Although the duoluozhong looked old and tattered, its speed far exceeded Lin Sanjiu's expectations. She was stunned for less than half a second, and the greenish-black figure had already reached the foot of the mountain in the distance. Its dried skin was blown by the wind and floated in the air. It looked like an egg that had been hollowed out and made into a fleshy flag.
"Wait for me here," Lin Sanjiu ordered her grand prize hastily. Then, she ran after the duoluozhong.
Soon, she was secretly surprised.
She had been chasing after the duoluozhong for almost two minutes, but the wobbly, withered figure was still running in front of Lin Sanjiu. The distance between them had not shortened at all. Lin Sanjiu's speed was astonishing. She could even leave hundreds and thousands of duoluozhong behind her in the City of Ants.
Lin Sanjiu didn't want to waste any more time.
With a single thought, her Higher Consciousness swept out like a tidal wave, knocking down a row of trees. The tall trees fell one after another. Countless branches and treetops almost hit the duoluozhong, stopping it in its tracks. Taking advantage of this brief moment, Lin Sanjiu leaped high into the air. Wrapped in a hurricane from her [Tornado Whip], she charged at the duoluozhong.
To her surprise, even though the old duoluozhong was very fast, its combat ability was like a pile of mud.
The moment the wind touched it, it was lifted into the air like a broken plastic bag. Its limbs flailed in the air as if it was going to be shredded by the wind. Lin Sanjiu seized the opportunity and grabbed one of its slender arms. Then, she flung it to the ground.
Thud! The old duoluozhong was slammed hard on the ground. It let out a miserable shriek.
Its eyes, which were deeply sunken in its green skin, focused on the boots in front of it. It immediately panted and begged for mercy, "Don't, don't kill me! I didn't do anything. I don't want to make things difficult for you. Please let me go! "
"How did you know that big blockhead?" Lin Sanjiu stepped on the duoluozhong and scrutinized it from head to toe. She couldn't find any part of it that she was willing to grab. The duoluozhong's body was covered in layers of wrinkled greenish-black skin. If she tried to grab it, she would sink her hand into it. "Why did you run away when you saw us?"
"You evolvers want to kill us the moment you see us. If I don't run, should I just wait for death?" The old duoluozhong hissed, "I didn't do anything to you, and you already attacked me … Don't we duoluozhong deserve to live?"
"Cut the crap," Lin Sanjiu interrupted irritably. She suddenly remembered that the last time she saw Zhu Mei, Zhu Mei had said the exact same thing before she died. She suppressed the memories that came to her mind and asked with a frown, "What's up with that blockhead?"
"Nothing happened," the old duoluozhong rolled over and sat up. Piles of flesh and skin flowed on the ground. "… My ability is speed, so I go out from time to time to find supplies for him. When I came back this time, I was shocked when I saw a posthuman, so I ran away. "
"Is that why the blockhead thinks this duoluozhong is his father?"
"Why do you care about a human's life?" Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes.
"Everyone is different," the old duoluozhong muttered, "Duoluozhong and duoluozhong are different! I don't care what happens to those outside, but I watched this child grow up … "
It probably sensed that Lin Sanjiu didn't believe it, so it sighed from a black hole in its wrinkled skin. A rancid smell instantly filled the air. "Don't you believe me? Actually, I was the one who brought this child to this deep ravine. There are too many Gods out there, and there are endless wars. He might die anytime … Even though he has to starve here, at least he can live. "
"He told us that his father went out to look for Gods," Lin Sanjiu said coldly.
The old duoluozhong crouched on the ground as if it was recalling something. After a few seconds, it sighed again. Lin Sanjiu really wanted to tell it to stop sighing. "Oh, is that so? Every time I leave, I will make up some excuses so that he won't follow me. Who knows where he remembers. If you still don't believe me, I will follow you back to the village. Then, you will find out. "
Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and agreed.
Regardless of whether the old duoluozhong was telling the truth or not, it could at least help her solve many mysteries. Lin Sanjiu didn't have anything to bind the old duoluozhong, so she used her Higher Consciousness to bind one of its legs — if that thing could be called a leg. Even though she had only been out for less than five minutes, she was already worried about her grand prize. Thus, she dragged the old duoluozhong along and ran until she saw the village in the distance. Ji Shanqing was like an overcautious cat.
Ji Shanqing stood at the entrance of the village like an overcautious cat, keeping a long distance between him and Blockhead. He would occasionally turn his head to look around. Other than a slight uneasiness on his face, he seemed to be completely fine.
"Sis," he greeted Lin Sanjiu the moment he saw her. "What's wrong with this duoluozhong? I asked Blockhead, but I couldn't get anything out of him. "
"It said that it raised Blockhead here." Lin Sanjiu withdrew her Higher Consciousness. The old duoluozhong staggered and almost fell forward. Blockhead hurried over and grabbed the duoluozhong with a puzzled expression. He sniffed and told Ji Shanqing what he heard.
The grand prize frowned in disbelief when he heard what Ji Shanqing had said.
