I am the villain in the book

Prepare yourselves to collect corpses for the people in the city.

The temperature in the room seemed to plummet to freezing point the moment Wei Changtian uttered these words.

Su Qi's face turned deathly pale, his body trembled slightly, and he stammered, unable to speak.

Wei Changtian glanced at him, then calmly said:

"Lord Su, I said before that if I didn't see Jing Guoqing within five days, I would massacre the city."

"Now, five days have passed, but Jing Guoqing hasn't arrived in Linchuan. If I don't kill some people, I'm afraid you'll underestimate me."

"So, these people must be killed, and this city must be slaughtered."

"Don't you think that makes sense?"

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In just four sentences, Wei Changtian vividly portrayed the persona of the "Living Yama".

In simple terms, an image of someone who "doesn't blink when killing and treats human lives like grass" was vividly established.

Su Qi was, of course, utterly despairing.

He originally thought that since he had already "surrendered", Wei Changtian would have achieved his goal and should spare the people of Linchuan.

But he didn't expect...

"Thump!"

His knees weakened, and Su Qi suddenly knelt straight down in front of Wei Changtian, his eyes red.

"Young Master Wei, I beg you, spare the people in the city, spare them!"

"Why should I spare them?"

Wei Changtian's expression remained calm: "Lord Su, I gave you a chance, but you didn't seize it yourself."

"I... I was wrong..."

Su Qi pressed his forehead to the ground, his voice trembling: "I was confused before, I beg, beg Young Master to be merciful..."

"If... if Young Master doesn't mind, I will dedicate this old life to you from now on, I only ask that Young Master can spare the people of Linchuan..."

At least when things reached this point, he didn't run away. Instead, he was willing to exchange his most valued "reputation" and "dignity" for the lives of the people of Linchuan, something many people couldn't do.

"Lord Su, you're making things difficult for me..."

Wei Changtian looked down at Su Qi kneeling on the ground, knowing that it was almost enough. If he pushed any further, the former would probably break down.

Therefore, after pretending to hesitate and think for a moment, he finally said with a smile:

"Forget it, I'm still kind-hearted after all."

"Since you, Lord, are pleading with me like this, then I will give you another chance."

"Lord Su, get up and prepare."

"You are about to rebel."

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Dusk, north of Linchuan City.

The earth trembled, and the roars of beasts were distant and muffled.

As the horizon gradually rolled up waves of yellow sand, rushing towards Linchuan City with the afterglow of the setting sun, the soldiers on the city wall all swallowed, their faces deathly pale.

They had long known about the impending beast tide, so they were not so panicked as to be at a loss.

But the fear in their hearts could not be concealed.

Beast tide!

In the current situation where humans are comprehensively suppressing the demon race, let alone Linchuan, such a situation is rarely seen anywhere in the world.

Although the combat power of unshaped monsters is generally not high, and they don't know how to "attack the city".

Similarly, the soldiers standing on the city wall have never encountered such a scene, nor do they know how to deal with it.

In other words, no one knows how powerful this beast tide really is.

So, no one is confident whether they can defend Linchuan City.

More importantly, there are tens of thousands of Heavenly Dog soldiers watching covetously not far away...

"Quick, look!"

Suddenly, someone screamed and pointed in one direction.

Everyone, who was in a state of high tension, immediately turned their heads to look, and then they saw a Heavenly Dog army rushing towards the city wall at an extremely fast speed.

Only a hundred or so people, but they were all riding ferocious jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards, the black Heavenly Dog flag fluttering in the wind.

In fact, the garrison of Linchuan City was already used to this scene.

After all, every morning such a team would come to the outside of Linchuan City, drop a hundred sacks containing dead people, and then swagger away.

However, even so, every time the Heavenly Dog army came, everyone would inevitably feel a sense of fear.

What's more, this time, this Heavenly Dog army was clearly not here to "throw corpses".

"Wh-what are they going to do?"

With the beast tide approaching, the Heavenly Dog army suddenly took action again, and everyone understood that it was definitely not a good thing.

Some people retreated a few steps, trembling. If it weren't for the officers drawing their swords to supervise the army, it was estimated that many people would have turned around and run away.

And in the countless gazes of tension and panic, the Heavenly Dog army got closer and closer, and soon came to the bottom of the city wall.

"Bang! Bang bang bang!"

As in the situation every morning, these Heavenly Dog soldiers did not shout, nor did they stay under the city for too long. They only dropped one sack after another and then turned around and left.

In the swirling dust, dozens of large sacks were scattered outside the city gate, bulging with things.

"Wh-what is this..."

Looking at these sacks, the expressions of the guards on the city wall were somewhat blank.

The Heavenly Dog army had already come to throw corpses this morning, why did they come again now?

Moreover, there was no blood around these sacks, so they didn't seem to be filled with corpses...

"Go and pick them up!"

Suddenly, a golden-armored general appeared on the city wall at some point, and issued an order expressionlessly.

"Yes, yes!"

Although they felt uneasy, the surrounding soldiers dared not disobey the military order. Immediately, about a hundred people came out from the side gate, dragged the sacks on the ground, and ran back.

Judging from their movements, these sacks were not heavy, and were even a little light.

This also made the soldiers who saw this scene even more confused.

Until one sack after another was placed in front of the golden-armored general, the latter took a deep breath and ordered again in a deep voice:

"Open them!"

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It could be seen that the golden-armored general should have known what was in the sacks, otherwise he would not have opened them for inspection so defenselessly.

And as the tie ropes were untied and the contents of the sacks were shaken out in front of everyone, everyone was stunned.

Because what was scattered in front of them at this moment were hundreds of uniformly styled military flags.

Black background, gold纹 (wén - pattern), white characters, the flag surface was either embroidered with "Su", or embroidered with rebellious words such as "Acting for Heaven" and "Punishing on Behalf of Heaven".

Military flag?

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For a time, the air seemed to freeze, and everyone opened their mouths blankly, not yet reacting to what this meant.

However, the golden-armored general walked to a flagpole without hesitation, and then drew his sword and slashed.

"Whoosh!"

The flag rope broke, and the yellow tooth flag embroidered with the character "乾 (qián - Heaven)" fell with the wind, swaying and falling down the city wall.

Then everyone heard the golden-armored general shout in a deep voice:

"Lord Su has ordered!"

"Change the flags!!!"