Chapter 38: The Stargazer

"No, absolutely impossible!"

Feeling the soft touch coming from his back, Yorkham Jones immediately shook his head and quickly broke free from the little succubus's embrace:

"You're just in time, help me go back and tell your master to start the next step. ”

"Ah, Captain, they've been on their way for a day!, you're going to call them back again!" Vile pouted at once.

"No way, who let you come here by coincidence. ”

Yorkham Jones sighed and shook his head, and said softly:

"When you're done, you can be rewarded. ”

"Can I pick my own?" asked Vile immediately as happily as a little girl.

"Yes. ”

After a few clicks, Yorkham Jones thought for a few seconds and then said:

"Don't make any strange requests, though!"

"Mmmmmmmmmm

Vile nodded, and stepped into the shadows again.

"Whew..."

Seeing the figure disappear, Yorkham Jones quickly took a breath and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead:

"It's really hard to resist, if I continue like this, I'm going to go home early to find my family Dai'er..."

Looking at Yorkham Jones's appearance of being reborn after the catastrophe, Jingjing immediately glared at him with disgust:

"Jones, if you let Vile know that you can use the Light Elf to send a message, you're going to be miserable! You want to let her run back and forth when she can do it all at once. ”

"Then what can I do? The captain did not listen to their orders, could it be that he really hung them on the mast?"

Wronged, Yorkham Jones looked at the 'ghost doll' lying on the table, and when he saw it stretching comfortably, he said:

"I mean, you look like you're enjoying it, not like you're hurt at all. ”

"Ouch, my great master, I have so much pain here!" the 'ghost doll' immediately pointed to the hole in her stomach.

At this moment, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Huh? Did Marcus find it?

Muttering, Yorkham Jones put away the 'ghost doll' and walked to the door.

When I opened the door, a slender figure came into view, it was a girl.

"Hello, I'm a 'stargazer' and I'm here for the story. ”

The girl's voice was very languid, as if she had just woken up from a nap, she was a head shorter than Jokham Jones, and she wore a long gray hooded trench coat.

She didn't wear shoes, and her feet didn't walk on the ground, and a touch of light like a nebula outlined her beautiful feet, which looked like a seductive witch in a TV series.

Yorkham Jones couldn't see the girl's face clearly, and although she didn't hide it, every time she looked at it, she could only see a nebula.

"Ms. 'Stargazer', I'm sorry for you. ”

Smiling politely, Yorkham Jones invited the mysterious 'stargazer' into the house, and although he was looking for Marcus, he was also very happy to have a real stargazer, because he could ask a lot of questions.

Sitting at the table, Yorkham Jones and Ching Jing stared curiously at the 'stargazers', and although they both knew stargazers, they had encountered them for the first time.

The two are very interested in this mysterious profession that controls 'deception' and 'prophecy'.

After a few glances, Qin Jing immediately started to ask:

"Sister 'Stargazer', can you really see the fate of others?"

"Sister Stargazer, how did you predict it? Like a witch on TV? with a crystal ball or something?"

"Also! Why is the 'prophecy' called 'true deception'?"

"Don't ask so much! Stargazers are expensive! Ask something useful!"

Yorkham Jones immediately glared at it, and then looked at the 'stargazer' gently:

"I don't know, why did you come to this story?"

"Bloody Mary. ”

The 'Stargazer' lazily spat out a few words, and then took out a crystal ball from his cloak:

"There are many ways to prophesy, but I prefer crystal balls. ”

The Bloody Mary...

It seems that she deliberately found us, I don't know what she wants to do...

"What are we going to do?" asked Yorkham Jones, muttering inwardly.

"Put on a 'Bloody Mary' princess dress and just put your hands on it. "The 'stargazer' pointed to the basket.

"Okay! wait for me!" the cutie replied happily, and ran to her bed to change her clothes.

What a little fool, he believes what others say...

