"Merely fruit?" A little less deadly than Wangji was expecting, but still unwelcoming. "Perhaps if it is only a influence, the actual people are not murderous. Perhaps merely territorial." Wangji also has to take a moment to digest 'Demon world'.

He puts it aside as they try to decode the Sali behaviour.
"The locals I met before, none had red eyes and they seemed to think their companions as lost. I am now uncertain in they meant physically or in temperament."

The silence is drawn out for a minute as he stares at fragments of blue wheat falling to the ground. "I think the birds are the most lethal threat, rather than the people."

Not a sentance you hear every day, doesn't make it any less true.
"You met one earlier?"