In the dim wall cavity, the man finished the moldy bread handed to him by the child in a few bites. Then, he walked to the wall covered with dry grass and lay down, beckoning to the boy beside him. Seeing this, the little boy quickly ran over and lay down.
"Daddy, when can we go out?"
Nestled in his father's arms, the little boy looked at his father with innocent eyes. He had been hiding here for three months without going out. Each time, he waited for his father to return after finding food. Half a month ago, his sister and mother had gone out and never returned.
"Soon, Daddy promises. When the time comes, you can eat your fill."
The man lowered his head to look at the child in his arms, a hint of a smile appearing on his dark, thin face. But that smile was indescribably bitter. Where could they escape to now? The entire town had already become a wasteland.
Last month, when he searched for food, he could occasionally encounter a few people. But this month, he had searched the entire town and hadn't met a single person. Even the moldy bread he had just eaten, he had found in a basement.
And in the basement, there were still traces of blood, suggesting that the people who had been hiding there had all died.
It wasn't that the man didn't want to take his child and escape, but those undead monsters roamed everywhere outside the city. Sometimes, those monsters would even enter the city. Recently, when the man was searching for food, he had discovered signs of distortion at the edge of the city.
He believed that before long, the entire city would become a twisted, disgusting monster. And the two of them, father and son, would either starve to death here, or become members of those undead monsters.
"Daddy, why don't those brave heroes come and eliminate these monsters?"
At this moment, the little boy looked up at his father again and continued to ask. Clearly, a few months ago, the little boy had heard from his friends that brave heroes had come to eliminate the monsters. But it had been so long, and the monsters hadn't been eliminated. Instead, their originally peaceful town had become like this.
"The brave heroes will be back soon."
The man stroked the little boy's head and comforted him, but he didn't notice that his eyes were full of despair. Regarding the heroes the boy placed his hope on, the man certainly knew about them. But precisely because of this, the man had long given up on the idea of the heroes returning to save them.
Because the dozens of heroes who had planned to subjugate the Tyrant of Gluttony had already been torn apart and devoured by the endless army of undead monsters before they even stepped into the territory of the Gluttony Kingdom, let alone subjugate the new Demon King, the Tyrant of Gluttony, Sally.
The emergence of the new Demon King, the Tyrant of Gluttony, had to be traced back to half a year ago. At that time, the Adventurers' Guild suddenly released news about the Western countries being slaughtered by a group of undead monsters, and hoped that the heroes of various countries could go to the Western countries to subjugate these indescribable undead monsters.
Soon, news about what had happened in the Western countries spread throughout the continent. Some small and weak kingdoms then realized that the Western countries had been completely slaughtered by many monsters a year ago.
For a time, many small and weak kingdoms became nervous and began to form alliances with each other.
As for those powerful kingdoms, they had long known what had happened in the Western countries. Even the Adventurers' Guild releasing news and driving many small kingdoms to form alliances was secretly manipulated by them.
And the reason why they did this was very simple, for the sake of profit.
Since those indescribable undead monsters slaughtered the entire Western countries, initially, the kingdoms that received the news all thought that those indescribable monsters would continue to attack the surrounding kingdoms.
However, after a while, those kingdoms discovered that these indescribable monsters were only wandering within the territory of the Western countries and had not chosen to leave.
This made many kingdoms believe that these indescribable monsters had no intelligence and were only acting on instinct. Therefore, they planned to use other small kingdoms as cannon fodder to eliminate those indescribable monsters.
And they only needed to come out at the last moment to collect all the benefits. By the way, they could also say that it was thanks to the heroes of their kingdom that they eliminated those indescribable monsters, and that they had saved the world.
As for those small countries that served as cannon fodder, who would care?
So, after preparing for half a year, the mighty Allied Forces began to attack the Gluttony Kingdom. However, what they didn't know was that Sally had already returned from the Jura Great Forest to the Gluttony Kingdom.
Seeing that these humans intended to take away her and Ming Hao's home, she immediately summoned Ming Hao's six major Demon King-level subordinates in the Gluttony Kingdom, plus Sally, a total of seven Demon King-level beings, as well as endless Gluttony monsters, which were the indescribable undead monsters in the eyes of those kingdoms.
