In the middle of the night, the scene of Anju City's daytime traffic has long since disappeared, leaving only the empty and silent streets and dim street lights.

As a second-tier city in the north of China, Anzhou people's nightlife is obviously not as rich as that in the south, and at night, it looks particularly deserted.

The winter night wind whistled, and Wang Jiu, who had just gotten off work, put up his collar and shrunk into the house in the cold wind.

Wang Jiu's home is located in a cheap apartment near the development zone, because of the low rent and clean location, Wang Jiu has lived here for nearly a year, except for the shortcomings of being far away from the place of work, he is already very satisfied with this environment.

"Alas, it's working so late again......"

Recalling the mean boss with a fat face, Wang Jiu couldn't help but curse in a low voice, took out the key and stabbed the door on the door lock as if venting, and opened the door indiscriminately.

It's just that the room is not much warmer than the outside, cold, full of dark tones in the night.

As a programmer who has just stepped into society, don't think about girlfriends and pets or anything, his salary is only enough to support himself, at this time he turned on the light, walked into the bathroom physically and mentally exhausted, and washed his face with cold water to sober himself up a little.

It's been a month in a row that he's been working overtime at night.

Many times, Wang Jiu wanted to give up this heavy and cheap job, but when he thought of the difficulty of employment now, he still gritted his teeth and held on.

He had no other choice, because he was just an orphan.

For as long as he can remember, Wang Jiu has lived in an orphanage, and finally got admitted to a good university, and finally gained a firm foothold in the second-tier city of Anzhou after several years.

He has no relatives, no friends, just a meager job, barely surviving in the city.

Looking at his increasingly haggard face in the mirror, Wang Jiu smiled bitterly and shook his head, turned around and walked out of the bathroom, returned to his cold bed, and lay down heavily.

As he lay down, he felt the world spinning, and his eyelids were so heavy that they hardly belonged to him.

The next second, snoring sounded in the room......

In the haze, Wang Jiu seemed to have a dream, an incomparably real nightmare.

In the dream, a monster with a charred body is constantly chasing and killing itself, going to heaven and earth, leaving him with no way to escape! However, just when he was about to wake up, a strange force restrained his consciousness and prevented him from waking up completely......

I don't know how long it took, Wang Jiu finally felt that he had woken up, but the moment he woke up, he felt a cold and piercing chill constantly invading his body.

Wang Jiu subconsciously shrank back, but found that he was not lying on the bed, but on the cold and hard ground, and the coldness was the temperature emanating from the ground.

Through his eyes, he faintly noticed that there seemed to be a fire flickering in front of him.

Am I not at home?

Wang Jiu came to his senses and quickly sat up, but when he saw his surroundings clearly, he showed a look of surprise.

At this time, he didn't know when, he actually came to a huge palace.

The hall was empty, with no edge in sight, except for two rows of torches extending vertically from its left and right sides, one to the end of the hall and the other to the center of the hall, in front of a huge black throne.

"Where am I?"

After seeing everything in front of him, Wang Jiu immediately turned from stunned to frightened, he looked around in a panic, but he could only see that the hall was surrounded by a strange darkness, and the light emitted by the torches was like an oil lamp about to be extinguished, stubbornly holding out a touch of light from the darkness.

With Wang Jiu's intuition beyond ordinary people, he faintly sensed that something seemed to be lurking in the darkness not far away, staring at him with bloodthirsty pupils.

If it weren't for the fear of fire, I'm afraid that the next moment, they would rush up in the darkness and tear themselves apart......

"Anyone?" Wang Jiu couldn't help but ask, because he was nervous, he subconsciously shouted loudly, and the empty hall echoed his shout, even more silent.

"Anyone? Who brought me here? Wang Jiu shouted a few more words, but the entire hall still did not respond.

"You're awake."

However, just when Wang Jiu was about to collapse, there was a deep murmur on the throne in the distance, as if something had been revived.

"Who!"

Wang Jiu quickly turned his head and looked towards the throne, but the torches only extended to the feet of the throne, and the strong contrast buried the throne deep in the shadows, no matter how he observed, he could not penetrate the strange darkness and see the situation on the throne.

