"Matthew is back!"

"Matthew is back!"

The villagers smiled and gathered around Matthew as if he were an amazing hero.

Over the years, with the trade of merchant ships, Matthew has a great reputation in many coastal villages and island countries, and Matthew chose to return to the poor fishing village at this time, which is naturally a return to his hometown.

At this time, Yushan also smiled and wanted to get up to welcome Matthew, but was pulled by Jimi next to him.

Zhimei bowed her head and gestured to her daughter beside her, Yuhuo's small body was prostrate on Zhimei's lap pillow, dodging Matthew's tall body with a frightened expression.

It seems that it was Matthew's terrifying appearance that scared the young Yuhuo.

In order to appease the frightened Yuhuo, Yushan, who had already stood up and sat down again, but his eyes still did not leave Matthew.

The envy in Yushan's eyes was undisguised.

The black raincoat that Matthew was wearing was a high-end item that no one in the fishing village could afford, and Yushan was very envious.

Matthew is obviously a few years older than himself, but the years have not carved too many marks on his face, and now Matthew looks stronger than Yushan, and Yushan is very envious.

The most important thing is that it is raining outside now, and Matthew still comes to Jiro Island, which shows that Matthew must be on a large merchant ship that can withstand the torrential rain, and Yuzen is very envious.

Of course, the villagers of the fishing village who envy Matthew are not the only ones who are good at fishing.

Matthew exchanged a few words with the villagers around him, and then walked to the dragon king statue along the passage left in the middle.

The village chief looked at Matthew who came over, his mood was very complicated, and he didn't know what to say.

At the beginning, Matthew wanted to go to sea, and the village chief strongly opposed it, but now that Matthew has returned to his hometown, the village has fallen into a state where he can't open the pot.

This is a high and low situation.

But Matthew completely ignored the village chief, but walked up to the statue of the dragon king, spat at the ground with contempt, pointed at the statue of the dragon king and shouted at the villagers, "You are still worshipping such useless things! ”

"Worship this kind of garbage is worthy of being called faith?"

Matthew's sudden speech frightened all the villagers, and the village chief hurriedly stopped him: "Shut up! How could you be so rude to Lord Dragon! ”

Ignoring the village chief, Matthew continued, "Every time you pray for this thing like a lamb, does it answer your prayers? ”

"Has faith in the Dragon King made your lives rich?"

"Your life is still embarrassing, this thing doesn't care if you live or die!"

"The Dragon King has never responded to your requests, it is just letting you live and die!"

Matthew's shocking speech stunned all the villagers, and Matthew suddenly raised his hands high.

"And I know a god who can truly manifest spirits."

"Follow me! Follow me in believing in the true God of the sea! ”

"Only the true God can give us endless fish and endless gold in our lifetime!"

Only by believing in the true God can the true God grant you refuge and become God's people and go to the kingdom of God.

"There, you can even get eternal life!"

Click!

A thunderbolt broke into the Dragon King Temple again, and a purple light shone on Matthew's face.

Matthew's eyes were red with excitement, his bloodshot eyeballs bulging out in an uncanny state, and the corners of his mouth rose to an incredible angle with a crazy smile.

The children in the village were so frightened by Matthew's terrifying face that they immediately covered their eyes, and the village chief also reacted at this time and shouted, "Someone! Get out of this heretic who blasphemed the Dragon King! ”

Only then did the villagers of the fishing village react, and several men stepped forward to grab Matthew's shoulders and rush out.

Matthew didn't resist much, but shouted to the surrounding villagers as he walked out, "If you don't believe me, come to the port at night, and I can prove it to you!" ”

"When the time comes, you will know who the true god of the sea is!"

Matthew's voice was drowned out by the rain, and the worship ceremony could no longer be carried out, so the village chief had to disband all the villagers.

...

When she got home, Jimi went to comfort Yuhuo to sleep, while Yushan, who was sitting at the table, wrinkled her eyebrows and didn't say a word.

After a while, Zhimei walked over, looked at Yushan's expression, and knew that Yushan was thinking.

"Still thinking about what just happened?"

"Hmm."

