Chapter 109 City Lord and Scarlet Mother

Shansang Ancient City.

"Zhou Zhuangshi!"

"You are finally back!"

"We thought you had an accident!"

Zhou Ji was recognized by several officers as soon as he entered the city. The Woniu Mountain area is only this small, and the population is only more than 100,000 at its peak. As the most famous hero in the area, he is also quite famous even in Shansang City.

Zhou Ji felt that the town was lifeless, the streets were full of dead vines and weeds, and all kinds of debris and garbage seemed to have not been cleaned for months.

Every soldier looked very tired, and the civilians in the city were even skinny, with almost dull and numb eyes. A repressive and even weird atmosphere permeated the city.

I always felt that something was wrong.

I couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

"Brother Zhou!"

At this time, a young man dressed as a general came over. He looked to be in his thirties, but his actual age must be younger. He was wearing a badly worn armor, with a ring-headed sword hanging around his waist, and his eyes were red because of excitement.

Feng Yi.

One of the defenders of Shansang City.

He has a life-and-death friendship with Zhou Ji.

"Great, I knew that my brother was a skilled warrior, and he would not easily die at the hands of the foreigners outside the city. But your left arm..."

"I tried to assassinate the leader of the dragon lizards, but unfortunately I failed because I was not as skilled as him. I am very lucky to be able to save my life now." Zhou Ji briefly talked about his experience, "What is the situation in the city during this period?"

Feng Yi sighed, "Because the foreigners harassed every other day, the soldiers in the city are already very tired, and the food and grass in the city are almost exhausted, and the city lord is preparing to hold a large-scale scarlet festival..."

"What did you say? Scarlet Festival?"

For the past ten years, the city lord Wang Zhi has been obsessed with sorcery and magic. There are many special methods or formation creations, which require the consumption of human and animal blood, or even human sacrifices every month to maintain.

Although most of these methods are very cruel, most of the people who were sacrificed alive in the past were criminals who committed crimes, and even the punishment was too severe, they were still acceptable.

Why hold a festival at this time? It's not time for sacrifice yet!

Feng Yize explained with a grim expression: "In order to gain enough strength to fight against the alien race, the city lord selected 100 children from the whole city to sacrifice to the Scarlet Mother."

Zhou Ji was furious: "Is Wang Zhi crazy?!"

No wonder he felt something was wrong since he came back.

He finally realized that the children were missing.

Feng Yi hurriedly said, "Brother, be careful with your words!"

Zhou Ji was furious: "Be careful with your words? He has been getting worse and worse in recent years in order to practice evil methods. Now he doesn't even let children go. What's the difference between his behavior and that of animals?"

Feng Yi sighed, "Although the city lord's actions are too extreme, the whole city is facing an extremely difficult situation now. If we can't break the deadlock, I'm afraid everyone will starve to death..."

"If you have to sacrifice your children to survive, why should a man be afraid of death!"

Zhou Ji turned around and said, "I want to see Wang Zhi!"

Feng Yi dissuaded him, "Brother Zhou, don't do stupid things. The city lord has become more and more eccentric in the past two years. Not only can you not convince him, you may even anger him."

"So what? If I turn a blind eye to this, I will be ashamed of my adoptive father's teachings!"

Zhou Ji entered the city early this time to make an effort. If he could persuade the city lord in a peaceful way without using violence or relying on bloodshed and sacrifice, and finally surrender to Hang Yu without bloodshed, this would undoubtedly be the most ideal result.

In other words

Regardless of whether this incident happened or not.

Zhou Ji would find a way to meet with Wang Zhi to test his attitude.

In order to practice evil skills, Wang Zhi always stays at home and does not know what state he is in now!

Of course.

Before meeting Wang Zhi.

Zhou Ji did not forget the players.

He told Feng Yi about Lord Hang Yu and asked him to make arrangements as soon as possible to bring in twelve soldiers of the Scourge Army. If he failed in the negotiation or even failed to come back, these twelve soldiers of the Scourge Army could become the insiders and help Lord Hang Yu seize the city by force.

After making detailed arrangements.

Zhou Ji came directly to the City Lord's Mansion.

The City Lord's Mansion was transformed from the former county government office. It covers an area of ​​more than 100 feet long from north to south and 50 feet wide from east to west. There are more than 40 houses, all of which are covered with tile roofs, and the ridges are decorated with animal pottery components. There are several meters high walls around.

At this moment, the entire City Lord's Mansion was shrouded in a layer of red mist. It was impossible to see the situation inside from the outside. After some thought, Zhou Ji did not choose to report and directly climbed over the wall to enter.

