Lord of Deception

Yu Ziqing's consciousness was a little dazed.

Oh, I have exhausted all my energy and blood strength. How long has it been? There is nothing left to digest. Have I started to digest my own muscles?

His brain was resisting crazily, even if it digested his own flesh and blood, it had to replenish energy for his brain and make him sober.

Yu Ziqing struggled to sit up and leaned against the stone wall, looking ahead. There were scratches and fist marks everywhere on the stone wall.

Those were the traces left here when he became more and more manic.

But now, he didn't even have the strength to be angry.

After watching for an unknown amount of time, there seemed to be some movement on the stone wall in front of him.

After a moment, a sharp claw broke through the stone wall and poked out from inside.

As if he noticed something, the owner of the sharp claw became even more crazy. His skin was torn and his claws were broken, but he still did not stop. After a while, he dug a small hole no more than one foot in size.

A hungry ghost got into the cave where Yu Ziqing was waiting.

The hungry ghost was very happy to see Yu Ziqing. After he stood up, he anxiously walked around in circles and gestured for a long time. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it out loud.

After turning around for a few times, it seemed to have thought of something, turned around, and continued to dig wildly, expanding the hole, as if it wanted to expand it enough for Yu Ziqing to pass through.

"Stop digging, no need..."

Yu Ziqing murmured feebly.

The hungry ghost seemed to have thought of something again, so he got back into the cave and disappeared.

I don't know how long it took, but when Yu Ziqing's consciousness became a little blurry again, there was movement again from the entrance of the cave.

The hungry ghost held a wooden bowl and carefully got in through the hole.

He held the wooden bowl in both hands and placed it respectfully in front of Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing didn't move, his eyes moved slightly, and he recognized the wooden bowl. It was the wooden bowl he used to bring soup to the hungry ghost. At that time, he laughed at the hungry ghost and didn't return the bowl after eating. Then Who will bring him food next time?

But now, he saw that at the bottom of the wooden bowl, there was some soup that had already gone bad.

Yu Ziqing instantly understood that it wasn't that the hungry ghost didn't return the bowl after drinking the soup, but that he hadn't finished the little bit of soup yet.

After such a long time, there was still half of the food left in the wooden bowl. It was already like glue and had deteriorated. This hungry ghost probably only drank less than a quarter.

Yu Ziqing looked at the anxious hungry ghost, seeing him hesitating, as if he was too scared to get close, and seeing that Yu Ziqing seemed to have no strength, he picked up the wooden bowl and walked slowly towards Yu Ziqing.

Seeing the hungry ghost trying to gather his courage, but still trembling with fear, Yu Ziqing twitched the corner of his mouth and showed a smile, smiling until tears came out of his eyes.

"This has gone bad and is poisonous. I can't drink it. You can drink it."

"come here."

The skinny hungry ghost hesitated for a moment and slowly came to Yu Ziqing. He still stubbornly held the wooden bowl and squatted in front of Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing stretched out a skinny hand, pressed it on the hungry ghost's ugly head, touched his head gently, and stuffed the last piece of beef jerky into his hand.

"Take it, this is what I give to you."

The hungry ghost refused to accept it, so he gave it to Yu Ziqing again.

"This is an order, I give it to you, you must take it."

The hungry ghost didn't dare to disobey, so he could only hold the beef jerky in his arms with both hands, for fear of losing it.

"Are they looking for me?"

The hungry ghost nodded.

"Go and tell them there's no need to look for it. I'm almost done and will go back soon."

"Then, you can go too, there's no need to come here."

"Let's go, I don't have the energy to speak, I'm so tired..."

The hungry ghost left with the beef jerky in his hands, and finally stubbornly placed the wooden bowl in Yu Ziqing's hand.

Yu Ziqing sat paralyzed there, leaning against the stone wall, the light in his eyes getting dimmer and dimmer. He no longer felt hungry. He only felt tired and had no strength. He just wanted to stay still, stop thinking about anything, save money. strength.

He knew that now that he was conscious and had regained consciousness, he was going to die.

The fire of life was extinguishing. For an unknown period of time, Yu Ziqing drooped his eyelids slightly and became motionless. The light in his eyes began to dissipate. His consciousness was gone and his body was about to die.

The death he least wanted to face.

starve.

The moment Yu Ziqing completely lost consciousness, wisps of black energy emerged from his body.

The amount of black energy exploded exponentially, quickly wrapping Yu Ziqing's body. Immediately afterwards, the black energy continued to condense, turning into black water, and then condensed again, turning into something like thick black oil. .

The world around him began to be eroded and distorted. The solid stone walls seemed to be weathered, turned into powder, and were annihilated in those black oil-like things.

A terrifying aura filled with madness, despair, unwillingness, and coldness condensed into a black flame. With a whir, it was ignited in Yu Ziqing's stopped beating heart, replacing the fire of life that was about to be completely extinguished in the next moment.

