Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#474 - Chapter 473: Inside the Huge Pit

After a round of intense debate, Luo Shan gradually calmed his urge to smash his head and asked in as calm a tone as possible:

"Are you saying that from the moment we entered the island, you sensed that a Tenth Forbidden was hiding in the shadows, so you deliberately feigned weakness to lure them out?"

Li Chenqiu nodded in agreement: "That's right, that Tenth Forbidden Awakened was hiding too deeply. I really couldn't find them, so I had to resort to this strategy."

"So… you one-shotted a Ninth Forbidden, chased after a Tenth Forbidden… this… is all true?" Luo Shan was a little restrained, his voice trembling slightly.

Li Chenqiu rubbed his nose: "Uh… I'm just a bit stronger than the average person, so my ability to cross ranks is a bit better than average. I can barely handle some very weak Tenth Forbiddens."

"Average person… is the average person in your eyes the same as the average person in my eyes?" Luo Shan's Adam's apple bobbed slightly as he muttered to himself.

At this moment, he clearly knew that the young man squatting in front of him would definitely achieve heights beyond his imagination, beyond everyone's imagination!

Having the combat power of a Tenth Forbidden while only being in the Seventh Forbidden, and only twenty-one years old at that, this was unprecedented in the entire Federation's history!

Luo Shan couldn't imagine how strong the person in front of him would become in ten years, twenty years, thirty years, or how high their position would be!

But he clearly understood that if he saw the other party at that time, he would definitely bow first and say: Hello, Leader.

"Team Leader Luo, what's wrong?" Li Chenqiu waved his hand in front of Luo Shan, pulling him back from his thoughts.

"Uh… Hello, Leader…呸! I'm fine, nothing's wrong!" Luo Shan smiled awkwardly and quickly stood up from the ground.

Li Chenqiu smiled slightly: "It's good that you're okay, it's good that you're okay, Team Leader Luo, you…"

"Just call me Luo Shan or Little Luo, no need to be so polite." Luo Shan quickly raised his hand to interrupt, with a simple and honest smile on his face.

Li Chenqiu looked embarrassed: "That… wouldn't be appropriate, would it!"

"What's inappropriate about it? I don't mind!"

"Then… Luo Shan?"

"Hey! Brother Li!"

"Just call me Chenqiu."

"Okay, Brother Chenqiu!"

"Two words are enough."

"Okay, Brother Qiu!"

Li Chenqiu: (•_•)

……

In the time that followed, Li Chenqiu recounted his conversation with Zhang Gou to Luo Shan, after simplifying it.

"Two weeks?"

Luo Shan frowned, looking at Zhang Gou, who had transformed into a Soul Weapon: "Where did you put these two thousand people?"

Zhang Gou honestly replied: "On an undeveloped island."

Hearing this, Luo Shan frowned even deeper and continued to ask: "How did you solve their food and accommodation problems?"

"My subordinates used their abilities to create a giant pit on the island. Those people we captured are all placed in that giant pit.

Every few days, I would catch a few huge Awakened Beasts in the sea and throw them into the giant pit. Those people eat the meat when they are hungry, and drink the blood when they are thirsty, so they can barely survive."

Luo Shan's expression instantly darkened, and he turned to Li Chenqiu and said, "This is not good."

Li Chenqiu asked: "What's not good?"

Luo Shan replied in a solemn tone: "The weakest of the huge Awakened Beasts is at least a Fourth Forbidden. Ordinary people can't digest the flesh and blood of a Fourth Forbidden Awakened Beast at all. Eating these is no different from eating poison.

If nothing else, most of the people who first came to this giant pit are probably dead. Those who are still alive, seeing such a scene, I'm afraid…"

Luo Shan paused, not daring to think any further.

Li Chenqiu wasn't an idiot. Hearing what Luo Shan said, he naturally knew what he was worried about.

Everyone wants to live, but eating Awakened Beasts will lead to death, and not eating anything will also lead to death. Under such circumstances, the only thing left to eat in the giant pit is…

Li Chenqiu stood up: "Don't think so much, let's go over and take a look!"

……

This is an island with lush vegetation. As far as the eye can see, it is all green. The air in such an environment should have been slightly salty with a hint of grass and wood fragrance, but the air here is particularly unpleasant.

Because in the center of this island, there is a super giant pit with a diameter of over a thousand meters and a depth of fifty meters.

The pungent smell of blood mixed with the strong smell of corpses floated out of the giant pit, filling the entire island, lingering for a long time.

Looking down at the entire giant pit from the sky, what catches the eye are huge skeletons, with large chunks of blackened and stinking meat hanging on them, and faintly visible milky white maggots wriggling in them.

Around these huge skeletons, there are also many small black dots scattered. Some black dots are quiet, some black dots are moving slowly, and some black dots are completely still.

These black dots are not gregarious animals, but ordinary people who were captured here by Zhang Gou. The black dots are their hair.

"Mommy… I'm so hungry… I want to eat something…"

That was a little girl with sunken eyes, chapped lips, and wearing a cartoon T-shirt.

At this moment, she was lying in the arms of a middle-aged woman, expressing her desire in a slightly crying voice.

But the middle-aged woman seemed not to hear, with her eyes closed, her head drooping, her hair casually sticking to her face, and her hands weakly placed on the girl, protecting her in her arms.

"Mommy…" the little girl called out softly again.

At this time, several gaunt youths with green eyes slowly walked to the little girl and surrounded her.

The little girl sat up timidly, hugged her mother tightly, and looked at the people in horror: "You… what are you going to do?"

"Is your mother dead?" The leading youth asked bluntly.

The little girl shook her head: "No… no."

The youth ignored the little girl, directly reached out and pressed on the woman's head, gently pushing forward.

Bang!

The middle-aged woman lay straight on the ground.

"Mommy!"

The little girl directly pounced on the middle-aged woman, hugging her like an octopus, gently biting her teeth, and said in a pleading voice: "My mother is not dead, please let us go, please!"

The youth impatiently grabbed the girl's hair and pulled it back suddenly.

"Ah!"

The little girl fell to the ground with a thud.

"Drag her to the fire pile." The youth said to the people next to him.

"No, no!!!"

The little girl struggled to get up and was about to pounce on her again, but the youth kicked her to the ground, hitting the hard rock and soil hard.

"Get out! Don't force me to kill…"

The youth's voice suddenly stopped, looking at the gradually darkening surroundings, he looked up in horror.

A cloud of black mist appeared above the giant pit, spreading rapidly in all directions.

For a time, the living people struggled to stand up, retreating to the edge of the giant pit, fearing that a few Awakened Beasts would fall from the sky and smash them into meat paste.