"Bang bang—bang bang—"

A tiny heart swells and contracts rhythmically in the hands of the true Creator, and it stands to reason that an organ would be dead when it leaves the body, but as a creature of flesh magic, it magically preserves its life. Then, carefully pulled by a few flesh tentacles, the small heart was placed in the middle of a skeleton that was not a human skeleton, but a four-legged beast, larger than a corgi but smaller than a Samoyed.

After being put in the right position, the fierce proliferation began, the cells that divided wildly formed red flesh and blood, and also formed various organs such as the liver, kidneys, large intestine, and small intestine, and at the same time, the lifeless skeleton also trembled, almost worrying about whether it would fall apart, and when the tongue, larynx, trachea and other vocal organs were formed, bleating screams resounded throughout the room - in the human world, the louder the newborn cries, the healthier and stronger it is, according to this standard, This is undoubtedly a tenacious lamb.

The cry of the Lamb grows more and more terrible, to the point of being creepy, making one wonder whether it is experiencing a new life or sliding into the abyss of death, while the true Creator remembers the name of the Hidden Sage.

"Eyes that peek into mysteries......

"The embodiment of knowledge and spiritual numbers......

"A beacon that dispels ignorance and enlightens the intellect......

"My dear friend, my comrade......"

"I ask for your attention and your hearing, and ask you to attach the magic that you have received to this newborn lamb......

The invisible eyes opened in the dark temple, and a flood of information made of spiritual numbers and symbols poured into the lamb, merging with it, and at the same time, the true Creator clothed it with white fur as white as snow and dotted with eyes as black as ink, making it look no different from ordinary lambs - but unlike ordinary lambs, it preferred flesh and blood, or blood, to the milk and forage of the ewe.

The True Creator pierced his palm, blood dripping to the ground, and the lamb licked it with joy.

"Just call you 'Dolly,'

However, just as he finished a series of prayers and was about to treat himself to the spirit of his homeland, the creature of the same name as the world's first cloned sheep twitched in pain, and began to cough violently, and then spit out clumps of slimy flesh and blood, which for some reason had an eyeball, followed by the liver, kidneys, large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder......

After spitting everything out, it fell limply to the ground, perhaps because the meaning of "scapegoat" was not very good, and its death was extremely uncertain.

He was 10 minutes and 28 seconds.

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After attaching the magic of the scapegoat to the lamb, Thoth sank into a dream as he transformed into a butterfly like Zhuang Zhou and flew over the sea to the dark kingdom of heaven in the Amanda Mountains.

"Long time no see, Amani."

"Thoth."

The goddess of the night stood in a field full of moon flowers, bowing slightly to Him.

"Happy New Year, although the concept of 'New Year', is not new to us, but a proper sense of ritual helps to maintain humanity." Thoth pulled out a handbag, "This is my souvenir." ….

"Thank you very much, and I wish you a happy new year."

The goddess of the night smiled behind the veil, took the bag, and swept it in, her pupils narrowing slightly—it wasn't the rose-shaped soap or the box of delicate treats that caught her eye—it was an extraordinary object that looked like a scepter with a blood diamond on top, exuding the same aura as the red moon in his hand.

"Both of these things have been in demand lately, and I hope you like them. As for the third thing, I got it from the Godforsaken Land, which corresponds to the 'Moon, Path Sequence 4' Witch King."

Speaking of this, Thoth added meaningfully, "'Moon, the path is basically monopolized by the blood clan, and the life span of the blood clan is extraordinarily long, and the higher you are promoted, the more you have to queue up, maybe it will be a hundred years, and it is not easy - do you say this is the truth

？」

"Indeed." The Night Goddess's tone remained unchanged, her eyebrows condensed slightly, "Every trait is an incomparably precious possession to them."

To tell the truth, he was mentally prepared for Thoth to find out that Eumibella was dead, after all, "secret" and "voyeurism" go hand in hand, and how good he is at hiding, how good is Thoth's ability to find out.

Ammanisis thought to himself, for now Thoth is still in the stage of the king of angels, but when his injuries heal, the time is ripe to ascend to the throne of sequence 0...... Oh, I'm afraid I won't have any more secrets to hide.

"By the way, Amani." Thoth smiled slightly, "Do you want to consider going around the north?" It's a little colder here, but after my hard work, it can be said that it has nothing to do with poverty."

