Chapter 406 Great God!
"What on earth do you want from me?" Zhou Xiaoxiao went straight to the point and didn't intend to waste time on the other party. He felt that Bai Chifei didn't seem like a good person.
"Didn't Su Ming tell you that only thirteen people can get out of this place?" Bai Chifei said slowly. While speaking, his eyes were fixed on Zhou Xiaoxiao's face, not missing any slight changes in the other's expression.
However, Zhou Xiaoxiao just pushed his glasses, frowned, and said in confusion: "Who told you? Su Ming never said these words to me."
His expression was calm and his reaction was normal, but in his heart, it was heaving like a turbulent sea. He didn't know where the other party got this information from. He had never told anyone that only thirteen people could survive in the devil's land. He believed that Su Ming would not tell this key information to others.
So... where did Bai Chifei hear this? Could it be that there is a person with the ability to read minds around Bai Chifei?
No! It's impossible! No one knows how many people with superpowers of that level there are in the world, not to mention that if there really is such a superpower, Su Ming will definitely be found by the other party immediately, and the big family will be in chaos.
Bai Chifei looked at Zhou Xiaoxiao's face and was a little surprised. The other party's reaction was beyond his expectations, which was quite normal.
"Is anyone spreading such rumors here? We must talk to Su Ming as soon as possible." Zhou Xiaoxiao said solemnly.
In Zhou Xiaoxiao's mind, the devil's voice was laughing: "Hahaha! Don't you think you are ridiculous? You are definitely going to die in the end, but you still want to help Su Ming keep the secret. Su Ming is not going to save you."
On the other side, there was also a voice in Bai Chifei's mind shouting: "He is lying. If you don't believe it, you can continue to test it."
Bai Chifei shook his head, sighed, and advised kindly: "Mr. Zhou, I want to advise you not to trust that murderer too much. His purpose is not to save people. He just wants to reduce the number of people more safely so that he can survive in the end."
Bai Chifei patted Zhou Xiaoxiao on the shoulder and said earnestly, "I will try my best to keep my people alive. There are seven of us, including myself, and there are still six vacancies. If you are willing to join us... I welcome you. Although our Owl Team is considered a bounty hunter, we have also selected the targets we kill, and try to kill bad guys.
I know I'm not a good person, but compared to a murderer like Su Ming, I'm obviously more reliable, right?
You should be able to see that I am trustworthy.”
The reason why Bai Chifei gave up testing and instead tried to win her over was because he already knew that Zhou Xiaoxiao's ability was to read people's expressions. Although Bai Chifei was very good at disguise, he also knew that this kind of investigative ability was completely different from that of an ordinary criminal police officer in reality. Zhou Xiaoxiao could infer his true intentions from his subconscious movements and any micro-expressions.
So...what he just said was true.
Zhou Xiaoxiao stared at Bai Chifei for a while, and after a few seconds, she pushed up her glasses and replied, "I think you need to be more sober. The rumor that only thirteen people survived came from nowhere and is absolutely unbelievable! The most important thing for the big family now is..."
"Okay, okay, I get it! Anyway, I've said everything I need to say. You can think about it yourself later . Goodbye."
After saying that, Bai Chifei turned and left.
Zhou Xiaoxiao stood there, listening to the other person's footsteps gradually fading away in the corridor. She let out a long sigh and sat back on the ground with a plop.
"Why don't you agree to his offer? You know he's serious and he'll really include you in the thirteen," the voice in my head said.
"I know you think Su Ming is very reliable. Su Ming may indeed be a very kind person, and everything he said and did was right, but you should not have forgotten, right? He completely deceived you the first time, and you completely mistook him for Xia Ming, which means he has the skills to deceive you."
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"Oh, admit it, you are no match for him. If he really lied to you, there is nothing you can do! Besides... let me say, even if he didn't lie to you, so what? Su Ming wants to choose thirteen valuable people to survive, not you. You might as well cooperate with Bai Chifei. Although that guy is not correct, he is the kind of person who will let his own people survive."
Zhou Xiaoxiao still didn't respond, although in his heart, he admitted that every word the other party said made sense.
