Have you ever seen God?

——Yes.

What is God like?

——I don't know.

Why don't you know what God is like after seeing it?

——It's all an illusion.

Jian Jing clearly realized that she was hallucinating.

On the character panel, the status bar clearly reminded her: [Severe Hallucination]

This was the last moment she remained awake. Immediately afterwards, a strange scene appeared in front of her eyes—the surrounding scenery had all changed. She disappeared from a white cave and appeared in another larger white cave.

This is a cave, but it is also like an extremely huge room. People in it are like hamsters living in human houses. The giant things give ubiquitous pressure.

At the high and distant end of the world, God is there.

Reason told her that it should be just a tree with a strange appearance, but it was too big and looked like the Leshan Giant Buddha, but what she "saw" with her eyes was an extremely real statue of God.

An owl squatted in the palm of the "God" and actually spoke human language: "yes", "come", "you".

The sound was stuck and the order was broken, as if there was a bug in the brain's recognition system and it could not read the information accurately.

Jian Jing was surprised and confused, and she couldn't help but walk over and look up at it.

Qi Tian appeared, and he said, "This is undoubtedly a miracle, right?"

"I don't know," she said, "Does it really exist, or is it what I saw?"

"What you see is reality." He smiled and threw out a very tempting bait, "Since you have the luck to find it, it proves that you are qualified for immortality."

Jian Jing sneered and sobered up a little: "Where in the world is there a free lunch?"

"Matters like immortality have always been a matter of fate." As if he knew she wouldn't believe it, Qi Tian changed the subject and said coldly, "Besides, this is just a benefit that people are willing to believe."

He didn't mind revealing the cruelest part at this moment: "The lifespan of plants is much longer than that of humans. They give us benefits unintentionally, just like humans injecting drugs into mice, which may help them overcome the disease, but it is never a gift of kindness."

"-Gift"

In the scene that seemed real and illusory, the voice was like an echo passing through the mountains and forests, and it seemed to resound directly behind the head, surrounding it 360 degrees.

Jian Jing shook her head, trying to be more sober, but Qi Tian laughed at her: "It's too late."

"Whether you are willing to accept it or not, you are already its prey." He smiled and stretched out his hand, "Come on, become a servant of God."

The world was spinning.

Jian Jing found that she had teleported from her original position to the foot of the tree, like a humble ant, crawling under the tall statue.

However, at the same time, a system notification popped up.

[System: ********]

She didn't see the content clearly, and the message disappeared.

Then, she gained a brief sobriety and took the time to ask: "What will happen after becoming its servant? Will it kill people?"

Qi Tian's eyes flashed with impatience, but he barely held it back. He thought Jian Jing didn't notice, and still pretended to be kind: "Why do you say that?"

"Every ten years, someone dies here." She said, "Who killed them?"

Qi Tian: "Who cares who killed them."

"What does God want servants to do?"

"Don't you think you have too many questions?"

"No," Jian Jing said, "The questions I asked are very reasonable. Since you have already got the life you want, you have never left here, but pretended to be Little Frank. There must be a reason why you have to do this."

She asked: "You, can't leave here?"

Qi Tian's face changed.

"I guessed right."

People like Qi Tian, ​​to put it nicely, are ambitious, to put it bluntly, they are perverted and like to play with human nature. If immortality is really good, would he ask her to eat tree roots?

Impossible.

He would eat it first, and then burn down the forest, keeping the secret to himself forever.

"I don't think you need to recruit me. You haven't been able to leave here for ten years. It must be that God likes your service so much that he doesn't want to let you go." She mocked, "Change people at the last minute, be careful not to anger God and punish you."

Qi Tian's smile disappeared.

He stared at her face and sneered, "Do you think you are very smart?"

Without waiting for her to answer, he added, "To tell you the truth, there is no turning back. Before, the root you ate contained a special substance that can prolong life and treat diseases, but at the same time, it is also highly addictive."

Jian Jing was horrified.

"Any creature that has eaten this substance, whether it is a human or an animal, will form a symbiotic relationship with it. It is a tree and cannot move to hunt, so the symbiont needs to constantly look for food and bring it to its side to facilitate its hunting. In return, the symbiont can absorb nutrients from the roots."

Qi Tian said, "Don't be so anxious. I said it is an elixir of immortality, and it is not an exaggeration at all. Did you see old Frank? He was already dead."

Jian Jing was stunned: "Dead?"

"The father and son wanted to stop me, but I killed them." Qi Tian said calmly, not caring about human life at all. "Little Frank died on the spot, but old Frank was still alive. After I found this giant tree, I fed him first, and I didn't expect his injury to improve immediately - he was almost shot through the heart by me, but he was still fine... haha."

His laughter was mixed with a kind of subtle enthusiasm, which was chilling.

"It's a pity that once you take the medicine, it's impossible to quit, otherwise you will be like old Frank, crazy and insane."

Qi Tian sighed, his tone full of unwillingness. He spent most of his life and finally realized his wish of immortality, but the price of freedom was too tragic.

