Xu Cheng lay on the bed, lamenting the ever-changing world.
He was still complacent before, using his wit to control the devil in his body, but in the blink of an eye he was about to be burned to death here, and he really couldn't stand it anymore.
Moreover, the life of this god-killer was too miserable. He was used as a sacrifice by his parents when he was just born. He finally saved his life, but was possessed by a demon, damaged his throat and became mute. He was given away by a kind person. When he arrived at the orphanage, he suffered inhuman torture. He used the power of the devil to kill the nurse, but he was about to be burned to death when he turned around.
What kind of miserable world is this? If Xu Cheng could move now, he would write a hundred miserable words on the ground to accuse the injustice of fate.
I really don't know how the God Killer survived in this world full of evil.
Do you have the same ability to reopen as yourself?
The fire gradually spread to the entire house, covering the doors and windows. The temperature in the room quickly increased, and thick smoke billowed in.
Xu Cheng coughed while reminding the devil in his body.
"I'm going to be burned to death, please save me!"
It's a pity that the devil didn't say a word this time. It seems that even it can't do anything good.
In this desperate situation, Xu Cheng had to be mentally prepared to reopen.
“Lord Omar!
"
At this moment, several exclamations suddenly sounded outside, and then, a tall figure quickly broke into the sea of fire.
Seeing this man with fluffy hair who looked like a lion, Xu Cheng felt as if he was seeing a relative. He hurriedly kicked up his short legs and opened his hands towards him.
The billowing smoke obstructed Omar's vision, but he still spotted Xu Cheng lying on the bed at a glance, rushed over to pick him up, turned around and rushed out of the sea of fire.
Outside the house, everyone in the orphanage watched helplessly as Omar rescued the son of the devil, but no one dared to step forward to stop him.
Omar threw Xu Cheng to Caroline who was standing aside, and then turned to look at the director of the orphanage. His usual careless expression became very serious now.
"Please give me a reason, Madam Dean."
Omar was very angry. Fortunately, she happened to come to the orphanage to visit, otherwise the child would have been burned alive.
I asked you to help me raise him, but I didn’t ask you to raise him to maturity.
However, Omar knew very well that the dean was a person and would not burn the child to death for no reason, so he gave her a chance to explain.
Before the dean could speak, the nurse next to him said first, "Lord Omar, this child is a demon. It killed Mary last night."
"Yes, Mary's whole body was torn to pieces. It was so cruel."
"Marie had been taking care of it, but it was still killed. This demon must not be kept."
The caregivers started shouting.
Although they usually exclude and isolate the nurse named Mary, they do not prevent them from fighting for her right now.
Omar frowned slightly and looked back at Xu Cheng.
It's a pity that Xu Cheng is mute now and has no way to refute, and he also saw Caroline hugging him with disgust in her eyes, as if she wanted to throw him back into the sea of fire.
Faced with the public outrage among the nursing staff, if one of them fails to handle the situation well, his life may be in danger.
At this critical moment, Xu Cheng did not panic, but showed his strong reaction ability as an adult.
"Wow wow wow."
He burst out crying, moving his hands and feet wildly, tearing apart the tattered clothes he was wearing, revealing his thin body underneath.
Caroline, who was hesitating whether to throw Xu Cheng into the sea of fire, her eyes widened for a moment - Xu Cheng's small body was actually covered with scars, almost no skin was good, and it was obvious that he had suffered a lot. Human abuse.
Omar was in a dilemma. When he saw this scene, a sharp look flashed in his eyes. He turned back to look at everyone and asked loudly: "What happened to his body? Who is hurting him?"
The scene suddenly became quiet, and the nurses' eyes gradually focused on the dean.
Of course they all knew that the murdered nurse had been abusing Xu Cheng, and even publicized this incident as a reason to draw a clear line with the devil's son.
Of course the dean knew it, but she never stopped her.
Faced with Omar's questioning look, it was now the dean's turn to be in a dilemma.
If the nurse successfully killed Xu Cheng, even if Omar pursued him afterwards, he would just have to blame the fault on the nurse.
But now that the nurse's abuse of Xu Cheng has been exposed, even if she is dead, she no longer has the confidence to loudly demand Xu Cheng's death.
The most important thing is that the orphanage cannot have a reputation of abusing children, otherwise the good people who donate will be dissatisfied.
"Lord Omar."
The director had to lower his posture and whispered: "The influence of the devil's son on the orphanage is too serious. Now there are rumors in the city that there is a devil in our orphanage. Not many people dare to come to the door. If this continues, Our orphanage won’t be able to survive.”
She looked up at the hundreds of orphans watching the fun in the distance, with red eyes: "If the orphanage can't run, what will these children do?"
"Hey, don't change the subject."
Caroline was a little annoyed. Although she didn't like this devil's son, she couldn't tolerate the dean using these children as a shield.
