Stone walked up to John, grabbed John by the hair, lifted his head up, and pointed his gleaming butcher knife at John.
Just as he was about to slit his own throat, he noticed John staring at him with a pair of emerald green eyes, looking fierce and menacing. Stone cried out in alarm, "Ahhh... Dad, wake up, wake up... He's awake!"
"You're awake, so what's the panic? You're tied up with ropes!" the village chief scolded, frowning.
"Eyes, eyes, green, green." Stone swallowed hard. "He glared at me, Dad, he, he, he... glared at me!"
"Look at you, so pathetic! Hurry up and kill him, then he won't glare at you anymore!" the village chief urged. "The thing down there is probably awake already, son, hurry up and do it."
"Oh." Stone nodded and pointed the butcher knife at John again.
"Fuck you!" John cursed, suddenly stood up and slammed into a rock. With a roar, John snapped the ropes that were already worn through.
Yin Yichen and Lao Zhang also broke free of their ropes and each took out their weapons.
The villagers were stunned by the sudden turn of events until the village chief shouted, "Quickly, catch him! Don't let him get away!"
With a loud bang, John shot and killed a villager who lunged at him.
Blood spread, and the surroundings fell into a deathly silence, as if all sound had been abruptly stopped.
The villagers stared blankly at the corpse on the ground. When they came to their senses, screams erupted as everyone began to flee in panic.
"Bang!"
Another shot rang out.
The village chief fell to the ground, clutching his right leg where he had been shot and howling in pain. Stone ran towards him, crying, "Dad!"
Seeing the blood spreading across the village chief's cotton trousers, Stone's eyes turned bloodshot. He stood up, brandishing a butcher's knife, and charged at John, shouting, "I'll fight you to the death!"
Two gunshots rang out, and Shi Tou was hit by bullets in both legs, one on the left and one on the right, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Son!" the village chief cried out, his eyes wide with fury.
John pointed his gun at the rock and looked at the village chief, asking, "You just said that what's down there is about to wake up. What's down there?"
"Don't shoot! I'll talk, I'll talk!" the village chief hurriedly said. "There's a ferocious beast being suppressed beneath this altar."
"What kind of monster?" John asked.
"I don't know either," the village chief shook his head.
John fired a shot next to the rock. The village chief's heart nearly stopped. When he saw that John had hit the ground instead of the rock, he breathed a sigh of relief and almost collapsed. Fearing that John would fire again, the village chief cried out with tears streaming down his face, "I really didn't know! I only know that there is a ferocious beast suppressed down here. Every year, we need to offer blood to it as a sacrifice, otherwise, the ferocious beast will come out from here."
"A blood donation ceremony every year?" Xia Linyin looked at the village chief with doubt. "Besides us, outsiders have come here before. You used those people to sacrifice to the evil spirits, right? The number of times this has happened is more than once a year."
The village chief's gaze darted around, "This is because...because..."
Suddenly, the entire stone platform began to shake violently, and the iron chains around it rattled loudly.
The village chief's face changed drastically, and he cried out in fear, "It's over! We've awakened the ferocious beast by opening the altar, but we haven't offered it any sacrificial blood. Now the beast is enraged! If we don't give it blood soon, the altar won't be able to suppress this raging creature!"
"Quick! Use the corpses!" Although they didn't know what was being suppressed below, judging from the village chief's terrified expression, this ferocious creature must be extremely terrifying and difficult to deal with.
Old Zhang dragged the villager's corpse to the side of the groove, picked up a stone and used his butcher knife to slit the corpse's neck. Blood flowed into the groove and gradually filled it.
As the patterns were filled with blood, the tremors on the stone platform gradually subsided.
John asked the village chief, "Is one person enough?"
The village chief didn't react at first, but once he realized what John meant, he nodded hurriedly, "That's enough!"
All the other villagers have already run away. Now, besides these four outsiders, only he and Stone are left on the altar. If he says it's not enough, then he and Stone can forget about living.
This time we've really been caught off guard and suffered a major setback. Who are these people? Especially the one with the gun, he's a ruthless killer!
"One is enough?" John looked at him suspiciously. "Then why do we have three?"
The village chief was speechless at John's question. Cold sweat poured down his forehead as he truly understood what it meant to lift a stone only to drop it on one's own foot.
"Speak quickly!" John, who never had much patience, kicked the stone in its wound when the village chief didn't answer.
Hearing the stone's screams, the village chief's heart clenched. He closed his eyes, steeled his resolve, and shouted, "If we give the ferocious beast below more blood, it will give us gold, silver, and jade! This is the beast's gift of sacrifice to us!"
"What do you mean? Explain yourself clearly." Xia Linyin looked at the stone platform. This ferocious creature was suppressed underneath. How exactly did it give the villagers gold, silver, and jade artifacts?
Moreover, judging from its appearance, this ferocious creature does possess a certain level of intelligence, knowing to exchange gold, silver, and jade for blood.
Without hesitation, John pulled the trigger, killing the village chief and Stone.
“You—” Xia Linyin looked at John and frowned deeply.
John shrugged. "I don't want to waste my breath on this old man."
John dragged the village chief and Stone's bodies to the edge of the trough and bled them. "Xia, don't be angry. Look, this is the most direct way."
A strong smell of blood filled the air. Suddenly, the stone platform split in two, and a jade platform rose up from the middle. On the jade platform were an exquisitely crafted hairpin and a ring-shaped white jade pendant.
"Based on eye color, zombies are divided into four levels: black, blue, red, and purple. Player's task: Raise zombies."
"Once the zombie reaches the Purple Eye level, the player's mission is complete."
After reading the red words that appeared in her palm, Xia Linyin turned her gaze to the jade platform. This mission was to raise zombies. Judging from this, the ferocious creature suppressed under the altar must be a zombie.
"The mission has been issued," Old Zhang said. "The ferocious beast suppressed down there should be the zombie we're going to raise. Let's cut these chains first, and after the zombie comes out, I'll use my Spirit Binding Rope to tie it up. Then we can discuss how to raise it."
Xia Linyin took out her crescent blade and slashed through the surrounding chains. As soon as the chains broke, the marble pillars around her collapsed and crashed heavily to the ground.
The stone platform began to tremble violently, "crackling and snapping—"
Deep ravines split open, and suddenly, with a loud "boom," rocks flew everywhere, and four small figures sprang out from underground.
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