"I believe that after hearing this, everyone wants to be a sacrifice instead of a servant." Yu Chuan put his hands behind his back and the smile on his face became meaningful. "But I can tell you a good news. In Luming County, the sacrifices and servants are not fixed. Instead, they will be tested every six months."

"In this test, those sacrifices that are not that good will be demoted to servants, and servants who perform well will be promoted to sacrifices."

"You must be curious about the criteria for judging the sacrifices and servants, right?"

All the children looked expectant.

Yuchuan looked around at everyone and said slowly, "It's pain."

"Whoever among you suffers more can be the sacrifice."

The children shrank back in confusion and fear. The relatively negative and abstract concept of "pain" made them feel a little scared subconsciously.

Yuchuan looked at the performance of these sacrifices, snorted and laughed, and said: "Of course, the pain of being a sacrifice is very sharp, but it is only temporary. You only need to sacrifice once and then you will never have to suffer again. The pain of becoming a servant is not strong, but it will last a lifetime."

"Long-term pain or short-term pain, it depends on your choice."

Yuchuan looked down at his watch and said nonchalantly, "Now the child who has been sacrificed will receive the most careful treatment in the hospital."

"However, for the children who become servants, we can only arrange for ordinary veterinarians to treat your pets. Whether they can survive depends on the luck of these cubs."

The children below began to divide into groups in twos and threes, and automatically divided themselves into two groups: [Sacrifices] and servants. Then, when they formed teams, the expressions on some people's faces changed significantly. Many children cried in fear, and many children clenched their fists with gleams in their eyes.

Bai Liu watched the scene calmly without moving.

When these children, under the inducement of the boat, took the initiative to divide themselves into two unequal classes of "sacrifice" and "servant", the food chain of desire was formed.

With a pale face, Sota looked around, and finally walked behind Bai Liu, folded his hands in front of him, and lowered his head respectfully and tremblingly - this was the posture of a servant who decided to serve Bai Liu as a [sacrifice].

Bai Liu glanced back at Sota who was standing behind him: "Have you made your choice? Are you sure you want to choose me?"

Sou Tai nodded slowly. He glanced at Xiao Kui who was standing motionless in the crowd, and spoke in a hoarse voice with lingering fear: "...I can't be a sacrifice. I'm really too scared of Xiao Kui's look..."

"Kitahara Xiaokui, send her back to her original boat house." Yuchuan ordered coldly, "Let her stay with her original servants, and let her see how her responsible friend was tortured after she fled in a weak and silent manner."

Xiaokui's shoulders trembled violently and she was quickly pulled away by the two adults.

"The rest of the children." Yuchuan swept his clothes and said, "Follow me to the boathouse for you to stay in."

Bai Liu followed behind the boat and not far away, he arrived at the boathouse mentioned by the boathouse. This boathouse was much newer than the one Bai Liu had seen seven days later when he was practicing the evil god ritual dance as the evil god's successor. It was facing the sparkling sea.

At this moment in the afterglow of the setting sun, the waterproof paint on the outer shell of this peculiar and elegant boathouse glows with a dazzling golden scale, and the edges appear red. The boathouse pattern painted at the entrance sparkles under the sunlight reflected by the sea water. It does not look like a cage that is about to bring pain to the sacrifice, but rather like a magnificent palace.

The children were all stunned. One of them pointed at the houseboat and shouted in disbelief: "Is this where we live?!"

"Yes." Yuchuan turned around and pointed to the entrance on the side. "Go there and get a wooden sign with your name on it. After you get the sign, go in and insert it into the wooden niche next to the room. That room will belong to you."

When the children were excitedly preparing to rush over to get the wooden sign and run to the houseboat, Yuchuan spoke again. He said coldly: "But the house is chosen by the sacrifice first, and the servants later."

"The servants can only choose after every sacrifice has chosen a room."

The excitement on the faces of the children who were [Servants] froze. They watched eagerly as the [Sacrificial] children rushed into the houseboat and happily chose a room, shouting how wide and nice the house was, and slowly tightened the wooden cards in their hands.

