Chapter 228: The Blessing of the Gods
Under the bright moonlight, Zheng Shu walked alone in a small forest.
It was not possible for the ancient Greeks to be illuminated by lights as they were in modern times, but for some reason, the moon today is extraordinarily bright, if not full, but enough to be able to see the way through the jungle.
This is the place recommended by Atalanta to Zheng Shu, a small jungle not far from the city, and it is said that there is a small pond in this jungle.
"Thank you very much for your help." When he walked to the edge of the pond, a gentle voice suddenly came from behind Zheng Shu.
Zheng Shu, who was walking aimlessly in the jungle, immediately stopped his steps, knowing that the "person" he was waiting for was coming.
"Artemis." Zheng Shu turned around calmly and respectfully saluted the figure behind him, "You're polite." ”
"You don't need to be so respectful, after all, you are also allowed to come to this world by those two outsiders, and in essence, our status is the same." Artemis smiled, and the moonlight in the sky seemed to grow brighter with her smile.
Zheng Shu glanced at the performance of the moon and raised his eyebrows in some surprise, it seems that Artemis has mastered the rules about the moon a long time ago, which means that the current goddess of hunting can be renamed the goddess of the moon.
Zheng Shu has never had any surprises about Artemis that he knows that he is an outsider, not to mention anything else, these gods are all the controllers of the rules, and to say that they do not communicate with Gaia and Aleye, the two group consciousnesses, is simply an insult to Zheng Shu's IQ.
If you really want to talk about it, maybe only the three goddesses on the nameless island that Zheng Shu met after coming to this world are truly isolated from the world.
"In addition, I received a sacrifice from you, it was a very good battle, in that battle, you fully showed your bravery, not only me, but many gods also have a high opinion of you."
Artemis raised her hand, and a hazy moonlight gathered in her hand: "As a thank you for helping that child and for offering me a good sacrifice, please accept this gift!" ”
As Artemis's words fell, the hazy moonlight in her hand shattered into bits of light and floated towards Zheng Shu.
Looking at these rays of light floating towards him, Zheng Shu reflexively wanted to dodge, but soon forcibly resisted his actions and stayed in place to watch these rays melt into his body.
"In the name of the goddess of the hunt and the goddess of the moon, may you always find your prey in the moonlight!" Artemis looked at the moon in the sky with her hands above her head, as if her hands were holding the moon.
Along with her chanting, the silver moon in the sky also emitted a little bit of light and merged into Zheng Shu's body.
Zheng Shu looked down at his hands, his body also began to emit a faint glimmer after merging with the two kinds of light, but fortunately, these lights quickly converged back.
However, Zheng Shu immediately felt a huge difference, at least under the moonlight, he could feel his brain extremely clear.
"Okay, although it's just a trivial blessing, but this is also my heart, I hope you can accept it." Looking at the light on Zheng Shu's body, Artemis smiled softly again, and his body began to gradually blur.
Glancing at his body that was beginning to become transparent, Artemis waved his hand towards Zheng Shu: "Then, goodbye." ”
"Thank you for your blessings, Goddess Artemis." Zheng Shu drew a ritual symbol of the goddess of hunting on his chest with his hand, and watched the other party leave here.
"Hopefully we will have the opportunity to play side by side." After Artemis said this, her eyes suddenly glanced in a certain direction of the forest, intentionally or unintentionally, but she covered it up well and did not let Zheng Shu notice it, and then her entire body completely disappeared in place.
Zheng Shu looked at the place where Artemis disappeared for a moment, and only closed his eyes after a while, carefully understanding the effect of the blessing that the other party gave him.
Fortunately, this deity is quite careful in his work, and in addition to blessings, he also left a relevant message to pass on to their spirits.
Blessing of the goddess Artemis: When the moonlight is obscured, you can still shine on the moonlight. At night when you are illuminated by the moonlight, you can follow the guidance of the moonlight to find the location of your prey.
It is a simple blessing, which means that Zheng Shu will know the location of his enemies as long as it is night in the future. Although there is almost no enhancement in individual combat effectiveness, it just so happens that for Zheng Shu, combat effectiveness has never been something difficult to improve.
It's like in this type of moon world, theoretically, as long as he abandons his inner discipline, he can immediately obtain god-level combat power.
Therefore, compared to those blessings that directly improve combat effectiveness, Zheng Shu prefers this kind of functional blessing.
"Prey......" Zheng Shu touched his chin with his hand and kept thinking, and after a while he came to a conclusion, "Well, can't you really look for dead things?" That's right, after all, it's just a blessing from a planet-level god, how can it have a concept-level ability in itself. ”
Zheng Shu was a little disappointed, just now he tried to find the location of his mace, but it was clear that this blessing did not give him any feedback.
In other words, the minimum standard for "prey" should be at least a creature on the other side.
Although it is a pity that it is not a conceptual ability, but if you think about it carefully, the goddess Artemis herself probably does not have this level of ability, and it is a bit wishful thinking to expect her to have such power with a blessing.
After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Shu transformed the target he wanted to find into "Atalanta", fortunately this blessing gave him enough feedback, and in Zheng Shu's field of vision, a silver-white moonlight suddenly lit up from a certain direction in the distance.
"It's weird and easy to use." Zheng Shu scratched his hair, looking at the moonlight that was not too far away from him, but now he was still moving away from him, he was a little curious, "Why is Tameow going out of the city so late?" Won't she attend the party in the city? ”
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When Zheng Shu returned to the town, the joyous feast continued, and a group of unusually fancy heroes were scurrying around.
