Rolling Stone Town is a very closed town. The main body of the town is composed of the mayor, the priests of the temple and ordinary residents.
The social structure is very simple, with mayors and priests ruling this remote place, which seems to have never changed in decades.
A young man named Asai stood in front of the shrine, looking up at the beautiful stained glass windows and the flawless white and sacred statues inside.
There was a longing expression on his face.
He imagined himself wearing a priest's robe and praying to God under the envious eyes of everyone.
He raised his hands, and everyone followed him in chanting the Ledriki Pledge.
"God said..."
The picture in his mind even imagined that the statue came to life, and the great Yinsai stretched out his hand to him.
"Asai!"
"Welcome to my palace."
Asai always felt that he was out of tune with this small town. He felt that he was special and unique, although his mother always said that he was dreaming.
But if a person can't even dream, then his life will be so dark.
In this small town, the only place that made him feel that he should belong to him was the gorgeous building in front of him.
shrine.
The residence of the high priest is also the place where people in the town pray to the gods.
There is a reason why Asai had this sweet dream.
Because the doctor in the town told Asai that he might have the talent to become a priest.
"You may have the talent to become a priest. Maybe you can try to go to the temple and ask the priest to perform a power awakening ceremony for you."
"Asai!"
"Maybe you can become a big shot?"
Asai left the shrine in Rolling Stone Town and walked towards the alley, where a group of children from the town were playing.
As soon as Asai came over, the children immediately looked towards him.
"Look! Isn't this Asai working for free?" One look showed that these children were not going to deal with Asai.
"Who is this?" A child walked up to Asai with an exaggerated expression.
"Big shot Asai?" Asai has always said recently that he will become a big shot in the future, so the children gave him a nickname.
"Asai Asai! Why haven't you become a priest yet?"
Asai looked at these stupid kids in the town with disdain. He didn't want to be with these people who could see through their future life at a glance and were destined to be mediocre for the rest of their lives.
Of course, these children have always excluded Asai.
Because Asai has no father, and also because Asai has a somewhat cowardly mother.
Asai usually avoids this place, but today he deliberately walked here.
Because Asai wants to show off to them.
When he was running errands for the temple today, he got a promise from the priest, saying that he could perform the power awakening ceremony for Asai within a period of time.
This was what he gained from working for free in the temple for half a year and constantly trying to please the priest.
He has no money, and even if he sells himself, he cannot raise the money for a power awakening ceremony.
Although I heard that some people can awaken their talents without going through rituals, they always say that they are different from others, and they don't really believe that they are the legendary geniuses.
The only chance is to be respected by the priests in the shrine, which is why he always goes to the shrine to do volunteer work.
"The doctor said that I have a unique talent."
"And the priest also said that he will perform a ceremony for me after a while. What does this mean?"
"I really have the talent to be a priest."
For the first time in his life, Asai felt that he was looking forward to something so much. He was so happy that he couldn't help but look a little exaggerated.
"Who are the people who can become priests? They are the bloodline of the First King Lederiki."
"I have Ledlicky's divine blood flowing through me."
"I am God's chosen one."
The children were envious, jealous, and looked at Asai in disbelief.
One of the children who had always been at odds with Asai even yelled: "You are just a bastard, how can you have the blood of the King of Wisdom."
Asai saw the other party yelling and swearing. This was not the first time he heard such words.
But he knows.
The other party must be very angry and scared to death at this time.
This was more satisfying than him punching the opponent.
Asai proudly told all the children: "I will become a big shot in the future. I am different from you."
Then, he left without looking back.
The children looked at Asai's back and became very angry.
"That crappy doctor must have made a mistake."
"How can the priest perform rituals on such a person?"
Some children were a little worried and scared: "It's better not to offend him, maybe he really became a priest?"
The child's eyes turned red after hearing this: "Just him?"
Asai's home is on the edge of the town, a shaky-looking mud house with a shed on top and a tarpaulin covering it.
Water always leaks on rainy days, so I saw that the ground in the house was full of potholes and there were many old clay pots placed in the corners.
It is used to collect water on rainy days.
Asai saw his mother busy washing clothes outside the house: "I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"
Mother turned around and took a look: "Is there no food in the shrine today? The priest is too stingy."
