Sob has never been a closed island. Before Gaslow took over it completely, it was a territory jointly owned by several nobles.
But in the woman's doubtful words, the entire island has been closed for generations. The legend of demons raging and natural disasters has made everyone fear the outside of the island since childhood.
"Has no one challenged to leave here?" Lu Yu asked.
The woman hesitated for a while and moved her lips: "Of course there are, but without exception, they have all disappeared. The high priest said that their stupid behavior will bring disaster to the island. The demon is afraid of the whispering house that protects us. God didn't dare to invade here just now."
"High Priest?"
"Oh, that is the most knowledgeable person on the island and a great being who can communicate with the gods."
Lu Yu was thoughtful, and he deliberately spoke in an admiring tone: "What an amazing wise man. Outside of the occupied island, we have not seen anyone who can communicate with the gods for a long time. He must be Your savior.”
Strangely, the woman did not feel proud of Lu Yu's answer, but showed an imperceptible look of disappointment.
This is wrong. In an environment where there is obviously primitive worship, a sage who claims to have the power to communicate with gods should obviously be the leader of some kind of fanatical religion. People here seem to be shrouded in the self of "being saved and sheltered" When moved, they will definitely feel heartfelt comfort with Lu Yu's compliments and praises, because this is their god.
"But he didn't give my dad back."
The boy lying on the bed suddenly said.
"An!" The woman scolded the boy first, then turned to apologize to Lu Yu, "The child is not sensible, please forgive me."
Lu Yu waved his hand: "No, no, no, it doesn't matter, but I really want to know what the child said..."
He had already noticed that there were only traces of two people living in this house, but the woman took out a man's clothes to wipe his body. If it was her husband's regular clothes, the woman would never do this.
After hesitating for a while, the woman looked past Lu Yu and looked at the wind and rain outside the window. Her voice was full of sadness: "It was also such a rainy night. He suddenly disappeared while heading to a nearby village. I begged the high priest's envoy to find his traces for me. , as the most devout believer of the God of Whispers, I longed for this wish to come true...but he didn't."
Lu Yu left some sentimental time for the woman, and then asked: "Weather like this is not common. Your husband is likely to..."
"I know, but the high priest has the great power to resurrect the dead. He always responds to the wishes of believers and grants them miracles... Why can't he satisfy me alone?"
Lu Yu was shocked and asked calmly: "Resurrection of the dead?"
The woman who had been shaken by the high priest and even her long-term faith because of her love for her husband seemed to suddenly recall something. Her inner resentment gradually subsided and she began to describe it calmly.
The high priest calls it the miracle of the Whispering God. Although the world outside the island has fallen and the demon is raging, as long as you are still on the island, everyone will gain eternal life - as long as you are pious enough.
Piety is the indicator of all miracles. The woman witnessed with her own eyes that children who died early in the village were reborn because their parents worshiped the God of Whispers and the high priest devoutly. The withered bones that were carefully restrained were like puppets in the hands of the high priest. Twisting like this, the blood and flesh were reshaped in a way visible to the naked eye, and the already sleeping baby cried loudly in the arms of its parents.
The woman also witnessed the octogenarian kneeling towards the center of the island when he was about to die. His wish seemed to have been heard. The closer he got to the center of the island, the younger he became, until he finally turned into a young man, leaving behind his crutches and walking with strong legs. The legs run quickly across the wilderness.
There are countless miracles like this. A woman always thinks that as long as she is pious enough, her miracle will come, but...it doesn't happen.
Lu Yu fell into deep contemplation. He did not believe that the current magical environment could give birth to such horrific magic as resurrecting the dead. Even Sarah, the pioneer of the undead, could only control the undead.
The God of Whispers?
He believes that some gods of faith must have been born in the world now, but is this god on Sob Island too advanced?
Lu Yu no longer restrained his magic power. He sensed the woman and child in front of him nakedly. The puppet technique that he had systematically learned from his teacher came in handy. These two people were not as obvious as puppets. The so-called "The sense of blocked life breath" is a flaw that has not been overcome by soulless things that imitate life. Currently, Lu Yu knows two people who hope to break through this step.
