After the villagers worshiped the gods in their hearts, they packed up the leftovers, and prepared to go back quietly with expectations for a better life in the future.

The parents of the sacrificed woman looked sad, but they also had a trace of peace. After looking at the churning river again, they followed the crowd and left.

The village head waited for the villagers to leave, and was about to go back. He looked at Chu Zhou, saw that his face was calm, and he was not as hostile to the villagers as some strangers were in the past, so he asked, "Aren't you going back?"

It's getting late.

Chu Zhou looked up at the river in front of him.

The river was dark and churning non-stop, and the place where the woman fell could not see anything unusual, the bamboo raft had already drifted away.It seems that there is a river god at the bottom of the river. Something is moving around. The large green area is particularly obvious in the darkness. It really looks like a so-called miracle——Chu Zhou saw it from the awe-inspiring eyes of the village chief next to him. from.

He faintly made a decision in his heart, took another look at the green that filled the bottom of the river, turned his head and said to the village chief, "Let's go."

After speaking, he took the lead in walking towards the village.

The village chief looked at his back in surprise, shook his head for a while, and followed him back.

The next day, Chu Zhou got up early and saw that everyone in the village seemed to have let go of a major event, and the whole village was in a relaxed atmosphere.But it should be because of the fear of the river god, no one is near the big river, they just talk casually in the village.

Taking advantage of no one's attention, he quietly came to the bank of the river.

Today's river has calmed down as usual, with aquatic plants floating on the white water surface, and a little green under the water not far away.

He repeated the same trick, picked up a small stone and threw it over.

The kappa didn't cry out for pain this time, and leaned over cautiously, covering his forehead. Seeing that Chu Zhou had no expression on his face, he said hesitantly, "You... aren't you angry?"

He thought that all human beings would be afraid of such things.

Chu Zhou was only skeptical at first, but after seeing Kappa's performance, he confirmed his inner thoughts. He asked lightly, "Where is that woman from yesterday?"

"She's fine," said the kappa with some hesitation on his face, "she's just... just... being treated as a bride."

bride?

Chu Zhou thought of the dress on the woman yesterday, which is really the appearance she would have when she was married.

He asked, "What's the matter?"

The kappa glanced at him, then lowered his head slightly, and said, "Other kappa always like to catch human women as brides."

Although his brothers and sisters don't like humans at all and never pay attention to the humans around them, they like to capture human women as brides.At first they just caught the women doing laundry by the river into the water. Later, the humans would send the bride down by themselves, and they got used to this way.

It's just that he is different. He wanted to see the life of human beings since he was a child, and when he grew up, he just stayed under the river surface and secretly observed the human beings by the river.Human life is peaceful and serene, and human emotions are warm and happy.However, although he likes humans, he is just a different kind among kappa, and there is no way to stop other kappa.

He looked at his only human friend, and murmured, "I don't like this..."

Chu Zhou didn't say whether he believed it or not, he just asked, "River God, what's going on?"

"This is what human beings think of," Kappa replied, recalling the stories he heard when he was a child. "I don't know when, human beings believe that there are gods in the river to protect them, and they think that only by offering sacrifices can they please the gods."

"But there is nothing in the river except us Kappa family, and the carps only come here during certain seasons.

"Some kappa took advantage of the situation to play the role of the so-called river god, accepting the human women who were sent, and human beings believed it."

Chu Zhou fell into a deep silence. After a while, he changed the subject and said, "Then, please send me to the opposite forest."

Kappa obviously didn't expect Chu Zhou to ask him to do so, so he replied happily, "Okay!"

In the forest, flowers are still fragrant and birds are singing, and there is a sense of tranquility.

Yimulian was still the same as yesterday, standing and waiting for him at the gate of the shrine. Chu Zhou walked over and saw Yimulian's gentle smile as if he didn't know anything, and only smiled back in silence.

After the two entered the shrine, they sat down facing each other, Yimulian hesitated for a moment, and asked softly, "Is something wrong?"

Chu Zhou stared at his gentle eyebrows, and couldn't help saying: "You... those villagers..." It's too much.

Yimulian heard his tone clearly, frowned slightly, and said worriedly: "What happened to you?"

Chu Zhou thought that the other party hadn't expected it, so he smiled coldly and said, "It's nothing to them, they thought it was the river god who was protecting them."

"River God?" Yimulian asked in a daze, "What is that?"

"You don't know?" Chu Zhou looked at the other party in surprise.He thought that if the other party was a god, he should know everything about this land...

Yimulian saw Zhou's eyes clearly, hesitated for a moment, and felt inexplicably uneasy, and said softly: "I don't know. I'm...not a god anymore."

