Chapter 254: White Orchid Rain Festival (Thirty-Six)
Under the excessive violence caused by lightning, time seems to be infinitely stretched.
Although he could clearly feel his body becoming stiff, the Dragon Lord did not know why, at the moment he fell, his eyes involuntarily followed the white figure that had been standing on the platform.
There was obvious surprise in her eyes, and she seemed to not understand why she did not choose to surrender at this time, but instead embarked on the path of complete destruction.
But as the overwhelming thunder swept over, the white figure, as if suddenly feeling some pain, slowly fell down while covering his heart.
But how could this be possible? The first time she used lightning to attack the other party, he blocked it, and she could feel that the other party was not afraid of lightning at all.
What's more, there were so many thunder and lightning just now, she saw clearly that not a single lightning hit the other party, but why did the saint show such a painful expression on her face?
And the next second, the other party seemed to have sensed something and looked in his direction.
The Dragon Lord felt as if something had hit his heart. A complex emotion arose spontaneously, followed by surging emotions, as if something that had been suppressed had awakened.
The Dragon Lord tried to figure it out, but the loss of thunder and lightning made her dull, and the gradual loss of strength made her fall into a deep sleep.
The next second, all these feelings disappeared completely, as if swept away by the waves, with nothing left. She felt like she was lying in warm water, everything was so peaceful, until she completely lost consciousness.
"I can sense that you have come to life, right?"
After an unknown amount of time, a strange and childish voice came from the darkness, disturbing her sweet dream.
She moved her body, but felt it was very stiff, as if it was trapped in something hard. Only her eyes slowly revealed a little light as she woke up.
Standing in front of him was a girl of about four or five years old. Her face was as childish as a little girl's, but the words she spoke were profound and steady.
"Who are you?" The moment she opened her mouth, she realized that she was not on the same level as the little girl, but more like she was being held in her arms. "Who am I?"
"You are the evil god, and I am the only believer of the evil god. My name is Jiusheng."
The girl was not surprised. After she finished speaking, she seemed to feel that her words were not quite accurate, and added, "Although you only have me as a believer now, in the future I will let thousands of people believe in you, become your believers, and pray for your coming..."
"Faith?" For some reason, the evil god did not doubt Jiusheng's words, but felt a little unfamiliar with these two words, "Why?"
"Because you will bring a completely new and different world to humans and other beings. This is what you told me before you fell asleep."
Jiusheng's tone became a little depressed. The excitement he had just felt because of the evil god's awakening seemed to have disappeared completely because of this topic, and his face showed a hatred that did not belong to someone of his age.
"Apart from faith, is there any other relationship between us?"
For some reason, seeing Jiu Sheng like this, Xie Shen felt a slight discomfort in her heart, like some physiological reaction engraved in her bones, which made her instinctively ask a question that she was a little curious about.
Jiusheng was stunned for a moment, then he hugged the wooden sculpture in his hand to his arms and put his forehead against the other's. "I will wait until you remember it completely, and then tell me the answer, because I want to know it too."
The evil god then discovered that she was actually a wooden sculpture in the shape of a dragon. She could feel Jiusheng's movements but could not feel his body temperature, which made her feel a moment of regret in her heart.
As time passed, the evil god could feel herself growing up slowly, and she learned more things from Jiusheng.
This is Bai Lan City. Their power is still a little weak, so they have to survive as human beings. Gradually, more people in Bai Lan City have begun to believe in themselves.
She could feel that as more and more people believed in her, her power grew stronger and stronger, until the people of Bailan City built a temple to the evil god and placed a half-human-high wooden dragon statue of herself inside.
Since she grew up, Jiusheng could no longer carry her with her. After the evil god temple was built, she had to stay here every day and listen to the wishes of the believers.
Although Jiusheng is very busy every day, she still takes a lot of time to come here, but today is not the day yet. The evil god has to be imprisoned in a dragon-shaped wooden statue, heading towards the entrance of the evil god's temple, expecting to see the other party's figure in the next second.
She liked staying with Jiusheng. Apart from the believers that Jiusheng mentioned and the relationship that needed to be confirmed by herself, Xieshen felt that this seemed to be an instinct, or a habit developed over the years.
Suddenly in the familiar environment, she blinked her eyes, and in a trance, she felt that this evil god temple that was still a little strange to her suddenly began to become somewhat familiar.
Whether it was the magnificent hall, the incense table, or the cushion closest to him that belonged to Jiusheng, they all exuded a familiar feeling, as if he had seen such a layout somewhere before.