Through the conversation of the pedestrians on the side of the road, Zheng Shu probably knew that this city gathered all the heroes of several surrounding towns, although for Zheng Shu, the greatest value of that battle had been exhausted. But for these heroes, just cleaning up the scraps of the battlefield is enough for them to have a happy party again and again.
Walking on the road, Zheng Shu's eyes unconsciously turned a faint gold, and he raised his perception to the extreme, hoping to feel some more famous heroes from the city.
But things are a little different from what he imagined, in the entire city, there are almost no existences that can really make Zheng Shu look at it, even Tameow can be regarded as one of the strongest in this city.
And......
"Hey, hey, hey...... You...... Who is it?! Someone who was smiling and approaching deeper into the alley suddenly felt another person standing behind him.
"I said, don't you see that people are reluctant at all?" Zheng Shu patted the shoulder of a person in front of him, judging from his figure and dress, he should also be a "hero" who is not in the stream.
"Which bastard...... Not! ”
Bang!
As soon as the other party's words were halfway through, Zheng Shu directly blocked the rest of the words with his fist.
Looking at the guy who was spinning and flying out upside down, Zheng Shu didn't care, just now he limited his output and didn't kill the other party directly, but with that person's injury, it is estimated that he can only be a fool for the rest of his life.
He turned his head to look at the figure in the depths of the alley, sighed helplessly, and tried to make his tone a little softer: "Let's go, this guy is so drunk that he can't remember who you are, cover your face these days and try not to go out." ”
In the depths of the alley was a civilian-looking woman who looked quite good, the other party's clothes were pulled to pieces, and she still maintained a frightened face when she saw Zheng Shu at first.
Especially when she saw Zheng Shu easily punch the original "hero" out directly, the look of despair on her face became even more serious.
However, after hearing Zheng Shu's words and gentle voice, the woman hiding in the depths of the alley raised her head in disbelief. At this moment, in her gaze, it was as if she saw something unbelievable.
After hesitating again and again, confirming that Zheng Shu didn't want to play with her with words, the woman panicked and picked up the scraps on the ground to cover her body, and left the alley quickly. But just before she was about to step around the corner and leave the alley, she suddenly stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then turned to Zheng Shu and bowed deeply to thank her.
Zheng Shu waved his hand at her and sighed helplessly as he watched the woman disappear around the corner.
This is the truth about the so-called "heroes" of this world.
This is still in the big cities, and if some small villages meet "heroes", then a large number of "heroes" will be happy to help the village drive away robbers or drive out wild beasts, and then accept their gifts.
The truth is, while the villagers do give some material gratitude, they don't mind doing it themselves if the amount of wealth they get isn't as good as they want. In the process, the wealth they looted became the treasures of the villagers, and the women who were raped by the rape became voluntary sacrifices.
Plundering the wealth of the villagers and forcibly taking possession of the women of the village, these people do almost no different from the robbers they drive away. It's just that because of the heroic status of these people, most of the time they will advertise that these things are given voluntarily by the villagers.
In essence, the title of "hero" in ancient Greece can be equated more with "warrior".
To be honest, Zheng Shu has no intention of changing this kind of world in many cases, he is not a saint after all, and the moral bottom line of the current world is completely different from that of the previous life for various reasons.
Of course, after gaining strength, Zheng Shu naturally didn't mind reaching out to help with some good things within his ability.
Just like the woman he saved just now, if it wasn't for the other party really begging, Zheng Shu wouldn't have helped.
Because sometimes he may feel that he has saved the other party, but for some women, it is he who destroys their good deeds, after all, in this era, it is a very "popular" situation to seek offspring from the strong, and many people will think that marrying a woman with such a pregnancy is a very profitable thing.
After confirming that the woman was completely far away, Zheng Shu grabbed the ankle of the unlucky guy who had just been punched away by himself, and dragged him away from the scene.
Coming to the center of the city, a bonfire had been lit in the square, and while the people who had been drinking very well didn't notice it, Zheng Shu threw the guy in his hand into a shadowy corner.
The people here are already drunk, and if they want to find out that something is wrong with this guy, it will probably be tomorrow morning at the latest, and they probably won't be able to figure out what this guy was injured for.
In fact, according to Zheng Shu's understanding of the moral bottom line of these people, after discovering that this guy had a brain injury, the most likely thing for the surrounding group of "heroes" to do was to strip him of his equipment.
After dealing with this trivial matter, he looked up at the moonlight that had been marking the tower meow, and Zheng Shu walked straight in that direction.
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Following the moonlight to the city wall, Zheng Shu saw Ta Meow sitting on the city wall looking at the sky in a daze.
"Aren't you going to the banquet? I think it's quite lively down there. Zheng Shu jumped to the top of the city wall with a slight jump, and the city wall more than ten meters high did not cause him any difficulties at all.
Atalanta, who was looking at the moonlight and didn't know what she was thinking, suddenly felt a thrill after hearing Zheng Shu's voice from behind. Her action looked at Zheng Shu with curiosity, and she didn't deliberately hide her figure, with Atalanta's alertness, she shouldn't have failed to find herself.
"Ah, here you are." Atalanta's eyes were a little evasive, and she replied casually.
Zheng Shu was suddenly surprised to find that he actually felt a complex emotion from Ta Meow's body, and when he said it carefully, it should be similar to a mixture of jealousy and disbelief.
"By the way, this is the gold coins that you sold for those loot, I took it upon myself to help you sell these loot to merchants from other cities, and the harvest is generally very good." Feeling Zheng Shu's strange gaze, Atalanta suddenly felt a little weak.
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