One is in Selkalo, studying the gamification of streamer trials and spreading faith through it.
One is a rabbit with big breasts and long ears.
"Madam, the sky will light up, don't give up your faith." Lu Yu continued to step in and comforted her.
The woman's smile was numb. It was obvious that she had no hope of being favored.
Lu Yu stood up and opened the door.
"Guest, what are you doing?"
"Thank you for your hospitality. I have rested. I want to go to the center of the island to meet the great high priest and seek a glimmer of life for my poor companions who have suffered catastrophe."
"Now?" The woman's eyes widened, "In this weather, you might as well stay here first."
The woman's words did not dissuade Lu Yu. Suddenly there was a strange wind at the door, and the heavy rain turned and poured in. When the woman opened her eyes, he was like a wisp of ink, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
"Mom...brother, is he a ghost?" The little boy witnessed this scene, shouted and threw himself into the woman's arms.
The woman's eyes glanced at the clothes Lu Yu was wiping his body on, and she reached out and touched it, but there was no moisture at all.
The filled cup of hot water was clearly drunk several times, but it was still full on the ground.
"Am I... dreaming?"
After taking a few steps, Lu Yu remembered something - he needed a woman to point him in the direction of the high priest in the center of the island.
He turned around, and the swaying fluorite light source seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness and disappeared.
A strange feeling filled his heart. Controlling the wind magic, he moved forward quickly. In the darkness, the villages and towns still stood. The doors were closed, but when he opened the door, Lu Yu could not see anyone.
The furnishings in the house were the same as those seen before, except that the people were missing.
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"You are the first visitor from outside the island that I have met. This is amazing. How did you and your companions survive in the outside world where demons rule and monsters are rampant?" The young man opposite Lulu kept asking in confusion. .
Taking advantage of the opportunity to drink water and take the cup, Lulu touched the young man's hand, then tapped her forehead to enter the chat room, and finally glanced down at the teacher's relics.
"Sure enough..." she murmured.
"Miss?"
Lulu, who was in a daze, realized that she had actually grabbed the young man's hand, which made the other person's face turn red, and Lulu also laughed sheepishly.
"Are there many villages and towns on the island?"
"Many of them are built around the center of the island where the high priest lives. And according to the high priest's instructions, we need to exchange residences from time to time." The young man was very shy and mistakenly thought that Lulu had a good impression of him. He talked too much. He said, "But we don't have frequent exchanges. The island is very big and crossing it on foot is not an easy task. Only when something is missing and must be traded will we make a long trip."
"It seems that you hate going out at night?" Lulu asked thoughtfully, leaning against the door and observing the layout of the village.
"The high priest said that night is the time when evil spirits are most likely to invade the island. As long as we are still at home, we can get his protection. Therefore, only the bravest people in the village will risk walking at night."
Lulu, who had already got the answer, smiled when she heard this: "Aren't you afraid that I am the evil spirit of the devil?"
The young man touched his head shyly: "No, no, the high priest said that demons and evil spirits are all extremely ugly monsters. Ms. Lulu is so beautiful and cute, but she doesn't fit the high priest's description no matter how you look at it... Well, you have come to a pure land. If the high priest learns that there are still survivors in the outside world and that you are brave men who can struggle to survive in the end times, they will definitely accept you... Then, you may wish to join our village. Don't look at us like this, this is There is a mining area.”
Seeing the young man's half-hearted way of expressing his love, Lulu suddenly laughed out loud.
"I really hope we can get to this point quickly... Sera, and Lu Yu..."
If that didn't work, would she personally go and untie the knot in Lu Yu's heart so that he could completely let go of the burden in his heart? Lulu thought so.
"What did you just say?"
"No, no..." After a moment of silence, Lulu took a sip of hot tea and took off the towel that the young man kindly put on her body. "Your high priest may not welcome me as an uninvited guest."
She raised her head, stared into the young man's eyes, and murmured in a soft voice: "Go to sleep, go to sleep, return to your original position, and enter your dreamland."
