I'm not just human!

What's worse, the originally extremely unpleasant fishy smell has now become a kind of tempting appetite.

It's like a ravenous wolf smelling the tempting aroma of blood, then seeing a large piece of venison right in front of it...

"Fu Ze Ren is, after all, a veteran transcendental monarch. He should be able to escape. At worst, I'll try to smooth out the effects of his loss of control and calm him down. Then he should be able to escape despite the hunger..."

Xia Fa nodded slightly. After all, Fu Zeren was a fairly impartial person who had kept the secret of killing Nerva and Long Taoyi. Helping him out and saving his life was acceptable.

Besides, I've already taken several high-level secret contracts from the Gold Miners' Guild, so consider that as payment for the meal.

Just as Xia Fa was about to get up, he suddenly seemed to sense something and heard panicked crying and footsteps running around in the distance.

When Xia Fa looked through the thick walls of the secret vault, he was stunned.

This was his first time visiting Gold Rush Star, and he was unaware of the specific distribution of cities, towns, and villages of various humans and demi-humans on the planet.

But now, he could clearly see that there were towns about a few hundred kilometers away from him, and these towns were surrounding a medium-sized city.

The total population is at least tens of millions!

Clearly, the hunger had spread to these towns and the medium-sized city, affecting many people who grabbed whatever food was around them and began to eat without restraint, their eyes bloodshot and bulging like ferocious hungry ghosts.

Many people were frightened, which is why there were sounds of terrified crying and running footsteps.

Fortunately, Xia Fa noticed that the land where the Silver Coin Coast was located, whether it was towns or medium-sized cities, was quite prosperous and thriving. After all, people lived off the sea, and this was also the life planet where the Gold Miners' Guild headquarters was located.

Therefore, those who were afflicted by hunger were unable to finish the surrounding food for the time being, which prevented a more terrible situation from occurring.

However, some of those people had already gone mad, even opening rice jars and stuffing handfuls of rice into their mouths, their bellies visibly swelling.

"No...we have to think of a way..."

Xia Fa admitted that he was not a particularly noble or righteous person, but he could not bear to watch tens of millions of civilians be swallowed up by a wall of flesh and blood.

There are things that can be done, and things that cannot be done.

Just like when he participated in the Desert God's Land competition at the Fog Carnival, he asked for no reward, only to earn ten million acres of farmland for the refugees of the Augu Kingdom and to give himself an explanation for what he had seen and heard.

Whoosh—!

Just then, the calm sea surface... was shattered.

A wall of flesh and blood, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers in length and tens of thousands of kilometers in height, rose up just like that.

This wall of flesh and blood, at first glance, appears to be an eerie scarlet color. It is actually composed entirely of flesh and blood and tendons. The wall is covered with eyeballs of all sizes, which are rolling around as if collecting information about their surroundings.

No, it wasn't just flesh and tendons. Xia Fa even saw various organs and limbs that were randomly embedded, mouths full of sharp teeth, and inexplicably protruding blood-red tumors.

Large waves crashed down from its body, but the fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish in the waves were mercilessly bitten into pieces and swallowed by those mouths full of sharp teeth.

He had to admit that this wall of flesh, as a physical entity, was even more bizarre and terrifying than the crazed arm of a god he had seen, or that grayish-white, monstrous unknown being!

Just one glance at it is enough to make you lose all your rationality.

"Indeed, they give me a similar feeling to gourmets and commentators... far less impressive than storytellers and bards..."

Through the walls of the vault, Xia Fa immediately determined that this wall of flesh and blood, as a physical entity, was indeed among the top ten strongest of all physical entities, but far from being among the top three.

Since that's the case... could I scare it away by pretending to be a "glutton"?

Just like when I first met the gourmet, an ordinary superhuman who dared to ignore the menu handed to him by the gourmet would be cooked by the gourmet if he was even a second or two too slow.

Even when gourmets are present, anyone who dares to leave their seat will be cooked instantly.