Bai Liu walked in holding his wooden sign. As soon as he came into view, he saw a row of neat and bright houseboats, but he could clearly see that the width of each houseboat was gradually decreasing, and the innermost houseboat was only as wide as two doors.

The moment they realized that the house here needed to be snatched, these children, who had experienced the storms together on the boat and even developed a bit of friendship through thick and thin, immediately started running like crazy, trying to get their wooden signs into the wooden niche of the widest and largest room first.

"This room is mine!"

"I was the one who put the sign in there first!"

Several children were arguing over the biggest room.

Bai Liu glanced around, retracted his gaze, and walked past the largest rooms without looking around. He remembered the scene when he was in the orphanage and a group of children were fighting over toys.

But this kind of thing generally has nothing to do with him. Bai Liu generally doesn't like the toys that this group of people like. Just like this time, he walked directly to the last room, raised his head and calmly inserted his wooden sign into it, then pushed the door and walked in.

Sure enough, the layout of this room was exactly the same as the room where Sota took him to rest later. Even the picture of waves hanging on the wall was exactly the same, except that this time there was no shrine behind the picture of waves.

Bai Liu withdrew his hand that was touching the wall.

It seems that there is no statue in the last room, so the next key statue of this branch should be on the [Old Evil God·Spirit].

——In other words, according to the setting of "Siren Dungeon", it is Sheita.

There were sounds of children rushing in from outside the door, but they soon stopped.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes - it seemed that these [servants] had already discovered it.

The children were silent for a long time, staring blankly at the houseboats they had longed to live in, and then asked, "These houseboats are full, where should we live?"

Wooden signs have been inserted next to all the rooms in the four-row houseboat, leaving no space.

"Of course you have a place to stay." Yuchuan looked at the stunned expressions of the children, his tone carrying an inexplicable weirdness and excitement, "In this boathouse, there is still a place for you lowly servants to lie down and have a good rest."

He raised his foot and walked forward slowly, passing the rowhouses, and stopped beside an open-air stone water tank. He turned around and smiled at the group of children: "It's here."

The children who chose to become [Servants] looked at the building of water-storing stone jars in disbelief.

The land around the stone water tanks was damp and dark, and densely populated with creatures similar to rattan pots. On the ground were bloodstains from fish slaughter, discarded oyster and mussel shells, and some rotten fish and shrimp. It was obvious that this was a place for processing food ingredients. The mud seemed to have been pickled by these things, and it gave off a fishy smell.

This is not the most shocking thing for these children.

Cang Tai was looking in a daze at the pointed wire cages, half the size of their bodies, densely arranged next to the water tank. A tattered plastic water shelter was placed on top. In front of the cages were a water bowl and a feed bowl filled with dirty muddy water. Next to them were various meat and walking poultry such as chickens and ducks in the same cages, which were cackling.

——This is totally a dog house for pets, or a cat house.

There is a place for hanging signs on these cages, and the names of these [servants] pets, or perhaps the names of these servants themselves, have already been hung there.

Yuchuan pointed at the cages and said, "This is where you live."

All the children stared at the cages blankly, and no one spoke.

Yu Chuan ignored him and continued, "You must crawl out of this cage with your pets at 5:30 in the daytime, and then catch the animals in the cages next to you, kill them, and send them to the kitchen for the chefs to cook. This way, the sacrifices can eat the freshest and most delicious food before 8 o'clock."

"Please note that it is still dark here at 5:30 in the morning. If you catch the wrong animal in the cage and kill someone else's pet, we will not be responsible. You should handle it yourself."

Yuchuan said nonchalantly, "But this may not be a bad thing for you. After all, the servant whose pet was accidentally killed by someone nearby was successfully promoted to the Sacrifice Master in the first round of assessment that year because of the excessive pain."

"He is such a hard-working and motivated child. I like him very much." Yuchuan smiled with satisfaction as if he remembered something interesting. "After he was promoted to a sacrifice and enjoyed the generous and respected life of the sacrifice masters, he was too afraid that he would be degraded from a sacrifice to a servant again in the next round of assessments. So in order to consolidate his pain-"

"—the child forced himself to eat his own pet."