The young man was stunned for a moment, his eyes were dull, and he walked to the bed like a doll and lay down straight.
Lulu thoughtfully closed the door for the young man and floated into the air against the heavy rain. She overlooked the blurry outline of the entire village in the darkness and made the final verification of another piece of the puzzle she had collected.
Dull pain hit, Lulu silently recited Sayer's spiritual magic to relieve this invisible erosion.
She looked up at the rain curtain in the distance, and a ball of light was thrown into the air. In the rainstorm, the lens on the castle corridor reappeared. The rainwater was attracted and condensed, but it did not form the life of the water element, but suddenly transformed. It is a giant millipede that is three or four stories tall.
"I'm indeed afraid of millipedes, but I'm afraid of the small ones. In my eyes, the huge ones are just...experimental subjects for magic!"
Lulu's body shone with fire, and the rainwater that continued to pour down evaporated into water vapor.
The huge ring of fire gradually compressed into an entity as Lulu restrained her magic power. She was suspended in the air like a meteorite falling from the sky. The millipede had no time to react, and the dazzling fire light penetrated its body.
This time, it was no longer nihilistic. Lulu, who had broken out of her body, felt the magic power surrounding her body, but there was no sign of joy in succeeding. She silently watched the distorted lenses disappear. She took a deep breath and used the fastest speed to Move forward with speed.
Lulu was convinced that this would be the most terrifying guy they had ever dealt with.
She must tell Sera and Lu Yu the truth. Only in this way can they defeat "him".
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The Serenity Garden went completely crazy. The black mud swallowed up and decomposed by the morning glory was countless, and it continuously rushed out from the rain. The monsters that blocked Lu Yu's progress were defeated again under the attack of Lu Yu's last summons with all his strength. .
Lu Yu, who had a severe headache, covered his forehead with one hand and touched the morning glory seedlings with only two or three remaining with the other hand. He couldn't help but kiss it.
"Well done." He was generous with his praise. "Spit it out. Spit out everything that has decomposed. Don't eat it."
Tranquility Garden already knew that the black mud could not be digested, but it seemed that it just wanted to listen to its master's babble. It deliberately waited for Lu Yu to finish speaking before completing the last step.
The black mud that was sprayed everywhere disappeared into the darkness with the rain, and Lu Yu knew that they would come back.
The black mud appeared more and more frequently, and the emptiness of dry magic filled his body again. Lu Yu, who was already suffering from headaches, didn't know how long he could sustain it, but his intuition told him that the answer was very close to him.
The tall and solid castle in the distance showed cold and hard lines. At some point, it appeared in Lu Yu's field of vision, as if it had sensed Lu Yu's inner eagerness for rest.
The corner of Lu Yu's mouth raised, and he stepped forward happily without fear, while the quiet garden nervously alerted the surroundings, doing the work that the last bodyguard of the master should do.
His senses swept over him and he saw that the castle was empty. Lu Yu walked in through the gate without a care in the world, walked through the front yard of the heavy rain, and went straight to the main castle.
The castle was brightly lit, and the table in the room was filled with all kinds of delicacies. A kind of desire from the heart grew in Lu Yu's body, as if urging him to feast.
Lu Yu stepped forward, overturned the table, then snapped his fingers and set it on fire.
A warm fireplace appeared in the small room at the end of the corridor, and a chair was facing it, seemingly inviting the wet Lu Yu to enjoy a moment of warmth.
Lu Yu smashed the chairs to pieces, then threw them all into the fireplace and burned them.
"What else are you going to perform for me?"
No one responded to Lu Yu's words, and the castle was silent.
"Is it because I am not pious enough and have not been teased by you for long enough, so you are unwilling to show up?" Lu Yu said in a joking tone, "Master High Priest?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the corridor not far away became distorted and rippled in the space.
A familiar yet unfamiliar face of Lu Yu appeared there - it was really just a face, he was like a relief.
"Your Excellency Summoner Lu Yu, your tricks are amazing."
"Please allow me, who is barely awake, to pay my respects to you."
(End of chapter)
