God's Gift

Lu Keming turned around and looked at the ragged village chief with narrowed eyes.

"Cough—cough cough." The village chief clenched his cane with his cracked and rough hands, and his body trembled with labor.

"Village chief!" When the surrounded young and old people saw the village chief appear, expressions of joy and excitement appeared on their faces.

They swarmed around the village chief, arguing and greeting him.

Perhaps because she was an outsider, Emma, ​​the Pope's daughter, stood alone and did not join in the welcome by the villagers.

The Pope never looked at Emma from beginning to end.

Yu Youyou walked to Emma and took Emma's hand.

Her hands were warm, warming Emma's cold hands.

Emma lowered her head and looked at Yu Youyou, who raised her head and smiled.

Emma sighed and touched Yu Youyou's head.

Lu Keming looked at the chaotic scene and raised his hand to signal the Blue Dragon members to pull the villagers away.

Then he withdrew his hand, looked at the sapphire on his index finger that reflected the cold moonlight, and spoke slowly.

"Are you the village chief?"

He didn't even look at the village chief while speaking, he was only focused on the gem in his hand, being extremely rude and arrogant.

"Young people nowadays are really... very talented." Looking at the respectful attitude of the Pope and the others behind Lu Keming towards him, the village chief guessed that he was probably an important figure.

Lu Keming put down his hands, walked up to the stage and sat next to the Pope, crossed his long legs, leaned back in his seat, and brought the topic back.

"The village chief just said it was your fault. I wonder what mistake the village chief made."

The Pope also stared at the village chief, but the village chief fell silent at this time. It was difficult for him to tell the truth.

"Does the village chief know how those villagers turned into monsters?" Seeing that the village chief did not answer, Lu Keming pressed on.

"If I tell you, can you guarantee to extinguish the fire of hell?" The village chief glanced at the church members around him, and finally stared at Lu Keming and the Pope on the stage.

"How can we guarantee..." The Pope frowned. After decades of experience in struggle, he had no confidence in extinguishing the fire of hell.

"Of course." Lu Keming suddenly interrupted the Pope, the smile on his face blurred in the moonlight.

The Pope looked at Lu Keying in confusion. The two were so close that he could clearly see the strange smile on Lu Keying's mouth.

The village chief stared at Lu Keming for a long time, and after a long time, he finally nodded.

"Village chief..." Nicol's face showed more panic and he tried to stop the village chief.

The village chief shook his head and said, "I have lived in guilt for so many years. That's enough."

"We can't go on like this any longer. Let's just consider this as atonement for their sins..."

Yu Youyou had been pulled back into the crowd by Fang Ziang. Fang Ziang looked at the village chief and said, "I didn't expect this mission to be so easy."

They haven't even investigated anything yet, but these people are about to tell the truth themselves.

Thinking of what Yu Youyou said to Nicole before, Fang Ziang poked Yu Youyou and said, "You are quite good at making up stories. You even heard the desires of those monsters. Look how scared Nicole is."

"But when did you know that those monsters were villagers?" Fang Ziang didn't expect that after Yu Youyou entered Songbird Academy, she seemed to have suddenly become enlightened.

All of their guesses were based on what they had heard from the village chief. They thought that the monsters were disguising themselves as humans to deceive the villagers, but they didn't expect that they were actually villagers.

Yu Youyou glanced at Fang Ziang strangely and said, "I've always known this."

Fang Ziang looked at Yu Youyou's serious expression as if she were a fool. He patted her on the head and sighed, "Oh, you're talking nonsense again."

Yu Youyou pushed Fang Ziang's hand away, glared at him, and said angrily, "Don't touch me."

Fang Ziang stuck out his tongue and turned to look at the village chief.

In the square, the village chief began to talk about the origins of those monsters.

"After I fell off the cliff, I heard a voice from underground."

"It was like it knew me very well, who I was and what my purpose was... It knew I was looking for fertile soil and water, and it told me it could help me."

After hearing this, Shen Minghua and Ye Li understood.

"It seems to be the Hellfire. It has been hiding in this place."

Fang Ziang couldn't help but complain when he heard what the village chief said: "Isn't this the way the devil bewitches people? As expected of the Hellfire, he has mastered the things of his hometown to perfection."

Yu Youyou looked at the village chief in silence.

"That voice told me that as long as we give it what it wants, it can make food grow in this place and water appear."

"What does it want?" Lu Keming sat up straight and stared at the village chief, asking him to continue.

The village chief was silent for a long time before answering Lu Keming's question.

"food."

Hearing this, Lu Keying's mouth curled up and he leaned back in his seat.

it is as expected.

"The food you're talking about is those villagers." He raised his finger and pointed at the roaring monster below the stage, with a hint of joy in his voice.

As soon as Lu Keming's words came out, there was an uproar in the audience and the villagers became noisy. The young people who had loved the village chief and regarded him as a hero since childhood were the first to feel dissatisfied and pointed at Lu Keming and cursed.

"Fuck you, what do you mean!"

Lu Keming glanced at him indifferently. The young man wanted to curse again, but the Blue Dragon member next to him controlled the young man with his mental power.

The young man only felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if his spirit was being torn apart, and he knelt on the ground in agony.

The village chief glanced at the young man, clenched his cane, and spoke in a sad voice.

"Yes."

Nicol's eyes instantly turned dim and he sat down on the ground.

All the young villagers looked at the village chief in disbelief.

"It says it needs pure souls."

"We threw the villagers into the cliff and watched them being swallowed by the cracked earth. Then trees and food really grew on the land."

"The elderly people who did these things with me kept it a secret and didn't tell the children the truth."

"But then something strange happened. The villagers who were supposed to have died underground suddenly returned home one morning. This scared us so much that we threw them back into the cliff, but they came back the next day."

"Until the church showed up and used blessings to kill them. We thought that would be enough, but we didn't expect that they were still unkillable. The blessings only turned them into complete monsters."

"Then the fire of hell started."

"So the fire of hell is really ignited by your sins." The priest standing on the stage glared at the old man and cursed.

"You've been deceiving us since the beginning!"

The Pope shook his head and sighed, "You refused to tell us then, so why are you willing to tell us now?"

The village chief glanced at Lu Keming, who looked calm, and closed his eyes. "You will find out sooner or later."

"After so many years, I'm tired too."

For a moment, there was silence in the square.

Yu Youyou stared at the village chief. The bonfire in the center of the square danced in the moonlight, and the red flames danced in her eyes.

She suddenly muttered quietly, "Still hiding it."