Chapter 162 Plague Bringer
"You don't seem to be short of food, so why is everyone so thin?" Su Ming asked.
"We follow the will of the God of Hope and live an extremely frugal life," said Sarah.
"Okay...then do you have anything to tell us?" Su Ming didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.
"You two, and this little sister, you are in a very bad situation now." Sarah said solemnly.
Su Ming and Flora had no expression on their faces. They both stared at Sarah without saying a word, just waiting for the other to continue speaking.
Sarah waited for more than ten seconds, and seeing that the two did not respond, she felt a little embarrassed, so she had to bite the bullet and continue talking.
"You may not believe what I said, but this is the truth. In our world, there are three gods: the God of Plague, the God of Dreams, and the God of Hope that our village believes in. Did the guide before tell you the names of these three gods?"
"Well, we know that we encountered an infected person with abscesses all over his body along the way."
Sarah's expression changed slightly, and she asked cautiously, "Did you...kill him?"
"Um."
Sarah nodded, looked at the rifle on Su Ming's waist for a few more times, and said:
“The weapons from another world are indeed shocking, but you were lucky to have killed the infected without any damage. The infected are full of terrible viruses. If you touch them, you will become seriously ill within two or three days, and will die within a month at most.
Let me confirm, you...shouldn't have encountered the infected person, right?"
"We killed him from a distance."
"I think so, otherwise symptoms would have appeared by now." Sarah breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wait, I have a question. Do you mean that even if I encounter an infected person, I won't die immediately, but will have to wait a month before dying?" Flora asked.
"That's right."
Flora frowned and asked in confusion, "But the old man who led us today was touched by a few bugs and dissolved into black pus and blood in a few minutes. What happened?"
Sarah was shocked when she heard this: "What! He died in a few minutes after touching a bug?"
"That's right."
"Oh no! Oh no!... Have you burned the place down?"
"without."
"That's even worse! The people who slaughtered that village were not infected, but plague messengers. They were people who were specially cared for by the God of Plague... I didn't expect... that a plague messenger would appear in our place." Sarah's face was extremely ugly, even a little panicked.
"Is the situation difficult?" Su Ming asked.
“The Plague Bringer is a hundred times more powerful than the Infected… a terrifying existence!
Now that you have seen those bugs, you should be able to imagine how powerful those monsters are. There will be no living creatures in the path of the Plague Messenger. He can slaughter a town as easily as a swarm of locusts eating up a wheat field!
Any living creature touched by the insects he commands will turn into corrupt black blood. No one can escape. Even the powerful monsters in the wilderness cannot withstand the attack of the Plague Messenger... He is the symbol of death.
In this world, the only people who can get close to the Plague Messenger, apart from the believers of the Plague Cult, are probably those in dreams.
I hope he doesn't come here now, and it would be better if he goes to the town of the dreamer. If he comes to our side, then probably... we are all finished."
After Sarah finished speaking, she was silent for a long time, and suddenly said:
"Please sit here for a while. I'm going to talk to the high priest about this situation and will be back soon."
After Sarah left, Su Ming immediately said, "Sure enough, the power of people who believe in gods is also divided into different levels. Now that we have encountered the plague messenger, there is only one way to go, death."
"Don't you have a trump card?" Xia Xiaoyu asked puzzledly.
Su Ming glanced at Xia Xiaoyu and sighed, "You can't use the trump card casually. My trump card is different from superpowers. It can't be replenished naturally by resting. It can only be replenished by seizing superpowers or killing monsters... Now I can probably only use the trump card once, at most twice."
Su Ming did not hide anything from Xia Xiaoyu and told her everything about the annihilation mode.
"Then there's nothing we can do. If the enemy relies on insects to attack, we really don't have a good way to deal with it." Xia Xiaoyu said solemnly.
"Since you, Su Ming, can seize superpowers, the best way now is to find a fire-type superpower user and then take away his superpowers. With fire-type superpowers, it will be much easier to resist the infected and plague messengers." Flora touched her chin, thinking seriously.
Su Ming had the same idea as Flora. He also felt that he had to optimize his superpower configuration. The two powers, Blood-made Blade and Knife Wounds that Don't Stop Bleeding, were specially designed for close combat and were not suitable for combat in this world. He had to get some long-range attack abilities.
But are there people with superpowers in this world?
