"Whew, today's work is really heavy enough." In the city wall district, Dongcheng District, in an alley made of crowded and cluttered old bungalows, Yorick carried a small sack of potatoes and staggered on his way home.

When I got up in the morning, I went to work as a coolie in the mines outside the city, and worked from morning to afternoon, and finally got the food and miscellaneous expenses for this month.

Although about a third of the bag of potatoes had been hacked by the mine's overseer, the middle-aged man's face still showed a toothy smile after weighing the rather heavy weight of the bag of potatoes and listening to the clanging sound of the five silver coins in his left pocket.

"Let's take Vanessa to buy something to eat today, I've earned an extra silver coin this month than before." The man rubbed his somewhat sore shoulder, he had worked a lot harder than before this month, earning an extra silver coin.

Because of the war, the price of goods in Wangcheng has also risen a lot, and I can still take my daughter out to eat something good a month, and my wife can also watch a drama once a month, but since the war, prices have doubled, food and clothing have become a problem, and it is said that I can enjoy life with spare money.

Fortunately, the mine owner was unexpectedly a kind person, and he increased the wages of the workers, about half more than before, gritted his teeth, and he could live this life, and his wife was also working harder at home to make money by washing clothes for others.

This month he worked extra hard, got up early and worked late at night, and got that extra salary, a silver coin, half of which he planned to take his wife and daughter to relax a little, and save the rest honestly in case of unforeseen needs.

The mood involuntarily happy a little, a month of hard work has been rewarded, although the bitterness is a little bitter, the muscles of this arm used for mining have reached a limit, and you can't work so hard next month, otherwise you won't be able to make money, but this hand will be unable to work because of problems.

"Boom, boom...!" A voice from behind him caught Yorick's attention, and the gray-covered man, who had just returned from the mines, looked back to see a neatly dressed line of Imperial City soldiers running through the street.

"What's going on?" Yorick scratched his hair with some distress, he really didn't have a good impression of this group of arrogant city guards, this group of guys didn't think about these people in the city wall area when they carried out their tasks, those civilians were okay, they were inferior, if they got in the way, it would be a kick, and it might be a sword to hinder their mission.

The war has caused turmoil in the city, and the entire city wall area itself is chaotic, and the impact of the war has become the most chaotic place in the entire royal city, killing and robbing, raping and fighting, these broken things are simply happening in every corner of the moment, so the city wall area has become the most frequent place for the city guards.

"Well, I hope these guys don't tear down my house again." What can Yorick do, he is only one of the lowest people in the city walled area, he has a wife and children, and he is not much better off than others, and the pressure of living expenses brought by children and wife makes this man who is not too old age very quickly, just reached forty, and looks like he is in his fifties.

Occasionally, Yorick would envy those who only had to support themselves and went to the tavern to drink inferior ale wine when he had money, but when he thought of his wife's gentle massage and his daughter's pure smile, he would give himself a fist, how could he be a selfish bastard...

The last time the city guards came to the city wall area to search for fugitives, in order not to startle the snakes, these soldiers did not even inform them of the people in the city wall area, and they smashed and overturned when they entered directly.

There are those who try to stop it, and those who are not threatened kick over, and those who are threatened go in with a knife, and the house opposite the door, the poor old man just tried to make them stop moving his old cat, and the sword hilt on the back of the head let him see the god he believed in.

sighed again, the originally good mood also took on an indelible shadow, and some regretted that he came to the royal city in high spirits, the royal city is a good place, but it is not a good place for them.

Picking himself up, he stopped in front of an old-looking but clean stone and brick hut, adjusted his somewhat gloomy expression, and smiled, and Yorik didn't want his wife Sani to see his sadness.

Took out the key, opened the door, and the sound of the guards passing by again from the block behind him made him frown, so many soldiers, what happened to him, the bad feeling spread in his heart, so many soldiers were dispatched, it may be something big, and he was a little worried about his daughter, and when she finished attending school in the morning, he felt that he would bring her home, and tonight's night school would be forgotten.

