Because of the things they had done before, almost everyone thought it was "heaven's damnation", "retribution", and that the gods were trying to wipe out this sinful village with holy power.

Then at such times, the village chief stepped forward.

He told everyone that you are sinners, because you have committed great mistakes, you have been brought under the hands of the gods to be punished, and you will be sent to hell and will not be reborn. But because I'm the one chosen by the gods, and I'm the messenger of the gods, I can save you all—

He didn't lie about one thing.

In terms of being able to "save" everyone.

The player with the healing power would not cooperate with him, so the village chief used her blood, her bones, and her flesh to cut into layered filaments and melt them into the food, like a garnish seasoning. Then he used this very magical food to send it to the stomachs of the villagers, like a ritual, and turned the tide and became the messenger of the gods and the last hero.

But there will always be some after-effects of these practices.

For example, perhaps because of the player's lack of cooperation, her flesh did not work as well as it should. Or maybe he was poisoning the villagers so hard that even if they got better, they quickly weakened after a few months.

As if they were suffering from a strange disease, they walked through the streets of the village, and they seemed to smell the very obvious smell of erosion emanating from the depths of the bones and blood, which was the stench of corpses emitted by the decay of the skins from the inside, so that flies and scavengers lingered around the villagers all day long, as if they could not wait to eat the meat.

The "medicine" will always be used cleanly. She didn't even have much flesh left on her.

The village chief, who was very distressed, once again got a hint of the copy in his dream.

For one of the last players to survive, the malice couldn't be more obvious.

The village chief finally kills the poor player.

Because of her healing powers, she may be awake until the end.

He chops the player's body into large chunks of flesh and proceeds to the village detention center, where villagers who had previously belonged to the other side of the fight were held. Many of them were wounded, because of the experience of these days and the lack of proper treatment, many people had died, and the corpses were stacked on the ground uncoveredly, completely rotting and bleeding pus, which was extremely terrifying, but the people next to the corpses looked very numb, and they didn't even bother to move their nests and let themselves go to a slightly cleaner place.

They seem to know that their lives are short, so they don't care about anything.

The confined space emitted a terrible smell of corpses, so strong that even the guards were reluctant to take a step closer to avoid being fainted by the terrible smell. The detention center is almost unstaffed, because everyone knows that these "prisoners" have absolutely no physical strength to escape, and they are unlikely to even survive this summer night.

In the stench, the village chief walked in it as if he didn't care.

He singled out the less seriously injured young men—men and women—and took them away.

Everyone was able to freshen up in a large pool. This gives these people a little more energy, even if they can wash out the maggots born in their wounds, so that the wounds are not so itchy. In short, they cleaned themselves with the last of their strength, and then got a pot of hot broth.

It was a rare meal for them.

There wasn't a lot of meat, no salt and no seasonings, not even side dishes like greens and potatoes, just a pure pot of broth. But no one complained, the broth was so delicious that it could bite off their tongues, and everyone was given a piece of meat of about the same amount. Some people don't wonder even if they see some strange part of the bowl, especially now that they're so hungry that they're just gurgling down the broth and gnawing every bone with great care.

At that moment, they even forgot who imprisoned them here, who allowed them to die, who started the "war", but they were very satisfied and admired the good Samaritan who was willing to give them the broth. For a while, he had the urge to be willing to smear his liver and brain.

Next, next......

The next thing they did was unconscious.

When the village chief left again, there was no longer the smell of rotting garbage wafting from those stinking bodies, and the poor wounded were standing on their bones.

Instead, he carried a heavy bucket on his back, from which the sound of splashing water was constantly heard.

The village chief began to breed a type of edible fish, a special species of fish given by the gods, and when raised, it was a sacrifice to the gods. In the same way, eating this fish can also cure the divine punishment that has been inflicted on the villagers - that is, those strange diseases. Although it cannot be completely cured, it can at least guarantee that no one will die easily because of divine punishment, and will go to hell to suffer before atoning for their sins.

Of course, if someone dies, of course, it's because he's not sincere enough with the gods.

The village chief swore an oath.

