Chapter 1: Demon Atlas

When Zhou Yi opened his eyes, he found himself lying on a cold, hard bed.

It was a pitch-black night, and he couldn't see his hand in front of him.

There were thunderous snoring around him, more than one, one after another.

There was a faint scream outside, as if it was some kind of beast.

Where is this?

Didn't I die on the hospital bed?

Zhou Yi subconsciously touched his chest, which was beating, more energetic than any time he remembered. It shouldn't be the underworld.

Scattered memories suddenly appeared in Zhou Yi's mind.

A mountain village near Hengyang... drought, war... begging to enter Beijing...

Half a year ago, the captain of the criminal room went to the refugee camp to select young and strong people, claiming that the Demon Slaying Department would provide food and accommodation, and his predecessor became a criminal in the criminal room.

Today, Zhou Yi executed a fierce soul during the day, and then he became confused and didn't know when his soul flew away.

Zhou Yi browsed the memories of his predecessor and could roughly guess that he had traveled through time.

This is the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Division in Luocheng, the capital of the Great Gan Empire. The original owner of this body is also called Zhou Yi, and he is just 20 years old.

This world is definitely not any dynasty in memory, nor is it the Blue Star in memory. Not to mention that there is no dynasty with "Gan" as the country name, there will be no monsters and ghosts.

"Demon Slayer Division, evil spirits, evil spirits, monsters and demons..."

"This world is too dangerous!"

Zhou Yi tried to calm himself down and felt the strong heartbeat: "But it's good to be alive..."

He fell asleep in a daze.

Countless terrifying figures seemed to flash in the dream, constantly wailing to crawl out of the abyss.

Zhou Yi stood on the abyss.

Woke up again.

Zhou Yi opened his eyes and saw an ugly face covered with black hair, and his black and yellow teeth were exposed when he smiled.

"Brother Zhou, hurry up and report. If you are late, the captain will whip you again."

"Report?"

Zhou Yi gradually woke up. It was really not a dream last night. He traveled through time.

With the idea of ​​saying less, watching more and learning more, Zhou Yi followed the black-haired man to get dry food and came to the torture room of the Demon Slaying Division.

They lived in the prison, and a row of prisoners' sleeping rooms were built next to the torture room.

Zhou Yi had been in the Demon Slaying Division for half a year, and he went between the sleeping room and the torture room every day. There was no labor law for the hard work, so he worked when he woke up and worked until he went to bed.

…

Torture room.

Because it was built more than ten feet underground, it was always dark.

It was impossible to distinguish between day and night, and only knew that according to the drip clock, it was probably the hour of Mao.

More than fifty prisoners stood in three rows, and Zhou Yi and the hairy-faced man Shi Liu were in the second row.

Not long after, Lu Gang, the captain of the Demon Slaying Division, who was fully armored, arrived and counted from the first row from right to left.

"One."

"Two."

"Three."

"..."

"Fifty-seven."

Lu Gang's eyes slowly swept over everyone, and his voice was low and gloomy: "Who didn't come?"

"Report to the captain, Li Jiu in Room A7...can't get up."

Zhou Yi's heart trembled when he heard this. If he couldn't get up, he was dead. This kind of thing was very common. There were executioners who couldn't get up every other day.

The daily work of the executioner was to kill the monsters and ghosts caught by the Demon Slaying Department on the Demon Slaying Platform and send them to the Demon Refining Cave or the Demon Refining Cave.

The Demon Refining Cave refines monsters and ghosts, and the Demon Refining Cave refines evil spirits.

For unknown reasons, at least Zhou Yi didn't know, the executioners responsible for killing monsters had a short life. Zhou Yi, who had been there for half a year, was already a veteran among the executioners. Only Shi Liu came from the same batch.

"Got it."

Lu Gang's voice was calm and began to assign today's tasks.

"Ma San'er, prison number C5."

"Zhao Dazhuang, prison number B14."

