Volume 1 Chapter 5 The Acquisition of Divinity
Liu Xiao followed Jiao Ning's footsteps into the temple.
The most striking thing in front of you is a tall statue of a god.
The face of the idol is soft and kind, and the figure is tall and has a woman's posture, but the clothes are revealing, and the chest is open, but it is a man's body.
There was an open space between the statue and the temple gate, and dozens of futons were neatly arranged on the ground.
Looking around, there are ten portraits of different shapes on the walls, and two rows of fixed seats against the walls on the left and right sides.
Surrounded by several waiters doing the cleaning work, wearing the same indigo robes with intricate patterns.
Clearly standing in the light, but as cold as a statue, no popularity.
Jiao Ning walked to the front of the futon and knelt down, palms of his hands towards him, overlapping the position of his heart to make a heart-hugging gesture, which means heartache for the fall of the creator god.
After the gesture was placed, he prostrate down.
On the way here, Jiao Ning walked and was reminded, so Liu Xiao also painted a scoop on the side, made a heart-to-heart salute, and prostrate on the ground.
He didn't know how long he would have to lie on his stomach, and he was going to look up after a while.
After all, he used to be an atheist, and although he didn't hate bowing down to gods, he didn't have much respect.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Jiao Ning's cold voice: "Okay, get up." ”
Liu Xiao looked up and found that Jiao Ning had already stood up, which showed that this was just a formal, etiquette-like thing.
Bypass the statue, there is a cave behind it.
In the middle of a long narrow corridor, directly behind the statue of Creation, there is a door slightly smaller than the main door of the temple.
As soon as the door was closed, there was a figure dressed in tight black standing in front of the door, and he happened to turn around when Liu Xiao approached.
It was a middle-aged man, with a little arrogance in his eyes.
After seeing Jiao Ning, his thin lips parted and a big smile was revealed.
That smile Liu Xiao is very familiar with, when a beginner who has just learned art paints a human face, because he can only draw skin and not bones, he often draws this kind of face that is smiling and not smiling.
Weird and nasty.
"Team Leader Jiao, a rare guest!" He said.
"Team leader, long time no see. The leader of the sixth group, Cheng Xun. ”
Jiao Ning can always save when he speaks, and the introduction in the second half of the sentence is very ambiguous, but fortunately, Liu Xiao reacted quickly, and it was said to himself.
So he immediately bowed slightly and greeted: "Cheng Group Duan, I'm the seventh ......"
"Your subordinates are still so unruly, and they don't understand basic etiquette. I'm curious, why can't you bring it with so few people in the seventh group? Why don't you consider my suggestion and send it over to the sixth group to help you discipline it. ”
Liu Xiao narrowed her eyes, suppressed a trace of anger, and then straightened up.
After all, he is older than he looks, so he is not so reckless, and this kind of thing is still handled by someone in the same position.
This Cheng Xun looks like he is only in his thirties, much younger than Jiao Ning, but he behaves like this, which shows that the inspection team is relatively independent of each other, and only looks at the status and does not look at the age.
Jiao Ning's face was still cold, without the slightest change, he only "hummed", and then looked at the door behind Cheng Xun.
"A newcomer, with a lot of potential, and I like the personality very much."
Cheng Xun said and glanced at Liu Xiao: "After so many years, you are finally willing to recruit another newcomer?" ”
"There are not many people, but the essence."
"This makes sense, my sixth group is closer to the temple than the third and fourth groups, there are not so many extraordinary events, and there are few personnel, but they are disciplined, well-trained, and very well-behaved."
If you want to talk about the distance from the temple, it is still the seventh group that is closer, combined with the previous criticism that Liu Xiao does not understand etiquette, and the words are all saying that the seventh group has no rules.
Liu Xiao naturally understood, but she didn't know what she was doing wrong, and she frowned slightly at the moment, wondering why Cheng Xun was so aggressive.
In a flash of inspiration, he suddenly remembered the noise in the next room when he first arrived at the seventh group in the afternoon, and thought that something might have caused some conflict between the two groups.
Sure enough, Jiao Ning responded coldly: "Allowing the extraordinary events in your own area to leak and pushing them to other groups is something that can be done by rules?" ”
"Indulgence?" Cheng Xun showed that kind of unobtrusive smile again, "If you want to say that the extraordinary leak, who can compare to that incident two years ago?" Besides, it's not an object, it's a transcendent, and it's hard for us to limit where a transcendent wants to go? ”
"Team Leader, you are not a newcomer for a long time, you should know how to deal with an uncontrolled transcendent. Since my team members have taken over this matter, I will not shirk it anymore, but if you want to pay a price for the sixth group, it is absolutely impossible. ”
Cheng Xunzi didn't believe that he would pay any price, so he sneered: "Then there is Team Leader Lao Jiao." ”
The two stopped talking, and stood separately and waited quietly.
