Chapter 159 The Existence of God
"Is this the alien space in the white fog?"
The scene before him made Su Ming a little dazed.
A few minutes ago, after they entered the white fog and waited for a while, everything around them quickly became blurred.
I don’t know how long it took, but the hard ground under my feet gradually became soft, and then the blurry scene around me became clear again.
Finally, the white fog dissipated and they appeared in the woods.
Su Ming looked around and saw Flora, Alice, and Xia Xiaoyu all followed in, without leaving any one out.
"Flora, why did you agree to come in here?"
"Sylvie knows everything about me," Flora said. "She promised me that if I died here, she would help me take care of Milo."
"So you came in? What if she lied to you?"
Su Ming was a little bit unbelievable. Flora obediently entered the white fog just because of such an unrealistic promise.
Flora: "I have my own reasons. Don't ask me. Just focus on the mission."
Just as he finished speaking, Alice gently pulled Su Ming's trouser leg. Alice hid behind Su Ming and pointed to a patch of dense grass and said, "Dad, there's someone there!"
Xia Xiaoyu and Flora beside him were both on guard, but Su Ming didn't care, because he knew that the other party was not spying on them with malicious intent, otherwise his super intuition would come into play.
There was a rustling sound in the bushes, and a man in a cloak walked out of the bushes with his back bent. His two arms exposed from the sleeves of the cloak were as thin as sticks of firewood, and his body was trembling slightly, as if he was a little afraid of them.
"Three...three strangers, I...I have no ill intentions. I have been guided by God to come here to welcome you." A hoarse voice came from under the cloak. The other party took off the hood of the cloak, revealing an old face full of wrinkles.
Su Ming looked at the old man. He looked a little scary. His dry and loose skin stuck to his facial bones, just like a piece of paper stuck on his bones. The pupil of one eye was cloudy white, and he must be blind. The white of the other eye was pale yellow and looked very unhealthy.
“Can you speak Chinese?”
Flora was surprised. Although the information she had received before said that the other party could communicate, she did not expect that they would communicate in Chinese. No matter how she looked at it, it was too strange.
"What did you say just now? God's guidance?" Su Ming frowned and repeated it.
The situation was a bit serious because he felt that the other party was not being mysterious and what he said was true.
This means that there might really be so-called gods in this world. Of course, it is also possible that this old guy is deceiving himself.
"He can't see me, he's a human, is he lying?" Xia Xiaoyu asked quietly.
Su Ming shook his head and said, "Just now, he didn't lie."
"Hey, are you here to help us?" Su Ming asked.
"Yes." The old man nodded slightly.
Su Ming's expression changed slightly.
Good man, you are lying!
Su Ming gave Xia Xiaoyu a wink, and Xia Xiaoyu immediately understood. She drew her knife and wanted to chop the other person, but he quickly held Xia Xiaoyu down.
"Wait, wait! I'm not asking you to chop! I have more questions to ask!" Su Ming said nervously.
Xia Xiaoyu was stunned, and obediently put the knife back into the sheath, and said as a matter of course: "Of course I know what you mean, I just want to scare him."
No one would believe that! It's obviously a lie. The person can't even see you, how can you scare him?
As if she realized that her reason had a loophole, Xia Xiaoyu blushed slightly and added hesitantly, "Uh... that's right, I just wanted to see if he really couldn't see me or was just pretending not to see me... Yes, that's right."
Su Ming sighed, let go of Xia Xiaoyu, turned to look at the mysterious old man, and asked tentatively: "You don't look like a good person, you don't want to hurt us, do you?"
"No, absolutely not! Please don't misunderstand me! I don't mean to harm you. I really was sent by God to help you!" The old man shook his hands like dry branches, extremely emotional.
Su Ming was stunned. The other party was not lying. He was telling the truth.
The situation suddenly became a little strange, and for the first time, super intuition gave a completely opposite answer.
When he was asked if he was here to help them, he answered that it was a lie. Then he asked again later, and the same answer became the truth... This was the first time Su Ming encountered such a situation.
Something went wrong with super intuition?
"Then how are you going to help us now?" Su Ming asked again.
"Come with me, three of you. I will take you to a safe place. It is very unsafe to stay outside." said the old man.
——It’s true.
"Lead the way."
Su Ming and his group followed the mysterious old man to the edge of the woods, but the old man did not leave the woods immediately. Instead, he asked Su Ming to follow him and walk along the edge of the bushes, as if he was avoiding something outside the woods.
Without the cover of the tree canopy, they could see the scene outside. There was a gravel field outside and a gray and dark sky above their heads, which was so oppressive that it was suffocating.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Su Ming and the other two saw a town. From here from afar, they could see the general appearance of the town.
