The little tree spirit hid itself in the withered bushes, trying its best to suppress its faint demonic aura.
It saw the few mud goblins cursing and swearing as they circled around to the back of the giant bone castle.
Yu Luo's focus shifted accordingly.
Behind the castle was a dilapidated construction site.
Several young people dressed in modern clothes and looking rather frail were laboriously carrying millstone-sized stones and piling them up towards the castle.
"Ouch! My foot! I hit my foot! I can't move it!" A boy wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly yelled, the stone in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and he squatted down, clutching his foot.
A girl in sportswear next to him immediately put down the stone, panting heavily: "I can't take it anymore, I'm about to collapse, I'm going to die!"
Several skeleton soldiers in charge of overseeing the work walked over expressionlessly, their empty eye sockets emitting no fluctuations in the ghostly blue soul fire.
One of the skeleton soldiers poked the boy who was hugging his legs with his bone spear: "Humans, you're so delicate!"
Another skeleton soldier coldly chimed in: "In such a short time, another batch has been destroyed."
"Take all these useless ones away!" the leading skeleton soldier commanded, his voice dry and harsh.
Those few "injured" and "exhausted" college students, along with several other young people who also looked like they were about to collapse.
It was quickly and roughly carried away by several skeleton soldiers like a sack.
Seeing this, the little tree spirit had an idea and quietly followed them.
It moved cautiously in the direction the skeleton soldier had gone.
Before long, it saw rows and rows of simple wooden houses appearing in front of it.
The wooden houses were built crookedly and looked like they could fall apart at any moment.
Several college students who had been carried there were unceremoniously thrown in front of one of the wooden houses by the skeleton soldiers.
"Bang! Bang!" Several muffled sounds.
The door to the wooden house creaked open.
Several elderly people with gray hair and unsteady steps walked out from inside.
When they saw the young man on the ground, their faces showed a look of pity.
"Sigh, these demons have captured another batch of children." An old woman leaning on a cane sighed.
Another old man bent down and struggled to help a boy up: "Look at these children, they're all so sick their faces are pale, it's a tragedy!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
"bass!"
The bespectacled boy who had been clutching his leg and howling on the ground just moments before suddenly sprang to his feet, dusted himself off, and moved with surprising agility.
The girl next to her, who looked exhausted, also jumped up and stretched, saying, "Oh my god, I can finally rest for a bit!"
The other young people who had been thrown over also "came back to life" and started moving their hands and feet.
The old man who was helping the person twitched his lips violently.
The old woman with the cane was also taken aback, then shook her head helplessly and muttered under her breath, "I knew it! So many patients have been brought in lately, it turns out they're all putting on an act!"
Looking at these energetic young people, she thought to herself, "They are indeed college students. Their minds are so quick. Even their tricks for faking illness are exactly the same!"
"Alright, alright, come in," the old lady said, leading them into the wooden house.
The cabin was dimly lit and simply furnished, but it was clean enough.
As soon as the young people came in, they started complaining all at once.
"This awful place is no place for a human to live!"
"Moving stones every day, my back is about to break!"
"Those skeleton soldiers are practically death traps!"
A middle-aged man who had been inside the cabin frowned and said, "Keep your voice down! Do you want the skeleton soldiers outside to hear you?"
The crowd quieted down a bit.
The bespectacled boy pushed up his glasses and asked, "Old man, we can't just stay here and be oppressed by these evil spirits forever, can we? We have to think of a way to escape!"
The old man who had helped the person earlier shook his head upon hearing this, his face full of worry: "Escape? How easy is that!"
"This divine kingdom has a vast territory, and it is filled with patrolling demons and skeleton soldiers. How could we, unarmed humans, possibly escape?"
The old woman with the cane sighed, "Unless, unless a more powerful god comes and destroys all these skeleton gods and such, perhaps we will still have a glimmer of hope."
She paused, then gave a bitter laugh: "But how could that be? What's the difference between the gods of this world and those powerful demons? Look at this divine kingdom, it's said to have three gods, but none of them seem to treat us humans any better."
"The Blood God, the Wolf God, and now this all-powerful Skeleton God, which one of them doesn't treat human life like dirt?"
The atmosphere inside the room became somewhat heavy for a moment.
With no hope of escape, and even the gods unreliable, the future is bleak.
Just then, the bespectacled boy who had just been carried over suddenly lit up in his eyes!
"Wait a minute!" He suddenly looked up. "I think I heard those demons escorting us talking about it on the way!"
"They say that both the Blood God and the Wolf God were severely injured by a mountain god from the desolate mountains!"
Another girl in sportswear who had just arrived also remembered: "Right, right! I also heard them say that the mountain god of the desolate mountain crushed the blood god with one hand!"
Thinking of this, everyone was filled with anticipation. If the mountain god of the desolate mountain came directly, wouldn't they be able to escape in the chaos?
However, the elderly people opposite shook their heads again, and one of them, a white-haired old man, sighed.
“Your ideas are all very good. This kind of thing has happened before. There was internal strife among the three gods of the divine kingdom, and demons and monsters were fighting everywhere.”
"Even so, we can't escape because there are no ordinary human countries near the divine kingdoms. Most of them are vassal states of these divine kingdoms."
“As soon as we show our faces or appear in those countries, those evil spirits will capture us again.”
Upon hearing this, the group sighed again, wondering what all this was all about.
How can there be such an outrageous world?
Other transmigrators either awaken a cheat ability or have a high status, but these people are just like that. They've barely opened their eyes when they've been captured by this group of evil spirits and forced to do hard labor.
If you didn't know better, you'd think the time-traveling god had switched careers and become a shady real estate agent!
The group looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally lay down on the haystack behind them, sighing and groaning.
The elderly people on the other side were also upset because their old friend had gone out on a mission and hadn't returned yet.
Judging from the current situation of the divine kingdom, that old friend and all the talented people he brought with him are probably in grave danger.
For a moment, everyone felt uneasy.
With so many talented people, if this were modern times, the country would definitely do everything in its power to save them, no matter what method it takes.
However, having been transported to this unfamiliar world, who cares about them anymore?
"Who, who's outside?" one of the time travelers suddenly jumped up.
The boy instinctively looked through the crack in the door and saw a wrinkled little face.
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