Asai said nothing, as he agreed with the priest's stinginess.
Mother took out a few leftover paste lumps and placed them in front of Asai.
Asai immediately started gobbling it up.
Asai, who talks about becoming a big shot, can't even have a full meal on weekdays.
The underground river area is rich in fish, but the taste of fish meat is not found in Asai's house all year round, and even the paste and oil noodles are of the lowest quality.
The priest of the temple once established a workshop in the town, and the ointment in the town was even sold to other towns and even cities. Asai's mother used to be a female worker in the workshop.
However, due to poor management over the years, the number of employees has gradually decreased. Cheaper and better-tasting products from other workshops have occupied the market here, and Asai's mother has lost her job.
Currently, my mother is doing some temporary work at the mayor's house, and sometimes she doesn't even get paid, she just gets some food.
The lives of the two people are very tight, and they can only barely survive.
"Eat less, and when you're full, go out and fight and cause trouble."
Asai ate the food: "I haven't caused any trouble recently, I'm doing business."
My mother muttered dissatisfiedly: "You don't need money to work for me, and you still say it's business."
Asai immediately told his mother the good news: "The priest promised me today that he will perform an awakening ceremony for me, and if successful, he will accept me as an apprentice."
"My hard work in the past six months has not been in vain, and my efforts have definitely paid off."
"You only see one salary per day, what I see is the future."
"It is precisely because of my hard work that the priest is willing to accept me as an apprentice. He knows that after becoming an apprentice, I can help him do more things and bring him greater benefits."
"This is wisdom."
Asai's mother didn't speak, as if she didn't hear her.
But he took out a small bag from the back room and placed it in front of Asai.
"Buy some gifts and donate them to the shrine tomorrow."
"Although it is not worth mentioning to the priest, it is necessary."
Asai didn't accept it, just looked at the money bag on the table.
"Isn't this your treasure bag?"
"It's said to be the money for packing the box to prevent accidents. Why are you willing to take it out?"
Asai's mother is a very insecure person and always keeps some money aside to prevent unexpected situations.
When I was hungry, my mother was not willing to use this money.
Asai usually would get a fierce look from his mother even if he took a peek at this "treasure bag".
At this time, my mother said calmly: "Didn't you say you wanted to be a big shot? Are you afraid of not having money in the future?"
Asai was silent for a while, and then continued to eat.
While eating, he muttered: "I will let you live a good life, live like a big shot."
"Let's move out of this place together and go to a big city."
"Go to Anhuo City."
"We will no longer work for others, but let others do the work for us from now on."
My mother is a timid person who is afraid of causing trouble, completely different from Asai.
"It's better to be low-key as a person, don't talk too much, don't say anything good to others, and don't conflict with others."
"Even if you become more powerful in the future, try not to cause trouble."
"There is always someone more powerful than you in this world."
My mother kept talking endlessly.
She was always worried about this, that, and that.
Even if she was bullied, she would only dare to go home and scold the other person secretly. Asai was used to it.
Asai only listened to the first few sentences, and the rest did not enter his mind at all.
Asai muttered: "Then I will become more powerful than everyone else."
The mother stopped and said nothing. It was difficult for her, from a humble background, to understand Asai's self-confidence, which could even be called arrogance.
"You kid, if you don't obey me, you will suffer a lot in the future."
Rolling Stone Temple.
After donating money and thinking of ways to please the old priest for a while, Asai finally came to the day he had been waiting for, when the old priest was going to perform a power ceremony on him.
The old priest in a burqa looked at Asai with a stern and harsh look, as if he wanted to take advantage of you.
"coming?"
"Have you taken a bath? Have you sung the vows?"
Asai, who deliberately put on a pair of clean clothes, immediately replied cautiously: "I'm taking a shower."
"In order to express my devotion to God, I didn't eat for a whole day. I have been silently reciting the Ledlicki Oath from last night to now."
The old priest nodded: "Then go inside and get ready!"
Several employees in the shrine looked at Asai with envy, and the look in their eyes made Asai feel great.
He walked towards the door inside, his mood becoming more and more excited.