Back then, in the palace of the King of Bronze Bags, the nobleman who tried to escape out of excessive fear and then became a chubby bag left a deep impression on Xia Fa.

Perhaps it was because his disguise as a "glutton" was recognized as one of the top three in strength within the Wright Star Region and even the entire universe,

As a result, even though he was in the palace of the King of Bronze Bags at the time, he ignored the gourmet's three requests for food, and the gourmet dared not touch it each time.

Finally, I ordered my own dish, which was the incredibly delicious stir-fried lamb intestines with eggs. The gourmet chef cooked it without any annoyance, and after I finished eating, he simply pushed the cart away.

Thinking about this, Xia Fa felt even more that it was worth a try.

If things don't work out, I can just get up and teleport away.

If one's own life is in danger, then there's no point in talking about saving others; Xia Fa was clear-headed about this.

However, if that time truly comes and one has no choice but to leave, then this resentment of Xia Fa will be remembered.

If I were to actually become a true god, with only one in ten thousand chances, I would definitely kill this wall of flesh and blood and avenge the tens of millions of innocent civilians.

Thinking this, Xia Fa casually made a gesture and immediately summoned two high-level secret contracts from the metal shelf in the distance. This time, he chose the two high-level secret contracts: "Starlight Leech" and "Holy Light Chant".

There's no other reason than that these two high-level secret contracts are also carried on dried meat made from some kind of supernatural creature.

If he could eat meat, he would choose to eat meat rather than skin, tree trunks, or bone fragments.

Immediately, Xia Fa calmly began to gnaw, using this to alleviate the discomfort caused by the "hunger" rule of the wall of flesh and blood.

Then, he sat on the ebony chair that seemed to be a seal, eating the secret treatise while quietly waiting for the wall of flesh and blood to arrive.

……

The Highest Church, Hall of Scholars.

"Is there really no way to evacuate the more than 69.5 million residents of Silver Coin Coast?"

“That’s impossible! Every time the Wall of Flesh appears, not only does its ‘hunger’ rule cancel out all other rules, just like the high temperature rule in the Ghost Realm can cancel out water elemental affinity abilities, but it will also devour the large-scale group ritual teleportation array that we are trying to set up!”

"Yes, even if you're lucky and manage to set it up quickly, when the large-scale group ritual teleportation array is activated, the spatial fluctuations of the teleportation... will be absorbed and devoured by the wall of flesh and blood!"

"This... are we just going to watch nearly 70 million kind and innocent civilians be swallowed up by this damned wall of flesh and blood?"

"Sigh, what can we do..."

"Wait, Lord Gluttony... doesn't seem to be leaving!"

The meeting, which was briefly convened by Patriarch Heimdall to discuss the rescue of civilians on Silver Coast, was about to descend into utter despair.

But then, some sharp-eyed scholar shouted out...

To everyone's astonishment, inside the vault, on the sealed object called the "Glue-Stabilized Chair," the Glutton's extremely blurry figure... was still sitting calmly!

Not only did he sit there, he actually started eating two more secret contracts!

This seemed to ignite a spark of hope. The scholars exchanged glances and immediately began to discuss the matter.

Initially, everyone thought that although the Wall of Flesh was heading towards Lord Glutton's secret vault, its true target was the entire Silver Coin Coast.

This naturally includes those dozen or so towns and that medium-sized city.

As for Lord Glutton, the scholars unanimously believe that after he finishes eating the secrets he desires, he will get up and teleport away in a way that no one can track him.

Entities appearing simultaneously but each following its own rules and not interfering with each other is not uncommon in history.

For example, more than two hundred years ago, a storyteller and a gourmet once appeared together at a nobleman's banquet.

The situation was that the storyteller was telling his story, while the gourmet was asking the nobles if they wanted to order food.

After the storyteller finished telling the story and began asking questions, the food critic was politely refused by everyone who said they wouldn't order any food, so he simply pushed his cart away.

It is said that the situation was extremely strange, just as the storyteller and the gourmet could not see each other or ignored each other, each following their own "rules" and never interfering with each other from beginning to end.

