Between the mountains and ravines, monsters and beasts are rampant, and all kinds of terrible and vicious voices come and go, wanting to crack the world.

Tangjia Town, located on the edge of the Cangman Mountains, is not far from the peaks and ravines, and the vast mountains are majestic.

Tang Sanshi carried a bag of ore on his back and walked towards the town, his steps were heavy, his movements were slow, and his expression was numb.

As a human being who is still underage and physically immature, such a bag of ore is indeed a little too heavy for him.

However, Tang Sanshi didn't have too many complaints about the heavy physical labor, at least he could survive, and he wouldn't be like those fair-skinned companions who were picked out to become the food of the demons.

The grasslands of hundreds of miles on the edge of the Cangman Mountains and more than a dozen villages and towns, including Tangjia Town, belong to the territory of the demon wolf clan, which is known for its cruelty and cunning.

Half a year ago, there was a civil strife in the Dawu Empire, and the army guarding and protecting the villages and towns was evacuated by the city lord and went to garrison the main city. The demon wolf took the opportunity to invade Tangjia Town and the surrounding villages, and after ferociously eating nearly half of the humans, they began to drive the remaining humans to help them mine and smelt refined iron ore, and even cast weapons and armor.

Tang Sanshi, like the other surviving humans in Tangjia Town, has been looking forward to the city lord sending troops to rescue him for half a year, to his current despair and numbness.

The fate of the human race in Tangjia Town seems to have been sealed, either to become food, or to die early after squeezing the power in the body.

Tang Sanshi raised his head and looked up at the clear blue sky, dazed and sad in his heart: "Could it be that my life is moving miserably along such a fixed track, and I can't see the slightest hope, can't we people in Tangjia Town never get rid of the enslavement of the wolf demon?"

Syllable!

Sharp pain came from Tang Sanshi's face. A blood-soaked whip mark suddenly appeared on the left side of his face and stretched across his nose to the right.

"Hurry up, what's the fuss, don't get the ore out of town by evening tonight, be careful I'll eat you." A vicious and ferocious voice came, and a monster with a wolf head and a human body held a leather whip that was still dangling in his hand, looking greedily at Tang Sanshi's arm, drooling with disgusting saliva.

Tang Sanshi glanced at the wolf demon next to him who was holding a leather whip and wearing obviously ill-fitting clothes, lowered his eyes, not letting the hatred and anger in his eyes be discovered, and said in a low voice: "Yes, Lord Wolf Demon." ”

Tang Sanshi was not afraid that the wolf demon would eat him, because a few days ago, a wolf demon devoured and killed delicious humans, and ate three humans in one go, and was cruelly punished by the legendary demon wolf king, and ordered that except for the humans who resisted the demon wolf, the rest of the humans were not allowed to kill and devour at will. Of course, this is not that the Wolf Demon King has suddenly become benevolent, but that there are fewer and fewer humans in his territory, which has affected the mining of ore and the smelting of refined iron.

............

The twilight fades, and the night finally falls.

As soon as Tang Sanshi had finished his heavy labor and had a chance to breathe, he took the ration he had been given, a piece of black hard cake, and returned to his home in the town.

Turning a corner, Tang Sanshi suddenly looked around vigilantly, and when he saw the wolf demon and other humans who were not patrolling nearby, his expression immediately became excited, and he turned into a remote road, carrying the darkness on his back and wearing the starlight, and walked forward quickly.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, passing through an abandoned cemetery, Tang Sanshi saw a two-meter-high boulder tombstone.

He looked around again, then cautiously and tiptoeed to the back of the boulder tombstone, and gently knocked on the stone face, a total of three groups, three, six, and nine.

As soon as the sound of banging on the tombstone disappeared, a crack suddenly cracked on the boulder, as if a door had been opened, and a young man with a gray face stretched out his head and looked around vigilantly, until he saw Tang Sanshi, his expression eased slightly, and then waved his hand: "Come in, Sanshi." ”

Tang Sanshi quickly got in, watched the young man close the stone door and lock it, and said, "Brother Mu, I'll go down first." ”

"Go quickly, everyone is almost there, waiting for you. The young man said.

Tang Sanshi walked quickly along a passage made of stone, on the stone walls on both sides, there were many murals carved, there seemed to be a picture of the arrival of the gods, ten thousand people kneeling and worshipping, there were gods fighting monsters, killing demons, and there were also altars towering, with thousands of lights......

Although Tang Sanshi had seen these murals many times, he couldn't help but feel excited every time he saw them, and his heart, which was already desperate and numb, was full of hope.

