In the Western World, true death is not the end of life, it refers to the death of both body and soul, and both are indispensable. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info There are some people who continue to exist in the world in the form of ghosts and undead after the end of their lives and the decay of their bodies, but they can still perceive the world rationally and have the consciousness of independent thinking, not really dead.

There are also souls who have come to this lost plane due to unknown guidance, which they call the afterlife. The environment of the afterlife world is very different from the Xizhou world where human beings lived before their deaths, there is no sun here, the sky is a raging sea of fire, the ground is an endless wilderness, there is no breath of life, and there is a deathly silence everywhere.

The most terrifying thing is that there is another creature living here besides humans, that is, the demons who plagued Veblen and Meysus not long ago, he never imagined that those devils of mysterious origin were born here, they were actually transformed from dead souls.

Even though the people here are dead and have no body, they still feel hungry, and their souls need to eat to survive, but not as often as they did before they were alive. If a living person needs three meals a day to meet their physiological needs, then a dead person like them can eat it once every few months.

What was supposed to be the simplest of needs is a problem that can never be solved after death, because there is nothing left in this desolate world but humans.

Yes, you can't find those cuties who are decapitated and crunchy, which means that there is no meat rich in protein and fat, not even plants. I heard that there were some trees here in the past, but unfortunately they were all eaten away by the people before them, or they were made into weapons and chariots. Besides, this kind of thing can't fill my stomach at all, and the more I eat, the more hungry I become, and I'm very uncomfortable.

Hunger is one of the most unbearable feelings that people can have, and it can make people crazy, even more terrifying, and in the absence of food sources, some people really go crazy. The only thing that is not lacking here is people, and human flesh can also fill their stomachs, hunger makes them lose their minds, their minds are full of the desire to eat, they start to eat people, completely abandon the bottom line of human beings, and when they abandon morality, sin arises.

Cannibalism is a sin, and when the boundaries of morality are crossed, they begin to hunt their own kind with impunity in order to obtain those bloody human flesh and fill the emptiness in their stomachs. At this time, the evil in their hearts was completely urged, and they could no longer be called human beings, and they began to degenerate, sink, and become cannibals, and after a certain extent, their personality was completely lost and they became devils.

This is the true origin of the devil, which is the product of human beings who have abandoned all good thoughts and embraced evil.

The devil is the embodiment of tyranny and killing, and when they abandon their human identity and become demons, they are left with nothing but killing and eating. In the afterlife, the devil is invincible, they run rampant, invade human settlements, hunt and kill human beings to satisfy their appetites. In the face of the terrifying devil, human beings have almost no means to resist, and can only tremble under its obscenity.

In order to prevent the birth of demons on a large scale, human beings forcibly forbade the cruelty of cannibalism, and they locked up those who were extremely hungry, preferring to starve them to death if they chose them to die rather than turn into demons and harm the world. Therefore, those who can walk freely now are new to this world, and those who have reached the age of hunger will be strictly guarded.

However, the power of hunger is incomparable, and despite their efforts and efforts to stop it, there are still some people who cannot resist the invasion of hunger and secretly engage in murder and meat eating.

The bearded man who was briefing Veblen and Meysus was the leader of a small nearby settlement where someone had recently disappeared. Knowing that the wilderness of the afterlife is full of depraved ogres, and no one dares to act alone from the group, so going missing often means a possibility - they have been eaten!

The bearded leader was furious that a man-eater had appeared in his territory, and he searched the colony and vowed to find the murderer. Perhaps frightened by the bearded carpet search, the murderer did not confess that night, and absconded in fear of crime, and the night watchman immediately reported it when he found out, and the bearded man led two of his men to chase after him immediately.

"This is the cannibal murderer?" said the bearded man, and after listening to the bearded man's explanation, Mayses looked at the woman in the cage with wide eyes. It seems that he is not worried about the current situation at all, which makes Veblen next to him angry.

The woman in the cage had no clothes on, and her figure was quite plump, but her body was dirty, full of dirt and filth, and there was nothing to look at. Her face was hideous, her eyes were shining, her face was bruised, and she kept banging her head against the cage.

