Chapter 40: Forced to do something
It really came to my door.
What I saw early in the morning was that half of the students in the entire camp had lost their mouths in the sandstorm of the Taklamakan Desert.
I was silent, shocked, and looked at the confused Villar.
We are both confused now.
World, I am your uncle.
Isn't it not possible to leave that range???
Everyone's expression was very panicked, but the remaining people did not make a sound. Xia Hafu should have woken up long ago, and he should have quickly calmed the crowd.
Seeing Villar and I coming out, Teacher Wu waved to us urgently, and his mouth was gone.
Veraer and I also once again clearly realized what it was like to be without a mouth.
It's not that the mouth can't open or make any sound as we think, but that this organ has disappeared from the face.
Extremely weird and extremely scary.
[Side quest: Silent Shadow is in progress.]
A cold and hard voice sounded in my mind, as if mocking me.
A little angry.
Now it is impossible for Veral and I to run away, and we can't even wait for the association to send someone. If we don't expel or arrest [Him], these people will not recover.
Fear will surround them, and perhaps even more people will violate this taboo.
They couldn't eat, cry or shout.
So this is the Silent Shadow...
Viral and I went back to the room.
Are you angry?
Viral asked and I nodded.
Why are you angry?
I wanted to speak, but then I took out my phone just in case. Who knows if the conditions that trigger the taboo have changed.
-I hate being led by the nose.
-It's still something that is hated.
I said it very bluntly, and I don't care whether Villar understands it or not, I just want to say it.
【Me too. 】
He said so.
We are brothers, we are half bodies. There are many things I cannot understand, but you can.
So you just need to tell me, what can I do?
He said it calmly, as if it was a matter of course.
He really made me cry to death and he didn't even ask why.
I suddenly don't want to be angry anymore.
-Do you want to become a god?
I asked him.
Not really.
-What kind of life do you want to live?
【A quieter life, huh? 】
These past few months have been the happiest I’ve ever lived.
-I see.
I see.
Villar longs for ordinariness and peace because he has never had an ordinary and peaceful life, and I have lived an ordinary and peaceful life for eighteen years.
Our lives should always be the same.
I can't quite remember what I was like at the beginning, but now I suddenly understand Villar.
If Villar doesn't want to be this god, then forget it. The orthodox saying is that it doesn't matter if the world explodes.
I still have some affection for the people in this world.
Mom, Villar, classmates, investigators, there are still many lovely people in this world. It would be a pity if they exploded along with the world.
I took out the notebook from my bag and started drawing on it.
-Can you take me here later?
I drew a giant hunk of meat and some tentacles, then circled one of the spots and looked towards Verral.
He nodded.
-If I lose consciousness, remember to take me away.
He continued to nod.
I thought about it, called out the Book of Omniscience, and knocked on the cover.
Then the pages of the book turned, and a pair of boxing gloves emerged from it, in black and white.
In the last world, I wasn't very good at using cold weapons, my fists were more useful. I don't know if it's my illusion, but after putting on these boxing gloves, I feel like my muscles have become stronger.
Villar followed me without taking anything. His arms were strong enough, but he still took a fruit knife as a token of his respect.
I forced myself not to think about him fighting with a fruit knife, for fear that I would accidentally laugh out loud.
I don’t know how it happened, but the village that was at least three or four kilometers away from us last night appeared just a hundred meters away from our camp.
I looked around and saw that all the villagers were fast asleep. I didn't know if it was His work. They were still alive but no different from being dead. Judging from the energy fluctuations, they were all linked together. The village was like a whole. After He woke up, He spared no one.
All became His nourishment.
When Viral and I went out, the other students had already returned to their rooms. Only Shahafu saw us. When he saw our expressions, he paused and said nothing.
I think he didn't ask what happened last night because he probably guessed something. It's a rare talent for him to remain rational after facing such an evil god.
Would it be appropriate if I played a background music for myself now? The desert, the wind and sand, the village shrouded in shadows, and two lone heroes armed with weapons ready to kill the gods.
...When I play music, will my phone's player be affected by the silence rule and mess up the music?
I almost made myself laugh.
As we approached the village, the surrounding scene suddenly changed. Day turned into night, and a red moon hung in the sky above the village. The houses seemed to come alive, and the air around them began to flicker. We could vaguely see swaying tentacles and wriggling pieces of flesh.
Verar's eyes had lost their mimicry, and the gold in the starry sky became more intense. He knew that he couldn't look directly at it for too long, so he looked at the ground, feeling the fluctuations in the air.
When we completely stepped into His domain, countless tentacles attacked us. In just a moment, Veral stood in front of me and smashed these tentacles into pieces of meat. The Book of Omniscience floated beside it, blocking the tentacles that Veral could not block.