At the end of the passage, there is a large hall of four or five hundred square meters that seems to be used for sacrifice, and more than a hundred human beings are staring at the altar in the hall with their backs to the passage.

"Sanshi, are you here?" On the stone steps in front of the altar, a white-bearded old man glanced at Tang Sanshi with pity and bowed his head slightly.

"Patriarch Grandpa, I'm late, is the sacrifice about to start?" Tang Sanshi said with some anticipation and fear. The boy's heart is full of curiosity and fear of the unknown, but more than that, hope and anticipation.

The old man didn't answer Tang Sanshi's question, his wise gaze swept over everyone in the audience, and he said in a vicissitudes and desolate tone: "Our current life is a road where we can't see any hope, the City Lord's Mansion will not send an army to rescue us for the sake of us as a small town, unless the civil strife stops, there are still some possibilities." But by the time the civil strife stops, I'm afraid we'll all be dead. Will you be numb and wait for death, or will you follow me back into the arms of the god of darkness and ask the great god of darkness to send a messenger of darkness to redeem us?"

The old man's name is Tang Guanshu, the patriarch of the Tang family in Tangjia Town, and the mayor of Tangjia Town, who was officially canonized by the Dawu Empire.

"The god of darkness reigns!" a roar rang out from around the altar.

"We believe in the god of darkness, there is no other way to survive anyway!"

Tang Guanshu witnessed this scene and showed a satisfied look.

"Countless years ago, our Tangjia Town and all the nearby villages believed in the Great God of Darkness, and only by his protection could we avoid being harmed by the monsters and beasts of the Barbarian Mountains. Until 500 years ago, when the Dawu Empire was established, the empire sent troops to guard villages and towns, and sent troops deep into the barbarian mountains to mine ores and hunt monsters. ”

"With the passage of time, to this day, no one remembers the great god of darkness. The Empire has abandoned us, and we can only believe in the great god of darkness once again, and pray that he will send a messenger of darkness to protect our home and life. It's the only way we can survive......"

Although he didn't know much about the God of Darkness, it didn't interfere with the surroundings of the altar, and everyone, including Tang Sanshi, listened with relish, and their eyes were full of hope. Although these hopes are so ethereal.

Combined with the content of the mural, the image of the messenger sent by the dark god came to their minds, and everyone clenched their fists. In this desperate situation, any chance can ignite a torch of hope in people's hearts.

"This hidden hall and sacred altar are the legacy of our ancestors. We will now sacrifice to the God of Darkness, the Great Lord of Death, because we have been forsaken by Him, so we need to be more devout in order to regain His favor and ask Him to send the Messenger of Darkness to redeem us. ”

As soon as Tang Guanshu's words fell, he got up and walked along the steps towards the altar.

The altar is mainly blood-red and purple-black, carved with strange concave and convex lines, and painted with strange patterns, showing a strange beauty as a whole.

There is a bowl-shaped groove at the end of the stone steps where Tang Guanshu stands, and there is a little scarlet solid precipitation at the bottom of the groove, and there is a faint smell of blood on it.

According to what Tang Guanshu just said, the last time this altar was used was at least five hundred years ago, it is difficult to imagine how much blood was poured in this groove, which will leave the precipitation of blood and the smell of blood, of course, five hundred years of long time has not been erased, perhaps there is a special reason.

Tang Guanshu looked solemn, took a dagger with a cold light from the hand of a middle-aged man with a yellow face and thin muscles next to him, chanted an inexplicable incantation in his mouth, and walked quickly to the bowl-shaped groove at the end of the stone steps.

"O great god of darkness, your godly servants pray and sacrifice to you. ”

"You dominate the darkness, control the boundaries between life and death, and are the God Almighty. ”

"Please give us the energy to send your mighty messenger to protect our home and life. ”

Tang Guanshu closed his eyes slightly, and after a pious prayer, he placed his arms on the bowl-shaped groove, and the cold light of the dagger in his right hand flashed, and the warm scarlet blood flowed from the inch-long wound on his left forearm, just dripping into the bowl-shaped groove.

It is said to be a bowl-shaped groove, but in fact, the capacity is more than ten times that of an ordinary rice bowl.

Tang Guan was old and frail, and he was often hungry recently, and his physical condition was not good, and as soon as the blood covered the bottom of the groove, he was dizzy for a while, and he stumbled and almost fell on the altar. If it weren't for the old man's fear of destroying the sacrifice and attracting the punishment of the great dark god, and finally controlling himself with a strong will to stabilize his body, I am afraid that he would faint on the spot due to excessive bleeding.

Tang Guanshu dragged his tired and weak body, and after another pious and strange prayer, he pressed the wound with a cotton cloth that had been prepared with one hand, and was slowly walked off the altar by the middle-aged man next to him.

