Have you seen God
—See below.
What is God like
-I have no idea.
Why didn't you know it when you saw it
—That's all an illusion.
Jian Jing was clearly aware that she was hallucinating.
On the character panel, the status bar clearly indicates: [Severe Hallucination]
This was the last moment he remained conscious, and then a strange scene appeared before his eyes—the surrounding scenery had all changed, and he disappeared from a white cave and appeared in another larger white cave.
This is a cave, but also like an enormous room. People living in it are like hamsters living in a human house. The huge object gives people an oppressive feeling everywhere.
High up in the distance, at the other side of the world, God is there.
My mind told me that it was probably just a tree with a rather strange appearance, but it was too big and looked like the Leshan Giant Buddha. However, what my eyes "saw" was actually an extremely real statue of a deity.
An owl squatted in the palm of "God" and actually spoke human language: "yes", "come", "you".
The sound was interrupted and the sequence was disrupted, as if there was a bug in the brain's recognition system and it was unable to read the information accurately.
Jian Jing felt strange and confused, and couldn't help but walk down and look up at it.
Qi Tian appeared and said, "This is undoubtedly a miracle, isn't it?"
"I don't know," he said. "Is this real or is this what I saw?"
"What you see is reality." He smiled and threw out a very tempting bait, "Since you are so lucky to find it, it proves that you are qualified for immortality."
Jian Jing sneered and sobered up a bit: "Where is there a free lunch in the world?"
"Things like fate have always been determined by destiny." Qi Tian seemed to know that he didn't believe it, so he changed the subject and said indifferently, "Besides, this is just a benefit that people wishfully think of."
He doesn't mind exposing the cruelest part right away: "Plants have a much longer lifespan than humans, and they give us benefits unintentionally, just like humans injecting drugs into mice, which may help them overcome diseases, but it is never a gift of good intentions."
"—Grant"
In the scene that seemed both real and illusory, the sound was like an echo that penetrated through the mountains and forests, and it also seemed to ring directly behind the head, surrounding it in 360 degrees.
Jian Jing shook her head, trying to be more sober, but Qi Tian laughed at her: "It's too late."
"Whether you are willing to accept it or not, you are already its prey." He smiled and stretched out his hand, "Come, and become God's servant."
The world was spinning.
Jian Jing found that she had teleported from her original spot to the foot of the tree, like a humble ant crawling under a tall statue.
However, at the same time, a system notification popped up.
[system:********]
After reading the content clearly, the message disappeared.
Then, he regained his lucidity for a short time and took the opportunity to ask: "After becoming its servant, what will happen to you? Will you kill people?"
Qi Tian's eyes flashed with impatience, but he barely held it back. He thought Jian Jing couldn't notice it, so he still pretended to be kind: "Why do you say that?"
"Every ten years, someone dies here." He asked, "Who killed them?"
Qi Tian: "Who cares who killed him?"
“What does God want His servants to do?”
"Don't you think you have too many problems?"
"I don't think so." Jian Jing said, "The question I asked is very reasonable. Since you have already obtained the life span you wanted, but you have never left here, and instead pretended to be Little Frank, there must be a reason why you had to do this."
Ask: "You, can't leave here?"
Qi Tian's face turned pale.
"I guess."
People like Qi Tian are ambitious at best, but perverted at worst, and like to play with human nature. If immortality is really good, why would he eat tree roots
impossible.
He would eat it himself and then burn the forest to keep the secret forever.
"I don't think you need to recruit me. You haven't been able to leave here for ten years. It must be that the gods like your service so much that they don't want to let you go." He mocked, "If you change people at the last minute, be careful not to anger the gods and punish you."
Qi Tian's smile disappeared.
He stared at her face and sneered: "Do you think you are smart?"
Without waiting for an answer, he continued, "To tell you the truth, there is no turning back. The root you ate before contained a special substance that can prolong life and cure diseases, but at the same time, it is also highly addictive."
Jian Jing was shocked.
"Any creature that eats this substance, whether it's a human or an animal, will form a symbiotic relationship with it. It's a tree and can't move around to hunt, so the symbiont needs to constantly look for food and bring it to it so it can hunt. In return, the symbiont can absorb nutrients from the roots."
Qi Tian said: "Don't be so anxious. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's an elixir of immortality. Did you see old Frank? He was already dead."
Jian Jing was stunned: "Dead?"
"Their father tried to stop me, but I killed him." Qi Tian said calmly, not caring about human life at all. "Little Frank died on the spot, but Old Frank was still alive. After I found this giant tree, I fed him a bite, and I thought his injuries would improve immediately - he almost had his heart pierced by me, but he was still healed... haha."
There was a subtle fanaticism in his laughter that was chilling.
"It's a pity that once you take the medicine, it's impossible to quit. Otherwise, you will be like old Frank, crazy and out of your mind."
Qi Tian sighed, his tone full of reluctance. He spent most of his life and finally realized his wish of immortality, but the price of freedom was too painful.
