They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 8 Bait
He temporarily ignored the rat's carcass and instead cleaned the house, making it look like a proper human dwelling.

While cleaning, Ria found a lot of garbage under the bed, which included rat carcasses with a sour and rotten smell, molted maggot pupae, dead flies, and moldy bread crumbs, all of which were disgusting and suffocating.

He covered his nose, gathered the trash together, and planned to throw it out to feed the monsters in the middle of the night.

As for the dead rat he had fed, Ria chose to bury it in the ground. After all, it was his first believer, and he felt guilty about eating it or throwing it out to feed the monster.

Moreover, now that he has a food source, he no longer needs to eat malnourished rat meat.

Night seemed to fall exceptionally quickly.

dark night.

The crimson moon still hangs high in the sky, silently watching over the figures of every creature that appears at night, including Ria, who is squatting in the alley digging in the dirt.

Ria personally dug a foot-deep grave for the first believer, burying his body, which was also a way of burying the original owner's unfortunate youth from beginning to end.

"If you could live again, never be tricked into digging coal again. Just live out your life peacefully."

"I was planning to earn money to buy you cakes and sweet cheeses you'd never tried before, to keep my promise..."

He stood silently facing the mound of earth for a long time, the surrounding buildings and darkness confining them like a cage.

"boom!"

Suddenly, Lia stepped out and flattened the mound of earth, making it so flat that there was no trace of it having been dug up.

Behind him stood a multitude of monsters, their eyes fixed on him, drawn by the scent of a living person.

These "monsters" come in all sorts of bizarre shapes. Some look like a stitched-together human and animal, while others look like a stitched-together animal and plant. They are not aesthetically pleasing at all, and sometimes a sticky liquid like gutter oil drips from the stitches.

As soon as the liquid hit the ground, it sizzled and corroded the soil, and a strong stench instantly filled Ria's nostrils, causing him to cover his nose in disgust.

Compared to yesterday, the moon's color has faded considerably today, but it still maintains its full shape and occupies a quarter of the sky.

The monsters weren't as ferocious as they were yesterday; when facing Lia, their eyes even revealed a hint of longing and anticipation.

Lia's eyes immediately crinkled into a smile: "My dear children, look what delicious treats I brought you today."

After saying that, he shook the garbage bag and threw all the garbage he had collected into the monster horde. The group of shapeless beasts instantly boiled over like live fish in a pot of boiling oil. They fought fiercely over the garbage bag, biting and scrambling for it.

Not far from them, Ria watched all this with great interest, his body cracked open with countless eyes that coldly gazed at the creatures.

They would blink every now and then to show that they were alive.

Fragments of bone, flesh, and broken stitches flew everywhere. Ria saw a black, unidentified thread lying at her feet and reached out to pick it up.

"It feels a bit like wire, but it's softer than wire."

Just as he was pondering what this thing was, the "wire" suddenly began to twist its body, an action that gave Liya a sudden realization.

"Hair worm!?"

That single horsehair worm was over ten meters long, and the sight of so many horsehair worms falling to the ground at once was truly spectacular.

From a high vantage point, it looks like a long-haired woman combing her hair, with hair falling all over the ground.

"Gurgle, gurgle~"

As soon as the horsehair worms landed, they began searching for the flesh and blood remains that had fallen at the same time, stretching their heads out and trying to burrow back in and twist their bodies to sew them back together.

But with Ria around, all of this was in vain.

Ria grabbed handfuls of horsehair worms from the ground, then tied their bodies together. Soon, these creatures, which weren't good at attacking and only knew how to burrow randomly, were bound into a large clump of wire. During this time, a few horsehair worms wrapped around his wrist, trying to burrow into his flesh, but fortunately, Ria noticed in time and bit them off, spitting them out along with the dirt above them.

"Pooh!"

"These guys aren't nearly as resilient as earthworms. They've just been cut in half, and they've just stopped moving."

He had finished tying up the "wire balls" and clapped his hands with a sense of accomplishment, feeling pleased as he watched them struggle to break free and writhe in pain.

Ria is very good at tying knots.

In his previous life, when he was a child, he often tied his shoelaces in a way that no one could untie because he didn't know how to tie them.

In other words, these horsehair worms simply cannot escape from the knot without taking several hours.

The remaining monsters also managed to snatch up the trash they wanted; to them, the lives of their fellow monsters were far less important than a bag of garbage.

After watching them finish eating the garbage and counting the remaining monsters, Ria felt that there was no need for her to continue feeding them.

The key to monsters is quality, not quantity. If these creatures could devour each other like venomous insects, leaving only the strongest one in the end, it would save a lot of trouble.

"But what if I can't influence that guy? Wouldn't it be a loss if I ended up getting myself involved? I need to think of a way that satisfies both sides."

Ria's gaze swept over the wire ball and the monsters, trying to ignore the pungent stench and the sticky lumps scattered on the ground. He walked to the front of the wire ball, turned his back to them, and pulled down his collar to expose the back of his neck.

The horsehair worms instantly stiffened, sensing that the humans in front of them were completely unguarded, with delicious meat and fat right before their eyes.

With just a slight movement, they can crawl into a human's neck, reside in his blood vessels, and transform his flesh and blood into a nest more suitable for insects to live in.

But they can't do it.

The person had an eye on their neck, and it was this single eye that caused immense panic among the horsehair worms, who could not see anything.

It's a pathogen!

will die!

will die!

will die! ! !

The horsehair worms struggled to wriggle their slender bodies in an attempt to escape, but their bodies were already immobilized. No matter how hard they tried to wriggle, all they produced was the sound of rust colliding between their bodies.

"Stab!"

Horsehair worms have eyes.

The bad news is that each of them is covered with countless eyes that parasitize their bodies and drain their nutrients.

Soon, the swarm of horsehair worms fell silent.

Lia breathed a sigh of relief; he had taken a gamble and won.

"Roar--"

Several monsters approached the horsehair worms, and Ria made way for them, telling them that only the strongest among them was qualified to eat this "delicacy".

The shimmering golden wire was incredibly tempting to the monsters. With a quick thought, their mindless brains pounced on their kind.

And so the tragedy that had happened not long ago was repeated. These monsters, each unwilling to give way, became entangled together again, their flesh and slime writhing together, unable to separate.

(End of this chapter)