Judgment

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The bowl shattered on the ground.

Zhang Sufen stood in a daze, looking at the eldest daughter on the pit.

The seven or eight-year-old girl had terribly thin cheeks, prominent cheekbones, and deep-set eye sockets, making her look like a skeleton.The girl closed her eyes, her face pale.The chest, which was still slightly heaving, was now icy cold.

"Yiya!"

Zhang Sufen's face turned pale, and she rushed to shake her daughter's body desperately. "Yaya, Yaya! Wake up, take a look at Mom, look at Mom, Yaya!"

However, the thin, mouse-like girl never opened her eyes again.

The woman kept shouting and shouting until the body in her arms became cold.With dull eyes, she touched her daughter's body over and over again, her thin cheeks, her chest with protruding ribs, and her belly that was sunken like a hole.She suddenly jumped up like crazy, looking into the room with red eyes.

Five-year-old Xiao Haizi took a step back in fear when she saw her mother's crazy appearance, but this action immediately caught Zhang Sufen's attention. he.

"Why is your eldest sister's stomach empty? Why didn't your eldest sister eat anything? Didn't you give your eldest sister the food I brought back yesterday?"

The little girl on one side was so frightened by her roar that she cried out, and she didn't have the strength to cry, her voice was only weak and thin.

Xiao Haizi was in pain from being pinched by his mother, so he also cried out.

"I gave it to the elder sister, but the elder sister didn't eat it!"

"Nonsense! Why doesn't your eldest sister eat?" Zhang Sufen tightly held her son's arm.

Xiao Haizi cried and argued, "I really have something for the elder sister to eat! The elder sister won't eat it herself, she told us to eat it, and even said not to let you know."

Zhang Sufen let go of her hand in a daze, not knowing whether to blame the two young children, or the eldest daughter on the bed who would rather starve to death?But these few are just children, what do they know?

So who is to blame?Blame yourself for not being able to get enough?It's still strange, God who doesn't give people a way to survive!

"I'm not lying. If you don't believe me, ask the elder sister. We ate it because the elder sister didn't want to eat it herself." The ignorant child had runny nose and tears, feeling aggrieved for himself.He looked with his eyes red from crying, but was shocked.

Zhang Sufen was lying on the edge of the pit, tears were falling silently in her dry eye sockets.Zhang Sufen, who had never shed tears before, seemed to have shed all the tears for several years this time. The youngest son was frightened by him and jumped on him.

"Mother, mother." Xiao Haizi hugged her arm, "I'm not good, I shouldn't eat the big sister's food. Next time I won't eat it myself, just give the food to the big sister. Don't cry, your mother won't cry .”

Zhang Sufen just let her youngest son dangle, there was no light in those empty eyes.

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Zhou Zimu came out of the residence, pushing the wheelchair by himself.

The various public facilities in the imperial capital are relatively complete, so there is no problem for him to go to the streets alone here.

Today is the third day in the imperial capital, but there is still no news of Ji Xuan.After Wang Chen went out to exercise, they had nothing to do. Bai Fei was bored in the house all day long and didn't know what to do, and Liu Tao, an insane housewife, was happy.

Only Zhou Zimu was different. He didn't know what Wang Chen and William were preparing.But he himself couldn't bear it anymore, and felt a certain anxiety in his heart.

Why did Ji Xuan come to the imperial capital?

Is it for hunting, or is there some other plan?Is it bad for Wang Chen?

After I consciously boarded Wang Chen's thief ship, I became a community of interests.Zhou Zimu was already deeply worried when the devil himself hadn't thought about it.

On this day, he felt that it was not an option to continue thinking in the room, so he decided to go for a walk.Go out and have a look, maybe you will gain something, and you can relax your mind no matter how bad it is.

Zhou Zimu took to the streets like this, pushing the wheelchair alone, wandering around the huge imperial capital.As soon as he went out, he stared at the huge black shadow above the imperial capital and frowned deeply.

