Chapter 385 Is life cheap with you?
Facing the high priest's questioning, Ye Tianxuan simply smiled and said calmly: "I am a god, but not the god of your world. I come from another world."
The high priestess, who resembled a young girl, raised her eyebrows slightly, not so easily convinced. "I've lived for so long, and I've never seen anyone from another world. On the contrary, you exude the aura of an ordinary person. How can you prove that you are a god from another world?"
Ye Tianxuan smiled calmly, "Do you want to hear my story?"
The high priest pursed his lips and said, "I'd like to know how you can make it up."
Ye Tianxuan elegantly pulled a chair over and sat down, "Then sit down and listen to me."
A fleeting look of speechlessness flashed across the high priest's face, but he still pulled the pink cushion next to him and sat down on it.
"Before I came, you should have known that I have infinite lifespan, right?" Ye Tianxuan asked.
The high priest nodded.
"But in fact, lifespan is only the basis of my being a god, not my ability." Ye Tianxuan said in a clear and calm voice, "I don't know what the gods in your world are like, but the gods in our world are immortal.
"We have endless lifespans, and our mission is to travel to different worlds and resolve the disasters that occur there. The world you are in is just one of the countless worlds I have experienced. I came here with my companions to resolve the disasters in various cities, but I will not stay here."
The high priest listened in silence, then murmured, "So the reason you detected infinite lifespan isn't because you're the god of Changsheng City, but because, as a god, you inherently have infinite lifespan?"
"Yes."
"So what is your power as a god?"
Ye Tianxuan took out a cigarette from his pocket and said with a smile: "Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?"
The high priest crossed his arms, looking speechless. "I just look like a child. I don't even know how many years I've lived."
"That's good." Ye Tianxuan took out a lighter and lit a cigarette quietly.
The high priest sat there calmly, watching the strange man in front of him take a puff of his cigarette and slowly exhale the hazy smoke.
He raised his eyes, and his blue pupils became blurred through the smoke, like a gem covered with gauze, with a deep and mysterious color, which made the high priest slightly dazed for a moment.
Then she heard the man chuckle and say, "Excuse me, High Priest, when you stripped the lifespans of the lower-class people in Changsheng City, did you really transfer them to more valuable people in Changsheng City?"
The high priest frowned and was about to retort, but for some reason, his mind was in a trance and his mouth seemed to be out of control. He blurted out without hesitation, "Of course not. Most people in Changsheng City have no value in living. They are just wasting their lives."
Ye Tianxuan narrowed his eyes meaningfully, "So where did all the life you silently took away go?"
The high priest frowned, gritted his teeth, and stubbornly tried to keep his mouth shut, but his mind couldn't help but blurt out, "Of course, of course it's for me... I'm the most valuable person in Changsheng City. Only if I'm alive can the entire Changsheng City operate. Only if I maintain my appearance and life can I hold on until the gods return."
"Hmm, I see. He is indeed a selfish person." Ye Tianxuan nodded nonchalantly, then put out his cigarette and looked at the high priest with a grim expression. "How is it? Have you seen my power as a god?"
The high priest frowned and became wary of Ye Tianxuan. "Is your ability to control other people's thoughts?"
Ye Tianxuan smiled faintly and shook his head. "I am God, an omnipotent and omniscient God who can easily see through the thoughts hidden in people's hearts. I just saw through you and tricked you into revealing the secret you were hiding."
"Nonsense!" The high priest stood up and stared at Ye Tianxuan. "You were the one who manipulated me to say those things just now!"
Ye Tianxuan smiled calmly, "If you really don't have such thoughts at all, how can I let you say such words? There are only you and me here, so there is no need to pretend. Why don't we be honest?"
The high priest stared at Ye Tianxuan with a cold expression.
Ye Tianxuan also stared at her with a smile and didn't say much.
There was silence between the two of them for a while. Seeing that Ye Tianxuan had always maintained the same attitude, the high priest took a deep breath and said, "Alright, I admit that you are indeed not an ordinary person."
She raised her head, her innocent and lovely face devoid of any childishness, now filled with coldness. "You possess an infinite lifespan and some minor abilities, but I don't care if you're truly a god or not. I'm telling you this: Changsheng City doesn't need a new god, and neither does it need you."
"Why?" Ye Tianxuan stared at her intently. "The crisis in Changsheng City is imminent. As the high priest, you cannot be unaware of this. Lifespans are running low, and the people are gradually dying. The panic and fear among the people are real, and you can't just silence them and solve it."
"No reason." The high priest's attitude was very decisive. "We simply don't need a new god. We will wait for the return of our true God of Immortality! We don't need a god of unknown origin like you to replace our God!"
Her meaning was very clear. She would not give up the old gods that had disappeared, so she would not accept the emergence of new gods.
"How can you be so sure that your god will come back? What if the god never comes back? Are you going to watch everyone in Changsheng City die?" Ye Tianxuan couldn't help but find it funny. He was looking forward to the unknown rescue and gave up the hope in front of him. This high priest had lived for so many years, but his thinking was not clear and he insisted on his own way.
The high priest looked out the window nonchalantly, standing on the high main city overlooking the entire Changsheng City, "Since you tricked me into saying those words before, I won't pretend with you anymore.
“After the gods are gone, these believers are just a burden to Changsheng City. Their value as long as they are alive is just to be traded to maintain my life.
"I am a true believer in God. I possess God's power. I can maintain my lifespan. I can hold on until the true God returns. As long as I am alive, Changsheng City will not disappear."
She looked into the distance with an extremely strong belief.
"When God returns, he will have new believers, and Changsheng City will be able to operate again. However, I don't know when that day will come. Before that, I must live. Their lives are my lives. Whether they can live or not has nothing to do with me."
"And you." The high priest turned his eyes to Ye Tianxuan dimly, "The new god should not appear here. You will divert the believers' faith and make the God of Immortality truly disappear."
After the high priest said a long string of words, Ye Tianxuan finally understood.
The person in front of him was very extreme. The only person she believed in was the disappeared God of Immortality, and in order to wait for the return of the God, she was willing to consume the lives of all the residents of Changsheng City.
She believed that as long as she was alive and waited for the return of the God of Immortality, everything would return to the starting point.
The lives of those people outside are of no importance at all.
Looking at the young girl in front of him, the smile that Ye Tianxuan had always maintained on his face slowly disappeared.
"Are the lives of those people outside cheap in your hands?"
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