Chapter 12 Mechanical Prosthesis
Although he was a little flustered, Chen Fan still tried his best to stay calm.
He raised his head and stared at the sturdy man standing in front of him, who was a head taller than him.
"Not bad."
The sturdy man showed some surprise in his eyes, and the sneer on his face was much less: "I originally thought that the Chosen Ones were all cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong."
"I didn't expect that there would be someone like you among this batch of Chosen Ones. Interesting..."
"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you."
The sturdy man laughed and patted Chen Fan's shoulder without respect: "After all, he is the Chosen One. We ordinary people should still show respect to him."
The next second, the smile on his face quickly faded, and he leaned down and put his head in front of Chen Fan.
"Boy."
"You are the chosen one of God, I will give you a favor today."
"But don't forget, the God's Chosen Ceremony will be held in a month, and you will go to the Kingdom of God to serve the gods then."
"Those chosen ones of God never came back from the Kingdom of God before!"
"You can protect them for a while, but you can't protect them forever!!"
After saying that, the strong man sneered with a bit of disdain on his face, pushed Chen Fan aside, and swaggered out of the room.
Looking at the strong man's back, Chen Fan's face became ugly.
From the few words of the strong man, he could already be sure that the information recorded in the original owner's notes was basically true!
Without a doubt, this directly shattered the only hope in his heart! !
...
"Lord, thank your messenger for helping..."
The voice of the middle-aged woman came from the statue behind him.
After noticing Chen Fan's gaze, the middle-aged woman carefully stood up from the mat and thanked Chen Fan: "Sir, thank you..."
"He didn't do anything substantial, why thank him?"
A cold female voice suddenly sounded, interrupting the middle-aged woman's unfinished words: "Don't forget, another month of delay means you have to pay an extra month of interest!"
"What are you going to do when he turns to serve the gods?"
"Are you really going to transfer Xiaowen's arm to those rats?"
Hearing this, Chen Fan couldn't help but freeze in his place.
He even helped but made things worse? !
"Xu Huai!" The middle-aged woman quickly glanced at Chen Fan, and whispered anxiously, "How can you talk to the Chosen One like this?"
"You..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Huai got up and left the room.
The moment he passed by Chen Fan, Xu Huai snorted unhappily.
Looking at the figure that quickly disappeared in the corridor, Chen Fan smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Just as the original owner recorded in her notes, Xu Huai was not like other neighbors. She even disliked Chen Fan, the Chosen One.
At the same time, the discussion of the group of neighbors who came to join in the fun could be heard outside the door.
The content of the discussion can be imagined, it was nothing more than Xu Huai's behavior was disrespectful to the gods.
Chen Fan didn't want to care about these gossips, but a sentence in the discussion quickly caught his attention: "This Xu Huai, it's okay to throw the statues on the ground normally, but I didn't expect that he would have such an attitude towards the Chosen One..."
Thinking of the statue that he had seen casually placed on the ground before, Chen Fan's face became solemn.
It is understandable that they have a bad attitude towards him. After all, he is not money, and he can be loved by everyone.
But if the attitude towards the gods is the same...
That's worth pondering!
In a flash, Chen Fan had made a decision in his heart.
He had to find a way to get in touch with Xu Huai!
Perhaps, she knew something about the truth of this world!
Seeing the strange look on Chen Fan's face, the middle-aged woman who had misunderstood hurriedly spoke up and tried to defend Xu Huai:
"Sir, don't take it to heart. Xu Huai has always been like this..."
Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, interrupting the middle-aged woman's words: "Aunt Shen, let's not talk about Sister Huai first, let's talk about you, what's going on?"
As he said that, Chen Fan cast his eyes on the little boy next to him whose eyes were still red.
To be more precise, it was the little boy's mechanical prosthesis that was far more dexterous than Chen Fan's cognition!
The middle-aged woman sighed for a long time, stretched out her hand to hug the little boy in her arms, and explained in a low voice with a gloomy look.
"The story started last year..."
"Xiao Wen, this child, has had problems with his right hand since he was a child. You should know that."
Chen Fan didn't speak, but nodded silently.
"In the past few years, I have been praying to the Lord in the church, praying that the Lord would one day send down a miracle, but... the Lord has never responded to my request."
"Until last year!"
"After a prayer, a church deacon found me."
The middle-aged woman had a hopeful smile on her face: "He told me that the Lord was moved by my sincerity and was willing to send down a miracle to help Xiaowen recover his disabled right hand."
Hearing this, Chen Fan's face changed immediately.
Mechanical prostheses are indeed inseparable from the so-called gods!
This means...
[It can be made a preliminary judgment that the god worshipped by this deformed civilization is most likely a technological civilization that has mastered more advanced technology. ]
Yi's voice sounded in Chen Fan's mind: [Unauthorized interference in the development process of low-level civilizations, and at the same time enslaving low-level civilization individuals with theology, is a serious violation of the human union! ]
Unlike the usual voice with a bit of laughter, this time, Yi's electronic synthesized voice was full of seriousness.
[Chen Fan, find an opportunity to touch the mechanical prosthesis in the little boy's hand. This machine needs to make a simple estimate of the technical level of this technological civilization. 】
Chen Fan agreed to Yi's request in his heart and cast his eyes on the finely crafted mechanical prosthesis again.
The middle-aged woman immersed in her memories did not notice Chen Fan's unusual behavior. She continued to narrate in a low voice: "It's just that... the deacon told me that the church needs me to donate 10,000 gold coins for free to prove my loyalty to the Lord."
"I can't take out so many gold coins at once. After several attempts, I still need 2,139 gold coins."
"Seeing that the day of blessing mentioned by the deacon is getting closer, I can only take a risk and borrow the last sum of money from them."
"Borrowing money requires collateral, and I can't take out the collateral they want."
"Just when I was desperate, Gao Li found me and said that he could use the God-given thing that Xiaowen would get in the future as collateral."
The middle-aged woman seemed to have thought of something and added again: "Oh, by the way, Gao Li is the person who came to collect the debt just now."
Chen Fan's eyes suddenly showed enlightenment.
Although the middle-aged woman did not elaborate, he could already guess the subsequent development of the incident based on his experience in his previous life.
It was nothing more than not having enough time to pay off the debt, which caused the interest to keep increasing, and finally led to this bitter fruit.
According to what Gao Li said before he left, there are no relevant laws and regulations in this world to prohibit these illegal private loans. On the contrary, the church will even guarantee these loans.
In addition, the "validity period" of the identity of the Chosen One is only one month, and the whole thing has almost become a dead end!
However...
in Chen Fan's opinion, there seems to be a huge problem hidden in this matter.
(End of this chapter)
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