"

The demon's screams gradually disappeared, and the shadow that bound Xu Cheng's body, together with the black gem, completely submerged into his body.

Xu Cheng felt that his body was changing. The scales on his body had disappeared, and even his eyes had changed from upright eyes to normal eyes. Except for the two small sharp corners that remained on his forehead, they were no longer the same as ordinary ones.

Human pups are no different.

Although Omar looked very tired, she still picked up Xu Cheng and said to Caroline: "Look, what a cute guy."

Caroline glanced at Xu Cheng and declined to comment. Instead, she asked, "How are you going to place him next? We don't have time to keep him with us."

"I've already thought about it."

Omar put Xu Cheng down again and said, "Send him to a nursing home."

"What did you say?"

Caroline was shocked. The sanatorium was affiliated with the Demon Hunting Society and specialized in caring for those members who were injured in the line of duty. It was also responsible for raising the offspring of those members who had lost their parents.

But not just anyone can enter the sanatorium. Each member only has one qualification. If you give it to someone else, you will lose it.

"If you send him to a nursing home, what will you do when you get old?"

"Let's talk about the future in the future."

Omar looked indifferent: "Your teacher, even if I get old in the future, I will not go to a nursing home and wait to die. I might as well find a place where no one is around and farm to support myself."

Seeing Omar make a decision, Caroline knew that she could not persuade her, so she was very puzzled and asked: "Why are you so nice to this brat? It obviously has nothing to do with you, right?"

"Who told me to kill his parents?"

"Without you, he would have died in the hands of his parents long ago."

"Maybe, but I can't just leave it alone. Isn't that how I picked you up?"

"..."

Xu Cheng listened to the exchange between master and apprentice, and suddenly felt that the life of the God Killer was not all dark. At least he met Omar, an uncle who shone with the brilliance of humanity.

During the bumpy ride of the carriage, Xu Cheng, exhausted of energy, slowly fell into a deep sleep.

In front of the lake of consciousness, he felt that the rest of his life would not be smooth, and there would be more malice waiting for him.

…

Crunch! Crunch!

Amidst the jerky sound of the winch, Xu Cheng, who was standing by the well, exhausted all his strength and tried to lift a bucket of water out of the well.

Lifting the bucket out of the well and pouring it into the wooden bucket nearby, this simple action made the thirteen-year-old Xu Cheng sweat profusely and almost collapse.

After throwing the bucket back into the well, Xu Cheng looked up at the scorching sun and cursed in his heart.

It has been thirteen years since he entered the gate of hell.

After experiencing the tragedy of his first few months, Xu Cheng was sent to a nursing home affiliated to the Demon Hunting Society by Omar, where he lived with a large group of orphans.

Of course, no caregiver would deliberately abuse Xu Cheng here, but just as he expected, the rest of his life would not be smooth.

First of all, because he was inhabited by a demon and was sealed, his body was extremely weak. He had been malnourished since he was a child, and he would be out of breath from exhaustion even if he did any work.

Then, orphans living in nursing homes also need to do things and have to support themselves since childhood. The frail Xu Cheng has to spend several times more time and energy than others to support himself with difficulty.

Finally, although the nursing staff in the nursing home would not torture him intentionally, they would not give him a good look either. Because of his identity as the son of the devil, he suffered bullying and discrimination from other orphans.

In addition, disease and bad luck also followed Xu Cheng all the time. In the past thirteen years, he encountered life-threatening dangers several times due to being too unlucky, and he could barely avoid it by relying on adult thinking.

But there is no way to avoid illness. Xu Cheng reopened the clinic three times in the past few years, all because of illness.

Now, there are only five chances to reopen.

During these thirteen years, the extremely harsh living environment made Xu Cheng's brain gradually numb.

It would be fine if he was an ignorant child with an immature worldview, but Xu Cheng is an adult with mature thinking ability.

Sometimes he even suspected that he was an unlucky guy named Locke, and that the life that belonged to Xu Cheng was just some kind of delusion.

Fortunately, the occasional companionship of the dog manager allowed him to firmly believe in his identity as Xu Cheng and not sink into the pain of these thirteen years.

Trying his best to lift the water in his hand, Xu Cheng braved the scorching sun above his head and turned around to go back to his room.

Walking on the dusty dirt road, with the heavy bucket in his hand, Xu Cheng had no time to think about unnecessary things. When he found several children who were at least a head taller than him walking in front of him, it was too late to avoid them.

Xu Cheng suddenly felt a pain in his ankle, and Xu Cheng lost his balance and fell directly to the ground. The cold well water also spilled all over the ground, staining his old clothes and pants.

"Hahaha!"

The naughty kids who tripped him burst into laughter.

Amidst the laughter, Xu Cheng slowly got up and walked back with the bucket.

It's not that he doesn't want to resist, but his extremely weak body makes him unable to resist these naughty kids. Even if he remembers the instinct to fight, he can't even swing his fist a few times, what's the use?

