"You strugglers of the Present World, surely you don't think the Split Bodies that have revealed themselves are all there are."
The distant voice reached the Present World's Frontline. The lofty King looked down upon the living beings struggling there, mocking their futile efforts without restraint and spreading despair across the land from countless miles away.
[Perception Controller] raised a hand and pointed behind the towering walls.
"Hunger can plunge people into hell. Where might those hidden Split Bodies be?"
It burst into wild laughter.
"Hahahahaha! Living beings struggling amid false hope, believing your will can overcome the darkness filling the sky. Ignorance is a kind of bliss, too. Keep performing with those paltry struggles of yours until the eternal sleep of death arrives to lead you into another hell."
Ye Buyu looked back. The soldiers whose reason had been swallowed by hunger were already on the verge of collapse, while farther away, small pockets of chaos had already erupted.
[Hunger King] swayed, only to have its limbs hacked off by Shen Juan once again.
The head that rolled to the ground opened its mouth. "In a year of great famine, people devoured one another."
The instant those words fell, Lou Guanshan had the urge to eat human flesh. Nearly driven mad by hunger, he looked at Ye Buyu. Seeing that she was unharmed, he breathed a sigh of relief, then knocked himself unconscious without hesitation.
He trusted that Ye Buyu would not eat him.
The soldiers struggling to suppress their hunger had bloodshot eyes. They were so hungry that hallucinations appeared before them, and they even smelled a trace of meat. In their daze, the people before them seemed like plates of fragrant red-braised pork.
But their reason told them that the people before them were comrades they lived