The crunch door was pushed open, the old wooden door let out some uncomfortable screams, and the room was not dark, but the towering walls blocked some sunlight.

"Sani, I'm back! Guess what surprise I bringed? Yorick cleared his throat, let go of his throat and called out to his wife, deliberately shaking his clothes, so that the silver coins in his breast pocket made a crisp crashing sound, and the sound echoed clearly in the small room.

"Honey, what is it that makes you so happy?" His wife's voice came from the kitchen, along with the clatter of kitchen knives cutting through the blades.

"Listen!" Yorick heard his wife busy in the kitchen, and he didn't want to disturb her, he put the sack on the floor and leaned back on the chair next to the table in the living room, and rested.

"I'm sorry dear, my ears are not there, I can't hear very clearly, you can tell me directly." The wife continued, and the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the blade did not stop.

"When are you so good at joking, haha, I've earned an extra silver coin, and you can go to the "Lilac of the Night" for a play tomorrow night, and I'll take Vanessa to buy a little pastry when you go to see it, and I'll leave you a little bit when the time comes. "I didn't expect my wife to joke with herself, although his wife loves him on weekdays, she is a little clumsy, I didn't expect to joke today, he couldn't help laughing.

"Ah, that's good, I haven't seen the play of "Lilac of the Night" for a long time, I only watched half of the play between the Black Prince and Princess Mononoke, but unfortunately, Vanessa hasn't eaten pastries for a long time, but I don't need these anymore when I'm done here, um~" The wife's gentle response came from the kitchen, and the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the blade still didn't end.

"yes, by the way, Sani, what are you cutting, and what are you going to make?" The wife's tone was very gentle, but Yorick felt that something was wrong, every time at this time, the wife should come out to greet him and give him a hug, but today the wife was busy in the kitchen, did not come out, and there was nothing to eat in her own house, what was the wife cutting?

"Oh, dear, I'm cutting meat, by the way, let's finish the life sacrifice of our church, and we won't have to worry about those annoying things after it's finished, hehehe~" The wife's tone was still very gentle, but it revealed an unspeakable weirdness, and the meaning in the words was also very wrong.

"Meat, where did we get the meat?" Yorick did know that his wife had believed in a religion called "Source of Life" in the past few weeks, but the days were so sad, there was nothing to worry about believing in a religion or something, looking at the smile on his wife's face that was more than before, Yorick felt that this was not bad, but now what his wife said still made him a little uneasy.

He wanted to get up and take a look at the situation in the kitchen, but he didn't seem to be necessary, the fatigue of his body made him not want to leave the chair he was sitting on, but he kept talking to his wife, he felt very strange where did his family get the meat, how could their family have the conditions to get meat to cut when they were poor?

"Won't you see for yourself? ~" The wife's tone became a little frivolous, with a strange twist, this strange tone inexplicably hooked Yorick's heart, and this frivolous tone allowed some dark thoughts to grow uncontrollably.

The wife is still good-looking in the city wall area, if he was not handsome and capable at the beginning, his wife would not choose herself, many people in the city wall area covet Sani's color, and even want to spend money to find him to give him a chance, these guys were beaten by him with his fists without exception.

Thinking of his wife's tone, and the inexplicable extra meat, there is obviously no inevitable connection in nature, but there is something that drives him to think in that direction that should not be, is it that he works hard, but his wife sells it at home?

Once the conjecture was raised, it was difficult to take it back, and a nameless anger came out of his heart, and the feeling of rage suddenly surged, and he somehow confirmed this conjecture, and the flow of blood was accelerated by anger.

"I'm working so hard, you slut actually doing this?!" A suppressed roar came from Yorick's mouth. Driven by rage, he ignored his fatigue and leaped up from his chair, his fists clenched and creaking, and he strode towards the kitchen, he wanted to make the woman pay!

