Chapter 68: Believers
Not long ago, before Mianli's biological father, the god, and his adoptive father, the human, reached an agreement, and before he returned to the human world, one day when he was bored as usual in the royal garden of the god, a big white bird once carried him to other places in the realm of the god to relax.
That time, they passed through a large frosty forest.
In the center of the forest, there is a huge, counterclockwise rotating vortex.
Mianli asked where this place was.
Kabuka said that these were prisons for bad guys.
At that time, Mianli, who was not interested in bad guys, didn't know that Cancan, whom he had been thinking about day and night, was trapped in the vortex.
He also didn't care about what Kabuka said: most criminals were imprisoned here, but some were... elsewhere.
When Mianli grows up a little, and Oriel and Feifei start teaching him how to manage the temple, he will know that this endlessly rolling black sea is called the "Sea of Sin."
Only the most sinful criminals are imprisoned here.
God has mercy on all people. Regardless of race, as long as they are sincere and kind-hearted, they will be blessed.
Only those who are sealed in the sea of sin are deemed beyond redemption even by God.
Zechariah was that incurable evildoer.
Of course, the young god now doesn’t know this much.
He had forgotten his earlier tears for Zhuo Can. Holding a small spoon in his hand, he asked innocently, "Sasa, did you make a mistake?"
His logic was simple: since Sasa said he was imprisoned here by God the Father, he must have done something wrong.
When He was naughty in the past, He would be confined to His bedroom or paradise by the order of God the Father.
The three-day confinement was for minor mistakes, such as refusing to eat vegetables during meals.
Three weeks, but there were some troubles, such as breaking the Father God's Qingyu Liuli Candlestick and lying that it was not him.
Three months... Well, my dear baby has never been locked up for so long during his sleep ritual.
Zechariah says he was imprisoned for three hundred years.
Three hundred years, how long is that?
The little god doesn't recognize such a large number.
Zechariah couldn't believe his ears: "What did you just call me?"
Mian Li said as a matter of course: "Sa Sa ya."
He called others in the same way, in a childish way, and if he could repeat one word, he would never remember a second one.
Zechariah: “…”
The villain leader Zacharias had never been called like a three-year-old child in his life.
Ariel next to him was trying hard to hold back her laughter, but he gave her a glare and made her laugh.
In just a few days, Zechariah had already learned how difficult it was to communicate with young children.
"I didn't make any mistakes," he said, then changed his mind after a moment. "Maybe I made a tiny, tiny mistake. But it definitely shouldn't warrant such a long punishment. Your father must have made the wrong judgment. He wants to get back at me."
Mian Li's face was very serious. "Father God is fair and never makes mistakes."
Zechariah scoffed.
Mianli thought for a moment and said, "Sasa, did you make Father God angry?"
After He finished speaking, He made a big circle with His hands.
"The very angry kind."
He added.
Zachariah narrowed his eyes as he recalled something: "...Maybe."
The scar on his jaw gleamed in the dim light.
He pulled himself out of his memories, actually smiled, and licked his lips: "Seems quite angry."
In fact, Mian Li had rarely seen Father God get angry. After all, God always had a calm expression, as if nothing in the world could withstand the slightest emotional fluctuation from Him.
He was curious: "What did you do?"
The adult smiled sinisterly: "That's not something a child should ask."
*
Thinking of the time when God was "angry", all kinds of colorful memories came flooding back to Zechariah, and he couldn't even eat his meal, so he went home.
He stretched lazily, and as he turned to leave, something swung behind him.
Thick, long, black and very flexible.
There is a small triangle at the end.
Is this... a tail?
Mian Li blinked curiously.
How come I didn’t notice before that Zechariah had a tail?
Mian Li waved his hands, trying to catch the tail.
Of course he wasn't caught.
He looked at Zacharias’ tail and remembered a question he had never asked: “Zachariah, what are you?”
Zechariah was always bad-tempered when he was hungry.
His way of showing his bad temper was to be patient and polite. "It's the devil, dear." He grinned, showing his fangs. "Are you scared?"
demon?
For many human cubs, the "devil" exists in the threat of "being taken away if you don't sleep/eat/study well" from your parents and is a symbol of evil power.
For the young god, this was the first time Mianli heard the name of this race.
"Your tail," the little god didn't feel scared, but rather excited, "Lili has one too!"
Zechariah: “…”
Why do I feel like I've heard this kind of conversation before?
However, Mianli still failed to deceive him this time.