Since being moderately modified by William, he has been different from normal humans and can see some special things.For example, the ball above the head is constantly rotating and changing, like the shadow of the abyss.

This shadow spread over the sky of the entire imperial capital, dormant like a giant beast, staring at the crowd below, and swallowed them all at once without knowing when.

However, people walking on the street didn't notice it at all, and lived their daily lives on their own.No, or people themselves are constantly expanding the shadow.Every minute, every second, there are many black things rising from various places in this city, merging into the terrifying shadow in the sky above.

What exactly is this?

Zhou Zimu could feel the emotions coming from it, which were all kinds of negative emotions, but most of them were all kinds of greedy desires.This black shadow is like a giant gluttonous beast, constantly consuming various emotions of human beings to further strengthen itself.

"Does it look good?"

A voice came from behind, Zhou Zimu was startled, but he didn't turn his head back immediately.He first looked at the shadow on the ground.

It was a very strange shadow, it seemed to be able to feel Zhou Zimu's scrutiny, it moved slightly, exuding malicious threats.

It's a monster!

"Do you think it looks good?"

The unknown monster asked again. "It was there before I came, and now it's bigger."

Zhou Zimu replied, "I don't think it looks good. What is it?"

"Taotie."

The monster said again: "I have been waiting."

Zhou Zimu was silent for a long time, waiting for him to continue, but suddenly there was no sound behind him.He turned around and saw that there was a busy street behind him, and no one was standing and talking to him.

That monster came out and said a few incomprehensible words, then left suddenly?

Just as Zhou Zimu was pushing the wheelchair and was about to leave, a voice sounded in his mind.

【Go back and tell your master, let my subordinate go. 】

Zhou Zimu was startled, turned around, but still saw nothing.

On the crowded streets, there were black lines, being drawn continuously into the abyss in mid-air.

"The above is all that happened today."

After Wang Chen came back at night, Zhou Zimu reported the whole situation. "I guess, it should be Ji Xuan who talked to me. But I don't understand why he would let me come back safely after meeting me?"

Wang Chen said: "You should ask Bai Fei about this."

So all the people and demons present turned their heads to Birdman.

"Well, I think that's the case." Bai Fei coughed and said, "Your Highness has always been paranoid. He probably thinks that you owe Zhou Zimu a favor after you let Zhou Zimu come back, so you should give him a favor." I put it back too."

Wang Chen looked a little strange, "He and I are competitors, why should we abide by such boring rules? Shouldn't it be that when the two sides meet each other, they will be ruthless immediately?"

"Your Highness believes that no matter how great the difference in strength is, one should respect the opponent. He usually informs the opponent before attacking. It is estimated that when I met Zhou Zimu this time, he also wanted to tell you that he is ready to attack."

Wang Chen said expressionlessly, "Before punching the opponent, tell him: Hey, I'm going to hit you, just wait. What kind of spirit is this?"

"The scientific name is the second disease of middle school." Liu Tao, an otaku, replied with a smile. "It's the kind of guy who is very self-righteous, and likes to despise his opponents in this way to show his awesomeness."

"Oh." Wang Chen nodded, "Is it the guy in martial arts novels who pretends to be a hero but ends up being beaten into braised shrimp?"

Bai Fei looked at their comments, feeling a little anxious. "Even if His Highness is the Second Grade Xiami, what are you going to do? It's true that he let Zhou Zimu come back."

"It's not that I asked him to let him go, it was the Second Demon who let him go." Wang Chen used Liu Tao's title, "I don't need to accompany him to go crazy."

"Your Highness." William, who had been silent all this time, said at this moment, "I suggest that you return this birdman to him."

Bai Fei immediately looked at the monster steward gratefully.

"why?"

"With Ji Xuan's narrow-mindedness. Once you think you owe him favors, if you don't take it seriously, you will only annoy him even more." William said: "Before we are ready, to offend such a narrow-minded guy, It's very inefficient."

