Mizushima Kawakora's eyebrows twitched suddenly, and his clenched fists crackled.
But soon, she exhaled and her expression returned to calm.
"You are deliberately irritating me." She said, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you here?"
"I'm not afraid." Su Ming'an put his hand on Xi Boer's shoulder: "...because I have the strongest leader."
Siboer raised her eyelids and glanced at him in surprise.
"The strongest?" Mizushima Kawakora sneered: "Are you kidding me?"
She didn't expect that Su Ming'an was still bluffing.
She really couldn't think of any other way for the other party to come back. She originally wanted to ask about her sister, but looking at it like this, he wouldn't ask.
"Do it." Mizushima Kawakora said to Noiji.
Dianji slashed down with his long sword.
"Xi Boer." Su Ming'an turned his head and looked at Xi Boer with a natural expression: "It's time to take action, stop hiding, otherwise we will all die."
However, Siboer was still looking at him, motionless.
"...Me too, I have nothing to do." She raised the shotgun in her hand and said in a very calm tone: "Shoot Noriji with the shotgun? I'm afraid even the flames won't be able to penetrate it..."
Su Mingan was slightly startled.
The next moment, the blazing heat was instantly suppressed from his head.
He is in shadow state and possesses attribute immunity. Noriji's flaming sword can't do anything to him, but Sibor is different. When she dies, she is really dead. Does she...really have no backup plan?
"——!"
And just when the two of them were about to be engulfed by the flames, a black shadow flashed suddenly.
It spread its wings and stood in front of him, without any defensive measures on its body, as if it would be annihilated by the flames at any time.
But Noiji, who had already cut off his sword, changed his expression drastically the moment he saw the raven. He forcibly put his left hand on his right hand, and suddenly withdrew the sword. He was so shocked by his own energy that he spit out a large mouthful of blood.
"God... Lord God Envoy!" Dianji's face turned pale for a moment, his eyes full of disbelief. His body was swaying, as if he might fall down at any moment.
The smell of slightly burnt feathers spread in the air, and the raven chirped, looking very proud.
It jumped onto Su Mingan's shoulder, rubbed the side of his face affectionately, and stared at Dianji as if demonstrating.
"Noriji!" Mizushima Kawakora didn't expect why Noriji would suddenly stop his hand. With this sword blow, she had no way out, but he actually stopped midway.
Noriji stared at the raven with somewhat cloudy eyes for a while, and the white beard on his face was trembling.
"Ri, adventurer, let's go." He immediately turned around and left without looking back.
Mizushima Kawakawa's eyebrows stood up, and she vaguely realized that something had quietly changed the moment the black bird appeared.
"That is Lord Baishen's envoy, the raven." Dianji turned around and left without stopping: "The person chosen by it must be someone who is very compatible with Lord Baishen just like the feudal lord... …No matter what, I can’t take action against him before the succession ceremony of the First Tribe. I’m sorry, adventurer, let’s find another way for now…”
Mizushima Kawakora did not expect that Noriji's loyal belief in Baishen would also become a disadvantage to her.
——He would give up attacking because of a blackbird.
This means that even if he meets Su Mingan again, he may not take action.
Watching Dianji leave with his tail between his legs, Su Mingan gradually saw his current situation clearly.
Although the raven opened his mouth and called him "Lord Baishen", he was not the real Baishen in the eyes of others. He also needs to collect the three major powers of the Bai gods, as well as the energy and faith mentioned in the oracle.
At this stage, these locals will only fear the raven because of his existence and regard him as a chief-like figure, but will not truly regard him as a god.
The raven cawed and landed on his shoulder. It doesn't seem to have any direct combat effectiveness, and it even blocks fire with its physical body. Su Mingan was about to say a few words to Xi Boer when he suddenly heard a "cluster" sound.
It was a golden bullet.
The reason why he saw the bullet was because it was chopped off and fell to the ground.
The one who stopped the bullet was Noriji. He shot down a bullet fired from the next mountain with extreme precision, without letting it hit Mizushima Kawakora.
...Someone was sniping on the hill next door.
Su Ming'an looked up and saw Dianji suddenly waving in the direction of the attack, counterattack!
"Shua——!"
He saw an extremely shocking scene of mountain tops collapsing to the ground.