But the Evil God Temple was renovated not long ago, so she shouldn't be so familiar with it.
For a moment, she seemed to see herself coming in from the door, in another blurry form, but before she could see clearly, the figure outside the door flashed and the virtual image in front of her disappeared.
The evil god withdrew his attention that had just been distracted and continued to look in the direction of the door, waiting for Jiusheng's return, but he did not notice that there were two figures who had been lingering at the door of the evil god's temple for quite some time.
They were dressed in ordinary clothes, and if it weren't for the whispering sounds and their figures lingering outside the evil god's shrine, they would look no different from other believers.
"Chairman of the Gambler Guild, is that you?"
President Miao Jiang looked at his body and confirmed that after entering this special mission, he had become an ordinary resident of Bailan City. He then asked questions to the people around him who also showed puzzled expressions.
"President Miaojiang? We are..."
The Gambler's Guild President obviously had not come to his senses yet. He still felt the pain of being struck by lightning. He moved his body unnaturally, while also looking at Miao Jiang standing beside him.
The moment they entered the Dragon God Temple, they were pulled into a triggered side quest and had no time to react.
She barely heard the system's task description, and then there was thunder and lightning in front of her eyes. She stood under the podium, looking at the familiar president and eldest lady, but the two of them had different identities.
But before she figured out her identity or found the president of Miaojiang, she was struck by lightning, and when she opened her eyes, she was here.
She hadn't finished her words yet. Her hands, which had been moving for a long time, suddenly froze in mid-air, with an expression of disbelief on her face, "Why haven't I forgotten, and neither have you?"
This realization was even more shocking than when she discovered that neither of them had been forced out of the side quest due to their recent death.
"Forgot what?"
Before President Miao Jiang had time to comfort his frightened heart, he was frightened again by President Gambler.
Although the Gambler's Guild President was not very willing to answer this seemingly stupid question, after all, the two of them were now bound together by the evil god, and he only had the other person as a helper, so he still answered, "The system prompts that everyone will forget their original identity the moment they enter the enchanted realm, but we two haven't forgotten it?"
When he just regained consciousness, the Gambler's Guild President realized that something was wrong, but because the lightning came too suddenly and he was a little shocked by the identities of the President and the Young Lady, he didn't have time to notice it. Now he finally reacted.
President Miaojiang quickly followed the train of thought, "Is it because we have become believers of the evil god, so the only ones who are likely to be trapped are President Yi and the eldest lady? They are the only ones who can become sacrifices to the evil god?"
It seems that the leader of the other party is not completely confused, but the Gambler President obviously has a different opinion. "I think this possibility is very small. If it is just for this reason, then this side quest is not fair from the beginning. With our memories, it is easy for us to know what the opposite is. In other words, we can get out of here without any effort?"
But their purpose of coming here is not simply to complete this side quest.
After all, the system's task description also states that only by making a choice that completely goes against the enchantment can one have a chance of getting out.
In other words, the eldest lady and the president might be trapped in this mission forever.
Thinking of this, the Gambler's Guild President seemed to have sensed something. He turned his hand over and a black lotus appeared in his palm.
The Gambler had no recollection of how this thing appeared in his body, and he only realized later that he had not refuted what President Miao Jiang had just said, "Both of them are believers of the evil god," and the other party did not notice anything wrong, as if something had happened to them that he did not remember.
I only remember that I had gone out with President Miao Jiang at night, and then I bumped into him, and I can't remember anything after that.
However, this feeling was not unfamiliar to him. After all, he had felt it once before when he bought the pawn ticket.
Wisps of black air emanated from the black lotus, one part of which wrapped around the two people, as if it had sensed some familiar aura, while the other part spread into the 'Evil God's Shrine' in front of them and sank into the wooden sculpture.
Just as the two were wondering, they heard a voice coming from somewhere.
"The identities of the eldest lady and the first president here are Jiusheng and the wooden statue in the evil god shop respectively. As long as you two promise to let the eldest lady and the first president kill the Dragon Lord and the dragon clan in their current identities during tomorrow's sacrifice, they will stay here forever."
The sound seemed to come from far away, but also seemed to come from inside their own bodies.
If it were under normal circumstances, the Gambler's Guild President would definitely get to the bottom of it, asking who the other party is, what they did to them, why they did it in this form, and what the situation is with this black lotus.