Liu Xiao also understood the reason from the conversation.
The sixth group produced an uncontrolled transcendent, causing a related transcendent event, but for some unknown reason, the matter was not resolved, and the transcendent left the area of the sixth group to come to the seventh group.
The seventh group wanted to keep the sixth group in charge, but the sixth group refused on the grounds that the transcendent was not in their area of responsibility, which was the reason for the quarrel in the room during the afternoon.
It seems that the final result is that the sixth group shirks and ignores, and the members of the seventh group have no choice but to deal with it themselves, and Jiao Ning, as the team leader, does not blame the team members.
I don't know how long it took, there was still silence in the door, and a trace of impatience appeared on the face of Cheng Xun, who was waiting.
Half an hour later, the faint light exposed in the crack of the door suddenly became stronger, and Cheng Xun's face finally looked much better.
After the light returned to normal, Cheng Xun pushed open the door and walked in.
Liu Xiao followed behind Jiao Ning and walked over.
Behind the door is a much smaller temple, roughly fan-shaped, with tall statues carved on the curved wall in front of it, a total of ten of them.
The ten statues were strangely shaped, only slightly humanoid, Liu Xiao hurriedly glanced at them, and stayed on the ground in the middle.
In the center of the fan-shaped circle, a young man about his own age sat with his head bowed.
Cheng Xun stepped forward and called a few times, and he woke up leisurely.
Letting him get up and get out of the way, Cheng Xun said to Jiao Ning, "Please." ”
Jiao Ning looked at Liu Xiao.
Liu Xiao stepped forward and stood at the center of the circle as requested, and at this moment, no matter which statue he looked at, it was face to face.
Jiao Ning said, "Sit down." ”
Although Liu Xiao had questions in her heart just now, why the young man was sitting here instead of kneeling, she didn't ask.
However, Jiao Ning appropriately explained: "Obtaining divinity is the way to becoming a god, and you can not kneel." ”
He added: "If you can't do it once, you can try it again, but only twice, no matter how disrespectful it is." I'll wait for you outside, half an hour. ”
Cheng Xun said: "You are still so old-fashioned. ”
Jiao Ning did not reply.
The three of them left the temple of the Son and closed the door.
Liu Xiao saw that the young man who had acquired divinity walked unsteadily and staggered.
Sitting alone in the temple of the Holy Son, the light on the ceiling illuminates the entire space, allowing him to see the statue of the Holy Son clearly.
The ten humanoid statues made him feel a little hairy, wondering what was left after the fall of the creator god, why he himself had a human form, and the holy sons were so weird.
For example, one of them has a torso-like body in the middle, extending out four strips in the shape of a stream of water like limbs, and the position of the head explodes in all directions, flying out countless water droplets.
The other had no torso, and his "limbs" were staggered and rolling.
There is also a "limb" that spreads out countless branches, but the head is like smoke, hazy.
……
Sweeping through them one by one, Liu Xiao didn't understand the meaning of these seemingly disembodied statues, but this was not the time to delve into them.
Look down at the note and recite the prayer softly:
"Great and merciful gods, all-knowing and all-powerful creator gods, incarnate sons of the Ten Body, your faithful believers Liu ......"
Halfway through speaking, the icon shook, and rays of light appeared out of thin air and shone on Liu Xiao's body.
"So fast!"
Outside the door, Cheng Xun, who had just walked to the end of the narrow corridor, looked back suddenly.
Jiao Ning's face was also full of shock.
I saw countless dazzling brilliance leaking from the crack in the door, making the entire corridor as bright as day, and even cast a clear shadow behind the three of them, swaying in the light.
"Ahh
A miserable cry of pain came from Liu Xiao inside the door.
Jiao Ning didn't move, waiting quietly.
The brilliance dissipated, and Jiao Ning immediately pushed the door in.
I saw Liu Xiao's body curled up because of the pain, shouting that he shouldn't, so Jiao Ning helped him to lie flat, and he sat cross-legged alone.
Cheng Xun returned, looked at the unconscious Liu Xiao, his lips moved, and finally said to Jiao Ning: "Team Leader Jiao, congratulations." ”
Jiao Ning didn't say a word.
Liu Xiao didn't expect that he hadn't posed yet, hadn't officially prayed, and was directly infused with divinity before he finished speaking, and the countless complicated information in his mind was like a tsunami, instantly overwhelming his consciousness.
White, the white of the eyes, the stinging eyes hurt.
Liu Xiao wanted to rub it, but she couldn't feel her hands.
In fact, he could not feel any part of his body, not even his eyes, but "looked" around him in a strange state.