Shaking his head, Yorkham Jones continued to look at the 'Stargazer':

"I heard that the prophecy of stargazers is a lie if you choose not to believe it. ”

"Yes. ”

The Stargazer nodded, then gently swiped her slender white fingers across the crystal ball, and as a touch of starlight shone brightly, she whispered in a languid voice:

"The choice of true destiny is in everyone's hands. ”

"Therefore, the fate that can be told is a 'lie', but if you act according to the 'lie', the fate told will become the real fate. ”

"Interesting theory. ”

Yorkham Jones smiled and asked:

"What does the world look like?"

"The dark and silent cemetery, countless chaotic lines and points are intertwined, dense places, points and lines begin to order, order gives birth to the great shore, the great shore brings life, but the cemetery is still the cemetery, and the order is collapsing. ”

The 'stargazer' sang softly, like a traveler singing a poem of his hometown, his voice full of nostalgia and sighs, as if countless stories had been written in it.

Well.. The majesty is the gods, and the gods are the laws...

What she says is that the laws are crumbling, and the life born in the Silent Graveyard is also dying, which is very much in line with the image of the Age of Destruction.

In this way, it seems that the 'stargazer' can really see the world as it is...

Muttering a few words in his heart, Yorkham Jones asked again:

"What about the gods? ”

"Have you ever observed ants?" asked the Stargazer softly.

"I haven't observed much. Yorkham Jones shook his head.

The 'stargazer' didn't speak, but ran his finger across the crystal ball.

A glimmer of stars shone brightly, and countless underground palaces were displayed, inhabited by ants, who seemed to possess wisdom and created civilization.

This civilization is being destroyed, countless floods have washed away castles and half of the earth has been submerged.

In the flood, civilization is struggling to survive, and thousands of ants crawl out of their burrows dragging grains of rice, bugs, sugar sprinkles, and other things.

Outside the cave, the whole heaven and earth were covered with oceans, and huge winds and waves rolled in layer by layer, as if the whole world was being destroyed.

Looking at the world, the eldest ant led the colony of ants to put all kinds of food on a high place, posed in the shape of a 'triangle' and a 'six-pointed star', and then knelt down and prayed.

"Mom... What are those patterns?" asked a small ant in the colony, pointing to the 'triangle' and the 'six-pointed star'.

"The image of the gods, legend has it that the gods visited us long ago, and He gave us endless food and helped us survive the great flood. The big ant next to him replied gently.

Looking at the raging flood that destroyed the world, the little ant prayed sincerely and asked:

"Will the gods save us again?"

The big ant was stunned for a moment, as if it had never thought about this problem, and after a while, it looked at the 'triangle' and the 'six-pointed star' with firm eyes, and replied:

"Yes, definitely. ”

At this moment, the picture of the crystal ball suddenly jumped, the flood disappeared, and the peaceful grassland picture appeared.

Civilization is still ants, and they are migrating.

This civilization has been migrating for a long time, but it still has not found a place to settle down, and it is running out of food, and it is already on the verge of extinction.

Suddenly, the whole heaven and earth shook, and a strange and indescribable sound rang in the ears of every ant.

At the sound, a creature as huge as heaven and earth appeared, and two round things came into view, as deep as the stars of the universe, and grew chains like pillars of heaven.

No ant knew what it was, because they couldn't see the whole outline of the huge creature, they could only see countless huge mountains growing on it.

At the same time, you can also see that under the beads, there is a 'triangle' and a 'six-pointed star' flashing, which is a pattern that they do not recognize at all.

"Gods!"

I don't know which ant shouted, and the entire ant civilization knelt down.

Suddenly, a huge hole appeared in the sky, and colorful giant stars rolled out.

These superstars rolled to the ground quickly, and I don't know which ant licked it, and then shouted frantically:

"Food! Food! It's a gift from the gods!"

As soon as the sound fell, all the ants crawled frantically towards the colorful giant, all of them feasting on their feasts and collecting countless surpluses.

After this incident, this ant civilization stayed here because the land was favored by the gods.

At this point, the screen turns again.

The ant civilization seems to have survived for countless years, they have changed generation after generation, the former gods have been written in the 'holy book', and the 'triangle' and 'six-pointed star' that accompany the gods have also become symbols representing the gods.

On this day, the ant civilization all crawled out of the cave, and this day was the day when the gods appeared, and they prayed and cheered for the gods.