Rushing into the kitchen, Yorick, who was just about to beat Sani hard, froze, the boiling angry blood suddenly cooled down as if it had been used with a frost technique, cold to the bone, almost coagulated, his steps suddenly stopped, his body trembled uncontrollably, his eyes were wide to the limit, and he was full of bloodshots.

His pupils trembled, and looking at the scene in front of him, Yorick felt like his brain was going to explode, "What's going on?!" What's going on, how can this be?! He frantically questioned himself, he couldn't believe the scene in front of him, let alone understand what was happening.

The scene that happened in front of him was beyond Yorick's decades of life experience, it was as if the scene of purgatory on earth had completely broken his mental defenses, and the blood burning from anger had cooled down so much that it was even difficult to flow.

"What's the matter, dear, are you going to join me too? ~"The wife's voice came from the kitchen, no, it was the kitchen counter.

"No, no, no, Sani, is this you, isn't it you! What the hell is going on, what the hell is going on, weird... Monsters! "Looking at the wife who made a gentle voice in front of me... Yorick asked incredulously.

On the table, there was a puddle of meat that I don't know if it was a human or not, and the wife was still intact with only a head and an arm, which was directly connected to his wife's head, and the connection was like inferior clay forcibly sticking, and the wife's arm was chopping the meat on the table at once.

"Ahh Wait, dear, don't worry, I'll get it right away, and when I sacrifice part of my blood to my Lord, you can help me sacrifice the rest of my blood to the Lord, and of course, our treasure, Vanessa. The wife's head moved her lips, and the arm picked up a lump of meat and put it into the pot next to it.

"Sani, those... What are those!? The truth of his wife's words, or the meaning of the head's words, was terrifying, and Yorick froze, his brain almost shut down due to the impact of those words.

"Yes, that's me, hahaha~" The wife's head let out a frantic whisper, making Yorick feel pain and fear.

"How did you become like this!?" He questioned uncontrollably and loudly, his doubts and anger overpowering even the fear of the scene in front of him.

"For O I have seen the true meaning of life, praise be to my Lord, Elfyn, the source of life!" The wife's head cried out loudly, and as she praised her Lord, the pot beside her began to tremble, and Yorick looked involuntarily.

What is that? The mashed meat was mixed with bone scraps in that pot, and the disgusting meat puree that was supposed to be a dead thing kept wriggling and twisting like a slime, and the smell of blood kept wafting out, how evil it was... Beautiful!

What a beautiful thing this is, the twisted shape, almost like the whirlpool I saw in the starry sky on a summer night when I was a child, constantly coiling and twisting and wriggling and chewing, look, the mouth that came out of it should have been cut off by his wife with a knife, it was so beautiful, it was as beautiful as it was back then.

Oh, and that big eyeball that suddenly appeared, woven from the intestines, and dotted with the liver and stomach, how moving, oh, it looked at me, oh my God, this is the gaze of the Lord, I, I want to return to Him, He is the origin of everything, to Him, what a blessing! I... I'm going to finish my life... of the Blood Sacrifice... Courtesy.

Yorick smiled at the corners of his mouth, walked to the table, and picked up the knife that his wife had used, his wife was no longer able to use it, because Sani only had one arm and half a head left, and he couldn't complete the task of chopping himself into the pot, so let him do it, as for the rest of it, Vanessa would come to help them complete it!

The blade in his hand was raised, and with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, he headed towards his wife's remaining parts, "Click! ”

……

"Mom and Dad, Vanessa is back!" The girl's crisp voice came from the doorway, and a soft knock sounded from outside the cabin.

There was no response, wheat-skinned, lean Vanessa, wearing a white-washed dress, tilted her head a little confused, "Mom and Dad should be home at this time!" She muttered to herself in confusion.

Squatting down, groping under the wooden stake next to the door for a while, groping for a rusty key, "I don't know if it can be used..."

