Chapter Thirty-Six: Behind Bars

Suddenly, a shrill sound woke Li Ji, and several vague figures flashed in front of him in a daze.

Scenes came to his mind, and he vaguely remembered that he was in the underground cave, dragged into the darkness by countless pairs of ghost hands, and then fell unconscious.

Li Ji shook his head, blinked, his vision gradually became clearer, and when he looked at it, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, only to see that in front of him was an old, dark and damp underground cage, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood.

With the help of the faint light, the senior sister and Zhou Babao who were unconscious on the ground were faintly visible.

The iron fence around it is eerie and chilling.

"Where is this?" Li Ji just wanted to get up, but found that his whole body was sore, as if he had been tortured, he collapsed on the ground again weakly, and gently pushed the two of them and shouted in a low voice, "Senior sister, eight-treasure porridge, wake up quickly......"

"Are we dead?" Zhou Babao asked in a daze as he lay on the cool and damp ground, exhausted.

"Hmm......" Senior Sister opened her mouth and said in a very weak voice, "Is it in the Netherworld?"

"I'm not dead yet, I'm going to die later. Suddenly there was a mockery from the corner of the cell, and in the dim light, a tall and thin young man in the cage on the left sat there motionless and said coldly.

"Who are you, why are you here?" Li Ji came to his senses, and found that his feet were all chained with heavy iron chains, where is the underworld, it is clearly a dungeon.

"You better take care of yourself first! Don't die and be confused, why don't you think about how to face what is going to happen?" the tall and thin young man sneered, and stopped talking.

"What are you facing?" asked Li Ji in surprise.

The tall and thin young man was halfway through his words, when he suddenly stopped paying attention to him, and shrank in a dark corner, silent.

Zhou Babao couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly interjected: "I said 'thin bamboo pole', you should say it quickly! Why are you still spitting and spitting?

"Dead fatty, what are you yelling about?" an angry rebuke came from a cage on the right, "Won't you know later?"

In a short time, a glimmer of light and darkness spilled through the layers of barriers and sprinkled in the gloomy dungeon, like fragments of light and shadow torn by people reflected in the endless iron cage, holding countless people, their white clothes mottled with blood, and their faces were pale and colorless.

"Squeak" made a screeching sound, and the metal door of the cage on the right side was heavily opened, and a group of Protoss soldiers with colorful faces painted on their faces appeared in front of them.

In the dark, lightless room, only heavy breathing could be heard.

After hearing the sound of the cell door being pushed open, the three strong men in the cage on Li Ji's right side shrank back slightly, as if they were one with the darkness, and then raised their heads and slowly opened their eyes, and there was a light in their eyes that flickered, and they looked particularly bright in the darkness where they couldn't see their fingers.

"It's your turn!" a ray of light slanted through the crack in the cell door, and a tall, dark Protoss soldier sneered.

"Brothers, it's time for us to play, as long as we win a game, we will be free......" The bearded man led by him slowly stood up, trembling slightly, his face revealing sadness, and his eyes contained despair.

Under the push and shove of several hideous-looking Protoss soldiers, the three of them dragged the iron chain and gradually disappeared into the depths of the passage.

"They...... Where is this going? Who are these weirdos?" Zhou Babao said in a panic.

"Judging from their clothing, it seems that we have been captured by the legendary Jiuli Divine Clan. Xinyan suppressed her horror as much as she could, pretending to be calm.

"Senior sister, what is the Jiuli Divine Clan?" Li Ji asked with a puzzled face.

"The Jiuli Divine Clan is a tribal alliance in ancient times, Chiyou and his brothers are a total of nine people, all surnamed Li, known as 'Jiuli', that is, Li Greedy (Chiyou), Li Ju, Li Lu, Li Wen, Li Lian, Li Wu, Li Po, Li Fu, Li Bi, the east and the west, seized the territory of the descendants of Fuxi 'Jiuli Kingdom', so Chi You is also known as "the king of Jiuli". After Chi You's death, the Jiuli Divine Clan went south to mingle with the indigenous Nanban and live in this area of the Blood Maple Forest. ”

"What?Jiuli Divine Clan?It's the most powerful Wu tribe on this continent, we fell into the hands of these savages and ferocious savages, it seems that we are in a catastrophe, but I don't know what they are going to do with us?" Zhou Babao let out a long sigh and sat down on the ground, sweat already soaking through the clothes on his chest.

"Colosseum, blood sacrifice!" The tall and thin boy in the cage on the left suddenly spit out five words, and then fell silent again.

"What......"

Before he could react, the cell door suddenly opened, Li Ji and the others felt light, and they were carried out of the cell door like chickens, and the thin and tall boy in the cage on the left side was also dragged out.

A group of strangely dressed Protoss soldiers rudely pushed them forward, and all along the way were iron bars with people of all shapes and sizes, and all the voices that came into their ears were different sounds, some screaming, some begging for mercy, and some screaming.

This dungeon is ridiculously large, there is no edge as far as the eye can see, there are no walls, it is all iron prisons one after another, and the terrible screams emanating from it are as if they are coming from the eighteen layers of hell, which is terrifying and chilling.

After passing through the complicated and tortuous passages, from time to time I met the Protoss soldiers patrolling back and forth in twos and threes, and there were countless skeletons piled up on both sides of the road, and the ghostly fires that glowed with a ghost light flickered and flickered, revealing an eerie and terrifying atmosphere everywhere.