With Tang Guanshu taking the lead, more than 100 people around the altar followed suit, all like old men, while making strange prayers, while watering the bowl-shaped groove with their own blood.

In this way, after a stick of incense, everyone finished praying and offering blood. And it just so happened that the bowl-shaped groove was filled with hot blood, and began to flow along the lines of the recesses on both sides, to the entire altar.

It didn't take long for the plane of hot blood in the bowl-shaped groove to fall, and it was reasonable to say that there could be no more lines of hot blood flowing to the recesses on both sides, but a strange scene appeared, not only did the flow of hot blood not stop, but also flowed from the left and right sides to the various shapes of the concave surface of the entire altar at an extremely uniform speed.

Seeing such a perverse scene, everyone's confidence could not help but increase, and the doubts that had been some of them slowly disappeared, and they prayed more devoutly to the great god of darkness.

For a while, the volume of prayer also increased a lot.

Hum――――

The moment the hot blood covered the entire concave surface of the altar, a strange fluctuation appeared out of thin air on the altar, and then the hot blood on the concave surface of the altar emitted a faint blood light.

At the entrance of the main hall, in the dark shadows, three burly black shadows were quietly watching the changes in the altar and the prayers of the people.

"It's ridiculous that these lowly humans want to summon the messenger of the great god of darkness through such a simple sacrifice, it is said that the great god of darkness is the ancestor of our demon wolf clan, and he has not shown divine light for five hundred years, and His Majesty the wolf demon king and the priests of the clan have tried hundreds of sacrifice methods, but they have not had the slightest effect. A taller figure in the middle said to the two dark figures on the left and right, his tone undisguised sarcastic and funny.

"Boss, what should we do, do we eat them all, or return to the Barbarian Mountains to report to His Majesty the Wolf Demon King. The black shadow on the left said expectantly.

"Fools, of course, to eat them all, His Majesty the Wolf Demon King just ordered that no humans should eat or resist our demon wolf clan, and these lowly humans gathered together to plot to resist, and we ate them, which is not considered to be against His Majesty's order of the Demon Wolf King. The tall black shadow in the middle snorted softly.

"Boss, you're right, it's been a long time since we've devoured delicious humans, and I can't wait to eat them. The black shadow on the right said with some flattery and hideousness.

Seeing that the prayer ceremony was about to end, and there was no special change, the black shadow in the middle waved his hand: "Today, one person will eat one human first, and the other humans will be kept here in captivity, and we will be able to enjoy delicious human flesh every day for a long time." ”

"Yes, Boss!" replied the shadows on both sides.

Tang Guanshu by the altar saw that the altar emitted a faint blood light, and led everyone to bow down to the ground and prayed in a low voice: "Great God of Darkness, Lord of Life and Death, we are your most devout believers." We will have all people proclaim your name and sanctify you. Let your glory shine on you and be free from all suffering and evil. ”

"May your dark messenger come to Tangjia Town again, and we will—"

Ahh

Before Tang Guanshu's words fell, three consecutive terrible screams came from behind everyone, and the old man rolled up in amazement and looked at the entrance of the main hall.

Three terrifying figures came into view, it was three burly and vicious, wolf-headed wolf demons, at this time, the three wolf demons each held a human on the periphery of the crowd in their hands, and the snow-white fangs in their mouths pierced deep into their necks. The three of them let out a terrible scream, and then the sound disappeared as if they were choked by saliva, and they fell to the ground and rolled, and after a few blows, their legs kicked and they could no longer move, and blood was pouring from their throats.

"You-why are you here?!" Tang Guanshu blurted out in a panic, most of them screamed in horror, their faces turned pale, and they shivered and stepped back. Only a small number of young adults held rudimentary swords in their hands and plucked up the courage to pounce on the three demon wolves.

Tang Guanshu looked at the three humans who had died tragically and shook his head compassionately. shouted loudly to the people who retreated in terror: "There are more than 100 of us, desperately resisting and still have hope of escaping, but if we retreat and beg for mercy numbly, we will only become the rations of the demon wolf, and sooner or later they will be eaten." ”

"Fight with them!" another thirty or forty people picked up the rudimentary weapons around them, howled loudly and rushed towards the three demon wolves.

At this time, facing the real life-and-death crisis in front of them, everyone had already thrown the blood sacrifice and the ethereal dark god just now to the back of their minds.

The three demon wolves didn't pay any attention to the humans who rushed over, and they also turned a blind eye to the rudimentary weapons cut on their bodies, and just devoured fresh human flesh by themselves. This made all the human beings present refreshed their spirits, and their eyes showed a look of anticipation and hope.

