Volume 2: The Church of Light Chapter 154: Feeding Market
Xu Shen said nothing, just stared at him.
The old man kept a benevolent smile, not caring about Xu Shen's gaze, and said, "Every morning, remember to follow the believers above, recite the Bible together, and pray devoutly. After the prayer is over, you need to feed the caged creatures and recite the prayer scriptures to them until they have all completed their baptism."
Seeing that Xu Shen did not reply, the old man said, "In the first few days, you will slowly adapt. Besides, your injuries have not healed yet and you need to recuperate. But after a week, if you are unable to recite the Bible and pray and neglect your work, we may baptize you a second time. I hope you will not go astray and sink into the abyss of sin again."
Xu Shen's gaze became even deeper and he slowly withdrew his gaze from him.
"Now, get up and move around."
The old man smiled, but his tone was commanding.
Xu Shen was silent for a moment, then he supported himself on the armrest with his hands and slowly stood up.
In an instant, a sharp pain as if tearing came from the place where the buttocks and thighs touched the chair.
The blood that had dried up before was torn apart again, causing the skin to crack, and blood gushed out again.
However, the lower body's internal energy cannot be transmitted, so it is impossible to use internal energy to stop the bleeding.
As he stood up, blood flowed down his thighs like rain, dyeing the ground red again.
But this time Xu Shen did not scream, and even his expression did not change much. He just lowered his head and looked patient.
The old man showed a satisfied look and said, "When you feel pain, remember to recite the teachings of our Lord, the Moon God. That will free you from the pain."
Xu Shen closed his eyes, said nothing, and quietly suppressed the pain in his body.
The old man waited patiently for two minutes before saying, "Come with me. I will introduce you to the situation of these villages. Our food is limited and we cannot let them all eat too much. Therefore, we must try our best to ensure that they are all at the same level of hunger."
He paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "This is also a way to control the people."
Xu Shen's eyes moved slightly, and he took a step forward. His flesh-and-blood soles, which had no skin, stepped on the damp and cool floor. With every step he took, a large amount of blood seeped out, staining the ground red and leaving bloody footprints.
The old man slowly walked to the cage and said, "You can use the Xu Eye, the forbidden ring has a limited range, which is convenient for you to look after them. This is room 8, and the one imprisoned inside is a B-level Xu..."
Xu Shen silently gathered his power into his eyes. Even though he could see without using his eyes, he did this just to cover up.
He followed the old man like an obedient wooden sculpture, listening to him explain the conditions inside each cage.
There were 18 cages in total, of which there were 7 B-level beasts and the rest were C-level beasts.
If so many ruins were released at the same time, it would definitely cause a huge disaster.
But the old man in front of him made Xu Shen realize that such an accident was unlikely to happen.
The five moon-robed law enforcers who went to arrest him were all in the second form. The old bishop in front of him seemed to be the limit of the second form, or perhaps the king.
Xu Shen thought that among the three tasks of No. 1, one of them was to obtain the head of the Pope of the Moonlight Religion.
The Moonlight Religion seems to be the Moon God Religion, or the full name is the Moonlight Religion.
The detective said that all of No. 1's tasks were impossible to complete, and the Zhenxu Monument was the easiest task, but it also required the third form to peek into it.
Xu Shen suspected that even someone with the third form of perception ability was needed to barely get a glimpse of the situation under the Zhenxu Monument. Otherwise, No. 1 would be able to investigate it himself, and other kings would be able to complete this task easily.
At the same time, this also means that the ruins suppressed there are not even A-level...
"Let me out, my child hasn't eaten for several months. Can you understand the pain of a mother?" Xu's pleading voice came from the cage.
A strange woman with snow-white skin, half a wing of flesh and blood on her back, and seven or eight baby heads growing in her arms, stood in front of the railing with a sad face.
It is six or seven meters tall, standing in the dark cage.
"Isn't your child in your belly?" The old man said with compassion and tenderness, "As a mother, you have to dig open your belly and use your own internal organs to feed your child."
When the strange woman heard this, she slowly lowered her head and asked in confusion: "In my stomach?"
