I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

No one was making noise in the cemetery. Li Yue stepped on the soft clouds and landed on the ground, looking up at the sky, down at the earth, and all around. Everything was lifelike, and there wasn't a trace of this being a "fake world."

Having long given up on trying to guess Mentuo's methods, Li Yue retracted his wandering thoughts and transformed into a blond scholar named Tom. He took a bouquet of flowers from a tombstone beside him and silently blended into the cemetery path, approaching his target. Of course, Li Yue didn't want his "transformation" to be seen by Damon Benben, but he was already familiar with the blessing and could use "completion" to provide a little hint.

Since "completion" didn't stop Li Yue from transforming, Li Yue guessed that Damon Benben should have also entered a certain light sphere, playing a trick on him from behind.

Of course, what Li Yue didn't know was… in reality, Damon Benben was forcibly kicked into the light sphere by Isaac.

Judging from the dates on the tombstones, the clothing of the people, and the style of the church architecture, Li Yue glanced at the world constructed from the knowledge accumulated in his mind and guessed that the scene set by Mentuo should exist around the year 210 of the Kai calendar.

And that hero with the Eastern face… simply from his appearance, he was out of place with the people in the cemetery, so he frequently attracted the gazes of passersby, who were unsure why this person was here.

Li Yue, on the other hand, began to probe towards this hero with his mind from afar, first observing remotely, and then deciding on a plan of action.

He carried a long sword on his back, and his black shirt had large sleeves with exaggerated patterns. He didn't look much like a swordsman in Li Yue's memory, but rather a shaman; it was just that the color of the clothes didn't quite match, giving off an overall strange feeling.

In Damon Benben's note, it was written that this hero was good at magic. Li Yue was also very curious about how his magic was different from that of magicians and demons. He scratched the octopus tentacles under his transformed skin, trying to cover his face with his bangs, ready to absorb the hero's magic at any time.

When Li Yue completely enveloped him with his mind, as expected, a prompt of analysis in progress popped up, but the progress was exactly the same as that of "Hero Studies" instructor Isaac—obviously, like the Blood River, analyzing this hero was equivalent to analyzing the instructor.

That's not bad… it just so happens that it can speed up the progress a bit.

Thinking this, Li Yue slowly approached and walked behind the hero; but this hero hadn't noticed Li Yue's existence, and was instead checking each tombstone, seemingly looking for something.

Only, while checking, the magic power in the hero's sleeves fluctuated, constantly sweeping back and forth across the tombstones.

Not far away, a funeral was taking place. The coffin was being buried, and the relatives and friends surrounding it were each shoveling a handful of soil, with faint sobs and words of comfort coming from them; the priest looked at everything with compassion, giving solace to the grieving people with his gaze and dignified figure.

Li Yue adjusted the bone sword hidden in his trouser leg, holding the bouquet of flowers, and walked closer to the hero as if nothing was happening, thinking that if things went so smoothly… then he would just do a backstab, paralyze the hero's ability to act first, and then discuss other things.

According to the combat experience learned in the Blood River, Li Yue knew that heroes were generally thick-skinned, and it would be difficult to kill them with one sword. When the time came, there would be plenty of opportunities to ask him the three philosophical questions.

Sensing Li Yue's approach, the hero, who was half-squatting in front of the tombstone, slightly turned his head and looked at the blond young man dressed as a scholar beside him; Li Yue lost the opportunity to backstab, drew a triangle on his chest, pretended to mutter a few words, and then placed the bouquet of flowers in front of a tombstone named "Jessica."

Seeing the scholar stop, the hero slightly raised his vigilance.

"Here to pay respects?" The hero spoke, surprisingly in standard Tasu language.

"Yes…" Li Yue affectionately stroked the word "Jessica" on the tombstone, "She is my… grandmother…"

Originally, Li Yue wanted to say lover, but with the help of "completion," he forcibly changed his words to match Jessica's time of death.

