Chapter 536 Believers

He gently stroked He Rui's palm and moved closer. Just as his lips were about to touch He Rui, a wet touch suddenly licked his lips.

Ji Changqing froze.

He covered his pounding heart and didn't dare to move for a long time. He raised his finger and touched his lips, which were wet from being licked, with an expression of disbelief.

He couldn't help but wonder, could Ruirui's sleeping posture be so terrible? He might stick out his tongue... while sleeping. But why hadn't he seen Ruirui like this in the past year?

Maybe it’s because I’ve never been so close to him before, so I never realized that Ruirui has this “skill”?

But how did his baby accurately judge that someone was approaching...

Ji Changqing's brows slowly furrowed, and he couldn't help but think, if someone else had gotten close to his He Rui's face when he was asleep before, then it couldn't be that... he had also been licked by his Ruirui?

The thought made him feel uneasy.

Ji Changqing spent the entire night in a state of wild thought. The next morning, when He Rui woke up and stretched, he immediately asked, "Baby, do you know what you did after you fell asleep?"

"What's wrong?" He Rui rubbed his eyes, his voice still lazily as if he had just woken up.

"You last night..." Ji Changqing hesitated to speak.

To his surprise, He Rui reacted immediately: "Oh, you mean I licked you last night?"

"Were you awake at that time?" Ji Changqing was surprised.

"Nonsense," He Rui yawned, "I woke up when you moved me around, kissed my head, and fiddled with my hands, but I was just too sleepy to move.

I felt something coming towards me, and knowing it was you, I licked it. What, what did you think it was?

He couldn't help but laugh and said mischievously, "My dear relatives in my dreams?"

Ji Changqing was silent.

He really thought so, and even worried that Ruirui had been taken advantage of by others without knowing it. Thinking of this, he unconsciously hugged her tighter.

"Silly boy," He Rui understood his expression and poked the man's cheek, "I'm very alert when I sleep. I feel more at ease around you. When I sleep alone, I wake up immediately when I hear the slightest noise."

This sentence was like a good medicine, instantly curing Ji Changqing's wandering thoughts all night. He lowered his head and rubbed He Rui's nose, then curled his lips and smiled.

...

Ji Changqing dispersed some of his mental energy and paid attention to the movements of the giant shelter.

To his surprise, the psychic boy who was hostile to them was dead.

Death is not uncommon within his domain. Accidents, fights, illness...life is often lost.

But this time was different - from Liu Mo's crying and the words of others, he learned that it was Yu Yinli and others who acted decisively.

This discovery not only did not make him feel relieved, but made him more alert.

He knew that if he had not always possessed the strength to suppress this evolutionary organization, he and Ruirui would probably be regarded by the other party without hesitation as "hidden dangers" that needed to be eliminated.

Thinking of this, Ji Changqing's eyes darkened and his knuckles tightened slightly.

He was never naive, and he would never pin his hopes on the kindness of his enemies.

Yu Yinli and his gang acted ruthlessly. If one day, his domain really disappeared and these people found out that he had become a disabled person, he and Ruirui would definitely not have a decent ending.

So, if that day ever comes...

He must make these people disappear completely before he loses his power.

The thought came to my mind coldly and clearly, without a trace of hesitation.

A thought I'd considered before resurfaced in my mind: it would be better to keep humans in a small world. That way, the efficiency of eliminating threats would be much higher.

...

The current convenient transportation situation is also his work. Those fanatical believers even spread their teachings between different refuges, forming an invisible network.

In fact, not everyone in this sect regards him as a god. The religion is roughly divided into two factions:

The first believes that those who help them are an external divine power that does not belong to this world;

The second connects him as a person with the gods.

Among those who deify him, there are two types of people:

One type is the sincere and devout believers who will sincerely pray and confide in him, although to some extent this is just a coincidence - because his domain ability is too strong, he knows almost everything within his perception range. So he does hear these voices and occasionally responds on a whim.

For example, a thin, gaunt female believer once frantically pleaded for a box of calcium tablets to save her mother, who suffered from otolithiasis. Although treatment had been completed, the otoliths remained unstable due to a lack of calcium supplementation, and vertigo recurred frequently. Each attack caused the elderly woman to vomit incessantly, becoming unable to eat and on the verge of starvation.

Ji Changqing suddenly felt like testing the woman's genuine filial piety.

I'm also curious whether, if I get a response, the other party will be greedy and beg for more.

So he casually threw a box of calcium tablets in front of the man.

He watched the other person tremble as he held up the medicine box, looked at it repeatedly in disbelief, and then burst into tears of joy. He touched the medicine box lightly with his forehead and prayed devoutly and silently to express his sincerity.

During this process, he sensed something strange—a faint energy seemed to be flowing back into his domain from the believers. The power was so weak and elusive that it would have been almost imperceptible if he hadn't paid close attention.

The other type of people are speculators who use his name to seek personal gain. They use his name to deceive people and use faith as a tool to pursue personal gain.

When Ji Changqing mentioned this discovery to He Rui, He Rui rubbed his chin thoughtfully, his eyes gradually brightening, "Interesting..."

He Rui's gaze lingered on Ji Changqing's face for a moment, "Maybe you should really consider recruiting some reliable believers? This mechanism of feeding back domain energy is very special." He paused, and his tone became more excited.

"In addition to relying on devouring matter, metals and mutated creatures, your domain can also obtain energy through faith. Tell me...will you really become a god one day? Why don't you let them burn incense for you and see?" He Rui's words became more and more outrageous.

Ji Changqing couldn't help laughing.

That bit of energy was so weak that even if it had an effect, he didn't take it seriously.

Perhaps the energy provided by ten thousand believers combined is not as real as the energy he gets from devouring a few mutant animals.