The goddess of the night heard his voice and said in a deliberately embarrassed tone, "But don't the giants try to plunder in the dead of winter? That doesn't sound like a lot of peace."

"Alas, there is no way, there has always been such a set of bandit logic from ancient times to the present, they are more inclined to directly snatch the fruits of other people's labor than to engage in production and development in a down-to-earth manner, and vainly try to divert internal contradictions in this way."

Thoth sighed, "If it weren't for the diligent cultivation of a few extraordinary people of the Earth Path, according to their virtue, they would have starved to death outside the city walls."

The Night Goddess chuckled, "Sounds like you have a complaint about Mother Earth."

"After all, people are mothers, and I can't say anything." Thoth blinked, "Let's use an analogy, the bear child has to go out every day to play with people and fight mud fights, and the good wife and mother will be responsible for preparing the hot meals when he has had enough fun...... From this point of view, Mother Earth Goddess is very competent in interpreting the role of 'Mother, as long as you don't mess around with the bear child, I don't mind fulfilling her motherly heart.'"

"I see, but now that we're at the point, we might as well make it clearer."

"I feel the same way," Thoth shrugged, "it's troublesome to play pantomime all the time."

"Please let me go around the north......," said the Night Goddess with some amusement, "aren't you afraid that I won't be willing to go?"

"Amani, whether you stay in the North or not, 'Darkness is a commonplace phenomenon, just as there are always children who are afraid of the dark who yearn for a ray of starlight, and there are always people who are haunted by nightmares who yearn for a good night's sleep. There will always be resentful souls that yearn for rest." "Though I can use tortuous means to achieve my ends," said Thoth, "your authority is undoubtedly best suited to do these things, and I will not complain if anyone chooses to pray to you because you are better at doing them." ….

The goddess of the night was briefly speechless by this extraordinarily calm attitude, and then asked, "Aren't you afraid that your anchor will be snatched away?"

Thoth smiled, "Because I also have a specialty that you said you didn't have, can you make scrolls with magical powers?" Can you fish out the magic weapon from the long river of history? Can you make people understand a language in an instant? There's a feast of requiems in the North to mourn the dead, and your authority is undoubtedly good for harvesting faith in that place, but—"

He blinked, "On the eve of exams, the people who pray to me are absolutely full of nights."

Amanisis curled the corners of his mouth silently, he somewhat understood what Thoth meant.

"Sunrise, moonset, tides, dusk, harvest...... These phenomena are all an inseparable part of nature, and the absence of any of them would distort the world, the contract of merchants, the education of the young, the sleep of the dead, the judgment of sinners, the wars between nations...... These links are also an inseparable part of human history and social development." Thoth paused, then continued, "The sun can bring life to all things and make crops grow, but can we say that the sun is the most important thing in the world, and the moon and the ocean are dispensable? It is important to guarantee the legitimacy of trade with contracts, but can we say that it is dispensable to educate the young and insist on a fair trial of the sinners? The comparison itself is absurd – they are not comparable."

"But that doesn't stop them from complementing each other, or I should put it another way – they have to be complementary." Thoth looked Amanises in the eye firmly, "Whether it's the civilization in which humanity exists, or the world in which we live

the world itself."

Amanises exhaled softly, "You want to emulate the ancient Greeks and bring polytheism to life?"

"Before the end comes, all the forces that can be united must be effectively united."

Amanisis sighed, "In this world of suspicion and betrayal, this is a very difficult thing to do."

"Indeed." Thoth looked up at the palace's star-strewn dome, "But when the end comes, I don't want to fight the outer gods while preventing my comrades from the same camp from escaping or backstabbing them, and at that time the original barrier will also disappear, in other words, the anchor point will be as fragile as a baby exposed to the wilderness - that is, we will most likely have to fight the outer gods while fighting madness."

Amanisis didn't speak, as if weighing something.

"If you can't cultivate unity, there's only one way."

"What?"

"Pick up the bucket and run away to build a new civilization in outer space." Thoth shrugged his shoulders, "I think you Westerners should be pretty good at this, build a big boat, wait until the wind is calm and the flood waters recede, and then run out, and don't care if the creatures outside are dead or alive - how easy it is."

