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As the fire burned late into the night, Yin Leyao was awakened by the cries of the firebird.

It wasn't the usual "waaaaa" sound.

It was a sound she had never heard before, sharp, short, squeezed out from deep in her throat.

The flamingo stood at the cave entrance, its feathers bristling, wings slightly spread, hissing threateningly towards the direction outside the coconut leaves.

Yin Leyao rolled over and got up, holding the axe in her hand.

The fire was reduced to dark red embers, casting a dim light. She crouched down next to the firebird and peered out through the gaps in the coconut leaves.

The moonlight was very bright.

Something was standing on the open ground outside the cave entrance.

It has a humanoid shape, but it is not a human.

Its limbs were longer than a human's, with its arms hanging down below its knees and its fingers touching the ground.

It has no hair, its skin is grayish-white and taut against its bones, revealing the outline of its ribs.

Its head is very small, and its face has no eyes, only a mouth that is closed with its lips wrinkled together.

It's sniffing.

It had no eyes, but its head was facing the entrance of the hole, and its nostrils were flaring.

Yin Leyao didn't move. She counted and found that there was only one in the open space, but there were rustling sounds coming from the woods, from more than one place.

The thing took a step forward.

The foot made no sound when it stepped on the ground, and the soles of the feet were wide and thin, like webs.

It walked up to the bear trap and stopped. It lowered its head, pursed its lips, sniffed the metallic smell of the ground, and then walked around it.

It avoided the bear trap.

Yin Leyao gripped the axe tightly.

This thing has a sense of smell, and it's much more sensitive than a human's. It smelled the iron and knew that it wasn't food or a living creature.

The thing circled around to the side of the cave entrance, stretched out its long hand to pry open the coconut leaves, its fingers were thin and long, and the tips of its fingernails were black, like bones that had been burned.

Moltres made the first move.

It poked its head out from between the leaves, opened its mouth and breathed out a stream of fire—not the usual small flames, but a thick pillar of fire—which shot directly into the creature's face.

The thing let out a scream.

The sound was unlike any animal's; it was like metal scraping glass, sharp and long. It staggered backward, its face still burning, its grayish-white skin turning black, curling, and cracking in the flames.

It used its long arms to pat the fire off its face, but the fire stuck to its hands and continued to burn.

Yin Leyao took the opportunity to crawl out of the hole from the other side.

The axe was swung up and chopped down at its neck.

The axe blade got stuck after cutting in three centimeters; the feel was like cutting into wet wood, both tough and hard.

With a backhand swing, the force was so great that it sent Yin Leyao flying, axe and all, flying into the rock wall at the cave entrance, her back slamming against a stone.

She groaned and got up, the pain in her back spreading to her entire shoulder.

He was still holding the axe in his hand, his thumb and forefinger were split open, and blood flowed onto the axe handle.

The fire on that thing's face was still burning.

It ignored Yin Leyao and turned to run into the woods, using both its hands and feet as it ran, like a four-legged spider, at an astonishing speed.

The firelight flickered a few times in the woods and then disappeared.

Yin Leyao, panting, glanced around.

Two more appeared in the open space.

The same humanoid shape, the same long arms and legs, the same eyeless face.

They emerged from the edge of the woods, turned their heads toward Yin Leyao, and flared their nostrils.

One of them squatted down and poked the animal trap on the ground with his finger.

The trap sprang up and bit its finger. It tilted its head, raised its hand, and the trap dangled from its finger. It used its other hand to pry open the trap and pull its finger out.

My finger was pinched and left a deep mark, but it didn't react at all.

Another one walked towards Yin Leyao, on all fours, with a gait like a monkey or an insect, its spine arched and its shoulders uneven.

Moltres breathed fire again.

The thing dodged away, unlike the stupid one from before.

Knowing the fire was coming, the creature jumped to the side in advance, covering a great distance, more than three meters in one leap.

Yin Leyao retreated towards the cave entrance.

Her back slammed against the rock wall, and she touched the pile of stones at the cave entrance, a stumbling block.

She threw the stones forward one by one.

The first piece hit the thing's shoulder, and it paused for a moment.

The second piece hit its chest, and it took a step back. The third piece hit its head, and it shook its head.

It has an effect, but it's only temporary.