Am I going to be sacrificed too?

Chapter 1: Whispers Like an Evil God

"Poor boy, do you crave power?"

"Who! Who's speaking!?"

A young scavenger, who was foraging for food in the wilderness, suddenly widened his eyes and turned to look at the ruins behind him.

The sound seemed to come directly from his mind, but the boy could clearly discern its location; it was clearly coming from under the pile of rubble not far away.

Did I hear that right?

Despite thinking this, he kept moving his feet, already prepared to escape quickly.

Seeing the boy's wariness, Jie Sheng was speechless.

The boy was the third person he had seen since he was trapped here.

No one knows how long ago it was, but Jie Sheng suddenly came to this world. He not only lost his human body, but also turned into a black box.

He himself might be trapped in the box, but it's unlikely that he was trapped in the box.

Because the box was too small to fit a person, it had no sensory feedback and no ability to act independently. Although it had a god-like perspective and could perceive things within a three-meter radius, that was all it could do.

Is he still considered a human being now?

Ah, that's not important anymore.

More importantly, he is buried under rubble and may never see the light of day again.

Countless years passed quietly, and Jie Sheng's consciousness grew increasingly hazy. Just when he thought he was about to lose consciousness, he encountered his first person.

then……

And that was the end of it.

Since Jie Sheng was just a box, he could only watch helplessly as the other party left.

So Jie Sheng began to experiment with how to speak, using small animals that occasionally passed by as his subjects. He tried to interfere with the world within a three-meter field of vision, and after so many years of practice, he actually made a name for himself.

After who knows how long, he finally learned to speak in other people's minds, but the second person he encountered ran away without looking back after hearing his voice.

The scavenger boy in front of him was the third person he had waited for. This time, Jie Sheng couldn't let him get away again.

"Child, don't be afraid."

The voice echoed from the depths of his mind again, and the boy instinctively wanted to back away, but when he heard the gentle words, he hesitated and stopped.

If they didn't run away immediately, then there's something going on!

Upon seeing this, Jie Sheng immediately said, "Child, I'm buried under the rubble. Can you help me get out?"

"Buried under the rubble?"

The boy wasn't stupid. He looked at the pile of rubble in front of him, which was completely still, and it didn't look like there was anyone down there.

Without making a sound, he took two more steps back: "Who are you?"

Jie Sheng blurted out, "I am a sealed god."

When you're out and about, you have to choose your own identity. Jie Sheng didn't care about lying or not; his priority was to find a way to escape.

"god?"

The boy paused for a moment upon hearing this, and was indeed taken aback by this word that seemed to only appear in legends.

Jie Sheng continued his fabrication: "Countless years ago, I fought a great battle with an evil god, but unfortunately I was defeated and sealed in a box, which ended up here. If you rescue me, I will... I can grant you one wish."

"Child, I need your help."

……

The year 797 of the Fall of the Gods.

Nearly eight hundred years have passed since the end of the world.

Since the gods disappeared, the world has inevitably fallen into decline and is gradually heading towards its demise.

Sudden environmental changes and rampant natural disasters turned the land into a wasteland, with only a few species of life barely surviving, and humans being one of them.

Wang An is one of the human survivors. As a scavenger at the bottom of the wasteland, his daily task is to pick up trash in the wilderness and look for valuable items in various ruins to barely make ends meet.

Do gods really exist?

Too much time has passed, and the survivors of today have long forgotten the glory of the era of gods. Wang An only learned from a picture book he found that gods once existed in this world, but he had no idea whether it was true or not.

And today, this idea has finally been confirmed.

Gods really do exist!

Wang An carefully dug through the pile of rubble, fearing that something might jump out and bite him to death at any moment. Fortunately, he escaped unharmed and finally saw what was buried under the ruins.

It was a black cube-shaped object with a smooth texture. Its jet-black shell seemed to absorb all light sources. Although there were no visible gaps on the surface, Jie Sheng knew that he was actually a box that could be opened.

"Child, open the box."

Wang An picked up the black square box and was astonished. Was it a box?

For a moment, he hesitated, driven by an instinctive fear of the unknown.

Wang An had no idea what would happen after opening the box. It was like Schrödinger's box; opening it might bring a reward, or it might unleash a disaster and cause other anomalies.

Jie Sheng didn't urge him, but waited patiently.

Wang An was a scavenger, the lowest of the low in the wasteland. Perhaps one day he would be unlucky enough to die in the mouth of a wild animal while scavenging, or be killed by someone else.

His parents died, his sister was seriously injured, and all of this was caused by a superhuman...

After all, killing in the wilderness requires no reason; it only depends on your strength.

The strong are despised by the weak, yet they yearn to replace them.

Now, an opportunity to become a strong person is presented to him, even if the other party may be deceiving him.

But what if... what if...?

He has nothing left to lose.

Wang An gritted his teeth and made a decision.

open!

Without the slightest hesitation, the black box opened easily as Wang An reached up and touched it.

The box is... completely empty?

Once the lid was opened, it remained a deep, pure black color, seemingly no different from before it was opened, as if it had never been opened at all.

"No, there's more than one thing inside." Wang An quickly noticed the anomaly.

The box contained true darkness.

He tried to reach his hand in, but the darkness easily cut it off, leaving only the back half in the blink of an eye, which frightened him so much that he immediately pulled it back.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened; the darkness only blocked all vision, and his fingers did not disappear.

and then?

Just as he was wondering, the voice in his mind came again: "Sacrifice, and you will receive a reward."

Jie Sheng felt like a seductive evil god, luring an innocent boy into darkness.

In fact, during his long years of solitude, he had a premonition that opening the box might not free him, but he had no other choice. Before opening the box, even he himself did not know what would happen. Only after opening it did he vaguely feel a sense of weakness.

Jie Sheng has finally given up hope. It turns out that this black box is his true form, and he is no longer human.

His innate instincts told him that by putting things into the box, he could accumulate power and then interfere with the world.

So Jie Sheng lured Wang An into making a sacrifice, even if it was just throwing in a stone.

Wang An couldn't help but mutter to himself, this was clearly different from what was said before, there was no mention of a sacrifice.

Although that's what he thought, he dared not express it.

He's already gone this far, his pants are practically off, how can he give up halfway!