"Sun Cai, prison number C7."

...

The Demon Slayer Division divides the prisons into three levels: A, B, and C. Prison A has basically never appeared, and usually prisons B and C are used.

According to Zhou Yi's half-year experience, the demons and monsters in prison B are much stronger than those in prison C.

The predecessor was assigned to prison number B1 yesterday, and was only responsible for killing a thousand-year-old evil ghost, but his soul was scattered at night.

"Zhou Yi, prison number C25."

"Shi Liu, prison number B13."

"..."

Zhou Yi secretly observed Lu Gang's expression and found that there was no change when his name was read.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The demon slayer was fully responsible for the task allocation. If he wanted to kill a certain prisoner, he only needed to assign prison number B every day.

"Even if it is a normal death, how long can I last?"

Zhou Yi had no fear in his heart. He was a person who had died once, but he would never give up any hope of life.

As a man in his second life, he was light and healthy, so how could he bear to die inexplicably?

He tried hard to recall the contract of selling himself that his previous life had signed with the Demon Slayer Division. Although he didn't recognize most of the characters, the Da Gan characters were very similar to the ancient Chinese characters of the Celestial Empire, so he could recognize most of the content by guessing.

Selling himself for ten years...

Zhou Yi frowned slightly. The contract was not feasible. He had lived in the dark demon prison for ten years. Even if he was not killed by the demons, his nerves would be broken.

While Zhou Yi was thinking about how to escape, Lu Gang had already assigned the tasks for today.

"Go, if you fail to complete the task, you will be whipped at night!"

As soon as Lu Gang finished speaking, the executioners bowed and saluted and then dispersed.

The three prisons of A, B and C are located in different locations. Generally speaking, the prison of A is deeper underground, the prison of B is in the center, and the prison of C is closer to the ground than the torture room.

Zhou Yi followed the path in his memory and came to Prison No. B25.

The cell made of a whole piece of bluestone has a keyhole below the serial number.

The torturer's bronze medal was inserted into the keyhole and turned to the right. The bluestone wall rumbled and the prison door gradually opened.

After Zhou Yi entered, he closed the prison door in the same way. Now he was on the mezzanine between the outer door and the inner door.

The double prison door is to prevent the demon from using secret methods to escape and escape when the torturer enters the cell.

Opening the inner door, Zhou Yi saw the demon who was going to be executed today.

Under the dim light, a monster with a fish head, human body and fish tail was pierced through the limbs, chest and abdomen by fine steel chains, and was fixed on the execution rack.

Large scales fell off the fish demon's body, and its wounds were scorched black. It must have been burned by flames.

"Roar--"

When the fish demon saw Zhou Yi, its ferocious fish face was about to pounce, and then the stainless steel chain automatically tightened, causing it to scream in agony.

"Is this a monster? It's much uglier than expected. Is it a genetic mutation or a radiation deformity?"

Zhou Yi looked at the execution platform in the prison. There were various torture instruments on it, including swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, axes, hooks and forks.

Before the fish monster dies, waste must be maximized, such as fish eyes, fish scales, fish liver, etc.

Any part of the monster is useful. The eyes of ordinary fish can improve eyesight, but the eyes of fish monsters are more effective.

Fish scales can be used to cast armor, and fish liver can prolong life.

Zhou Yi covered his mouth and nose, skillfully dug out the fish's eyes, peeled off the scales that could still be used to make armor, disembowelled the fish and removed the liver...

The fish demon gradually died in painful wails. The resentment before his death was so strong that Zhou Yi felt that the temperature in the prison had dropped by at least ten degrees.

suddenly.

Zhou Yi felt dizzy and confused.

A book of bright yellow silk appeared in front of me, with four strange characters on it. The moment I saw it, I understood its meaning.

Demon illustrated book.

I flipped through an unknown number of pages in the illustrated book, and there happened to be a fish monster on it.

With a fish head and a body and a fish tail, it seems to be the fish monster that just died.