It is said that it hurts in the eyes, but in fact, it is a stinging pain all over the body.
After a while, I don't know if the white light has weakened or Liu Xiao is used to it, and some changes slowly appear around him.
In the distance, there were faint figures of giants with strange body proportions, their limbs short and thick, but their bodies were extremely large.
The waist was half bent, the head was tilted, and the sky was pressed against the sky with thick five fingers and a short neck.
Looking around, the giants were one after the other, shoulder to shoulder, in a circle, in different postures, but they were all half-bent and using all their strength to push up the sky above their heads.
Even if there were so many giants, they could not be lifted that day, but they were overwhelmed, and if only one of them was not enough, the sky would fall down.
At the feet of the giants, there were countless people the size of ants, all dressed in gorgeous clothes, robes and golden tents, and sacred beasts.
As Liu Xiao's gaze shifted, those dressed in fancy clothes also turned their eyes at the same time......
Liu Xiao gasped and woke up in an instant.
When he woke up, he found himself lying on the ground, while Jiao Ning was sitting cross-legged nearby.
At this moment, his head was dizzy, and there seemed to be countless thoughts flickering, which made him extremely irritable, and he couldn't control his desire to smash things and destroy them.
"Is this normal?"
Liu Xiao rubbed her temples that were throbbing suddenly, and asked with a headache.
Jiao Ning stood up with his feet vigorously: "People are different, go." ”
On the way back, Liu Xiao only felt that her head was swollen more and more intensely, and finally evolved into a simple headache, and at the same time, the irritability in her heart increased instead of decreasing, and the desire to destroy became stronger and stronger, so she could only lie in the back seat.
It was dark, but the light in the seventh inspection team was still bright.
Jiao Ning had just stabilized the car, and Su Gu, who had not yet left, leaned over nervously to check the situation.
"You take care of him."
After Jiao Ning finished speaking, he got out of the car and walked into the seventh group.
Su Gu opened the car door and saw Liu Xiao lying there rubbing her temples constantly, her face was painful, and she couldn't help but feel a little sorry in her heart, and stepped forward to gently comfort her.
Feeling a soft hand caressing his forehead, Liu Xiao grabbed it: "Can you help me?" ”
"I can't." Su Gu said, "But I can relax you, it should be able to relieve your pain." ”
"Hurry." Liu Xiao said.
Su Gu held Liu Xiao's hand with his backhand and said, "Look at me." ”
Liu Xiao endured the increasingly serious headache and opened her eyes, Su Gu was startled, this kind of look she had seen in some transcendent events, those transcendents who did not know where to obtain impure divinity.
Crazy, cruel.
After all, there is a divinity in all things, and it is not just the way of the gift of the Holy One.
But she immediately calmed down, the Sage would not bestow on those with impure hearts, so she didn't have to worry about Liu Xiao.
Looking at each other, Su Gu's eyes became deep, as deep as the ocean, making people sink.
Liu Xiao couldn't bear it any longer, and suddenly retracted her hands and curled up on the back seat of the car with her head in her hands, and let out a burst of pain in her mouth.
Su Gu's eyes returned to normal, and his face was full of disbelief.
She actually failed?
Jiao Ning returned with a paper bag, and when he saw this, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"I wanted to help him relax, but ...... It doesn't seem to have any effect. ”
"He has acquired more divinity than he has ever seen, and it is not surprising that there are some anomalies. I'll send him back, and you can go back too, and have a good rest tomorrow. ”
Jiao Ning said and got into the car, and Su Gu also followed closely behind and got into the back seat.
"I'll go too."
Jiao Ning didn't drive, and looked at Su Gu from the rearview mirror with wrinkled eyes, and her cold gaze made her fidget.
"No, you can go back."
The tone, while not aloof, nor forceful, is unquestionable.
Su Gu shrunk his neck and got out of the car obediently, with his sweet appearance, which made people feel pity.
"Always be aware of changes in your emotions."
Jiao Ning started the car and left, leaving such a sentence.
Emotions, corresponding to mental states.
In the darkness, Su Gu's shadow remained motionless.
She remembered that Jiao Ning once reminded herself: Indulging one's emotions without control is to let one's mind go berth.
Although it was a very ordinary thing for her to take care of Liu Xiao, it also showed that Su Gu had given up resisting and was obsessed with emotions.
Although self-blame and worry are common emotions, when placed on Su Gu in this state, it is no longer an indifferent thing.
"If you don't control it every time, then after sinking into a certain emotion, you can only use stronger emotions to get out of the previous emotion, ......and so on for a long time."
Su Gu covered her mouth violently, tears flowed uncontrollably, and soon she forcibly held it back again.
Anyone who experiences great joy and sorrow will face a loss of control, let alone themselves.