His tendency to fantasize and dream appeared again.
He felt as if there was a divine light shining on him, and the ordinary door seemed to be blooming with golden light.
Asai raised his chest and raised his head, and walked inside step by step.
He felt that as long as he stepped through this door, his life would become completely different.
The illusory light shone on him, gradually dyeing his world into magnificent colors. He even heard the songs of goblins, and those beautiful creatures that were said to exist in the Kingdom of God were cheering for him.
On one side of the shrine, there is a room behind a mirror.
Several people looked at Asai who was undergoing the awakening ceremony, and everyone was cautious.
Because big figures like Xiao, the chief priest of the Divine Contract of the Ghost Religion, also rushed to this insignificant town at this moment, just to watch Asai's power awaken.
The old priest recited the incantation silently, and his consciousness began to resonate.
A special kind of magic worked on Asai's body.
He pulled out the mythical blood in Asai's body and the power hidden deep in the blood.
Suddenly, an extremely powerful psychic power exploded.
It feels like a dam is opening to release water.
"Field."
"offset."
Xiao immediately released his power, and a spiritual stance directly enveloped the temple to offset the sudden burst of power.
If Xiao hadn't been prepared, the moment his power exploded, he would have involved the entire town of Rolling Stone.
Everyone's consciousness has been severely damaged by this powerful spiritual power. I don't know how many people will directly become fools.
Several believers who didn't understand the details were also frightened. They couldn't believe that a child could have such a powerful power.
"grown ups."
"Who is this kid?"
"His natural psychic ability is so powerful that we can no longer suppress it. It is estimated that he will break through the shackles we set up and awaken naturally in a few days."
Shaw simply said: "He was a man rejected by God."
Dramatic changes are taking place in Asai's body, and the blood of myths scattered everywhere is being pulled together, inducing changes in the soul.
but.
These forces do not converge into the brain and consciousness as usual and turn into powerful spiritual thinking forces.
And a brain tumor split in Asai's brain, draining all the power that originally belonged to Asai, and it was attached to his body but out of his control.
There was not much surprise on Xiao's face beside him, he had already expected it.
Or.
This situation was originally arranged by them.
Xiao showed a look of understanding and then took out his pen.
A sentence was written vertically on the scroll in his hand: "The second step of the experiment on the road to wisdom was successful, and the target Asai successfully awakened his power."
"When the brain and body are fully developed, the power of wisdom and power will return exactly as predicted."
On the other side, Asai also woke up from severe pain.
He felt as if a stone had been inserted into his head, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't help but scream.
"ah!"
Asai stretched out his hand to hold his head, but found something was not right.
He stretched out a hand and waved it in front of his eyes. He could see it, but this perspective was completely different from usual.
"What's wrong with me?"
He tried again and found that he was blind in one eye.
Asai looked at the priest blankly.
The priest told him that awakening had not been successful because his brain was born with a malformation.
He has no way to become a priest, and he will not even be qualified to be an ordinary person in the future.
"how so?"
"How could it fail? Will awakening still fail?"
This statement was completely unacceptable to Asai. He never thought that he would fail. He seemed to feel that his success was destined.
"There must be something wrong somewhere...how could this happen?"
"There must be a mistake."
"There must be a mistake somewhere."
Before Asai walked through this door, he thought he was stepping into the future and into the palace of the Kingdom of God.
But he didn't expect that he would step into purgatory.
The priest of the shrine looked a little ugly and snorted coldly.
"Are you questioning me?"
"It's not that I made a mistake, and there's nothing wrong with it."
The priest looked at Asai with cold eyes: "It's your own fault. You don't have that talent."
The priest turned around and opened the door.
"Only those favored by God can become priests and have the power given by God."
"Some people... don't have that fate!"
Asai wanted to say something to the priest, but he clenched his fists and couldn't say a word.
Asai's mother ran out from outside at this time. She heard the quarrel outside the door and already knew what happened.
She was a timid and insecure woman. She didn't even have the courage to look up at the priest, and she was even more afraid that her child would be hurt because she contradicted the priest.
after all.
With just a little malice, these high-ranking big shots can push them into the abyss and take away everything from them, even their lives.
