God's Gift

It was a monster bigger than a spine, its body towering into the clouds, its head buried in the clouds, and it was hunting the "frogs" swimming in the clouds.

The heavy rain beat down on its body, and it looked like a giant corpse that had been rotting in water, its pale skin drooping loosely.

"The monster is coming! The monster is coming!" When it was about to pass by Lu Keming and Shen Minghua, the two little blessings made a gesture to silence them, "Shh."

Then they took out a black cloak from their bodies and put it on, and put on a black round hat to cover their entire glowing body.

As their bodies were covered, a black cloak seemed to appear around Lu Keming and Shen Minghua, covering them both.

The monster stopped beside the two people, grabbed a hand full of "frogs" and stuffed them all into its mouth. There was a crunching sound of chewing, and the "frogs" burst in its mouth. Bright red blood flowed out and fell together with the raindrops.

Fortunately, there was the blessed cloak, and all the raindrops mixed with blood were blocked out.

The monster did not see them.

Looking at the monsters gradually moving away, Lu Keming frowned and scanned the surroundings. More and more monsters appeared in the darkness.

As these monsters appeared, the leader sent a string of information about the monsters from the mutation files, which was densely displayed on the screen of the intelligent computer.

"So many?" Shen Minghua quickly browsed through the information of those mutant creatures. Due to the large number, there was no need to look at them in detail.

Thinking of Yu Youyou who was still with the others, Lu Keming quickened his pace and said, "Hurry up."

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After blocking the door again, Yu Youyou and his group returned to the second floor. After finishing the cleanup, everyone sat together.

Fang Ziang leaned against the wall and looked at Jiang De: "What is this forest god you are talking about? Why have I never heard of it?"

There was no record of such a god in the human history they had learned.

In his understanding, different races of humans worship different gods, but most of them look like humans. He has never seen anyone worship a deer.

Thinking of this, Fang Ziang added: "Why is this god a deer? Shouldn't gods all look like humans?"

Jiang De seemed to have never thought about this question, but Fang Ziang's question stumped him.

"Since I was born, I have known that the forest god looks like a deer."

"According to legend, humans encountered an unprecedented disaster that threatened to wipe out their entire race. When humans were about to perish, a deer ran out of the forest and saved them, allowing them to avoid the disaster. However, the deer itself was sacrificed in the disaster."

“Humans have been worshipping it ever since.”

"Of course there are other gods, and they also saved humans together with the forest gods. There are temples dedicated to them in other places, but they don't look like humans either."

Yu Youyou sat in the corner, clasped her arms, rested her cheek on her arms, and listened to Jiang De's story in silence.

When everyone's attention was on Jiang De, Dark Star, who had been dormant for a whole day, opened his eyes.

An Xing, who had just woken up, was still a little grumpy, with his red hair curled up in a ball. Just as he was about to get up to find out what was going on, he heard what Jiang De said.

He stopped and stared at Jiang De with his red eyes. After listening to Jiang De's talk about their belief in gods, he turned to look at Yu Youyou who was sitting in the corner without saying a word and laughed disdainfully.

Yu Youyou was buried in heavy clothes, leaving only a pair of dark eyes shining in the night. Hearing Anxing's laughter, Yu Youyou turned her head to look at Anxing.

Her eyes were calm as she stared at Dark Star without any emotion.

Dark Star became more and more angry when he saw Yu Youyou's dead look. She was laughing and dancing when she was with those damn humans, but Dark Star looked like she didn't care at all!

It was obviously her enemy, so why did she ignore it?

"What are you laughing at?" Jiang De noticed the obvious sarcasm and disdain in Anxing's laughter, and there was a hint of offense and resistance in his eyes.

He remembered that the little boy in front of him was just a virtual person created by the leader, and he dared to offend their gods like this.

"I'm laughing at your gods." Anxing faced Jiang De's anger without any fear on his face, and his messy red hair looked provocative and ostentatious.

Hearing Dark Star's blatant provocation, Jiang De felt a surge of anger in his chest, and he rebuked, "How dare you be so disrespectful to the gods!"

"Disrespectful?" The young boy from Dark Star raised a slapping smile on his face, "Why should I respect them?"

Without waiting for Jiang De to speak, Dark Star continued, "And even if I don't respect them, so what? Do you humans respect them?"

Anthony didn't expect that Dark Star would start making trouble as soon as he woke up. He patted its shoulder and whispered in its ear: "Stop it, Dark Star."

Dark Star didn't even look at Anthony, and continued to talk to himself:

"Humans will always only tell the half of their stories that is beneficial to them. You only say that they saved humans, but why don't you talk about how humans treated them?"

Jiang De didn't even think about it and immediately answered: "Of course we should respect them and worship them as we do now."

"What's the point of worshipping them after they die?" Dark Star sneered, "Since you also know that the god outside is the forest god, then you should also know what it guards, right?"

Fang Ziang listened to the argument between An Xing and Jiang De with great interest, and even interrupted, "Of course it's a forest."

Jiang De glanced at Fang Ziang coldly, then looked at Dark Star: "The ancestors of mankind also lived in the forest. We are all its people, and it will naturally protect us."

"Yes, humans were once the inhabitants of the forest." Dark Star glanced at Yu Youyou and laughed mockingly:

"But what did its people do? They occupied its land, drove away other creatures in the forest, and wantonly destroyed the land it guarded."

Jiang De's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly responded: "That is the inevitable result of human progress. Any development requires sacrifice."

Dark Star's red eyes stared at Jiang De, and its gaze seemed to be able to see into the depths of Jiang De's soul: "Since you chose to sacrifice it, why do you ask it to protect you?"

"We didn't ask the gods to protect us." Jiang De seemed to have found a loophole in Dark Star's logic, and he looked complacent:

"Gods are not as self-interested as you, a virtual person. They are selfless and forgiving."

"At the moment of life and death for mankind, it was the gods who voluntarily came out to save mankind."

"Hahaha..." Hearing Jiang De's words, Dark Star did not feel ashamed at all, but laughed out loud. It looked at Yu Youyou and said meaningfully:

"That's why I said they were idiots."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Jiang De could no longer tolerate An Xing's insult to the gods. He stepped forward, grabbed An Xing's collar, and lifted him up. "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will keep you locked up."

Dark Star was no longer afraid at this moment. It smiled contemptuously: "Isn't it?"

"Don't say anything more." Anthony saw that the situation was getting out of control and pressed Jiang De's shoulder, "Let it go first."

"If he wasn't an idiot, why would he risk his life to save humans after being weakened by humans?"

"And when they were seriously injured and barely alive, what did those humans do?"

The smile on Dark Star's face became brighter and brighter, as if he remembered the scene of the past, and his red eyes were full of bloodthirsty excitement. He grinned, revealing his fangs.

"Instead of coming to rescue them, the humans they were protecting swarmed over them and divided their flesh and ate it."