"Do you think we are gods? I want to ask, why do you think so?" Chu Xun raised his eyes and asked the rat man.
The snakes and rats in the room said in unison: "What we have seen and dreamed about, God is like you. In the dream, God told us that the newly elected God will satisfy our desires. "
Fan Zhanwei said in a smooth tone: "Question one, what is your definition of God, please describe it from an abstract level and a concrete level. Question two, what is the process and model for selecting gods, please tell me. My source of information."
"God is God, a great being who can satisfy all our desires. Only He can save us." The voices of the rat people piled up, forming a stirring echo, "God is there. Our dreams tell us that the winner of the beast-fighting game will become a new god in the feast of death."
Dong Xiwen whispered with empty eyes: "You all said you dreamed about it, then look. I have to believe it now..."
The girl named Qin Mu held the cat face mask and waved to the rat man: "You can come closer, we won't eat you... By the way, you all dreamed about gods, why don't you just go to the place you dreamed about? Will a god save you?"
The rat people raised their snake-headed flying paws and covered their faces, saying in pain: "The old god has no desires, and he no longer needs our desires. We only tell us, 'Use your desires to cast idols for the new gods, and all your wishes will come true.'"
The red snakes in the room were twisting wildly, like the bottom of a lake being washed back and forth. The water plants are waving around irregularly, as if remembering the sad past and looking for a way to vent.
Liu Yuhan asked: "What is your desire? How can we save you?"
"Blood! We need God's blood! As long as we drink God's blood, the curse can be lifted Already..."
The rats' heads opened their mouths, revealing sharp teeth covered with flesh and blood. From certain angles, you could even see patches of lesions in their throats, red and white, like a brick wall with peeling skin.
The pungent smell of lime filled the room, and the snakes squirmed to form dense waves, flying towards Qisi and Nianfu. Each snake opened its mouth wide, and its sharp fangs reflected the cold light. , seems to want to risk everything to suck a mouthful of blood from the player's body.
"Let us take a sip, just one sip... We are in so much pain, please save us..."
"Go to death, it doesn't matter if you die, no one will It will be painful..."
The mixed shouts exuded undisguised malice, and the overwhelming swarm of snakes seemed to want to devour the player.
Nian Fu kept whipping his whip, throwing out sparks one after another, and managed to keep the snakes at bay.
When she turned around, she saw Qiss standing half-dead, with the bloody pendulum hovering listlessly around him, looking passive and sabotaging.
Nian Fu gritted his teeth and said: "Qisi, although I am a force player, I may not care about you at this time..."
"I don't have any other weapons or props. "Yes." Qisi said honestly, "And I think the Sphinx is right, I have no desire, life and death make no difference to me."
Nian Fu flicked his whip. , almost didn't let the snake group break through the defense line and rush over: "I spent 1,400 points to form a team with you, and almost offended everyone. How dare you have such an attitude now?"
Qisi lowered his eyes and looked at a place near the ground. The old god touched his chin on the ground: "When investing, you must be prepared to lose all your money. I am about to die. What does it have to do with me whether you make a profit or a loss?" ”
He said this in a completely natural tone, as if he felt so from the bottom of his heart, and had already formed a set of self-consistent logic.
Nian Fu was stunned.
She suddenly realized that she didn’t know Chiss well, but she just assumed based on common sense that the latter, like most people, resisted death and wanted to live.
In this way, she can take advantage of Zeiss's survival instinct, offer help in times of need, and risk it all to extend an olive branch and seize the help of this intelligent player who spares no effort.
But what if Qisi is not a normal person, but a madman who will kill himself with a knife?
She only inferred how powerful Qisi was from Chang Xu's effort to deal with Qisi, but no one has ever stipulated that a strong person cannot be mentally ill...
Nian Fu I just feel that the hope in my heart has cooled down, and what is left is more worry and regret.
——If Zeiss really dies, what should she do if she is left alone? Do we really want to drag "that person" down and give her another hand?