Then Villar picked me up and rushed to the place I had circled on the notebook.
Fortunately, His IQ is not very high. In order to devour us, He watched us walk in and did not stop us.
I will be swallowed by Him first——
I stuffed the "Book of Omniscience" into Villar's hands, and then punched the "Book of Omniscience". The impact force almost made Villar retreat to the outermost edge.
Then I was swallowed by His mouth.
Damn, His mucus stinks. Does He never brush His teeth?!
Don’t you evil gods care about hygiene?
By the time I slid into His body, my clothes were tattered and almost gone, and the mucus was corroding my body. The pain was so severe that I was numb. To be honest, I never knew my pain threshold was so high. If an ordinary person had come here, they would have been digested.
Maybe it's the adrenaline that's making me so excited.
Then I heard the sound of two hearts beating.
One is mine, and the other is His.
My hand has been completely corroded, but my bones are still there and can even move. It feels quite magical - probably thanks to the gloves.
My eyes still work, my heart still beats, and my brain still functions.
The human part of me is almost dissolved.
The parts belonging to the gods are all there.
Good news, my family, my nose is gone and we can no longer smell any bad odors.
My legs are gone, and I am now crawling forward using my hands. The energy I saw is right in front of me and will be there soon.
That is His heart, in the shape of a mouth.
I opened my right eye. Before coming in, I had been thinking about what else my right eye could do besides seeing through the essence. God can’t be that useless, right?
Then I thought of what He looked like in the dreamland.
——If [He] can vibrate space, then so can I.
I looked at the strange heart.
Vibrate it.
Shatter it.
Let it collapse.
My right eye glowed red in my skull.
The heart began to tremble, began to disintegrate, and then the core in the middle was exposed.
To be honest, the whole space was shaking, and [He] seemed to be calling, but I have no ears now, so I can’t hear anything, hehe.
Countless tentacles gathered inside my body, trying to stop my movements, but once they entered a certain range, they would all shatter into pieces.
The huge heart shattered layer by layer until only a fist-sized core remained.
I crawled over slowly. Without my lower body, I crawled quite fast.
My brain blocked out the pain and I didn’t even feel the pain anymore.
I held the core in my bony hand and pressed it against the beating golden heart in the center of my chest.
I seemed to feel Him struggling, but it was no use, He had already been caught by me.
The golden thread on the heart embraced Him and devoured Him forcefully. A feeling that didn't feel like pain emerged, and then it broke two of my ribs.
I'm worried, maybe I have osteoporosis? I think I should drink more milk when I get home.
Then He disappeared.
My heart returned to its original position, golden threads began to spread, repairing my body, and then suddenly I felt a bright light before my eyes.
A hole was torn in the meat from above, and light shone through.
It's daytime.
"Ji Yu——"
I saw Veral standing there, calling my name, but I couldn't hear it because his ears hadn't grown yet.
In just a moment he jumped in front of me and tried to hug me, but he couldn't get his hands on me after reaching out several times.
Maybe I look too miserable now.
No one else would think that I am trying to survive. Otherwise, how can this be called an evil god's story? How can a mere skeleton be alive?
"Take me to a deserted place." I grabbed his hand with my handbone and hung my upper body directly on him. "I'll sleep for a while and wait for the rest of my body to grow back."
Then I closed my eyes.
I really don't have the energy to look at his flustered expression.
I lost a lot of blood and used strength that was not meant for a human being, so it makes sense for me to get some sleep.
I had no idea how much psychological trauma I had brought to Villar.
…
When Villar found that all the attacks had stopped, he knew that Ji Yu had succeeded.
The black mountain of flesh became silent after making a sound that shook the soul.
He died.
Villar didn't dare to waste a moment and went to find Ji Yu. The fruit knife he brought came in handy. He cut the skin at the position Ji Yu said and dug down.
Then when they finally dug out the cavity, all they saw was Ji Yu's skeleton, which was only left above his ribs.
At that moment, Villar felt that the world stopped.
Until the skeleton looked at him.
The red nerve of the right eye spreads across two-thirds of the skull, the black left eye occupies the remaining one-third, a golden heart lies within the few remaining ribs, and the bones of both hands are one black and one white.
Anyone who sees this scene will be shocked, but for Villar, it means that Ji Yu is still alive.
"￥%&#*No one%..." The clattering sound of bones made Villar decipher Ji Yu's words for a long time, and then Ji Yu hung herself on him.
He was a little overwhelmed, until he saw the gold spreading from the golden heart growing bones and flesh, then Verar breathed a sigh of relief.
Ji Yu stopped talking, probably because he was asleep. It was hard to tell without eyelids.
He carefully picked up the skeleton, making sure not to press on anything that shouldn't be pressed, and walked outside.
Let’s go find a place where there is no one, that’s what my brother said.
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