"I, who is it? Hehehe......"

The voice was like a corpse that had decayed for thousands of years, and its tone was full of indifference and banter, "My name was forgotten by the whole world tens of thousands of years ago, right?" ”

As he spoke, on the throne, an indescribable huge figure slowly floated, with the sound of clicking rotten wood, as if the other party was moving his body, Wang Jiu only heard the other party continue, "I, I saw your pure and immaculate soul...... Human, would you like to make a deal with me? ”

"Deal?"

Wang Jiu took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, he squinted his eyes at the throne and asked rhetorically, "Why should I make a deal with you?" If you don't tell me who you are, then let me go, you know, kidnapping me is a criminal offense! ”

"Punishment, law?" The voice seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, a hoarse and weird laughter wafted from the darkness, and Wang Jiu realized at this time that this voice did not come from the throne at all, but from all directions!

At the same time, the moment he heard this laughter, Wang Jiu only felt goosebumps all over his body suddenly explode, as if there was a dark breath, slowly flowing down the throne!

Suddenly, the light of the fire in front of the throne began to flicker, as if it could not bear the strange breath, and at the end, the torch actually popped and went out!

Then, the second row of torches, the third row of torches!

Rows of torches popped out, as if something indescribable was surging down the torches like lightning, Wang Jiu's pupils shrank, and he didn't want to think about it, and quickly fled behind him!

However, it was already too late, and the indescribable thing was almost teleporting, and it rushed to Wang Jiu's face in an instant, and through the lifeless darkness, Wang Jiu seemed to see that a monster with a charred body was standing in front of him, stretching out his right hand full of rotten flesh to him, and at the same time, his face was even more hideous!

"Wow!"

Wang Jiu let out a scream and struggled as hard as he could, but no matter how he struggled, he seemed to be imprisoned to the ground by some kind of force, and he could only watch as the pair of completely rotten big hands grabbed his neck and lifted himself high!

Suddenly, an unprecedented feeling of suffocation rose.

His neck was tightly clamped, and he could only slap the other party in vain, but his strength in front of the other party was like the difference between an ant and an elephant, and it had no effect at all.

As time passed, Wang Jiu's movements became lighter and lighter, and his pupils became more and more dilated, just a moment before he was completely suffocated, suddenly, the other party let go of his hand without warning.

Under the effect of gravity, Wang Jiu immediately fell to the ground, but he didn't care about the pain at all, just bent down, covered his neck and coughed violently, like a curled shrimp.

At this time, his limbs were sore, his eyes were red, and his face was pale.

On the throne, the strange voice rang out again, "Now, you should be able to trade with me, right?" ”

"I'm willing to ......" Wang Jiu clutched his throat, retching while waving his hands, for fear that the other party would attack again, the feeling of dying and his life in the hands of the other party at any time was estimated to be unforgettable for a long time.

"Tell me, then, what do you want?" On the throne, the voice asked satisfied.

"I'm ......" Wang Jiu gritted his teeth, at this time he had gradually understood, he was afraid that he had encountered the legendary devil, or the Satan of the Bible?

But no matter what the other party is, it is definitely an extremely evil existence.

Thinking of this, his expression flashed, and he began to ask tentatively, "I want money, countless amounts of money, can you give it to me?" ”

"Money?" On the throne, the huge black shadow seemed to be stunned for a moment, completely silent, as if thinking about something, and said in a low voice again for a long time, "Yes, is this what you are asking for?" I can grant your wishes. ”

"Really?" The surprise in Wang Jiu's eyes flashed, but the next moment, his expression immediately changed, "So, what do I need to give?" ”

"I like smart people." The figure laughed, with a demonic seductive tone, "It's simple, you need to help me do something, and after you do this, I can let you have an untold amount of money......"

As he spoke, Wang Jiu suddenly felt a sense of dizziness coming, and before he could react, he felt the world spin for a while, and the last thing he heard in his ears was the hoarse and low weird chuckle of the black shadow-

"We'll see you again soon."