In addition, he is mute, and has a negative buff like the Devil's Son. He is hostile and ostracized by the whole sanatorium, and his adult wisdom cannot be used at all.

This is also the reason why Xu Cheng has never thought about leaving the nursing home in thirteen years. He can survive here, but he will definitely die outside if he leaves.

After fetching another bucket of water, Xu Cheng took a long detour and happened to run into Omar and Caroline, who were surrounded by a group of orphans.

"Lord Omar!"

"Sister Caroline!"

The orphans called them very enthusiastically. Every once in a while, Omar and Caroline would come to the nursing home to visit these orphans and give them gifts, so they were deeply loved by the children.

Thirteen years have passed, and Omar has obviously aged a little bit, but Caroline still looks like she is eighteen years old, and has not changed at all.

Because she is a half-elf, her lifespan is five to six hundred years old.

Xu Cheng did not go over to join in the fun. Caroline rejected him very much, and Omar, as a combatant who often traveled on the front lines of hunting demons and dark wizards, could not provide Xu Cheng with a stable life and could place him in a nursing home.

This is already a great blessing.

To be honest, Omar has rescued too many orphans and has not communicated with Xu Cheng for seven or eight years. Maybe he has been forgotten a long time ago.

After bypassing the crowd, Xu Cheng returned to his cabin and started cooking.

Seeing that there was less than three days' worth of food left in the rice vat, and there were still ten days until the food was distributed, Xu Cheng couldn't help but sigh.

It's not that he eats too much, but that the nursing staff in the nursing home deduct food from the orphans, especially people like Xu Cheng, who are deprived of food even more severely. They often go hungry twice in three days.

After barely finishing today's meal, Xu Cheng was about to take a rest when the door was suddenly pushed open and a petite figure came in from the outside.

"Locke, Lord Omar has given us gifts."

With a weak voice, the little girl with short white hair slowly walked to the bedside and placed a multigrain bread on the bedside: "I got one for you, here you go!"

If the God Killer... or Xu Cheng's thirteen-year dark life was Omar who shone with the brilliance of humanity in the first half, then the light in the second half was the little girl named Susan in front of him.

She is also an orphan, her parents were both members of the Demon Hunting Club who died in battle.

Because she had albinism since she was a child, few people in the orphanage were willing to play with Susan.

Therefore, Xu Cheng, the "son of the devil", and Susan, the "white-haired ghost", can only hug each other for warmth and comfort each other's lonely young hearts.

Xu Cheng has not gone crazy in these thirteen years. In addition to dog management, it is because of Susan's company that he can ease his mental pain.

Taking off the bread, Xu Cheng broke it in half and gave half to Susan.

Susan didn't refuse, took half a piece of bread and ate it like a little hamster.

After eating the bread, Susan carefully took out a few folded papers from her arms: "Here you go, I picked these from the trash today."

Xu Cheng couldn't wait to take these pieces of paper from Susan's hand and carefully opened them on the bed. There were some words scrawled on the papers.

If Divana was here, she would definitely be able to recognize that these words are exactly the same as those on the door of Lingzi's Tomb.

Since Xu Cheng is now experiencing the life of a god-killer, this era is an ancient era where gods coexisted.

Although Xu Cheng was immersed in the pain caused by the maliciousness of the world, he did not completely lie down. Instead, he tried his best to learn the words of this world and understand the situation in the outside world.

However, in this era, writing was only in the hands of nobles or superpowers, and ordinary people had no chance to access it, let alone Xu Cheng, the much-discriminated son of a devil.

In the end, it was Susan who helped him solve this problem. She needed to clean the house every once in a while and could help Xu Cheng find some discarded scraps of paper from the trash.

Relying on these incomplete pieces of paper, Xu Cheng has learned the writing of this world in thirteen years, and also understood the situation outside.

He is now located in a country called Sauron. This country's level of civilization is equivalent to the feudal system of the Middle Ages. There are a large number of lords and kings, and it is protected by the goddess of shadow and death.

There may not be a World Tree yet, the concentration of spirit particles in the air far exceeds that of later generations, and superpowers are extremely common.

For example, Omar is only a middle-lower-level member of the Demon Hunting Guild, but he also possesses the power of a fourth-level powerful person.

Susan sat next to Xu Cheng and whispered about all the trivial things she encountered today.

Xu Cheng sat cross-legged on the bed, listening to her voice and reading the dirty paper in his hand. This should be a letter sent to the nursing home by an outsider.

The above uses a gossipy tone to describe the friction between the local lords and the Goddess Cult due to the struggle for power. The conflicts between the two sides have become more and more intense recently, and there seems to be signs of an armed conflict.

The writer of the letter was worried that innocent people would be affected if he continued to stay in this city, and asked the recipient for his opinion whether he should leave as soon as possible.

Xu Cheng read it several times from beginning to end, but there was no information he wanted.

The reason why he wants to understand the outside world is that on the one hand he does not want his ears and eyes to be blocked, and on the other hand he also wants to find out what the purpose of this difficult task he is currently experiencing is.
To be continued...