Chapter 1563: First Dead One

Indeed...

After hearing the Faceless Person's words, a group of Masters of the Dead Realm couldn't help but nod one after another, considering it an acknowledgment of the judgment made by the Faceless Person.

Before today, not many people among the Masters of the Dead Realm had come into contact with Li Ang, at most they just knew there was such a crazy cleaner.

But after witnessing his act of resisting 【Dead Man's Blood】 as a "living person" just now, the Masters of the Dead Realm, who had only heard of it before, truly realized what "Food God" represented.

If there is a suitable opportunity, he will really kill!

After recalling the look in Li Ang's eyes when he looked at them just now, a group of Masters of the Dead Realm couldn't help but look at each other, seeing deep dread in each other's eyes.

The Food God's gaze toward them was very... peculiar.

There was neither dread nor disgust in it, and not even much hostility, but it just made people's hearts numb... If one had to describe it, the Food God's gaze toward them was very much like looking at a piece of giant rock blocking the way forward.

If you can't move it, you can take a detour; but if you can move it...

"You actually all came."

Just as the expressions of the Masters of the Dead Realm were gradually turning firm, a hoarse voice with slight anger came from under their feet. Immediately following this, on the pale land on both sides of the frozen river, a small mound of earth suddenly arched up.

In the somewhat embarrassed expressions of the Masters of the Dead Realm, a man condensed from forest-white mud crawled out from the mound naked. After looking around at the Masters of the Dead Realm standing under the glacier, he asked with an ugly expression:

"So you have already made a decision and are prepared to open 【Frozen Coffin River】?"

"My Lord!"

"Lord First Dead One!"

"My Lord... sorry..."

After seeing the man condensed from mud, a group of Masters of the Dead Realm bowed their heads one after another, and opened their mouths to greet respectfully. The mud man waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to be polite, then raised his head to look at the huge glacier standing directly into the clouds, and said with a complex expression:

"Don't call me Lord. I just died earlier than you, so I can't afford to be called Lord by you... Faceless Person, what are you prepared to do?"

"Lord First Dead One."

After saluting respectfully again, the Faceless Person bowed his head and explained with a look of apology:

"I am prepared to open 【Frozen Coffin River】, open the coffin where your corpse was stored at the beginning, carve away one-third of the flesh from your corpse, break off your six pairs of ribs, and invite out half of your heart. After that, I will use the remaining materials of your coffin to seal these things and bury them outside the Sage Cemetery in advance."

"Wait until the people from the Bureau step out from inside, and we will take action separately, destroy your part of the corpse in one breath, spread all the 【Death】 accumulated inside, and freeze everyone from the Bureau who comes over."

"Heh."

After hearing the Faceless Person's words, the mud man couldn't help but sneer.

"You are quite kind, actually leaving me some."

"My Lord."

After responding, the Faceless Person explained while bowing:

"It was you who ground your own spine into bricks at the beginning, and paved the Road of No Return piece by piece, that we have today. Our respect for you is real. If there were really no other way, we wouldn't want to..."

"Is there really no other way?"

After interrupting the Faceless Person's words, the First Dead One, whose appearance and figure were ordinary, and only a pair of eyes emitted strange brilliance, asked back with an unkind expression:

"The Bureau's requirement for the Dead Realm is that it can operate stably. If they hadn't really perceived a threat, they would definitely not have taken action against you easily. So which side is the one that really has no way?" "..."

"Fine, this kind of redundant words should not be said again."

After waving his hand to indicate that the Faceless Person didn't need to explain anymore, the First Dead One said with anger in his eyes:

"I oppose your decision! When I left my corpse behind, it was to have materials for repairs when the Road of No Return was damaged, not for you to do this kind of thing!"

"My Lord, you should consider it again."

The Faceless Person didn't speak, while Crow-Eye Granny blinked her eyes, and opened her mouth to beg with a sharp voice:

"You don't understand the situation. The ones forced into a dead end are us. If we cannot heavily damage the Bureau this time and capture the Food God, I am afraid that in less than a hundred years, you will never see us again. In a sense, we can also be considered your children. Do you really have the heart to see this happen?"

After hearing Crow-Eye Granny's words, the mud man's expression couldn't help but hesitate slightly, and then he shook his head again:

"It won't happen. If you were gone, the Bureau would have to send at least ten cleaners above the True God level to perfectly replace your positions. This cost is something they cannot bear."

"And when humans were at their strongest in the past, the Bureau didn't do this. Now naturally they won't either. So as long as you go to negotiate with sincerity, and promise not to... toward the present world again..."

"My Lord!"

After interrupting the First Dead One's words, a Lantern-Holding Old Man hiding in the shadows walked out slowly, stooping his old body:

"We don't want to entrust our own safety to human kindness... Besides, the short and humble life of humans cannot keep promises forever

Read every word correctly!

After glancing at the Mountain Patrol Woman's frost-covered back, the Old Man with the Lantern slowly straightened his spine and said with a calm expression:

"Even if the current Cleanup Bureau could agree to peace talks with us, the Cleanup Bureau controlled by the Food God decades from now might not. Given his style, he would likely choose to exterminate us.

And even if the Food God changed his mind and chose to coexist with us peacefully, new third-generation directors, or even a new Food God, would appear in the future. Who can guarantee they would continue to honor the promise?"

"That is not the same thing!"

The First Dead One frowned upon hearing this and said:

"The Cleanup Bureau has no need to take action against the Dead Realm. Furthermore, over the past few thousand years, although many generations of directors and board members have changed, they have all kept the agreement. You are the ones who broke the agreement first!

This so-called worry about humans breaking their promises is nothing more than an excuse for you to shed your status as the dead and get your hands on the living world again! No matter what you say, I will not agree to you using my corpse!"

"Lord First Dead One."

After calling out, the Faceless One, who had been silent since just now, spoke again:

"Does your corpse... truly belong entirely to you?"

"What do you mean by that!"

"I mean, if it were back then, your corpse would naturally belong to you, that is correct. But after your corpse remained in the 【Frozen Coffin River】, soaked in the purest death of the Dead Realm for countless years, and left behind our mark, it can already be considered the 'property' of the entire Dead Realm."

"You?!"

"Lord First Dead One."

Under the Mud Man's angry and disappointed gaze, the Faceless One raised his head to look him in the eye and said expressionlessly:

"The 'property' of the entire Dead Realm should be used when the entire Dead Realm needs protection, so please do not do anything unnecessary.

Finally, although I respect you from the bottom of my heart, if you choose to stand on the side of the humans and the Cleanup Bureau and insist on not handing over your corpse... then we can only say we are sorry!"

(End of chapter)