"This is also my strange place, she should be eating human flesh for the first time, but generally speaking, after eating people for the first time, they will not degenerate into this, they are still generally no different from ordinary people. The bearded leader looked worriedly at the woman in the cage.

Once humans eat people, they will degenerate into cannibals, and at the beginning, cannibals were still very normal, with clear sanity, and they looked no different from ordinary people. As the number of cannibalism increases, they will gradually sink into the desire for human flesh and cannot extricate themselves, and the final result is that their personality is completely degraded, they lose their sense of self, and become irrational devils.

"What are you going to do with her, take her back and lock her up?" Wiblen wondered.

"This is the only thing we can do, for those who are crazy with hunger, as long as they have tasted human flesh, they can no longer resist the craving for human flesh, and the only end of letting it go is to degenerate into the devil, and then our entire settlement will be doomed with it. The bearded leader was helpless.

"Can't you kill it directly?" Mayses said puzzled, killing it directly is easy and pleasant, hello and me, why lock up and be devastated by hunger.

"This is the greatest despair in the world after death!" the bearded man smiled miserably, "We look no different from when we were alive, in fact, we are already considered dead, but we exist by soul, and in this world we can't kill dead people at all." ”

Even in the Western World, in the Aldrich continent, creatures such as undead and ghosts are very difficult to kill, and they can only be eliminated with specific magic or enchanted weapons. However, there were no such things in the afterlife, they did not even find iron ore, and the weapons in their hands were nothing more than spears and bows made of wood, or bone hammers made of the remains of dead people.

In addition, the souls of ordinary people who are attracted by this world do not know magic, and they have no means to destroy souls, and it has become a luxury to want to die, and the only way is to be locked up and wait to starve to death.

Everyone faces this outcome, and the new souls may be free to live for months, and once they reach the time of starvation, they will immediately be placed under surveillance and imprisoned, and they will endure the torture of hunger every day, and life is worse than death.

Or compromise with their own desires, start killing people and eating meat, gradually lose their minds, sink into appetite, and finally lose their personality completely, lose themselves, become irrational devils, feed on human beings, and stand on the opposite side of human beings.

Veblen and Meysus were silent, not lamenting their miserable plight, but worried about their own situation. Although their bodies are not dead, they are all in a state of soul now, and they also need to eat, and once they stay here for a long time, I am afraid that they will also feel hungry, and then they will not be able to escape the end of degeneration into the devil.

They directly ignore the possibility of starving themselves to death, and people like Veblen and Meysus, greedy for life and afraid of death, will do whatever it takes, and they will only choose between being a devil and starving to death.

"If you don't delay, we have some questions for you. ”

"Come back to the settlement with me first, and ask if you have anything to say, for there will be depraved cannibals popping up here at any time, and we are short of manpower, and we will be in a bitter battle at that time. "The bearded leader extended an invitation to the two of them, and the newcomers to the world after death will always be the most sought-after resource, as they will not face the coercion of starvation for a while, and can act as the best enforcers and overseers.

The two nodded, and they discussed it privately, thinking that since they came to the afterworld through the magic tower, they had to find the magic tower first if they wanted to leave here. The best option for now is to follow the bearded leader back to his settlement, where it will be the best place to find out more about the Magic Tower or learn more.

They followed the bearded leader eastward through the valley floor, which was only a little more than a mile wide. At the bottom of the valley Vibron finally saw sparse weeds, and some swamps in the low-lying places. In front of the valley floor, there was a steep mountain wall, which blocked the fire from the sky, and the whole world suddenly became dark.

Beneath the mountain wall was a flat clearing, and in the clearing, large and small, were made of stones, and the people gathered on the flat ground, and the bearded leader captured the ogre, and burst into enthusiastic cheers. Because this undoubtedly cuts off the great hidden danger, the ogre is basically on the verge of becoming a devil, if there is a devil in this place, then basically no one can escape, all people have to become its rations, the devil's invincibility has been deeply imprinted in everyone's concept.

The bearded leader ordered two of his retinues to hold the women in the cage down and guard them, and then he motioned for Vebron and Meysus to follow him, and the three entered one of the largest stone houses. The bearded man casually lay down on the chair, and did not entertain the two, and asked straight to the point: "Say, what else do you want to know?"