There was a large courtyard that had been expanded in the center of the City Lord's Mansion.

An egg-sized crystal was seen floating on the altar in the center.

This thing is the fortune stone bred in Shansang County. It can not only form a barrier near Shansang County and block the erosion of the abyss nightmare, but also has the function of gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The entire altar exudes a strange atmosphere.

Although Zhou Ji couldn't see it with his naked eyes, he could feel that with the altar as the center, some kind of secret and dark formation covered the entire courtyard, and within this range, there were hundreds of things like large vats.

Zhou Ji approached and saw that his eyes were about to burst.

The vats were filled with young children.

Although most of them seemed to still have breath, they were already in a coma and dying. Some kind of power was constantly absorbing the vitality and soul of the children. They would definitely die within a day or two at most.

Zhou Ji decisively turned around and drew his sword. A high-pitched tiger roar exploded, and a burning tiger-shaped sword energy bombarded the altar in front of him. The powerful force instantly destroyed a corner of the altar.

The altar was damaged.

The earth shook.

The formation was terminated.

This would naturally attract attention.

At this time, nearly twenty burly, masked guards came upon hearing the sound.

These guards of the city lord's mansion are all trusted soldiers trained by the city lord through unknown means. Although they are all dumb and cannot speak, they are very powerful and loyal to the city lord.

Zhou Ji was not afraid of being surrounded, but raised his knife and shouted loudly: "Old man Wang Zhi, get out!"

"What a courage!"

A man in red walked out from the personal soldiers. This guy is at least 70 years old this year, but he looks younger than Zhou Ji, but his temperament gives people a sinister and cold feeling. He is the former Shansang County Lieutenant and the current city lord Wang Zhi.

"Zhou Ji, you dare to ruin my plan!"

"Wang Zhi, you were once a loyal hero, why did you fall to this point and do such a dirty thing!"

Wang Zhi said lightly: "What do you know, man? Only by summoning more power of the Scarlet Mother can this city be protected. Compared with the extinction of all people and their bloodlines, what is the price of paying this?"

Zhou Ji scolded: "Don't deceive yourself. Rather than wanting to lead the people to survive, it is better to say that you are doing it to satisfy your own selfish desires and ambitions. You are not worthy of sitting in this position now."

Wang Zhi suddenly laughed, and his laughter was extremely harsh and crazy.

Zhou Ji asked: "What are you laughing at?"

"Of course I am laughing at your stupidity. Who are you to point fingers in front of me? But you are absolutely right. I have always been just for myself!"

Wang Zhi's expression became more and more crazy: "Everyone in this city is just a pig or sheep in a pen. The only meaning of these people's existence is to please the Scarlet Mother, even you are no exception!"

Hopeless!

This guy has gone completely crazy!

Zhou Ji's face sank. He had realized that Wang Zhi's mind had been completely corrupted and degenerate. At this moment, he had become a monster who would do anything to gain profit!

Negotiations were meaningless under this circumstance.

Wang Zhi would never surrender the city obediently, but if he could take this opportunity to kill him, the lord could take the opportunity to enter this area and become the new leader of this place.

"Old thief, die!"

Zhou Ji chose to strike first and condensed the flame aura directly on the blade. He used a fierce tiger to attack Wang Zhi. As a result, at this moment, four or five personal soldiers rushed up to block the attack with their bodies.

The other dozen personal soldiers also quickly waved their weapons to kill.

Zhou Ji didn't care about so much at this moment. He used the fierce tiger sword technique to stand with these soldiers. Although these soldiers were not weak, they were not so strong that they could not be dealt with.

After a fierce fight.

Although Zhou Ji was wounded in more than ten places, he successfully chopped down nearly twenty personal soldiers.

What confused Zhou Ji was that Wang Zhi was watching the show from beginning to end. He watched helplessly as all twenty of his loyal guards died at Zhou Ji's hands. This had to be said to be very strange.

Wang Zhi smiled coldly, "You have become weaker!"

Zhou Ji said in a deep voice: "Killing you is enough!"

"Haha, you know nothing about the power of the outer gods. Well, let you see it today!"

A dark red bone appeared in Wang Zhi's hand at some point. At first glance, this bone was nothing special, like a fragment of the skull of a creature, but if you perceive it carefully, you will find that there is a strong sense of oppression from this mysterious bone.

While speaking.

Wang Zhi raised the skull and launched some kind of evil magic.

The twenty bodies of the guards at the scene changed, and the flesh and blood on their bodies shrank and disappeared at a very fast speed. Large groups of scarlet breath evaporated from them, and finally quickly gathered in front of Wang Zhi to become four bloody giants.