The child was still wearing the uniform blue clothes of the nursery class when he was kidnapped. He listened to Cancan's words and hid his tail when he was not at home so that it could not be seen by humans.
Since Zechariah is a demon, he is not human, right?
As Mianli thought this, his little tail came out from under his clothes and shook as if to show off.
"Look, Lili has a tail too~!"
He looks quite happy.
"Aren't you a descendant of God?" Zechariah frowned. "Why do you have a devil's tail?"
He strode forward and grabbed the child's thin tail.
It's very similar to the demon's, but much smaller, more in line with a three-year-old. It's similar to the difference between the main trunk and the tender tips of a tree.
The tail is an important part of the little fairy, how can it be touched by anyone?
Mianli's little tail whipped his arm a few times: "Don't touch Lili's tail!"
In fact, the child's strength was very light. When Zhuo Can was "punished" by him in this way, only a few red marks were left.
However, angels and demons are opposites, and His innate holy energy left a burn-like mark on Zacharias's body.
Zechariah withdrew his hand.
The mark left by Mian Li, like the wound on his jaw, was shining brightly.
His pupils dilated with excitement.
Will believers know that the offspring of God has a devil’s tail?
Things seem to be getting more interesting.
*
The black light prison that Zechariah had set up to trap Mian Li was quickly removed. After all, without his permission, even a small god could not leave the ghost ship.
Soon, Mianli gained all kinds of freedom to enter and exit, and the cruise ship, which was obviously a prison, became his new paradise.
The little god can actually tolerate loneliness very well.
Before He came to this world and repaired His relationship with God the Father, He always played by Himself.
Whether it is an amusement park or an imperial garden, it is such a large place that children can explore it inch by inch with great patience in order not to get bored.
The same is true now.
This ship still uses old kerosene lamps for lighting in many places. Not only is the light dim, it is also unstable and will go out with a slight gust of wind.
Fortunately, the little fairy has the ability to glow. From a distance, it looks like a small ball of golden light floating in the cabin. It is obviously a god, but it is even more spooky than a ghost.
The shadowy servants under Zechariah rarely spoke to him on their own initiative. They pretended not to see him coming and going.
Mian Li also treated them as just shadows.
He used his own light to illuminate the way, walked down a corridor, and was about to turn a corner when he suddenly heard a knocking sound coming from inside the room next to him.
Someone is knocking on the door.
The doors of the other rooms were open, only this one was locked.
Mian Li opened his eyes wide. Was there anyone else living on this ghost ship besides himself, Zechariah, and Ariel?
But if you live in the room, why can't you open the door from the inside?
The dilapidated cabin, the flickering lights, the room that looks different from the other rooms, the strange knocking sounds on the door... all these elements combined are very scary.
Fortunately, Mianli is the little god who created many horror games after all.
For Him, it is equivalent to inspecting the sub-world in person.
Mianli struggled to bring a small stool from the next room, stood on it shakily, touched the door handle, and before he could turn it hard, it opened automatically.
Grin—squeak—
The sound effect of an old broken door opening in a classic horror movie.
If it were someone timid, their legs would have gone weak by now.
A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger. In the entire sea of sin, there can be no existence more terrifying than the devil.
Mianli encouraged himself, took a deep breath with his chest rising and falling, and walked in.
This house is different from the others. It is very tall, with a pointed roof and even beams.
The decoration inside looked new and clean, similar to the room he lived in. It seemed that it had been specially cleaned, or someone had lived there for a long time.
There was a corrugated cardboard box on the windowsill, it was tattered and looked like it had been scratched.
Mianli had seen this thing at Qi Rui's house. It was called a cat...cat...cat scratching board!
Ruirui said it was used to sharpen Zhizhi and Taotao's claws.
Mianli wondered, could this be Ariel's room?
Just as He wanted to take a closer look at the cat scratching post, the door slammed shut.
When Mianli turned his head, he saw something hanging upside down on the beam!
The little immortal was startled and instantly went into defense mode. The golden light around him became so bright that it seemed to be burning, illuminating the originally dim room into a bright and transparent state.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? I'm just joking with you. You're not going to attack me right now, are you?"
The dark shadow spoke.
The voice sounds very childish, still that of a little kid.
"It's so bright, my eyes can't stand it. Can you dim it a little?"
Mian Li cautiously dimmed the light.
Only the brightness is weakened, but the defense power is not reduced.
A dark figure jumped down from the rafters—it was a black cat.
At first glance, it looks very similar to Ariel, but if you look closely, you can find that it is several times smaller than Ariel.