Suddenly, the sky darkened.

Immediately after, raindrops fell like huge mountains.

Looking up, the ant civilization could only see a huge hollow, as if the sky had fallen, and an endless flood was smashing down.

The ant civilization began to scatter and flee, but the wisest ant made everyone continue to pray, saying that it was the wrath of the gods and that they must ask for forgiveness.

As a whole prayer sounded, suddenly, something as thick as a galaxy slammed across, and then all the flood disappeared.

At this point, the ant civilization has become more devout to this god.

Watching the evolution of the picture, Yorkham Jones was a little puzzled and looked at the 'stargazer'.

"Let's look at it differently. "The 'stargazer' didn't explain, and swiped across the crystal ball again.

The same starlight shone brightly, and a human manor appeared in the crystal ball.

In the garden of the manor, a baby is crawling around with a bag of candy, the baby is a little girl, with watery eyes, slender eyebrows, and a necklace around her neck, which is in the shape of a 'triangle' and a 'six-pointed star'.

The baby suddenly stops because she has discovered something interesting.

Those things are a swarm of migrating ants.

The baby didn't understand what an ant was, she just thought it was funny, and then she 'giggled' and looked down.

At the same time, the candy bag in the baby's hand is also a lot more off, and colorful round candies are rolled out.

Seeing this, Yorkham Jones understood a lot, but he did not speak, but continued to watch quietly.

At this moment, the picture turns again.

Same estate, same family, but the baby has grown to about 4 years old.

The little girl was very naughty, and was running around the garden with a water gun, and she had to spray all kinds of insects when she came across them.

After running for a while, the little girl stopped again, and looked down to see that she had encountered the original ant civilization again.

These ants are singing the praises of the little girl, but it is impossible for the little girl to remember that she once saved a civilization.

The little girl just thought it was funny and raised her water gun to shoot at the group of ants.

After a while, the little girl's mother ran over and saw that her clothes were wet, so she snatched the water gun and dragged the little girl home.

"Hehe, isn't that interesting?"

"Ants are singing praises to the gods, but they have never really understood the gods and will never be able to. ”

"They will never know that the gods they sing are destroying them, and they will never know that the emblem they worship is only a necklace. ”

The 'stargazer' laughed twice and added:

"But God, He doesn't care. Even destruction or salvation never thought about it, they just found it interesting and just spent a simple afternoon. ”

As he spoke, the Stargazer touched the crystal ball again, and then the first apocalyptic image reappeared.

The surviving ant civilization still prays religiously, and each ant longs for the gods to save their civilization once again.

Then, the picture changes to the human world.

A man is digging the ground with a hoe and infusing it with countless streams of water.

Next to her, the little girl had grown to about 7 years old, she sat on the wooden bench and shouted happily:

"Daddy, hurry up, I'd love to see my little pool, and I'm going to keep the little goldfish in it." ”

"Got it!" the man looked back softly and smiled dotingly.

The man increased his strength, and the current became stronger.

Then, the ant civilization, which was expected to be saved by the gods, completely went to extinction.

After the picture was frozen, the 'stargazer' said:

"This is the deity in the eyes of the 'stargazers'. ”

"We are like ants, unable to comprehend the true gods, we cannot see their true outlines, the corners we see become the emblem of our faith, and the laughter we hear is understood by us as unintelligible sounds. ”

"We can't understand what they do, maybe they are just making a fire to cook, but in our eyes, it is a heavenly fire that can destroy the world..."

"In our eyes, one of their muscles is a majestic sky, two eyes are the deepest stars in the universe, and an eyebrow or hair is a pillar of heaven..."

"When they swatted a mosquito to death, we thought it was the gods who cleared the demons. ”

"When a bird flies down, we think it's the legendary dragon, and when an anteater arrives, he becomes the monarch of hell who climbs up from the abyss..."

"Interesting vision. ”

Yorkham Jones smiled, didn't make much comment, and directly turned his head and waved to the cutie:

"Aren't you alright?"

"It's coming, it's coming!" replied, and happily rushed to the table.

PS: I also rested today and got sick, so it's only four thousand words +.