Mo Qiang stared at the pit, her eyes were narrowed with suspicion as she crouched on her heels with her soles raised in the air. She sniffed the air through her mask and was surprised when she did not find the scent of rotten flesh and blood.
Even if the Ruby Head Snake gobbled the mers and children that were sent to this pit whole. How in the world did it not make a mess? At least a bone or drop of blood should have been left behind in this pit, right? However, there were no traces of any human being eaten alive here.
Was it even possible for the Ruby Head Snake to drag its victims somewhere else? But even if could do that, there was no way it could drag each and every person who was thrown in the pit, right?
"Did you find anything sister?" Mo Xifeng who returned after securing the premises, questioned Mo Qiang who shook her head and got up. She straightened her back and then said to Mo Xifeng, "It is really weird. Though there are indeed signs of mers and children being thrown in this pit, there are no drops of blood. Even the smallest piece of flesh is not buried under the sand."
"Maybe everything melted?" Mo Xifeng suggested. The toxicity of the sand inside the pit might be lower than the rest of the surrounding land. But it was nonetheless toxic. Most probably the blood, bones and flesh were all melted when they fell on the land.
"That might be possible," though Mo Qiang agreed with Mo Xifeng. For some reason, she couldn't help but feel suspicious of the things that were going on in this forest. She glanced at the pit and then said to Mo Xifeng, "Let's go out, there is nothing more to investigate."
There wasn't even a small strand of hair, so what was the point of staying inside the pit?
"Sure," Mo Xifeng nodded and the two sisters stepped on the flying floater that activated at once. A blue light flashed in the pit and the Flying Floater raised in the air, Mo Qiang guided and governed the machine and secured a bumpy landing on the land while Mo Xifeng smoothly stepped down without looking windswept.
"Did you find something, Miss Qiang, Miss Xifeng?" Chen Meilin asked. She and the rest of the team had secured the area but they did not find anything, it was as if the Ruby Head Snake wasn't even living in this forest!
Mo Xifeng shook her head as she replied, "No we did not. The pit is clean and there are no traces of any murder being taking place inside of it." It was as if nothing happened in the pit but their spies relayed that the people indeed pushed the mers and children in that pit.
It would be impossible for the spies who had led wars to make a rookie mistake. The kidnapped victims were indeed thrown in the pit, it was just that there was no sign of them.
When Chen Meilin heard that they did not find anything in the pit either, she showed a disappointed look on her face.
"Did you find anything?" Mo Qiang asked Chen Meilin who shook her head with a dissatisfied sigh. She said, "We looked around the outer area of the forest but we didn't find anything. It seems like we have to go deeper inside the forest."
Her suggestion was met with several loud gasps and startled yelps. Mo Qiang did not blame them. The Forest of Red Moon was one of the most dangerous and hideous places she had ever seen in this world. The trees were molten pieces of large coal, the second someone touched them, the trunk of the tree started gurgling and frothing before erupting into black bubbles that swallowed a person whole.
The ground underneath their feet was just as crazy. One wrong move and they would be swallowed by the dirt and debris under their feet. Forget about surviving if they were caught up in a swamp then they could forget about coming out intact.
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