She touched her snow-white belly with her fingers and suddenly applied force, tearing it open. Her internal organs fell out, and she searched carefully but couldn't find them.
"You're lying!"
The woman's stomach healed quickly, and her internal organs shrank back into her stomach as if being pulled by some force. She grabbed the railing angrily : "You are lying to me again!"
The old man sighed and said, "Your child is hiding and doesn't want to see you. Just look for him yourself."
"I won't trust you anymore!" The woman pounded the railing angrily.
The old man shook his head slightly, took Xu Shen back to the torture room, then came to a copper lamp inside and twisted slightly.
The wall behind the torture chamber cracked again, and there was actually a secret passage.
But this secret passage is not deep. As soon as it is opened, a strong smell of feces and urine can be smelled.
The old man walked in, and soon the sound of chains shaking was heard.
Xu Shen saw an old man holding a chain, and behind the chain was a group of men, women, old and young with pale faces and frightened expressions.
There are eight people in total.
"My lord, the Moon God, is a shepherd. He cherishes the tender grass and feeds it with his own flesh. Do I look like a shepherd?" The old man saw Xu Shen and asked with a smile, with a kind of madness and intoxication in his eyes.
As the light shone, Xu Shen noticed that in addition to the torture instruments, there was also a pattern on the wall of the torture room.
It was a tall and handsome figure with a kind and handsome face, herding sheep. But in addition to the sheep in his hands, some sheep were gnawing at the flesh and blood of his chest.
There are many copper lamps under the murals, shining with dim light. The picture is bloody but has a certain sacred feeling.
It just seemed a little weird in this gloomy torture chamber.
Xu Shen's eyes were gloomy, and he asked, "Are you also going to use your flesh and blood to feed them?"
“No, no.” The old man denied it hastily as if he was frightened, and shook his head repeatedly, saying, “Of course not. How can we pretend to be blasphemous to our Lord, the Moon God, in his divine deeds? We can only imitate one or two, but never all of them.”
Xu Shen's eyes flickered, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether he was truly crazy or absolutely sober.
"These are the food you are going to feed." The old man handed the chain in his hand to Xu Shen, and compassion appeared in his eyes again. He said: "You are also lucky enough to be a shepherd, and you are closer to the Lord's grace. You must cherish it."
Xu Shen's hand holding the chain paused slightly. He looked up at the eight people tied together behind the chain. They all had panic, helplessness, and pleading expressions on their faces.
"I've already told you what to feed, don't make a mistake."
The old man said softly: "Don't feel sorry for them. They have committed sins and their sinful bodies will be stripped away. This is a gift of purification and baptism for them, which will allow them to enter the kingdom of God after they pass away."
Xu Shen looked at him coldly and asked, "Do you believe what I said?"
But looking at the old man's pious and sincere eyes, Xu Shen felt that the other party believed it.
When the old man was about to leave, Xu Shen asked, "Feeding the ruins with people, what's the benefit of doing this?"
"Just do your job well." The old man did not turn around, but said, "Don't forget to recite the Bible."
As the old man's figure walked away and disappeared in the dark corridor of the cage , Xu Shen slowly withdrew his gaze. He turned around and glanced at the eight people behind him, who were also looking at him in fear.
At this moment, his body was covered in blood and flesh, and he looked truly horrifying, like a monster.
"Please don't kill us, I beg you, I am just possessed by the devil and came to the church just to ask for a piece of bread." A ragged middle-aged man pleaded.
"I just stole a piece of jewelry. I confessed my crime a long time ago and I returned it. Please let me go." Another young woman who was dressed more beautifully but now looked dirty and smelled of feces said in fear.
"Me too. I am a believer of the Moon God. I am just a little clumsy and a little slow in reciting the doctrine. I forgot one. I have memorized it by heart. I really have memorized it all!"
another young woman begged.
Xu Shen remained silent.
He is in a difficult situation now, so naturally he has no right to decide the life and death of these people.
What's more, this place was like this before he arrived. It is hard to imagine how many people died tragically here. This is not something he can change.