She could only hold her child tightly and keep talking.
"Forget it……"
"Asai!"
"Let's go home."
"Let's go home."
After walking down, Asai realized that one of his legs seemed to be out of control. When he lifted it, he felt that he couldn't use any strength at all.
This made him even walk with a limp.
Not only did he lose his eyes, he also lost his ability to run.
Outside the shrine, the bad boys in the town also heard the news and came over, just in time to see Asai walking out of the shrine.
Seeing the ugly way Asai walked, they burst into laughter.
The child's head was bent forward and back with laughter, he was so happy.
"Asai!"
"Didn't you say that you are different from us? Hahahaha...it is indeed different...different!"
He smiled as if he was about to die, not hiding his malice toward Asai at all.
Other children also shouted: "It's different!"
"no the same!"
Some people even imitated Asai's walking style, which was exaggerated and accompanied by twitching movements.
Asai glanced at the other party. Normally, he would step forward to fight with them, or proudly hold his head high and look at them with contempt in his eyes.
But this time, he didn't say a word.
Instead, the mother who had always been submissive in the past suddenly burst out with a scream and roared at the children.
"Get out of here!"
"You all get out of here."
The children were not afraid and just dispersed.
Asai pulled on his mother's clothes and shook his head.
"never mind."
"Let's go back!"——
Asai limped to help his mother carry water. Her mother's work has been a bit heavy recently, and she seemed to want to make more money. She would take home some of the endless work at the mayor's house to do.
Mending clothes, starching clothes, etc.
She suddenly stopped and talked to Asai about something seriously.
"I asked the mayor's housekeeper to find you a job."
"The mayor's warehouse needs someone to keep vigil at night, please go and help!"
“Although I don’t have much money, I’m not tired either.”
This was a new job that his mother had found for him. Asai said nothing.
After Asai came back from the shrine, he became taciturn. He no longer showed all his emotions on his face and said everything out loud like before.
My mother thought that Asai was unwilling to go, and it was normal for him to look down on this kind of work given his personality.
"Don't think about so many things, you don't have that life!"
"Live well!"
The mother repeated again: "Live well!"
This seems to be her view on life and her expectations for Asai.
Live well.
That's enough.
There were footsteps outside, and the doctor from the town came.
In Asai's eyes, the doctor is a good person and a trustworthy person.
He had a good reputation in the town. He had treated Asai's mother and him, but he had never received money from Asai or his mother for medical treatment.
The doctor checked Asai's body and finally said.
"There's nothing wrong with your eyes and legs, but there's something wrong with your head."
"This is a problem that current medical techniques cannot solve. After all, the human head is still too mysterious."
Asai remembered the priest's words: "Your brain was born with a malformation and you were born with a disease."
Asai suddenly believed this.
In this era, if there is a problem in the head, there is no solution.
The doctor looked at the silent Asai and patted his shoulder.
"Although there is some inconvenience, it should not be fatal."
"You can walk and you can see. It shouldn't be difficult to live a normal life and find a living."
This kind of comfort doesn't seem to be a comfort at all.
The doctor also felt that it was too depressing to say this: "Don't be so depressed. Even if you can't become a priest, there are still many ways to success in this world."
"There are many people in this world who, as ordinary people, have accomplished things that even the most powerful priests cannot do."
Asai said in a low voice: "That's just a story."
But the doctor said: "Then let me tell you a real incident, a real story that belongs to ordinary people."
Then the doctor smiled and told a story widely circulated among doctors about the divine hand Lester.
The doctor told Lester's ordinary origins and Lester's ideals.
"Lester used his perseverance to learn the medical skills of the witch doctor, compiled the first systematic medical book, and promoted his knowledge to the entire Hinsey."
"When the plague came, it was he who stood up."
"When people fell into despair, it was he who saved the entire city."
"Eventually, a statue was erected in his honor."
"Call him the Holy Hand."
The doctor took a long time to finish telling the story. Although Asai didn't say a word, you could feel that he was listening carefully.
"Have you seen."
"Even if you don't become a priest, you can still become a respected figure and a hero praised by thousands of people."
Asai suddenly said: "I actually thought about it. If I can't become a big shot like a priest, it would be good to become a peace officer."