But for some reason, there seemed to be some irresistible power hidden in that voice. He could not find any reason to refute it, and all the doubts were swallowed down in his stomach.
In addition, this shortcut that can make the eldest lady and the president disappear forever is right in front of them. How could anyone not be tempted?
The voice seemed certain that they would help in this way. After giving the instructions, it disappeared without a trace. The black lotus then sank into the body of the Gambler's Guild President.
"I have a bad feeling."
The two were silent for a moment, and finally President Miao Jiang spoke first. She only remembered that she seemed to have gone out at night, until she met the gambler president, and then she didn't remember anything.
But her physical condition and the choices the system had asked her to make before gave her a little more information than others.
"If it's as you said just now, the system shouldn't and won't allow this kind of unfair phenomenon to happen. But now it has really appeared before our eyes, and the system doesn't even have any warning reminders. That means..."
Although President Miao Jiang had already realized through her previous choices and her own reactions that this power should not be underestimated, this was her first time to intuitively understand this power and she had a deeper understanding of it, so she became a little stumbling.
Fortunately, the Gambler Guild President helped her finish her sentence, "It means that this power has limited the effectiveness of the system to some extent, making it seem as if we, two players who cheated so openly, do not exist to the system."
Although the Gambler's Guild President was also surprised, she also understood that she and Guild President Miao Jiang had been deeply bound to each other without them being fully aware of the situation. Since there was no turning back, she had to make full use of this power.
"In other words, we have a great advantage in this mission. If we do as the other party says, during tomorrow's sacrifice, we can let the eldest lady and the first chairman act according to their current identities against the Dragon Lord and the dragon clan, and then we can trap them here forever..."
As soon as the words fell, the two of them couldn't help but look at the wooden statue in the center of the evil god's temple.
A moment later, hurried footsteps were heard down the stairs.
Before the two had time to confirm, they felt a sharp wind blowing around them, accompanied by a faint smell of blood.
Because of the black aura surrounding the two men, Jiusheng did not notice anything wrong when he passed by them and thought they were ordinary people who came to pray.
Although the wooden statue did not move and would not make any movements, the moment Jiusheng stepped into the evil god's temple, he still felt the other party's emotional fluctuations, with surprise, anger and annoyance.
Jiusheng realized belatedly that there was still some blood on his body, so he quickly spread out his hands and turned them around to show the other person, "Don't worry, it's not my blood, I got it on by accident."
The evil god finally relaxed his frown a little, and his tense heart also relaxed, "What's going on?"
She could feel herself becoming more and more impatient, especially after she could no longer move with Jiusheng and he disappeared from her sight. This impatience became more and more obvious. She didn't want to make Jiusheng worry, so she tried her best to hide it.
"The residents of Bailan City discovered many dragons today," Jiusheng never concealed much from the other party, but there was an unusual hesitation in her words, "and their leader, the Dragon Lord."
The capture process went very smoothly, and there was no damage on their side. Even the blood on their bodies belonged to the dragon clan. But Jiusheng didn't know why, after seeing the injured dragons and the dragon lord, he felt a strange feeling in his heart.
Originally, according to the advice of other believers, those who refused to believe in the evil god should be eliminated on the spot, but she didn't know why she suddenly softened her heart, or perhaps driven by some instinct, she stopped killing and changed the execution time of the believers to tomorrow's sacrifice.
"What's wrong?" The evil god was puzzled. He always felt that when Jiusheng talked about the other party, his tone was a little different from usual. "Is there something wrong?"
As he was speaking, the black lotus on the palm of the gambler's guild leader's hand at the entrance of the evil god's temple reappeared, and a wisp of black gas emanated from the black lotus and sank into Jiusheng's body.
Her hesitation and confusion just now disappeared in an instant, "Nothing, just a little bit of anticipation."
She changed her previous expression and smiled faintly, "After tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony, you won't have to be trapped in this body anymore, and I will be able to hold you."
The evil god was naturally happy, as this was what she had been looking forward to.
"Won't there be any surprises?"
She didn't know why, but she always had an uneasy feeling in her heart. At first, she thought she was worried because she couldn't see Jiusheng, but now that he had appeared in front of her intact, this feeling still did not disappear.
"Won't."
Jiusheng was very sure, "By tomorrow, all the living beings will be your believers."
The two people in the conversation seemed to deliberately ignore the fact that the wooden statue that the evil god was shackled in was actually in the shape of a dragon.
The two people outside the door, seeing this scene, became more and more excited about the upcoming sacrifice.
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