Su Ming wasn't sure.
"Flame is very important. It is necessary to deal with the Plague God, but what about the Dream God? Those dream people sound very difficult to deal with, as if they can't be killed at all. We must study the tactics to deal with the dream people, and then configure another superpower." Su Ming said.
The door of the cabin opened again, and Sarah came back, and with him came a very young man.
This young man's attire was clearly different from that of the other villagers. He was only wearing a pair of pants, and his naked upper body was covered with tattoo-like scars. There were rune-like bloody marks on his arms, and it was obvious that the wounds were still fresh.
Is it because of faith?
Su Ming frowned slightly.
"This is our high priest."
"Hello, three guests who have come from afar. May the God of Hope bless you - Jiwazi Sempruada." The high priest said slowly.
Su Ming nodded and asked, "Excuse me, is there anyone in your world who has special abilities since birth? For example, the ability to breathe fire and create ice."
"The ones favored by God? There are quite a few in our village." The high priest said, "You should be the ones favored by God too, right?"
“I guess so.”
It turns out that people with special abilities here are called God-favored People. This world has been completely swallowed up by religious beliefs, Su Ming thought.
“My three guests, I must solemnly tell you a piece of bad news. All outsiders like you will be hunted down by the followers of the Plague Cult and the Dream Cult.
Once they see you, they will do everything they can to kill you, and the dream god will continue to interfere with your mind and tempt you to fall... Only the god of hope can save you."
"Are you going to recruit us into the sect so soon?" Su Ming laughed.
The high priest's purpose was seen through, but he remained calm and continued, "I know that what I just said is hard for you to believe, but every word I said is true. If you don't believe it, you will soon be tempted by the God of Dreams.
I don't ask you to join the Church of Hope right away, I just hope you won't linger in the false dreamland without knowing how to return. Please always remember that everything in the dream is fake no matter how realistic it is. "The high priest stared into Su Ming's eyes, and every word he said was sincere.
And Su Ming also felt that the other party did not deceive them.
But he did not forget the old man he met at the beginning. The contradiction shown by the same answer made him feel uneasy.
Are the members of the Church of Hope really helping them? It seems so.
But why did he feel that the old man was lying when he asked him that question? Could there be two answers to the same question?
Or is this just an extremely low probability error of super intuition?
"Thank you." Su Ming said.
The high priest nodded slightly and continued : "If you want to join the Church of Hope, you can come to me at any time. I will listen to the will of the God of Hope for you, and then grant you an eternal divine contract with the God of Hope." The high priest clasped his hands together and gently pressed them against his forehead, making a prayer gesture.
"Thank you, we will consider it carefully." Su Ming imitated the other party and made a praying gesture.
"Xia Xiaoyu, follow the high priest later." Su Ming said.
"learn."
The high priest left, and Xia Xiaoyu followed him.
Sara stayed in the room and had no intention of leaving. He seemed to want to continue the conversation on the previous topic.
Sara's eyes fell on Alice's face. He smiled gently and said, "Is this cute little girl your child?"
"No." Su Ming coldly denied the other party's speculation, and then asked his own question, "How many people favored by God are there in this village?"
"There are three people. Anthony is an adult. He is the patron saint of our village and a holy warrior of the Cult of Hope. He is responsible for dealing with infected people who accidentally wander outside the village. His flame can purify those deadly germs. He has fully adapted to this dangerous job."
Flora's eyes lit up and she glanced at Su Ming secretly, but found that Su Ming's expression did not change at all, and he was not happy about it at all.
"What about the other two? What are their abilities?" Su Ming asked.
“Lily’s ability is to slowly heal wounds. Although it is a very precious ability, it is of no use to us.
Little Sura can make sand hard and compact. He can now use sand as cement to build houses. Maybe when he grows up a little bit, our houses can gradually become stone houses. This should be safer... but it's not very useful. "
"Cement? Do you know what this is?" Su Ming asked.
"The adhesive between houses. Maybe our cement is different from yours, but since the uses are the same, I think it should be okay to use this term, right?"
"Did you learn Chinese from outsiders like us?"
"I heard that it was like this at the beginning, but I didn't directly fight with the outsiders. I learned the language from the previous high priest." Sarah said, "People from the Plague Cult and the Dream Cult have no intention of learning your language. In this world, only people who want to teach can communicate with you."
