Lord of the Tricks

Chapter 32 The Hungry Ghost
Yu Ziqing's consciousness was a little dazed.

Oh, it's been a long time since I've exhausted my energy and blood. There's nothing to digest. Have I started to digest my muscles yet?

His brain is frantically resisting, even if he digests his own flesh and blood, he must replenish energy for his brain and make him sober.

Yu Ziqing struggled to sit up, leaned against the stone wall, and looked ahead. There were scratches and fist marks everywhere on the stone wall.

That was the trace left here when he became more and more manic before.

But now, he didn't even have the strength to rage.

After watching for an unknown amount of time, there seemed to be some movement on the stone wall in front of him.

A moment later, a sharp claw broke through the stone wall and protruded out from inside.

As if aware of something, the owner of the sharp claw became even more crazy. His skin was torn apart, his sharp claws were broken, and he still didn't stop. After a while, a small hole no more than one foot in size was dug.

A hungry ghost got into the cave where Yu Ziqing was waiting.

The hungry ghost was overjoyed when he saw Yu Ziqing. After he stood up, he spun around anxiously, gesticulating for a while, trying to say something, but he couldn't say it out loud.

After turning around a few times, it seemed to think of something, turned around, and continued to dig wildly, expanding the hole continuously, as if it wanted to expand enough for Yu Ziqing to pass through.

"Stop digging, no need..."

Yu Ziqing murmured weakly.

The hungry ghost seemed to have thought of something again, and went back into the cave and disappeared.

After an unknown amount of time, when Yu Ziqing's consciousness was a little fuzzy again, there was movement again from the hole.

Holding a wooden bowl, the hungry ghost cautiously slipped in through the hole.

He held the wooden bowl in both hands and placed it respectfully in front of Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing remained motionless, his eyes rolled slightly, and he recognized this wooden bowl. It was the wooden bowl he used to deliver soup to the hungry ghost. At that time, he laughed at the hungry ghost and didn't return the bowl after eating. Who will bring him food next time?

But now, he saw that at the bottom of the wooden bowl, there was some thick soup that had already gone bad.

Yu Ziqing instantly understood that it wasn't that the hungry ghost didn't return the bowl after drinking the thick soup, but that he still hadn't finished the little bit of thick soup.

After such a long time, there is still half of the wooden bowl left, which is like jelly and has deteriorated. This hungry ghost probably only drank less than a quarter.

Yu Ziqing looked at the anxious hungry ghost, seeing him hesitate, as if he was afraid to approach him, and seeing that Yu Ziqing seemed to have no strength, he picked up the wooden bowl and walked slowly towards Yu Ziqing.

Seeing the hungry ghost's courageous yet trembling appearance, Yu Ziqing twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile, smiling, tears came out of his eyes.

"This has gone bad, it's poisonous, I can't drink it, you can drink it."

"come here."

The skinny hungry ghost hesitated for a moment, and slowly came to Yu Ziqing. He still stubbornly held the wooden bowl and squatted in front of Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing stretched out a skinny hand, pressed it on the ugly head of the hungry ghost, stroked his head lightly, and stuffed the last piece of beef jerky into his hand.

"Take it, here it is, I gave it to you."

The hungry ghost didn't want to accept it, so he gave it to Yu Ziqing again.

"This is an order, I gave it to you, you must take it."

The hungry ghost didn't dare to disobey, so he could only hold the piece of beef jerky in his arms, for fear of throwing it away.

"Are they looking for me?"

The hungry ghost nodded.

"You go and tell them, there's no need to look for it, I'm almost done, and I'll be back soon."

"Then, you can go too, don't come here."

"Let's go, I don't have the energy to speak, I'm so tired..."

The hungry ghost left holding the beef jerky, and finally put the wooden bowl in Yu Ziqing's hand stubbornly.

Yu Ziqing sat there paralyzed, leaning against the stone wall, the light in his eyes dimmed. He no longer felt hungry, but tired and lacking energy. strength.

He knew that his consciousness was clear now, and he had already returned to the light, and he was going to die.

The fire of life was going out, and for an unknown period of time, Yu Ziqing drooped his eyelids slightly and remained motionless, the light in his eyes began to dissipate, his consciousness was gone, and his body was about to die.

The death he was least willing to face.

starve.

The moment Yu Ziqing completely lost consciousness, wisps of black air emerged from his body.

The amount of black air exploded exponentially, quickly enveloping Yu Ziqing's body, and then, the black air continued to condense, turning into black water, and then condensing again, turning into something like sticky black oil .

The surrounding world began to be eroded and distorted, and the solid stone walls, as if weathered, were turned into ashes and annihilated in those black oily things.

A terrifying aura full of madness, despair, unwillingness, and coldness condensed into a black flame, which ignited in Yu Ziqing's beating heart with a snort, replacing Yu Ziqing's flame of life that was about to be completely extinguished in the next moment.

