Chapter Seventy-Eight: Honesty
As soon as you enter the tower, a sultry smell comes over the surface, mixed with the smell of feathers and rotting flesh, like a chain around a person's neck.
Qin Hao didn't cover it with spiritual power, but let herself work hard to get used to this taste. And Zheng Yunwan next to her, I don't know if she is used to it, but there are other ways to cover it up, and she doesn't seem to change her face, and she is not affected by this at all.
The masonry on the ground has been soaked in blood for a long time, and its original color can no longer be seen.
Qin Zhen followed behind Zheng Yunwan and walked all the way from the corridor.
The hallway is circular, with an iron cage on the outside to keep the Devourer inside. They are imprisoned according to their size. The Eaters cowered in a corner, their tails shuddering every time they heard footsteps passing by, and then lowered their tails again.
Zheng Yunwan turned back to Qin Zhen as she walked, and explained, "This is to place it this way to make it more convenient when preparing for the grand ceremony, after all, only one Demon Devourer will be selected for sacrifice in the end, so that you can quickly select the one with the deepest sins among different body types, and after gathering them, the last one left is the one that carries all the sins of Demon Devouring, and will be thrown down from the highest place by the sect master to atone for the sins."
"How was the Demon Eater born?" Qin Hao watched her hand glide briskly through the iron doors, and suddenly asked.
"What?" Zheng Yunwan didn't react for a while, and looked at her slightly stunned.
"Demon eaters are the embodiment of sin, so are they born from sins that already exist in the world? So who does the original sin come from? If they can only reproduce like humans, then who are the current batches of devouring demons atoning for?" Qin Zhen said slowly.
"......" Zheng Yunwan stared at Qin Hao's eyes and was silent for a while, then suddenly half-covered her mouth and giggled: "Zhenzhen, sins will never be repaid, as long as we are all still there, hatred and sins will always be there, otherwise how can people like us who live on hatred survive?"
She laughed merrily, but gradually, the laughter was filled with more crying, coming from behind her head. A demon-devouring face came out of her head, one after the other with Zheng Yunwan's face, the front face laughed, and the back screamed, there was a strange sense of harmony.
"From the day the lord of the city departed, we all had to atone for our sins." Zheng Yunwan raised her hands gently, and her voice raised.
As she moved, the stone brick beneath her feet turned into flesh and lifted her up slowly.
The middle of the tower was empty, and from the bottom floor you could see directly to the top, Zheng Yunwan was lifted up by the meat from the middle position, and every time she passed the first floor of the tower, the circle of locked up devourers screamed in pain, and from behind its head, there was a joyful laughter-
Human faces emerged from the back of the Eater's head, and in place of the Agonized Eater, a human laugh erupted.
And in these countless towers, the voices of demon devourers and humans are mixed together, and for a while, people can't tell whether they are in heaven on earth or hell for monsters.
In the midst of thousands of sounds, the stone bricks under Qin Hao's feet gradually dissolved, turning into flesh and mud that was still wriggling, trying to wrap Qin Hao's feet and drag her to sink with them.
"Guests from afar, let's give everything together for the sake of the prosperity of Hidden Sun City! Only our efforts today can be exchanged for the arrival of other guests in the future. Your dedication will spread the prestige of the Occultation even further, and those who live in oppression will know that in a distant place, there is a wonderland called the Occultation. As long as you come here, you will receive the warmest reception, and all of us will be your brothers and sisters, and we will be like a family."
Zheng Yunwan had been lifted to the top, and her voice came from afar, but it was repeated over and over again through the mouths of all the demon devourers present. Z.br>
The Demon Devourer's throat struggled to squeeze out the human language, and they tried very hard to repeat Zheng Yunwan's words, but after not speaking the human language for a long time, it was an extremely difficult task for them to say such a long sentence at once. Therefore, when Zheng Yunwan's voice fell, all kinds of strange tones repeated her words, like
Babbling.
Qin Hao sighed, feeling that she should reflect on why she had crashed into her attack and kill plan after going alone with Zheng Yunwan for the second time.
She crushed her toes, crushing the mash of flesh that had been crushing her shoes to climb up her calves.
Zheng Yunwan's body had already merged with the flesh at this time, and she swooped down screaming, and her arm, which was already inhuman, was about to grab her. At the same time, as soon as her head turned, the face of the demon devourer would change to the front, and her mouth full of fangs would open at Qin Hao.
Qin Hao stood in place, her fingers staggered seemingly extremely slowly, and then flipped outward, and a cyan ring-shaped barrier instantly appeared between her and Zheng Yunwan, blocking all of Zheng Yunwan's attacks.
