sin of nature

When Xiao Ming returned to the God Realm, he understood the whole story without spending too much effort.

At that time, the gods rained on the human world, or the mountain gods caused the mountains to shake and the ground trembled, all of which were recorded in the records.The instigators of the two disasters were a couple who were the mountain god and the water god.

When he has nothing to do in the God Realm, he will watch the things in the Human Realm to relieve his boredom.

There are tens of thousands of people in the human world, which are much more interesting than the god world.

So, they accidentally discovered this rich and peaceful place - Licheng.

Li City has been like a day for a hundred years. Except for the occasional disturbance by some bandits, generations have lived in this suitable city-state, living a leisurely and stable life.

Although the city lords of all dynasties were hereditary, they had always loved the people like their own sons, and they were deeply loved by the city people. They were so peaceful, even to the point of being incomprehensible.

One day, the two actually had some arguments on this issue.

As a wife, the water god began to question whether this peaceful situation between the two could last for a long time.

"This kind of good atmosphere between the city residents and the city lord will not last long. It is nothing more than a false peace. Once something happens and the city residents are dissatisfied, they will easily lose their admiration and confidence in their city lord. It’s because the city lord has followed his heart that he pretended to agree.”

Her husband, Shanshen, disagreed.

"The past city lords have had excellent prestige among the city residents. The current one is even worse than before. The trust between them has been established over a long period of time. I don't think it will change easily. Take the God Realm as an example, in the catastrophe hundreds of years ago, Lord Chongwu passed away, who among the God Realm doesn’t miss him now?”

"Humans are different from gods. Gods don't need to maintain their own existence, and they can walk in the world without any burden by nature. But people exist in the world, but they have to bear the burden of life, and they can't help themselves."

"But people are not grass and trees, who can be careless?"

"If you don't believe me, how about we make a bet?"

"What are you gambling?"

"It's a gamble on people's loyalty."

.......

Knowing the truth, Xiao Ming looked like a beast losing his mind. He broke into the residence of the two gods and killed the two culprits who caused the natural disaster without hesitation.

There was no trace of guilt in his heart, and his mind was full of all the tragic scenes he saw when he stood on a high place that day.

Before he walked out of the palace of those two, Xiao Ming was surrounded by the gods who heard the news.

His eyes were red, his chest was full of anger and unwillingness, he wrestled with the gods, and was finally captured by Emperor Kaiyang and put in prison.

Through the transparent barrier, Xiao Ming anxiously explained to Emperor Kaiyang what the couple had done with their divine power, and the tragedy he had witnessed with his own eyes.

But killing gods is a serious crime, because the gods who were injured in Xiao Ming's fight would not let him go, and the emperor must imprison him for more than a hundred years to comply with the rules.

"Emperor, is it reasonable for the gods to arbitrarily impose on humans because of their innate abilities superior to those of the human world? You have never seen what Licheng looks like...... I You can't be locked up here! Everyone in Licheng is desperate...I..."

Even though Emperor Kaiyang intends to handle this matter according to his discretion, Xiao Ming is now on the cusp of the storm, otherwise, it would be difficult to convince the public.

Therefore, Xiao Ming was imprisoned for a long time.

From being anxious at the beginning to worrying, and finally to being lucky.

When he killed the water god, the rain should have stopped...... If Li Ran found help from other places, he might be able to tide over the difficulty...... If not......

No, it's impossible...that's Li Ran...everything can be solved...

So anxious, finally waiting for Emperor Kaiyang to come. During the time he was imprisoned, no one had ever visited him.

"Dijun, when can I go out?"

Emperor Kaiyang stood in front of him and didn't answer, but instead asked him, "What have you been thinking about during this time?"

"I want to go out—I want to think about what happened to everyone in Licheng."

"Have you ever regretted it?"

"Regret what?"

"The children of the mountain gods and water gods you killed were born not long ago."

Xiao Ming pondered for a moment, and said, "Everyone in Li City suffered countless casualties, did they not lose their parents or children? If I have to say I regret it, I only regret that when I was surrounded by the gods, I didn't escape as soon as possible and was taken down by the emperor. "

Emperor Kaiyang frowned and said, "I knew you would answer like that."

"I don't want to tell lies to Dijun."

"Although you have reasons to follow for killing gods, it can't offset your guilt. Can you plead guilty?"

"Xiao Ming pleaded guilty."

"I have already discussed with the gods. If you let you go so easily, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop Youyou. If you insist on leaving now, I can only cut off most of your divine power to warn the gods. Are you willing?" ?”

"So, can I go out immediately?"

"Yes."

"Then ask the emperor to do it."

........

When Xiao Ming returned to Li City, he almost thought he had gone to the wrong place.

When he left Licheng, there were still tens of thousands of people in the city.However, after a few months, there are only a few less than 200 people left in the entire city.Although the clothes of these people were tattered and dirty, they all had ruddy complexions, obviously not suffering from lack of food.

He went straight to the former city lord's mansion, but unexpectedly found no one, and his heart was cold.

