In the alliance, the more they attack me, the stronger I become!

And the reflection of the demon became clearer and clearer.

The voice in his head gradually took shape, and finally became a sound that came from the river and penetrated into his ears:

"If you want to get the truth, you need to give me a corresponding reward... Yes, just like we agreed before..."

"Are you ready for everything, sir?"

Chapter 119 Inequality is seconds away

Cheng Xiao turned his head and looked at the clothing store. The clerk inside was also looking at him strangely, and Sarah had not changed her clothes yet.

After thinking for a moment, he took out a few gold coins and threw them over, then climbed over the guardrail by the river.

The people around him looked at him even stranger - as if they were looking at a young man who was so depressed that he wanted to jump into the river to commit suicide.

"Come down... To be close to me is to be close to the truth... Your insignificant price can be exchanged for the truth you want. What a good deal... Come, sir..."

"I see you are really hungry." Cheng Xiao certainly knew what this greedy devil wanted, and she mocked him without any hesitation.

After a moment, he finally instructed the clerk: "Wait for Sarah to come out and tell her that I have to leave for a while."

As soon as he finished speaking, his body fell into the river.

The moment the liquid poured into his nasal cavity and ears, he vaguely saw a fat, huge, bloated figure in the darkness... and a pair of disgusting catfish whiskers.

Although he didn't have the pirates' exceptional swimming skills, he could still swim normally. However, at this moment, he felt his body sinking rapidly and uncontrollably. His limbs seemed to be pressed down by something, and he couldn't pry free from the calm water.

His lungs filled with river water, causing him great pain. He felt like he was drowning, and the intense feeling of suffocation forced him to struggle madly.

But to no avail.

He just kept sinking, sinking... endlessly, drawing ever closer to death with the devil's bewitching voice in his ears.

But just before he was about to die, his feet stepped on a solid floor.

The surrounding river water also emptied instantly, replaced by normal land and air.

He struggled to open his swollen eyes and looked up—a river flowed overhead, like a galaxy streaking across the horizon. He was in a place that felt like the bottom of a waterless ocean, yet also like an independent, special space.

After a while, the surrounding scene changed again...

By the time Cheng Xiao had completely settled down, the surrounding towns, streets and guardrails had turned into a dense forest, with a knee-deep stream only two meters wide flowing at his feet.

He came to an unknown dark forest and followed the river.

"This can be considered a kind of space magic..."

Cheng Xiao half-knelt down and observed the stream at her feet. This depth was impossible to wash away an adult male, let alone Tam, who was more than one meter in any direction.

[All rivers lead to Tam], this sentence is really true.

One of Tam's unique abilities is that he can follow any river to reach any other river—and that's "river" in the broadest sense, including even streams so shallow that children find it too shallow to play in.

"There's no one else here, come out."

Cheng Xiao called out loudly into the shallow stream, and a pair of catfish whiskers immediately emerged from the water.

Then the entire body of the demon - like a skilled magician, he gradually emerged from the stream that was obviously unable to accommodate his fat body.

"I'm here as promised, sir." Tam took off his hat and bowed in a very formal manner, performing a gentleman's greeting that was obviously very standard but looked awkward and funny on him.

Moreover, the top hat was completely disproportionate to his huge head. It was obviously someone else's - who knew whether it was picked up after swallowing some unlucky guy.

"I have brought the secret you desire. Are you ready for what I want, sir?"

"Of course." Cheng Xiao nodded. "You want to eat. Food. Just like we talked about before, right?"

"Yes, yes...food..." Tam's narrow eyes immediately burst into greed. "That's right, just like we said before...I bring you what you want, and you give me everything you have..."

"It's a very reasonable deal," Cheng Xiao said calmly. "But as far as I know, a trustworthy demon will first give mortals what they want, and then ask for compensation, right?"

"Of course... this is my usual rule..."

As Tam spoke, disgusting saliva drooled, and that huge mouth that was big enough to swallow two adult men seemed like it would never close.