"I'm curious, you don't have any spiritual power in your body, but you can turn your body into this. Does this come at a cost?" Qin Hao stood behind the barrier, his left index finger tapping on its center to provide spiritual power maintenance. The two sides that were not protected by the barrier were destroyed by the huge force, and they flew past Qin Hao's side, blowing Qin Hao's long hair.
Zheng Yunwan twisted his head behind him and let out a sharp scream, seeing that his attack did not cause any damage to Qin Hao, his arm was raised high again, wanting to break through the barrier with his brute force.
But obviously, relying only on strength to attack did not pose any threat to the barrier, but her own arm could not withstand the level and speed of such an attack, and she broke with a "click" and flew high.
"Ahh
Qin Hao's right hand was hidden under his sleeve, and the black snake jade bracelet began to slide slowly, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the prey in front of him.
The current Zheng Yunwan can no longer be regarded as a human being.
Qin Zhen said to herself.
Even if she kills her here now, it is not contrary to her mother's approach, she just wants to kill a monster that wants to harm her, not an innocent mortal.
But this hypnotic sentence did not convince the black snake jade bracelet on her wrist.
The black snake clenched her hand in dissatisfaction, and the snake's body slid more and more slowly, as if the wheels that were about to travel were stuck in the mud.
No, she can no longer subconsciously bring herself into her mother's thinking, she has to think with the thinking of "Qin Zhen".
Zheng Yunwan can't be killed, because she still needs to know more through talking to Zheng Yunmin.
She had already made Zheng Yunmin notice that jade slip, and if she knew the true origin and usefulness of this jade slip, then she would definitely come to find her.
Therefore, for the sake of Zheng Yunmin's more trust, she can't kill Zheng Yunwan, at least not now. Otherwise, no matter how important that jade slip is, Zheng Yunmin, who has lost his sister, will only regard her as an enemy and refuse to communicate with her for half a word.
"I'll just have to let you quiet for a while." Qin Zhen muttered, and cast another spell with his right hand.
The barrier instantly turned into a transparent bell, covering her from the top of Zheng Yunwan's head, forcing Zheng Yunwan's body to gradually change back to its normal appearance, allowing her to rush into the bell frantically, but she couldn't break through the slightest, and finally when the bell was completely buckled on the ground, she lost consciousness and passed out in a deep coma.
"I thought you'd stop me." Qin Zhen turned her head to look at the shadow on the left behind her and smiled softly.
Zheng Yunmin walked out of the shadows and picked up the unconscious Zheng Yunwan with a calm face.
At this time, Zheng Yunwan had completely changed back to the appearance of a normal human, and the broken arm had grown back. The faces behind the devourers' heads were gone, and their fluff grew back.
"How did you get that jade slip?" Zheng Yunmin ignored Qin Hao's joking tone, and asked bluntly.
Qin Zhen held the jade slip in the palm of his hand and showed it in the direction of Zheng Yunmin, and only after Zheng Yunmin had completely read the jade slip did Qin Hao say slowly, "I'm sorry, but this is what you gave me personally."
"......" Zheng Yunmin's face became even more gloomy.
"I'd love to know the future, too
Why did you give me this jade slip? At that time, I only thought it was an ordinary jade slip, but it is clear that now that I am here, maybe you can answer my doubts at this time." Qin Zhen put the jade slip away again.
「…… This is not the place to talk, and the executioners will come over and inspect in a while, so let's change places first." Zheng Yunmin hugged Zheng Yunwan tightly, then turned around and walked out of the tower.
"If I'm not mistaken, you were going to sacrifice me and the Demon Eater as a sacrifice for the ceremony. Now just walk out like this, are there still your people waiting for me outside?" Qin Zhen pointed to the stone bricks that had been lifted up on the ground.
"And what do you want?" Zheng Yunmin stopped and turned to stare at Qin Hao.
"I'll finish it here. Then I can cooperate with you and pretend to escape, and then you take your wounded sister and tell the executioner that you didn't beat me and let me run away. That way you can still stay in the city of the Occultation, and I can leave with the news I want." Qin Zhen said.
「…… Okay." Zheng Yunmin hesitated for a moment, but still agreed to Qin Hao's proposal in a deep voice. She wanted to find a flat ground and wanted to put Zheng Yunwan down first, but this piece of land had already been shattered by the battle.
"Put it here." Qin Zhen's toes moved, and the ground with her as the center and two meters outward was restored to its original state with the blessing of spiritual power.
Zheng Yunmin put Zheng Yunmin down, then pursed his lips and looked at Qin Zhen with a serious face: "You can come here, has the future Occultation City been changed?"