"No thanks. My worthless life doesn't deserve such a great blessing." Ci Nian was very shrewd. His three pupils trembled; he had noticed something wrong with Gao Ming.
He had always known Gao Ming harbored secrets. Everyone in this city had secrets of their own, and that was perfectly normal. But only when the Blood City Ghost Markings appeared did Ci Nian realize how terrifying the thing hidden within Gao Ming was.
Several weeks earlier, the Municipal Council Hall had issued an order to hunt down outsiders. Everyone in the city knew about it, but as a senior member of the Mercy Society, Ci Nian had also received some information from the Mercy Councilor that could not be made public.
The "god" deep within the forbidden zone had personally ordered them to kill all outsiders, especially the nine leaders bearing strange markings.
Li Sansi, standing before him, was one of those nine leaders with strange markings, and the wish ghost markings now appearing on the embryo belonged to another!
The leaders the Municipal Council Hall had failed to catch despite a citywide manhunt had turned up before Ci Nian—and he had encountered two at once.
"Child, the world outside is about to descend into chaos. Just stay here. This is how we adults protect you." Gao Ming pressed Ci Nian into the place An Luan's daughter had originally occupied. The wish ghost markings slithered out from every direction like venomous snakes and burrowed into Ci Nian's body. He tried to save himself, but Gao Ming had far too much experience. He stripped off Ci Nian's clothes and tossed all sorts of bizarre tools out of the embryo. "We're no good people. You'd better behave."
The embryo at the heart of the darkness began pulsing again. Life paths eroded by the