Chapter 501 Believer +1, Believer -1
"Squeak, squeak...!!"
The arthropod was pinched in Milo's hand, and its sharp jaws and claws were in Milo's hands. The skin on the back of the hand was biting wildly, and the sound of the friction of the body shell made the scalp numb.
However, all its biting movements failed to leave any marks on Milo's hands.
…
Milo just held Isabel with one hand and pinched the arthropod with the other.
His expression is a bit strange.
Because he has seen the creature he is holding in his hand, and he saw it in the abyss world.
But isn’t the abyss a imaginary world?
Why do the creatures there appear in the real world?
This is not a good sign.
…
“Pfft!!!”
While Milo was thinking, a ball of highly corrosive liquid suddenly spurted out from the mouthparts of the arthropod creature. A brown liquid, the liquid evaporates into a large thick smoke the moment it comes into contact with the air, making a sizzling and boiling sound.
Milo frowned and crushed the arthropod with his backhand.
At the same time, the hot fire coming out of the crack in the hand instantly burned the arthropod's body.
......
Then, he let go of Isabel's neck.
The latter's legs became weak and she slumped to the ground, gasping loudly and greedily to inhale fresh air into her lungs. A second ago, she was still shocked as to why Milo wanted to do something to her,
< br>However, after witnessing Milo taking out such a long centipede from her long hair, she was now in a state of shock.
"Cough cough cough..."
Isabel put her hands on the floor and coughed for a long time before she finally recovered.
She raised her head and looked at Milo at a loss, her face was pale, and there were crystal tears hanging from the corners of her eyes:
"Excuse me, what is this..."
But Milo ignored her and only squatted next to the ash that the arthropod creature had turned into, frowning and thinking about something in silence.
The Wendigo on the side also squatted next to Milo and held his chin, but it could be seen that it was not very interested in the ashes left by the arthropods. It was simply imitating Milo seriously. action, and also "manually" frowned to myself.
…
Those weird scenes in the abyss world are still vivid in my mind.
It was Milo who personally executed those guys one by one with a scythe. In the abyss, the eye sockets of everyone in the church were "living" with this kind of centipede-like creature, which replaced their eyeballs. , entrenched among them.
Including Daisy, the choir, the deacons, and even the congregation.
Milo has never seriously thought about the metaphor of this scene in the abyss, just because there is an abyss, and he has personally destroyed the non-existent world, so it is not worth wasting any time on this issue. energy for in-depth discussion.
Until Milo noticed something strange in Isabel.
Until the centipede entangled in her long hair was caught.
Milo started to feel a little confused.
His first reaction was-did I not wake up in the real world, but in another abyssal world?
But this possibility was soon denied by himself.
The deceptiveness of the abyss is that it creates a series of things that are inherently irrational, and then allows you to gradually regard them as reality. Rather than imitating the real world as much as possible, it is not difficult to see from Milo's experience of entering and leaving the abyss world twice that the abyss "despise" the real world. It is significantly different from Imnar's rules.
In short, when everything around him can be connected with Milo's memory, it means that this is not an abyss.
Of course, the premise of this method of judgment is that Milo has not been lost.
The scary thing about the abyss is that it presents you with a series of things that are completely different from the real world and even run counter to it, but if you are not careful you will eventually fall into it and lose the real world you once had. The experience was regarded as a false dream.
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Can the illusory world composed of imaginary content really affect reality?
The small handful of ashes on the flat blue tile floor made Milo fall into deep thought.
……
“You have such a big bug on your body and you don’t feel anything at all?”,
Only then did Milo turn his attention to Isabel, who was almost strangled to death by him just now. The young contract scholar shook her head blankly. It seemed that she had not recovered from the shock just now. It was unclear whether it was because of the bug or because of Milo.
"Thank you... for your help, sir..."
Isabel's tone was very obviously trembling, and she couldn't even stand up at the moment. .
"I...I'm so glad to have come to see you...I really...can't imagine what would have happened in the end if I hadn't done this..."
As a contract scholar, Isabel's sanity level is definitely not up to par.
Because she grew up under the strict protection of the contract organization. Every classic material she came into contact with was reviewed and screened by the contract organization. Of course, she has not received the true torrent of ancient knowledge. Baptism, at best, can only be regarded as an ancient linguist or archaeologist.
This is fundamentally different from the rugged academic style of Raven's generation, which was to gnaw directly at whatever classics they got. The primitive school lacked caution.
Especially the Mensis School. For them, being able to find the classics is already the result of God's favor. It is the luck that has been spent for half a lifetime. As for whether they will go crazy or die after reading it, it is no longer a matter of fact. It's something that's within the scope of consideration.
Of course, it may be that everyone firmly believes that their will can withstand the erosion of distorted knowledge.
Or perhaps, they had already fallen into trouble the moment they obtained the classics. After all, their weak souls simply could not withstand the temptation of those classics.
In short, the result is that there are thousands of people flocking to it, but there is only one raven.
It’s self-evident what happened to the others.
……
As for Isabel’s words…
Milo knew that from the very beginning, when he rescued Daisy from dying in front of a group of contract scholars, the academic and religious parts of this woman's mind had already undergone some mutations.
Maybe it was because he was facing a dark shadow who could "look directly". Of course, Milo was more likely to be caused by his own personality charm.
In short, the part of Isabel’s mind that belongs to the golden tree has loosened its will.
Of course, after this "little incident" just now, it is estimated that she will soon drift further away from the golden law.
This is probably what the Scarlet Witch calls "belief robbery".
Milo, who is already a superior, does not even need to do anything deliberately. His existence itself has the ability to pull faith. Those weak souls will be led by the superior unconsciously.
…
Looking at Isabel’s tearful and endearing eyes, Milo was very sure that believer +1.
Well, anyway, the golden trees in the waking world are dead, so it is reasonable for me to take in the remaining believers.
Although I don’t know what the use of a child with such a poor sanity level is...
...
After thinking about it, Milo thought it would be better to find out what happened to the arthropod, and he picked up Isabel who was lying on the ground:
"Like this Well, think about yourself these past few days..."
The next second, poof!
A stream of blood exploded in the air.
Milo turned his face away instantly.
The expression on his face is a little bad.
…
At this moment, he was holding another centipede covered in blood.
And this one broke open Isabel’s head and popped out of her mind.
…
Looking at Isabel lying back on the ground, and the bloody hole on her forehead.
Milo sighed:
"Okay, no need to remember it."
(End of this chapter)