He was so hungry and wanted to eat so badly. His stomach was telling him that it was time to eat.

And... the mortal in front of him was too tempting. That unique feeling had a fatal attraction to him.

Unlike any other creature he had eaten before, this greedy creature possessed a unique magical power and aura, a delicacy he had never tasted before. He even had a feeling... that this creature possessed a power not belonging to humans.

That should be from the gods... gods, or demigods... or something else equally high-level...

This is a rare and unique delicacy!

Tam kept swallowing his saliva, suppressing his strong desire to eat, and spoke first in a very polite manner:

"Then I will tell you everything I know, and you have the right to ask me any questions I may have... Since you are willing to give me everything you have, I will naturally offer you my best service, my dear sir."

"That makes sense." Cheng Xiao nodded with satisfaction. "Then please tell me what you've gathered—what exactly the Noxians intend to do in Bilgewater, and why they're targeting the Harrowing."

Hearing this, Tam slowly saluted as a gentleman, then slowly said:

"First, the Noxians came to Bilgewater to occupy it, and occupying Bilgewater was to give the Bilgewater people full leadership in dealing with the upcoming Harrowing."

"But they didn't do this to protect these poor mortals who were constantly haunted by evil spirits—quite the contrary, the Noxians wanted to betray them."

After a brief pause, Tam's tone deepened and became even more playful, as if even he, a demon, found the next words he was about to say deeply amusing:

"Noxians will sell the souls of Bilgewater's inhabitants to the greedy, tormented spirits of the dead... They will transform the living into the dead to fulfill the wishes of the dead."

Even Tam found the truth of this secret interesting - when he discovered the truth, even he laughed out loud.

He had always believed in the saying, "Greedy humans are greedier than the devil." It seemed like this was absolutely true.

"Why?" Cheng Xiao asked his first question, "Why would the Noxians help the ghosts of the Haunting Night?"

Upon hearing this, Tam did not deliberately conceal the truth like he did to the others, but gave the answer immediately - after all, Cheng Xiao and he had made one deal, so he didn't need to rack his brains to think of how to cheat a second time.

"Because the Noxians want to reach some kind of cooperation with the Shadow Isles... and those dead souls. They want those dead souls to do something for them."

"What's the matter?" Cheng Xiao asked.

But unfortunately, this time Tam shook his head sincerely: "I'm sorry, sir. I don't know that, and there's no way to know. No Noxian knows the final outcome. We have to wait until the Harrowing. I only know that it is a transaction about souls."

"Is that so..." Cheng Xiao guessed that the final secret was probably only known by Leblanc herself.

It is still very difficult for Tam to get the truth from LeBlanc.

After all, another demon who is not inferior to Tam - the one who cooperates with Swain, cannot defeat LeBlanc in one go, and Tam naturally cannot understand all of LeBlanc's thoughts in a short period of time.

It’s not his fault.

"Okay, then I have another question." Cheng Xiao asked again: "When will the Harrowing Night arrive? What are those Noxians planning to do next?"

"I can answer this question in detail, sir," Tam said politely. "First, the Harrowing will occur on the 29th day, when the Mist of the Dead will drift across the ocean from the Shadow Isles to Bilgewater. Secondly, regarding the Noxians' next move..."

"Because of your presence, it's difficult for Noxus to forcibly seize Bilgewater with its remaining troops. They are also worried that if they send more troops, they will face a joint resistance from the new Pirate King and the Freljord. This is very unfavorable to their current situation."

"After discussion, they concluded that a forceful attack on Bilgewater would be too costly and fraught with uncertainty, so the Noxian Grand Commander ordered the temporary abandonment of the attack on Bilgewater."

"But this doesn't mean they intend to give up the Harrowing and the souls of the people of Bilgewater. They've chosen another approach. They'll directly land on the Shadow Isles when the Harrowing arrives to continue trading."

"That's all I know, sir."