"Find and capture criminals and punish those who are greedy and evil."
"It's both majestic and..."
At this point, there was a pause.
Asai's eyes showed a slight fluctuation: "Like a hero."
After Asai finished speaking, he looked at his legs: "What a pity."
"I guess no one will like such a hero."
The doctor shook his head: "A hero does not look at his appearance, but his behavior."
"The greater the pain and suffering, the more perseverance and perseverance can be cultivated, and the more powerful it can be."
"Isn't that what those epic stories are like?"
"Stories that can achieve success casually are the most third-rate stories."
The doctor patted Asai's shoulder seriously: "I think it's good. What the sheriff needs to catch criminals is a smart brain."
"Asai, you are so smart, maybe you can really do it."
Asai laughed, but not brightly.
The doctor checked Asai's mother again, and then sighed.
"It's still the same, you're too tired."
"You can take a break when appropriate. Don't take on those heavy jobs again. Your health is too bad. If you can't do it, don't force it."
"You must abide by my words. If you continue like this, you will really fall ill. Then you will be in real trouble."
Mother nodded: "Yeah, I know."
She said so, but she never did it.
It doesn't take much to think about how difficult it is for a poor woman from the bottom to survive alone with her children. There is never such a thing as a relaxing break.
Just a few words of "live a good life" are enough for many people to use up all their energy.
"Asai!"
The doctor turned to look at Asai and called his name.
"You have grown up and should share the burden for your mother."
Asai said: "Okay."
The doctor stood up, left a few packets of medicinal powder that some temples had begun to produce in recent years, and then left the house.
As usual, he never asked for money.
Asai limped the doctor out of the house, and then bowed to his back.
Asai obeyed his mother's wishes and went to work in the mayor's warehouse.
This job is to guard the warehouse late at night to prevent thieves from stealing things or starting fires, because there are many candles, lamp oil and flammable materials in the warehouse.
Although the salary is not much, it is indeed not too tiring, which is very suitable for him now.
His mother did think a lot about him, although she never said it verbally.
On this day, Asai packed up his things and prepared to go to the warehouse to work.
He stood at the door waiting for his mother to come home before he went out again.
While waiting, it started to rain lightly. Asai took out the bottles and cans at home and placed them in the leaky area to catch the water.
"Tick tock!"
"Tick tock!"
The sound is not beautiful, but at the same time it is noisy, it also makes people feel a quiet rhythm.
Very strange.
Asai, who almost fell asleep while sitting, raised his head and looked outside: "Why haven't you come back yet?"
As soon as she said this worriedly, her mother came back holding a big box in the rain.
The box was covered with a raincoat, and inside were some rags that the mayor's family didn't want.
Some old things, rags and some leftover food.
Mother was so precious that she covered the box with a raincoat that was supposed to protect her from the rain. Mother would often pick up some unwanted rags from the mayor’s house. Those rotten clothes and remaining cloth could be woven into gloves and puppets.
, things like hats can be used by yourself or exchanged for some money.
Mother's short and thin body held a big box, which she cherished very much.
Asai went over to take it, but his mother also held it tightly in her hand and refused to let go.
She collapsed from exhaustion and sat on the ground at the door. Asai brought a stool for her mother to sit on.
"It's okay!"
My mother was soaked to the skin, shivering from the cold, and out of breath from exhaustion.
"fine."
"Hurry up and go to work in the warehouse."
After finishing speaking, he said with a proud smile: "Come back early tomorrow morning, there will be delicious food."
"The mayor's house was cleaning up unnecessary things today, and I picked up a lot of treasures today."
Asai nodded: "Then I'll leave first!"
He walked out of the yard with an umbrella and looked back.
"Stop sitting, change into dry clothes, and get under the quilt to warm up."
His mother immediately raised her hand and urged him to hurry over.
After working all night, I came back to Asai the next day and found that my mother was sick.
He was very sick, shaking and shaking constantly, and even covering himself with a quilt was of no use.
He invited a doctor to see him. The doctor gave him medicine, but he didn't see any improvement at all.
Asai sat by the bed and looked at his mother: "Why isn't it better?"
