Chapter 165 Disaster Strikes
"Majin are probably the closest to humans among the creatures that can communicate... I originally thought so, but some things that happened later made me change my mind.
Those who make a deep contract with the devil and are eventually devoured by the devil's power may still retain human characteristics at first, but these characteristics will eventually disappear, and these characteristics disappear very quickly... This is a process I witnessed with my own eyes.
A deep contractor who is devoured will definitely become a demon. From being unable to see me as a human, he will slowly be able to indirectly see the impact I have caused in reality, then gradually be able to vaguely hear my voice, and finally, until he can see me when I force his attention to him.
I witnessed the entire transformation of a person from a human to a demon, and then I learned a terrible conclusion.
Demons are indeed not human. Although they look very similar to humans, they actually do not have any human characteristics at all.
I can't understand his thoughts, and he can't understand mine. The understanding I'm talking about is not just about the three views, but that those demons have almost lost their empathy for humans, and they don't understand human desires at all.
I told him I was very sad, and although he would verbally agree with me, in his heart he would just treat this complaint as a cockroach with a broken leg rolling on the ground. He would help me when I was useful to him, but if I was useless, he would never help me.
"Why not use a dog or a cat as a metaphor?" Su Ming interrupted.
"Because when a dog or cat is hurt, humans have feelings, but when you see an insect hurt, you just think, 'Oh, this insect is hurt, it's in pain', you make a judgment, but the final emotion is not affected because you don't care.
They don't even care, let alone understand the thoughts of insects. In their eyes, I am just like an insect, or even more insignificant than an insect, just a machine with operating rules.
Of course, it's not just me, all humans are like that in the eyes of demons.
I feel that my interaction with the demons is actually like my interaction with a group of talking cats and dogs. Talking to them can dispel my loneliness, but they can’t understand me after all. Later, I even liked dogs more.
At that time, I wanted to find a human being, a human being who could see me.
Then, I met you.
At that time, my thought was that I would help you in whatever you did. No matter what kind of person you were, I would become the same as you, because you meant a lot to me.
The feeling is indescribable, just like a person locked in a dark room suddenly breaks open the door, countless possibilities appear before one's eyes, and many things that could not be done can be done all of a sudden.
But later, I found out that you were a good person... If you turned out to be an unforgivable murderer in the end, I really don’t know if I would continue to like you. At that time, I might always be thinking about you as you are now, and then continue to live alone.
Of course, I'm not sure. I might also be the villain with you. After all, two villains sound much more comfortable than one good guy. "
Xia Xiaoyu lowered her head and spoke intermittently. Her logic was intermittent and her expression was disorganized. She didn't seem to care whether Su Ming understood what she said. Instead, she seemed to be recalling her own life, as if she was reflecting on herself.
Su Ming observed Xia Xiaoyu with interest. Before, Xia Xiaoyu gave him the feeling that she was born to meet him.
Su Ming didn't know why he had such a domineering idea. Perhaps it was because Xia Xiaoyu was inseparable from him and was so good to him.
But after hearing what he just said, he realized that Xia Xiaoyu was a person with her own independent life, and before he met her, she had also experienced many incredible things.
Although Su Ming felt a little disappointed when he heard Xia Xiaoyu's answer, he was more happy. This is how Xia Xiaoyu should be. She should not become his vassal.
At the same time, Xia Xiaoyu also came back to her senses from her thoughts. She looked at Su Ming, staring into his eyes, and recalling the answer she had just received.
She thought...if Su Ming really became an unforgivable villain, if Su Ming still treated her the same way he did now, then she would definitely still be with Su Ming.
She couldn't explain the reason, she just knew that she enjoyed this feeling. Before entering the white fog, when Su Ming asked her not to follow in, she felt uncomfortable but also happy.
If Su Ming had insisted on not letting her in, she would have been very sad, but if Su Ming had not cared from the beginning, she would not have been so happy.
This psychological effect manifested itself in very contradictory behavior, and even Xia Xiaoyu couldn't explain why she was like this.
She only knew that she liked the feeling of being cared for by Su Ming. When Su Ming asked her not to go in, she was extremely happy. Although he only said a trivial "Don't go in", it meant that he wanted to protect her.
That was the first time she was protected by someone, which made her want to be protected by him forever and never come into contact with anything that might hurt her under his protection. But on the other hand, she also wanted to risk her life and give everything for him to prove to him that she loved him just as much.
Later, when Su Ming insisted on not letting her in, she was heartbroken. She felt that Su Ming didn't know how much she cared about him... He didn't know that she could do anything for him. At that time, she only hoped that he could understand her, and nothing else mattered.