When he died, his son took over his work of cultivating sacrifices. Gradually, no one wondered why the sacrifice had two forms, a man and a fish, and even if they had a humanoid appearance, it was as if some voice was emphasizing in their heads, it was just a strange-looking alien race.

……

The wet hand raised slightly and grabbed Yuan Yuxue's shoulder.

It was as if countless dense, invisible wounds had been cut on his body, oozing invisible blood.

It was as if she had been cut into pieces, and the pain made her barely able to speak.

But it was only "almost", at least at this time, the mermaid leader could still squeeze a little sound out of his throat.

"So get it, idiots." She said to the villagers, "There is no such thing as divine punishment, only artificial poisoning." ”

"There are no sacrifices to heal all things, they are all another group of villagers, or the descendants of the villagers."

"And from beginning to end—"

She tilted her head slightly, and repeated the words that sounded arrogant as blasphemy, "There are no gods at all." ”

Chapter 309: Gold and Silver Village 88

This time, instead of being furious, the villagers wanted to kill the filthy sacrifice who dared to slander the gods.

When they saw the blood oozing from between her teeth, it was like the blood that had been punished for telling some secret word, and they had a very ridiculous idea in their hearts, and a ridiculous desire to believe it......

What she said seemed to be true.

The villagers had a splitting headache.

It was a strange feeling of pain that was going to tear their souls apart, and their bodies felt as if they were violently being split in half.

Even from everyone's point of view, or physiology, they should be "monsters" in the truest sense of the word, but the villagers believe that they are ordinary human beings - yes, amazing logic, they believe that they are simple villagers who defend the village and their faith. The players are merciless because they are intruders and slaughter sacrifices, because they think they are just "fish" and not humans, let alone humans of the same origin as them.

And the words of that "sacrifice" are like completely shaking their worldview and perception for a long time.

Their tragic fate for generations, the handicapped limbs that have been handed down, obviously because they were punished by the gods for their past sins, are a sign of atonement, as long as the sins are redeemed, they can get a healthy body in the next life, how can it be because of the disability caused by being poisoned?

The sacrifices they killed were all raised under the leadership of the fat man, and it was a very serious job, how could it be conjured up by the people of the same village or even their descendants—

The expressions of the villagers were very wonderful for a while.

The already pale face of a paper figure became even more gray. The eyeballs muttered and rolled and landed on someone's face.

"Fatty." Someone is shouting the name.

"You're the next village chief, you should know—"

Their voices were as coherent as they had never been, as if they were coming from a man's voice. The perfect overlap makes people feel chills on their backs inexplicably.

"Is what she said true?"

"Has this happened in the past?"

"Are we born disabled because of poisoning?"

They approached step by step, and a very hideous look suddenly appeared on that expressionless face. The eyebrows were raised high, and the mouth was slanted, twisted as if it was going to devour the flesh and blood of the person in front of him, but in the blink of an eye, the expression became normal again, and the facial features were all in the place where they should be, but the eyes were wide open, and the eyes bulged out, as if the eyeballs would roll off from them.

Their voices overlapped and suddenly asked, "What do you say!!" ”

The vines, which were growing violently under the control of the villagers, no longer continued to attack at this time, but stayed in place and swayed slightly, strangely entangled themselves in a ball. It also seems to indicate that the owner who is using them is probably in some kind of extremely emotional state and not enough to settle down.

This relieved Xiao Qi of some pressure.

However, judging by her extremely pale and ugly face at the moment, she probably didn't have time to notice this.

The fat man who was forced to ask had a much uglier face. His face was very gloomy, with a greasy glow reflecting from his forehead, and his cheeks were tense, but he still couldn't hide that every piece of fat on his face trembled when he spoke: "What kind of attitude do you have!" Do you want to listen to the words of a brute?! ”

After the reprimand, he seemed to have regained a little courage, and wiped the little oil on his forehead, "It's ridiculous, she denies the existence of the gods like this, and doesn't fear our gods, why don't you hurry up and arrest her......" The gloomy look on his face resurfaced, "Kill her and sacrifice to the gods to make amends!" ”

The bottom of the fat man's heart is also bottomless.

