Nighttime.
Outside Ningzhou City, at the public cemetery.
Within the dim forest, moonlight was like a thin mist, wholly blending into this cold, silent land.
Amid wave after wave of hissing, drawing nearer from afar.
Before long, several pitch-black figures dragged something toward the cemetery from the distance.
Thud.
One of them tossed what it held onto the ground.
The moonlight happened to illuminate it.
They were clearly human corpses bound together with ropes.
More than a dozen corpses had been tied into a large cylinder and dragged all the way here by the shadowy figure, their flesh mangled and bloody.
As repeated thuds rang out, the other figures also threw down what they held.
Under the moonlight, they too were cylinders made of corpses.
"What a pity. The few children I had my eye on today didn't get approved. Otherwise, they'd taste far better than these old, weak, sick, and crippled ones."
One figure raised a hand and licked its five fingers, sharp as blades.
"Everything else about Ningzhou is good, and there's plenty of meat, but the rules are such a pain. Even eating someone in the city requires an application, and you have to specially arrange an accident. Other cities don't have this much trouble," another figure said impatiently.
"If we could beat those bastards from the Nine Demon Society, who the hell would willingly follow such troublesome rules?"
The shadowy figures crouched down, picked up the corpses, and directly began gnawing at their necks.
Amid the crunching sounds of flesh being devoured, the freshly killed corpses were gradually gnawed into a bloody mess, their limbs torn apart.
Just as the demons were feasting heartily, a small white figure swept rapidly over from the cemetery nearby, stopping beside them in the blink of an eye.
Only when