Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 1051

Chapter 1051: Strange Activity

"Is someone hunting here?" he asked quietly.

Yunohana’s attention followed the blood up the path. There were more drops on the stones where the cart had just passed.

"I don’t know. Would you step back with me for a moment?"

She drew him into the shade behind the tree beside her bag. The driver was still watching his wheels as he eased the cart down the last stretch of the slope.

"If there are monsters nearby, I would like to know before we sit down," she murmured. "And I would prefer to see what these people are doing before they notice us."

Kaiden stayed beside her while the cart reached the foot of the track. The smell of fresh blood lingered in its wake.

Instead of crossing the beach toward their boat, the driver turned along the base of the slope. Kaiden watched him through the trees until the track curved around the rocks at the end of the cove.

Through a gap between the shoreline rocks, Kaiden could see a cargo boat moored in the next inlet. A man on its deck lowered a loading ramp as the cart approached.

"They’re shipping the parts out," Kaiden said. "Whatever they’re killing must be up that path."

A shriek carried down from the woods above them. Metal clanged, and a man’s shout followed it.

Yunohana turned toward the slope. Kaiden was already looking in the same direction.

"That sounded very much alive," he said.

She picked up her bag, glancing once at the patch of sand where they had been about to sit.

"Would you come with me? I would like to see how close those creatures are to the beach."

"Of course."

They left the driver unloading beside the cargo boat and climbed the track he had come down. When voices became clear ahead, Yunohana led Kaiden off the path and between the trees so they could look without walking straight into the workers.

The slope leveled out around a cleared yard. A shed stood against the cliff on one side, while a steel fence enclosed the mouth of a cave on the other. Stacks of crates matched the driver’s load.

A conveyor ran from a refrigerated container to the mouth of the cave. Men were unloading monster carcasses onto it, pushing feathered bodies and slabs of scaled flesh beneath the fence.

Beyond the bars, claws scraped against stone.

"They’re feeding something," Kaiden whispered.

A worker beside the container dipped a brush into a paint tin and began covering the emblem on its door. Yunohana caught Kaiden’s sleeve.

"That is the Circle’s mark."

Kaiden looked from the door to the crates stacked beside it. Scraps of the same emblem remained around pale patches where someone had scraped the paint off the wood.

"Could they have bought the shipment from your people?"

"Possibly. Though I would like to hear why they are taking such trouble to hide where it came from."

Inside the fence, a broad-backed creature shouldered into view. Its armored forelegs ended in hooks that clattered against the bars, and a row of yellow eyes followed a carcass down the conveyor.

It caught the meat before it reached the ground. Bone cracked.

"Another one!" a man called from a platform above the fence.

He spoke Japanese, but Kaiden watched the workers below. One opened a gate into a narrow slaughter pen adjoining the cave enclosure, while another used a hooked pole to drag a fresh carcass inside. The feeding creature followed the bait.

The worker slammed the gate behind it.

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