The blazing white flames, like a dragon, struck in the direction of the bullet, flattening the mountaintop. Hundreds of tongues of fire flew wildly around the sword, dyeing the nearby sky golden. And on the top of the mountain, not even the people nor the trees were seen.
The third-ranked 'Judge' Dianji swung his sword from a thousand meters away and flattened a mountaintop.
Although it was unknown whether the player who dared to launch this sniper attack was still alive, this overwhelming and god-like posture made Lu Shu and others deeply aware of the terror of these frontline leaders.
Lu Shu's leader Lilina could only listen to the sounds of plants and small animals and control them to release poisonous gas, but this Diansi directly flattened the entire mountain with people.
This is absolute strength and absolute power suppression.
Dianji put away his sword, glanced at Su Mingan again, sighed, and left immediately.
In fact, Dianji already felt that he did not want to participate in this war.
The chief, as well as the young adventurer in front of him, were all favored by the Baishen, and he really did not want to be enemies with them.
…
After Mizushima Kawakora and Noiji left, the team heading to the First Tribe set off.
Teacher Fang, Su Mingan, the old woman and her son are all members of this team. The old woman joined because during the succession ceremony, kind people would distribute relief food and clothing for free. With this batch of materials she received, she could help the people in the small settlement continue to live.
According to Teacher Fang, it takes at least one night to get to the first tribe from here, so if they don't find a sealed building on the way, they will need the help of soul stones.
In this team, apart from Xiber, who has a soul stone that can last for two nights, only Teacher Fang has a small soul stone. She regards this soul stone as a treasure and says she doesn't want to use it.
When Gu asked about the origin of the soul stone, she just remained silent and expressed her unwillingness to tell.
Time gradually passed into the afternoon, and the team rested by the creek. When Su Ming'an was observing the soil beside the stream, Xi Boer sat next to him.
She opened her robe and washed her arms covered with thorn scars. The coagulated blood clots were mixed with the previously scabbed wounds, which looked particularly terrifying. She seems to be injured frequently and doesn't care much about her injuries, which makes the treatment seem untimely and the wounds have worsened.
"The raven actually followed you." She said softly, with no emotion in her tone.
"You know Raven?"
"It's just a messenger of a hundred gods. Who doesn't know him? Hiss..." She pressed her temples and seemed to have a headache: "...It's strange. I seem to have forgotten a lot of things."
"Hehehe, hahaha..."
While they were talking, a jumping man suddenly passed by them and stepped into the river, splashing water all over Siboer.
Seeing this scene, the man's face showed a little shyness. He scratched his head, lingered in place for a while, turned around and left, and the old woman's constant apology voice came from behind.
Su Ming'an looked at Siboer who was soaked all over and even had a flapping river fish in her hair. She thought she would be angry, but to her surprise, she calmly took off the fish on her head and threw it back into the river.
"That guy's name is Changsheng." Siboer combed her hair: "...he's a stupid guy who only cares about his body but not his intelligence. He looks like a weirdo, a guy whose curse is on the verge of breaking out, and he's also very dangerous. Right?"
"I don't think there's anything dangerous about him," Su Mingan said.
"Your views are very different, because you are an adventurer from outside. You don't know what kind of harm people like us will cause when the curse breaks out." Siboer said: "How good your life was before, It’s peaceful outside the black wall, there’s no curse in our dome at all.”
Sieber thought he was someone from beyond the Black Wall.
At this time, Su Mingan saw the man squatting down and picking up pebbles by the river. The man looked for pebbles to pick up, licked them and stuffed them into his pocket. His expression looked very happy.
"What is he doing?" Su Mingan asked.
Sibor laughed.
"...He's picking up candies." She said.
"sugar?"
"That's his story." Siboer lowered his head and bandaged the cleaned wound: "The story of immortality is quite short and quite simple. Do you want to listen?"
Su Mingan nodded. Listening to other people's stories would help him understand the background of the world.
"The earliest story about Changsheng him... should be before he was expelled from the tribe." Siboer said: "At that time, a child in the tribe accidentally got lost. It was he who realized that something was wrong, and he went to the tribe in the middle of the night. Black mist found the child.
