Chapter 1129: "Monster"

"Monster"

Hearing the whispers of Jian Changsheng and the others, Chen Ling's heart suddenly trembled.

"True..." Jian Changsheng looked at the ground full of chilling corpses that were eaten clean and wiped out, his brow furrowing tightly.

Jian Changsheng could also be considered to have seen strong winds and great waves, but this was still his first time seeing human corpses that had been sucked dry and twisted together. Seeing this scene, he felt somewhat nauseous for a time, his face filled with resistance.

"This method is too brutal, it really doesn't look like a human... If there really is a Calamity hidden in this village, will it lay hands on us?"

"Calamities are inherently fierce and dangerous, not to mention a Calamity that takes pleasure in eating people? In its eyes, we might be the same as these Scarlet Heaven Cultists, all food."

"Then it will be troublesome..."

Chen Ling silently stood in place. His peripheral vision had already taken in the demeanors of the three... Besides Jiang Xiaohua, the eyes of Sun Bumian and Jian Changsheng were filled with vigilance and disgust, as if they had already imagined a brutal, ugly, man-eating monster going on a killing spree in front of their eyes, almost vomiting directly.

A gentle breeze brushed past the red robe of the Scarlet Heaven Cult. Chen Ling quietly stood there, looking at the ground full of leftover corpses he ate, a burst of blankness welling up in his eyes...

Perhaps it was the instinct brought by the Calamity of Mockery that paralyzed Chen Ling's ego at that time. When he once again saw this ground full of chilling corpses, and heard the whispers of the Jian Changsheng trio, he suddenly recovered his senses...

These,

were all done by himself?

The former Chen Ling had never doubted his human identity. He was the transmigrator Chen Ling, the Thespian who walked out of Frost Street, the Six of Hearts of the Dusk Society... Since when did he start abandoning his human ego bit by bit, becoming a man-eating, flesh-eating, out-and-out Calamity?

Standing from the perspective of "human" again, after seeing everything in front of him clearly, Chen Ling also suddenly felt somewhat nauseous... At the same time, an inexplicable panic surged up in his heart.

This fear originated from unfamiliarity with himself, and also originated from the conversation of the Jian Changsheng trio just now.

Chen Ling suddenly felt like he was an ugly monster wearing a human skin mask. Standing in front of the Jian Changsheng trio, he was still playing the image of the former Six of Hearts... But Chen Ling's heart was very clear, he had already changed. The day he took off his skin bag, the day his ferocious and ugly true man-eating face was exposed in front of everyone's eyes, many people he once cherished would leave him in disappointment and disgust.

Just as Jian Changsheng said... the current him could no longer be considered a human,

but a "monster".

"Li Liang." Zheng Ye walked straight here. "How is it? Did you pry anything out?"

Chen Ling's hollow eyes were called back to reality by this sound. He stayed silent for a long time, then shook his head:

"I asked, they were just passing by. These things in the village have nothing to do with them."

"True, humans shouldn't be able to make this kind of scene." Zheng Ye had already seen the corpses, and his suspicion towards the Jian Changsheng trio had mostly dissipated. "Don't bother about them. When the Sacrificial Rite begins tonight, they will come in handy."

"... En."

After Zheng Ye left, Chen Ling silently clenched the few keys in his hand, turned his head and walked towards the bonfire.

Chen Ling's pace was very fast, the red robe of the Scarlet Heaven Cult blowing up. He walked directly in front of the three, grabbed Jian Changsheng's collar with one hand, and forcefully pulled him up!

Jian Changsheng was taken aback first, then a pair of bloodshot eyes forcefully resisted in front of him.

"... You want to fight?" As Jian Changsheng struggled, he spoke toughly, "Come on!! I'm not afraid of you!!"

"How long do you think you can still act tough?" Chen Ling sneered,

"Wait until late at night, you will all become sacrifices offered to the Supreme Crimson Sky Exalted One... I hope when the time comes, you can still be this tough."

After finishing speaking, the hand Chen Ling grabbed the collar with pushed forcefully, throwing Jian Changsheng heavily onto the edge of the stone rampart, emitting a muffled sound.

Chen Ling swept a cold glance at them, and walked towards the distance without turning his head back.

Seeing this, Sun Bumian finally let out a long sigh of relief...

"Good good, none of us three were injured, and we didn't expose ourselves... Spades, just now when your key fell out, it gave us all a fright."

"That Scarlet Heaven Cultist, seems to have bad eyesight."

As Jiang Xiaohua spoke, he groped around on the ground. A moment later, he grabbed a handful of green wreckage that had already been stepped into powder. From the outside, one basically couldn't tell it was a key.

"What a pity, we can only let Senior Jack of Diamonds make another one."

"Is he still here?"

"Seems he's not, probably busy digging the tunnel."

"Then what about Spades's lock?"

Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua looked at Jian Changsheng at the same time.

Jian Changsheng didn't speak. He still maintained the posture of being pushed to the ground just now, his two eyes looking at the direction Chen Ling left, in a daze.

"Spades, what's wrong with you?" Sun Bumian asked doubtfully.

Unknown how much time passed, Jian Changsheng then slowly moved his palm, reaching it into his chest...

A moment later,

Four intact stone lock keys lay quietly in his palm.

...

Chen Ling pretentiously followed Zheng Ye and the others, searching inside and outside the village again and again. The other Scarlet Heaven Cultists searched with fear and trepidation, seeming deeply afraid that opening any door would result in a monster charging out and eating him clean. Only Chen Ling searched absentmindedly, as if he had something on his mind.

Of course, the nervous crowd of the Scarlet Heaven Cult didn't notice Chen Ling's abnormality. They just kept searching until the sky gradually darkened, without any harvest.

Ultimately, Zheng Ye and the two red-robed Bishops could only draw the conclusion that "the monster had already left last night after eating people", and then hurried to start preparing for the upcoming Sacrificial Rite.

Chen Ling followed the other cultists and hurriedly ate dinner.

Facts proved Chen Ling's guess was right. This Scarlet Heaven Sect Branch was located deep in the Gray World, and food was quite scarce. At night they could only eat a few yellowed vegetable leaves, as well as steamed buns and meat scrap soup. However, perhaps it was to pacify the fear in everyone's hearts, or perhaps because the population of the branch had already sharply decreased by half, tonight's steamed buns and meat scrap soup portions were quite large, enough to make everyone stuffed.

During this process, Chen Ling also conveniently stole a few steamed buns and hid them in his chest. After all, he hadn't forgotten that there was still a group of little guys waiting for him at the bottom of the well.

"One by one, none of them let me worry less."

Chen Ling glanced at Jian Changsheng and the others in front of the bonfire, letting out a long sigh in his heart. Taking advantage of the dense night with no one around, he walked towards the direction of the dry well.

It wasn't that Chen Ling didn't want to bring food for Jian Changsheng and the others, it was really that their position was too conspicuous. Moreover, these three guys had rough skin and thick flesh, missing a few meals was basically no problem. On the contrary, Little White and the others had been trapped at the bottom of the well for a day, probably already starving.