But he didn't lie, from the moment he was conscious, the elders who taught him told him that the gold and silver village was a sacrificial village belonging to the gods, and because they were punished by the gods, they would recuperate here diligently and sacrifice to the gods.

They can eat part of the sacrifice to slow down the damage of divine punishment to them, and they can prolong their lives and avoid all harms. Their bodies can even be reborn continuously, and the only thing that cannot be satisfied is probably that the villagers of Jinyin Village will always have a disability in their bodies, such as one of his eyes that has been completely necrotic and blind, and there will never be a day when they will recover, because this is the punishment of the gods.

When he grows up, he will also serve as a new "successor", raising sacrifices and establishing himself as an unrivaled position in the village.

He's always thought so, and he's always looked forward to working hard for it, but why did all this change when it was his turn......

His gaze swept over Yuan Yuxue extremely gloomily, and of course, the beast he was protecting, and the unbelievable anger erupted on his face, making his entire face now swollen to a terrible pig liver color.

Damn, shit, shit!

And the mermaid leader, who heard the fat man's defense, chuckled contemptuously, and still said in the voice that made the fat man angry: "If there really is a god, why didn't it appear when I 'slandered' it?" Or kill me to show your miracles. ”

But after she finished speaking, nothing happened.

"It won't be." She said with great sarcasm and malice, "Because the truth from the beginning is like this." ”

It has been sealed in the dust for hundreds of years, and it looks too bloody and bad, as if it is filled with the bad stench of rotting corpses, so bad that it is unacceptable, the truth.

And I don't know when, Xiao Qi actually approached Yuan Yuxue and them quietly.

Her skills are very sensitive, not to mention the ability to manipulate those vines that are wriggling like huge blood vessels, so that she can be careful not to be scratched, and get close to Yuan Yuxue through the vines - of course, this premise is actually that although Yuan Yuxue glanced at her, for some reason, she didn't dodge it.

Xiao Qi kept a safe enough distance and did not come any closer.

She's using this distance to guarantee ...... You are never a threat.

Then she spoke in a slightly hoarse voice—a question she had been so concerned about from the beginning.

"You ......"

Because he didn't know her name, Xiao Qi's throat rolled slightly, skipped a certain pronoun, stared at her eyes with great concentration, and said, "...... And why do you say that you may be the same existence as us? ”

Xiao Qi thought for a moment, and then added, "You should know what we are, right?" ”

They are outsiders, they are players, they are beings who are imprisoned in and beyond the dungeon world.

In a way, even if it seems a little cruel, you have to make sure that point - the merfolk boss in front of you is definitely not close to the player, and she was born under some extremely sad circumstances. The descendants of poor villagers who ate most of the corpses of the original players and were endowed with strange abilities.

For this kind of question, which actually seemed slightly offensive, even the mermaid leader was slightly silent.

She's in a terrible state right now.

Probably because she said the information that was not allowed by the copy, she was so weak that she looked like she would die at any time - if it weren't for Yuan Yuxue's slight frowning, in fact, she had been continuously feeding her the healing and soothing energy converted from precious energy, she would have stopped breathing a long time ago.

But even in such a bad state, she still didn't completely deal with Xiao Qi with silence.

It seems that from the very beginning, she had an amazing desire to communicate with Xiao Qi.

“…… Memory. After a long silence, she tilted her head slightly and spit out these two words very softly.

Xiao Qi was slightly stunned, because she was so nervous, she couldn't even hide the doubtful emotions that flowed from her eyes.

"I have memories of 'her.'" The mermaid leader's face was calmly replenished.

Even if she didn't say which name she was talking about, in fact, whether it was Xiao Qi or Yuan Yuxue, she knew who the person in her mouth was referring to-

The first players of that dungeon, the healing system that was brutally executed.

"I have a complete memory of 'her'. From death, to being devoured into another body. And then the process is repeated, dying again and again, 'inheriting' again and again, but the feeling is more like some memory hidden in the body being reawakened. ”