The doctor shook his head: "As you get older, your body will age like this."
"Her body is too weak, and the medicine is only an auxiliary function. In the final analysis, she has to rely on her own system to recover."
Asai retorted: "But my mother is not old."
The doctor said: "The body is like an instrument. Aging does not only depend on age, but also on daily maintenance."
The common people at the bottom have been working hard and eating the worst food all year round, and they have already aged terribly by the age of forty.
This is very common.
Doctor Asaiqiu: "Let's think of a way!"
The doctor shook his head, left the medicine, and told Asai the daily dosage.
He also said that this method only depends on luck, but this is the only thing doctors can do.
As he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered something.
The doctor gave Asai a suggestion.
"Go and beg the priest of the temple!"
"I remember that he had a resurrection ritual stone there, which can temporarily rejuvenate the human body. This is why the priest can still move freely at such an old age."
"Using the power of this stone once may be able to carry your mother over."
Asai nodded: "I'll be there right away."
Ever since the previous awakening ceremony failed, Asai never wanted to see He go to the shrine again.
But this time he listened to what the doctor said and immediately came to the shrine.
Asai's arrival was not welcomed by the priests, but rather ignored.
Asai's last questioning and reprimand made the priest feel bored and disgusted with him.
Moreover, this rare situation where the awakening ritual failed and resulted in disability appeared on his hands, which also made him feel a little embarrassed. It could be regarded as a stain on the priest's career.
More importantly, Asai, who could not become a priest, had no effect on him.
"Want to borrow the Revival Ceremony Stone?"
The priest sneered: "Okay."
"But you need money."
Asai immediately grabbed his clothes: "Money?"
He remembered the treasure bag his mother had given him before, and all his family's inheritance had been donated to the church. After the failure, his mother never mentioned anything about returning it.
Asai immediately said that he would regard the money as fees and wages from his previous volunteer work here.
The priest instantly turned his back and said, "Can the money donated to God be recovered? Are you kidding me?"
"And I didn't ask you to come here as a volunteer. It was you who shamelessly came here and asked to work for God."
"It's your honor to work here, how can you ask for money?"
Asai was extremely angry: "You can't do this."
"I have worked here for you for so long. My mother also worked in your workshop when she was young. We have both made contributions to you."
"I do not want anything."
"As long as you save my mother."
The priest snorted: "Get out of here."
The ritual stone tablet can be regarded as the lowest level of props. It allows ordinary spiritual priests to use the power of rituals, even if they have not signed a spiritual contract.
But this so-called lowest level is only in the eyes of those powerful priests.
In the eyes of ordinary spiritual priests, each ritual stone slab is a workshop and represents countless money.
It also represents divine power.
How can it be used for these mud-legged people?
The priest asked several employees of the temple to beat Asai and then drove him out of the temple.
"Boy, don't make trouble."
"Go home well and don't make the priest angry again."
"Go away, lame."
Asai stood up awkwardly and limped across the street.
He turned around and looked deeply into the shrine, then turned around.
Asai returned home with scars,
He took good care of his mother, but her fever got worse and worse, and she even started talking nonsense.
Asai invited doctors to come several more times, but to no avail.
The doctor checked his mother's body again and shook his head at Asai outside the door.
"Say your final farewell!"
"Don't leave any regrets."
Asai sat next to his mother, like an immovable stone.
The mother saw Asai's face, with a worried look in her eyes.
That was the fear of how his son would survive in the future after he died.
"Asai."
"do not be afraid."
"If you're scared, cover your eyes!"
"You can't see anything, so you won't be afraid."
The mother reached out her hand, touched Asai's face, and then covered his eyes.
His mother had done these words and actions to him many times when he was a child.
When my mother was scared, when there was lightning and thunder in the dark night, when there was an unknown figure who might be a thief trying to open the door outside the house in the middle of the night.
She would hide under the quilt and cover her and Asai's eyes.
It seems like this, no one outside can hurt her.
Asai never felt that way.
He just felt that not being able to see anything was even scarier. He just wanted to open his eyes wide enough to see everything in this world clearly, while his mother just wanted to hide like an ostrich.