"May she rest in peace when she dies, having lived a long life." The hero turned his head back and continued to investigate the tomb in front of him.

At this distance, considering the physical fitness of heroes, Li Yue wasn't sure if he could paralyze his ability to counterattack with one blow. He thought that since there was a ready-made topic, he asked casually: "You… are you also here to pay respects? Where are you from? Do you also have relatives buried here?"

"Hmm? Why are you asking this?" The hero's profile was stern.

"Oh no, no, don't misunderstand, I am a scholar." The appearance of the blond Tom was very weak, and Li Yue fully imitated his timid manner, "You don't seem to be of the same race as us, so I'm a little curious…"

"Hehe, I'm just a lost person." The hero's voice was a little longer, as if thinking of some distant events.

Li Yue's expression remained unchanged, but his heart was surging—a lost person? Lost from where? Obviously, he came from a country that hadn't undergone racial integration with the Tasu Empire?

It seemed that on the "Kaios Continent" in Li Yue's mind, there were still unknown civilizations in those unlit areas; and perhaps some civilizations were extremely close to the previous life he was familiar with.

Even… could it be the same world?

At this time, Li Yue was somewhat blaming the library for having too few books—it didn't even mention a single word about Eastern civilization, what kind of library was this?

"The priest over there said that this cemetery is haunted, so he asked me to come and take a look…" The hero didn't know that Li Yue had so many inner thoughts, and continued.

There didn't seem to be any problems—Li Yue secretly imagined a story of a cemetery in a certain village being haunted, and the priest seeking the help of a nearby hero to drive away the demons in the cemetery.

However, perhaps the priest didn't expect that the hero who responded recently… would be an Easterner?

"Are you a hero? A lost hero? Then where did you come from?" Li Yue knew it was time to use the curiosity of a scholar and ask for more information, so he stared at the hero with bright eyes.

The expectation in Li Yue's eyes was real.

Seeing the hero silent, Li Yue pretended to be dismayed and waved his hand: "Oh, sorry… I picked a not very appropriate time to ask… but this is a novel discovery! I have never read any related records!"

"If it's not very convenient for the hero now, maybe… we can have a cup of coffee together?" Li Yue fully displayed what he had learned in the library, pretending to be a scholar with infinite curiosity about knowledge.

"You are a scholar?" The hero was deceived by Li Yue's acting, "Then do you… know the Jue Mountains on the east side?"

"Of course I know! According to records… demons and dragons live there…" Li Yue was talking about the records in the library, and he suddenly thought at this time—could it be that the Jue Mountain demons in the library records… include Easterners?

The demons' knowledge inheritance is not complete, and everything unknown can be replaced by "demons" and "chaos," so… maybe it's not that they didn't discover this civilization, but that they didn't distinguish it?

And there were no notes from any explorers recording these—Jue Mountain and the Sea of Death are currently places that humans cannot set foot in, and only guys like Gothsipp, after going around the Sea of Death, came back looking like that ghost…

"Well… when I woke up, I was at the foot of the Jue Mountains." The hero's eyes were deep, and he thought of distant events again.

"Don't remember how you got there? Don't remember what happened before you came?" Li Yue asked, fulfilling the persona of a "scholar."

"We can talk about these when it's convenient for us." The hero pointed to the tombstone in front of him, "Are you from around here? Do you know that in the past two months, many people's tombs have inexplicably burst open?"

"I heard that two night watchmen have already died, and a squad of local militia has also disappeared…" The hero seemed to finally confirm that there was no problem with the tombstone in front of him, stood up, looked at the full garden of tombs, wanting to find where his sword should point.

Li Yue heard this, an idea came to mind, and he pointed at the bone sword with his mind, using the vacant authority of the Skeleton King to summon the wronged souls of this place to come and see him from afar.

"We are wronged, master!" The wronged soul shot straight from the ground to Li Yue's head, "We didn't do it!"

The hero frowned, seemingly sensing an unusual aura.