There was no light in the cave, it was almost a completely dark environment, and Haruno Zhao couldn't enter it without lighting.

So Haruno immediately picked up a thick branch nearby, tore off a piece of fabric from his clothes and wrapped it around it, and then poured barbecue oil on it for the picnic to make a simple torch.

With the torch in his left hand and kunai in his right hand, Harunozhao took a deep breath and entered the cave.

It was a dark and damp cave, and tiny droplets of water could be felt on the surrounding stone walls, and the faint light of the fire flickered in the cave, which made Haruno's own figure seem unreal.

The cave was very narrow at first, and this narrowness was not too narrow for those gnomes who were already short in stature, but Haruno, who was of normal size, had to lean almost sideways to enter.

After walking for about ten meters, the cave suddenly became wider, and Haruno Zhao realized that this so-called cave was actually a huge gap created by the accumulation of boulders inside the mountain.

The misshapen boulders form a large number of crevices that lead in all directions, arranging the entire cave** like a labyrinth, and the darkness in each crevice may lead to an unknown path.

This is also the most frightening, as these gaps are impassable for normal people, but they are easy to hide for short gnomes.

As long as these dastards hide in one of these crevices, not only will it be difficult for anyone who enters to find it, but they will also be easily attacked.

Having established this idea in his mind, Haruno began to scan every crevice with his torch more carefully.

...

In the darkness, Sakura slowly opened her eyes.

Scanning her surroundings with a hazy vision, Sakura found herself in a corner of a small space made up of cold, dark boulder walls.

There is a thin layer of weeds under the body, although it can't completely block the cold of the stone floor under the body, but it is better than nothing.

Five or six meters in front of Sakura, there was a low wooden table that was almost the height of a chair, and a lit candle on the wooden table illuminated everything around her.

Where is this?

Sakura couldn't help but wonder inwardly, remembering what had happened before.

Before I fell asleep in the carriage and then...

Then it was as if a pair of hands were picking me up in the dark...

Then, my mother shouted my name behind me, and I seemed to be running through the woods with someone in my arms.

I've been caught!

Although Sakura was only three years old, she immediately understood the current situation.

Somebody caught me here!

What about Dad?

What about Mom?

I want to go home!

Sakura's heart let out a helpless cry, but her mouth seemed to be choked by intense fear, and she couldn't shout what she wanted to say, so she could only look at the candlelight in the distance, leaving two lines of tears.

Suddenly, the light that symbolized hope flickered faintly, and a pitch-black figure stepped out of the dark crack, covering the candlelight shining on Sakura's body.

The figure walked up to Sakura, then crouched down at breakneck speed, leaning in front of Sakura's face, allowing Sakura to see her face clearly.

It was an extremely ugly face, half of the face with slightly distorted facial features was considered normal, while the other side of the face was deformed like a flame burning.

There was almost no hair on the top of her head, only two locks of hair hanging down on the sides of her head, and Sakura couldn't tell what color her hair was due to the darkness of the candlelight.

In addition, the figure was wearing a gray rag, which only cut a round hole in the middle, and then passed the head through the round hole as clothing, and basically did not block the place where it should be blocked.

"Ahh

Seeing such an ugly face suddenly come to her, Sakura was so frightened that she finally screamed, but immediately after that, the man's outstretched hand covered her mouth.

She covered Sakura's mouth with one hand and her own with the other, as if to signal Sakura not to speak.

Sakura understood the meaning of the gesture, but for some reason, Sakura nodded and agreed.

The mouth was slowly released, Sakura didn't shout anymore, and the ugly deformed man squatting in front of him didn't make any more movements, just staring at Sakura with straight eyes.

Suddenly, the deformed man raised his hand and reached out to Sakura, who subconsciously shrank back, trying to avoid the deformed man's hand.

But behind her was the cold stone wall, and Sakura couldn't retreat at all, and this hand finally touched herself.

Sakura closed her eyes, but she didn't feel any touch on her body, but instead there was a commotion at the ends of her hair.

When I opened my eyes, it turned out that the deformed person was not touching his body, but was stroking his hair.

A bony hand gently stroked Sakura's pink side-by-shoulder hair, and the deformed man's eyes were looking directly at the ends of Sakura's hair, and there seemed to be a feeling called longing or obsession in his eyes.

It was evident that the deformed person in front of her liked Sakura's hair so much that she caressed Sakura's hair as if she cherished something precious.

Suddenly, there was an even heavier footstep sound between the cracks in the boulder, causing the deformed figure in front of Sakura to stop touching Sakura's hair and stand up.

In the flickering candlelight, Sakura sees a man with an equally ugly and deformed face walking in.

The deformed man was taller and stout than the one he had just been, and he didn't walk in empty-handed, but with a bowl of something.

Without saying a word, he walked up to Sakura, placed the bowl in front of Sakura, and pointed to the contents with his rugged fingers.

"White..."

"Pork."

"Eat!"

"White pork, eat!"

Although it wasn't smooth, the Freak's mouth did say words that humans could understand, and Sakura could tell that he wanted to let herself eat the "white pork" in the bowl.

But looking at the clear soup and a few slices of white meat in the bowl, Sakura shook her head in horror, and her already relaxed body retreated again.

Seeing Sakura's shaking of her head and her retreat, the deformed man who came in later raised his hand to hit Sakura, but was stopped by the short deformed man standing next to him.

The short freak shook his head, and then chattered with the tall freak in a bunch of languages Sakura didn't understand.

I don't know what the two were talking about, and finally the tall deformed man put down his already raised arm and turned to leave.

The short, deformed man crouched in front of Sakura again, held the bowl up, as if to demonstrate to Sakura, took out a piece of meat with two fingers, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and then swallowed it again.

After doing this, she handed the bowl to Sakura again, and motioned for Sakura to eat.

At this time, Sakura's stomach made a "gurgling" sound uncontrollably.

Sakura, who was in a bad mood, didn't eat much at night, and with such a toss, she was really hungry now.

Unable to hold back her hunger, Sakura took the bowl with both hands, stared at the slices of meat inside for a long time, and finally took out a piece of meat from it, put it in her mouth, and began to chew.

"Delicious!"

Sakura discovers that the meat is surprisingly delicious.