Amanisis smiled, "Just as you Chinese know the story of Noah's Ark, I have also read some Chinese mythological stories."

"Oh?"

"Nuwa mends the sky." Amanisis whispered, "Compared to building a big wooden ship, boiling stones into a pot of paste, sounds so incredible, and how whimsical it sounds to hold up the canopy with the feet of a giant tortoise.........

"But I love the story." He repeated, "I like it very much."

After leaving the Dark Heavens, Thoth received a prayer from a friend.

"Hey? Alex？」

"Oh, I was in the Dark Heaven just now, maybe the Kingdom of God automatically blocked the signal except for the night itself, I didn't hear it."

"What? Technical bottlenecks?!"

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After fixing a few minor issues with the newly developed irrigation system, Eliza Stiano went to the library.

Today is January 3rd, and according to custom, the last day of the old year and the first seven days of the new year are holidays, but after three days of playing, she inexplicably feels that her life is extremely empty, so she decides to do something to enrich herself, such as tidying up her home, such as making wooden toys for the children in the orphanage, plus she has just repaired the irrigation system, which by the way is her pride, and after finding that there is really nothing to do, she goes to the library.

A familiar pointed hat came into view, and she cried out in surprise and surprise, "Miss Mona Lisa?"

"Good morning, Eliza."

Amun, who was transformed into the Mona Lisa, closed the book in his hand, and Eliza sat down beside him affectionately, "Anyway, where have you been? I didn't see you at the New Year's dinner of the girls' club, and Mrs. York baked red wine and cinnamon apple pie, and it's a shame you couldn't eat it!"

"I'm on a trip."

He smiled faintly, "I am also extremely sorry that I couldn't come back in time to have dinner with you because the place I went to was too dangerous."

It's dangerous for others, but that's what it is for me. Amon silently added in his heart.

"Oops! Even if you are free, don't go to a place that is too dangerous at this time!" Eliza said solemnly, "Your family and friends will be worried!"

"They won't."

Amon let out of his nose, but he didn't forget to replace "he" with him.

From the last night of the old year until yesterday, Thoth and the True Creator had been tossing the "scapegoat" and claiming to have encountered unprecedented technical difficulties.

"But isn't Thoth's current body made by you?" On his previous visit to the temple, Amon hit the nail on the head and asked, "Could it be that a sheep is more complicated than a man?"

The True Creator sighed faintly, expressing the blood of the "Bishop of the Rose".

Although flesh magic can pinch flesh into various shapes and promote cell proliferation, it is still different from the real sense of "creation", and the reason why he was able to reshape Thoth's body back then was largely because of the assistance of the "White Tower", the powerful computing power allowed him to grasp the weight of every liver, the length of every trachea, the strength of every heartbeat, and even the thickness of each cornea perfectly, many operations were done in one step, and the ability of the "Darkless One" made the "Hangman Upside Down" The remnants of the path were extracted from Thoth's body, making it pure, pure enough to allow Thoth to brand himself and become something that belonged to Thoth.

"However, I don't have the authority of the White Tower now, so I can't operate it as precisely as before." The True Creator coughed lightly, "So it can only be adjusted little by little."

"And the integration of 'knowledge, too'." Thoth added, "The Hanged Man and the Hermit are not adjacent paths, and the two forces coming together on a single creation will cause a rejection reaction."

"Yes, son." The True Creator said apologetically, "We may have to go through thousands of trial and error, and it's a long and tedious process that you'll probably find boring."

Okay, okay. Amun thought to himself, you are doing a great experiment to free the people of God's forsaken land from suffering, and as for the New Year, there is nothing unusual for you, and I was thinking if I could stay with you a little longer.

But......

When they went to the temple yesterday, Amon found that they had pinched a lot of animals that had nothing to do with sheep.

For example, it is said to be the mount of a god, a round beast with black and white fur, such as a camel with a long neck that likes to spit on people, and a fox with a square face full of "I have no such worldly desires......

"Alex, you're awesome, this Tibetan fox smells like that!" Thoth excitedly said, "Let's have another Siberian hamster!"

"Nice offer! This will give you a glimpse of the beasts that have been tamed by our people!"

Amun, who stood at the door of the temple but did not enter: "......"

It's a shame to be a serious person, but he's having a lot of fun with himself, and he's not even an adult with him.

./hariot