Midian covers a large area, the terrain is complex and changeable, forests, valleys, streams, swamps, hot springs... Everywhere stand marble tombstones where nocturnal species are buried.

Dean felt the endless vitality brought by the high-level iron man, and continued to walk along the undulating terrain for half an hour, gradually feeling a trace of strangeness.

"Is it a delusion, the energy in my body is decreasing?"

"You feel right, master, everyone, including me, is losing energy." The shallows protruded a coin head from his trouser pocket, a dozen or so large eyes stared at the pale blue barrier in the sky, and then turned to the five companions behind him who knew nothing, "It's just that the degree is very slight and doesn't affect daily life, so it's extremely hidden, except for you and me, who are outstanding in perception, the rest of the people don't notice anything unusual at all."

Dean raised an eyebrow on his left, "Is this some kind of mutated version of the law of inhibition?" ”

He had the impression that only supernatural beings who had reached level 6 in the real world would be drained of energy by the will of the world and suppress their strength.

But in Midian, the group of nocturnal species behind him who are only level 3, including the small weak chickens like the shoal, have actually become the target of exploitation? It's a little too mean.

He thought of the nameless tombstones and countless nocturnal bones along the way, and he couldn't help but have a strange intuition in his heart, the nocturnal species living in Midian were like some kind of raised livestock, providing nourishment for whom?

He didn't have time to think carefully, the shadows of the trees in front of him moved slowly, and through the sunlight through the cracks in the forest, three figures flew like big birds on the branches and fell to the moss of the rock wall.

Led by a boldly dressed "woman"?

The whole body is only draped in a red silk cloth to cover the key position, revealing a large area of feminine soft curves, and the thighs, waist, abdomen, and face are covered with black and brown feathers with spikes at the top, and the feathers are combed back as if to put on a primitive and wild coat for her.

Her nose was raised high, and her left and right nostrils were bent and split across her cheeks and cheekbones, which was extremely ugly, but there was a smile in her pale red eyes, which made Dean and his party unconsciously let down their vigilance a little.

The hedgehog woman is followed by two muscular men, dressed in dirty clothes like shrouds and linen.

One of them had skin as red as magma, braided with fingers, and a face that was cold to the bone, reminiscent of a killer without humanity;

The other facial features are quite normal, except that the chin protrudes outwards with a small sharp angle, the forehead is bulging like a hill, and when viewed from the side, the face is like a curved moon, with a well-groomed mustache on the upper lip, and the whole person is as funny as a weirdo in the circus.

……

"The moon of the tribe huvels you! Everyone, don't be nervous, we don't have any hostility, I'm Susan, this pigtail is Gexiu, and the moon-faced is Montero. Twenty meters away, the Hedgehog Woman and her party stood still and introduced themselves in a sweet voice, "We are here to greet you on behalf of the Midianian tribe. ”

"I've seen this hedgehog woman... In dreams. At this point, Sean and Boone in the crowd spoke warily, "She's constantly calling us closer. ”

Dean nodded, his eyes calmly looking at the three nocturnal species, the light of life was at level 3 to 4, and it did not pose a threat.

"Lady Susan, what tribe do you call it?"

"We are a tribe of deformed people, freaks, and monsters who have survived all kinds of disasters under the protection of the great Baphos."

"Okay, you'll know as soon as we come in?"

"When the eggs of the Mothmen hatch anywhere, the tribe will give birth to induction," the spikes on the hedgehog woman's face swung to the sides with her grinning beak, "We knew there would be new companions joining... But I didn't expect it to be such a powerful nocturnal species as you to come in. ”

Behind him, the moon-faced Montero moved his slightly upturned nose, and bowed to Dean with one hand on his chest, "More vigorous than the Athabasca River, you are the son of destiny favored by my lord, right?" I am honored to welcome you to the Tribe. ”

Dean nodded, in his simulated state, his strength had been hidden by ninety percent, but it still surpassed most of the nocturnal species.

"Before us, there were other sons of destiny who entered Midian?"

"There are quite a few, but the high priest said that you were the last ones." Susan nodded sincerely, "My lord has all the people he is waiting for. ”

"All seven? So why are you calling us to join Midianite in your dreams? ”

"Come with us to the High Priest in the Kingdom, and he will tell you himself."

"Wait!" The snake-like slit-like vertical pupils next to him swept over Dean and his group, freezing on Christine's face, "I smell the scent of humans, and the other lords or monsters have all dreamed and are qualified to enter the kingdom. But this little girl is a pure human being, and it is not proper to let her in. ”

"Show some respect to your future compatriots!" The hedgehog woman glanced at Gexiu with displeasure, the spikes on her head straightened angrily, "Her fate is decided by the High Priest and the Council of Elders. ”

"Don't you understand, she's not a monster, she hasn't even killed anyone by the smell, and it gives me a bad feeling, and it will definitely bring disaster to Midian. According to me, she's just a lump of fresh meat, so let's eat her and kill the hidden dangers... Hiss..."Gexiu spit out his forked tongue from his throat and licked his thick lips greedily, the black braid on the back of his head swayed like a snake, and it was terrifying.