Therefore, the scholars just now thought that the glutton would not be able to block the wall of flesh and blood.

But now, things seem to have taken a turn for the better.

Despite appearing to be already full, the Glutton took two more high-level secret contracts and leisurely began to eat them.

This is clearly... a test of the Wall of Flesh and Blood's attitude!

Is he looking at a wall of flesh and blood...? Do we dare disturb him while he's eating?

That's way too forceful!

"Although there are very few records of actual combat, it's not that it has never happened at all..."

"Yes, I heard that more than a thousand years ago, the puppet master fought with a fanatical tomb raider and destroyed several planets, but fortunately none of them were habitable planets."

"Yes, I heard that this mysterious forbidden zone, the 'Land of the Wandering Puppet and Burial Goods,' was formed in this way."

"Also, I don't know if you remember the news from a while ago, there was a conflict between Lord Glutton and Gourmet, and Lord Glutton won by ordering scrambled eggs with lamb intestines."

“I just happened to see it, and the Glutton even deliberately ordered sheep’s cecum, as if this entity was showing the world how to deal with gourmets.”

"Yes, yes, yes! I remember that too. Unfortunately, just a few days later, a man without an appendix met a gourmet and boldly ordered a dish of stir-fried lamb intestines with eggs. Then, the part of his intestines that should have been his appendix started bleeding profusely. No amount of supernatural methods could stop it, and he eventually bled to death."

"But in any case, Lord Gluttony seems to be very tough and not afraid of other entities at all."

"There's no other way anyway, I can only pray that Lord Gluttony will make a move..."

"Yes, that's the only way!"

As the scholars discussed this, their old eyes were filled with anticipation as they looked at the mirror of light and shadow.

To the scholars' surprise, Fukuzawa Ren, who was usually shrewd, sophisticated, and worldly-wise, instead of fleeing the moment he saw the wall of flesh and blood appear,

At this moment, he was also standing at the entrance of the secret vault, showing no intention of running away.

Otherwise, they probably wouldn't have been able to observe the situation through the Mirror of Light and Shadow.

……

Beyond the Silver Coin Coast, a wall of flesh and blood, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers in length and height, began to slowly advance.

Whether it's the dark, hard reefs by the sea, the coastline that has stood firm for thousands of years despite being battered by countless waves, or even the sandy beach on the shore... all the natural landforms are instantly crushed by the gaping maw covered with sharp teeth the moment they are touched by the wall of flesh and blood.

Then, they all swallowed it up!

Those sharp teeth and large mouths could actually bite through the reefs and rocks from a distance, and then with a casual suck, they could immediately swallow the fragments of stone into their mouths.

If even the coast and beaches are like this, not to mention the various kinds of fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, jellyfish, and snails on the beach, they naturally cannot escape being devoured by the sharp teeth and gaping mouths of that wall of flesh and blood, and have no power to resist.

Even more so, accompanied by a wail, a screw the size of a truck was pulled out of thin air from the sand dozens of meters deep beneath the beach and flew involuntarily toward the wall of flesh and blood.

It was clearly a supernatural creature mutated from some kind of conch, and it had been lying underground on this beach for hundreds of years. It was just like that, being bitten to pieces alive by those sharp teeth, and swallowed up along with the gray-black shell and the white meat.

Fukuzawa Ren stood at the entrance of the secret vault. Perhaps because of the appearance of Lord Gluttony, he did not lose control of his mind in the slightest. Instead, he was troubled by the hunger emanating from the wall of flesh and blood.

However, because he had just eaten a celebratory feast, Fukuzawa Ren was tormented by hunger, but he was able to barely endure it.

He was waiting, waiting for this disaster to unfold to its final moment, while at the same time, he was extremely conflicted.

In fact, if Fukuzawa Ren wanted to escape, he certainly could, but only when the wall of flesh and blood had not yet appeared from the seabed, and only when the feeling of hunger spread.

But He could not escape.

Because, in Silver Coin City, hundreds of miles away, lived His three wives and more than a dozen children.