"What do you mean?" Yang Xin looked at Lin Xiao Tian with anticipation.
Lin Xiao Tian cleared his throat, "I've been thinking about a question these past few days. You guys, why did Luo Ping say in the end that his captain sent him out?"
"This... it must have been his hallucination, right? He was already delirious then."
"No, I don't think it's that simple."
Hearing Lin Xiao Tian speak with such confidence, Li Xue quickly urged, "Stop beating around the bush."
Because of their intimacy, they were no longer as reserved as before when they spoke.
Li Xue's reaction surprised Yang Xin a little.
"I have a guess. Do you think there's a possibility that the monster with a human face and a sheep's body, brought Luo Ping out of the valley?"
"Impossible! It turned our people into puppets, and it kills people. Why would it let us go? Do you have any evidence?"
Lin Xiao Tian looked at the two women and said seriously, "Have you noticed that Xue Ding's cry is the same as Luo Ping's?"
Yang Xin thought about it carefully and her eyes widened, "Now that you mention it, it really is."
"I was the first to discover that monster. I heard it talking to Xue Ding. Xue Ding treated the monster as Yang Lin back then, and the monster was especially affectionate towards Xue Ding."
Lin Xiao Tian told them everything that happened when he saw the monster in the camp. Both women were extremely shocked after listening.
"I don't know why the monster didn't kill Xue Ding, but combined with Luo Ping's situation, I guess it will definitely take Xue Ding out later, and Xue Ding, after going out, will surely become foolish like Luo Ping."
"I don't know what the monster's purpose is, but it's very smart and definitely has a plan that we can't understand. And the most important part of this plan is to send Xue Ding out!"
"What we need to do is to use this monster to our advantage to leave the Kunlun Valley."
Lin Xiao Tian said earnestly.
Hearing Lin Xiao Tian's analysis, Yang Xin's previously desperate face showed a hint of hope.
But soon, she wore a bitter expression again.
"I remember Luo Ping left in three days, right? Three days have passed, and Xue Ding might have already left. Do we still have a chance?" Yang Xin suddenly said.
"Although Xue Ding is out, the monster is still here, so we still have a chance."
"Will that monster give us a chance? Bullets can't even kill it, and it has help." Yang Xin remembered the mountain goat that came with a pack of black dogs last time. That monster was not afraid of bullets.
"Don't worry, as long as you give me time, I'm confident I can do it."
"You're so confident?"
"A little bit!"
Lin Xiao Tian answered very honestly.
But he wasn't blindly giving Yang Xin hope; he had a basis for saying that.
According to the records in the Shen Nong Heart Technique, a monster like the human-faced sheep, in its current state, could at most have condensed a small amount of spiritual energy. And its body recovery speed had a time lag. In terms of cultivation level, it was equivalent to the initial stage of the Shen Nong Heart Technique. As long as Lin Xiao Tian could condense spiritual energy, it wouldn't be difficult to deal with this monster.
In the past, Lin Xiao Tian wouldn't have had so much confidence.
But now he knew that the creatures here contained such rich green energy. If he absorbed it all, and given enough time, he might just be able to do it!
Lin Xiao Tian vaguely felt that he was getting closer and closer to condensing spiritual energy.
"However, you say it's so powerful, yet it has always stayed in the valley. Why didn't it choose to go out? There's more food outside, right? And outside, no one can deal with it," Li Xue suddenly asked.
Lin Xiao Tian couldn't figure this out either.
Just like the white viper in Black Mountain, if it descended the mountain to eat people, it probably wouldn't be at its current strength. Perhaps it really had a chance to become a legendary flood dragon.
In the following days, Yang Xin stayed there, while Lin Xiao Tian was in a state of recovery due to his previous qi deviation.
During this time, more monsters appeared in the lake. Lin Xiao Tian discovered that these monsters had a characteristic: during the day, they were all very docile. Unless something was thrown to them or contact occurred in the lake, they stayed at the bottom of the lake.
Once, Lin Xiao Tian even saw a catfish-man and a frog-man brush past each other, and nothing happened between them!
During these days of recuperation, because new monsters had appeared in the lake, Lin Xiao Tian couldn't go out to find food. He could only eat the remaining frog-man corpses. As for the catfish meat, due to its side effects, Lin Xiao Tian dared not try it again. Even now, Lin Xiao Tian occasionally lost control because of his past attempt, but fortunately, Li Xue was there.
Previously, there were only two of them in the cave, and even intimate actions were acceptable to both of them. But now that an outsider was present, the situation was truly awkward.
Lin Xiao Tian had explained the situation to Yang Xin, but Yang Xin clearly didn't believe him and remained vigilant towards Lin Xiao Tian. However, after a period of getting along, Yang Xin felt much more at ease when she realized that Lin Xiao Tian hadn't done anything to her.
Unconsciously, half a month had passed since they arrived here.
After this period of rest, Lin Xiao Tian finally recovered.
Staying in the cave indefinitely was not a long-term solution. Lin Xiao Tian decided to go out. He estimated that his body had already accepted the residual energy from before, and he began his hunting plan again.
Lin Xiao Tian pushed the corpses in the cave into the lake. He asked the two women to retreat to the innermost part of the cave, while he stood at the entrance, quietly waiting for prey to appear.
As expected, a frog-man, unable to resist its curiosity, appeared at the cave entrance.
Upon seeing Lin Xiao Tian, the frog was stunned for a moment. Lin Xiao Tian originally thought it would pounce, but unexpectedly, it turned and ran away.
The frog-man's unusual behavior was something Lin Xiao Tian could never have anticipated, causing him to miss the opportunity to hunt it.
Lin Xiao Tian was very frustrated. This time, he increased the amount of bait he threw.
A frog-man only needed a small piece of meat to be hooked. Lin Xiao Tian gradually cut many pieces of meat, but strangely, no matter how much meat Lin Xiao Tian put out, the frog-man never came again.
This wouldn't do!
If these frog-men didn't take the bait, with so many monsters in the lake, how could he lead the two women away?
After thinking carefully, Lin Xiao Tian decided to stop playing games this time and directly pushed a whole corpse of a monster into the water. Perhaps this would attract one or two customers this time?
As Lin Xiao Tian was thinking this, the next moment, there was movement at the cave entrance.
A round head appeared at the entrance. As it came ashore, its entire body exuded a sense of power.
Lin Xiao Tian looked at the burly catfish-man before him and his heart rejoiced.
The energy contained in one catfish-man was more than that of five or six frog-men combined!
After coming ashore, the catfish-man first looked at the corpse, and then at Lin Xiao Tian.
Man and beast stared at each other for a full second.
Lin Xiao Tian took a step forward, and the catfish-man took a step back.
"Holy crap! You think you can just walk away? Hand it over!"