"They had believed that once the Ancient Gods fell asleep, restarting the Blood Sacrifice Ritual would maintain peace on Earth's surface at the cost of five people per year."
"However, the Ancient Gods' appetites seemed to have grown ever greater after that disaster."
"The original Blood Sacrifice Ritual could no longer satisfy Them."
"They wanted more sacrifices, more bloody slaughter!"
"Seeing signs that the Ancient Gods might awaken again, the nations had no choice but to restart the Earth Guardians Plan, releasing from prison those people who had spent their lives dealing with monsters."
"And they had lived up to expectations, successfully creating a new Blood Sacrifice Ritual."
"That was, arranging scenarios similar to horror movies for the monsters according to their origins and abilities, using this deliberate slaughter as a Blood Sacrifice Ritual to please the Ancient Gods..."
"That doesn't sound right, does it?" Su Haoming frowned. "If that were all, how could Earth have become this chaotic?"
Not to mention anything else, what he had seen and heard in New York had long surpassed the scope of the new Blood Sacrifice Ritual, let alone anything resembling a horror movie plot!
"Exactly!"
The middle-aged man sighed. "During the first few years, the new Blood Sacrifice Ritual did work. But as time passed, its scale grew larger and larger, and the situation increasingly slipped beyond the Earth Guardians' control."
"Especially in terms of numbers, it seemed they could only increase and never decrease."
"This led to humanity releasing more and more monsters. Last year's Blood Sacrifice Ritual actually had to continue into this year, and this year's Blood Sacrifice Ritual would continue into next year..."
Su Haoming could not help saying, "How is that any different from slow suicide?"
The middle-aged man nodded. "That's right. It is slow suicide!"
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