"Madam Dean, I understand what you mean."
Omar sighed: "I didn't think carefully before. I will take this child away."
"Thank you for your understanding, Lord Omar."
The dean said with tears of gratitude. Of course, she did not dare to mention the death of the nurse again. She was grateful to God for being able to send Xu Cheng, the plague, away.
"Let's go, Caroline."
Omar turned and walked out, and Caroline followed Xu Cheng with her arms in her arms.
Xu Cheng didn't expect that the danger could be solved so easily. Fortunately, he didn't risk reopening just now, otherwise he would have wasted an opportunity.
But this Omar was too kind to him. If he hadn't met his parents in person, he would have doubted whether he was Omar's illegitimate son.
Outside the orphanage, Omar and Caroline took Xu Cheng into the carriage. Caroline, who couldn't hold it in anymore, immediately said: "Teacher, this kid can kill people before he grows up. This is a hidden danger that must be dealt with." .”
Behind the scenes, he hinted that Xu Cheng should be dealt with.
Xu Cheng has become accustomed to the malice of this world. He doesn't want to say anything and directly retaliates with urine cannon.
"ah!
"
Caroline screamed as she was covered in urine.
“This bastard kid must understand what I’m talking about!
"
She didn't dare to throw Xu Cheng out, so she could only throw him on the seat in disgust and looked around for a rag to wipe her clothes.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Omar couldn't help laughing, and then said: "It should be the devil that controls this child's behavior. All we need to do is seal the devil away."
As he spoke, he took out a strange item from his body, which looked like a pendant with a pure black gemstone embedded in the middle.
Caroline, who was wiping her clothes, was shocked when she saw this: "This was given to you by the Shadow Goddess. Are you going to waste it on this brat?"
"What is waste? No matter how important things are, they are still used."
"But……"
"alright"
Omar interrupted Caroline, then squatted in front of Xu Cheng and gently placed the black gem on Xu Cheng's chest.
"Be good, boy."
Oma chuckled and teased Xu Cheng with his hands: "Don't pee on me later. If you want to pee, just pee on Caroline."
"Teacher, stop talking!"
Caroline complained to the teacher about this embarrassing incident.
Oma pushed gently with his fingers, and a large number of black shadows appeared in the black gem, instantly restraining Xu Cheng's hands and feet.
"No! Stop!"
Xu Cheng suddenly opened his mouth and let out an angry cry, but it was not his voice, but the devil's voice.
Omar's expression was solemn, and his fingers gradually exerted force to push the black gem into Xu Cheng's chest.
The demon controlled Xu Cheng's body and struggled fiercely, but he could not resist the power of the goddess. He was tied into a rice dumpling by the shadow and could not move.
"It turns out that it's not that you have no power, but that you refuse to help me."
Xu Cheng said something sarcastic in his mind: "Now do you know the consequences of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"
"Asshole, how can you survive without me?
"
The demon's screams gradually disappeared, and the shadow that bound Xu Cheng's body, together with the black gem, completely submerged into his body.
Xu Cheng felt that his body was changing. The scales on his body had disappeared, and even his eyes had changed from vertical eyes back to normal eyes. Except for the two small sharp corners that remained on his forehead, they were now the same as ordinary ones. Human pups are no different.
Although Omar looked tired, she still picked up Xu Cheng and said to Caroline: "Look, what a cute guy."
Caroline glanced at Xu Cheng and declined to comment. Instead, she asked, "How are you going to place him next? We don't have time to keep him with us."
"I've already thought about it."
Omar put Xu Cheng down again and said, "Send him to a nursing home."
"What did you say?"
Caroline was shocked. The sanatorium was affiliated with the Demon Hunting Society and specialized in taking care of those members who were injured in the line of duty. It was also responsible for raising the descendants of those members who had lost their parents.
But not just anyone can enter the sanatorium. Each member only has one qualification. If you give it to others, you will not have it.
"If you send him to a nursing home, what will you do when you get old?"
"Let's talk about the future in the future."
Omar looked indifferent: "Your teacher, even if I get old in the future, I will not go to a nursing home and wait to die. I might as well find a place where no one is around and farm to support myself."
Seeing Omar make a decision, Caroline knew that she couldn't persuade her, so she was very puzzled and asked: "Why are you so nice to this brat? It obviously has nothing to do with you, right?"
"Who told me to kill his parents?"
"Without you, he would have died at the hands of his parents."
"Maybe, but I can't just leave it alone. Isn't that how I picked you up?"
"..."
Xu Cheng listened to the exchange between master and apprentice, and suddenly felt that the life of the Godslayer was not all darkness. At least he met Omar, an uncle who shone with the brilliance of humanity.
During the bumpy ride of the carriage, Xu Cheng, exhausted of energy, slowly fell into a deep sleep.