"As expected." Qisi suddenly clicked and took out the [Poseidon Scepter] from the item list and held it in his right hand.
[Name: Poseidon Scepter]
[Type: Prop]
[Effect: Gives you the ability to play god. (The more sins absorbed, the stronger the effect)]
After being baptized by the copy of "Frog Hospital", [Poseidon Scepter] has changed from the original "looking more like a god" style of the stick. It has evolved an effect that allows players to actively play the role of gods, and in fact has many powers of gods - although most of them can only be used in the game space.
The white scepter, which has absorbed enough evil, is covered with black lines, and the golden vine shadow surrounds Qisi, making the young man in red look sacred and noble.
The rat people almost wishfully believed that the player was a god. As a player, Ziss took out the scepter belonging to the god at this moment. The milky white light enveloped him like the shell of a sculpture. He had no wings, but in the eyes of the rat men, he was a true god.
After all, if he is not a god, who is?
The rat people were awed and wanted to retreat, but that timidity was soon replaced by a stronger and unreasonable desire.
They want to pierce God's flesh, suck the blood inside, and fill the gap of desire.
They... want to eat God.
"Do you want our blood?" Qiss lowered his wrist slightly, tilted his scepter forward, and looked down at the approaching snakes with half-lowered eyes, as if he were a god who suddenly came to the world to satisfy the desires of the world.
The rat people said "yes" in unison. After realizing that Chiss might really be willing to satisfy them, their aggressive attitude gradually restrained, and they returned to the humble way of praying for blessings from the beginning.
"Okay." Qisi said with a smile.
Nian Fu’s heart is ringing with alarm bells.
Although the snakes no longer attacked, instead of relaxing, she thought of a worse development——
Could it be that Qiss really didn’t want to live anymore and planned to die here?
While she was hesitating, she felt a pain in her arm.
Chis took out a blade from nowhere and drew a shallow blood mark on her right arm without warning.
“Fuck!” Nian Fu swore a curse word reflexively. His first reaction was that Qisi, an anti-social element, wanted to hold him back before he died. He immediately put the iron whip on Qisi’s neck with his backhand. superior.
Qisi didn't even struggle, he just stared at the wound on Nianfu's arm intently, as if it were some strange handicraft.
Blood seeped out slowly from the scratches, and a drop of blood slid down the smooth arm to the ground, seeping into the stone, like a finishing touch that added color to the painting.
All the rat men’s eyes were focused on the blood beads, greedily and covetously. The long-suppressed desire has been mobilized as early as after meeting the player. As the situation develops and the appearance of the scepter is laid out step by step, it reaches its peak at this moment.
They thought, just take a sip...
Nian Fu was shocked to find that the movements of the rat people slowed down, and a strange white color appeared from every corner of their bodies. It began to spread in all directions and soon covered all parts including the mouse head and snake body.
It wasn't the fleshy sores and sores, but something rougher, akin to the ash of marble.
In just a few seconds, the rat people were completely covered by gray-white lime, which condensed into a hard shell on their surface.
They were completely motionless, like stone sculptures by an artist, still with twisted postures and weird appearances, occupying most of the corners of the room.
"What's going on? Is it related to my blood?" Nian Fu could realize that there was a connection between the two, but that was all.
She had no idea of the principles or logic and could only ask Qiss, who was obviously the instigator.
Qisi's neck had been strangled by Nian Fu with an iron whip for a while, and a circle of green indentations like a necklace had been carved into the place where the force was applied.
He was not breathing and said feebly: "Can you let me go first?"
Nian Fu withdrew the whip in embarrassment.
Chis wiped away the burn marks left where the skin came into contact as if nothing had happened, sat down on the straw bed, and answered patiently: "I saw white lime in the mouths of those rat men, like It's like some flesh and blood has been replaced by stone.
"I noticed again that the same changes happened on your ankles, but there was nothing on my body. I think the biggest difference between me and you may be that I have no desires. ”
Nian Fu subconsciously lowered his head and looked at his ankle. Sure enough, it was covered with large pieces of lime at some point, as if it had been rubbed from the faded wall.
