Chapter 49
The snow fell on and off all day.
The roofs of the houses in the slums were not very solid. If the snow continued to fall like this all night, it was unknown whether this house built with wood, straw and plaster would collapse.
Ramo and his family huddled on a bed made of straw mats. The cold air seeped in from the tiny holes on all sides. The sister's crying had gradually subsided, but the mother's expression became more and more sad as she held her.
Sometimes a high fever does not mean trouble. It is really bad when the body cannot have a fever even if it wants to.
This is also why the elves, even though they have a purification potion that can cure all kinds of poisons, are still helpless against their people's diseases and can only choose to trade with Mo Da.
Although the types of viruses and bacteria in this world are different from those on Earth, they have not yet experienced the baptism of antibiotics. If their counterparts on Earth are at level 9, they are still at the stage of Novice Village soldiers.
It was not yet completely dark outside, but the family was already cold and hungry. They had just finished their dry food half an hour ago, but the amount was not even enough to fill their stomachs. They could only rely on willpower to get through another night.
Ramos stared at the ceiling with dull eyes, trying hard to forget the feeling of hunger.
Today he was scolded by his brother and almost got beaten when he got home. Tomorrow his brother will definitely not be willing to take him out.
But thinking back to what happened during the day, Rameau still felt excited.
Those black-robed wizards didn’t seem as scary as the legends said, he thought. Not only did they communicate with him well, they also gave him a piece of candy with a strange name, which seemed to be called...chocolate?
Ramo suddenly remembered that he still had a piece of candy, so he quickly took it out of his pocket, but found that the packaging had become wrinkled and soft due to his body temperature.
"What's this?"
His brother noticed something was wrong with him and asked immediately.
"This is the candy that the Master Mage gave me." Ramo replied happily, "The Master Mage also asked about our family situation."
Unexpectedly, the elder brother became furious and said, "Throw it away! Don't you want to live?"
"Why?" Ramo looked up, not understanding why his brother suddenly became so nervous. "This is candy. Maybe my sister will get better after eating it. Didn't you get rewarded by the Master Mage before?"
"That's different!"
The elder brother said with a sullen face, "I did something for them, how about you? You think you can get rewarded for offending the mage? You are dreaming! Before, an orc angered the mage, but nothing happened at that time. But the next day, more than a dozen people in his family were found dead, and even the animals at home were not spared!"
Ramo said in horror: "Then, could it be that there is poison in it?"
"It's very likely," said the elder brother. "Throw it away quickly and don't waste your energy thinking about it. It's still a long time before daybreak."
But Rameau was never one to listen. He curled up in a dimly lit corner. After a while, when no one was paying attention, he secretly tore open the chocolate wrapper a little, bent down and smelled the inside.
Sweet.
Ramo swallowed his saliva. This taste was an irresistible temptation for him who was now starving.
He closed his eyes, thinking of the gentle tone in which Gu Liangyi had spoken to him during the day. He made up his mind, stuck out his tongue, and carefully licked the melted chocolate.
In an instant, a sweet taste that I had never experienced before swept through my nerves from the tip of my tongue.
Ramo's whole body was stiff and he almost screamed. His brain, which had been lacking energy for a long time, was suddenly exposed to high-calorie sugar. It was like a person who was about to die of thirst encountering a clear spring. Every cell in his body was celebrating and wanted more, but his precarious reason told him that no, he must not finish it.
If it is poisonous, then let it poison himself alone; if it is not poisonous, Ramo wants his family to have a taste of it as well.
He closed his eyes and waited quietly for time to verify the result.
I don’t know how long it was, but it was completely dark outside.
Ramo suddenly opened his eyes and told his family about his experiment in a trembling voice.
The brother was so angry that he trembled all over and scolded him, but when he tasted the chocolate in Rameau's hand, he, like Rameau, was completely conquered by the high-calorie, high-sugar food of modern industrial civilization.
The family shared a piece of chocolate, including the sick sister. The mother also used her finger to dip a little chocolate sauce and smeared it on her lips. Although it can't cure the disease, it is visibly that after tasting the sweet taste of chocolate, the sister's expression became much more relaxed.
"Look, I told you so!" Ramo couldn't wait to defend Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan, "Those black-robed wizards are all very good people, not as scary as they say!"
The elder brother was still a little hesitant, but this time he did not refute Ramo, but whispered: "So what? If the foreman does not start the work, we still have no work to do."
"Then why don't we be the foreman ourselves?" Ramo said naively.
"To put it simply, we are half-bloods, we don't have magic power, and we don't have the strong bodies of orcs," the elder brother sighed, "If we can gain the favor of the wizards with other skills, we can become foremen, but such opportunities are rare. How can the high and mighty wizards care about ants like us?"
"But……"
"Okay, stop dreaming. We are lucky enough today, but we can't always be this lucky."
Rameau closed his mouth, but a small voice in his heart retorted:
Why not?
When night falls, the streets are dead silent. There is no nightlife in the slums. Once dark, everyone goes home early to rest, because darkness breeds not only fear, but also some more terrifying and shady activities that happen in corners that they cannot see.
“Woo… woo…”
The sound of the wind outside was getting louder and louder, like a child crying. In such an environment, Ramo's eyelids began to droop.
Suddenly, a bright light came from above, illuminating the entire street!
The originally quiet neighbors were suddenly in an uproar, the noise broke the silence, and the Ramo family didn't know what they had discovered. The father opened the door a crack and looked out. The cold air outside made Ramo shiver instantly.
"What's the matter, father?" he asked.
