God's Gift

Anthony was about to leave when he saw this and glanced furtively at Lu Keming.

Lu Keming glanced at Anthony with a warning in his eyes.

Anthony coughed and left quickly.

Lu Keming gritted his teeth, and his clenched joints made a "crackling" sound.

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By the time the villagers were "invited" to the square by the church, it had already darkened and a huge bonfire was burning in the center of the square.

The Pope stood on the stage, looking at the noisy villagers crowded together below, and slammed the scepter in his hand heavily to the ground, making a loud noise.

The villagers heard the sound and finally quieted down.

Lu Keming stood at the edge of the stage. He waited until the villagers quieted down before waving his hand and asking the Blue Dragon members to place the monsters they had caught during the day in front of the villagers.

The villagers looked at the grinning monster and backed away in fear.

The Pope's face was serious. "I invited you all here today just for this monster."

Some villagers below were dissatisfied and shouted at the Pope.

"What does it have to do with us? Why don't you just deal with it? Why did you capture us?"

Lu Keming glanced coldly at the talking villager, and the Blue Dragon members below immediately stepped forward to suppress the villager.

"What are you doing!"

But the two Blue Dragon members next to him ignored him and just looked at Lu Keming.

Other villagers wanted to step forward, but the members of the surrounding Blue Dragon all raised their guns and aimed at the villagers standing in the center.

The villagers were so frightened that they held their heads and huddled together.

Ye Li frowned and stared at Lu Keming.

Lu Keming noticed Ye Li's gaze and smiled at her lightly.

Yu Youyou, who was next to Ye Li, hummed. At this time, she had untied the control on her mouth and was able to speak.

Lu Keming then turned his gaze towards Yu Youyou, glanced at her lightly, and then looked away with an expressionless face.

The Pope watched as the villagers were controlled by Lu Keming, and then continued, "From the beginning to the end, I have a clear conscience towards you."

"But you have been concealing what happened in our village before, and let the hellfire outside continue all year round! Let us all be trapped in misery!"

The villagers in the audience wanted to refute, but they were frightened by the black muzzle of the gun and could only remain angry but not speak.

"If it weren't for the grace of God that stopped the monsters outside the village, you would have been eaten clean by those monsters long ago!"

The Pope sighed deeply and took out the blessing, with an indelible sadness in his eyes.

"Now, the blessing is leaving us. When the blessing is exhausted, the fire of hell will corrode this place, and you and I will die here."

"This monster took advantage of the weakening of the blessing and broke into the village."

When the villagers saw that the blessing in the Pope's hand was not as bright and dazzling as it was decades ago, they finally became truly panicked.

"What should I do?"

"The Lord God will help us extinguish the fire of hell, but whether we can extinguish it depends on you." The Pope looked at Lu Keming, and Lu Keming nodded.

"How can we solve this problem?" The villagers below whispered to each other.

Lu Keming raised his chin, looked at the cold moon in the sky, and sighed.

After a few seconds, he turned around, walked down the stairs and walked towards the monster. He put on a pair of black leather gloves and put his hands on the head of the struggling monster. The manic monster was forcibly stopped.

"Why can't we do anything?"

Lu Keming looked at the villagers. "As long as you tell us the truth about everything that happened in this village, including how these monsters first appeared and how your village chief turned this place from a barren land into fertile land..."

"So I can help you put out the fires of hell."

When the villagers heard this, they fell strangely silent.

After a long while, an old man coughed and said, "Those stories have been passed down in the village for a long time. Everyone knows that the village chief fell off a cliff and found fertile soil. Monsters appeared out of nowhere and disguised themselves as our relatives with the intention of killing us."

Lu Keming's mouth curled up, his cold white skin looked even colder under the moonlight, "Appeared out of thin air?"

He twirled the dragon ring on his index finger and spoke slowly, "I want the truth, not these stories."

The old man stared at Lu Keming with cloudy eyes and stopped talking.

The other elderly villagers also fell silent.

Lu Keming closed his eyes, stroked the sapphire on the dragon ring, and waited for the villagers without saying a word.

Ye Li had a worried look on his face, and asked Shen Minghua uncertainly, "The village chief is unwilling to come forward. Do the villagers really know how the monster appeared?"

Shen Minghua looked at the strange attitudes of those old people and said, "Now it seems that they all know something more or less."

Otherwise why remain silent?

They just don't seem to want to say it.

But if it was only related to the village chief, why would they need to hide it for the village chief?

Yu Youyou looked at the silent villagers, and suddenly walked in the direction of the monster.

Just when Fang Ziang was about to grab Yu Youyou, she had already taken a few steps and everyone's eyes were on Yu Youyou.

Fang Ziang withdrew his hand awkwardly and touched his nose.

Yu Youyou walked to the side of the monster, Lu Keming opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Why don't you want to say it, because those monsters have something to do with you, right?"

As soon as Yu Youyou's words came out, they immediately caused a commotion.

"Yu Youyou, what are you talking about?" The person who said this was Lyle. Lyle had been holding Emma in his arms, but when he saw Yu Youyou coming over, he spoke.

Although Lyle knew that the monsters and hellfire had nothing to do with the church, he always believed that they were natural disasters here and had nothing to do with the villagers.

"Lyle, do you recognize this monster?" Yu Youyou did not answer Lyle's question, but asked him a question instead.

Looking at the hideous monster, Lyle said to Youyou inexplicably, "How could I know it? Is it a monster?"

"But he was a villager like you not long ago." Yu Youyou stated calmly.

As soon as Yu Youyou finished speaking, Shen Minghua and Ye Li looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

Her choice of words was extremely strange. What did she mean by they were villagers not long ago?

Could it be that the monster disguised itself as a villager and sneaked into the village?

However, Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou meaningfully, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Finally figured it out?

It doesn't seem so useless.