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In the dark and hot cave, a fierce battle has just ended.

A large number of demon corpses were lying on the ground, and the blood flowing out gathered into pools of blood.

Xu Cheng walked among the demon's corpses, checking to see if there were any survivors, and making up for it in time.

Nearly a hundred soldiers were sitting in a corner of the cave, bandaging their wounds and resting. They looked up at Xu Cheng from time to time, showing reverence on their faces.

After casually killing a demon who was still alive, Xu Cheng used a big stone to block the soldiers' sight, took out a bone nail from his body, and nailed it into the ground with force, erasing the traces. .

"What's the use of doing these things?"

After burying the nail, Xu Cheng asked the nightmare in his heart.

During this year, apart from eating, sleeping and fighting demons every day, he followed the instructions of the nightmare and quietly buried a large number of bone nails around the gate of hell.

He knew that this kind of behavior must be a seal against the gate of hell, but since the God of Life didn't express anything, he had no choice but to follow suit.

"Hey, you'll know when the time comes."

Nightmare is like a repeater, repeating this sentence, every time Xu Cheng asks a question, it will use this sentence to prevaricate him.

Xu Cheng gave up asking, walked out from behind the stone, and came in front of the soldiers.

The soldiers stood up from the ground one after another and lined up neatly.

Xu Cheng looked at one of the soldiers: "Where is the next place that needs to be cleaned?"

The soldier hurriedly took out the map to check it again, and then reported: "No more, this is the last place."

The fortress blocked the gate of hell, but there were still many tiny gaps in space around it. Many demons would occasionally run out of the gaps, and they needed to be cleaned up regularly.

Xu Cheng took the initiative to undertake this troublesome and dangerous task, and every once in a while he would lead the soldiers to go out to clean up the devils hiding in the ground—mainly to bury nails everywhere.

He looked at the expectant soldiers and ordered, "Then go back."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although under the leadership of the legendary Master Chief Xu Cheng, the casualties of the suppression team were negligible compared to before, but their long-term activities outside also caused them to suffer mentally and physically.

This environment, which is tens of thousands of meters deep underground, is not suitable for human survival. Although the soldiers here have extraordinary physiques, they cannot last long outside. Only by returning to the fortress protected by the God of Life can they maintain basic survival .

After returning to the fortress, Xu Cheng had just handed over the task and was about to go back to take a rest when he was stopped by a soldier.

"Master Chief, the legion commander is in a meeting, please go over immediately."

Xu Cheng had no choice but to walk towards the meeting room with exhaustion.

Many patrolling soldiers along the way would cast respectful glances at Xu Cheng when they saw him.

It has been nearly a year since he came to the fortress. Relying on his strong strength and easy-going personality, Xu Cheng is deeply loved by the soldiers and has accumulated a very high reputation.

When he came to the door of the meeting room, the two soldiers standing guard did not stop him when they saw him, but opened the door voluntarily.

In the conference room, as the legion leader, Xilin was sitting in the main seat, and was having a meeting with a group of generals, large and small.

Seeing Xu Cheng come in hastily, the group of generals was not displeased, but all of them greeted him enthusiastically.

"Locke, are you back?"

"Remember to rest more."

"Have you eaten? Do you want to eat something good with me later?"

Xu Cheng responded to everyone's enthusiasm one by one, and was about to find a seat in the corner, but Xilin said, "Come here."

He had no choice but to walk over and sit down in the empty seat next to Shireen, as if he was the second in command.

Everyone can see that Xilin attaches great importance to Xu Cheng, but no one feels jealous. In the past year, Xu Cheng has used his hard power to convince everyone here—if he is not convinced, an accident will happen. , or retire early.

His current military rank is very low, that's because of his lack of qualifications. After all, the army is a place that is very particular about seniority, but no one doubts that Xu Cheng will take over Xilin's position in the future and become the new army commander.

This can also be seen from Xilin's attitude towards Xu Cheng, asking him to attend every meeting.

The meeting continued, and the content was the wave of demons half a month later.

Every three months, a large number of demons will emerge from the cracks in the space at the gate of hell, forming a huge wave like a flood.

This is an extremely severe test for the fortress, and various plans must be made in advance, and sufficient supplies and personnel must be prepared.

Today's meeting seemed a bit heavy, because there was an obvious shortage of supplies and personnel in the fortress.

This fortress consumes a large amount of materials and personnel every year, and the cost has been shared equally by Arnold and other surrounding countries.

In order to fight against the devil, all countries were willing to contribute their efforts at the beginning, but as time went by, more and more countries began to default on the fees, and finally Arnold was responsible for it.