"It seems that the Demon God's lighting device has started up again," my father frowned, "Could there be another incident in the city?"
He observed for a while and suddenly found that the "stars" in the sky had changed again:
The "stars" that were originally still began to move in the night sky, forming pictures. Many residents in the city ran to the streets and looked at this miraculous scene. Many people began to kneel down and worship the sky in the street, thinking that this was a revelation given to them by the gods.
But Ramo did not kneel like them.
He was just fascinated by the picture made of the stars in the night sky. It seemed to tell the story of the birth of a god. Rameau became more and more absorbed in watching. At this moment, he heard someone in the crowd talking:
"What do these patterns mean?"
"I don't know... Is this God's will?"
"It seems like they are saying there is a treasure somewhere?"
"Treasure!? Really?!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately became excited. They stared at the drone array in the sky with wide eyes, trying to figure out the location of the treasure.
Ramo was not interested in the treasure, but perhaps because he had just had a close encounter with Gu Liangyi during the day, he felt that the silhouette of the god in the picture looked familiar: "Is this god... the Demon Lord?"
The surroundings suddenly fell silent. All the people who were originally eager for the treasure turned their heads suddenly and looked at him with horror, as if Ramos had said something unacceptable.
Treasure is certainly attractive, but if you set your sights on the devil's treasure, wouldn't that be seeking death?
But Ramo felt that they were making a fuss out of nothing. Even if the wizard was a demon, he was definitely different from the vicious and cruel gods in the legend.
The drone changed its pattern for the last time, and it was a picture of a demon sitting high up in the Court of Inquisition, overlooking the world.
A believer traveled thousands of miles to come before him, and kowtowed to the devil to make a plea for his mother. The devil gave him a white halo. The believer returned home with great joy and successfully cured his mother.
Ramo's mind moved, and he instantly remembered his sick sister at home. Before anyone else could react, he knelt on the ground with a plop and said loudly:
"Master Demon, please save my sister!"
A member of the special forces team who was mixed in the crowd and was about to show off his skills: "…………"
Who? Who stole his show?
He stared at the short, green-skinned half-breed in the middle of the street, thinking that he had begged Boss Yi for a long time to get this position, and had already rehearsed his lines, but in the end, the local indigenous people got there first. What if the plan went wrong at his end?
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and came up with an idea. He knelt down and cried loudly:
"Master Demon, please save my family! I have an 80-year-old mother and a 3-year-old child. My wife cheated on me two years ago and ran away with someone else, leaving me alone to take care of the whole family. My legs and feet are not working well, and my eyes are almost blind. It doesn't work to pray to God for help every day. As long as you can help me, I will be your most loyal believer from now on!"
After this whole show of pity, not to mention everyone else, even Ramo was stunned.
...How miserable.
Everyone looked at him with sympathy. Seeing that there were audiences cheering him on, the special action team member performed even more vigorously. He narrated his own experience with tears in his eyes, and it was so miserable that anyone who heard it or saw it would cry.
Before I knew it, a thin mist was spreading across the street.
All the drones in the night sky went out in an instant, including the lights that illuminated the streets. Panicked screams were heard in the darkness, but before they could panic, a beam of light accurately illuminated the location of the special forces member.
Amid the uproar, Ramo opened his eyes wide and saw a figure appear under the beam of light.
Although his figure seemed a little hazy in the thick fog, Ramo still recognized him at a glance. This was the black-robed wizard who had talked to him during the day!
"If you want to become my believer, then pledge allegiance to me."
In the silence, the demon's voice seemed to echo over the entire city, and his deep voice seemed to have the power to penetrate the darkness:
"Build this city for me with all your heart and soul, believe in me with all your heart, and follow me. Then, I will give my followers what they want, food, wealth, health... Those who believe in me will get everything, and those who betray me will fall into hell forever and will never be reborn."
"Master Demon, I have been working hard for you!"
The member of the special task force spoke incessantly to the projection in front of him, reciting the lines that he had memorized by heart, and his words seemed to move the devil. Amid the exclamations of the crowd, a "star" slowly descended from the sky onto the dark street.
Although this play seems to be full of loopholes, it has a significant effect on a group of ignorant indigenous people who have no idea what technology is and most of them cannot even read.
The three major laws of religion: rewards and punishments, and most importantly, supernatural power, as long as all of them are met, it will take root firmly in the minds of believers.
"Will the devil actually respond to the call of devout believers?!"
Everyone showed disbelief and jealously stared at the lucky guy who took out food and magic medicine from under the drone. He even gave a bottle to Ramo who was standing nearby, with the simple reason being "We are all devout believers in the Demon God, so we should help each other."
"I believe in you, too, Master Demon!"
Immediately, several guys who followed the trend also knelt down on the street, hoping to get the reward as well, but the projection of the devil did not even look at them. He just waved his sleeves coldly, raised a gust of wind, and disappeared without a trace.
A group of people were blown to and fro by the wind. The inexplicable loud noise was like the echo of hell, which scared the opportunistic guys so much that their faces turned pale and they sat down on the ground.
In the dark night sky.
"Thank you for your hard work, Gu Liang." In the helicopter that had just completed a dive and raised a strong wind on the flat ground, Jin Xuan smiled and handed Gu Liangyou a bottle of sports drink, "Moisten your throat. It's not easy. You've been acting for us for a long time, but the projection effect is good, so your performance was not in vain."
Gu Liangyou leaned back in the back seat expressionlessly, with his arms folded and a look of indifference on his face.
"I just want to know one thing," he pointed to the dense black spots on his face, which were the markers used for motion capture technology, "When can this thing be removed for me?"
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