Christine's body tensed when she heard this, and Monica and several people naturally gathered around her to make a protective gesture, and the flames of battle ignited in her eyes.

"It's against the rules, idiot!" Moonface stared at Ge Xiu and asked, "You want to be kicked out by the High Priest?" ”

"it, after so many years of eating meaty mushrooms, I want to vomit, don't you miss the fishy smell of flesh and blood." The snake-haired man's bloodshot eyes swept over his two companions, and he shouted hysterically, his one-meter-eight body quickly swelled to two meters high, and his huge rock-like muscles bulged all over his body, "I want to drink blood!" I want to eat meat! Ahhhh

With a roar, a cold wind blew across the woodland.

The temperature plummeted, as if in an instant, from spring to minus 100 degrees of winter, everyone present was frozen and squinted.

In the blur, the gorgon's entire body turned into a humanoid ice sculpture, glittering in the sun, his stiff face still red with anger and greed.

"Alright, the noisy guy is solved." Dean recalled Shadow, looked at the two nocturnal species who opened their mouths in a daze, and smiled slightly, "Can you take us into the kingdom now?" ”

"Gollum..."The Hedgehog Girl and Moonface exchanged a look of awe, they didn't even feel how the other person was making a move, and their companion was subdued, they had only seen this unpredictable method from the Elders,

"Of course it's fine, please come here, but this gentleman... Gexiu has a bit of a problem with his brain and genes, and occasionally loses control of his emotions... In fact, he only talks about it, and has never really eaten people..."

"Call me Kenny... Don't worry, I know he's a retarded man with no self-control, so just let him calm down in the ice cube and he'll recover on his own in a quarter of an hour..."

The two nocturnal species breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to lead the way.

Dean led the group along, looking at a new hint on the panel.

"You've defeated the new Nightcrawler Cultivator and plundered some of his power... Nocturnal stance stats increased by 30% → 30.1%. ”

"Defeating a level 4 nocturnal species only increases by 0.1 percent, will it be even more if you kill it?"

But Dean has just arrived, and he has neither found Lu Guangming nor seen Ba Fu Zhen, so it is not appropriate to make too much noise, so defeat it.

In addition, for nocturnal species who are not traitors and kill innocents indiscriminately, he will not kill the other party for the sake of strength, which is against the principle.

……

"Lady Susan, I'm Peter, what did that idiot mean by eating mushrooms and vegetables?" Peter trotted over to the Hedgehog and took the initiative to shake her hand, as a young vampire he was not good at anything else, but his senses were keen, and he could sense that the two nocturnal species were not hostile.

He looked at the half-hidden and half-exposed chest under the red silk wrapped around his shoulders, "Aren't there a lot of animals in the forest, why don't you hunt them?" ”

The hedgehog girl noticed Peter's smug eyes, and instead of being angry, she straightened her chest boldly, showing a trace of weird charm on her face, "There are more than six hundred nocturnal species in Midian, and as supernatural creatures, they have to eat several times or even dozens of times the food of ordinary people to meet their daily consumption. If they are allowed to hunt wild animals... The surrounding forests, rivers, and less than a month will become a dead land... No matter how much Midian moved, he couldn't afford it. ”

"But if you don't hunt, how can you feed all the inhabitants of Midian? Planting? Monica looked incomprehensible,

"Similarly, some of our companions are able to use the life force and free energy in the leyline air and water to quickly cultivate special crops... Nutrition far surpasses real flesh and blood, and it can easily feed all of its companions... The only thing lacking is the bloody breath of real meat, and it is not enjoyable enough to eat, so every once in a while, the high priest will distribute freshly hunted flesh and blood to everyone, and there are not many dissatisfied fools like Gexiu. ”

As she spoke, the hedgehog woman took out a few black plants the size of a meatball and a mushroom from the red silk pocket of her shawl and distributed them to everyone, "Taste it?" ”

Sean glanced at Dean inquiringly, and then followed him to take the sample and chew it in small bites, slowly his eyes lit up,

"Hmm... Rich in juice... Chicken, beef, fish... Thick springy teeth... More delicious than the freshly fried steaks in most restaurants, and can also relieve the hunger and restlessness of the body? ”

Peter smiled and rubbed his hands at the hedgehog woman, "Can you eat another one?" ”

The hedgehog girl and the moon looked at each other and smiled, and handed it over happily, "Eat as much as you want, the supply of this kind of food is basically unlimited." ”

Dean nodded secretly.

The special mushroom cultivated by the nocturnal species is a small one, but the energy contained is not inferior to the "high-energy protein" developed by the Ministry of Special Operations, no wonder it can feed such a large group of members.

……

After eating the mushrooms.

The relationship between the two groups of people has become a little closer, and their minds have become more active, Dean asked about Lu Guangming's whereabouts, the hedgehog girl and the moon face were unknown, only saying that many nocturnal species have changed their names and surnames after joining from the outside world, and their appearance has changed greatly, and they have been completely cut from the past, and Dean can only go to the kingdom to find it by himself.

