Chapter 240: The Scapegoat

"This, this is ......"

Looking at the white light around me, I couldn't help but feel even more frightened - but the old man wouldn't be scared of me.

Just as I was wondering what means this damn strange old man was going to use to torture me, I saw that the void around me, which shone with a faint white light, suddenly stirred violently—like that, as if something was about to come out of it!

"Shhhh

Looking at the darkness around me that kept shaking like boiling water, I couldn't help but gasp, and my whole body was half cold: could it be that I misunderstood? "Heavy Prison" is not a place, what kind of monster is it? And the hand that this old man used just now, could it be the legendary summoning technique?......

Just when I looked around in a daze, and I had already expected the bleak end of being swallowed by an extremely ugly-looking giant beast, the boiling darkness gradually stabilized, and above the darkness, some vague figures suddenly appeared......

Looking at those shadows, my heart was even more worried, and my legs trembled like chaff.

Damn, I don't think I'm really guessing it!

Seeing the figure in the white light curtain becoming clearer and clearer, I couldn't help but curse in my heart, and my feet began to move backwards subconsciously - although I knew that the possibility of escape was almost zero, I still wanted to live for as many minutes as possible.

As time passed, the water-like fluctuations of the light curtain in front of me gradually began to calm down, and my mood was just the opposite of the gradually stabilizing light curtain.

"This, here's ......"

Looking at the scene in the light curtain, I was so shocked that I couldn't say a complete sentence.

In the light curtain in front of them, the first thing that caught my eye were four or five monsters with terrifying appearances: these monsters were roughly similar to human shapes, but they were much taller than people, they had horns, some of them had dull blue skin, some were black gray, and in their hands, they were holding some guys—some were holding whips, some were holding a polished steel knife, all of them were full of fangs, and their eyes were wide with anger, which made people feel chills when they saw it.

However, what was even more frightening was that standing opposite these four or five monsters was a group of naked people!

I saw that there were old and young, men and women, all of them expressionless, dull-looking, their skin was pale and lifeless, and on their hands and feet were heavy handcuffs and shackles, between which were threaded together with iron chains two fingers thick, and were driven like cattle by the monsters with horns on their heads, to a place like a tall mountain.

With their footsteps, I gradually saw the true face of the "mountain" that covered the sky and the sun - it was not the mountain I imagined, but a huge stone statue. The stone statues are towering and swarthy, and it is not known what stone they were carved from, or when they appeared here. The stone statue was surrounded by an endless wasteland, the sky was red as if it was dripping blood, and a black moon hung over the dark clouds on the horizon.

The group of centaurs got closer and closer to the statue, and I gradually felt a sense of oppression from the ancients, as if I was also in the midst of the group, walking at the feet of the statue, like a row of ants that would be trampled to death at any moment.

As I watched the silhouette of the statue become clearer and clearer, I found that the statue was covered with a dense layer of iron chains. Iron chains poured down from the statue's massive skull, like hair, scattered over its body, and at the end of the chains, as if something white was wriggling—

No! That's not something!

It's a naked person!

I looked at the wriggling people in amazement, only to see them on their knees, lying on the end of the chain, their mouths wide open, and the pitch-black iron nails penetrated the somewhat whitish tongues, and saliva flowed down the iron nails to the outside of their mouths, but strangely, they did not bleed. These people were nailed to the chains like this, their eyes were wide open, and their bloodshot eyeballs seemed to burst out of their sockets, which looked very terrifying, but what was even more strange was that their tongues were obviously firmly nailed to the chains, but they used their hands and feet together, and used all their strength to keep crawling in the opposite direction of the mysterious statue, and while crawling, they kept tearing the chains with their hands, as if they wanted to break free from the chains nailed to their tongues. But no matter how much they pulled and tore it, the iron nail was still firmly nailed to the center of their tongue, and even some people had pulled their tongues out, but the iron nail still did not move.

Looking at this strange and cruel picture, my hair stood on end, as if there were a thousand small insects crawling on my body, which made me feel uncomfortable. I really couldn't bear to continue looking, so I quickly turned my head, my eyes widened, and I stared at the old man in front of me in horror, and asked in a shrill voice:

"W-what kind of place is this? What's going on with these people!?"

"Hehe, this is a heavy prison, and as for these people, they are all guilty people. ”

The old man looked at everything in front of him indifferently, as if all this was commonplace, and said casually:

"And that's just the beginning......"

"What?"

Hearing his words, I couldn't help but shudder: is it just the beginning?

Before I could reflect on how it all began, the light curtain in front of me suddenly changed like a slide, the statues in front of me and the people who were desperately tearing the chains disappeared, and the black sun in the sky still hung high in the blood-colored sky, like a demon's eye, indifferently watching everything that happened in this miserable world.

What kind of bloody storm will it be this time?

Looking at the curtain of light in front of me, which looked like a window to hell, my heart trembled, my teeth clenched, and I swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

When I stared intently at this "window", a large number of figures began to appear in the window, and as these figures gradually became clearer, I also seemed to understand a little bit of what kind of existence this strange old man showed me in the "heavy prison". After understanding the meaning of this "heavy prison", I shook my head painfully, and my heart couldn't help but clench: I'm afraid that these people will be tortured by some kind of inhumanity again.

As I expected.

As the figures became clearer, I saw that they were still naked, all white, as if they were expressionless as the walking dead, kneeling neatly on the ground, spreading out into the distance in rows, and there was no end in sight to the large number of people. Behind them, each stood a monster with long green skin and horns, and in their hands, each held a huge pair of black scissors. Looking at the cold light emitted by the edge of the scissors, my heart couldn't help but "thump" wildly, and I didn't know what kind of catastrophe would happen next.

Just as I was waiting for the tragic fate of these people, the group of green-skinned monsters moved, and I saw them glaring angrily, raising their scissors with one hand, and suddenly grabbing the hands of the kneeling "torturers" with the other—

"Click"

The sound of the knife falling and the skin and flesh being neatly cut by the scissors came out of the "window", and then came the unreserved wail of the "torturer" who could not see the edge-

"Ah——h

Listening to the screams that made my scalp tingle, I couldn't bear to look any longer, so I quickly turned my head and looked sideways at the strange old man standing by the "window" of hell, only to see that he was also looking at me at this time, with an indifferent face:

"What you have just seen is the first and second layers of the eighteen prisons, and there will be more exciting things waiting for you to see. ”

After that, the strange old man paused, and his voice gradually turned cold:

"However, you have always been a dead duck with a hard mouth and refused to admit your guilt, so the old man should find a scapegoat for you. ”

"What...... What? scapegoats?"

Hearing the strange old man's words, I raised my eyebrows, and a trace of unease suddenly appeared in my heart.