When Huahua saw the food, she immediately forgot to cry, grabbed a steamed bun and ate it.
However, Yami and I just sat at the corner of the table and did not move our chopsticks.
Before we understand the situation in Inuning Village, we naturally dare not eat the food here at will.
"Why don't you two guests eat? We have limited conditions here, so you can make do with it first."
Seeing that the two of us didn't move, the woman took the initiative to speak.
"Sister, before we entered the village, we picked some wild fruits outside, and we are not hungry at all yet."
I explained with a smile.
"Yes, sister, if you get hungry at night, we won't be polite to you."
Yami also said quickly.
"All right,"
The woman nodded but did not insist.
"It's okay if you have an empty stomach now. Our village is going to hold a hunting event in the afternoon. You can join in and have barbecue together in the evening!"
My eyes suddenly lit up: "Wow, that's great! Can we really participate?"
"certainly,"
The woman said: "Those who come are just guests. Our village welcomes outsiders, so don't worry!"
I cupped my hands and said, "Thank you very much, eldest sister."
"It's still early now, let's go out for a walk first and come back in the afternoon."
After saying that, I patted Huahua on the head, then pulled Yami and walked out together.
The village is still quiet. Occasionally, villagers wearing coarse linen clothes will pass by and they will give us friendly smiles.
Not long after, Yami and I walked along a forest path until we reached the outside of the village before stopping.
"Yami, are you sure this is the Inunaki Village we are looking for?"
Seeing that there was no one around, I asked Yami in a deep voice.
Although the name is indeed Inuning Village, the villagers here all look very normal and are not the legendary dog-headed monsters at all.
"I got the address of Inuning Village from some internal information. It can't be wrong."
Yami said firmly: "We must have found the right place. As for why these villagers are not kobolds, I don't know why."
After a pause, Yamei suddenly asked: "By the way, Brother Cheng Yi, have you discovered a problem in this village?"
"There is not a single adult man in this village!"
I was stunned for a moment and thought carefully about the villagers I just saw on the road. Indeed, most of them were women!
Apart from a few young boys, there was not a single adult male in sight.
Where have all the men in the village gone?
"It seems that Huahua's mother is lying. There are indeed weird things in this village."
"Don't worry about it so much now. Wait until the afternoon hunting activity to see if you can find any clues."
After the discussion was decided, Yami and I returned along the original path.
After walking for a while, we suddenly saw Huahua squatting on the side of the road, holding a branch in his hand, writing and drawing on the ground.
"Brothers and sisters, come here quickly and see if the painting I painted is good or not."
Seeing us coming, Huahua took the initiative to wave her hand.
Yami and I walked over and looked down. There was a simple painting on the ground. Although the lines were scrawled and simple, we could still tell that it seemed to be a picture of a family of three holding hands.
The strange thing is that, except for the two people on the left who are depicted as normal people, the adult on the right has a pair of pointed ears, a protruding mouth, and fangs turned out, which looks very weird.
This seems to be...a kobold!
After looking carefully for a few seconds, I was shocked and quickly realized that the adult Huahua painted was a kobold!
"Huahua, who is this person?"
I pointed to the kobold in the painting and asked Huahua.
"On the left is mom, in the middle is me, and on the right is dad..."
Huahua said truthfully.
Huahua’s father is a kobold?
Then why are Huahua and her mother no different from normal people?
Also, where is Huahua’s father? Why did Huahua’s mother lie to us? Where are the other adult men in the village?
All this made me feel extremely confused, and I felt more and more that this should be the Inuming Village we were looking for, but there must be an ulterior secret hidden in this village.
After drawing on the ground for a while, Huahua looked up at the sun and suddenly jumped up.
"Oh, it's going to be hunting time soon. If you go late, your mother will scold you!"
"Big brother, big sister, let's go back quickly!"
Yami and I looked at each other, said nothing, and followed Huahua back to the village.
At this time, a slightly larger square in the center of the village was already crowded with people, mostly adult women and some children, totaling thirty or forty people.
After we found Huahua's mother, we saw her standing on tiptoes looking into the crowd, so we followed her gaze.
An old woman in a red robe and a hat with blue feathers on her head was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the crowd, her eyes closed, and she was reciting a string of incomprehensible hymns.
"This person is the goddess of our village. She has the final say on the affairs of the entire village."
Mother Huahua explained to us.
Suddenly, the goddess suddenly opened her eyes, and her cloudy eyes swept over everyone one by one.
"The time has come and the hunting begins. May the God of Dogs bless our operation smoothly!"
After the goddess finished speaking, a middle-aged woman stood up and divided the villagers into six teams in groups of five, and then distributed two bags of weapons to each team.
They were a bunch of crossbow arrows and a bag of sharpened sticks.
Yami and I, Huahua, Huahua’s mother, and two other female villagers formed a team.
Following the road in the middle of the village and outside the village, the six teams separated and headed towards a barren mountain not far away.
"Sister, what kind of prey are we going to hunt this time? Huahua is so young, why do we need to take her with us?"
On the way, I asked Huahua’s mother out of curiosity.
"What you don't know is that although our village seems peaceful and peaceful, there are many ferocious beasts living in the nearby mountains. They often come down from the mountains and break into the village to hurt people."
"We go up to the mountains regularly to hunt down wild beasts. Firstly, we can store food for the winter, and secondly, we can protect the village from the threat of wild beasts."
"However, due to lack of manpower, we have to bring our children to help every time. We can also cultivate their independent survival skills from an early age. This is a tradition."
While we were talking, we had already arrived at the foot of the mountain. The other two villagers, after exchanging a few words with Huahua's mother, quickly climbed over the bushes with crossbows on their backs, and soon disappeared.
I was about to ask them what they were doing when suddenly, there was a whistle not far ahead.
Whoosh whoosh!
At the same time, the sound of arrows whizzing by kept coming!