Standing on tiptoe, he inserted the key into the door lock with difficulty, twisted it hard, and finally unscrewed the door lock, and the "crunch" wooden door was pushed open, and the girl ran into the house without closing the door.

"Mom and Dad!" The girl called out to her parents, and suddenly saw the sack at the foot of the table, "Daddy's sack!" Lots of potatoes, don't go hungry! That's great! ”

Vanessa screamed happily, so many potatoes, at least not as hungry as the previous month, the feeling of being woken up at night is really uncomfortable, Mom secretly left her share to Dad, it should be more uncomfortable than herself, this month finally doesn't have to!

"But where are Mom and Dad?" Vanessa was a little puzzled, but it was not for nothing that her parents left her alone at home, the well-behaved Vanessa was ready to turn around and close the door, she wanted to stay at home and wait for her parents to come back, just now I saw a lot of city guards running through the alley, it is not safe, I hope my parents will come back soon.

"Vanessa... Come..."The mother's voice suddenly came into Vanessa's ears, the voice was a little strange, but it was the mother's, Vanessa, who had just turned around to close the door, stopped, and turned her head in surprise, "Mother, you are here!" … Yes! The call of surprise turned into a scream of horror before it was over!

Behind him was a humanoid monster made of mush, the soft flesh paste formed an indescribable mass of almost humanoid things, and the strange liquid oozed from the monster's body, emitting a foul stench, and flowing all over the ground, looking disgusting.

The monster looked like it was head, and a mouth came out of it, and from it came Vanessa's familiar voice that frightened her at this moment: "Vanessa, my darling, help Mom complete the Blood Sacrifice of Life!" The mother's voice came out of the mouth of the fleshy monster, and it brought endless horror.

"Ahh Don't come here, you, you're not a mother, monster! The girl stepped back in horror.

"Vanessa, how can you say that about your mother!" A stern voice came from the kitchen, it was my father's, and a rotten figure came out of the kitchen with endless despair and fear, just like the fleshy monster who made his mother's voice.

"No, Dad, what, don't come here, woo-a-aa!" The girl stepped back in horror and turned to run.

"How can you leave your mother, bad boy!" The Flesh Slime Monster uttered a disgruntled word, and the arm of the Flesh Muddy suddenly stretched out and grabbed the frightened running girl, while another Meat Slime Monster also burst out of the kitchen and rushed towards the girl with an agile speed that did not match his appearance.

The extended arm is extremely fast, and it looks like it will hit Vanessa, and what happens...

"Brush!" In the midst of the lightning, a card flew in from the unclosed doorway, emitting a bright yellow scorching light!

Flashing from Vanessa's thin side, there was a sudden turn in the air, and the tarot card printed with the sun pattern slashed through the air at great speed, and without delay, the hand of the flesh that was stretched out towards Vanessa was cut off, and the golden flame ignited, quickly turning the fallen flesh into ashes.

At this time, the meat paste monster that rushed out of the kitchen was also about to reach behind Vanessa, and with a very fast lunge, the body made of meat paste covered the girl.

"Bang!" This guy was greeted by a heavy shield, and the giant on it directly smashed the monster into the air, slammed into another monster with a severed arm and flew upside down together, "clicking" into the chair and table, and slammed into the wall.

"Are you alright?" a gentle inquiry came, Vanessa opened her eyes, she was already protected by a knight in light armor, this handsome knight with bright golden half-long hair, one hand was protecting Vanessa and the shield in the other hand was raised high, just slapped the monster away, in a trance... The gods descended to earth.

"Leave it to me next..."Moving Vanessa behind him, Edward Walling, raising his heavy shield, drew his sword at his waist, and looked at the two monsters who were slowly standing up.

"And me!" I always felt that the sound of underbeating came from the side, and Charles, wearing a magician's top hat, jumped out from behind with a hand of cards.

(Damn, pretended to be by this Edward)