She sighed and whispered to the several ferocious skulls baring their white teeth, "Grievances have heads, debts have owners. The ones who stole your territory are the two mute guys outside. I was captured by them, just like you, a victim as well. If you have any awareness beneath these springs, please bless me to leave this place alive. If I can ever return, I promise to properly gather your bones again!"
Gu Youyou rambled on for a while, then bent down to pick and choose a arm bone of suitable length and said, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend; we, after all, share a common enemy and can be considered friends. So I’m looking to borrow a bone from you to save another one of our allies; you wouldn’t object to that, right?"
"Ah, if you don’t speak up, I’ll take that as your agreement, and I’ll come to see you again another day!"
Returning to the main chamber, the four eyes, belonging to the man and the wolf cub, fell back on her. Gu Youyou straightened up and went over to help the wolf cub stabilize its leg bone.
The wolf cub was very small, looking to be about two or three months old; the bone was somewhat long for it.
But there was no other way; this was the shortest one available. She certainly couldn’t use someone’s rib, as those ribs weren’t straight.
Gu Youyou tore off a strip of cloth from her clothing, bandaged the wolf cub’s wound, and then secured it.
"It might hurt a bit soon, so you can cry out, but you must not bite me! Otherwise, I’ll let them eat you today," Gu Youyou warned fiercely.
The dislocation of the little wolf cub’s leg wasn’t too severe and was easily set right.
Indeed, it was painful, and the cub howled with pain, tears welling in its eyes as it turned around, yet it obediently refrained from biting Gu Youyou.
Gu Youyou smiled with satisfaction, her mouth just parting when she heard a booming sound from the direction of the tomb’s entrance.
Her smile vanished, and her heart started to tense up again.
The unpredictable savage had returned.
The roasted chicken he brought back smelled delicious; a famished Gu Youyou couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.
Trapped in the chamber with no sight of day, she didn’t know if it was day or night outside, nor how long she had been held inside.
Up to now, this was only the second meal, so it didn’t seem like a long time had passed.
This time, she didn’t get the chicken leg; the savage uncle weirdly grinned, rewarding her with a pair of chicken wings.
Gu Youyou felt so frustrated inside. Had she known, she would have plucked the feathers from the chicken leg first.
It wasn’t that the chicken leg was especially tasty, but rather that it had a lot more meat than wings, which were mostly bone and skin and were thus less filling.
Gu Youyou morosely retreated to a corner to eat her chicken wings, while the wolf cub lay beside her, yearningly watching.
After a painful internal struggle looking at the not-so-meaty wing in her hand, she decided to give one to the little wolf cub.
The cub enjoyed the wing immensely, having never eaten cooked meat before; it devoured it voraciously.
Gu Youyou mumbled under her breath, "Today you’re eating its meat, tomorrow we may be eating yours."
The wild man noticed the bandaged leg of the little wolf cub and a complex expression crossed his face. He glanced at Gu Youyou but said nothing before heading out again.
Before long, another jar of medicine came in; he handed it to the man in the coffin, who downed it without a word.
As bitter as the medicine was, he drank it as if it were water.
Gu Youyou sniffed hard, feeling that this medicine was somehow different from yesterday’s.
She didn’t know if it was a different batch or if he had changed the medicine.
The wild uncle left with the empty jar, and this time, she waited a long time without seeing him return.