Chapter 196: The Prophecy Fulfilled

After Ye Lin finished listening to the boy's words, the corner of Ye Lin's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that one hundred thousand people had to be eaten every year, he would really feel that the conditions offered by the Demon race were actually quite good.

Ye Lin cast a slightly pitying glance at the righteous and indignant radicals.

He wondered if they ever went to the outside world and discovered that many of the jobs they found were "996" with no overtime pay and involved being gaslit by their bosses, whether they would occasionally miss the days in Bajin City.

Hearing the boy's words, the woman with willow-leaf eyes showed a look of anger.

"Don't even think about it! I will absolutely not allow you to offend the High God!"

As the woman with willow-leaf eyes finished speaking, the people behind her formed a human wall, blocking the exit of the courtyard and surrounding this dilapidated courtyard so tightly that not even water could leak through.

Clearly, if they couldn't talk it out, they were prepared to use force.

These people were all ordinary citizens within Bajin City, having lived here for generations, and had almost never witnessed the existence of job-transferred individuals.

Seeing that Ye Lin was also a humanoid creature, they assumed Ye Lin's combat power was not much different from theirs.

Looking at this group of people blocking his path, Ye Lin's expression was somewhat strange.

To him, this scene was like a group of kindergarteners holding hands to block his way.

As long as he was willing, he could even crush a row of them just by farting.

But in the end, Ye Lin did not resort to killing, choosing instead to win them over with virtue.

After he pulled a piece of grade-four HRB500E threaded steel from the courtyard wall and bent it into the character for "virtue," the conservatives were instantly convinced, their faces turning pale with respect.

Bending threaded steel with bare hands—in their eyes, this was completely non-human!

Yet even so, Ye Lin still didn't choose to let them off; he randomly picked a lucky one and slammed a fist into them.

This lucky one's body instantly flew backward like a cannonball, only stopping after knocking down over a hundred people.

After all, as the old saying goes, the Master says: If a gentleman is not grave, he will not inspire awe.

A gentleman must strike hard when hitting people, otherwise, he cannot establish prestige.

Ye Lin used both methods, and soon, apart from that woman with willow-leaf eyes and a few others, no one in the entire conservative faction dared to hold a dissenting opinion.

"You! You are rebellious! We should all follow the God's will; if you do this, you will surely suffer the divine punishment of the High God!" The woman with willow-leaf eyes pointed at Ye Lin's nose, hysterical.

Ye Lin revealed a kind smile; he ignored the woman with willow-leaf eyebrows and instead turned his head to look at the white-haired old man and asked.

"Old man, can that sacrificial stone platform only be activated at fixed times? Or is it enough just to throw people onto it?"

"As long as someone is on the stone platform, they will be swallowed," the white-haired old man replied.

"Fine, then throw her and these few people up there, one by one."

Ye Lin pointed at the woman with willow-leaf eyes and the few conservatives who remained stubborn.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle.

He also wanted to see first what exactly it was on that stone platform that ate people.

Upon hearing this, the woman with willow-leaf eyes turned pale, but she still feigned composure.

"No! You can't do this to me! I am an apostle of God, I am under the protection of the High God!"

But when the white-haired old man sent people to lift her into the air and send her toward the stone platform, she finally panicked.

"Spare me! Don't throw me up there, I'm only 40, I have reproductive value, I can bear children, don't throw me up there! I know I was wrong, I'm willing to join the radicals."

What the woman with willow-leaf eyes said was exactly the unspoken rule of the sacrifices in Bajin City.

Among those one hundred thousand sacrificial quotas, almost eighty or ninety percent were young, able-bodied men.

Because in Bajin City, there was no worry about food or clothing, so there was no need for productivity, while women could reproduce offspring.

This was also the reason why Ye Lin felt there were far more women than men in Bajin City.

The few people carrying the woman with willow-leaf eyes turned their heads to look at Ye Lin, waiting quietly for Ye Lin's instructions.

However, Ye Lin remained completely unmoved.

