Chapter 241: Don't Look Directly and Don't Speak
"Are you talking about the disaster of the old times?"
It was the first time that Su Bai had officially gotten the news about the mystery from someone else.
Especially when I learned that this was likely to involve all the humans and even the Yin God, I was even more curious.
"Disaster?" The man repeated it in a low voice, and then sighed with vicissitudes.
"That's right. Horror of the Catastrophe...... The whole world was plunged into that darkness. That's a great force that we humans can't resist at all......"
As he spoke, his voice trembled faintly.
It was as if thousands of years had passed, and he still shuddered when he thought about it.
"What is that?" Su Bai continued to ask.
This question has been on his mind for a long time, and now that he has finally met an insider, he naturally wants to ask about it.
"Can't tell."
Su Bai was stunned.
He had already thought of many possibilities, but he didn't expect to say these three words in that somewhat bitter voice from the other party's mouth.
"Why?" He asked, confused.
Another person next to him whispered with a strange expression: "Because anyone who discusses it will be heard by it, and then it will descend on this land." ”
"We weren't even able to meet the being as pawns, we just heard it in the voices, and we were already tainted!"
"If I say it again here......"
"...... then"
Suddenly, like a cultist in a state of fanaticism, he looked up at the sky, as if he were looking not at the night sky, but at something deeper, unseen, great.
Sometimes fanatical, sometimes terrifying.
"Then the land will fall into darkness again, and all living things will die, and all the dead will be resurrected, and we will all become sinners, and we will never be able to live forever!"
Su Bai frowned slightly.
This sounds less like a warning than a terrible prophecy.
It made him feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.
However, from these few words, he has already learned part of the truth.
It's basically the same as his guess was wrong.
It should be some kind of "unspeakable" terrifying existence that suddenly appeared on the earth for some reason, and then completely destroyed the entire originally prosperous human civilization, including the underworld that originally maintained the order of yin and yang.
Since then, the yin and yang order has been disordered, a large number of polluted things have begun to appear, ghosts have begun to run rampant and no one can sanction them, and even these former yin gods have been broken and become the kind of things that are not human and ghostly.
"It seems that that being really has something to do with that seal."
"So...... You were also once the yin gods of the old underworld? ”
After thinking about it carefully, he asked another question, deliberately emphasizing the two words "before".
After all, for him, a new generation of Chenghuang, these guys are already old antiques of the old era.
"That's right."
Those people glanced at each other and nodded slightly, with a faint sense of nostalgia in their expressions.
"We are once ghosts and gods on the earth, enshrined in heaven and earth and the people, controlling the yin and yang order. It's a pity that even we couldn't resist the terrible pollution, and we ended up like this. ”
There was some sighing and lamentation between the words.
At this time, the man looked at Su Bai again.
"Then you are the Yin God of the underworld now? Look at your outfit, it should be the city god? ”
"But it's not right, how can there be such a weak City God? Could it be that I was mistaken? ”
"Our city god there is full of golden light, and the power of incense is as strong as substance, and it is easy to ambush a vicious ghost. But your current strength is really not outstanding in our opinion. ”
"That's weird......"
Those few people were talking, and their strange eyes swept over Su Bai from time to time, guessing his true identity.
Su Bai was a little embarrassed, and coughed lightly: "I am the city god of Nanjiang City today." ”
He himself knows his own business best.
He is now a city god purely because he was the only one who happened to be admitted when he took the city god exam.
So far, I'm afraid I've only just met the passing mark.
And even the City God Temple has just been newly built recently, and he has to rely on himself to act to earn the trust and incense of others, far less than the old times when there were no miracles, as long as you pick a good location to build a good statue of the gods, you can win the period of incense in its heyday.
He could almost imagine how rich the city god was at that time.
Unlike him, now even to build a six-path reincarnation, he has to pick and choose, and even has to "pay in installments".
"You?!"
The people looked at him in surprise, they didn't expect it to be true, and they couldn't help but look at each other.
The man who was the first was speechless, as if he was a little worried, and couldn't help but remind him.
"If you really are the city god you are today, then I'm afraid you have to be careful."
"Careful?"
"You can see what we were in before, and this is what happens after we are contaminated. In fact, the longer the statue existed, the more likely it was to be contaminated. ”
"And we're just pawns."
The man sighed, "If you meet our polluted city gods on top of this...... Then I'm afraid that with your current strength, you won't be able to benefit at all. ”
"You mean, there will be more similar tainted spirits besides you?" Su Bai's eyes changed.
"There should be." The man nodded, "And there should be quite a few of them." At that time, there were hundreds of thousands of ghosts, and even one in a hundred was extremely staggering. ”
"So, we advise you to be more careful in the future. Once polluted, there is no cure, and you may even lose your mind and become the same existence as us. ”
"We are very happy to see civilization re-emerging now, and we really don't want them to fall into darkness again as they did at the beginning!"
"I see." Su Bai nodded heavily, he felt that the burden on his shoulders was a little heavier.
Immediately, he seemed to remember something, and hurriedly asked, "Are you in the state of a ghost now?" I can allow you to re-enter samsara and be free from torture......"
"No need."
Several people rejected him in unison.
"We're not a complete soul at all, but just a remnant of divine thought."
"In a few minutes at most, we'll be gone, so you don't have to bother so much."
They spoke very freely, as if what was coming was not outright death, but just going out to dinner with friends, even with a faint smile on their faces.