When Huahua saw the food, she immediately forgot to cry, grabbed a steamed bun and ate it in a big gulp.

However, Masami and I just sat in the corner of the table and didn't move our chopsticks.

Before we figured out the situation in Inumaki Village, we naturally didn't dare to eat anything here.

"Why don't you eat the two guests, we have limited conditions here, so you can just take a little bit first."

Seeing that the two of us were not moving, the woman took the initiative to speak.

"Eldest sister, before we entered the village just now, we picked some wild fruits outside, and we are not hungry at all."

I explained with a smile.

"Yes, eldest sister, when we are hungry at night, we will definitely not be polite."

Masami also hurriedly said.

"Okay,"

The woman nodded, but did not insist.

"It's okay to have an empty stomach now, our village is going to hold a hunting event in the afternoon, you can participate in it then, and eat barbecue together in the evening!"

My eyes lit up: "Wow, that's great!" Can we really participate? ”

"Of course,"

The woman said, "Visitors are guests, and our village is very welcoming to outsiders, so rest assured!" ”

I arched my hand and said, "Then thank you big sister." ”

"It's still early, let's go out and walk around first, and we'll be back in the afternoon."

After finishing speaking, I patted Huahua's brain, and then pulled Masami and walked out together.

The village was still quiet, and the occasional villager in coarse linen clothes would walk by and give us a friendly smile.

After a short while, Masami and I walked along a forest path until we reached the outside of the village, and then stopped.

"Masami, are you sure this is the village we're looking for?"

Seeing that there was no one around, I asked Masami in a deep voice.

Although the name is indeed Inuming Village, the villagers here all look very normal, and they are not the legendary kobold monsters at all.

"The address of Inumaki Village is something I got from some internal intelligence, and there will be no mistake."

Masami said with a firm face: "We must have found the wrong place, as for why these villagers are not kobolds, I don't know why." ”

After a pause, Yami suddenly asked, "By the way, Brother Cheng Yi, have you found a problem in this village?" ”

"There is not a single adult man in this village!"

I was stunned for a moment, thinking carefully about the villagers I saw on the road just now, and indeed most of them were women!

Except for a few young boys, not a single adult male is in sight.

Where have all the men in the village gone?

"It seems that Huahua's mother is lying, and there are indeed strange things in this village."

"Don't worry about it for now, wait until the afternoon hunt to see if you can find clues."

The decision was settled, and Masami and I returned the way we came.

We had just walked for a while, and suddenly, we saw Huahua squatting on the side of the road, holding a branch in her hand, writing and drawing on the ground.

"Big brother and big sister, come over and see if my paintings look good."

Seeing us coming, Huahua took the initiative to beckon.

Masami and I walked over and looked down to see a sketchy painting on the ground, although the lines were scribbled and simple, but I could still see that it seemed to be a family of three holding hands.

Strangely, in addition to the two on the left depicting the same as normal people, the adult on the right, with a pair of pointed ears, a protruding mouth, and outturned fangs, looks very strange.

This seems to be ...... Kobold!

After looking at it carefully for a few seconds, I was shocked, and soon realized that the adult depicted by Huahua was a kobold!

"Huahua, who is this person?"

I pointed to the kobold in the painting and asked Flowey.

"Mom on the left, me in the middle, and Dad on the right......"

Huahua said truthfully.

Flowey's father, is he a kobold?

Why are Huahua and her mother no different from normal people?

Also, where the hell did Flowey's father go, why did Flowey's mother lie to us, and where were the other adult males in the village?

All of this made me feel extremely puzzled, and I felt more and more that this should be the Inuming Village we were looking for, but there must be an unspeakable secret hidden in this village.

After drawing on the ground for a while, Flowey glanced up at the sun and suddenly jumped up.

"Oops, it's almost hunting time, if you go late, your mother will scold you!"

"Big brother, big sister, let's go back quickly!"

Masami and I looked at each other, didn't say anything, and followed Flowey back to the village.

At this time, in the center of the village, a small square with a slightly larger area, was already crowded with people, basically some adult women and some children, there were thirty or forty people.

When we found Flowey's mother, we saw her tiptoeing into the crowd, so we followed her gaze.

An old woman in a red robe and a blue feather hat sat in the middle of the crowd, her eyes closed and her mouth reciting a string of incomprehensible eulogies.

"This person is the goddess of our village, and she has the final say in the affairs of the entire village."

Mother Flowey explained to us.

Suddenly, the goddess suddenly opened her eyes, and her cloudy eyes swept over everyone one by one.

"The time has come, the hunt has begun, may the god of dogs, bless us with a smooth operation!"

After the goddess finished speaking, a middle-aged woman stepped forward and began to divide the villagers into six teams in groups of five, and then distributed two bags of weapons to each team.

They were a belt of crossbow arrows and a bag of sharpened wooden sticks.

I was divided into a team with Masami, Huahua, Huahua's mother, and two other female villagers.

Following the road in the middle of the village, after reaching the outside of the village, the six teams separated and marched towards a barren mountain not far away.

"Eldest sister, what kind of prey are we going to fight this time? Huahua is so small, why do you want to take her with you? ”

On the way, I asked Huahua's mother with some curiosity.

"You don't know, although our village seems to be peaceful and quiet, there are many fierce beasts living in the nearby mountains, and they often come down the mountain to break into the village and hurt people."

"We regularly go up to the mountains to hunt down the beasts, so that we can store food for the winter and to protect the village from the beasts."

"However, because of the lack of manpower, we have to bring our own children to help each time, and we can also cultivate their ability to survive independently from an early age, which is a tradition."

As we spoke, we had come to the foot of the mountain, and the other two villagers, after exchanging a few words with Huahua's mother, carried their crossbow arrows on their backs, walked quickly over the bushes, and soon disappeared without a trace.

I was about to ask them what they were doing, when suddenly there was a whistle not far ahead.

Whoosh!

At the same time, the sound of arrows whistling by kept coming!