The buildings here have pointed domes, and people ride in and out of the town on horseback. From the outside, it looks like a very ordinary medieval town, nothing special.
"It should be very easy to obtain first-hand intelligence in a place like this. Should we go in?" Flora asked Su Ming.
"No, that's the territory of the dreamer, it's very dangerous!" the old man said decisively.
"The person in my dream?" Su Ming frowned.
"The people in the dream are the patrons and believers of the God of Dreams... a group of monsters that cannot be killed. They are extremely cruel to outsiders like you and will use various means to slowly torture you to death."
"Tell me about the God of Dreams you mentioned. What is it ?"
The old man stopped, turned around, stared at Su Ming with his terrifying eyes, and said in a very serious tone:
"The God of Dreams is the god who controls dreams!"
The old man's expression revealed a hint of fear, and he lowered his voice unconsciously, as if he was afraid of being heard by some unknown being.
“The God of Dreams will sneak into your dreams, make you dream of beautiful things, and lure you into depravity.
If you fall, you will no longer be able to feel happy in reality. When you cannot reject the dreamland, it will appear before you and make you its believer... In the end, you may become the person in the dream. "
"What is the dream person?"
The old man paused, glanced at Su Ming, and said slowly:
"The Dream Man is an immortal monster blessed by the God of Dreams.
The god will create a body for his most devout believer, a perfect body that anyone could ever dream of... Then, this body will appear in reality, and that is the dreamer."
"Is it a real entity?" Su Ming asked.
The old man nodded slightly, sighed, and looked miserable. Su Ming saw helplessness on his face.
“Those people in the dream are extremely strong, handsome and majestic, and can use incredible and terrifying powers.
They cannot be killed. If you kill them, they will appear from nowhere after a while.
No one is a match for the people in dreams... No one can disobey them. They have great power in reality, like kings, and ordinary people can only submit to them. "
"Is there no way to kill them?"
"I heard someone say that if you want to kill them, you must find their sleeping bodies. Only by killing their bodies can the dreamers truly die. But... I've never heard of anyone succeeding... I think it's just a rumor."
Su Ming listened silently, and this time he still felt that the other party was not lying.
Su Ming felt that there might really be gods in this world.
The God of Dreams... Could it be that this god created the white fog and pulled the people from their world in?
"The God of Dreams? Could it be the culprit?" Flora thought of the same thing.
Su Ming shook his head, indicating that it was too early to draw a conclusion.
"If you wear clothes like this now, they will recognize you and hunt you down as soon as you go out. I will take you to my village to change clothes first," said the old man.
"Lead the way. By the way, have you ever met someone with golden hair who wears the same clothes as us? He is with a person with black hair." Su Ming suddenly stopped.
The old man thought and recalled for a while, then shook his head: "I have no impression."
"Okay, it's okay, keep going."
Su Ming nodded, and everyone continued to move forward along the edge of the woods. After some twists and turns, they finally arrived at the village that the old man had mentioned.
The shapes of the houses here are very strange. People live inside trees. The trees are shaped like teardrops, pointed at the top and wide at the bottom. The wide parts are hollowed out to serve as living space.
"Everyone! Come out!" the old man shouted.
But his voice received no response. The surroundings were quiet, without a single human voice.
Alice held Su Ming's hand tightly, carefully looked around, and said softly: "Dad, it smells a little bit."
"Yeah, I smelled it too." Su Ming said.
"Everyone, come out quickly!" the old man shouted again, but still no response.
In an instant, the old man's expression changed.
"How could it be? Could it be!"
He ran hurriedly towards the nearest tree house. The moment he opened the curtain, swarms of insects crawled out of the tree house.
“Ah!”
The old man let out a strange cry and backed away repeatedly, but bugs still crawled over his bare feet.
The bugs scattered, and some of them crawled towards the feet of Su Ming and his group. These ordinary-looking insects gave Su Ming a strong sense of crisis. He picked up Alice and shouted, "Back off! Don't touch them!"
When Flora and Xia Xiaoyu heard Su Ming's order, they jumped back instantly and avoided the scattered swarm of insects.
The swarm of insects wandered around aimlessly, slipped into the grass nearby, and disappeared.
In the distance, the old man sat down on the ground in dejection, black spots began to appear on the soles of his feet, slowly crawling along the meridians and blood vessels to the calves. The skin occupied by the black spots quickly became congested and swollen, and bubbles began to appear. Dark red translucent blood seeped out from the bubbles and dripped down stickily.
"Oh, God of Hope! Please bless us." The old man looked at the infected area on his leg and prayed desperately.
"Are you okay?" Su Ming shouted loudly, walking towards the other person.
The old man was horrified when he saw Su Ming coming over, and he shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't come near me!"
