Starting with the frog, he has ruled for eternity.

Chapter 55 Frog! Observations from the Cage

"Yes...it's a red stone. I saw it when I was brought here," the child muttered, explaining in a low voice, before turning over and lying down comfortably in the cage.

"Anyway, it's no use knowing so much. Chubby guys like you will probably be taken away soon! So hurry up and tell me something interesting."

"Then I'll tell you a story about the Monkey King..." Fang Yuan said without batting an eye, trying to trick the child out of more information.

……

Chen Tieshan leaned against the iron bars, silently surveying the iron cages around him.

He heard everything the child had said clearly.

He had never heard of anything like Blood Jade or Ghost Market before, and much of the information about it was completely new to him.

However, from the child's few words, Chen Tieshan quickly realized the current predicament.

—The eerie things are not the isolated ghosts they imagine; they are strange life forms with their own society… Chen Tieshan didn’t want to use the word “life” to describe those eerie things, but in general, that’s how it is.

They are very similar to people, seemingly having their own society and their own city, yet they are also quite different.

For example, the child said that when he was captured, the first thing he saw was that Drunken Immortal Pavilion. After he woke up, he was a skinny child like him, with hardly any flesh on his bones, and he was sold to the ghost soldiers.

The ghost soldiers used blood jade to buy them from the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, and then captured them and kept them in cages.

Moreover, according to him, these monsters have their own king, and the hierarchy from top to bottom is king, official, clerk, and soldier.

It's about four stories.

The children had never seen a king, but Chen Tieshan and Fang Yuan had. The official, on the other hand, was a figure different from the ghost soldiers guarding them. He was about six meters tall and was even more slender and twisted than these skinny people.

The ghost official probably has some self-awareness. The child said that if the ghost official comes, he will take the initiative to communicate with the ghost soldiers and make them take the person away from the cage.

But most of the time, those who take people away are just ordinary ghost soldiers.

As for the official, the child said he had only seen him once.

This is what the child said.

Thinking of this, Chen Tieshan glanced at the child again. At this moment, the child was listening to Fang Yuan tell the story of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, just like a real child.

But in Chen Tieshan's opinion, that story was just something to fool children. He had never heard of Aolai Country, Miaomu Mountain, or Dongsheng Shenzhou.

Even if that toad is truly the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, as he claims, how could he have ended up in such a place, fallen into such a state, and be just as ignorant as we are?

Moreover, the toad doesn't tell the truth much. At first, he said he had a mistake while practicing his skills, but now he claims to be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven...

It's best to just listen to it as a story and have some fun.

Thinking of this, Chen Tieshan reached out and knocked on the cage.

It emitted a dull, metallic sound, somewhat like silver, but also quite different. Chen Tieshan had never heard a similar metal before, and his understanding of metals was not deep enough.

Chen Tieshan glanced at the child again, gently tapped the cage, interrupting Fang Yuan, and asked in a low voice, "What would happen if we tried to escape the cage?"

"...Uh, I don't know." The child shook his head. "Because it's not that no one has tried to break the cage, but the cage is very hard, and no one has been able to open it. And those who try to escape the cage while being carried away are usually killed on the spot."

After saying that, he gave Chen Tieshan a meaningful glare: "You can try. I remember those ghostly figures don't seem to care if you try to break the railing, because you can't."

Upon hearing this, Chen Tieshan stopped what he was doing. In this strange area, he dared not try anything recklessly.

……

Fang Yuan finished telling the first chapter of the story of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, "Havoc in Heaven." The child calmed down and then told him some other things he knew.

"You guys practice martial arts, right? I remember when they first brought in a martial arts master from the east of the city, he was supposedly very skilled and even served as an official under the city lord!"

When he first started talking, Fang Yuan thought he was talking about Lu Ye, but later it didn't seem like it.

"That guy, supposedly the most powerful martial artist in Hidden Sun City, what was that realm again...? Anyway, he said he had reached the pinnacle of your martial artist level, and he even cracked the cage in no time! Then that ghost official took him away."

"You're talking nonsense. I'm the most powerful martial artist in Yinyang City," Chen Tieshan couldn't help but retort.

But after I finished refuting him, I saw the child purse his lips.

"So what if you are? What's the point of arguing with me? You'll still get dragged off to die anyway, won't you?" The kid ignored Chen Tieshan and continued talking.

"In short, if you stay here peacefully, someone will probably feed you every time you wake up from your nap. But don't eat too much, or you'll be captured beforehand. But you also can't eat too little, or if you go on a hunger strike three times, you'll be captured by those ghost soldiers."

"However, that's all for people. As for you, a toad, this is the first time I've ever seen one. I wonder how they'll prepare food for you."

After the child finished speaking, he seemed tired and lay down in the cage, curled up in a ball, and began to sleep.

……

Chen Tieshan also fell silent. After a while, he followed the example of the child and closed his eyes to sleep.

Most importantly, there's really nothing to do in this cage.

They were in the bottom layer of cages, and there were so many cages that if you counted them in a circle, it would be about twenty by twenty, with two cages arranged vertically in a row, somewhat like the layout of a library.

However, there were only thirty or fifty people in all those cages. They were scattered around, and apart from the little child, the nearest cages were seven or eight cages apart. When you tried to talk to them, they ignored you.

The surroundings were dim and gloomy, which was really discouraging. You couldn't tell the time or whether it was day or night, and there was nothing around that made a sound except for those gaunt ghostly figures wandering around.

How can anyone get excited about this?

It was nothing more than that the child kept pestering Fang Yuan to tell him some interesting stories.

Chen Tieshan and the children quietly fell asleep, and Fang Yuan, having confirmed that the gaunt figures would not disturb their activities in the cage, finally opened his control panel again.

Deep blue!

Hurry up and add some more for me!

Let's get past kindergarten first!