Don't run, there are monsters everywhere.

This underground world is definitely not as simple as Zhu Lai described. There are many strange places that make Lin Yi and others very concerned.

For example, when the underground world is dark, the villagers will leave their homes and stay somewhere in the village. They will stay there all night until the moss gradually glows the next day. They will go back.

What do these villagers do every night?

Why do they stay up all night but still be full of energy the next day?

Zhu Lai told Lin Yi and others that the villagers' actions were a ritual before the sacrifice. Only when the sacrifice is about to come, the villagers will do this.

When Zhu Lai said this, Zhang Cheng was sure that he was not lying.

But when they asked what the specific ritual was, Zhu Lai couldn't answer.

Zhu Lai said that because he was different from the villagers and was a lucky survivor among the outsiders, the villagers were on guard against him in many things and tried not to let him know the specific content as much as possible.

All that Zhu Lai knew was the result of his secret investigation over the years.

To be honest, Lin Yi and his team were not really at ease with Zhu Lai, but if they wanted to leave here, they had to help Zhu Lai destroy the sacrifice, which would also help them leave.

So, Lin Yi and his team pretended to hesitate, and after whispering and pretending to discuss for a while, they agreed to help Zhu Lai.

The day of the sacrifice was the day after tomorrow, and when the moss on the wall lit up, it was the time for the sacrifice to begin.

The night before the sacrifice, Lin Yi and his team had to let go of the imprisoned people, which also meant that they had to stay in this underground world for another two nights.

"You will stay here tonight," said Zhu Lai.

"People in the village will hardly come here, and even if they do, they will rarely come in, so it is absolutely safe for you to stay here."

Lin Yi was going to do this even if Zhu Lai didn't say it.

In order to prevent Zhu Lai from playing tricks, the safest way was to keep an eye on him at all times.

Unknowingly, this underground world ushered in darkness again.

In order to conserve physical strength and for the smooth implementation of the subsequent plan, Lin Yi and Zhou Kai still took turns on duty.

They had to rest, after all, they had been up all night the day before.

When it was Zhou Kai's turn to be on duty, Lin Yi leaned against the wall and prepared to take a break.

Closing his eyes, the past events emerged in his mind.

Recalling the past events, he once thought that the mantises in the city were all the aliens, but he never thought that it was just the tip of the iceberg. It was not until they left the city that they realized that everything had just begun.

Those crystals that store energy, different types of aliens, and the aliens around Hua and her, as well as different organizations.

When thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly thought of the strange man he had fought before.

In a trance, Lin Yi suddenly felt that the whole person was floating, and he didn't know whether it was a dream or reality, as if the whole person was flying.

"Throw them down."

There was a sound in his ears, accompanied by pleading and crying.

He suddenly opened his eyes, and what appeared in front of Lin Yi was a familiar scene-a huge bath in the center of the side hall of the underground palace.

Why am I here?

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and when he was confused, someone picked Lin Yi up.

It was at this time that Lin Yi realized that he had become what he was like when he was a child.

The little hands waved randomly, crying and begging for mercy.

But no one paid attention to him.

Looking up, the villagers were throwing people into the bath one by one. Those who were thrown in seemed to disappear and never floated up again.

With a "splash", Lin Yi was thrown in.

He wanted to swim up, but something seemed to be holding him under the water, as if the people who were thrown in front of him wanted to pull him to the bottom of the water.

Lin Yi's mind was blank, and he only felt warm water pouring into his face.

"Throw them down." The same voice sounded again in his ears.

Lin Yi opened his eyes and found himself back in front of the bath.

It was still the same person, the same words, and he was still thrown in.

Lin Yi wanted to resist, but suddenly found that his body was not under control at all. At this time, he seemed to be just an outsider, watching all this happen from the perspective of this child.

Again and again.

Being thrown into the water, dying, and starting over.

Lin Yi was stunned. The moment in front of him was so similar to the scene when he was constantly killed by the aliens.

But, isn't this an ability that only he has?

Every time he was reborn, the child tried to resist.

He bit, he struggled, he begged, but he was so young that he was no match for these villagers.

Lin Yi saw the hands of this body, those small hands, at most seven or eight years old.

Died again and again, reborn again and again, resisted again and again, but the result was suffocation again and again.

Until——

"Why does this little thing look so sick?" The people around him said something different.

"Strange, it was fine when I caught it, why did it suddenly become like this?"

Lin Yi knew that this was a side effect of his fate being changed.

Maybe this time, the child really died after being thrown down.

"No matter, throw it down."

Lin Yi felt himself being lifted up, and when he walked towards the bath, the child spoke.

His tone was extremely weak, he opened his mouth and said weakly: "Mom...save me..."

With a "plop", he sank into the water again.

But this time, something held the little boy from behind.

Lin Yi could feel the body floating up, and a pair of hands hugged him.

"Child, don't be afraid, mom is here, no one can hurt you."

Lin Yi opened his eyes, and the familiar face was looking at him.

The person who saved the child was the woman in the underground palace, the "Empress Yi" in the villagers' mouth.

But if Lin Yi heard it correctly, she just said "mother".

Would the imperial concubine call herself "mother" in front of her children? Isn't it a self-proclaimed name like "mother concubine" or "mother"?

Thinking about it, the people in this underground world have lived for hundreds of years, have been exposed to the outside world, and naturally learned other knowledge. It's just a change of name, and there's nothing strange about it.

"Mom...is it mom?" There was a hint of hope in the child's tone.

"Yes, mom is here, don't be afraid." The woman gently stroked the child's cheek and wiped off the water drops on his face.

"Child, what's your name?"

Seeing this, Lin Yi probably guessed who this child was.

However, when the child slowly opened his mouth and said his name, Lin Yi was shocked.

Because he never thought that this child would say this name——

"My name is... Lin Yi."