Over the years, Arnold has also gradually felt strenuous, and the supply of supplies is gradually decreasing every year, and this year is even worse.

At the meeting, everyone's heart was very heavy. They had submitted applications to Arnold for additional supplies many times, but they had not received a clear answer. Even the latest batch of supplies sent down was less than half of the original.

If this continues, the entire fortress will not be able to sustain it.

"All right."

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Shirene, who had been silent all this time, finally said, "I will find a way to ask the Lord of Life for help. Everyone should concentrate on dealing with the wave of demons in half a month. This is the last wave of this year."

Everyone is cheering up, if the great Lord of Life helps, it will indeed alleviate the various difficulties that the fortress is facing today
After the meeting was over, Xu Cheng was about to leave, but Xilin stopped him: "Lock, come with me, I have something to tell you."

The rest of the generals looked at each other with tacit ambiguous expressions—since Xu Cheng rescued Xilin from the siege of two Balrogs during the demon wave half a year ago, she often left her behind to make a fuss.

Lonely men and widows, ghosts would not believe it if they said that the gun did not go off.

But out of respect for the two of them, no one dared to fabricate any pornographic news in private.

Facing everyone's teasing gazes, Xu Cheng had already gotten used to it, and left the conference room behind Xilin.

There is no alternation of the sun and the moon in this underground world, and the work and rest are all judged by the sound of the bell.

After the evening bell rang, the soldiers gathered in the mess hall and began to eat supper.

Xilin invited Xu Cheng to stay and have dinner with her. Her dinner was very simple. As the highest officer of the entire fortress, Xilin's life was poor without any enjoyment.

After having dinner together, Xu Cheng had to accompany her to the top floor of the fortress, take a stroll to digest food, and chat along the way.

"Time flies, before I know it, I have been here for a year."

Walking to the female wall, Xilin put her hands on the wall and asked, "What's your plan next? Are you going to stay? Or go back to the ground?"

Xu Cheng also felt that the days passed quickly, and a year passed before he knew it.

"I haven't thought it through yet, let's talk about it later."

He can't help himself now, no matter where he goes, he can't decide.

Shirin looked at the gate of hell in the distance, and suddenly said: "I have already applied to the higher authorities, and you can go back after you resist the wave of demons in half a month."

Xu Cheng looked at her in surprise: "I thought you would let me stay and inherit your position."

For the past six months, Xilin has been cultivating Xu Cheng as an heir, but she never expected to send him away in the end.

"Is my seat comfortable?"

Xilin said without turning her head: "There are no four seasons in this ghost place, and there is no sun and moon. If you stay here, you will have no future. You are still young, so you should have a better future."

"how about you?"

Xu Cheng looked at her side face: "I remember you have many opportunities to leave here, right?"

Shirin has guarded Hell Fortress for more than ten years. With her merits, she could have applied for transfer from here long ago.

"Opportunities should be reserved for young people."

Shireen said softly, "I'm used to life here."

Xu Cheng wanted to say something, when he suddenly heard the voice of the nightmare sounding from the bottom of his heart.

"Aren't you curious about the reason why I asked you to bury the bone nail? You will see it soon."

Before Xu Cheng was surprised by its sudden opening, he heard a rapid bell ringing. After serving as a soldier for a year, he knew very well that this was the highest level of security.

He subconsciously looked forward, and a few kilometers away, on the thousand-meter-high rock wall, countless space cracks emerged and quickly gathered together to form a huge door that was also a thousand meters high.

There are circles of shining golden chains wrapped around the door. This is the real appearance of the gate of hell. The chains on it are the embodiment of the seal of the God of Life.

At this moment, the door was slowly being pushed open from the inside, and the chain above was tightened, making a deafening bang.

"why……"

Seeing this unprecedented scene, Shirene was so shocked that she lost her mind.

The appearance of the gate of hell means that the seal has been completely broken, but it shouldn't be like this. This has never happened before they have been stationed here for hundreds of years.

But Xu Cheng knew that this should be his own credit - he had persevered in burying a large number of bone nails in the past year, and finally broke the seal left by the God of Life.

"Locke, it's up to you next."

The voice of the nightmare sounded in Xu Cheng's heart: "Unseal the gate of hell and welcome the great Saltos to come to this world!!"

"Can you stop making such villainous voices?"

Xu Cheng complained in his heart, then grabbed the still-shocked Xilin by the wrist, and dragged her back.

When they came to the command post, the generals had already gathered together, but everyone was panicked, they had never encountered such a thing.

Everyone focused on Shireen, but Shirene also had an expression of being unable to calm down at the moment, making it difficult to make a decision.

The seal is broken, and a large number of demons will come out. This is definitely not something that a small fortress can stop. Everyone who stays will die.