In just three short days, nearly a million Allied Forces were all slaughtered, including a hero team hidden within the Allied Forces.
Finally, Sally used the entire Allied Forces plus the hero team as nourishment to directly awaken and become a True Demon King, and awakened her own ultimate skill, the Tyrant of Ghosts.
Afterwards, the kingdoms, realizing that the situation was not right, began to retreat one after another, no longer mentioning the matter of eliminating those monsters in the Western countries. After all, a True Demon King who was comparable to a natural disaster after awakening, plus six powerful Demon King-level beings, they would have to be crazy to go and die.
It was just that they who started the war wanted to end it. There was no such good thing in the world. Sally, who had originally restricted the Gluttony monsters from leaving the Gluttony Kingdom, completely lifted the restrictions at this time, causing a large number of Gluttony monsters to pour out, and the surrounding kingdoms began to be invaded.
And the man began to be eroded by the power of Original Sin. Everyone in the entire town was either devoured by the Gluttony monsters, or eroded by the power of Original Sin in despair, becoming a brand new Gluttony monster.
Crack!
Suddenly, the man, who was recalling everything that had happened recently, changed his expression. He subconsciously covered the boy's mouth. In the dim wall cavity, the man's eyes were full of fear as he stared at the entrance. He knew that at this time, a Gluttony monster was wandering here.
Pa!
Suddenly, the garbage blocking the entrance fell down, and the man's expression changed drastically. He subconsciously hugged the boy in his arms and looked at the tentacles that drilled in from the entrance. Just as the big mouth on the tentacles cracked open, the man thought he was about to be devoured.
Suddenly, the tentacle stopped in mid-air, followed by an inexplicable roar. Immediately afterwards, the kingdoms around the Gluttony Kingdom heard countless monsters roaring.
At the same time, in the center of the Gluttony Kingdom, inside a dark red castle, a woman nearly meters tall, with an explosively good figure, wearing a bright red long dress, with waterfall-like black hair casually draped over her shoulders, a pair of black devil horns on her head, and slightly opened purple eyes full of tyranny and majesty.
And she is one of the new Demon Kings, the Tyrant of Ghosts, Sally, feared by countless people around the world.
At that moment, Sally, who was originally sitting on the throne, suddenly opened her eyes and looked into the distance, a look of excitement and agitation on her妖异gorgeously beautiful face. At this moment, she no longer had the air of a queen, but was like a child who had found a relative.
"Minghao, you're back!"
Feeling the boiling gluttony power within her body, and the gluttony sin that was becoming active in the air, Sally knew that it was because Lu Minghao had returned. Only he could make the gluttony power within her body boil. Through the connection between subordinates, Sally could clearly feel that Lu Minghao was somewhere in this world at this moment.
"Lady Sally, Master is back!"
At this time, Reyvold, who was also a Demon Lord species of the Ghost Clan below, stepped forward and said with unconcealed excitement in his scarlet eyes.
"Do you need to go and welcome Master back?"
Angelica, who was wearing a pure white saintess dress and had an aura that made people want to get close to her, raised her head and looked at Sally with a smile.
"No, Minghao will come back on his own, and what we have to do is to give him a big enough surprise when he comes back."
Saying that, Sally looked at the map in front of her. Most of the kingdoms near the Gluttony Nation, except for the Tempest Federation in the Jura Forest, had already fallen. Now that Minghao was back, she believed that he must be hungry after so long.
Sally was going to prepare a big enough meal for Minghao so that he could eat his fill.
"Except for the Tempest Federation in the Jura Forest, the remaining nearby kingdoms no longer need to exist. They will all become Minghao's food."
"Yes, Lady Sally!"
"For Master!"
Below, the six Great Demon Lord species of the Gluttony Nation smiled and turned around without hesitation, walking towards the kingdoms they had chosen. This also meant that the six surviving kingdoms were about to be completely destroyed.
At the same time, countless gluttony monsters that were originally sleeping in the Gluttony Nation also roared and crawled out of the flesh and blood land, and began to run frantically towards the outside of the Gluttony Nation. Even those gluttony electors who had adapted to the gluttony sin and maintained their sanity.
At this moment, they also followed the gluttony monster army to leave, preparing to offer a feast to their supreme master.
.........
