Chapter 477: Infant

"Here... is..."

The bandit said weakly.

The mountain wind blew, rolling dead branches and fallen leaves, making a crisp, dry sound, while also sweeping away all scents.

This was a flat piece of land in the woods.

Wu Mingxiao's gaze was fixed firmly on the ground.

If not for Li Miao's reminder and the bandit leading the way, he might never have discovered the oddity here in his entire life. But after knowing there was a problem, some clues naturally surfaced.

For instance, this shouldn't be a flat piece of land. Judging by the growth of the weeds, the soil here should be more fertile than elsewhere, so why was there not a single tree?

For instance, what was the purpose of the circle of lime powder sprinkled around this flat land?

And even more obvious were the dozens of eerie mounds, large and small, dense and thick, on the ground.

Wu Mingxiao vaguely guessed something.

Why did Li Miao bring the wild man here?

In order to keep the wild man firmly in his grasp, Zhao Wuji was constantly providing him with milk, and the source of this milk was the women the bandits had abducted and imprisoned... But humans did not produce this stuff at every moment; this process must be accompanied by the birth of a large number of newborns.

But following Li Miao's killing spree all the way here, killing through the entire bandit stronghold, Wu Mingxiao had not seen a single child.

So where did these children go?

Li Miao flicked his hand and threw the wild man next to a raised grave mound, kicked his soles casually twice, and reconnected all the dislocated joints in his body.

"Dig."

The wild man could not understand Li Miao's words; after regaining his ability to move, he gave a roar and pushed off the ground with all four limbs, rushing toward Li Miao.

Slap!

Li Miao slapped him away, and before the wild man could land, he reached out and grabbed him back from a distance.

"If you don't want to dig, that's fine."

"Then just be a shovel."

Bang!

Before the wild man could make any reaction, he was lifted into mid-air and smashed head-first into the ground.

Li Miao waved his hand.

The wild man went off like an iron rod, then suddenly returned, carving a long, narrow trench in the ground that connected all the mounds.

By the time Li Miao put him down, the wild man was dizzy and disoriented.

It took him a long while to crawl up. He was still growling and wanting to rush at Li Miao, his hands forming claws and pressing into the ground to exert force, but with a crisp "crack," he crushed something, his palm sank, and his body tilted.

He looked down and scanned.

It was this one glance that nailed him to the spot.

What he had crushed was a palm-sized skull.

The skull of an infant whose fontanelle had not yet closed.

The wild man suddenly realized something and turned his head to look.

On the flat land, dozens of mounds had been carved open, and countless white, tiny bones were revealed from the soil, with countless maggots rolling over them, emitting a foul, unbearable stench.

"You ask why I have to bully you?"

Li Miao's voice came from behind.

Footsteps walked behind him; Li Miao grabbed the wild man's head and pressed it violently onto the infant bones scattered on the ground, forcing his eyes to stick firmly to the bones.

"This is the reason."

"Look clearly, smell carefully. There are more than forty skulls just exposed here. These children all died for the sake of your child."

Li Miao's palm pressed lower and lower, and his voice became deeper and deeper.

"Do you think it's unfair that I killed your tiger?"

"Those who were sent to the bandits by you, who were dismissed as casualties of tiger attacks because of the lean tiger's cover, and who died without their bodies being found—is it not unfair for them?"

"Do you think I'm bullying you?"

"I'll assume you're an ignorant fool who didn't know the bandits were giving you human milk. But you at least knew they weren't good people, right? Those heroes you defeated, those women you abducted to the mountain—where can they go to cry for justice?"

Li Miao released his palm and used his foot to flip the wild man over. ===== CHAPTER 478 =====