"Everyone."

Xu Cheng, who was mentally prepared, stepped forward directly: "Organize the retreat immediately and abandon the fortress."

"no!"

Shirin reacted immediately and said decisively: "The fortress must never give up!"

The centuries-old history of this fortress, the countless people who sacrificed their lives here to stop the demons, and the meaning of countless sacrifices made Shirene unable to bear the loss of the fortress in her own hands.

"Everyone, I don't need to elaborate on the importance of the fortress."

Shirin took a step forward and looked around at the panicked generals: "Our mission is to stop the demons, even if we sacrifice our lives..."

Xu Cheng took a step back, feeling a little guilty.

The soldiers here will stick to the lofty beliefs in the fortress, but because of him, they are in the current desperate situation.

But this is a struggle between the gods and the devil, and these tiny individuals can only drift with the flow, powerless to resist.

The only thing Xu Cheng can do is to prevent these soldiers from dying in vain.

Shirin was still cheering on the generals when she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her neck. She staggered a step forward and looked back with an expression of disbelief.

Before seeing Xu Cheng's face, her eyes darkened and she fell to the ground with a thump.

Before she fell into a coma, a last thought came to her mind - Locke, I misread you, you coward! !
The rest of the generals were taken aback, they didn't expect Xu Cheng to sneak attack and knock out Xilin at this time.

"Lock, you bastard!"

They all became angry, thinking that Xu Cheng stunned Xi Lin in order to escape, and this cowardly behavior made them very contemptuous.

"Order to retreat."

Xu Cheng looked around: "I'll stay behind, I'm stronger than all of you, I can buy you enough time to evacuate."

"You... what did you say?"

Everyone's angry expressions froze on their faces. They thought Xu Cheng wanted to leave and knocked Xilin unconscious. It turned out that he wanted to stay alone and buy time for everyone to evacuate.

The person who misunderstood him as a coward suddenly felt guilty.

A general suddenly stood up: "I will stay with you."

It is almost certain to die if you stay, and if you dare to stand up at this time, you have already disregarded life and death.

"Brothers!"

Xu Cheng walked over and punched the opponent in the abdomen, his eyes were turned white, and he passed out immediately.

He looked around: "Who else?"

A few people who wanted to stand up quietly retracted their feet.

The evacuation proceeded very quickly, because of the long-term lack of personnel replenishment, there were only a few thousand soldiers left in the fortress, and they could run away quickly without carrying heavy supplies.

There were many soldiers who wanted to stay and die with Xu Cheng, but they were all dragged away.

The generals led the unconscious Xi Lin, looking back at Xu Cheng who was standing alone on the city wall, their eyes were red.

They are the real cowards, running down the steps Xu Cheng gave them.

On the city wall, Xu Cheng watched the team leave and sighed slightly.

"What are you sighing for?"

Nightmare's yin and yang voice sounded from the bottom of Xu Cheng's heart: "You are about to become a saint in their hearts. If they know that you have lifted the seal, what expression will they show on their faces? I don't know yet, so you are still so powerful. Love."

Xu Cheng complained back coldly: "Use your underdeveloped cerebellum and completely underdeveloped brain to think about it carefully. If you don't send this group of people who are in the way away, what should I do if they hinder me later?"

"Heh, I admit that what you said makes sense, so hurry up and unlock the seal."

Nightmare's voice became louder: "I can't wait any longer."

Xu Cheng turned his head and looked at the gate of hell a few kilometers away. The entire gate had been pushed open with an obvious gap, and the chains on it were stretched to the limit and would break at any moment.

Shirin's group misunderstood, even if the gate of hell is opened, there will not be a large number of demons running out.

There is only one demon that will come out - the demon king of hell: Saltos.

On the back side of the world, that is, in hell, Sartos' status is equivalent to that of a god, but for some unknown reason, it has always wanted to invade the front side.

Xu Cheng jumped off the city wall, walked towards the gate of hell, and at the same time asked Nightmare in his heart: "The God of Life knew about your existence a year ago, and even placed surveillance power on me, don't you think so at all? Worried?"

"Gods are hypocritical and arrogant. The God of Life thinks he can control the situation."

Nightmare complacently said: "However, the great Sartos has already seen everything, so hurry up and open the seal."

Xu Cheng has already come to the front of the gate of hell. In front of the huge thousand-meter-high gate, he is as insignificant as an ant, trying to open the gate is as overwhelming as a mayfly shaking a tree.

However, it was not in vain for Xu Cheng to buy nails everywhere this year. He had already used the power of nightmare to dig a gap in the seal.

He raised his right hand high, completely releasing the nightmare power in his body.

