20demayo Chapter 50 Sacrifice
Chapter 50 Sacrifice
Chapter 50 Sacrifice (Seeking recommendations and monthly votes)
Ten minutes ago, the sky over the abandoned city.
The Soul-Stealing Demon Cloud stretched out a pale hand, like that of a giant, seemingly wanting to touch the buildings in Da Yuan City. However, it was repelled by the starlight barrier as soon as it reached out.
A large number of cracks, like those on broken porcelain, instantly appeared on his arm. Soon, with a snap, the cracks shattered, and the fragments transformed into dozens of miniature, cracked Soul-Stealing Clouds that followed him.
Although it had no eyes, Lu Yu could sense that it was greedily gazing at the creatures on the ground.
Are we going to attack?
Lu Yu couldn't help but hold his breath, his mind tense.
However, the Soul-Stealing Demon Cloud did not continue its attack. Instead, it changed direction, concealed its form, and returned to the abandoned city.
"It seems it's also afraid of the Alliance's power..."
Seeing this, Lu Yu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
If a fight really breaks out, he can't possibly yell "Stop fighting! Stop fighting!" because this thing can really kill people.
Fortunately, Dayuan City's foundation was far stronger than he had imagined. The Soul-Seizing Demon Cloud not only failed to threaten Dayuan City, but was directly injured by the rebound. It was not an evenly matched battle, but rather a battle at a different level.
No wonder it has stood firm on the border for so many years.
Lu Yu was pleasantly surprised, after all, he was a legitimate member of the alliance and could be considered a future successor. Although he might not be able to succeed, at least he could cling to a powerful figure if he couldn't make it in the future.
"The mouse is about to suffocate!"
The hamster struggled to squeeze its furry head out of Lu Yu's grasp, peering through the gap. Its small eyes revealed its happiness: "Phew...it's finally over. This big guy has been coming out more and more often lately. I wonder what he's spying on on the outskirts of the city every day. Does he want to go in and play like me?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Yu exclaimed in shock, "Wait, are you saying this isn't the first time it's approached the city?"
"Yeah, this guy came with that group of guys dressed in all black. They come out to wander around every few days, and they always get closer to the city. It's terrifying. But the stuff they left behind after their rituals was pretty delicious, and it even gave me the ability to manipulate shadows," Mouse said, wiping his drool.
This answer startled Lu Yu. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he seized upon a clue, quickly asking, "When did you become a supernatural being?"
"According to your human timeline, it seems to have been about two and a half months ago..."
The mouse gave the answer without hesitation. After all, just eating and waiting to die every day was also very stressful, so it remembered the time very clearly.
As it spoke, it subconsciously twisted its body, assuming a position that would make it easier for Lu Yu to pet it, but then suddenly froze.
What's going on?!
When did I turn into this perverted human form?!
Did this human use some kind of illusion to bewitch my consciousness?
Or perhaps it was something I saw on TV when I was at the first little girl's house...
Evil depravity?
The mouse's eyes were dull, and it had entered a withdrawn mode.
Lu Yu ignored it, squinted, and discovered an important clue he had overlooked:
"The information about the rat given by the Eye of Truth mentioned that it transformed after stealing the blood of a follower from an evil god's sacrificial ritual."
According to the information released by the Alliance, the abandoned city was abandoned because the battlefield was corrupted by rust after the killing of the evil god's followers. In addition, the abandoned city had been quiet for decades, so he did not expect that there was a seal inside it at first.
Lu Yu thought that the rat had stolen the blood of its companions in other places and then fled to the abandoned city where monsters lived.
But in reality, a closer look reveals the problem...
Rust is troublesome, but is the cost of removing it more expensive than rebuilding a new city?
impossible!
In a world where pets are integrated into all walks of life, it's entirely possible to have some rust-eating pets handle the cleaning.
The fact that the alliance did not do this indicates that there are some unstable factors in the abandoned city, which could potentially cause even greater losses, but instead of moving far away, they built a new city next door.
It's described as a buffer zone, but it seems more like it's guarding something.
For example, the evil god's servant from decades ago did not die, but was sealed within it.
With the new city closer, we can observe the situation at any time. If the opponent breaks through the seal, we can use the Hundred Beast Tower to suppress them immediately.
Then everything makes sense.
Based on the time indicated by the silhouette mouse, numerous clues were pieced together in his mind to form a complete timeline:
Two and a half months ago, a mysterious man arrived with a soul-devouring demon cloud, found the location where the evil god's followers were sealed, and performed a sacrifice, but ultimately failed to break the seal.
The reason why the abandoned city is allowed to be occupied by monsters without worrying about the seal being broken is most likely because the core of the seal is in Dayuan City, most likely the guardian-like Starry Beast Tower.