Each giant is about four meters tall, made of sticky waxy flesh and blood, and exudes a disgusting stench!

They look extremely ferocious, with thick limbs and strong muscles, like a body of a fitness coach, but with five irregular heads on their necks, and each head has a different expression on its face.

Zhou Ji has never seen such a weird method.

It seems that the soldiers around Wang Zhi are not living people at all, they should also be puppets created by evil magic. It is difficult to kill them with ordinary means, so Wang Zhi behaves indifferently.

Without waiting for thought.

The four blood giants attacked first.

They looked clumsy, but they were actually very fast.

They could manipulate their arms to simulate weapons with terrifying killing power, such as sledgehammers, axes, sharp blades, etc.!

Even with Zhou Ji's skills, he was in a very awkward situation when facing the siege. After dodging more than a dozen attacks, he finally caught a flaw and swung his knife at a giant.

The blade passed through the body easily.

It was like slashing on a ball of water.

The giant was not affected at all.

He was blasted against the wall with a backhand hammer.

Zhou Ji vomited blood directly, and felt his ribs cracked and his internal organs damaged. Some kind of filthy and evil energy eroded his body. Fortunately, he was wearing the green quality armor sent by the Scourge Army, otherwise he would not be able to stand up with this blow.

"My attack is useless..."

Zhou Ji looked at the giant he had just chopped.

He saw that the huge cut on his body had basically healed.

This means that these blood giants are not susceptible to physical damage and can only attack with energy or spells.

Zhou Ji has already consumed a lot of energy at this moment, and because of his injury, if he continues to entangle, he will definitely lose. As the saying goes, shoot the horse first when shooting a man, and capture the king first when capturing a thief. He pretended to attack the blood giant and then changed direction, and rushed towards Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi had already made preparations.

A blood-red shield was condensed.

Zhou Ji chopped twice in a row, but failed to cause damage to the shield.

At this time, the four blood giants moved again. Each blood giant released dozens of tentacles with both hands, attacking quickly from all directions. Zhou Ji barely cut off a few of them, and then was entangled and bound.

"That's it!"

Wang Zhi walked up and put his hand on Zhou Ji, who was unable to move. He saw a stream of blood quickly surging and spreading all over his body, and finally turned into a blood wax-like substance, sealing Zhou Ji's body completely.

"Hehe, although he is a fool who overestimates his own abilities, he is still a high-quality sacrifice!"

The battle is over.

Zhou Ji was completely defeated!

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Luoshui Base Camp.

"Zhou Ji is still too reckless!"

"Fortunately, Wang Zhi did not kill him immediately. Maybe he can be saved later."

Hang Yu fell into thought after watching the whole process. If he was just suspicious before, he was sure now.

Although Wang Zhi was not twisted and demonized into a terrifying monster by the will of the abyss like Pei Yuanshao and Ma Yuanyi, he was also affected by the power of the abyss, and the one who affected him should be the skull that he got from nowhere.

The abyss is a very complex, huge and indescribable concept.

Although most of the pollution sources are directly formed by the supreme will of the abyss, there are also many special pollution sources from some abyss evil gods or more indescribable taboos.

These beings are usually the ultimate beings hatched from the nightmares of the abyss planes. They already have divine essence and extremely high status, so they can not only escape from the plane dream where they were born, but also affect the dreams of other planes.

The Scarlet Mother mentioned by Wang Zhi should be a certain evil god of the abyss.

Of course, with an ant like Wang Zhi, it is unlikely to directly contact the existence of the evil god level. His knowledge does not come directly from the Scarlet Mother, but from the skull in his hand.

If Hang Yu guessed correctly.

This skull should be the remains of a powerful family or offspring of the Scarlet Mother. This remains fell from the outside world to the Abyss Three Kingdoms plane at the beginning of the abyss. In the end, it was obtained by Wang Zhi by chance, and it has exerted an influence on Wang Zhi since then.

Special pollutants like this.

In fact, it is not very rare in the abyss.

Wang Zhi obtained a lot of knowledge and even power from the skull, and also obtained the method of worshiping and communicating with the Scarlet Mother, but this influence and gift is full of malice!

According to Hang Yu's understanding of the abyss.

Although this skull is only the remains of some evil god's followers or offspring, it still has powerful abilities. It erodes Wang Zhi step by step, and it is likely that it wants to cultivate Wang Zhi into its resurrected body.

I have been away from home recently and will return home the day after tomorrow, so the update will be a little unstable in the next two days. I will try my best to maintain a normal update of about 8,000 words per day, but even if I am busy, I will definitely not stop updating at 4,000 words. It will resume at the latest on Sunday the day after tomorrow.