Yu Luo was happily counting her faith points. After the shock of Lin Anniang turning those tree roots into dumplings and noodles yesterday, her faith points were increasing even faster, already jumping to over four thousand.
Of those four thousand faith points, Lin Anniang contributed three hundred, and Lin Lu contributed two hundred.
As expected of the villains in the novel, normal believers would only have a hundred or two hundred faith points at most, but Lin Anniang and Lin Lu contributed five hundred, and that was only yesterday's faith points, not counting the previous ones.
At this rate, she'll soon accumulate 10,000 faith points!
Just as she was about to order another roast chicken to celebrate, a message suddenly popped up on the system panel.
[Ding! Your intermediate-level follower, Lin Anniang, has prepared jujube cakes and wild vegetable dumplings overnight and is on her way to the county town.]
[Ding! Your intermediate-level follower has stopped in Dahe Village. She has discovered several false god followers. Do you wish to use your gaze?]
Yu Luo glanced at it and instantly activated the panoramic map.
The scene around her changed, and she discovered that Lin Anniang was squatting on the roof, holding up a tile and peeking down.
It was dark below, but Lin Anniang, who had been blessed, had much better vision than before. She could clearly see that the family was sleeping soundly, except for the newborn on the bed who was staring straight at the ceiling.
Lin Anniang's heart skipped a beat. She gently put down the tile, quickly tiptoed out of the courtyard, and went to inquire about it further.
She heard a child crying in the neighboring yard, and the husband was getting up in a fit of rage.
"What good is this wretched little girl you gave birth to? She cries all the time. The neighbor next door had a big, healthy boy who has never cried since birth. He's so well-behaved!"
"You say my daughter deserves to die, then why don't you join the old women in the village in begging for your son's life? Aren't you just scared? What child doesn't cry?"
Although the two people next door were arguing, they deliberately kept their voices down.
After hearing this, Lin Anniang became even more certain that this matter was very strange. She jumped up a tree and whispered.
“Mountain Goddess, the children born to these people are all abnormal. Granny Ma’s family is still the same as before. I’ll go to the county town to take a look.”
Upon discovering this, Lin Anniang felt heavy-hearted.
The woman next door is absolutely right. What child doesn't cry from birth? And those staring eyes, are they really a child's eyes? Why don't the villagers in Dahe Village who are praying for children sense something is wrong?
Lin Anniang gently held the wooden carving of the Mountain Goddess in her arms and exhaled.
She picked up the food and hurried towards the county town.
Inside the mountain god temple, Yu Luo also saw the child's eyes. The eyes were large and round, a deep, dark black, devoid of any emotion; they were not a child's eyes at all.
She exposed the system.
"Those sons who were born through prayer, weren't they real children?"
"I feel like they have no soul."
Most importantly, in that brief glance, she saw that the child's eyes were filled with a dark mist, much thicker than the old woman's beside him.
This familiar aura is no different from that of the false god, and it is unlike any of the false god's followers.
"These children are all avatars of a false god. He injects his power into those pregnant women, forcibly changing their gender. But at the same time, those pregnant women cannot withstand this power and will all die suddenly, right?"
This is the reason why so many pregnant women don't survive after giving birth.
Those who finally manage to have sons and grandsons are not their true flesh and blood, not their blood relatives, but merely an incarnation of a false god.
In the end, it is always the women who suffer, carrying their children for ten months and exchanging their lives for them, only to have them become the bride of false gods.
Lin Anniang had just secretly squatted on the roof tile without the child noticing. Yu Luo guessed that the false god might also need to "watch" this side in order to know the situation here, just like himself.
“Didn’t you already see it all? Those children were indeed incarnations of a false god, and they were already dead when their mothers were pushed into those courtyards.”
“Those mothers who gave their lives to give birth to sons, and their children, are the price that false gods pay.”
"So he's just a low-level false god, all he does is greed and doesn't know how to restrain himself."
The national advisor of that neighboring country at least took a part of the body, but this low-level false god took two lives directly.
"Actually, these low-level false gods are easy to spot. Anyone with eyes can see how strange these children are."
"Why did they have to rush over even though they already realized something was wrong, trying so hard to beg their son or grandson?"
"If you want to deal with this false god, have Lin Anniang find the courtyard where the false god is located, smash the shrine directly, extract his power, and you can completely eliminate him."
“It’s useless to extract power from those children. As long as the false god’s main body is not destroyed, he can continuously transfer his power to them through those believers.”
"If this low-level false god upgrades, he may even be able to descend upon these children in the future to attract more believers for himself."
At that time, the victims were not just people from one village, but perhaps millions of people.
There's no way around it; there will always be many people who willingly provide sustenance for false gods.
Unless these people stop focusing solely on their sons and grandsons and treat each of their children fairly, but is that even possible?
Such is the nature of human nature, and those false gods exploit the loopholes in it.
"We can't let this false god continue to grow; we must deal with it as soon as possible!" Yu Luo's expression was sharp.
She glanced down at the system notification; Lin Anniang had already arrived in the county town with her goods and was selling jujube cakes and wild vegetable boxes.
The system's prompts were very user-friendly; it even indicated how many pieces of jujube cake were left.
Yu Luo felt that in no time, the sour jujube cakes were almost sold out, and there were still some wild vegetable boxes left.
This jujube cake looks delicious; it's selling so fast.
I wonder when I'll finally catch a fake god who tastes like sour jujube cake.
Yu Luo sighed inwardly. Just as she was about to close the panel, she suddenly saw a familiar mark getting closer and closer.
This mark belongs to Granny Ma from Dahe Village. This guy actually came to the county town.
She quickly sent a telepathic message, instructing Lin Anniang to carry the items closer to the old woman.
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