In front of the lake of consciousness, he felt that the rest of his life would not be smooth, and there would be more malice waiting for him.
…
Crunch! Crunch!
Amidst the jerky sound of the winch, Xu Cheng, who was standing by the well, exhausted all his strength and tried to lift a bucket of water out of the well.
Lifting the bucket out of the well and pouring it into the wooden bucket on the side, this simple action made the thirteen-year-old Xu Cheng sweat profusely and almost collapse.
After throwing the bucket back into the well, Xu Cheng looked up at the scorching sun and cursed in his heart.
It has been thirteen years since he entered the gate of hell.
After experiencing the tragedy of the first few months after he was born, Xu Cheng was sent to a nursing home affiliated to the Demon Hunting Society by Oma, where he lived with a large group of orphans.
Of course, no caregiver would deliberately abuse Xu Cheng here, but just as he expected, the rest of his life would not be smooth.
First of all, because he was inhabited by a demon and was sealed, his body was extremely weak. He had been malnourished since he was a child, and he would be out of breath from exhaustion even if he did any work.
Then, orphans living in nursing homes also need to do things and have to support themselves since childhood. The frail Xu Cheng has to spend several times more time and energy than others to support himself with difficulty.
Finally, although the nursing staff in the nursing home would not torture him intentionally, they would not give him a good look either. Because of his identity as the son of the devil, he suffered bullying and discrimination from other orphans.
In addition, disease and bad luck also followed Xu Cheng all the time. In the past thirteen years, he encountered life-threatening dangers several times due to being too unlucky, and he could barely avoid it by relying on adult thinking.
But there is no way to avoid illness. Xu Cheng reopened the clinic three times in the past few years, all because of illness.
Now, there are only five chances to reopen.
During these thirteen years, the extremely harsh living environment made Xu Cheng's brain gradually numb.
It would be fine if he was an ignorant child with an immature worldview, but Xu Cheng is an adult with mature thinking ability.
Sometimes he even suspected that he was an unlucky guy named Locke, and that the life that belonged to Xu Cheng was just some kind of delusion.
Fortunately, the occasional companionship of Dog Manager allowed him to firmly believe in his identity as Xu Cheng and not sink into the pain of these thirteen years.
Trying to lift the water in his hand, Xu Cheng braved the scorching sun above his head and turned around to go back to his room.
Walking on the dusty dirt road, with the heavy bucket in his hand, Xu Cheng had no time to think about unnecessary things. When he found several children at least a head taller than him walking in front of him, it was already too late to avoid them.
Xu Cheng suddenly felt a pain in his ankle. He lost his balance and fell directly to the ground. The cold well water also spilled all over the ground, staining his old clothes and pants.
"Hahaha!"
Several of the naughty kids who tripped him laughed.
Amidst the laughter, Xu Cheng slowly got up and walked back with the bucket.
It's not that he doesn't want to resist, but his extremely weak body makes him unable to resist these naughty kids. Even if he remembers the instinct to fight, he can't even swing his fist a few times, what's the use?
In addition, he is mute, and has a negative buff like the Devil's Son. He is hostile and ostracized by the whole sanatorium, and his adult wisdom cannot be used at all.
This is also the reason why Xu Cheng has never thought about leaving the nursing home in thirteen years. He can survive here, but he will definitely die outside after leaving.
After fetching another bucket of water, Xu Cheng took a long detour and happened to run into Omar and Caroline, who were surrounded by a group of orphans.
"Lord Omar!"
"Sister Caroline!"
The orphans called them very enthusiastically. Every once in a while, Omar and Caroline would come to the nursing home to visit these orphans and give them gifts, so they were deeply loved by the children.
Thirteen years have passed, and Omar has obviously aged a little bit more, but Caroline still looks like she is eighteen years old, and has not changed at all.
】
Because she is a half-elf, her lifespan is five to six hundred years old.
Xu Cheng did not go over to join in the fun. Caroline rejected him very much. As a combatant who often traveled on the front lines of hunting demons and dark wizards, Omar could not provide Xu Cheng with a stable life and could place him in a nursing home. This is already a great blessing.
To be honest, Omar has rescued too many orphans and has not communicated with Xu Cheng for seven or eight years. Maybe he has forgotten about him a long time ago.
After bypassing the crowd, Xu Cheng returned to his cabin and started cooking.
Xu Cheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw that there was less than three days' worth of food left in the rice vat, and there were still ten days until the food was distributed.
It's not that he eats too much, but that the nursing staff in the nursing home deduct food from the orphans, especially people like Xu Cheng, who are deprived of food even more severely. They often go hungry twice in three days.
After barely finishing today's meal, Xu Cheng was about to take a rest when the door was suddenly pushed open and a petite figure came in from the outside.
"Locke, Lord Omar has given us gifts."