Seeing that there was only surprise in the other party's eyes, he simply told his current situation.

When he was still a god, he could still see everything in this land, but now he is just a monster.His strength was not considered strong in the gods, but now it is even weaker.Normally, he barely maintains the original state of the shrine, and the remaining strength is accumulated to deal with the next disaster.

So except for dealing with the flood, the rest of the time, he was almost just like an ordinary person.

However, as long as it can protect the humans here, it will be fine.

When Chu Zhou heard this, his heart ached.

This kind of Yimulian exhausted all his strength, and the only thing in his heart was to protect human beings, but what did he get?

He couldn't bear to tell what the villagers had done.

The other party noticed his silence.

Yimulian faintly felt that what Chu Zhou said just now would completely subvert his cognition, but he still couldn't help asking: "The river god... what is it?"

Chu Zhou almost didn't dare to look at the other side, he didn't want to see the other side's eyes full of sadness.

However, Yimulian asked him persistently.

He saw that the other party's originally gentle eyes were a little eager, as if he had a premonition of something, and the light golden color became a little thicker.

He closed his eyes and looked at the ends of light blue hair - where there was no wind moving automatically, he finally opened his mouth with a soft voice, like a murmur in sleep.

"That's just the Kappa, the god that the villagers worship and protect them."

Yimu was stunned for a moment, still not understanding what this meant, and only reacted in a trance when he saw a trace of grief in Chu Zhou's dark pupils.

Kappa is the god of the villagers?

So... what about him?

It suddenly occurred to Yimulian that no one had ever set foot in this place for so many years.

He only thought that human beings no longer believed in the existence of God, but he never thought that they still believed in it, but the God in their eyes was no longer him.

For hundreds of years, he has been waiting for even one believer to come to worship, but day after day, year after year, even though he tried his best to maintain the magnificent appearance of the shrine and kept waiting, there was always only one believer here. He is alone.

But now, human beings worship a god in disguise.

He suddenly recalled the past that was far, far away.

——The past that many people remember.

At that time, he had many followers.

People seem to come to worship him when they encounter any problem, all kinds of big and small things, it seems that he can solve everything.

He will also try his best to fulfill the requests of the humans who come to worship.

Until one time, the wind and rain continued for several days in a row, the wind was strong, the river swelled, and the village was about to be submerged.

When the villagers panicked, they came to worship him one after another, praying that he could protect them.

However, he is just a wind god.

Usually small help can be done as long as there is divine power, but this kind of power to resist floods cannot be achieved by a god who can only control the wind.

But he couldn't just watch the village flood.

He eventually found a way to increase his strength.

The reason why gods are gods is because every part of their bodies contains divine power.

So does he.

In order to have enough power to control the flood, he gouged out one eye, and used the divine power contained in it to stop the disaster that was about to happen.

The villagers were naturally rejoiced at that time, repairing his shrine to be more magnificent, and worshiping him more frequently.

The power of gods is related to faith.

At that time, his strength reached its peak. Although he sacrificed one eye, he felt extremely satisfied when he saw the peaceful villagers.

Only God is also forgotten.

Under his protection, the villagers never suffered any more disasters. Gradually, they forgot the joy of being protected at the beginning, and gradually forgot about him, and few people came to the shrine.

After the bridge broke down once, the villagers stopped worshiping him completely.

He would always look at the villagers, expecting someone to remember him and come here again.

But in the end he was completely forgotten.

Without believers, his strength gradually weakened, and finally he even lost his qualifications as a god.

But he still wanted to protect the human beings here and use his power to protect the villagers, so he finally degenerated into a monster.

Monster.

What would it be like if other gods lost their believers and turned into monsters?

He just felt lucky.

——Fortunately, he has not disappeared, fortunately, he still has the power to protect his people.

He spent a very long time here alone.

During this period, the blessings brought by the gods gradually dissipated, and people began to encounter disasters again.

His strength is meager, and he can no longer keep this place away from floods, so he can only use his strength to stop the flood every time the rainstorm comes, and then wait for the monster power to recover for the next year, until the next storm comes.

And it keeps looping until today.

He thought he didn't care.

No one remembers him even in hundreds of years.

All he wanted was to protect his people.

But it turns out that the villagers still have faith.

They devoutly believed in the so-called "river god", sacrificed in every possible way, and were grateful to the god who would always protect them.

However, the god they believed in was not him.

The people he protected, completely forgot about him, and devoutly believed in a group of monsters...

The gold in the eyes is condensed, purely like the most dazzling sunlight.

The golden dragon behind him also circled up, faintly seeming to have a solid body.

The long hair on one side was blown up, revealing the empty eye sockets that had been covered all along.

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