She reached out and pressed it. It felt hard, as if it were real marble, replacing her ankle.
What’s even more frightening is that the gray-white color is slowly infecting the surrounding area, as if eating away at her flesh inch by inch.
Nian Fu kept his expression unchanged so as not to show timidity in front of his teammates.
Chis continued without even looking at her: "As for people turning into stones, I thought of the story of Medusa. Anyone who looks directly into Medusa's eyes will turn into stone. Stone, and Medusa is the embodiment of desire
"So I guess that one of the mechanisms of this copy is that beings with desires will continue to be petrified."
Nian Fu tried not to look at his ankles and thought: "You tell me that Are you saying this to extinguish my desires?”
“It’s just an experiment,” Chis said lukewarmly, “Human desires are endless, and even if one desire is shattered, it will soon be reborn. Next.
"The only purpose of what I said was to temporarily subside your desire so that I could verify something.
“I saw that the area covered with lime on your ankles was rapidly shrinking, and I determined that the degree of petrification was directly related to the size of your desire.
"So, I used some means to stimulate those rat people and amplify their desires."
Qisi stood up and glanced at the ferocious stone snake and rat sculptures, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
He put the Poseidon Scepter back into the toolbar, stretched out his fingers and lightly touched the surface of the stone sculpture.
The stone sculpture collapsed at the first touch and scattered into white gravel. It was quickly absorbed by the ground and became part of the marble floor. With the naked eye, no trace of its existence can be seen anymore.
“So you slashed my arm and bled it for them to see?” Nian Fu took out the bandage, wrapped it around the wound, and sneered, “How are you sure that your guess is correct?< br>
"What if you guessed wrong and they swarmed up to suck my blood?"
"I have coagulation disorder, and the bleeding will not stop when I am injured." Qis said vaguely, "What if it's true?" So unlucky, I will remember your sacrifice and give you a stick of incense during the holidays."
Nian Fu: "Hehe, hehe."
Qisi looked up at the ceiling. "That's enough gossip. The top priority is to understand what those rat people mean when they say that gods are like us."
Relevant information came from Lin Chen at the right time, and Qisi continued the conversation. He answered: "In the Bible, God created humans in his own image, with the intention that they would manage animals on his behalf.
"It's a pity that newly born humans only have survival instincts and are no different from other animals. It's not until they eat the fruits of good and evil and have desires that they truly break away from animals."
Qi He paused and slowed down his speech: "The difference between humans and animals is that humans have desires, so what is the difference between gods and humans?
"If gods have no desires, then what is the difference between gods and animals? What's the difference? Why can the winner of the beast-fighting game become a god? "
Nian Fu held his chin and pondered for a moment, and teased narrowly: "I feel more and more that I made the right investment in you. You have no desire. You have a natural advantage in this copy.
“You don’t have to worry about turning into stone. You might even become a god directly in the future. I think you will win this beast-fighting game.”
Chiss said nothing.
He didn't think he would win, but had a strong premonition that he would die.
Too many beings want to kill him, not just Chang Xu and other players.
A person without desire is not suitable to stand in the center of the stage. At this time, he is more like a bargaining chip for other players.
A person without desire cannot stay in the world for a long time. He does not feel that death is so terrifying, and naturally he will not struggle to survive.
Only God has no desires, and now he is just an inhuman monster pretending to be a god, not a god in the true sense.
There seems to be something missing in the middle, not on the material level, but on the abstract spiritual level, which is difficult for him to understand without desire...
"Maybe." Qisi He smiled coolly, "I really want to win. After all, the environment and food here are too bad. I don't want to stay here forever.
"If I am really unlucky enough to die, I will be killed by those ugly people. If the Rat Men shared their food, I would be so disgusted that I would want to stab myself in the eyes. "
Nian Fu also smiled: "Then in order not to die here, do our best to win until the end. "(End of Chapter)