What is the meaning of a long life if it cannot be squandered, and cannot be supplemented with power and money?

Fortunately, he has found a way.

"If you don't want to lose your mind, you'd better listen to my advice. Time is running out." Qi Tian stared at her, not missing any subtle expressions, "You should feel it, it's calling you."

However, Jian Jing felt a little dizzy and did not feel any calling. She turned on "borrowed vision" and switched to Qi Tian's perspective.

In his eyes, the roots of the statue were not only majestic and weird, but also completely "alive".

The owl stared at her, and his vision turned into hearing.

Jian Jing heard its voice.

"Step up on the road, I who believe in it"

"A new journey begins, how about the first time"

Distant, hazy, empty, and majestic.

She saw Qi Tian took a step forward uncontrollably, but he tried his best to hold back.

Jian Jing smiled: "You must want to get rid of it, right?"

He gave her a cold glance.

"Me too," she said. "I fell for your trick just now. I was careless, but neither you nor I want to be trapped in this foreign country for the rest of our lives."

"What do you want to say?"

Jian Jing asked, "How about you and I join forces to destroy it?"

Tonight's night seems to be particularly long.

Jiang Baiyan looked at his watch. It was already four o'clock in the morning, but the sky was still dark, with no sign of lighting up at all.

He put Old Frank's letter and badge in his pocket and unfolded the map. The content was very abstract, with only a simple direction. Looking at the destination marked, it seemed to be a place called the White Cave.

Is this where the devil is?

Did Jing Jing go there?

Creak, there seemed to be a slight sound of wood shaking outside the door. Is

Old William back? Oh no!

The sound was so close, it was too late to hide now. Jiang Baiyan thought quickly and simply lay down on the ground, clasped his hands on his abdomen, pretending to be asleep.

The next second, the wooden door was suddenly pushed open.

Old William, wrapped in the cold air, strode into the room.

He saw Jiang Baiyan sleeping soundly on the bed and was slightly stunned. Obviously, this scene was beyond his imagination, but he didn't care and roughly lifted him up from the bed. Jiang

Baiyan endured the pain and continued to pretend to sleep, falling softly to one side.

"Wake up." Old William slapped his face.

He still didn't move.

Old William frowned, but didn't call him again. Instead, he tied his hands and feet with a hemp rope and carried him on his shoulders like a sack.

Jiang Baiyan relaxed his body and continued to pretend to be dizzy.

Old William carried him downstairs, threw him into a truck, then sat in the driver's seat and rushed into the forest.

"Don't pretend." Old William said, "I know you are awake."

Jiang Baiyan: No, I fell asleep.

Old William said to himself: "I thought the old man had gone crazy, but it seems that he is not really crazy yet. Your companions must have run away. Fortunately, you are still here..."

Jiang Baiyan thought, the old man, is he talking about old Frank? He doesn't look like he is not crazy.

But according to the letter, the Frank family should be the righteous camp that suppresses the devil. Why has it become like this?

"We must hurry... What's the smell... Damn, what did they transport in this car?"

Jiang Baiyan: Of course it's sheep.

The Frank family raises sheep, have you forgotten?

As he complained, his heart suddenly moved.

At this time, old William probably also remembered the Frank family's work and silently stepped on the accelerator.

The truck was driving madly on the small road in the forest. Old William didn't even turn on the headlights, but he didn't drive wrong at all. It was just that the ground was bumpy and the speed was fast, which made Jiang Baiyan almost vomit his midnight snack.

Just when he was about to "wake up", the car suddenly lost control and the steering wheel loosened. The front of the car crashed straight into the woods, without deviation, and hit a tree with a bang.

Frightened birds flew in a mess, and the headlights exploded.

The truck stopped.

Jiang Baiyan raised his head and looked at the driver's seat.

Old William was lying on the steering wheel, with a bruise on his forehead, but he was still awake, his eyes blinking unconsciously: "What did you do?"

Jiang Baiyan spat out the film under his tongue and opened the car door.

The smell in the car dissipated a little.

He smiled and said, "It's a gift from someone else."

"Gift--" Old William repeated slowly.

Jiang Baiyan clapped his hands to attract his attention, and said slowly and solemnly: "Relax, take a deep breath, don't worry, I won't do anything to you, I just want to ask you a few questions - where do you want to take me?"

Old William rolled his eyes slowly and answered mechanically: "Giant - go to the giant -"

"Why take me there?"

"Its... order..."

Jiang Baiyan raised his head and looked at the dark east, and suddenly asked: "How did Kelly die?"

"Kelly - Kelly, it's my fault." The light in Old William's eyes disappeared, and his consciousness sank into many years ago, "We had a quarrel, and I asked her to help me get some goods. She didn't want to, but the police were targeting me, and I told her that if she loved me, she must do me this favor... She agreed."

Jiang Baiyan seemed to understand: "In the forest?"

"This is the border. It's the safest," he said. "And then she disappeared, and I don't know—I don't know where she went—she hated the woods—"