The pitch-black power spewed out from his right hand, rising like thick smoke, and finally formed a huge palm, grabbed the chain above the gate of hell, and pulled it with all his strength.

With the power of Nightmare, of course, the seal cannot be shaken, but the power of the demon king inside the door has already reached the limit of the seal's endurance.

The pull of the chain, which was already extremely tight, was like the last feather that overwhelmed a camel, directly tearing off the chain.

One was broken, and the dominoes were next, and the remaining chains were broken without Nightmare doing anything.

When all the chains are broken, the seal is broken, and the gates of hell are finally opened.

boom!
The two doors were suddenly blasted open, and a terrifying air pressure was blown out from the door. With Xu Cheng's strength, he was also blown away, flying several kilometers in one breath, and slammed into the city wall of the fortress.

Nothing can be seen in the pitch-black gate, only the endless air pressure is pouring out, sweeping away everything in sight.

Xu Cheng was pressed against the wall by the strong air pressure and couldn't move. His heart throbbed suddenly. He resisted the air pressure and opened his eyes. He saw the gate of hell. A pitch-black hand slowly stretched out and grabbed the door frame. .

The gate of hell is a thousand meters high, but it seems a bit narrow for this palm.

Another black hand protruded from the door and grabbed the door frame on the other side.

Immediately afterwards, a black head poked out from the door.

Demon King of Hell: Saltos!

With Xu Cheng's current strength, he couldn't see clearly the true face of this demon king at all. It was like a black hole, sucking all the brilliance away, and he could only vaguely see an image with horns on top of his head.

However, changes in the surrounding environment have already announced the arrival of this demon king. The strong wind formed by the air pressure began to howl, and the temperature dropped to the extreme cold that living things could not survive.

Xu Cheng felt that he couldn't breathe, and his body was suffering from tearing pain. Just looking at Sartos, he felt that his eyes were going to be blind.

"Ah! Great Saltos!!"

Nightmare flew out of Xu Cheng's body, knelt on the ground, and kept prostrating five-body prostration to the Demon King, with cries of joy like weeping.

Sartos ignored this little pawn. The Gate of Hell was too narrow for its huge body, and it could barely squeeze out its upper body.

Xu Cheng was still sticking to the city wall and enduring the pain of facing the devil head-on, but he didn't do anything. He knew that what was coming was not his home game.

The next moment, Xu Cheng felt a strong breath of life surging from his body, just like the first sprout that broke through the ground in early spring, so green and full of vitality.

The pain surrounding his body disappeared, but Xu Cheng couldn't move, he had become a puppet.

The green light of life gushed out of his body, shaped like a liquid, and gradually condensed into a thousand-meter-high green silhouette.

This figure couldn't tell the difference between male and female, only he had long emerald green hair, and his lower body was covered with tree roots and branches, as if he was connected with the earth.

He waved his hand lightly, and the gate of hell that was originally open suddenly closed tightly, directly clamping the demon king who was squeezed out from half of his body.

"Sartos, look at how embarrassed you are now."

The vast voice of the God of Life resounded in this underground world: "You are like a beast trapped in a cage, squeezed at the prison door and unable to move, so ridiculous."

"Akesuo, is this your purpose?"

The voice of Saltos was like a beating giant drum, and every word made Xu Cheng's heart beat violently. He suspected that if the God of Life was not lurking in his body, then Saltos only needed to speak If you speak, your heart will explode.

"As stupid as you are, can't you still understand?"

The purpose of Akesuo, the god of life, is very simple. After being reported by Xu Cheng, he knew of Sartos' attempt to kill the gods, so he used his plan and sent Xu Cheng to guard the gate of hell.

Sure enough, Saltos would not miss this opportunity, and used Xu Cheng to unseal the gate of hell.

When Sartos squeezed in half of his body, Akesuo appeared, and he wanted to take the opportunity to wipe out this demon king who was always trying to smuggle in.

"Of course I understand!"

Saltos's voice was sarcasm: "You who claim to be smart, don't you see that this is a trap aimed at you?"

As soon as the words fell, Sartos's huge body squeezed at the gate of hell suddenly turned into countless fly ash.

"Hahahaha, come on, Lord Sartos, please use me to your heart's content."

Amid Nightmare's wild laughter, Xu Cheng felt a terrifying force that did not belong to it nor to the God of Life, breaking out of his cocoon.

Sartos, the demon king of hell, was born from Xu Cheng's body with the nightmare as his placenta.

Sartos, who was supposed to be half of his body still in hell, somehow used the soul and body of Nightmare to be completely born in Xu Cheng's body.

The power of gods and demon kings existed in his small body at the same time.