On the other side, a few minutes ago, inside the Jura Forest.
At this time, Luo Yina, who Lu Minghao had arranged to be an undercover agent by Rimuru's side, was sitting bored in the conference room, looking at the serious-looking people who were having a meeting. Luo Yina couldn't help but reveal a desperate expression on her small face.
If it weren't for Master's order, she wouldn't want to stay in this place where there were meetings every day. It would be more fun to stay here and find Sister Sally.
'Master, when are you coming back? Luo Yina is almost getting stupid from the meetings.'
Luo Yina趴laid on the table, her delicate face revealing exhaustion, and a pair of dead fish eyes stared at Rimuru, who had already awakened as a Demon Lord, not understanding why he liked to have meetings so much.
Moreover, now, instead of having such boring meetings, shouldn't everyone just go and kill that Demon Lord named Clayman?
They already knew that it was that guy who was causing trouble, and they were still having meetings here. Were they idle?
"Luo Yina, be serious, we're having a meeting."
At this time, Zhu Cai next to her looked at Luo Yina趴laid on the table and smiled helplessly, gently helping her up, and earnestly began to lecture her.
"But Sister Zhu Cai, it's really boring, and Rimuru too. We already know that it was that guy named Clayman who was causing trouble and killed Sister Ziyuan and the others. Why don't we go and kill him now, and what's the point of having a war meeting? He's just a Demon Lord species, I can slap him to death."
"If that doesn't work, I can still go to Sister Sally. Is a mere Clayman worth being so serious about?"
"......Lord Rimuru must have his own considerations."
Listening to Luo Yina's complaints, Zhu Cai also fell silent, but when she heard Luo Yina say that she was going to find Sally, she quickly raised her hand to stop her from continuing, and then looked at Luo Yina with a serious expression.
You must know that the current Sally can be said to be the enemy of the entire human kingdom, and Lord Rimuru has a inexplicable affection for humans. Even if this kind of thing is happening now, Lord Rimuru will definitely not agree to let Sally come to help.
After all, after Sally slaughtered the million-strong allied forces of those human kingdoms before, Lord Rimuru felt that Sally was wrong to do so. He could have tried to communicate with them, and it was not necessary to use war.
Moreover, even if it was war, Sally should not have slaughtered millions of humans at once, and later let the gluttony monsters wantonly slaughter the residents of the kingdoms around the Gluttony Nation.
For this reason, Lord Rimuru had previously gone to take care of Sally, but in the end, the two new Demon Lords broke up unhappily. It was from that day on that Sally never came to the Tempest Federation again.
"Hmph, Sister Sally is right."
Looking at Zhu Cai in front of her, Luo Yina certainly knew what the other party was thinking. She甩shook her small face and snorted. In her opinion, Sister Sally was right. As for Rimuru, although he was a good friend, he was too kind as a king.
And a king does not need kindness, especially to humans who do not belong to his own kingdom.
"Okay, Luo Yina, Lord Rimuru is just....."
Zhu Cai saw the unwillingness in Luo Yina's heart and was about to open her mouth to comfort her when suddenly everyone in the entire conference room looked outside. They saw bursts of inexplicable roars coming from the distance, and everyone knew that it was the direction of the Gluttony Nation.
"!!"
At the same time, Luo Yina's big eyes in the conference room also lit up. She also felt that Master was back, and he was not far from her. She could clearly feel it.
Then, Luo Yina stood up directly and walked out of the conference room. She was going to find her master who had returned after more than a year. As for Rimuru... who cares about him? Anyway, Master only asked her to stay by Rimuru's side, and did not say that she could not leave temporarily.
"Luo Yina, where are you going?"
At this time, Zhu Cai reached out and grabbed Luo Yina's hand and asked.
"Of course I'm going to find Master!"
"Master, Luo Yina, are you saying that Minghao is back?"
Not far away, Rimuru, who heard Luo Yina's words, quickly asked. He knew that there was only one person who could be called Master by Luo Yina, and that was his close friend Lu Minghao. He didn't expect him to be back.
"Hmph! Who else would I be looking for."
After saying that, Luo Yina was too lazy to care about the people in the conference room. According to the connection between the subordinates, she flew towards Lu Minghao's direction, and the others followed up one after another.