Although he wanted to deny it, he had to admit that deep down in his heart, he did think so.
"No, I... I can't... I, I must do the right thing. Su Ming... he is right." Zhou Xiaoxiao forced a smile, but tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes. Her face was twisted into a ball with both crying and laughing, and it looked very ugly.
Since he was a child, he has always aspired to become a noble man, to catch criminals for the people of the Molten Iron City and to improve order on the island.
For this reason, he doesn't mind being an insignificant screw, he just wants to do the right thing, no matter how big or small it is.
But now, he finally understood how selfish he was. He actually had such despicable and shameful thoughts when facing a desperate situation... He wanted to survive, and he wanted to replace someone who was better and nobler than himself to survive... What a shameful thought.
He has betrayed his original intention.
Zhou Xiaoxiao's tears dripped onto the holy book. He sighed intermittently, reached out and picked up the "Book of Source Iron", and opened a page at random. It said, "Don't feel bad about tomorrow, because you don't know what will happen in a day."
Zhou Xiaoxiao stared at this sentence in a daze, the teasing voice in his head still mocking his stupidity.
The voice said he knew where he was going; that he knew what he had to do, but if he didn't do it, he would only be satisfied mentally...
Zhou Xiaoxiao ignored all these words... He felt that what the other party said was right, but he didn't know if he was right to think so.
He can see through other people's emotions, but he can't see through his own heart.
He felt that Su Ming was more right than him.
Even Zhou Xiaoxiao himself felt strange about why he had such an idea, but he believed in that person more than in himself, because that person at least put the correct belief into reality.
He closed the Book of Source Iron with trembling hands, held the thick tome between his palms, pressed the spine against his forehead, and a trembling voice came out intermittently from his throat.
"Oh God! If... someone like me can be saved... please save me."
"Poor child, hold your head up."
Sudden!
Without any warning!
A compassionate voice suddenly sounded in front of Zhou Xiaoxiao!
At that moment, Zhou Xiaoxiao held her breath, opened her eyes wide, raised her head suddenly, and looked forward in shock.
An old man was sitting upright in a chair by the window, looking at him gently. The old man had thick hair, and his pupils were slightly shiny silver. The skin on his forehead and cheeks was covered with deep wrinkles. Those wrinkles looked like they were carved by an axe or a knife, majestic, powerful, ancient and solemn.
The purple moonlight outside the window shone in and changed color as it approached the old man. It was a white light that Zhou Xiaoxiao had not seen for a long time - real sunlight!
God Tyr!
It's the god Tyr!
In the myth, the god who caused the Great Collapse in order to destroy the sinful humanity, but gathered the humans with conscience on the Molten Iron Island and gave them Sacred Steel... I never thought, I never thought that gods really exist!
Zhou Xiaoxiao's mouth was so wide open that a goose egg could fit in it. He couldn't utter a word. The only thing he could do was to stare intently at the god in front of him.
He saw compassion, tolerance, and mercy on the other person's face, as well as majestic and steady power and even more unfathomable emotions.
At this moment, Zhou Xiaoxiao realized that it was unnecessary to use her special abilities on God... God is merciful.
"Child, do you want to live?" God Tyr spoke.
"Please! ... Please save me!"
More tears flowed from Zhou Xiaoxiao's eyes.
Finally, at the last moment of despair, he saw the light of hope!
"I will save every believer when they are desperate and in despair...but you must have an iron will." The old man smiled kindly.
Zhou Xiaoxiao cried with joy.
That’s right, although he was weak and vulnerable, he had been persisting. He did feel that the devil’s temptation was very strong, but he resisted!
Although her performance wasn't very good, Zhou Xiaoxiao felt that, to some extent, she had an iron will.
Moreover, at this moment he suddenly discovered that the devilish voice that had been lingering in his mind had quietly disappeared since he did not know when.
What the king said is true. Here, only believers can be saved!
"Don't be afraid, child. You have withstood the devil's temptation and proved your piety. The greatest suffering has passed. No matter how much pain you experience in the future, it will not make you shrink back. I will give you the will to fight fear so that you will no longer be afraid."