Peter and the others asked why there were so many tombs in Midian, and why were there not nocturnal species immortal.

"There are only a very small number of immortals, and most of the nocturnal species have a longer lifespan than humans, and in thousands of years, more people die..."

"Why isn't there an epitaph on the tombstone?"

The two of them had a divine golden light on their faces, "Death is not the end, but they have gone to a higher kingdom to serve our lord Paphren, and one day in the future, my lord will let them return to Midiania with honor and gifts, and be reborn with a new identity and appearance, so naturally there is no need to be nostalgic for the past." ”

"Why is it called nocturnal? Part of it is because many nocturnal species have a weakness... Fear of the sun, will be destroyed by the sun... So we can only live in the house and underground for the rest of our lives, and we are here. ”

Not far away, among the dense shade of trees, the bluestone carved houses were weather-beaten, the walls were cracked, and the vines were crawling with vines, all of which were very close to each other, and they were only one story apart, with a roof ridge and a deep staircase leading to the ground.

From a distance, these houses do not look like homes for living people, but are gloomy and cold, like tombs on the ground.

……

The hedgehog woman led the group into a house where they were headed.

A delicate-looking woman dressed in a gaudy dress like Sally looked curiously, and she held a cute little girl in her right hand and blinked her big eyes.

The two nocturnal kindly touched the little girl's head, greeted the woman, and led Dean into the underground tunnel of the room, at the end of which a dark doorway and flickering fire faintly appeared.

"Who were the two of you just now?" Peter said curiously, "There is no monster on the body, it is completely human." ”

The hedgehog woman walked down the tunnel, "That's Miss White Smoke and her daughter Xiao Jiu, they belong to a special nocturnal species, they look like humans, but they will be killed by the sun. ”

Like Albert the werewolf, he also has an heir?!

Sean and Boone said nervously and expectantly, "Nocturnal species can also combine to have children?" ”

These two nocturnal species have lovers, and they are not without a little obsession with their offspring.

With a wise glint in the moon's eyes, she explained in the tone of a researcher, "Nocturnal species are fine with specific human populations, but there may be reproductive isolation between nocturnal species, and it is difficult to have children. Luckily, we have a few of our compatriots who have special talents... It can absorb the germ cells of any 'nocturnal species' and help create 'children'. ”

Belch.

This answer made everyone's face and even Dean's face become weird, is this an alternative IVF and biochemical baby?

"But it's not all good to have children," Moonface sighed, "and the number of inhabitants in Midiani must be maintained at 666, and if there is a newborn, then someone must leave." ”

As the words fell, everyone walked out of the tunnel and into an extraordinary and amazing space.

The light of countless braziers and torches shone through the underground kingdom, and the atrium was hollowed out, from the dark and endless bottom to the ground above.

On both sides is a circular corridor from top to bottom, and countless chain bridges on the outside of the corridor are connected to the corridor opposite, weaving into a dense road like a spider web in mid-air.

The inside of the corridor is a thick stone wall with countless doorways.

Nocturnal species live in a series of end-to-end chambers behind doorways, like ants living in giant nests.

Dean opened the curtain of the first secret room on his left hand, and there stood a nocturnal breed with a naked body and layers of fat, the shape of which was like a wild boar standing up from a human being, his head grew strangely in the center of his belly instead of his neck, his oily face had a bright smile, one fat hand stroked his big bald head, and the other beckoned to Dean and the others, making a sweet voice like a little girl,

"The moon of the tribe embraces you, welcome aboard, newcomer."

Hiss...

Stepping forward, the second chamber revealed a cheerful and playful and somewhat eerie drum sound, and a female orc wearing a sackcloth vest and battle skirt, with plump and firm blue skin, and two fangs and cracked lips, was powerfully waving drumsticks, as if dancing in the netherworld, welcoming everyone.

In the third secret room, a little giant with a height of more than three meters and white skin was sitting cross-legged, sipping the eighth finger of his right hand like a baby and smirking. ”

……

Countless underground chambers.

Strange-looking, deformed nocturnal species, some sit and think about unfathomable problems, some have a few families playing, they use mud and blood to paint walls and repair buildings, some are fighting, some are playing flutes and playing drums, some are holding cockroaches, mice, and scorpions to perform acrobatics, and more are using their unknown tentacles, claws, arthropods, fins, and various organs to engage in incomprehensible and confusing behaviors.

There was no pain, no silence, no loneliness, no special attention to a few uninvited guests, only concentration and joy in the depths of their souls, as if they were accomplishing some great mission.

The faint and jumping firelight, the indescribable smell, and the busy operation.

This underground kingdom is like a monster circus of countless half-human, half-beast creatures!

Compared with the quiet and dead houses on the ground, this circus is ubiquitous with a faint yellow light, revealing liveliness, vitality, warmth, and a kind of grotesque hope.

Dean and the others admired these bizarre scenes, and their hearts were excited and trembling.

The progress of "bloodline" slowly rose to 98 percent.

(End of chapter)