The situation was indeed just as Master Gong relayed. People were now willing to eat their own family members, hunger had driven them to their breaking point where many humans have now turned worse than beasts.
Madam Cui also heard about how the beggars from the street went missing one by one. Especially, kids, she heard one of the women who ate human meat say to someone that children were easier to digest as their flesh was soft and much easier to chew compared to grown adults.
Though she filed a complaint against those two women, nothing happened as there were more than just too cannibals.
"What if Madam Song is here to take us to her house… as a food resource?" questioned Master Tang who was the third daughter, Cui Fu's husband. "Wouldn't that mean that we would be falling into the trap that she had dug for us right away?"
