Huzhou City.
Ever since Huzhou had been captured by Demon Emperor Second Crown Prince Zhui Ri, it had become incomparably desolate.
Before the city fell, some of the common folk had fled. Of those who had not escaped in time, some were slaughtered after the city's fall, while all the rest were made into slaves.
Some female slaves and able-bodied young men had been handed out as rewards. The rest, under the Devil Race's arrangements, began performing grueling labor.
The Devil Race was exceedingly fond of the human race's food, wine, silk, and all kinds of exquisite utensils.
Now that the Devil Race had completely occupied Huzhou, the Great Zhou people who had become captives were made to produce these things.
Although the Demon Emperor and Demon God Palace had long since issued orders that this campaign was to prioritize occupation, and thus the Great Zhou human race was to be treated well—
So-called good treatment merely meant they were no longer casually slaughtered for food, and their daily rations had gone from one meal to two.
Everything else followed the Devil Race's old methods of managing slaves.
The once incomparably prosperous Huzhou City had already become a city of the dead.
Only after the Devil Race recently relocated part of its population here did it regain the faintest trace of life.
But that was all.
Aside from the few Devil Race members whose faces shone with delight, the city was filled with Great Zhou citizens whose eyes brimmed with despair.
The entire city of Huzhou was permeated by an inexplicable air of death.
However, with the alliance summit of the nine-race Alliance to Destroy Zhou and Zhen drawing near, Huzhou City became somewhat livelier.
After all, an alliance summit would bring important figures from every race. The Devil Race's