I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Loushan is located southeast of the Papal State, but not directly on the line between the Demon King's Castle and the Holy City.

Otherwise, the mountain would probably have been flattened when the First Army set out.

Li Yue cross-referenced the Demon Route, which is Hentlar's map, and after passing through a forest and dealing with a few forest bandits, he arrived at the territory that originally belonged to the Papal State.

Although the Hunting Country is gone, it does not mean that all the thieves and robbers are dead.

Many bandits who originally roamed the border of the Tas Empire took advantage of the First Army's devastation of the Papal State and came to loot the Holy Towns that were once directly protected by the Papal State.

Therefore, the road from the forest to here was rampant with bandits, and there was a vague tendency to gather more and more.

But Li Yue quite enjoyed it.

Since arriving at the Demon King's Castle, Li Yue has mostly been dealing with the Demon Prince, the Lord of Authority, and the Tier 8 Hero. The only time he could relax was when he was逛恶魔市集 with Yingying and Dandan.

He was constantly afraid of demons targeting the library and his brain, and his days were tense.

Now that he finally came to the human world, Li Yue was willing to play with the bandits, play with flying swords, and have gun battles, so that he could change his mind.

The situation in the Holy City was complicated, and Li Yue had to adjust to his best state, otherwise he would only be adding to Yingying's troubles.

And this made the bandits entrenched nearby suffer—what confused them the most was that the merchant's bullets could turn corners. One shot would explode several heads.

The way they shouted "Demon Relic" and ran away was so much fun.

Li Yue also began to fully understand the mood of the demons in the Demon King's Castle who wanted to go out of the city to play.

After destroying a dozen gangs of bandits, Li Yue's gun-slinging skills had become superb, and he could even use parasitic threads to control the bandits and practice shooting at moving targets.

After three days of walking, the red mist between heaven and earth gradually became suffocating; Li Yue always felt that time passed a little fast. Many of the scenery along the way was originally novel, but it did not leave any impression in his mind.

But whenever he recalled it, those sceneries would reappear, and the corresponding feelings would occupy his mind.

It was like jumping for no reason...

Fortunately, he was tired of playing with bandits. Li Yue jumped on the horse, reconnected his brain cortex walnut, and prepared to find a town nearby to feed his horse and speed up his journey to the Holy City.

The magic bag was not like Abaddon's coins. At most, it could only stuff things inside, and it did not have a good preservation effect—and even if you put the horse in the magic bag, it still needed to eat.

After eating hard meat chunks and weeds for a few days, the horse was almost畸变ed.

What was even more frustrating was that the red mist became thicker, and the water in the stream was also polluted. Every time the horse drank it, it would jump around restlessly for a while; Li Yue felt that there were more and more bandits further ahead, which might have something to do with the water.

If this was the case, the people and animals in the red mist would inevitably kill each other to death.

If Reid Kort had a way to dispel the red mist, he would surely gather countless believers...

But who knows if he is already doing this in some corner of the border?

Li Yue thought about some random things and finally saw a hazy town standing at the end of the road. The tallest bell tower was five stories high, and the town was considered to be of a certain scale.

According to the map, this town is called Red Oil Town, which is smaller than Death Town Desler. It is named after a special product called "Red Oil".

Red Oil is used in large quantities to make the Papal State's Eucharist, and Red Oil Town has also been protected by the Papal State and become a Holy Town.

It is said that the bodies of the townspeople who grow old and die in Red Oil Town will disappear the next morning and enter heaven to become God's people—this is what Li Yue heard in the minds of the bandits on the road. He didn't know if it was true or not.

Stepping onto the town road, the air was filled with a trace of blood. Li Yue held down the somewhat restless horse and moved forward slowly.

He didn't see any corpses when he entered the town, perhaps the legend was true.

Li Yue also didn't see the small blood cocoons that he had seen in his communication with Jessie. It was estimated that Red Oil Town's geographical location was not very good, so the townspeople did not become the First Army's blood bank or ammunition depot.

And as he went deeper, Li Yue suddenly made a new discovery.

The town's church was filled with people.

They were surrounding a well, honestly praying to a菱形聖像; the holy image emitted a soft holy light, creating a piece of pure land in the red mist, sheltering the people in the church.

Through the Eye of畸变, Li Yue also saw that the church's cellar was piled with food, red oil, and the townspeople's transported wealth.

Obviously, they were prepared and hid in the church before the First Army's red mist arrived, avoiding the doom of death.

But he didn't know how long they could last.

Outside the church, two gangs of bandits were confronting each other.

They were at daggers drawn, each stating that the townspeople and the townspeople's food and property in the church should belong to them, and that the other party came later and should get lost, otherwise they would die.

The holy light could block the red mist, but it could not block the bandits' swords and guns. Everyone in the church was praying devoutly, believing that God could protect them safely.

Their hearts told Li Yue that they really thought so.

Just as the two gangs of bandits were arguing endlessly and were about to fight at any moment, a merchant with yellowish eyeballs rode a tall horse and stepped onto the stone road in front of the small church with the sound of嗒哒嗒哒.

"Good evening, assholes." Li Yue took off his防贼帽 with one hand and bowed, and took out a double-barreled shotgun with the other hand and fired two shots.

"Do you have clean water?" The two bullets diverged, each drawing a strange arc, turned past the bandits' teams, and exploded one head after another.

"It seems not." Li Yue shook his head, looking at the pillars of blood spewing from their necks.

"Thank God... for giving me a roof, tiles, and safety..." The townspeople in the church heard the gunshots and prayed even louder.

Li Yue dismounted, put away his shotgun, took out his cane and stood in front of the small church, outside the holy light: "Good evening, dear friends, I am a passing merchant, do you have clean water?"

The people in the small church heard Li Yue's voice and looked outside through the cracks in the windows.

"They're dead! They're all dead!"

"Thank God!"

"Praise the faith!"

The sound of prayer in the church reached a new height.

"Can I trade some clean water with you?" Li Yue tapped the floor tiles at the door with his疣粒 cane, "I am willing to pay the price of a gold coin..."

Li Yue took out a hard meat chunk and deceived the young man at the door into thinking it was a gold coin.

[We don't need gold coins, we need food...]

The young man at the door was unmoved by Li Yue's price increase.

[Where did this merchant come from? Hurry up and leave, before it gets dark, don't waste the fresh food...]

Li Yue cursed himself for being brainless—these townspeople really didn't need money, gold coins couldn't be eaten.

"I am willing to pay three loaves of bread in exchange for a bucket of water..." Li Yue handed out three hard meat chunks and placed them at the door of the church, then limped slowly back to the horse.

There was a gold-rimmed well in the small church. Although Li Yue didn't know its story, these townspeople relied on this well to survive to this day, and it was indeed a gift from God.

Seeing the fragrant bread, the young man's mind flashed with the names of his lover and children, and he ran back to ask the town chief.

Before long, the young man came back and asked through the door: "How much bread do you have?"

Li Yue satisfied the townspeople's fantasies with hard meat chunks, and also fed the horse a full drink of water.

Listening to the townspeople's heads full of "Praise the faith" and "Thank God", Li Yue waved his hand, put the horse back into the magic bag, and was about to rush to the Holy City at full speed when he suddenly saw the holy light of the small church become majestic like a burning torch.

Li Yue was stung by the exploding holy light, but he did not receive any malice, and he did not know what happened.

Then, the song of angels echoed in Li Yue's mind.