The Experimental Space

The newly appeared land in the space was barren.

Like a wasteland, there was nothing but a ground of gray-black soil.

Lin Shi immediately wanted to give it a try.

Of course, he wouldn't use the Demon King for this; the Demon King was already his partner, and he would definitely regret it if anything went wrong.

Lin Shi walked out of the safe house and looked around for a moment.

In the world of endless snow, it seemed there was no other living creature to be found.

He immediately set his sights on the villagers at the foot of the mountain.

...

Wolong Village.

Wang Liang's face was gloomy as he moved through the villagers' homes.

"Uncle Wang, the outside world has gone chaotic.

Do you think we could postpone the funerals of the elders or handle them more simply?" Wang Liang said as he entered a villager's home.

The man, referred to as Uncle Wang, spoke with anger:

"Postpone until when?! Who knows when another snowstorm might come, leaving my old man at home for ten days or half a month! That's not acceptable!

People should be buried at peace after death, and now, with so many elders, having only one funeral is already very simple.

How much simpler do you want it to be?!"

Wang Liang said with a sense of disappointment:

"Once people are dead, they're dead.

We, the living, still have to live, right? We can't cut off the living for the dead!"

"What did my father do for the village before he died? Liangzi, the village head often told us that one cannot be selfish.

We are a collective and must move forward together.

Do you want my father's body to be exposed in the wilderness?

Don't say such heartless words!"

Wang Liang ran to more than a dozen households and received almost similar responses.

Wang Liang cursed under his breath and left with a dark face.

Originally, the village head had always wanted to groom Wang Liang as his successor.

If given a few more years, once the village head had arranged his affairs and passed away, Wang Liang would definitely become the next village head.

But now, with the sudden death of the village head, he had not yet established authority in the village, and the villagers did not listen to him.

They insisted on holding funerals for the deceased in the village.

These days, almost every household in the village had lost someone.

Unlike the city neighborhoods where each family lives separately, the villagers, after years of effort by the village head, were basically of one mind.

With so many friends and relatives dying around them at once,

when one person proposed to hold funerals for the deceased villagers according to the old rules, the other villagers actually all agreed!

The village is located in the suburbs, close to the mountains, and villagers have the habit of storing food, drying vegetables, and curing meat.

So for the time being, there is no chaos like in the outside cities, with people looting and fighting over things.

But Wang Liang has already seen that people outside have resorted to arson, murder, and looting for a little food and clothing.

If they don't find a solution, once the village's food is consumed, they will be like those outside!

This is the reason why Wang Liang is so anxious and upset.

At this moment, he felt as if everyone else was drunk, and he alone was sober.

He suddenly felt that the village head's philosophy could not cope with the current situation.

Wang Liang angrily walked out of Uncle Wang's house, went to the foot of the mountain, and kicked the snow on the ground, cursing:

"It's all because of that person on the mountain..."

Wang Liang cursed a string of dirty words, greeting Lin Shi's ancestors.

It seemed that only in this way could he vent his pent-up anger.

If it weren't for encountering Lin Shi, he would still be waiting in the village to become the heir to the village head.

Suddenly, Wang Liang noticed an extra shadow behind him.

As Wang Liang was about to turn his head, a hand patted his shoulder.

...

Lin Shi had just come down the mountain and saw a solitary villager.

He was ready to use the villagers of this village to test the space.

The people in this village were hostile to him, making it easier to test.

Coincidentally, Lin Shi just heard Wang Liang cursing himself.

A cold smile rose at the corner of Lin Shi's mouth, and he placed his hand on Wang Liang's shoulder, moving with a thought.

Wang Liang turned his head and looked into Lin Shi's eyes.

Both were slightly stunned.

Lin Shi: Why isn't the space responding?

Wang Liang: This person looks familiar.

Wang Liang's eyes suddenly widened in horror.

Before Wang Liang could react, Lin Shi knocked him unconscious with a chop of his hand.

Communicating with space again.

This time, there were no obstacles, and Wang Liang disappeared from Lin Shi's hands.

"Must the living beings placed into space be unconscious?"