"When the village chief was about to disband, he said that Matthew was a brainwashed heretic, and that he would not let the villagers approach him, and that he would be driven away at dawn tomorrow."

"I know." Yu Shan nodded at first, and then turned to say, "But the village has been poor for a long time, and Lord Dragon has never responded. ”

"Every time I go out to sea this month, I pray to the Dragon King to catch more fish, but he can't even meet my request, not once."

"If the Dragon King doesn't respond to us, our whole family will starve to death."

Yushan let out a series of complaints, and the resentment that he couldn't catch fish every day this month has accumulated a lot.

Zhimei also knew the boredom in her husband's heart, so she walked over and gently hugged Yuseon's back and said softly, "If you want to go to the port at night, then go." ”

Jimi knows that Yuseon's heart has a strong heart knot, and if she doesn't untie this knot with her own hands, this heart knot will become more and more dead.

So let Yushan confirm it with his own eyes.

Although this can't improve life, it can at least make Yushan's heart easier.

For his wife's understanding, Yushan didn't say anything, just touched Zhimei's hand to express his gratitude.

...

As night fell, darkness enveloped the entire sea.

The torrential rain had long since stopped, and there were only a few light waves crashing against the fishing boats docked in the harbor.

On the shore, dark figures were quietly walking in the direction of the port.

These people are undoubtedly the villagers of the fishing village, and although they do not take a stand during the day, they have long held a grudge against the poor life in their hearts.

These villagers don't have any idea of the true god of the sea in Matthew's mouth, but Matthew once said that this true god can give them countless fish and endless gold, and these villagers still remember it clearly.

Arriving at the port, Matthew had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing that only nine villagers were coming, Matthew did not show a disappointed expression, but directly invited these nine people onto his boat.

Nine people got on the boat, and among them was Yushan.

Yushan saw a huge black shadow on the sea in the distance, and knew that it was Matthew's merchant ship.

Because Matthew's ship was too big and the water level in the port of Jiro Island was too shallow for it to dock, the merchant ships were parked a little farther away, and the small boat that was sitting now was for the convenience of sending people ashore.

The nine villagers in the boat didn't need to work to rock the boat, as two of Matthew's crew took on the job of the boatman.

Yu Shan sneaked a peek at Matthew's two crew members by the moonlight.

Both of them were dressed in the clothes of ordinary sailors, but they both wore huge peaked caps on their heads, high collars covering their necks, and sunglasses in the dark, and they didn't know if they could see the sea clearly.

The crew rowed the boat with expressionless faces, their stiff movements looking less agile and the slightest desire to engage in conversation with the villagers.

A villager wanted to talk to one of the crew members, but the crew just glanced at the villager and continued rowing, and finally Matthew came out to answer the villagers' questions.

Suddenly, the ship shook, and two boatmen steered the boat to make a huge turn.

Matthew hurriedly comforted the frightened villagers, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, I've hit the reef." ”

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief, but Yushan's heart tightened.

Because Matthew's crew movement just now was extremely large, the shadow of his body did not cover his hands, and his whole hand was instantly exposed to the moonlight.

Yushan saw the hand.

It was a very strange hand.

The pale skin on the back of the hand had a few yellow-black bumps, the joints of the five fingers were abnormally swollen, and only the webbing of aquatic animals could be faintly seen between the fingers.

Can a human hand look like this?

Am I wrong?

It must be a mistake, after all, the environment here is so dark, and it is normal to be wrong.

Yushan quickly looked away, and no longer dared to look around, only dared to look at the plank under his feet until the boat came to shore.

"Come down." Matthew said to the villagers.

"It's not your ship here, is it?"

"This is Onikai Island!" The villagers looked at their surroundings and immediately recognized it.

"Won't you show us your fish and gold? Why don't you take us to your ship, but instead take us to this kind of hellish place? ”

"Are you kidding us?"

Matthew smiled at the angry villagers, and then said, "What I want to prove is not how much fish and gold I have, but how much fish and gold that accepting my faith will bring you." ”

"Come with me, and I will prove it to you."

"What I have, you can have."

"As long as you believe in Him, in the Lord, and in the One True God of the Sea!"