Slowly, his already inhuman body slowly stood up, like a mass of indescribable huge black oil, twisting and eroding everything around him, and his breath was also in a state that had never been seen before. rapid ascent.

A large mass of black oil grew bigger and bigger, and finally filled the entire hole, continuing to erode everything around it.

At the same time, in the village, in the depths of the cave that has been blocked and no one has ever entered, in the buried land, pairs of eyes suddenly opened.

They used to be people in the village. After starving to death, they became starving ghosts, but they didn't want to hurt the people in the village. When they were not crazy, they got into the hole and buried themselves.

But at this moment, the unknown terrifying aura has penetrated from the depths of the ground, and they began to wake up.

They all seemed to see a new way of life unfolding in front of them. They only needed to step on it, and there was a glimmer of new hope in their dark and dead way.

Without any hesitation, all the starving ghosts chose to embark on this road.

Because they saw that the only light in the darkness would give them something they had never wanted before, the hope that they could eat again.

The starving ghosts who buried themselves underground, at this moment, changed in the essence of their life forms, and they became hungry ghosts.

The names are similar, but two completely different existences.

Hungry ghosts rushed out of the burrow one by one.

There was a brief commotion in the village, but immediately afterward, they found that those hungry ghosts who were as skinny as sticks, looked like corpses, and their internal organs seemed to be gone, ignored them at all.

After rushing out of the ground, a large group of hungry ghosts just faced one direction and kowtowed gratefully, expressing their gratitude and respect to the existence that gave them new hope.

And the hungry ghost who had been in contact with Yu Ziqing was kneeling at the front of the line. His mouth grew wide, revealing the vortex deep in his throat and the small hole in the center of the vortex.

This gave even more hope to those new hungry ghosts.

The hungry ghost held the beef jerky Yu Ziqing gave him in both hands, holding it in his arms, with fanaticism and expectation in his eyes, he could feel it.

That little piece of beef jerky was glowing.

The people in the village stood far away, both vigilant and shocked.

The old sheep saw from a distance that the hungry ghost with its mouth open was a little silly.

"what are these?"

But the head of the village suddenly thought of what Yu Ziqing had said, and the message left by the hungry ghost before, no matter what happens, keep the village safe.

He straightened his back, raised his head and drank violently.

"Stay calm, forget what I told you before, don't panic when the sky is falling, don't be chaotic, what you said before, what to do now!"

The village quickly returned to calm. All the people, like those hungry ghosts, did not interfere with the river water. Those hungry ghosts did not hurt anyone, and they didn't even bother them. They just knelt down there, as if they were waiting for something.

Three days later, the terrifying aura became stronger and stronger, and even the villagers in the village could already feel it.

An extremely terrifying force is recovering, and the terrifying existence is about to wake up.

They immediately thought of the Yuhua tomb in the back mountain, but after investigating, they found that the Yuhua tomb was exactly the same as before, without any change.

Another seven days passed. At this point, the mine has fallen into the void. It has been several months. The food in the village, even if the supply is reduced as much as possible, is almost exhausted. Everyone is still in a state of starvation.

Even today, everyone saw that in the endless darkness around the mine, there was something like black oil, rising from all sides, covering the entire mine.

They raised their heads and also saw the position of the sky, where there was a large group of indescribable black oil, rushing up to cover the sky and block out the sun.

Then I saw that those black oil stains rising into the sky slowly turned into the shape of a person's upper body, but the position of the head was also completely black.

Immediately afterwards, black flames began to burn on the surface of those indescribable black oil stains, and a crack opened on the huge head where the mouth was.

A low growl, like a strange whisper, resounded through the world.

"hungry……"

All the people didn't understand what language it was, but they all understood the meaning of this word in an instant.

Then, they saw that the gigantic, let's call it human-shaped thing slowly opened its eyes, and the position of his eyes was like a bloody flame burning blazingly.

In that flame, there seems to be endless purgatory, endless pain, all the pain and despair in the world are burning there.

At this moment, a word popped out of the minds of everyone who saw this giant.

hungry ghost.

They knew it was a hungry ghost.

And those kneeling on the ground are all hungry ghosts.

A kind of inhuman alien that has never been seen before.

And this formless, indescribable giant is their king, the beginning and end of all hungry ghosts.

The king of hungry ghosts, the god of hungry ghosts, call it whatever you like.

The eyes of the king of hungry ghosts, looking around, was empty. He saw the glowing beef jerky held by the hungry ghost on the ground, and he didn't take a second look.

He cast his gaze into the dark void.

At the same time, in the abyss of despair, the small theater suddenly stopped working.

A dazzling brilliance was blooming in Xisai's arms, and she took out that thing, the beef jerky that Yu Ziqing had given her earlier.

She felt something, looked at the unknown distance, and smiled brightly.

(End of this chapter)