Therefore, they could only hide in the abandoned city, looking for opportunities to destroy the Starry Beast Tower. However, because the Soul-Sucking Demon Cloud is a powerful monster that needs to consume a large number of souls every once in a while, it often comes out to hunt. The corpses whose souls have been eaten by it are naturally devoured by other monsters, and their immense spiritual energy promotes their evolution.
For example, if a certain individual among the Bloodthirsty Hyenas is allowed to curb its rampant evolution and develop intelligence, it will discover the existence of the Soul-Sucking Demon Cloud. Out of fear, it will run to the edge of an abandoned city where monsters are scarce, in order to avoid being hunted.
Unfortunately, the Soul-Sucking Demon Cloud does not hunt on instinct; it is controlled by someone. Therefore, its feeding path will get closer and closer to the edge of Dayuan City, testing the power of the Hundred Beast Tower.
Each arrival alerts the bloodthirsty hyenas, whose keen intuition and enhanced senses are amplified by their whiskers, to the danger.
Madness doesn't mean mindlessly throwing your life away. Fear can also restore your rationality. Faced with the suppression of higher-level monsters, those with low intelligence will instinctively run in the opposite direction, thus breaking through the runic iron net that cuts open the boundary.
The reason for this inference is not that Lu Yu made it up, but that when he came here before, he saw the rune iron net. Although it had been attacked, it was mostly in a mess, and the location was different each time, like the frantic scratch marks left by the mad blood hyena in a state of panic.
After being discovered by the residents of Emerald Community, it still caused panic, and they jointly issued a mission to eradicate the Bloodthirsty Hyenas.
Even so, after completing the mission, most people, even if they witness the Soul-Stealing Demon Cloud, would at most assume that a terrifying demon has moved into the abandoned city.
Even the authorities were unclear about their specific objectives, only believing that, like other evil god cults, they wanted to attack cities and sacrifice humans.
However, the information Lu Yu received through the Eye of Truth connected all these fragmented events together.
This time, the evil god's cult was different from their previous small-scale attacks. They not only knew of the seal's existence but had also collected some of the blood of its followers. Simultaneously, they used the Soul-Sucking Demon Cloud to probe the tower's operating mechanism, attempting to destroy it and release the sealed evil god's followers.
If successful, millions of people in the entire city of Daeyu could be sacrificed and become food for the evil god.
"It feels like I've become the protagonist of a detective novel, an investigator who just happened to stumble into an evil organization's plan..."
Lu Yu complained that he didn't know why his luck had been so bad ever since he transmigrated.
Are handsome people always targeted?
If so, then it's even worse, otherwise it doesn't do justice to that look!
He also discovered another problem.
If these followers of the mysterious evil god arrived two and a half months ago, and if we include the time spent preparing the ritual and digging up the blood of their relatives, it would be exactly the time when his parents had their accident and he awakened the Eye of Truth.
Is this really just a coincidence?
Unfortunately, the Eye of Truth is not an all-knowing eye; the information it obtains is still limited, and it cannot investigate the other party's origin or next move.
Even if they knew, they wouldn't act like the protagonist in a detective novel, recklessly getting involved in the schemes of such important figures out of sheer enthusiasm.
In reality, there's no protagonist's halo; you can easily get yourself into trouble if you're not careful.
All he can do is...
Call the police!
Send an anonymous letter to the Alliance using a Fog Raven, including some intelligence to increase credibility and make them understand that the seal is being broken and that they must do everything in their power to deal with this evil god cult.
This is a strategy of using one tiger to devour another.
Even if we can't wipe them out, we can at least suppress them and make them cower, preventing them from carrying out their plans and giving ourselves more safe time to improve our strength.
"Still too weak, they can't even miss such a good opportunity."
Lu Yu sighed. If he had the strength above the Morning Star level, he could have extracted the Soul-Seizing Demon Cloud, or even the evil god's followers sealed within, as materials.
For capitalists, not making a profit is a loss.
have they gone?
After waiting for a while, he looked up at the sky and found that although the Soul-Stealing Demon Cloud had flown far away, the fragments that had split off from the shattered pale arm of one of its parts had not returned. Instead, they had descended to the earth and begun to indiscriminately attack the demons.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
Because of its unique soul interference magnetic field, it is a complete dimensional reduction attack for ordinary monsters. After intimidating them, it directly wraps its tentacles around the target's head, wriggling and sucking their souls.
As one monster after another fell, the cracks on their bodies began to gradually heal.
Looking at these terrifying offspring, Lu Yu felt no fear; instead, a daring idea surfaced in his mind…
A new day begins, and I'm still asking for recommendation votes, monthly tickets, and likes. Just a little heads-up, a new and exciting storyline is about to begin. The mouse's abilities will be terrifying in the future. Feel free to guess, and leave a comment if you have any good suggestions.
(End of this chapter)