"Why don't you guys believe me?" The old duoluozhong seemed to be very anxious. It raised its slender arm and pointed at Blockhead. It didn't have arms. Instead, it had two or three withered twig-like appendages sticking out of its skin. "Look at him. Look at how big he is. Even though he's a little dumb, he must have been raised well, right? What did I do to him? What did I do to you guys? "
"I've been to so many worlds, but I've never seen a kind duoluozhong." Lin Sanjiu looked at it coldly, but she didn't do anything to the old duoluozhong. She just let it sit at the doorway of Blockhead's house.
"I'm not kind either," the old duoluozhong's voice suddenly lowered and became hoarse. "I did a lot of … erm, things. But I did it under God's will … Besides, he's different. "
"God's will?" Lin Sanjiu asked immediately, "What's going on?"
"If you guys are from the outside world, you should have seen God before, right?" The old duoluozhong rolled its eyes. Suddenly, it curled its face into a cylindrical shape. The black hole in the opening was its mouth. Then, it dipped its mouth into Blockhead's glass of water. "There are Gods everywhere in this world. There are even more of them than posthumans like you. Every God claims to their believers that they are the only true God — "
"Believers?" Lin Sanjiu interrupted it, "Are you talking about those Inanimate Men created by Deva?"
The old duoluozhong's skin twitched as if it was recalling the term Deva.
"Deva …" it mumbled, "I've heard of it before … Sigh, isn't her territory very far away from here?"
The old duoluozhong paused for a moment. Seeing that Lin Sanjiu and Blockhead had no intention to explain, it continued, "I heard that Deva is called Deva because she can make her female believers give birth to more children. But I guess this is just one of the ways to get more believers. There are many other Gods that don't have this ability. "
"How long has this apocalyptic world been around? Why are there so many so-called Gods? Where did the Gods come from? "
Lin Sanjiu asked a few questions, but she didn't get any answers. The old duoluozhong waved its twig-like limbs, indicating that it didn't know any of them. Lin Sanjiu asked a few more questions, but she still couldn't get an answer. In the end, the grand prize came up with a conclusion, "Maybe it's some kind of extraterrestrial creature? Don't some people think that the Gods in human religions are actually from a higher civilization? Maybe it's the same in this world. It's just that these races are malicious. "
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips and remained silent for a while.
While they were talking, the dimwit was pacing around anxiously as if he was waiting for something but didn't know what to say. The old duoluozhong was the first to notice it. It sighed and said, "Wait for a while, it's time to eat!"
Only then did the dimwit stop pacing around.
"Forget it. You go ahead and eat," Lin Sanjiu didn't want to interrogate the old duoluozhong in front of him, so she took out a piece of hard bread and handed it to the dimwit. Then, she told him to make himself a cup of bread paste.
"Didn't it bring him supplies?" The grand prize was a little unhappy. Ever since he saw the old duoluozhong, he hated this "father and son" so much that he didn't even want to share a single blade of grass with them. Ji Shanqing stood up and pulled open the curtain of the dimwit's room. He asked the old duoluozhong, "What did you bring —"
Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly fell silent.
The old duoluozhong did bring a lot of supplies, and they were all neatly stacked in the room. However, none of them was food.
Piece after piece of intact wood, each as big as a person, took up half of the narrow room. Aside from the wood, there were also a few wooden knives, razor blades, paint, and paint —
Ji Shanqing turned his head. His face had turned pale. Even though he didn't say a word, Lin Sanjiu had already sprung up. She was already holding the [Tornado Whip] in her hand. With a dark expression, she asked, "What's going on?"
"Sis," the grand prize called out. Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he took a few steps back from the old duoluozhong, "These … are used to carve the statue of God."
"You really went out to look for God!" Lin Sanjiu shuddered. She stared at the old duoluozhong. The latter was now limp and trembling on the spot.
"No, it's not," said a voice from behind, still muffled and nasal. "Didn't it say that it went out to look for supplies?"
Lin Sanjiu and the grand prize turned their heads at the same time. Their gazes fell on the dimwit.
On his flat face, his eyes, which were originally wide apart, were crawling toward the center of his face like two worms. Soon, his eyes went from being too far apart to being so close to each other that there was almost no space for his nose bridge.
"The supplies it found are for me," the dimwit sniffed and said, "Actually, I didn't want to tell you this so soon, but I am God."
Lin Sanjiu's face tightened. Her heart sank into her stomach. The dimwit was still standing there, holding the hard bread she gave him. His eyes were close to each other as he stared at the two of them.
The two of them stared at him as if they were facing a formidable enemy, waiting for him to return to his original form.
From their previous experience, the bigger a God was, the more powerful he was. A God like Puella, who could freely change between a normal human form and a God that occupied the world, was even more powerful. "I didn't expect to meet another one so soon," Lin Sanjiu thought in despair.
Two seconds later, the grand prize suddenly exclaimed, "Huh?"
"You guys don't have to wait," the old duoluozhong said bitterly, "Deun is this big. This is his true form."
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