I'm not a god anymore

"There are always various reasons for those who fall into evil ways in this world. However, cultivating evil ways, killing people and practicing methods, practicing blood-eating, and all kinds of devilish things are vicious and cruel."

"Even if there are thousands of reasons and reasons, the moment they fall into the devil's way, these devil cultivators are no longer [people]."

"If only repentance is enough to save life, how can the dead who were poisoned by evil spirits rest in peace?"

"Anyone who wants to forgive the group of murderous demons is trampling on the innocent creatures who were once slaughtered by the demons."

"No one in this world is qualified to forgive the demons on behalf of the dead... no matter how high the level of cultivation is."

Lu Heng looked at the little boy and sighed, "As righteous monks, the only thing we can do in the face of these demons is to kill them."

"It is not only to avenge the dead, but also to protect the living and prevent more creatures from being harmed by these evil spirits—this is the only thing we can do."

Amidst Lu Heng's sigh, Xiao Ai had already arrived with a hot meal.

On the wooden table taken out of the small embroidered bag that I carried with me, there were three dishes and one soup, steaming hot.

Xiao Ai said: "Master Wolf God, you can eat now."

Lu Heng smiled and said, "Okay, okay, here we come."

With that said, Lu Heng stood up and said to the little boy beside him: "Let's have dinner first, maybe the evil spirits from Qingming Grotto will come to the door after we have dinner."

Chapter 257

In the post house, the campfire was raging, and the food was fragrant.

Lu Heng, Xiaoai, and Wuyou were having dinner as if they were at home.

The dining table is complete with tableware and chopsticks.

It's just that in the end, the evil spirits that Lu Heng mentioned didn't come to visit.

This posthouse in the wilderness, which has been abandoned for many years, is still deserted and empty.

When Lu Hengchu came down the mountain six years ago, the scene of businessmen going to and fro will not appear now.

And the little boy sat by the door the whole time after he finished his meal, looking eagerly at the faint night scene outside, as if expecting a fox demon to report on the road.

But this scene never happened.

When the sky was bright and Xiao Ai took him to clean up the ashes of the fire in the posthouse and prepare to go out, Qingming Grotto didn't send anyone over.

There was a little disappointment on Shen Wuyou's face.

Standing at the door, looking again at the dilapidated house standing alone in the wilderness in front of him, the little boy finally noticed the strangeness of this hut.

"Father, what kind of person would build a house in such a wilderness where wild animals are rampant?"

The little boy asked curiously, "Isn't he afraid of wild beast attacks?"

Although the little boy knew little about the outside world, he also knew that this wilderness far away from the city was dangerous.

Lu Heng explained: "This is a post house, a temporary house built for businessmen and travelers traveling from south to north. In the wilderness, it is rough and difficult to travel. When travelers like us rest at night, we can have such a A shabby empty house is the best thing."

The little boy became even more curious: "But this house has not been lived in for many years... When we came in last night, the cobwebs on the gate were so dense."

Lu Heng sighed, and said: "It used to be very lively on this road. But in recent years, there are no merchants walking outside, and this post has gradually become deserted and deserted."

Lu Heng's explanation made the little boy startled slightly, and he understood a little: "Is it because of the demons in Qingming Grotto..."

Lu Heng didn't speak, but obviously acquiesced.

A group of people continued on the road, walking eastward on the desolate road.

The farther east they went, the farther they were from Hanyu Mountain, the more desolate the scene appeared in their field of vision.

The abandoned posthouse standing beside Chidao has not been occupied for many years.

A huge beast of burden wandering alone in the wilderness with a broken bag on its back. It is unknown when it separated from its owner. The bag is still on its back, but the owner of the cargo has long since disappeared.The pack beast that lost its target could only return to the wilderness, survive alone in the wilderness, and turned back to the beast it once was, but no one helped it untie the heavy luggage on its back.

There are also many bones crawling on the side of the road... Those bones all have the same characteristics, the bags and clothes are intact, and there is not even the slightest crack or injury on the bones, but they died inexplicably on the side of the road.

Obviously, it was the demons who directly devoured the flesh and souls of these living people, instead of dying in the mouths of wild beasts on the roadside.

