Longevity starts with eating monsters

Chapter 35: Dramatic Changes in Xiayuan County

It was a piece of sacrificial music, but the content had been changed. From the original vast and melodious sound, it became extremely terrifying when you think about it carefully, and there was blood between the lines.

At the same time, a cry of surprise was heard not far away.

"This is impossible!"

"."

Lu Chen responded and looked, but unexpectedly found an acquaintance.

Although the other party's face was covered with plasters and his whole body was huddled in a corner, Lu Chen's five senses still easily discovered his hiding place.

"It turns out to be Master Chen."

"You can recognize me like this!?"

Lu Chen took a step forward and went straight to where Chen Zhubu was hiding. He then dragged him out and threw him on the ground, scaring him so much that he screamed wildly.

"Spare, spare my life!"

The chief clerk, who was so arrogant and acted like an official when they first met, was now shaking like a sieve and couldn't even stand steadily. The expression on his face when he looked at Lu Chen was extremely terrified, as if the person standing in front of him was not a human, but a big demon that was far more powerful than the one in the City God Temple.

"Master Chen, I'll give you three sentences."

Lu Chen did not threaten in a bad tone, he even smiled kindly, but the smile looked even more ferocious due to the stain of blood.

"Tell me, what happened in the county? What do you know?"

"me"

Chen Zhubu grabbed his clothes and tears burst out.

"Crying? Crying counts as time."

".Well."

Chen Zhubu's tears stopped instantly, and he sobbed several times before whispering, "It's the grand sacrifice. The monthly grand sacrifice has begun early."

Chen Zhubu's words instantly reminded Lu Chen of what he had seen and heard when he entered the city. However, after thinking about the words of the sacrificial music just now, an incredible guess quickly came to his mind: "The grand sacrifice is held once a month. What is the content? Is it secretly led by your county government?"

"of course not."

Chen Zhubu was somewhat afraid to look directly at Lu Chen, and continued in a low voice: "The grand sacrifice is what the people of the county want, we are just echoing the public opinion."

"public opinion?"

As his guess became clearer, Lu Chen's smile gradually faded: "What is the Grand Ceremony? You only have time for the last sentence."

".Of course it's a human!"

Facing the life-and-death crisis, Chen Zhubu finally stopped talking nonsense and let out a hoarse, beast-like growl: "All the people in the city and the county government should work together to send all the disaster victims inside and outside the city to the City God Temple, and then the City God Temple will distribute enough divine meat for next month's consumption!"

"People... the whole city?"

"It wasn't the whole city before, there were always some idiots who had such a pitiful conscience but couldn't wait to show it to everyone."

Chen Zhubu seemed to have thought of something and sneered.

"Since then, there has been a distinction between locals and outsiders in the city. Anyone who does not have an identity card is an unauthorized outsider."

"And outsiders are the sacrifices."

At this point, Chen Zhubu glanced at Lu Chen again and said, "I know what you want to say. That's right, the Huang family has found enough food now."

"But so what?"

"Food takes time to grow and money to buy!"

Chen Zhubu's voice became louder and louder, as if he had anticipated his own fate, and he mocked: "Do you think that the people who have eaten the divine meat for several months without spending a dime or doing any work will be willing to spend money for so-called food?!"

"They won't!"

"Instead of expensive food, they would rather send a few disaster victims to the City God Temple. It's already been done once, so doing it a few more times won't make any difference."

"It's not me who died."

"Just live your life well, why do you care so much?"

Looking at Chen Zhubu, Lu Chen looked calm, seemingly unmoved. After a moment, he continued, "What are the raw materials for the immortal meat?"

"do not know."

Chen Zhubu grinned and said, "No one would ask this question. What we eat is the meat of gods, which is given to us for free by the masters of the City God Temple."

Everyone understood it tacitly and everyone remained silent.

Only a very small number of the victims had a vague understanding of the truth.

These people either joined the ranks of the "locals" and became corrupt, or they were afraid of becoming sacrifices and would rather die in the wilderness than leave.

Over time, this became a taboo for disaster victims.