Lin Shi frowned, checking the situation inside the space.

He saw that on the originally empty land in the space, a person lying down had appeared.

It was Wang Liang, who had just been knocked unconscious by Lin Shi.

With a thought, Lin Shi made Wang Liang reappear on the snowy ground.

He took Wang Liang to a deserted corner and grabbed a handful of snow from the side, stuffing it into Wang Liang's clothes.

Wang Liang was soon awakened by the cold and, upon seeing Lin Shi, wanted to scream in terror.

Lin Shi had been prepared for this and punched Wang Liang in the mouth, muffling his cry into his throat.

"Do not make a sound, or you will die immediately."

Lin Shi's eyes were filled with murderous intent, causing Wang Liang to nod vigorously.

Just that one punch had knocked out several of Wang Liang's teeth.

Lin Shi tried again to put Wang Liang into the space.

This time, he clearly felt a resistance when he tried to move someone into the space with a thought, preventing success.

Wang Liang, with blood all over his mouth, looked at Lin Shi in horror as he placed his hand on him, motionless.

The unknown fear was the most terrifying; he didn't know what Lin Shi was going to do to him.

"I say, you listen.

No matter what you feel next, do not resist, or I will kill you, understand?"

Lin Shi said to Wang Liang with a cold gaze.

Wang Liang nodded desperately.

Lin Shi communicated with the space again, and this time the resistance was significantly reduced, but it still felt like something was missing, and he couldn't succeed.

The next second, Lin Shi grabbed Wang Liang's throat.

His hand slowly tightened, and Wang Liang's eyes bulged, desperately trying to pry Lin Shi's hand off.

Lin Shi directly broke Wang Liang's hand with his other hand to prevent him from struggling.

With his current strength, breaking a person's hand bones with his bare hands was no problem.

Lin Shi's grip tightened further.

Throughout the process, he kept trying to connect with the space and attempted to put Wang Liang into it.

It wasn't until Wang Liang's eyes rolled back that Lin Shi's hand was empty again, and he succeeded.

Wang Liang was still alive; he had almost suffocated to death.

Suddenly being released from the grip on his neck made him cough desperately.

Before he could see where he was, he was pulled out of the space by Lin Shi again.

In this way, Lin Shi experimented several times.

Finally, he was certain that to put someone into the space, that person must be without the ability to resist, or when their will is weak.

Moreover, time flows normally in this living space, and people inside can breathe and move.

Although the inability to put normal people into it was more of a letdown than he had imagined, he didn't necessarily have to use it on people.

Animals' consciousness or mental strength is weaker than humans, perhaps making them easier to put into the space.

Lin Shi already had an idea in his heart, but he needed to go back and try it with the Demon King to be sure.

Lin Shi took one last look at the barely breathing Wang Liang and twisted his neck.

When his neck was broken, there was even a hint of relief in Wang Liang's eyes.

Today was more terrifying for him than a nightmare.

If there was a next life, he would never dare to curse people behind their backs again.

Wang Liang thought to himself in the end.

...

To be safe, Lin Shi also tested two more solitary villagers.

It was the time when night was about to fall, and villagers were mostly at home preparing dinner.

This village had been counted by Liao Peng before, with 96 households and a total population not exceeding 400 people.

In the past few days, more than half of the villagers had died.

Some people saw Lin Shi, and enemies saw each other with extra hatred, directly attacking.

This time, Lin Shi did not let these people go.

The troops might come to the village tomorrow to distribute flyers, and these villagers, after adapting and getting supplies, might come to trouble him again.

The grudge between him and these villagers was irreconcilable.

At this moment, Lin Shi didn't mind spending more effort to send all these people away.

To avoid any omission, Lin Shi directly used a thermal imaging device to find and kill the villagers hiding one by one.

He then put all the bodies into the space.

...

When he returned to the safe house, the murderous aura on Lin Shi had not yet dissipated.

Seeing the Demon King coming to meet him, his eyes, stained with the aura of slaughter, were crimson red, and he said:

"Demon King, shall we play a game?"