Bang bang bang -

More than a dozen weapons slashed at the demon wolf, making a sound of gold and stone impact, and even occasional sparks splashed, but none of the weapons broke through the demon wolf's hard-like fur, and even many people fell backwards to the ground because of their thin bodies.

The people who stayed in Tangjia Town were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they had never learned any martial arts, and the difference in strength between them and the wolf demon was too great, even if the wolf demon stood still and let everyone cut and stabbed, as long as they didn't cut at the weak point, they couldn't even break the defense in one or two clicks.

Everyone exclaimed, and the sense of despair gradually filled the entire hall, and everyone looked at the three wolf demons like walking corpses, many of whom had collapsed to the ground, and there were traces of water flowing out of their lower bodies, and there was a smell of commotion.

The three wolf demons devoured it, and it didn't take long to eat most of the human race, and then threw the corpse on the ground like a fish spine and residual meat.

Whoosh!

The three demon wolves kicked their right feet almost in no particular order, and each pounced on a human.

Ahh

Three terrible cries were heard again, and three more humans were caught by the demon wolf, biting off their necks, and becoming wolf food.

Obviously, after the three demon wolves devoured a human being, the bloody and savage side was completely stimulated, and they had already thrown the idea of eating only one human just now and the rest of the human captivity out of the clouds, and at this time they only thought about biting all the humans in front of them to death.

This time, the three demon wolves simply swallowed a few bites, then with red eyes, they threw down the corpse in their hands and pounced on the crowd.

The figures of the three demon wolves did not stop, and everywhere they passed, they all let out a miserable scream.

Almost every three breaths, a person is bitten to death by a wolf demon.

Everyone has no power to resist, and it can really be described as a wolf into the flock.

Seeing this, Tang Guanshu suddenly turned around, knelt on the altar and fell to the ground, crying and hitting the ground: "Great God of Darkness, Lord of Life and Death, please save us! We are willing to sacrifice our souls."

Seeing this, the other people around were also like old men, kneeling on the ground around the altar, regardless of the slaughter of the demon wolf behind them, and prayed in despair and despair.

Behind everyone, screams rang out one after another.

Under the guidance of the old man, everyone was completely immersed in their own world, chanting the god of darkness while constantly hitting the ground with their heads, and the blood stained the ground red.

The strange scene happened again, when the words "willing to give their souls" were mentioned in the prayers of the people, a faint glow floated from everyone's body, and moths flew towards the altar like fire. At the same time, the blood flowing out of everyone's foreheads against the ground flowed down the stone steps in the four directions of the altar, unexpectedly flowing from low to high places against common sense, and flowed into the grooves on the altar.

The faint blood light that appeared just now, with the input of more than 100 fluorescent rays and the inflow of hot blood, the blood light gradually rose, getting brighter and brighter, and it didn't take long, it was already like substance.

At this time, no one, including the three wolf demons, noticed the change in the altar.

Hum――――

Above the altar, the void where the blood light was located suddenly fluctuated with a layer of ripples.

With a bang, the space was torn apart like a painting, and the blood light seemed to have found an entrance to catharsis, frantically surging towards the spatial crack.

Including the three wolf demons, everyone heard the harsh sound of space tearing, and subconsciously raised their heads, and their expressions suddenly froze.

After a short period of solidification, more than 100 humans were overjoyed, lying on the ground with tears in their eyes, kowtowing even more frantically and praying.

"The great god of darkness, your messenger has come and will lead us to defeat evil. ”

"We are your most devout believers, and we have revered you as a god for the rest of our lives. ”

"Let your glory shine on you from all suffering and evil. ”

The three wolf demons had stopped killing humans at this time, and watched the changes on the altar in amazement.

Looking at the incredible scene in front of them, the red in the eyes of the three wolf demons slowly receded, and the fear of the unknown made the uneasiness in their eyes become more and more intense.

On the altar, as the blood light poured into the spatial crack, the crack became larger and larger, and after a dozen breaths, a blood-filled spatial gate appeared on the altar.

A figure dressed in strange armor floated out of the spatial portal.

"Darkbringer, you have come here to bring the gift of salvation. ”

Seeing this, Tang Guanshu and more than a hundred other human beings were so excited that they couldn't control themselves, if there really was a dark messenger who came here to save themselves and others?

Hum――――

The void suddenly fluctuated again, and the door of space continued to shrink and soon disappear, and the blood light on the altar also dissipated at this time. The figure on the altar became clearer, tall and straight, wearing strange armor and round helmets that no one had ever seen. Only a pair of black eyes looked through a clear lens on the helmet.