I have a relic of heaven

Chapter 39: Dark Moon and High Winds Killing Demons

To draw lots for life and death, all the people in the breeding area were summoned and divided into streets, with each street having a place to draw lots.

But even so, there will still be a very long queue.

After all, East 81st Street alone is a "ten-mile-long street" densely packed with six- or seven-story tube-shaped buildings, and home to tens of thousands of people.

The crowd was divided into ten long lines, and Zhou Mu and six other people were lined up together.

"Senior brother."

Zhou Mu raised his head and stared at the thousands of clouds in the sky. Although he had seen them many times, every time he stared at them, he would feel a trembling feeling from the bottom of his heart.
Even now, even if I have completely transformed myself, I will still feel scared when I look at it again.

"Brother, what level do you think the monster in the sky is at?"

"Big demon."

Wang Chong said calmly:

"It's probably a top-notch monster, shaped like a black cloud, capable of resisting lightning and fire. It's probably a formidable existence in the inner city."

"Top-notch demon." Zhou Mu chewed on these four words with a complicated look on his face.

He didn't know much about cultivation, he only knew that after the three levels of strength came the three levels of qi, and after the three levels of qi were the three levels of longevity.
These three realms correspond to half-demon, true demon, and great demon respectively.

A top demon, comparable to the third level of immortality, eight levels higher than himself! !

Zhou Mu couldn't help but look up again, his spine trembling and the ends of his hair shaking slightly.

This has nothing to do with courage, but rather an almost instinctive sense of fear brought about by the absolute gap in life levels.

He glanced at Brother Chu and clenched his hands, as if they were itchy because of fear.

Could it be that I guessed wrong, and this person is not from outside?

After all, Brother Chu didn't know those guys who were suspected to be [Bu Zhou] at all.
Unless he came from what Sister Bai said, the Kunlun, which has very few people and is almost entirely composed of losers from the ancient times.

Is this possible? Is it?

Zhou Mu didn't know, but he felt that he was a failure last night as he drank heavily, felt sad and worried, and didn't even dare to look for his sweetheart. He just kept thinking about his timid brother Chu.

Probably not.

The crowd slowly moved forward, almost reaching them. Behind Zhou Mu was a couple, who were holding hands tightly.
My wife's belly was bulging, obviously she was pregnant, and about six or seven months pregnant. At the moment, she was gasping for breath and looking anxious.

"It's okay." The husband comforted her, "We've been through this so many times, it will be okay this time too."

He gently stroked his wife's big belly:
"When the baby is born next month, we will have saved enough money. Then we can move to Fifty-fifth Street and open a small shop. We can have white rice every day. Then we can save up some money and buy a surrogate card. Then we won't have to worry about the lottery anymore."

The wife bit her lip, and a look of longing appeared in her eyes.

Chu Yaowu became a little nervous when he heard the conversation. He held Ling Yatou's hand and kept saying "bless you, bless you".
Zhou Mu smiled and said:

"Why are you so scared this time? You used to be so carefree."

"Then was then, and the present is now."

Chu Yaowu sighed and held Ling Yatou's hand tighter:

"Life is getting better, but if I am taken away now and become food for the demon master."

"Will not."

Zhou Mu comforted him:
"The probability of winning is less than one in a hundred. How can I be so unlucky?"

"That's true." Chu Yaowu smiled bitterly, "But there are six of us. The probability of one of us being picked has increased sixfold!"

"It's okay, it's okay." Ling girl whispered: "Brother Xiaowu, if you are picked, I will take your place!"

"Absolutely not." Chu Yaowu also responded in a low voice: "If you are picked, I will take your place."

Ling's eyes were slightly red. She hugged Chu Yaowu and leaned her head against his chest:
"Little Brother Wu"

Zhou Mu's mouth twitched, and he felt a toothache.

Chu Ji covered his eyes, as if he couldn't bear to look at it.

The two of them smiled bitterly at each other.

Before they knew it, the six of them had reached the front of the crowd. Ten sign officers were lined up in a row, all of them were from a certain half-demon force.

The little sister stood on tiptoe and looked:

"There are cloud patterns embroidered on the official's clothes. He should be from the Cloud Rat Courtyard, right?"

"Yunshuyuan?" Zhou Mu asked curiously.

"Yes, it's a fairly large half-demon force. Although there are no top half-demons, there are several adult half-demons here."

As they were talking, the official in their row knocked on the signing box. Chu Ji walked forward and stood still. The official casually took out a piece of paper from the box and spread it out.

white.

"White ticket, passed, next one!" the signing officer shouted.

Xiao Wu and Ling Yatou went forward one after another and received a white life lot. The chance of drawing a death lot was not high.
At most, one in a hundred will be picked, or even none at all. After all, we must ensure the "sustainable development" of the breeding area.
Zhou Mu also used this to estimate that there shouldn't be too many demon masters in the inner city, maybe ten thousand at most.

The second senior brother and the youngest senior sister also drew the lottery, and the last one was Zhou Mu. When he stepped forward, Chu Yaowu and Ling Yatou suddenly became nervous and sweated.

It was not until the official took out a white slip of paper from the box that the two men suddenly cheered.

"They are all dead!" Chu Yaowu laughed with his teeth bared. Ling girl's face also flushed, her eyebrows were curved, and she was full of smiles.

"Let's go." Zhou Mu said softly, "I don't want to stay here for long."

After many people draw the living lot, they will stop and watch others draw lots, mostly because they want to see the despair of those who draw the dead lot.

Zhou Mu hated to stay. Every time he saw someone die, or someone burst into tears, wailed loudly, or fainted on the spot,

He always feels uncomfortable.

