140: Chapter 95: Death Crow Forest, The Blood-Colored Scarecrow_3 140: Chapter 95: Death Crow Forest, The Blood-Colored Scarecrow_3 “That eunuch is simply a cruel tyrant.
He won’t come up with tortures like live dismemberment or slow slicing next, will he?”
Gu Rongjie suddenly felt that being torn apart by a chariot was acceptable after all—at least that punishment would kill swiftly, unlike the present suffering.
“So ‘scarecrow’ actually means using real people, not straw.”
Zhou Ya’s mouth tasted bitter; she thought she had a chance to be a scarecrow, but she didn’t realize it meant this.
“This is not the work of that damned eunuch!”
Lin Baici’s expression turned grave as he walked towards those scarecrows.
Everyone was astonished.
“If not him, then who?”
Guo Zheng’s mind was racing: “Could it be the work of a monster?
But aren’t the monsters crows?
Or could it be that what Wang Mingfu described as ‘crow people’ isn’t the kind of bird we’re accustomed to, but rather a type of ‘Crow person’?”
Everyone looked to Lin Baici, waiting for his answer.
Gu Rongjie, who had seen the darkness of society and the horror of human nature, was the first to snap to a realization. Updates are released by ɴovelfire.net
“Could this be the work of Boss Wang…
I mean, Wang Mingfu and his group?”
Gu Rongjie was so scared she felt goosebumps all over.
The others were also startled by Gu Rongjie’s deduction.
“Boss Wang mentioned that those who run away would be disemboweled, skinned, and have their tendons drawn out, but these dozens of bodies haven’t been skinned!”
Lin Baici examined the bodies.
They were covered in lacerations, not a single piece of intact skin, all looking like they had been pecked by sharp beaks, bloodied all over.
Every corpse had its eyeballs eaten out, leaving just two empty holes.
Most had their bellies torn open, intestines and organs spilled all around, a mess like leftovers picked at by a flock of birds, scattered everywhere.
And the heads of these corpses were pecked open too—a hollow shell on the inside.
It seemed their brains had likely been consumed.
“That can’t be possible, how could someone be that vile?”
Zhou Ya, after speaking, suddenly remembered Guo Zheng killing someone in the cellar and immediately shut her mouth.
“Why would they do this?”
Xia Hongyao blurted out.
“To use them to attract the crows, to protect the game in the trees,” Lin Baici confirmed.
“These bodies are covered in wounds, likely incurred while fighting the crows.
Because their fighting power decreased and they became useless, they were turned into scarecrows!”
There were crueler truths Lin Baici didn’t mention.
Most of these bodies were women—small and frail—obviously weak and easily bullied, the first to be sacrificed.
[Nature is such, survival of the fittest, where in the absence of law and morality, the strength and intelligence of an individual become key forces determining status!]
[That Boss Wang, decisive in killing, although cruel, certainly survived and even managed to assemble a team that obeys his command.]
In reality, during the crow attacks, everyone was panicking, unable to protect the game, and could only watch helplessly as the crows feasted.
It was then that Wang Mingfu sharply deduced that when someone was wounded attacking the crows, the birds would swarm and peck at the bleeding person.
Wang Mingfu immediately had everyone draw blood, attempting to divert the crows, to no avail.
He then decisively adjusted his plan and selected a severely injured person, smeared him with fresh blood, and made him into a scarecrow.
And he was successful; the nearby crows were all attracted.
In the subsequent crow attacks, Wang Mingfu used this tactic to save most of the game, but at the cost of many lives.
When the chief eunuch came to collect the meat, Wang Mingfu advised him, saying that they had too few people to protect the game.
So Lin Baici and the others, who temporarily didn’t need to be stewed in medicinal wine, were brought over.
Wang Mingfu didn’t tell Lin Baici and the others the truth because he wanted them to experience the terror of those crow monsters and feel the despair of being killed if the game was lost.
Otherwise, if he directly told them to vote for a ‘scarecrow,’ they definitely wouldn’t do it.
There are simply too many hypocritical and cowardly people in this world.
Just that Wang Mingfu didn’t expect Lin Baici, merely by seeing those scarecrows, would deduce their tactics.
“Little Linzi’s reasoning is definitely correct!”
Xia Hongyao was very confident in Lin Baici’s intelligence: “That Wang Mingfu is truly evil!”
“Forget whether he’s bad or not for now.
Guo Zheng glanced at Lin Baici then his eyes roamed over Gu Rongjie and the others.
Following his line of thought, since Lin Baici found the correct strategy for overcoming the situation so quickly, it naturally had to be used.
The question was, who should be chosen as the scarecrow?
Lin Baici was genuinely strong; following him would definitely lead them out of the Divine Ruins.
The only trouble was he wasn’t ruthless enough; he always hesitated when it came to killing.
Among the people present, those with slower minds were still worrying or trying to figure out what to do, while those with quicker wits had already moved closer to Lin Baici.
Because Guo Zheng had not disguised his cruelty, so some could tell he was about to make someone a scarecrow.
Nobody wanted to be that unlucky person.
“God Lin, stop playing dumb and quickly pick a scarecrow!”
Guo Zheng urged, his words sending a chill down everyone’s spine, their scalps tingling.
Lin Baici faced Guo Zheng with a stern expression: “Are you trying to tell me how to do my job?”
“Fine, fine, you’re the boss; you call the shots!”
Guo Zheng shrugged his shoulders, silently vowing revenge, wanting to see if Lin Baici could deal with those crows, to decide on a scarecrow.
Once he did, everyone would know he was a hypocrite.