The three biggest taboos in the city are eating meat.

".You know the truth now."

Chen Zhubu smiled miserably: "What are you going to do? I can tell you that the city's grand sacrifice was launched early, it must have been ordered by the God himself." "The God hasn't issued an order for a long time. We all know that he is in seclusion, trying to break through. The grand sacrifice every month is his help. Now that it is held in advance, he may succeed. Even if you kill me, you will die at the hands of the God in the future."

"I'm waiting for you to come down and accompany me!"

"I'm waiting for you"

The curse filled with strong hatred and unwillingness came to an abrupt end. The sound of gushing blood covered everything, and a resentful head fell to the ground with a thud.

Lu Chen looked into the distance with a calm expression.

This sudden sacrifice was like a bucket of cold water that suddenly woke him up.

He's not the only smart guy.

The so-called demons were not NPCs that would just stand there and wait for him to come over and kill them. They also understood strategy and what it meant to strike first to gain the upper hand.

The Huang family is a bait.

A bait to lure yourself out of town.

For the City God Temple, it probably makes no difference whether it follows the Huang family's advice to escort the so-called caravan or destroys the Huang family.

They just need to let those who pose the greatest threat leave the county.

Even the Ox-Head and Horse-Face might not know the details of this. It was all planned by the god in the City God Temple.

When the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon appeared in the Huang family, they had already become abandoned. Their only purpose was to kill them and buy enough time for themselves.

".But there's still time."

After sorting out his thoughts, Lu Chen quickly grasped the key: "The other party's plan is perfect, but there are still omissions. I didn't expect me to act so quickly!"

Almost as soon as he left the Huang family, he was killed.

Such a fast speed of action obviously caught the City God Temple off guard.

Otherwise, what he heard now should not be the sacrificial music at the beginning of the grand sacrifice, but the loud laughter of the God who broke through the state of enlightenment at the end of the grand sacrifice.

Therefore, there is still a chance to save everything.

He needs more power.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately took a step forward and galloped towards Xiayuan County without stopping.

Xiayuan County, Prison Warden.

Song Kui sat in the lobby of the Prison Office, looking at the flamboyant couplets on the two main pillars of the lobby, his expression a little dazed for a moment.

The world is at peace and the nine provinces are celebrating the good harvest.

The country is peaceful and the people are safe.

"The people are deceiving themselves, and I am deceiving myself, and in the end it is all my own fault."

Song Kui sighed and looked at the goose-feather knife on the table. This knife was made for him by the Ordnance Department when he became the Chief Justice.

He once killed countless demons with this sword.

But now, he could no longer lift the knife.

Because from the beginning to the end, it was not the demon that stopped him.

Song Kui took off the goose-feather knife and walked out of the prison yamen, but found that the outside of the yamen was already crowded with people, who were the common people in the city.

"Please give us a way out, sir."

The old man in the lead spoke first, shouting at the top of his lungs: "There is no surplus food in the city. If you kill the monsters, there will be no more divine meat."

"Without the divine meat, we can't survive!"

"Please have mercy, sir."

"Sir! Please have mercy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of people, all of whom were respected "locals" in the city, kowtowed to Song Kui desperately without exception.

Watching this scene, Song Kui's hand holding the knife was shaking slightly, and he even couldn't help but take a step back.

What can he do?
What is the use of this knife?
"That's good, that's good."

At this moment, a sigh as gentle as jade suddenly sounded from the crowd, and then a figure slowly walked out from the crowd.

But unlike the great monk in imagination, what walked out at this moment was actually a stone statue. Although he was wearing a monk's robe and holding a Zen stick in his hand, it could not change the stone appearance of his whole body. With every step he took, fine sand and gravel rolled down from his body.

"Donor Song, have you figured it out?"

".Stone Buddha!"

Song Kui gritted his teeth and uttered the other person's name.

This is not a human, nor a monk, but a giant demon that has transformed from a stubborn stone. He is also the master of this grand sacrifice and the deity enshrined in the City God Temple.

(End of this chapter)