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Early the next morning, Lei Hao heard bursts of noise while he was still sleeping. He muttered in a hazy state, "Fat man, it's so early to fuck your sister. Be quiet and let me sleep for a while." After saying that, he turned over, and the hard stone bed made him feel something was wrong. His bed couldn't be so hard. He woke up at this moment. He didn't dare to open his eyes. He touched it with his hand in the darkness, and then let go of his hand dejectedly.He slowly opened his eyes and saw the dark cave ceiling instead of the snow-white ceiling he was familiar with.

He climbed up from the hard, cold stone bed in despair.In other words, if his fragile body as a college student had slept like this all night, he would probably suffer from backache and leg cramps now.

Standing at the door of the stone room, Lei Hao watched the little demons outside busy coming and going. He was confused and didn't know what to do.

"Brother, come here quickly, the Commander-in-Chief is about to start practicing." Lei Hao was in a daze when Leopard Twenty looked at him from a distance and shouted.When Lei Hao saw Leopard Twenty calling him, he quickly walked over. This Leopard Demon was now his priority, and he might not offend Leopard Twenty. "No matter what, let's survive." Lei Hao said to himself secretly.

Leopard Twenty took Lei Hao, and a large group of little demons, calling for friends along the way, rushed towards the cave entrance.When Lei Hao and the others arrived at the Dongkou school grounds, a dark mass of monsters had already gathered there.Yes, it was completely dark. Lei Hao remembered that when watching Journey to the West, every time Sun Wukong knocked on the door, those demon kings would rush out with dozens of little demons. Now it seems really fucking nonsense. This requires at least two to three thousand little demons.

"Leopard Twenty, look at what time it is. New Demon doesn't know. Or do you, as a small commander, not know what time it is?" Lei Hao heard a loud shout from far away, especially the word "small" was bitten very clearly, and the sound was like a tiger's roar.After taking a closer look, he saw that it was a tiger demon, two feet tall, with arms thicker than the current Lei Hao's thighs.The fierce expression made Lei Hao's legs weaken.

Leopard Twenty looked up at the sky, then walked towards the tiger demon with a flattering smile and a hunched waist. It was really hard for him to have such a complicated expression on his wretched and ferocious face."Commander Tiger, it was the younger one who made the mistake. Just go around the younger one this time." Leopard Twenty said to the tiger demon in a flattering manner.

"Huh, spare me? I spared you too many times, and you were defeated by those weaklings in the Snake Demon Cave last time. Tiger Seven and Tiger Eight will give them a hundred whips to give them a long memory, so that they can remember the rules of our dirty water cave." The tiger demon shouted.

Leopard Twenty's expression changed, but he still lay down on the ground quickly. Leopard Twenty, who had lived in Shuizang Cave for more than a hundred years, knew very well that the Tiger Commander in front of him was very difficult to mess with. He was one of the only three Inner Alchemy realm demons in Shuizhang Cave, and even the Tiger Commander would share some of the treasures that the king got every time.

Lei Hao couldn't react when he saw Leopard 20 just lying on the ground, ready to be whipped. Didn't he just talk about training?Will you be whipped if you are late?Does it need to be so serious as to be whipped a hundred times?He obviously thought this was college.

Seeing Leopard Twenty lying on the ground, all the little demons under Leopard Twenty hurriedly fell to the ground, as if they were afraid of falling too late.Although Lei Hao is unwilling, there is no better way now. Resist?Nonsense, look at the Tiger Commander, he is a head taller than Lei Hao, not to mention the tiger teeth in his mouth, but look at the Tiger Commander's arms, they are thicker than his own thighs.Although it was painful to travel as a little demon, he hadn't thought about traveling again so soon. Who knows if he died this time and became an X-movie hero or if he traveled to other animals. This time, he had a human form. It would be great fun to transform into other animals.

Two tiger demons quickly came over with a group of little demons, and the execution began. A pig demon as fat as a hill whipped Lei Hao's body with a whip.

It hurts. The little demon with a low IQ doesn't understand what "letting go" means. Although we are all monsters, this pig demon seems to know that it must have been a monster for much longer than Lei Hao.The face is more ferocious and more powerful.Lei Hao originally thought it was nothing. Even Bao Erwen, the young commander, was whipped, so there was nothing uncomfortable about it.But he forgot that he was a human in his heart, and those were monsters.

The whip continued, one whip after another on Lei Hao's body, and also on Lei Hao's heart, shattering the hypocritical protective shell he had built up during his more than ten years of studying.

This mysterious and magnificent world of Journey to the West greeted the still somewhat ignorant Lei Hao with this whip.

Humiliation kept biting Lei Hao's heart. He was vulgar, he was ordinary, and he knew that he was nothing.But he was also passionate.He can't forget the scenes when he fought with others in middle school, the scenes where he and his brother were injured but laughed so wildly, the scenes where they were beaten in a crowd but tried to support each other and didn't want to fall. He couldn't forget all of this.It's just that reality forced him to be hypocritical, forced him to give up his fist and pick up a pen; forced him to retract all the outward edges towards himself, which stung him so many times that he cried alone at midnight.But in order to prevent his parents from going around apologizing to people because of him, in order that his parents would not be gossiped about by relatives and friends, and in order for his parents to stop bending over and giving away their hard-earned money to others.His blood has become cold, and he will let it go if he suffers a small loss, and tolerates a little anger. He feels that he can be shameless, and dignity does not matter anymore.