After hearing the truth brought by the devil, Cheng Xiao immediately fell into deep thought.

LeBlanc wants things from the Shadow Isles and the Harrowing... and now she's given up on taking over Bilgewater... What will she do next?

The souls of Bilgewater... the dead of the ruined Blessed Isles...

She would directly make some kind of ulterior motive with the dead souls...

On the night of the Haunting...

"I have completed my mission. So, sir...is it time for you to pay me?"

Tam's impatient voice interrupted Cheng Xiao's thoughts.

He no longer concealed his greedy desire, and the big tongue that was several meters long came out of his mouth, drooping to the ground and curling in half a circle.

Cheng Xiao nodded calmly. The magic power in his body did not move at all, and he did not hold the long sword at his waist in his hand. He looked as if he had no intention of resisting at all.

"I have a general understanding of the situation. You are unable to answer the remaining questions, so it is naturally my turn to pay you. Come, I am willing to offer you everything to satisfy your greedy appetite."

"Hehehe..." Tam let out a chilling hoarse laugh.

"Thank you for your generosity... greedy mortal..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tam's hanging tongue suddenly attacked swiftly.

It was like a blade, an arrow, swift and hard, as if the tongue were made of steel.

Cheng Xiao had almost no chance to react before the fat tongue had already wrapped around his body.

On ordinary days—or for other people—Tammu wouldn't eat in such a hurry. Instead, he would pretend to take out a knife and fork and cut the food slowly to show his elegant and gentlemanly taste—but he would always cut the living person into a mess, and no piece of meat would be neat.

But for Cheng Xiao, he no longer wants to pretend.

He really couldn't wait any longer... That strange power was too tempting. He didn't want to waste time getting a knife and fork. He just wanted to swallow Cheng Xiao into his stomach quickly.

Enjoy!

Suck...

After a disgusting sound, Tam retracted his fat tongue, and the human wrapped in his tongue was naturally rolled into his mouth.

He didn't even chew it, swallowing it down eagerly.

Gulu...

As a disgusting voice sounded, Cheng Xiao's vision became completely dark - he was already in the devil's belly.

"Wonderful, so wonderful..."

After devouring Cheng Xiao, Tam revealed a look of satisfaction. He could feel the strange power slowly digesting, dissolving, and absorbing in his stomach. It was a power not belonging to humans, a delicacy that he could never normally taste—or even touch.

So cool, so cool!

Normally, eating a human being was just enough to satisfy the hunger in his stomach, but now it was an unprecedented sense of satisfaction! A mere mortal could actually fill a stomach that could hold a river!

"Hiccup~~~"

Tam burped long and smelly, and rested for a long time before moving his fat body towards the stream.

After eating and drinking, it’s time for him to go home.

But just when one of his feet stepped into the water...

Boom!

A strange noise suddenly sounded in his stomach.

This was followed by unbearable severe abdominal pain.

"This...this is..."

Since his birth, the demon Tam had eaten countless living people—even countless non-human, non-living things—without ever feeling a stomachache. He was now deeply puzzled.

He had eaten steel, glass, stone and even magma, and he was fine every time. Why did he get stomach upset after eating something soft, sweet and delicious like a human?

He couldn't understand it, but the intense pain was real and left him no room for doubt.

Boom!

Another shock that caused severe abdominal pain.

Tam doubled over in pain and almost fell to his knees.

Boom! The vibrations got faster.

Dong Dong Dong... Dong Dong Dong!

“Stop shaking… ah…!”

Tam rolled on the ground in pain, and an unprecedented feeling of nausea suddenly rose in his throat.

At first, he was reluctant to give up the delicious food in his stomach and insisted on not vomiting it out. However, as the abdominal pain became more and more severe, he could no longer bear it.

The frequency was getting higher and higher, the intensity was getting deeper and deeper... Even though he was convinced that his stomach could hold on, he could no longer suppress the strong urge to vomit.

Finally, Tam opened his huge mouth and his tongue fell out.

"yue——!"