If a long life cannot be used to squander, and cannot be supplemented with power and money, what is the point
Fortunately, he has found a way.
"If you don't want to lose your mind, you'd better listen to my advice. Time is running out." Qi Tian stared at it, not letting go of any subtle expression, "You should have felt it. It's calling you."
However, Jian Jing felt a little dizzy and didn't feel like she was being called. She turned on "borrowed vision" and switched to Qi Tian's perspective.
In his eyes, the roots of the statue were no longer just majestic and strange, but completely "alive".
The owl stared at it intently, and its vision turned into hearing.
Jian Jing heard its sound.
"I am walking on the road, believing in nothing"
"A new journey has begun, it's time to go back"
Distant, hazy, empty, and majestic.
Seeing this, Qi Tian took a step forward uncontrollably, but he tried his best to hold back.
Jian Jing smiled: "You must want to get rid of it, right?"
He gave me a cold look.
"Me too." He said, "I fell for your trick just now. I was careless, but no matter you or I, we definitely don't want to be trapped in this foreign country for the rest of our lives."
"What do you want to say?"
Jian Jing asked: "How about you and I join forces to destroy it?"
Tonight's night seems especially long.
Jiang Baiyan looked at the watch. It was already 12 o'clock in the morning, but the sky was still dark and there was no sign of light at all.
He put Old Frank's letter and badge in his pocket and unfolded the map. The content was very abstract, with only a simple direction. Looking at the destination marked, it seemed to be a place called White Cave.
Is this where the devil lives
Did Jingjing go there
Creaky, there seemed to be a slight sound of wood swaying outside the door.
Old William is back? Damn!
The sound was so close that it was too late to hide. Jiang Baiyan thought quickly and simply lay down on the spot, clasping his hands on his abdomen and pretending to be asleep.
The next second, the wooden door was pushed open violently.
Old William strode into the room with a chill in his voice.
He saw Jiang Baiyan sleeping soundly on the bed and was slightly stunned. Obviously, this scene was beyond his imagination, but he was not careful and roughly lifted the man up from the bed.
Jiang Baiyan endured the pain and continued to pretend to be asleep, falling limply to one side.
"Wake up." Old William slapped him in the face.
He still didn't understand.
Old William frowned, but did not call him again. Instead, he tied his hands and feet with a hemp rope and carried him on his shoulders like a sack.
Jiang Baiyan relaxed his body and continued to pretend to be unconscious.
Old William carried him downstairs, threw him into a truck, then sat in the driver's seat and rushed into the forest.
"Don't pretend," said old William. "I know you are awake."
Jiang Baiyan: No, I fell asleep.
Old William said to himself: "I thought the old guy had gone crazy, but it seems that he is not really crazy. Your companions must have run away. Fortunately, you are still here..."
Jiang Baiyan thought, old man, are you talking about old Frank? He doesn't look crazy.
But according to the letter, the Frank family should be the righteous camp suppressing the devil, why did it become like this
"We have to hurry... What's that smell... Damn, what are they transporting in this car?"
Jiang Baiyan: Of course it’s a sheep.
Frank's family raises sheep, have you forgotten
He complained, but his heart suddenly felt relieved.
, Old William probably remembered the Frank family’s work and silently stepped on the accelerator.
The truck was driving madly on the small road in the forest. Old William even turned on the headlights, but he took the wrong road at all. The road was bumpy and the speed was fast, which made Jiang Baiyan almost vomit his midnight snack.
Just when he was about to "wake up", the car suddenly lost control, the steering wheel loosened, and the front of the car crashed straight into the woods, hitting a tree without any deviation.
Birds flew in panic and car lights exploded.
The truck stopped.
Jiang Baiyan raised his head and looked towards the driver's seat.
Old William was lying on the steering wheel, with a bruise on his forehead. He was still awake, his eyes blinking unconsciously: "What did you do?"
Jiang Baiyan spat out the film tablet under his tongue and opened the car door.
The smell that filled the carriage dissipated a little.
He smiled and said, "It's a gift from someone else."
"Gift—" old William repeated dully.
Jiang Baiyan clapped his hands to attract his attention, and said slowly and solemnly: "Relax, take a deep breath, don't worry, I don't want to do anything to you, I just want to ask you a few questions - where do you want to take me?"
Old William rolled his eyes slowly and answered mechanically: "Giant - go to the giant -"
"Why are you taking me there?"
"Its... command..."
Jiang Baiyan raised his head, looked at the dark east, and suddenly asked, "How did Kelly die?"
"Kelly-Kelly, it's my fault." Old William's eyes lost their light, and his consciousness sank into the past many years ago. "We had a quarrel, and I asked you to help me get some goods. You were reluctant, but the terms were staring at me. I told you that if you loved me, you had to do me this favor... You agreed."
Jiang Baiyan seemed to understand: "The forest?"
"This is the border. It's the safest," he said. "And then, I disappeared, and I don't know—I don't know where I went—I hate the woods—"