So Xia Xiaoyu knew the answer to the question just now. She figured it out. If she was loved, it didn’t matter whether she was a good person or a bad person. She would be with Su Ming.
"I won't be a bad person." Su Ming looked at Xia Xiaoyu and said with great confidence.
But this was not the answer Xia Xiaoyu wanted. She opened her mouth to ask the question she cared about, then hesitated and smiled, "Well, I believe you!"
At this time, there was a noisy sound outside the house. Su Ming's expression suddenly changed and he stood up and walked out.
When he opened the door, he saw people running back and forth outside, running towards the wooden wall outside the village. Flora followed him out of the house and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It looks like something went wrong!"
Su Ming followed the crowd towards the wooden wall, climbed up the wall with the villagers, and looked into the distance.
He looked from afar and saw a dark carpet moving towards this side on the plain far away from here.
The black carpet covered the sky like a tide, and the rolling swarms of insects piled on top of each other, overwhelming everything and eroding the bushes and trees along the way.
The beetle's hard shell reflects in the sunlight, with a metallic texture, like a black iron stream. The friction sound of their moving limbs and the buzzing sound of their wings vibrating can be clearly heard even from a very long distance.
The earth seemed to be shaking!
"Plague Messenger! It's the Plague Messenger! Everyone, run!"
The villagers around him shouted at the top of their lungs, and then the whole village was filled with shouts. Others ran out of their houses in a panic and went to the stable to get their horses.
They had all packed their luggage early, and each piece of luggage was very simple . They could just hang it on both sides of the horse's neck and ride away immediately.
It can be seen that relocating their place of residence is a very common thing for them. Although everyone is a little panicked, they all know what to do and are not acting like headless flies.
Su Ming withdrew his gaze and turned back to the direction of the plain. The dark carpet was closer than before and was still approaching rapidly.
All the strong men in the village stayed behind. Sarah stood on the wooden wall and shouted something in the local language. The men heard her and responded loudly.
Some of them picked up bales of straw and threw them down the wooden wall, while others brought barrels of fuel and poured them along the edges of the wooden piles.
Su Ming looked down and saw that the kerosene poured from above had poured into the ditch at the entrance. The long ditch extended to the left and right, and was at least a hundred meters long. It was conceivable that as soon as a fire was lit, a hundred-meter-long line of fire would immediately form at the entrance of the village. If the plague messenger wanted to cross the line of fire, he would have to detour a hundred meters.
They wanted to burn down the wooden village to stop the plague messenger from moving forward, and Su Ming saw through their intention.
"It is truly amazing the wisdom that only the weak can grasp."
Su Ming marveled at the decisiveness of the villagers. Abandoning the entire wooden village to escape was tantamount to cutting off one's own arm!
"Su Ming, what should we do?" Flora asked.
Sarah also came over and said, "You two take this little girl with you, get on your horses with me, and go to the next village! I'll leave this place to the high priest and his men!"
"High Priest, he wants to stay here too?" Su Ming looked at the high priest not far away in confusion.
The high priest clasped , placed them on his forehead, and muttered something.
"Other villages also have high priests. The high priests can communicate with each other spiritually, right?" Su Ming guessed boldly.
Sarah stared at Su Ming in surprise, was stunned for a few seconds, and nodded heavily in acknowledgement.
"That's right. This is the power bestowed upon the high priest by the God of Hope ! Although it is weak, it can keep the spark of the stars alive." Sarah said.
"Where's Anthony? The God-favored One who can control fire that you mentioned, will he leave with us?"
"He's already on his way! Anthony can only deal with the infected, he can't be a match for the Plague Bringer! Stop talking! Let's go! This Plague Bringer is very different from the others! His speed... looks a bit unusual!"
At this moment, Sarah had realized that their previous guess was wrong. The ones who attacked the two villages were not two plague messengers, but a special case of an ordinary plague messenger with abnormal speed!
He is an extremely special superior among the plague messengers!
"Let's go!" Sarah looked at Su Ming.
Su Ming nodded, thinking that since the key person had left, it was time for them to leave as well.
Su Ming led his men down the wooden wall and left on horseback with Sarah.
Their horses ran out of the back door of the village and in the blink of an eye they ran several hundred meters until they could no longer see the village behind them.
He had never tried riding a horse by himself, so he didn't feel comfortable trying it. In the end, he chose to ride on the same horse with Xia Xiaoyu. Xia Xiaoyu followed Sarah closely, while Su Ming held Xia Xiaoyu's waist to stabilize his body.
Flora was riding a horse nearby, holding Alice between her arms and reminding her to hold on tightly to the horse's mane.
While being jolted, Su Ming looked back in the direction of the village. Thick smoke was rising from there; the village was on fire!
