Volume 3: Summoning Demons Chapter 17: The Rotten Corpse
Most people have a tendency to be self-destructive.
Self-destruction is not necessarily self-harm, but most self-destruction involves a certain amount of self-harm.
Some of this self-harm is conscious, while some is unconscious.
Things like Wu Shi San, tobacco, and betel nut can damage the body, but there are still many people who are chasing after these things.
Maybe it has something to do with the relaxing nature of these things, but it also has something to do with self-destructive tendencies.
"Li Min" stood in the middle of the dark river, with five human bodies stacked together and a large number of vines entangled around them, leaving only their heads and some flesh and blood exposed.
Each of these vines is extremely thick, and has openings at the ends.
It is these openings that continuously produce large amounts of dark red blood, which then flows into the underground river.
"Li Min, you are under arrest, please surrender." Captain Xia drew out a single-edged sword, his eyes grim.
Without waiting for Li Min to reply, he rushed over.
The powerful internal force in his body was released, creating waves visible to the naked eye.
The vines, carrying a bloody aura, also swung over at the same time, hitting Captain Xia, and the two collided with each other.
Li Min continued to speak as if it had nothing to do with her.
"In this chaotic world, your life is uncertain. The slightest disturbance can destroy everything you have."
"Everyone has to be prepared to have everything taken away from them, and this preparation even becomes a kind of expectation."
"I was expecting some kind of illness to destroy my life in that instant."
"Then destroy it in an instant!" Captain Xia's eyes turned black, and the whites of his eyes turned into a strange black.
And a member of the Evil-Eradication Division appeared in the dark river at some point without anyone noticing.
He jumped out of the water like a carp leaping over the dragon gate, and his swinging body brought up a large amount of river water.
The river water lingered around him like his limbs, turning him into a water dragon.
The water dragon rushed straight towards Li Min, but quickly collapsed at the moment it was about to touch the other person's body.
Li Min watched all this without any emotion, and continued to speak to himself: "If this illness can still bring some comfort, then it is not unacceptable ."
"When I first started selling the spiritual spring water, I explained that it was a potion that led to death. Long-term use would lead to death."
"However, not many people backed off because of this, and it even gradually became a rumor that the spiritual spring water could cure all diseases."
"Everyone will die, and this city is also dying. In this case, why not speed up this death joyfully?"
As Li Min spoke, the entire underground river began to emit red mist.
The mist was pervasive, and even some people with their faces covered with wet towels were infected at this moment.
Coughing sounds suddenly rang out one after another.
However, these people who were coughing did not show any expression of pain. Instead, they felt a certain kind of pleasure and wanted to continue coughing, as if they were addicted to coughing.
Even if you stop , you will still have the urge to scratch it with your hands.
I don’t know if you have ever been bitten by a mosquito. The itchy feeling in the red and swollen area makes people want to prick it hard with their fingernails.
At that moment, the stimulation brought by the slight pain will turn that little itching into a comfortable feeling.
At this moment, the people from the Evil-Eradication Bureau had this impulse.
They are people who are always on the brink of death, and they know more than ordinary people.
They knew that the city's territorial dominance was rapidly decreasing.
They know that the number of evil spirits is increasing every year.
They know that many powerful evils are growing more powerful.
They also knew that there was no way forward for the demon summoner.
Because they know this, they are under much more pressure than others.
Every time we go on a mission, we are actually "self-destructing" ourselves.
With this thought in mind, most people lose their ability to act at this moment.
They fell into caves or underground rivers and drifted along with the rivers.
"Is it going to start right away?" Lu Bai came to a person and checked his physical condition.
The opponent's physical condition is at most a cold. If he has internal strength, his body functions are far from being able to move.
The key point is the will to self-destruct and give up. They are addicted to the ease and pleasure of not having to think about tomorrow, not having to bear pressure, and knowing that they will die of illness anyway.
In other words, this ability to destroy people's will is the opponent's most core ability.
The disease is just a carrier.
Lu Bai easily absorbed the disease energy from the other party's body, but even if these people were no longer sick, they were no longer willing to fight.
Instead, they looked at Lu Bai with resentment. Although now, even if they hated someone, they would not take revenge.
They completely ignored everyone else and rushed directly to the underground river, drinking the bright red river water in big gulps, once again causing their bodies to feel the pain brought by the epidemic.
This kind of pain can numb all their anxieties, remove all their stress, and allow them to stop worrying about tomorrow’s fear and feel extremely at peace.
With this kind of thinking, this group of people is completely ruined.
Of course, not all people in the Evil Suppression Bureau are like this.
They are indeed under more pressure than ordinary people, but their mental will is also much stronger than that of ordinary people.
For example, the scattered water dragon condensed again.
Captain Xia was not affected by that force from beginning to end, and there were more people from the Evil Extermination Bureau fighting.
The vines on Li Min's body are becoming fewer and fewer, revealing the rotten flesh and blood inside.
That year, their Lijia Village encountered an evil spirit and they fled all the way to Lupan City. When they finally arrived, only five people were left.
Of course, there were actually six people. Li Du left first and did not join them.
When the five of them arrived at Lu Pan City, they were poor and had no food to eat.
In those desperate days, they were disappointed about tomorrow , so they agreed to jump into the well.
However, it was this time of jumping into the well that changed them. They found a rotten corpse in the well, covered with moss and vines.
After they fell down, they accidentally smashed a wooden sword on the corpse, after which the corpse began to speak.
It said that its previous body was too tough and it had been in this dry well for many years without rotting, which was very bad.
It needs some help.
Let more rot and wither join in and help him die completely.
Then the five of them ate the rotten corpse like crazy.
A vine grew in the place where the rotten corpse originally lay. After eating the corpse, the vine would spit out a large amount of blood.
When this blood is diluted, it becomes spiritual spring water.
In the past few years, the five of them died one after another. After death, they were summoned by the vines under the dry well and then merged into it.
The cause of death was not disease, but the expectation of self-destruction.