When he came back with a starved child in a coma, the child's parents thought he had abducted the child, so they pulled out a cane and beat him. He was mentally retarded and could not speak fully, so he could only be beaten. Others just think that he should be beaten, not only beaten, but also driven out, because the tribe does not need such a tall guy, and his incomplete mind is a danger in their eyes.
Later, when the child woke up, the truth became clear. But the parents who beat them were unwilling to apologize, because Changsheng couldn’t speak and wouldn’t blame them, so they covered the matter up with quilts and pretended that nothing had happened..."
Siboer actually knew very well about such trivial matters in the tribe. When he spoke, he was clear and logical, not like a child who had not received a complete education.
She said that when she first met Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng’s mother came back from the first tribe with subsidized resources and gave him a candy. He slept with the candy day and night, taking it with him when eating and putting it away when doing work. In my pocket, I carry it around while walking. One day, a child played a prank and secretly replaced his candy with pebbles. He couldn't recognize it, but he still held the pebbles and lived with the 'candy' in his heart, reluctant to eat it.
Then, one day, his 'candy' was lost and he was very sad. His cry made the children nearby laugh happily.
Another time, A Luo, who led the family, asked Chang Sheng to help her pick sweet potatoes and give him another candy when she picked them. He went immediately, but he didn't know that this was not picking sweet potatoes at all, but going to other tribes to steal them. After being caught, Arrow was spared because of his young age, but his big man was regarded as the main culprit who instigated Arrow to steal things and was severely beaten.
Having said this, Siboer raised his eyelids and glanced at the back of the man with a strange smile.
There were still whip marks on the exposed skin of the back of his neck, and he limped when he walked.
"...Then his legs were crippled." She said: "He became a complete burden unable to do farm work. After discovering that his curse was on the verge of breaking out, he was kicked out as worthless waste. .”
Perhaps it was because no one had spoken to her for a long time. When telling stories, her expression was very peaceful.
"...But after being misunderstood by everyone and kicked out, Chang Sheng finally got the countless 'candies' he dreamed of."
"Pebbles by the river?" Su Mingan said.
"Yeah." Siboer said: "In the eyes of Changsheng, what exactly is 'sugar', whether it is sweet or not, whether it tastes good or not, and whether it will knock out teeth, are no longer important.
What he wants is just the appearance of the 'sugar' that he has always believed in in his heart. It is the 'sugar' that he accidentally threw away when he was a child. It is the 'sugar' that he was deceived by A Luo when he grew up.
As long as it is what he considers to be a 'candy', no matter how others laugh at it and say it is a pebble, he who has a pocket full of 'candy'... is now happy. "
"Xi Boer." Su Mingan said, "Are you happy?"
Siboer turned his head and glanced at him.
"My happiness is not important." She said: "'Becoming the god of this earth' is the candy in my heart. Don't ask me why I want to become a god. I know it is difficult, but this is My wish..."
Silvery white hair floated beside her ears, revealing the old burns on the back of her neck.
Su Mingan suddenly noticed that there was a bright red flower pinned to her hair near the back of her head.
She noticed his gaze and picked the flower. The bright red flower lay in her palm, like a quiet fire.
"This is a gift someone gave me when I was little." She said: "...Why are you staring at me like this? Want it so much? It's rare to see you have something you like. I thought you would just stay blank. Staring into the distance."
"...I was thinking."
"Really? I don't see what you're thinking about." She stuffed a flower seed into his hand: "Flowers in the sky are generally difficult to bloom, and there is extremely serious pollution here. However, this The exception is the flower, which is called 'cursed fire'. It is a very precious flower that has a certain fire resistance and can effectively block flames.
Its flower language is, 'wait' and 'hope'. It doesn't need sunshine, rain or dew. It just needs to stay with people for a long time. After a certain period of time, it will open up.
——If you like it, you can take it, put it in your pocket, or string it on your hands, but I remind you that it will take at least five years to bloom, and I guess you won’t be able to see it. "
"I can see it." Su Mingan looked at the seeds in his hand: "I can see the flowers blooming... just like you can definitely see the sea."
Siboer's eyes changed slightly.
She stared blankly at the flowing stream, seeming to be thinking about something.
…
[NPC (Sissi), favorability: 35+10]
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