As for the beast on the roadside...

In the past, due to the large number of business travelers, there were many ferocious beasts lurking on both sides of the road, ready to attack lonely travelers at any time.

But now that the road is desolate and the merchants are no longer there, the strange beasts squatting on the living people are no longer seen on both sides of the road.

The ferocious beasts returned to the mountains to hunt other prey, abandoning the human path where food would never come to their door.

When Lu Heng went down the mountain six years ago, he walked along the Chidao and saw dozens of ferocious beasts of different shapes crouching and lurking in the bushes by the side of the road.

However, after walking on the desolate Chidao for two days and two nights, he didn't even see a single strange beast.

The only ferocious beast I met was a passing tiger.The opponent rushed from the wilderness, chased a running wild horse across the driveway, and disappeared into the forest on the other side of the driveway.

As for Lu Heng and the others who passed by on Chidao Mountain, the tiger didn't even look at it. It didn't pay attention at all, and maybe didn't even notice that there was another living person appearing on this desolate Chidao Mountain.

Today's desolate and bleak scene, even the little boy who has never walked on the road feels desolate.

They continued eastward, and on the third night after walking ashore, they stepped into the boundary markers of the city.

This city is called Zhaoguang.The huge boundary marker stands on the Chidao, which once represented the danger of a city of Wuzhu, deterring demons from approaching Xiaoxiao.

However, now the boundary marker is covered with dried black blood, and the word "death" is smeared out one by one, full of provocation.

On the top of the boundary monument, there is a small Jingguan built with human heads.

Some of the stacked human heads are already bones, while others have just rotted away.A stench wafted from far away, and even flies buzzed and flew around.

Seeing such a terrifying scene, Shen Wuyou's face turned blue, and he almost vomited out.

Even Lu Heng frowned slightly.

No matter how rampant the demons are, the wizards don't even care about the destruction of a city's boundary markers... It seems that outside Hanyu Mountain... at least near Zhaoguang City, the situation is already very bad.

It's so bad that the wizards don't have time to do such trivial things as cleaning the boundary markers.

Continue to walk forward, about ten miles away, they saw the first village inside the boundary marker.

The village is located not far from Chidao, and the post office is built outside the village.

It can be seen that because of the proximity to the adjacent post, this village was once quite prosperous, and the houses and buildings did not look shabby and dilapidated.

When merchants traveling from south to north stay in the post, they will definitely go to the village to have fun and spend at night.

But now the post house is deserted, and the village is also pitch black, with no lights to be seen.

Lu Heng said: "Let's go to the village and have a look."

The roadside post house has already collapsed, and weeds are growing inside the mud walls. There may have been a fight, and no one came to repair it afterwards, so it is no longer possible to move in.

Fortunately, the village is not far from Chidao, stepping on the cold moonlight, a group of people walked slowly towards the desolate and silent dark village under the moon.

The trail leading into the village was also covered with weeds.

When Lu Heng and the others passed by, there were even frightened snakes running away in the grass beside the road, obviously no one had come for a long time.

This village, probably like the collapsed post house, has been abandoned for many years.

In this way, walking on the road paved with bluestone slabs, Lu Heng and the others walked into the entrance of the village, and saw the mottled and dusty archway at the entrance of the small village.

Mingxi Village.

Behind the archway is a street paved with the same bluestone.On both sides of the road, there are two rows of houses standing, but there are no lights.

Under the cold moonlight, these two rows of pitch-black houses stood side by side, setting off the trail into the village like a huge black mouth, waiting to devour all the living people who entered.

Lu Heng smiled slightly and said, "Let's stay here tonight."

After finishing speaking, he stepped into the dark street first by stepping on the moonlight.

Chapter 258

Behind Lu Heng, the little boy hesitated to speak.

He really wanted to say that this village is very crowded, why not camp tonight.

However, after Dad stepped into the small village, Miss Ai followed closely behind, and Gu Yan even flapped his wings to follow.

Immediately, the little boy was the only one standing outside the village.

At the entrance of the barren and dark village, the lonely little boy was submerged in the night, and in the surrounding wilderness, there seemed to be pairs of eyes staring at him...