Simply put, it's just a kitten that hasn't reached adulthood yet.
Its eyes are as bright yellow as Ariel's, but the difference is that it doesn't have the pendant on its chest.
The kitten has a special headdress on its head, woven from gold and red silk threads. It has an exotic style and looks ancient and mysterious.
"Why……?"
The young god opened his eyes wide and felt that the headdress looked particularly familiar.
The whole cat seemed to have been seen somewhere before.
"Lili has seen you!"
Where is it?
The little fairy racked his brains but couldn't come up with anything, so the black cat sighed like a human: "Here's a hint, Forest."
Mianli blinked.
He remembered that when Lulu took him and Cancan to camp last month, it was this little black cat with a special headdress that attracted his attention. Just as he was about to follow it, Cancan stopped him.
They squatted together in the bushes to observe, but Cancan said there was no cat at all.
Sure enough, there are some.
The little fairy is never wrong!
Since they had met before, Mian Li immediately let down his guard, which was inappropriate. "Why are you here?" He thought of something and lowered his voice, "Were you also captured by Sasa?"
"Sasa?" The black cat seemed to have heard some huge joke, "Hahahahahahahaha... Does he know you call him that? Hahahahahaha..."
The little fairy was angry: "What are you doing!"
It’s so easy to call “Sasa”.
The black cat rolled over with laughter and finally stopped laughing. It turned around a few times on the spot. After the black smoke dissipated, the cat disappeared and was replaced by a boy about ten years old.
Her black hair was short, her red and gold headdress remained the same, and her skin was still as dark as chocolate.
He still jumped in front of Mian Li like a cat: "Hey, I'm Miya."
Mian Li was much shorter than him, but his aura was no less impressive: "Meow?"
"It's Mia!" the boy said. "I wasn't captured. I've lived here as long as I can remember. So, you've come to my territory."
"Yours?" Mian Li tilted his head. "Isn't this Sasa's boat?"
The boy burst out laughing again because of the name Sasa: "Pfft... please don't say that name again, my stomach will burst from laughing..."
Mianli frowned.
This boy is so strange.
It was quite embarrassing to be the only one laughing, so Miya coughed several times to calm herself down.
He looked up and down at the fair little girl who looked out of place on the ghost ship. "Hey, you're the Mian Xiaoli my sister mentioned, right?"
"Who is your sister?"
"Ariel." Mia forced herself to pose and stuck out her tongue. "You must have seen her before."
Mianli looked at him and recalled Ariel's appearance.
It seems very similar.
They are all black cats.
Miya said, "I overheard a conversation between my sister and the Lord before. It was said that you are the only hope to rescue us from here."
Ariel had said the same thing, though Mian Li still didn't understand why.
"But you don't look that special." He moved very close, almost touching the tip of the little boy's nose. "Let me smell it. What's so special about you?"
The young god could not be offended like this, so he pushed him away and said righteously: "Li Li is a little god, Li Li cannot eat!"
His seriousness made the young boy laugh.
Miya took a step back, returning to a normal distance. "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Kids are really boring. Hey, let me take you out to play. I'm very familiar with this ship."
I don't feel that I am contradicting myself at all.
Mianli did not feel any threat from him. Since he was here just to explore, he agreed.
The child walked slowly, so Mia had to stop and wait for him after every two steps.
The young boy soon became impatient: "You are so slow, Mian Xiaoli."
The little god now has a new name, following a string of fancy nicknames given by humans.
Mianli pouted: "Cancan and O'Leary will hug me."
He asked, “Why don’t you hold the prayer?”
Who are Cancan and O'Leary?
Miya had never held a baby before. The baby was so soft, she had to be careful not to drop it again.
But he thought of a way.
The boy turned around a few more times and turned into a black animal with a sturdy body that was only about one meter tall.
Mian Li exclaimed, "Wow—what a big cat!"
Miya said angrily: "What cat? Look carefully, I am a black panther!"
Black Panther?
I have never seen the sleeping ceremony.
It's just a big cat.
Miya flicked her tail impatiently: "Come on up, I'll carry you, it's faster this way."
Mianli took the small stool that he had just used to open the door and climbed up with great effort.
He had ridden a bird and a cat, but never a leopard. He felt a little uneasy, afraid of falling, so he put his arms around Mia's neck.
Miya coughed: "Be gentle, don't strangle me to death!"
Mian Li muttered, "Bubu doesn't have it."
Who is Bubu?
Miya sharpened her claws on the ground: "Are you ready? Let's go——"
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