But now Lei Hao, who was whipped by a pig demon, realized that the indifference he had always felt was a lie. It turned out that his blood was still hot. He could not be whipped severely and could swallow his anger and pretend that nothing happened.He gritted his teeth and stared at the tiger monster, which didn't even look at Lei Hao. He didn't even know that his mouth was full of blood."They all have no strength, they all have no strength. I want to have strength, I want to have the strength of the Demon King. This tiger monster dares to whip me? I want to have the strength of Sun Wukong, and this tiger monster dares to whip me? I want to have the strength of Taishang Laojun, and this tiger monster dares to whip me? I want to have the strength of Hongjun, and this tiger monster dares to whip me?" Lei Hao howled crazily in his heart. He has never been as eager for strength as he is now, so eager to have the strength to protect his dignity.

Unlike the little demons around him who screamed one after another, Lei Hao remained silent from the beginning to the end. It wasn't that he was thick-skinned and didn't hurt, nor that his endurance was so good. It was just that he didn't want to shout out. Screaming out meant that he had given up. He just stared at the commander Hu with blood and received a full hundred whips.

The tiger demon who even forgot Lei Hao's name a few years later didn't know what kind of existence he had awakened with this whip. He didn't know until he died in Lei Hao's hands.

The 100 whips were finally finished, and those who were whipped were basically the little demons who had just been enlightened yesterday. They had low strength and low physical strength, and those who could be executed were the former demon soldiers. Although they were both little demons, their strength was at least twice as strong as them. After this whip, except for Leopard Twenty, who stood up and patted the dust on his body, the others were basically unable to get up.The flesh and blood were so blurred that you could vaguely see the white bones. How could you get up? The weaker ones were already taking in more air than outgoing, and were about to die.Not to mention that the Tiger Demon Commander didn't even see any change in Leopard Twenty's face. The Demon Clan respects the strong, and the losers without strength will die as well.

The tiger demon leader turned his head and looked at the group of chirping "wounded demons" on the ground, waved his hands impatiently and said: "You bunch of trash, go back. You won't be here for today's drill." His expression was like chasing away a group of disgusting flies.

Lei Hao, who had just breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the tiger demon leader's words and was about to go back to the cave to recuperate, was stabbed again by the tiger demon leader's expression.He took a deep breath, held on to the ground with both hands, and climbed up little by little. Although the pain caused the veins in his hands to rise and his face to turn blue and red, he remained silent.

"Commander Tiger, little Niu Shisan requested to join the drill." Lei Hao stood up and shouted loudly, as if the louder the voice would be, the less pain would be felt on his body. Although he was shouting "younger," his honest face was now full of determination, without any flattery.

The tiger demon turned his head and glanced again when he heard Lei Hao's voice. His eyes stayed on Lei Hao for a few seconds and then moved away. He didn't take Lei Hao seriously at all. He didn't even know how many of these little demons he had killed with his own hands.

"Get in." He shouted softly this time without even turning his head.

Lei Hao walked toward the demon group step by step. The blood flowing from his body reflected the dazzling light under the sunlight that had just risen. It was like a long neon light avenue, which made Leopard 20 behind Lei Hao silent. He just stared at Lei Hao's bloody back, not knowing what to think about.

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After the training, Lei Hao, whose face was so pale that there was no trace of blood left, returned to the stone room. It was almost noon, and the little demons were already busy cooking. Even though the smell of meat was filling the room, the body odor of various little demons in the dirty water cave was so clear.But Lei Hao had no appetite at all. He had been practicing with injuries all morning, and he broke out in cold sweats. Now he felt like he was seriously ill.But he didn't regret not going back to the cave to recuperate. It was just to tell himself that he, Lei Hao, could still fight and had not been destroyed by the hypocritical world.Although the whole morning's training was of little use to his physical body, it was the first step towards overcoming his laziness.

He wants to become a strong person, and a strong person will become a strong person by being strong.

Lei Hao lay on the cold stone bed, frowning and sucking in the air. When he was in a state of confusion and about to fall into coma, a sound of footsteps quickly stopped in front of his stone bed from far to near."Brother Niu, brother Niu, wake up." Lei Hao opened his eyes with great effort, and saw that it was Leopard Twenty, holding a large basin of meat in his hand.

"Commander Leopard, why are you here?" Lei Hao struggled to get up, "Brother, brother, don't move. Come, I brought you some blood food. You were injured today. Eat more and you will heal quickly." Leopard Twenty stopped Lei Hao and put the basin in front of Lei Hao.Only then did Lei Hao see clearly what was in the basin. It was meat, but it was all raw meat, bloody and steaming raw meat.

Lei Hao felt his stomach churn. Leopard 20 looked at Lei Hao and said calmly: "We demon clan can only be strong by eating blood food. It's just that those losers started eating cooked food just to satisfy their cravings. After swallowing these blood food and replenishing some blood, your injury will be healed tomorrow. I have survived many serious injuries this way."

Lei Hao raised his head and looked at the Leopard Demon, then looked down at the bloody meat in the basin, and fell silent. Leopard Twenty just stared at Lei Hao, but did not speak to urge him.After a while, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the meat in the basin, biting it in small bites. It was salty and fishy, ​​and he suppressed the urge to spit it out from his throat.Although he was not fast, his speed was very steady, one mouthful after another, as if he wanted to remember the taste, and seemed to be telling himself that he was no longer a human, but a monster.

Leopard Twenty watched Lei Hao finish the blood food in the basin bit by bit, and remained silent. After a moment, he spoke: "You, as a bull demon, are very good. You will be my team leader from now on." Leopard Twenty said calmly, which was hard to remind people of the morning when he begged Commander Tiger for mercy with a charming smile on his face.

"Yes, Commander." Lei Hao looked at Leopard 20, lowered his head and replied.I thought to myself: It seems that this Leopard Twenty is also an ambitious monster, but you have your ambitions and I have my own plans.