"Thanks you!"
Zhou Xiaoxiao clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and bathed in the glory of God, feeling the long-lost joy and an unprecedented sense of peace and tranquility.
"Child, when you are no longer afraid of anything, nothing can defeat you. But you have to promise me that you will live on."
Zhou Xiaoxiao nodded deeply. He would live on, carrying the glory of God!
"Child, tell me, can you try to live after giving up fear?" God Tyr stretched out his hand, and his warm and rough fingertips gently stroked Zhou Xiaoxiao's forehead, making Zhou Xiaoxiao feel the warmth of a father.
"God, I will live with my faith in you!" Zhou Xiaoxiao said firmly.
"Then... you will always be brave... I will give you everything you really need..."
The god's last words were vague and ethereal, like a feather flying in the wind gradually fading away.
As the last words left by the gods finally dissipated into the air, the light of the gods disappeared, and the gods also disappeared...but Zhou Xiaoxiao's heart had been illuminated by the grace of the gods.
The disgusting voice was no longer in his mind, and the space around him felt so quiet for the first time, even a little lonely.
Zhou Xiaoxiao smiled and slowly stroked the "Book of Source Iron" on the ground. He felt his heart was full of strength, as if he had established a .
"Oh, devil...it turns out you are so vulnerable." Zhou Xiaoxiao stood up with the "Book of Source Iron" and walked into the bathroom.
There were still traces of tears on the man in the mirror, his hair was a little messy, but his eyes were bright.
He smiled at the mirror, wiped away the traces of tears, licked his palms, and used his wet palms to comb the few strands of hair that had fallen on his temples.
At this moment, he in the mirror is extremely confident!
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Su Ming felt his head swelling.
He had interrogated all three people he called. Without exception, all three heard the voice in their heads, and they believed in the voice in their heads without a doubt.
Su Ming tried to have a debate with the three people. Relying on his strong thinking ability, he logically silenced the other party, but in the end they were still unwilling to believe that the voices in their heads were fake, and they did not think there was anything wrong with their behavior of eating corpses.
One of them felt that Su Ming was making specious arguments, sticking to conventions, and clinging to the hypocritical morals of human society after being defeated by Su Ming. When he got excited, he even cursed at Su Ming, saying that Su Ming's actions would kill everyone, and that Su Ming's previous condemnation had blocked everyone's only way out.
At that time, Su Ming knew at a glance that this guy was serious. Looking at his attitude, he felt that he had been enlightened by the truth and had found a true way of survival for everyone. In his heart, he regarded himself as the savior and guide of everyone.
This mental state is outrageous, but compared to the other two, it is actually quite good.
The other two were able to communicate with him normally at the beginning, but in the end, they became uninterested, sometimes answering irrelevant questions and sometimes talking about irrelevant things.
Although Su Ming did not have the ability to read micro-expressions like Zhou Xiaoxiao, he could guess based on his intuition. He could guess what was in these two people's minds without even thinking about it.
Judging from their attitude and vigilant expressions, they completely regarded Su Ming as a villain. They might have even made up all kinds of conspiracy theories in their minds, treating all his previous leaders as the foreshadowing of some unfounded conspiracy.
In short, the brains of these three people were ruined. They lost the ability to think independently and completely followed the pace of the voices in their heads.
When Su Ming resisted the devil's sweet talk, he thought that as long as he was alert in advance, he should be able to hold on.
But looking at these three typical cases now, my original idea was completely wrong. The voice in my head is not so easy to resist.
Not only will it say what you feel is right, it will also guide a person's thinking in a very clever way, allowing a person's ideas to change quietly and eventually become completely different from what they were before.
This process is a bit like a gradual chemical reaction in chemistry.
To be honest, Su Ming really wanted to analyze these examples in depth.
He felt that even if he couldn't find a solution now, the information would be very useful for recording in the investigation bureau's archives in the future. Perhaps his current efforts could save more people in the future.
One day in the future, perhaps someone more powerful will come in here and find a way for everyone to survive?