And this is just one of the churches.
Xu Shen didn't say anything, he just pulled the chain and led them to the cages that needed to be fed.
"Don't beg him, he's also a monster. We have more people, let's fight him!"
"Yes, his feet are bleeding. This monster is also imprisoned here and is seriously injured. Let's fight him!"
A young man and a middle-aged man in the chains saw that the others’ pleas were in vain, and they showed evil in their eyes and encouraged everyone to fight Xu Shen to the death.
As they shouted angrily, some people still had frightened expressions on their faces, not daring to offend Xu Shen, while others had already turned ferocious in their expressions.
Soon, led by the two men, they rushed towards Xu Shen.
Xu Shen turned around and suddenly punched one of them in the face.
The fist, which had already stopped bleeding and dried up, had its surface capillaries ruptured when it was struck, and blood spurted out again, mixing with the blood sprayed from the opponent's nasal cavity.
Someone attacked from the other side, and Xu Shen turned around and kicked out.
"Hey, don't ruin our food."
"That's right, stop hitting me, stop hitting me, hehe."
The Xu in the cage smelled blood and gathered in front of the railings as if stimulated. Some clapped their hands and laughed eerily, while others made sincere persuasion sounds, but after saying that they could not help but laugh secretly.
Xu Shen had already seen that these people were ordinary people. Even though all his strength was directed at the upper body, it was still easy to deal with a few ordinary people.
Even without Xu Li, he could easily deal with them with his own combat experience.
As three or five people fell, everyone else stopped and looked at Xu Shen in horror, not daring to move forward.
Xu Shen said nothing, silently picked up the chain, and continued to pull them forward.
Those who fell were also dragged up and had to get up, but the ferocity on their faces had turned into despair.
Xu Shen untied the chains of one person and let him stand in front of the cage.
The man's face was filled with fear and he could only see darkness.
And in Xu Shen's sight, Xu in the dark cage had already approached the railing and was looking down at the man in front of him.
Then a strange sickle-like hand stretched out from the railing and hugged the man.
With a puff, the man saw Xu's appearance at the moment before he died.
But its body had already exploded, blood splattered, and then it was cut and squeezed and pulled into the railing.
The seven people behind also saw Xu’s face at that moment, and all of them turned pale. Some of them peed their pants on the spot, and some fainted.
Xu Shen led the rest of the people, walking silently, and he felt like a walking corpse.
As the seven people were put into different cages, Xu Shen also completed the feeding task for today.
In the darkness, apart from Xu's weird laughter and strange words, the only sounds were chewing and swallowing.
Xu Shen was standing in the aisle when he suddenly felt his stomach growling.
Hunger burns in the stomach like a flame.
"Brother, I'm hurt."
From a cage in the corner, a little girl's tender voice was heard.
Xu Shen slowly turned his head and then slowly walked over.
A short little girl stood in the cage, her face full of pity. She said, "My hand is cut. I'm so cold and hungry. Can you bandage it for me?"
Xu Shen stared silently at her outstretched wrist, and there was indeed a wound on it.
After a long silence, Xu Shen whispered, "Okay."
The little girl's eyes lit up, and she quickly walked to the railing and held out her injured hand: "Big brother, please help me take a closer look..."
Xu Shen stared at the blood on his wrist. He slowly walked towards the railing and stretched out his hand.
During this slow process, the expression of the little girl in front of him suddenly changed. Her mouth split open, almost tearing half of her face, revealing an extremely excited and ferocious smile.
Her eyes glowed with intense hunger, and a strange, sharp laugh came from her throat, as if there were two overlapping voices in her throat, saying at the same time: "You've been fooled, you've been fooled!!"
Her arm was suddenly torn apart, the white and tender skin disappeared, revealing a hideous and strange limb.
Just when she was about to grab Xu Shen, Xu Shen suddenly grabbed her strange limb first.
Then, Xu Shen bit it hard.
Screams rang out from the dark cell. The twisted figure behind the bars was terrified and struggled desperately, trying to pull its body back from the bars.
