Chapter 17: Fengling Village (12)
"Stop!! I surrendered ......"
As the psychological defense line was completely defeated, this so-called "Breathing Spirit God" also completely gave up his bluff.
The world shattered in front of Su Ming's eyes like a bubble, and the scene in front of him returned to its normal size.
The majestic figure that stood up to the sky and the earth before was just a clay statue in front of him that was no more than two meters high.
And the two palms of the idol, one of which had turned into dirt and fell to the ground, smashed to pieces, and the other was also shattered and would fall at any time.
There wasn't much smoke inside the ancestral hall, just a barrier formed by smoke at the door, which should be some kind of blinding.
And the villagers who came in before were lying on the ground at the moment, not dead, just unconscious, but Lin Sheng didn't know where he went.
At this moment, Su Ming had time to look at the task panel.
[The exploration progress has been advanced, and the main quest has been updated]
[Final Mission: End]
[Task description: You have pieced together the secret behind Fengling Village through fragmented clues, and through your strength, you have achieved the ability to surrender without a fight, and now, talk to the goddess who represents the spirit god to decide whether you want to continue to keep this secret. γ
[Objective: Talk to the goddess and decide whether to reveal the secret to the villagers or keep the secret.] γ
[Note that this is the final quest of this scene exploration main quest, and your decisions will affect the direction of the plot at the end of the scene]
"How do you see that, young man?"
An old voice sounded beside him, and Su Ming turned his head to look, it turned out to be the goddess.
Su Ming raised his eyebrows, "What should I call you, Divine Woman, or Soul Resting God?" β
"Actually, there has never been a spirit spirit, perhaps...... There was, but He is long gone. The old woman leaned over and raised her head with some difficulty, so that she could see Su Ming's eyes.
"And who the hell are you, a charlatan?" Su Ming looked at this gray-skinned old woman, it was really difficult to connect the statue of the god who stood up to the sky just now with this old man who seemed to be dying soon.
"My mother is the last generation of goddesses, I have taken over her inheritance, and I have lived here for many years, and I have watched these generations in the village grow up." The old lady stared at Su Ming with cloudy eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I don't pay much attention to these things, I may have forgotten that I saw you when I was a child......" Su Ming changed the topic a little embarrassed, "Let's talk about your purpose, you have lived here for so many years, although the population of this village is not large, but you must have 'absorbed' a lot of souls, so what is your purpose in absorbing these souls?" β
"According to my mother, once upon a time, there was indeed a guardian spirit in the village of Fengling, who called himself the god of soothing spirits and helped the village to appease the grievances of the dead, and my ancestor was only one of his followers...... But later, with the development of the times, many people no longer believed in the gods, and as the faith passed, the spirit gods became weaker and weaker, so one day, the believers did not feel His response at all. β
"And my mother, as the goddess of this village, the last believer of the Soul God, she thought that without the Spirit God, she would have no meaning to exist, so she didn't tell everyone about it, but began to do what the Spirit God had done for us, that is, to calm the resentment of the soul and let them rest in peace."
But later, she found that whether she calmed down or not, these souls would eventually disperse, and what she did was still meaningless, until she found that she could absorb some of the spiritual power of these souls after they had escaped, and these spiritual powers were ...... to her body Beneficial. β
The old woman kept staring at Su Ming with her cloudy eyes, and she didn't know what she was looking at.
Su Ming didn't bother to care, so he didn't think about the old man's eyes were bad, and concluded: "So, you took over your mother's good errand and continued to pretend to be a spirit god, ostensibly to calm the resentment of the soul, but in fact, to absorb their spiritual power, just to prolong life, right?" β
The old woman was noncommittal, nor did she speak, but continued to look at Su Ming like this.
"One last question, it's going to determine what I'll do to you later."
Su Ming looked at the old woman seriously and said, "Where did Lin Sheng go, that is, the soul of the young man who was about to be buried. β
"He's in a fantasy, with his parents." As if knowing what Su Ming wanted to do, the old woman added: "You can't keep him, his obsession has subsided on its own and is about to dissipate, in my illusion, he still has one last beautiful paragraph to experience." β
"You don't have to worry about it, get him out."
Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief, Lin Sheng hadn't been sucked yet.
The old woman stood there blankly for a long time before she stretched out two fingers to snuff out the half-burned incense in front of the idol.
The incense was very thick, almost as thick as a candle, dark red in color, and it was very strange that the smoke that floated up after the incense was burned sometimes turned into something like a human face, and those human faces seemed to be very similar to Lin Sheng's family.
This incense should not be made from the remains of Lin Sheng's parents, so it can create a sound that can only be heard by Lin Sheng's spirit body...... Su Ming glanced at it a few more times, "Lin Sheng is in this incense?" β
"Yes, with his parents, the incense burned out, and they dissipated." γ
The old woman's fingers had already touched the top of the incense, and she was about to snuff it out, but suddenly stopped again, she turned her head, and said something in a very slight but sure tone, which made Su Ming feel a little creepy.
"Actually, you're not from this village at all, this body is, but you're not ......"
Su Ming's hairs almost stood on end, this time it was not a warning from the game to the player, but a certain tremor he felt himself, he couldn't tell if it was fear or excitement.
Because what this NPC said was really weird.
In this scene with ghosts, it can be seen that this NPC mistakenly thinks that he is the soul of a dove occupying the magpie's nest and borrowing a corpse to resurrect his soul, but it can also be seen that this NPC sees his identity, not a villager of Fengling Village, but a player!
"What do you mean......" he felt his voice tremble with excitement.
However, the old woman did not explain the true meaning of her words, she only asked: "You are not the Ah Ming brother in this young man's mouth at all, why do you still care about him so much, you may not know him before today......
"You're right, I may not be the Amin brother he thinks I am, but I would be, or rather, here, I'm his Amin brother." Su Ming said something that he felt a little embarrassed.
But the old woman, as if she understood, was silent for a moment, and snuffed out the unusually colored incense.
The moment the dark red incense was extinguished, the last small cloud of smoke was like a spirit in a magic lamp, twisted and deformed, and finally turned into a human form.
Lin Sheng came back, he looked at the environment with some doubts, but when he saw Su Ming, he subconsciously called "Brother Amin".
Su Ming finally smiled happily and breathed a sigh of relief.
He shook the phone and beckoned to Lin Sheng, who immediately understood it, disappeared out of thin air, and entered the phone.
The old woman looked at Su Ming with deep meaning, and Su Ming smiled back, leaving only her a back.
"Don't worry, since you didn't touch Lin Sheng and gave him the last beautiful illusion, I will keep this secret for you and continue to be your soul god."
γMain quest completedγ
[Detects that you have no other unfinished tasks that you have received, and will automatically return after 60 seconds, or you can choose to return immediately]
"Return immediately."
The moment his body passed through the smoke of the ancestral hall gate, Su Ming had already left here.