With a weak voice, the little girl with short white hair slowly walked to the bed and placed a multigrain bread on the bedside: "I got one for you, here you go!"
If the God Killer... or Xu Cheng's thirteen-year dark life was Omar who shone with the brilliance of humanity in the first half, then the light in the second half was the little girl named Susan in front of him.
She is also an orphan, her parents were members of the Demon Hunting Club who died in battle.
Because she had albinism since she was a child, few people in the orphanage were willing to play with Susan.
Therefore, Xu Cheng, the "son of the devil", and Susan, the "white-haired ghost", can only hug each other for warmth and comfort each other's lonely young hearts.
Xu Cheng has not gone crazy in these thirteen years. In addition to dog management, it is because of Susan's company that he can ease his mental pain.
Taking off the bread, Xu Cheng broke it in half and gave half to Susan.
Susan did not refuse, took half a piece of bread and ate it like a little hamster.
After eating the bread, Susan carefully took out a few folded papers from her arms: "Here you go, I picked these from the trash today."
Xu Cheng couldn't wait to take these pieces of paper from Susan's hand and carefully opened them on the bed. Some words were scrawled on the papers.
If Divana was here, she would definitely be able to recognize that these words are exactly the same as those on the door of Lingzi's Tomb.
Since Xu Cheng is now experiencing the life of a god-killer, this era is an ancient era where gods coexisted.
Although Xu Cheng was immersed in the pain caused by the maliciousness of the world, he did not completely lie down. Instead, he tried his best to learn the words of this world and understand the situation in the outside world.
However, in this era, writing was only in the hands of nobles or superpowers, and ordinary people had no chance to access it, let alone Xu Cheng, the son of a demon who was discriminated against.
In the end, it was Susan who helped him solve this problem. She needed to clean the house every once in a while and could help Xu Cheng find some discarded scraps of paper from the garbage dump.
Relying on these incomplete pieces of paper, Xu Cheng has learned the writing of this world in thirteen years, and also understood the situation outside.
He is now located in a country called Sauron. This country's level of civilization is equivalent to the feudal system of the Middle Ages. There are a large number of lords and kings, and it is protected by the goddess of shadow and death.
There may not be a World Tree yet, the concentration of spirit seeds in the air is far higher than that of later generations, and superpowers are extremely common.
For example, Omar is only a middle- and lower-level member of the Demon Hunting Guild, but he also possesses the power of a fourth-level powerful person.
Susan sat next to Xu Cheng and whispered about all the trivial things she encountered today.
Xu Cheng sat cross-legged on the bed, listening to her voice and reading the dirty paper in his hand. This should be a letter sent to the nursing home by an outsider.
It talks about the friction between the local lords and the Goddess Cult in a gossipy tone due to the struggle for power. The conflicts between the two sides have become more and more intense recently, and there seems to be signs of an armed conflict.
The writer of the letter was worried that innocent people would be affected if he continued to stay in this city, and asked the recipient for his opinion whether he should leave as soon as possible.
Xu Cheng read it several times from beginning to end, but there was no information he wanted.
The reason why he wants to understand the outside world is that on the one hand he does not want his ears and eyes to be blocked, and on the other hand he also wants to find out what the purpose of this difficult task he is currently experiencing is.
Is it just to experience the life of a god-slayer?
Who is the watcher in the mission statement?
Xu Cheng thought for a while and found that Susan had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
As night fell, Susan had to leave and return to the girls' dormitory because someone was checking the room at night.
After Xu Cheng sent her back, he returned to the cabin and lay on the bed. He couldn't sleep for a while, and his stomach kept growling.
During the past thirteen years, although it was very painful, Xu Cheng's spirit and will were tempered to be extremely tough and strong. No discrimination, pain, disease, or hunger could make him move any more.
While half asleep and half awake, the ground suddenly trembled, followed by a loud noise that woke Xu Cheng up from his sleep.
He suddenly sat up from the bed, saw the flickering fire outside through the gap in the wooden house, and hurriedly jumped out of bed and rushed out of the wooden house.
When he came outside, Xu Cheng found that the entire sanatorium was already in a sea of fire, and in the dark night sky, a large number of giant fireballs fell from the sky, smashing into the city fiercely, igniting the fire.
Did a meteorite fall from the sky?
wrong!
Xu Cheng immediately thought of the letter he saw today - it was a military conflict between the local lord and the Goddess Cult.
How could he be so unlucky that he caught up!
Xu Cheng subconsciously wanted to run away, but suddenly he remembered something and hurriedly turned around and ran towards the girls' dormitory of the nursing home.
God, Buddha, Jesus, bless you, don’t let anything happen!
When Xu Cheng, who was lucky, panted and arrived in front of the girls' dormitory, what he saw was ruins. The raging sea of fire swallowed everything, and no one escaped.