After a while, a group of four people came to a huge iron fence gate, which was rusty and mottled like a smear of undried blood, which was shocking.

At this time, the light from outside came in obliquely, and it was extremely dazzling.

Outside the iron fence, it was extremely noisy, as if there were drums blowing, and as if there were thunderous cheers, which made people restless.

There was a "clang" sound, and the Protoss soldiers strung the four together with iron locks, and then pushed them slowly out of the iron fence.

The noise outside became more violent, like a raging storm coming on.

With a loud bang, the Protoss soldiers slammed the iron fence shut and locked the lock, and the dust that shook up enveloped the passageway, as if to tell everyone that the lock would never be opened again.

The four of them dragged heavy chains and slowly walked into the square.

The sun is in the sky, shining brightly, so bright that people can't open their eyes.

Because of staying in the dark dungeon for a long time and her general weakness, Xinyan couldn't adapt to the strong light for a while, and she didn't dare to open her eyes for a long time.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly found herself in a huge square.

She straightened her chest slightly, and her shirt suddenly outlined some moving curves, which made many eyes on the high walls of the Colosseum secretly projected.

"Whoa!" The howl resounded throughout the square, and several first-grade and second-class wolves gnawed at the three corpses, and one of the heads rolled to the ground, and it was a bearded man who had just walked out of the cage not long after he walked out of the cage.

Unexpectedly, with just a cup of tea, these three people were in different places, which was terrifying.

After a while, only a pile of bones remained of the three corpses, and then the servants quickly entered the field, took the wolves away, and cleaned up the bones and flesh on the ground.

The bluestone floor tiles in the center of the square have long been soaked with blood, and fresh blood is mixed with old bloodstains, which cannot be washed clean no matter what.

Xinyan looked around the square in horror, and found that the wall was extremely tall, and her majestic figure could be seen from a distance, even if she was a fifth-level mid-level spiritual priest, it was difficult to climb, not to mention that the serious injuries after fighting the werewolf had not healed, it was even more difficult.

The whole square is connected by arcades, wide and tall, elegantly constructed, it is shaped like a flat cauldron, and it is surrounded by dense crowds of people in strange costumes from the bottom to the top.

"What kind of place is this? Why are there so many people?" Caught off guard, Zhou Babao was buzzed by the noise of the audience, and his head was so blank that he almost stopped functioning.

Li Ji and Xinyan glanced at each other in confusion, and a sense of foreboding rose in their hearts, and it seemed that something terrible was waiting for them in this formation.

"Colosseum, is this the Colosseum that the tall and thin boy just said?" Li Ji clenched his fists hard, his eyes were tightly condensed, his blood was boiling, and he thought silently in his heart, "Look at this formation, we are in prison, there is more than one luck, no matter what, we must live and get out of this cage......"

"Colosseum, I'm here, see what tricks you can play today?" The tall and thin young man's eyes were full of anger and hatred, and he stared at a red tent in the center of the stage for a long time, his fists clenched and his teeth clenched.

Although his expression was a little strange, he looked much calmer in the face of this grand scene, as if it was not the first time he had stood in this square.

I saw nine strange-looking elders sitting under the red tent, all dressed in black robes, wearing various ancient beast masks, with wings on their backs, copper heads and iron foreheads, and white cocktail feathers on their copper heads.

At this time, a man in a black robe and a snake-print mask flew out of nowhere, suspended directly above the Colosseum, and the audience immediately resounded with thunderous cheers.

With a smile in his eyes, the man slowly raised his hands, and along with his hands rose the iron gate on the west side of the Colosseum.

A loud roar rang out from the door, and at first glance, it sounded like a thunderbolt, and then the wind swelled, and everyone lost their color.

Two huge monster beasts with hideous faces roared and rushed out of the iron gate, the whole audience gasped, the snake mask man hanging in the air raised his hand, and two demon chains flew out of the door, instantly strangling the hind legs of the two demon beasts.

The flames of the surrounding furnaces suddenly soared for several feet, burning unscrupulously, the heat wave in the Colosseum rushed in, the temperature seemed to reach the boiling point, the atmosphere of the whole audience detonated in an instant, and the Colosseum once again resounded with stormy applause.

The two fierce demon beasts didn't dare to bark their teeth and roar anymore under the man's coercion, and instantly obeyed.

The serpentine mask pointed at the two demon beasts calmly, and raised his voice: "These two are hell god dogs, rare in the world, as the name suggests, they are the guards of the hell underworld, preventing the living from straying into the underworld, and also preventing the undead of the underworld from going to the world, and are bloodthirsty, eating corpses for a living." In ancient times, the ancestor of Jiuli, the king of Chi You, infiltrated the underworld alone when he chased the Central Plains, wearing a cuirass and holding a magic knife, subduing it and bringing it back to the yang world, becoming the undefeated king of the Colosseum of our clan. Today is a day worth celebrating, we will usher in a thousand-year blood sacrifice to comfort the souls of our ancestors in the sky, enjoy the fragrance forever, enlighten me, and prosper from generation to generation. ”

"Now, please prepare for the blood sacrifice, I hope you can all have good luck!"

After the man in the serpentine mask finished speaking, his strange eyes looked in the direction of Li Ji and the other four, and then quickly disappeared over the Colosseum at a ghostly speed......