"..." Wang Chen thought for a second, then looked at Bai Fei, "Let's go, go back and tell Ji Xuan, I will punch him back sooner or later."

"Really let me go?"

"I count to three. One, two..."

As soon as he exited, Bai Fei disappeared from everyone's sight.Liu Tao looked at the empty seat and suddenly felt a little emotional, how fast he slipped away.

Bai Fei left just like that, and no one felt it was a pity.

Wang Chen only cared about one thing, and he pointed to the top of his head. "I wanted to ask a long time ago, what is that thing? What kind of gluttony is it really?"

Taotie is the fifth son of the dragon mentioned in Shan Hai Jing, a monster with gluttony.An embarrassing guy who stuffed himself to death by eating too much.However, even if Wang Chen was killed, he didn't believe that the black shadow on his head would have anything to do with the mythical dragon.

William said: "Ji Xuan called it gluttonous because it was formed from the greedy gathering of human beings, and it fits well."

"Is this related to the reason why Ji Xuan came to the imperial capital?"

The monster steward shook his head, and replied, "This has something to do with you."

Wang Chen was taken aback, and William continued: "This is the final place of the trial, and all candidates will gather here. The existence of gluttony is also the meaning of the existence of the trial."

Wang Chen didn't understand what William's words meant. Why would the black shadow formed by greed be related to the trial, and how would the trial be finalized?

However, he understood a little.All the monster candidates will come here, so the imperial capital will be the place where the final battle will take place.

"William, is it almost the finish line?" Wang Chen suddenly asked.

The monster steward bowed his head, looking at him with dark eyes. "It's still a while, Your Highness."

The two monsters stopped talking, and they both understood that this end point not only refers to the end of the battle for the throne, but also the end of the trial, and it also means whether human beings will end.

The abyss above the imperial capital still opened its mouth wide to swallow.In this city where the most people are gathered and the most dark, let's grow ourselves step by step.

In the city under the shady scene, some people cry, some laugh happily, some are full of ambition, and some are depressed.

Someone filed a complaint and set off a scramble.

Some people sit alone in an empty room, guarding a loneliness.

There is a demon, secretly peeping at everything, watching the sorrows and joys of all beings.

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Zhang Meizhen knocked hard on the door, but the person hiding in the room still couldn't come out.She knocked for a long time but got no response, and said angrily: "Zhang Ruhai, if you have the ability, you can hide for the rest of your life!"

"If you have the ability to drive mother to live in the garage, why don't you have the ability to come out?"

"Now even the garage is not allowed, you unfilial son of evil, you rebellious bastard! Aren't you afraid that big sister will come out of the grave and bite you to death bit by bit!"

"Neighbors in the neighborhood, take a look and see which turtle son this is. He wants to force his mother to death! Sue his own mother, he is not as good as a beast!"

Zhang Meizhen was wailing outside the house, and the people in the house did not dare to respond, complaints were inevitable.

Zhang Ruhai didn't make a sound, his 24-year-old son Zhang Zixuan said embarrassingly: "This old aunt will criticize us! If she has the ability, she will take grandma back to live with her."

"Dad, don't let her tell you that you are afraid. The old woman in the house is tyrannical, how can we sell it for money?"

"Without money, how can Xiaona marry me?"

"Dad, your son has such a big event in his life, you can't retreat, you're soft, and you're afraid of them."

Zhang Ruhai didn't speak. At this time, Zhang Meizhen yelled outside, but his body that had been sitting withered all this time trembled violently.

"Zhang Ruhai! If I knew this, how could my eldest sister save that mouth for you? She would rather swallow you alive!"

Swallow you alive!

Zhang Ruhai smiled wryly, he would rather be the one who starved to death back then than continue to live in this world of cannibalism.

Nowadays, there is indeed no shortage of food and clothing, but the greed in people's hearts is increasing day by day. For money, power, and fame, I don't know when I swallow it because of this greed.

The sky, the shadow of the abyss, expanded silently.

A hungry behemoth is watching the world.