

At the same time, they also recognized that the user of the golden light was precisely the knight-errant on the bulletin board, that hero who had saved countless slaves.

"The gods have not abandoned us! Woo woo woo! We are saved!"

"The hero, it's that bright female hero, praise the Holy Light!"

"Woo woo woo woo! Praise the Holy Light!"

Seeing the sleeping slaves awakened by her, Vivian was initially a bit at a loss, but the subsequent praise from the slaves immediately made the blonde ditz feel smug.

"Everyone, don't be afraid; I will definitely save you. My companion and I have already surrounded this place; once we defeat those hateful guys, everyone can escape."

Although the blonde ditz was a bit naive, her smile, full of confidence and sunshine, immediately infected everyone.

"Oh!"

"Long live!"

"That's great!"

The commotion inside the slave wooden hut immediately attracted the attention of the night guards.

"What's going on?"

"Suspected slave riot, quick, blow the whistle!"

In an instant, the entire slave logging camp became lively.