Slowly, his body, which was no longer humanoid, slowly stood up, like an indescribable huge black oil, twisting and eroding everything around it, and his breath was constantly flowing in a state that had never been seen before. rapid rise.

A large mass of black oil grew larger and larger, eventually filling the entire hole and continuing to erode everything around it.

At the same time, in the village, deep in the cave that had been sealed off and no one had ever entered, a pair of eyes suddenly opened in the buried earth.

They used to be people in the village. After starving to death, they became ghosts who died of starvation. However, they were unwilling to harm the people in the village. When they were not crazy, they got into the hole and buried themselves.

At this moment, the unknown terrifying aura had seeped out from deep underground, and they began to wake up.

They all seemed to see a new way of life unfolding in front of them. As long as they stepped on it, there would be a glimmer of new hope in their dark dead end.

Without any hesitation, all the hungry ghosts chose to embark on this road.

Because they saw that the only light in the darkness would give them something they had never wanted before, the hope that they could eat again.

The starving ghosts who buried themselves in the ground changed at this moment from the essence of their life forms, and they became hungry ghosts.

The names are similar, but they are two completely different existences.

One by one, hungry ghosts rushed out of the cave.

There was a brief commotion in the village, but soon after, they discovered that the hungry ghosts, who were as skinny as firewood, like corpses, and whose internal organs seemed to be absent, ignored them at all.

After the large group of hungry ghosts rushed out of the ground, they just bowed gratefully in one direction, expressing their gratitude and respect to the being who gave them new hope.

The hungry ghost who had been in contact with Yu Ziqing was kneeling at the front of the team. His mouth was enlarged, revealing the vortex deep in his throat and the small hole in the center of the vortex.

This gives even more hope to those new hungry ghosts.

The hungry ghost held the beef jerky given by Yu Ziqing in both hands and held it in his arms. He could feel the enthusiasm and expectation in his eyes.

That little piece of beef jerky was glowing.

The people in the village stood at a distance, wary and shocked.

Lao Yang saw the hungry ghost with his mouth open from a distance, and he felt a little stupid.

"what are these?"

But the village chief suddenly thought of what Yu Ziqing once said, and the message that the hungry ghost quietly left behind before. No matter what happens, stabilize the village.

He straightened his back, raised his head and shouted loudly.

"Stay still, forget what I told you before. If the sky falls, don't panic or make chaos. Whatever you said before, do it now!"

The village soon returned to calm. All the people and the hungry ghosts were in harmony with each other. The hungry ghosts did not hurt anyone, and did not even bother them. They just knelt down and worshiped, as if waiting for something.

Three days later, the terrifying aura became stronger and stronger, and even the villagers in the village could feel it.

An extremely terrifying force is resurrecting, and a terrifying existence is about to awaken.

They immediately thought of the Jade Tomb in the back mountain, but after investigating, they found that the Jade Tomb was exactly the same as before, without any change.

Another seven days have passed, and it has been several months since the mine fell into the void. The food in stock in the village, even if they try to reduce the supply, is almost exhausted, and everyone is still in a state of starvation.

Today, everyone saw that in the endless darkness on all sides of the mine, there was something like black oil rising from all sides, covering the entire mine.

They raised their heads and saw a large mass of indescribable black oil rising up from the horizon, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

Then I saw that the black oil rising into the sky slowly transformed into the shape of a person's upper body, but the position of the head was still dark.

Immediately afterwards, black flames began to burn on the surface of the indescribable black oil, and a crack opened on the huge head where the mouth was.

A low growl, like a strange whispering language, resounded throughout the world.

"Hungry……"

Everyone didn't understand what language it was, but they all understood the meaning of the word in an instant.

Then, they saw the huge, let's call it humanoid, slowly opening its eyes. The position of his eyes was like a bloody flame burning.

The flame seemed to be connected to endless purgatory, endless pain, all the pain and despair in the world, burning there.

At this moment, everyone who saw this giant had a word pop up in their minds.

Hungry ghost.

They knew it was a hungry ghost.

And those kneeling on the ground are all hungry ghosts.

An inhuman alien species that has never existed before.

And this indescribable giant with no specific form is their king, the beginning and end of all hungry ghosts.

King of Hungry Ghosts, God of Hungry Ghosts, whatever you want to call him.

The eyes of the King of Hungry Ghosts looked around at the empty space. He saw the glowing beef jerky held by the hungry ghost on the ground, and did not look at it a second time.

He cast his gaze into the dark void.

At the same time, in the abyss of despair, the small theater suddenly stopped operating.

In Xian's arms, a dazzling brilliance bloomed, and she took out that thing, the beef jerky that Yu Ziqing had given her before.

She felt something, looking into the unknown distance with a bright smile.