He didn't like this, but he couldn't do anything about it. Even now, he was still powerless.

Although the forces standing behind the fortune-telling officials were only half-demons, at least when drawing the lot of life and death, they represented the entire "Demon City", and the one who supported them was the great demon in the sky.

Several people sighed at the same time, and their excitement disappeared. When they were about to leave together, they heard the loud voice of the signing officer behind them.

"Death Sign!"

Zhou Mu was startled and looked back.

It was the woman who was about to give birth.

The woman fell to the ground, as if her bones had been pulled out, and her face was visibly pale.

The husband's eyes suddenly turned red, he staggered forward, and knelt tremblingly in front of the signing officer:
"Sir! Sir! We have money, we have money, let's buy human cards, let's buy human cards"

"can."

The signing officer smiled and spread his hands:

"fifty thousand."

"Fifty thousand?" The husband was stunned, as if the sky had fallen. He sat down on the ground and said incoherently:

"But, isn't it okay to just 10,000 or 20,000?"

"Ten or twenty thousand?" The fortune teller sneered: "That's on ordinary days. How can it be the same when drawing the lot for life or death?"

The husband's face was pale and he sat on the ground powerlessly, while his wife was sobbing softly.

"Are you going to buy it or not?" the signing officer said impatiently. The husband trembled and got up, and seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath:

"I don't have that much money. Can I change her?"

The wife raised her head, her eyes filled with tears, and wanted to say something, but she suddenly lost her voice and could only make vague whimpering sounds.

"Yes, you can. Draw a lot first. If it is a white lot, you can change it."

As he spoke, the officer took out a piece of paper from the box:

"Well, I'm in luck, white, now you want to change it?"

The middle-aged man struggled to get up, his body became a little hunched, and his tone became calm:
"I'll change."

not far away.

Chu Yaowu and Ling Yatou couldn't bear to watch this scene, and Chu Ji also turned his back and ignored it.

The junior sister bit her lip and whispered:

"Brother, can I pay for him?"

The second brother sighed softly:
"No."

He said calmly:

"Buying a human card at this time is equivalent to letting another person take his life. What's the difference?"

The junior sister stopped talking.

Zhou Mu looked up at the thousands of eyes in the sky and sighed softly:
"let's go."

The junior sister nodded silently.

And behind.

"Then you stay and she leaves," the officer said lazily, then suddenly stood up straight and bowed respectfully to the side:
"grown ups."

The person who came was a woman, wearing a coat with cloud patterns on it. She had gorgeous facial features except for her mouth which looked very pointed.

A half-demon.

The sharp-mouthed half-demon took a look with interest, then glanced at the husband:

"You want to die for her?"

The husband raised his head, his eyes were very dim:
"Yes."

"Are you sure? You can't go back on this."

"determine."

"Well."

The sharp-mouthed female half-demon laughed twice: "You are a person, she is two lives, so, do you want to exchange her, or the child in her belly?"

Zhou Mu, who was about to leave, stopped in shock.

The husband was struck by lightning and collapsed to the ground again, his eyes red!
"You, you" he spoke incoherently again, and his wife was completely demented, with her head raised and staring with red eyes.

for a long time.

"Change to a bigger one." The husband said softly.

“Very good, keep the big and leave the small”

The pointed-mouthed half-demon nodded slightly, but a long knife appeared in his hand. The husband seemed to remember something and suddenly felt horrified!
"No!" he screamed.

The long knife chopped down from the chest to the lower abdomen, and a mass of flesh fell out.

"Oh, my wife is dead too."

The sharp-mouthed half-demon smiled and glanced sideways:
"Send the man and the baby to the inner city. Once the woman dies, she will be mine."

"Yes." The fortune teller nodded. The husband stood up and rushed towards the sharp-mouthed half-demon like a madman, but the fortune teller next to him broke his legs and fractured his spine with a stick.

The crowd fell silent.

"Let's go back."

The second brother held Zhou Mu's shoulders and held him tightly with tremendous force.

Zhou Mu was silent:

"Second Brother, I understand."

"Then why don't you leave?" asked the second brother calmly.

He dragged Zhou Mu away. Chu Yaowu, Ling Yatou and even the little sister lowered their heads.
Chu Ji, who had been turning his back and not even glancing at the scene, also followed.

No conversation along the way.

Back to the pub, no one talked
All were silent.

It just so happened that there was a vacant guest room, so Zhou Mu moved in and slept there alone.

At night, the moon is dark and the wind is high.

The second brother knocked on the door and stared at Zhou Mu:

"Don't go looking for trouble."

Zhou Mu lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling:
"Second Brother, I know."

The second brother sighed softly, turned around and left. Before closing the door, he turned around again:

“You have to endure and get used to many things. Otherwise, no matter how talented you are, you won’t live long.”

"Second Brother, I know."

The second brother sighed again:

"do not blame me."

He left and the door closed.

………………

It's getting later.

The Cloud Rat Courtyard is located on East 76th Street. It is a huge mansion where all the half-demons live.

In the backyard of the mansion, there was a bush half a person's height along the wall, and a "stubborn stone" was hidden in the bush.

The yin energy was flowing, and the young man, as stubborn as a rock, was waiting silently.

There was an adult half-demon in the courtyard. He was no match for him, far from his match. He could only hide, trying to strike and escape immediately, and never be discovered.

Must not be discovered!

Zhou Mu suddenly heard a noise above his head, and his hair stood on end. A moment later, he saw someone jumping straight into the bushes, right next to him! !

Discovered? ?
Zhou Mu felt a chill in his heart and looked sideways stiffly.

He and his second senior brother who had just landed looked at each other.

(End of this chapter)