"Keep throwing, don't mind her; she doesn't know she's wrong, she's just started to fear death."

Hearing this, the few people no longer hesitated and threw the woman with willow-leaf eyes directly onto the stone platform.

"No!"

The woman with willow-leaf eyes let out a shrill scream and tried to run away, but it was already too late.

Suddenly, black thick fog began to gather above the stone platform, completely shrouding it, making it impossible to see the scene inside the fog.

When the thick fog began to dissipate, the figure of the woman with willow-leaf eyes had already disappeared, and pieces of shriveled, dehydrated flesh scattered from above the stone platform onto the ground, just like the father of Bai Si.

The indigenous people of Bajin City couldn't see it, but Ye Lin saw it clearly.

Inside the black fog just now, there were two monsters!

One was a Soul-Devouring Demon Beast; the Soul-Devouring Demon Beast approached the woman with willow-leaf eyes first, extracting her soul from her body and swallowing it into its belly.

Immediately following was another monster, a monster resembling a butterfly; the wings of this butterfly were covered in metallic-colored black armor, flashing with a chilling light that made one tremble.

When the soul of the woman with willow-leaf eyes was extracted by the Soul-Devouring Demon Beast, the butterfly monster extended a sharp, long leg, piercing the woman's chest as if stabbing a piece of tofu, and hung her high up.

Subsequently, a sharp proboscis extended from its mouth, poking in like a straw, sucking the blood from the woman's body bit by bit; a moment later, the woman turned into a shriveled corpse, and the butterfly monster flicked it away, causing it to shatter into pieces all over the ground.

Ye Lin took a deep breath, his eyes cold and stern.

If the black fog hadn't blocked the view, after seeing this scene with their own eyes, would the conservatives still be willing to be kept in captivity?

"My lord, what should we do now?" the white-haired old man asked Ye Lin respectfully.

Just as Ye Lin was about to speak, a sycophantic voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Demon Lord, please come this way, those stubborn peasants are right over here!"

Before Ye Lin could react in any way, he felt an extremely terrifying aura envelop him; immediately afterward, everything before his eyes plunged into darkness, and at this moment, a series of screams and cries for help rang in his ears—the living beings of Bajin City were clearly suffering a cruel slaughter.

"Damn it!"

Ye Lin realized that this was the fulfillment of Zhuge Qianxing's second prophecy: evil would ravage Bajin City, and blood would stain everything red!

"Forbidden Spell—Burning Reincarnation!"

"Forbidden Spell—World-Destroying Wild Thunder!"

"Darkness shrouds all things; I shall be the final ray of dawn in the darkness, and with thunder, shatter the darkness!!!"

Ye Lin dared not hold back in the slightest and unhesitatingly summoned the highest-level Chaos Divine Thunder; the golden thunder exploded the darkness before him, destroying everything in the vicinity.

Yet even so, the boundless darkness soon surged back like thick ink, once again surrounding and enveloping Ye Lin.

Following that, Ye Lin tried countless forbidden spells; he even used Eternal Geng Metal, which had the strongest single-point piercing power, but he still couldn't break through the darkness before him in the slightest.

"What the hell is this thing?"

Ye Lin frowned; even if a top expert like Xie Hong had left, it would be impossible to withstand so many of his forbidden spells without being moved at all.

"Could it be... that this darkness before me is actually an illusion?"

Thinking of this, Ye Lin raised his hand and violently began to stab his own heart; a sharp pain began to come through, but the darkness before him still showed no sign of dissipating.

And the screams and cries for help in his ears gradually faded away until they disappeared completely.

As far as the eye could see, everything was pitch black; vision lost its function here entirely. There was not a glimmer of light, not a sound; even if Ye Lin used a forbidden spell to blast out a gap, it would immediately be filled by the darkness.

Ye Lin made various attempts, but none could break through the darkness before him.

Although he could not see light and could not feel the passage of time, Ye Lin still remembered very clearly that he should have been trapped in this darkness for five days.

Because during this period, Ye Lin had experienced nocturnal emissions five times.