The little boy forgot everything he wanted to say in an instant, and hurried to catch up, fearing that Lu Heng and the others would disappear when he turned his head.

In the village, although the doors and windows are closed, the prosperity of the past can be vaguely seen.

Lu Heng stood at the threshold of a brothel for a long time, looked at the door of the brothel full of fallen leaves, and sighed.

Even the busiest Goulan place is so deserted now.

Xiao Ai walked directly into the brothel, looking around coldly.The dark golden beast seems to emit a cold light in the darkness.

Even though the brothel is dark and dark, Xiao Ai can still see everything inside clearly.

"No blood, no signs of fighting, but no signs of migration either."

After Xiao Ai came out of the brothel, she said to Lu Heng: "The people in this room seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and there are even leftovers left on the table... It's just rotten."

Lu Heng nodded, and said: "It seems that it is the handiwork of a demon...have all the living people been captured?"

The little boy who followed was a little confused, because the corpses he saw along the way were all killed by demons on the spot, with their bones exposed in the wilderness.

But this village is not like this?

"What are the demons taking the living people for?" Shen Wuyou asked curiously: "Father, are the demons planning to use the villagers as hostages to coerce the wizard?"

Lu Heng sighed and did not answer.

Xiao Ai said coldly: "Evil demons need blood food to practice, but blood food cannot be available all the time. Every time they attack villages and cities, it will be troublesome."

"That's why it's much more convenient to catch the living people in the devil's lair to keep them and breed them, so that they can get food at any time, rather than going thousands of miles away to kill people in places where the living people live together."

Xiao Ai's answer made the little boy turn pale.

Even though he had seen many horrific scenes on this journey eastward, he was still frightened now.

"Raising... raising humans as blood food? Doesn't that mean treating humans as domestic animals?" The little boy was completely dumbfounded.

Xiao Ai smiled coldly, and said: "It's wrong, not only human beings... all things in the world, human beings are just one category in [Human genus]. Demon cultivators like you and me are also in [Human genus]."

"Even because of our cultivation base, we are more nourishing blood food for the demons."

"In the Qingming Grotto, apart from mortals who don't know how to practice, there are also all kinds of practitioners with cultivation bases."

"If your brothers and sisters had not had special identities, at the moment when you met the evil spirits in Qingming Grotto, with your special identities as human beings, at least you could use it to hold a blood-eating banquet-level luxury meal, enough to feast on evil spirits from all over the world. .”

Xiao Ai's words made the little boy pale and frightened.He has a deeper understanding of the demons in the Qingming Grotto.

Lu Heng left the empty brothel and continued to walk deep into the village.

Even such a small village enshrines the god of fire.

Although there is no magnificent Fire God Temple, the Fire God Temple in the center of the village, which resembles an ancestral hall, is also the most noble and sacred building in the village.

It's just that at the moment when the villagers disappeared and the village was abandoned, the temple of the Vulcan God also fell into disrepair.

After Xiao Ai opened the door, what appeared in front of Lu Heng and the others was a messy, dirty temple.

There were some black blood stains scattered on the dusty, weedy ground.It seems that when the evil spirits entered the village to take people away, the village was not without resistance.

It's a pity that in this small Fire God Temple, even if there are wizards on duty, their strength must not be as strong as the evil spirits.

The black and dirty blood scattered on the ground silently described the tragic scene at the beginning.

Lu Heng looked at the solemn Vulcan statue on the altar and sighed.

"Let's spend the night here tonight."

After speaking, Lu Heng went to the corner and sat down cross-legged, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

Xiao Ai took the little boy Wuyou to clean the inside and outside of the Fire God Temple, sweeping away the dust, blowing away the cobwebs, and scrubbing the altar.

The Vulcan statue covered with spider webs once again faded away from the dust and appeared in front of people.

But now no one in the village worships him.

After cleaning, Xiao Ai took out the small embroidered bag she carried with her, and took out a square dining table, a complete stove, matching cooking utensils and seasonings, clean water, dried bacon, and a series of other things.

After cooking, Xiao Ai headed out the door, intending to pick some wild vegetables in the field and come back.