But this time he suddenly felt different,
The warmth of his hands passed through his eyes and penetrated deep into his heart.
He felt a sense of security, which was the sense of security given to him by his short and thin mother. It was a feeling that had always been with him but had never been truly looked at directly.
"do not be afraid……"
"Cover your eyes...then you won't be afraid of anything."
"Nothing can hurt us...hurt..."
The hand falls.
The darkness disappeared, and light penetrated from the bottom of the eye to the bottom of the pupil.
What it brings is not light, but despair.
Asai's mother, this ordinary, ordinary, cowardly woman.
He died like this.
Asai looked at his mother and knew that the entire world he had relied on had disappeared.
Those heroic words that I once said, the promise that I would let my mother know the life of a big shot, that I would let my mother never work for others again, but let others work for her.
It can no longer be achieved.
Asai looked at the bright sunshine coming in from the window and shining on his mother's body. For the first time, he felt that the light was so terrifying.
He slowly stretched out his two hands.
Covering his face, and then covering his eyes——
dark night.
Asai stood in front of the shrine, holding a bucket in his arms.
He stared at the statue of God Yinsai. Every time he looked here, he felt that it seemed to be emitting light and was extremely sacred.
He could see that everything here was alive, and he could even think of scenes from the Kingdom of God.
But at this moment, he could only see the cold shrine, the dark room even with a hint of gloom, and everything was motionless.
He has lost the ability to imagine.
He won't have any more gorgeous dreams.
Asai's temperament became cold, and the gloom on his face even looked exactly like someone else's.
Asai stole more than a dozen barrels of kerosene from the mayor's warehouse. He knew everything about this shrine. He knew where everyone lived and their work and rest habits.
Asai blocked the door to the room and lit the kerosene.
Fire shot into the sky, followed by an explosion.
The priest of the temple is just a poor priest at the lowest level. Apart from some simple illusions and possessing two ritual stone tablets, he is not much better than ordinary people.
The first-level spiritual priest was buried in the fire.
The entire town of Rolling Stone was alarmed, and people in the town rushed towards the shrine.
The closed town that had been closed for decades had its peace completely broken by Asai's actions.
"Put out the fire, put out the fire!"
"water!"
"How could there be such a big fire in the shrine?"
"A batch of silk fabrics arrived some time ago, and it seems to have been stored in the shrine."
Asai walked out of the town amidst the chaos of the crowd. He turned back to admire his masterpiece.
The fire was reflected in his pupils.
"A greedy and ugly person in the name of God."
"You deserve to die!"
Asai didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior. He felt like a hero at the moment.
A hero who got rid of a false believer in a god and killed despicable and evil people.
He limped away without looking back.
With nothing left to remember, Asai decided to leave this town and go to the place he had always wanted to go.
Anho City.
In the distance, someone was also looking at Asai's figure.
Xiao watched Asai's staggering steps and could feel the changes in his heart.
This kind of extremely violent behavior, this kind of desperate madness, according to reasoning, the original Asai could not do it.
Is it because his emotions have been suppressed to the extreme, or is part of another person's personality emerging in Asai?
Xiao thinks it's the latter.
He wrote down a record of experimental observations: "Desires and emotions began to synchronize, and the reincarnated person's former personality began to emerge in the new body."
Behind Xiao, there is another figure.
It was the doctor from Rolling Stone.
The doctor bowed respectfully: "Master Shenqi."
"Are you leaving?"
Xiao put away the scroll: "The experiment has entered the next stage. You can go back first."
"But I guess you will be useful later."
Amid the fire and chaos, Xiao arrived at the tallest building in the town.
He took off a bead that he had inlaid on it many years ago, and at the same time he held the bead and knelt on the ground.
"O supreme god of knowledge."
"The first scene has ended, are you...satisfied?"
On the holy mountain on the other side, the whole body of the little man in the bottle was squeezed against the narrow wall of the bottle, and the black and white light eyes exuded indescribable joy.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"It's so interesting...so interesting."
"Anhofors, do people like you...do people like you...also know what despair is?"
"Do you also know what pain is?"
The voice of the God of Knowledge reached Xiao's ears: "My servant, you have done a very good job, I am very satisfied."