Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 1132 - 303: Rule Demon Seed, I Grant You Destruction

Under the playback of Guidance, the scene of the Heavenly Abyss Domain Node was retroscoped back in Qi Sheng's eyes.

Like a movie playing in reverse.

The image went back to before the birth of the Rule Species, when the Earth Thought Evil Spirit received information from Ghost Teeth.

Learning it had destroyed a tribe in a plunder war and discovered a teleportation array beneath the city where this tribe resided.

Inside, it connected to a Small World.

This tribe seemed to be plotting something, but before the plan could formally advance, it was exterminated by the Black Tide Demonic Spirits led by Ghost Teeth.

The Small World this tribe focused on seemed somewhat unusual as well.

Driven by curiosity, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit used a projection of consciousness, following Ghost Teeth to the teleportation array connecting the Small World to investigate.

Seeing this, Qi Sheng's consciousness also followed the playback scenes through the teleportation array passage, descending onto the Small World.

Upon entering the Small World, Qi Sheng was surprised to discover.

The intensity of this world wasn't high, yet it was a world with a completely different flow of time compared to the mainstream world, or even the Void.

What's even stranger is that the entire world was designed as an invisible grand formation.

Somewhat similar to the Spirit Breath Clan before escaping to the Monster World, refining the world, but with many differences.

He could feel the breath of Rule hidden in this world.

...

Demon Seed World, Eighth Epoch.

Ah Luo curled up in the darkest corner of the dungeon, nibbling on moldy food.

The hard straw mercilessly stabbed into his festering wounds, the flesh and grass stalks stuck together to form scabs, each slight movement brought piercing pain.

The damp moldy smell and stench of rotting flesh intertwined together, almost suffocating him.

Above his head on the iron chain hung half an arm.

Maggots crawled densely, belonging to the blacksmith executed three days ago.

He just wanted to forge a sickle, exchange it for some food to save his sick mother, but was captured by the City Guard for "Illegal Weapon Forging."

Suffering extreme punishment and dying here.

Witnessing all this, Ah Luo felt nothing but fear.

Although the crime committed was only theft, it was enough to sentence him to death for that reason.

Amidst his turbulent thoughts, hunger wrapped in intense drowsiness surged at this moment.

In a daze, it was as if he saw his sister Ah Rou once again, squatting in front of their house, writing crooked words in the sandy soil with a twig, the sunlight falling on her hair tips, casting a warm halo.

His sister was the only warmth remaining in this cold world.

Right then, the sound of whipping and screams from next door shattered the memories in his mind, stabbing his nerves like a nightmare over and over.

He buried his face deep into his knees, his fingernails almost digging into the flesh of his palm.

"Brother, I'll just take a small packet, Granny Chen has been coughing blood for three days, if not treated soon it will be too late."

In his mind, Ah Rou's little hand frozen red appeared, pulling on the patches of his clothes.

Ah Rou's theft couldn't escape the City Guards' investigation, eventually, he chose to take his sister's place, being locked in this sunless dungeon.

It was unknown when he could be let out.

Perhaps… he might stay here his entire life, until he rots or dies.

"Number Three Hundred and Twenty-Seven."

At this moment, the rusty iron door was kicked open, and Ah Luo reflexively shrank.

The guard's lantern illuminated Ah Luo's gaunt, ghost-like face.

"The execution ground needs a corpse collector, consider yourself lucky, follow me."

Ah Luo struggled to get up, his stooped spine emitting the sound of strain.

The guard impatiently poked his shoulder blade with an iron rod; he staggered and slammed into the damp stone wall, but still endured the pain and stood straight, following behind amid the guard's curses.

Leaving the prison and crossing the dark passageway.

Moonlight slanted in from the window.

Ah Luo saw his shadow cast on the wall, skeletal outline like a skeleton wearing human skin.

The guard's lantern swung past the interrogation room, revealing shadows of bodies suspended, agonizing cries rising one after another.

"Don't look at those wastes, just work properly and this won't concern you." The guard sneered.

Ah Luo remained silent, following the guard down a downward sloping corridor.

Arriving at the second underground floor, he followed the guard into the storeroom to retrieve tools, then carried a bucket filled with water to the execution ground.

The guard pushed open the heavy iron door, the hinges rolled with an ear-piercing sound.

The execution platform in the room was oval-shaped, the ground paved with bricks soaked in blood color, with a drainage hole in the central depression, its edges encrusted with black and red blood grime.

"Every bloodstain must be cleaned, every piece of flesh must be picked up, understood?"

Ah Luo silently nodded, walked onto the execution ground and knelt down, taking out a bristle brush from the bucket to begin working.

Water flowed along the brick seams, carrying away fine bone fragments, he mechanically repeated the motion, the bristle trailing fan-shaped water marks on the ground.

"Move faster, three more rooms in the West District await cleaning, after cleaning, throw all the body parts into the Demon Cave."

Hearing Demon Cave, Ah Luo's body trembled.

This place, he had heard of long ago.

Reportedly, it was the Black Rock City Lord's Alchemy Pool, all lives thrown inside would be refined.

To obtain more Life Energy, the priests and City Guards under the City Lord captured city residents with various reasons, executed them then threw them into the Demon Cave for refining.

This was also the final destination for all prisoners.

But at least now, he still had value to stay alive.

Ah Luo worked even harder.

He didn't want to die here, wanted to go out and reunite with Ah Rou, as long as there was a sliver of hope to stay alive, he would never give up.