Under the suspicious gaze of the villagers, Matthew walked onto a huge reef on the shore, took out a strangely shaped gold ornament from his bosom and held it high, chanting a hymn that the villagers did not understand.

Matthew's expression became more and more excited, and the strange gold ornaments in his hands glowed with golden light under the light of the torches in the hands of the villagers.

As Matthew's chant grew faster and faster, a strong wind blew on the sea as if it were cooperating with Matthew.

The sound of the howling wind did not drown out Matthew's chant, but seemed to fuel the wonderful chant, and the words of the hymn were clearer in the ears of the villagers.

The content of the lyrics is completely indiscernible to the villagers' cognition, except that the rhythm is sometimes heavy, sometimes cheerful, sometimes like a mother's hand caressing the body, sometimes like a demon's minions touching the heart.

The hymn was carried to the other side of the river by the blowing wind, and the ethereal sound even reached the ears of the villagers waiting on the other side.

At the same time, there was a gurgling sound in the water next to the huge reef of Onikai Island, as if something was about to poke its head out of the sea.

The gurgling sound of water, the obscure chant, and the whirring wind all play a wonderful symphony in the ears of the villagers.

In the face of the intensifying ritual of summoning the gods, the faces of the villagers were filled with terror, their legs began to weaken uncontrollably, and the torches in their hands fell into the water with a thud, plunging them into darkness.

...

Following.

The village chief led the villagers to the shore and prepared to drive the unpopular Matthew out of the fishing village.

Matthew stood by the harbor with a calm expression, facing the drive of the village chief and other villagers who were loyal believers in the Dragon King, he had no intention of leaving at all, but a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

This smile made the village chief and the others feel that they were not driving Matthew away, but were being held by Matthew's throat.

Suddenly, the shouts of villagers came from the shallows next to the port.

"The tide is receding!"

"Look! What is that white flower? ”

"It's a fish!"

"It's a fish!"

"It's all fish!"

The shouts of several villagers at the shoal immediately attracted the attention of the villagers on the port side, and the village chief immediately ordered someone to go and see what was going on.

When they came to the shoal, the villagers were surprised by what they saw.

The reef of the shallows is densely packed with fish, and these white flowers are carried to the shallows by the high tide water, but do not leave at low tide, but remain in the shallows.

At this time, the amount of fish in the shallows is even so large that it can be served directly in a basket, and catching fish is as simple as serving rice from a pot.

Even if you live by the sea and be a fisherman all your life, you will never see this scene once!

"Wow!"

Dozens of villagers rushed to the shallows desperately, and without a fish basket at hand, they hurriedly took off their clothes, spread out their clothes to hold the fish, and even tied the mouth of their pants and stuffed the fish into the waistband of their trousers.

Yushan is also one of them, frantically grabbing these fish from the cracks in the reef that are rarely seen in the world.

Catching the fish in a reef pit, Yu Shan was just about to turn his head to catch fish in the reef pit next to him, when he suddenly saw a golden thing lying at the bottom of the reef pit.

Yushan immediately grabbed the thing out of the water and displayed it to watch in the sun.

It is a strangely shaped gold ornament carved with a half-human, half-fish creature and clear water ripples.

It's easy to be fascinated by this ingenious special-shaped carving, but at this moment, Yushan is even more fascinated by the texture of this ornament.

"Gold!"

"It's gold!"

Hearing the shouts of the fishermen, the villagers hurried over to watch, and when they saw the golden light in the sun, the other villagers immediately joined the search for gold.

Moments later, another villager announced that he had found gold in the shallows.

Another one.

Again...

Yu Shan, on the other hand, stood still, holding up the gold ornament and looking at it in a daze, completely forgetting the horrific scene he had experienced yesterday.

...

The frenzied villagers rushed to the shallows to harvest the fish and gold that were placed on the "table", except for the little girl, who was left on the shore because she was too young.

Fisherfire didn't look at the crazy adults in the shallows, but at Matthew, who was still standing in the harbor.

At this time, Matthew lowered his head and moved his lips slightly at the water in front of him, as if he was whispering something.

And on that surface, a grayish green float was sometimes deep and sometimes shallow.