Most of the city is gray, with broken walls and ruins. There is no smoke and fire. The only remaining people live in the newly repaired houses near the city lord's mansion.

In the end what happened?Where did Li Ran go?

It was noon, Xiao Ming approached a group of people who were eating around the boiling cauldron, and wanted to ask what happened.

As soon as he got closer, the group recognized him first.

"Isn't this...Xiao Ming?"

Everyone recognized him, but their expressions were very strange, and they exchanged glances with each other.

As soon as Xiao Ming approached, he smelled a strong fishy smell. He looked down and saw that it was something boiling in the pot.

He didn't pay much attention, and asked others, "Where is your lord?"

The man carefully looked at his face, faltered, and didn't say anything for a long time.Xiao Ming was very uneasy, stepped forward and grabbed the man by the collar, and asked word by word, "Where is your family?"

The man looked flustered, threw the bowl in his hand, and yelled for someone to help him.

Before Xiao Ming could dodge in time, he was hit on the back of the head with a stick by the person behind him. Warm blood flowed down his cold neck. Seeing that he was injured, everyone rushed over with a single brain, and the move was fatal. .

"Are you crazy?" Xiao Ming's eyes flickered, while avoiding the attacks around him, he wondered why these people suddenly attacked him.

Xiao Ming just dodged, and inevitably suffered many blows, and finally grabbed the wooden stick from others' hands and started to fight back.

The crowd fled in all directions in a hurry, and accidentally knocked over the large iron pot propped up by a few wooden sticks.The white stuff in the pot rolled all over the floor, and the fishy smell spread out.

Xiao Ming touched the tip of his nose, swept it casually, and saw a few swollen fingers among the things that were turned out of the pot on the ground.Taking a closer look, the arms next to it were clearly chopped into pieces!

Xiao Ming was covered in cold sweat behind his back, and he didn't care about the back of his head that was still bleeding, so he quickly ran towards those fleeing people, grabbed one of them, and mercilessly threw them face down on the ground, knees against his back.

With unbelievable rage and uncontrollable struggle in his voice, he roared and asked, "Where's Li Ran? Where did Li Ran go?"

The man was very frightened, trembling uncontrollably, and replied weakly, "He, he died a long time ago..."

Xiao Ming took a deep breath, opened his eyes, pushed his knees hard, and the person below let out a scream.

"What's dead? You fucking lied to me—" As he spoke, he increased the strength on his knee.

"Ah!!" The man yelled in pain, "I didn't lie to you! The city owner died a few months ago!"

Xiao Ming suddenly felt his throat was blocked by something, and cold sweat broke out uncontrollably on his forehead.

"You fart! You... did you eat him?"

The man underground almost squeezed out a voice, "No! We didn't eat him! There was still food left in the city at that time."

Xiao Ming trembled uncontrollably, almost unable to hold down the person under him, his eyes were flushed, and he asked, "How did he die?"

"A few months ago, he lay alone in the temple in the south of the city, and died without eating or drinking!" The man gasped, "No one dared to hurt him! The bones were cremated!"

Xiao Ming's eyelids twitched, "Who is your leader?"

"He Li."

"He Li?!"

He suddenly recalled the siege of Yitu Mountain a few years ago, and indeed he did not see that person's body at that time.

"Where are the others in Li Ran's residence?"

"..." The man fell silent.

"Will you say it?" The strength on the knee increased again.

"Ah! I said, I said, I said...a month ago, the remaining hundreds of us were out of food. In order not to starve to death...we, we started from a few hundred people The women who planted it started to kill... Until a few days ago, the women were also eaten up...so we..."

"So what? You put them too...?"

"Yes...the one that was knocked over just now...is the cook from the house..."

Xiao Ming felt that a string in his brain was broken, and he punched the back of the man's head with one punch - in the end it only landed on the ground, digging a hole.

The man kept begging for mercy, "Don't...don't kill me! The child in that family should not have been killed yet! You can go to He Li to look for it! Maybe you can save it!"

"Where is He Li? It's in the yard with a small tree planted next to the gate behind the City Lord's Mansion."

Xiao Ming no longer entangled with him, and immediately got up and ran to that place, feeling as if tens of thousands of mountains were crushed in his heart.

Kicking the door open, Xiao Ming went straight in. More than half of the yard had collapsed and hadn't been repaired before, and moss was still growing on the broken tiles.

With one hand behind his back, He Li looked at the dilapidated half of the yard, ecstatically not knowing what he was thinking.His figure is very thin, not as tall and strong as he was back then, like a huge skeleton. From this look, he doesn't look like the bandit leader back then, but he looks a bit like a frustrated literati.

He heard the sound of Xiao Ming kicking the door, turned his head - his face was a little blue, his cheeks were sunken, and his brows were slightly frowned.

Seeing Xiao Ming, he didn't seem surprised at all, he only moved the corners of his mouth and said, "Long time no see." As if he knew Xiao Ming would come back.

Xiao Ming cut to the chase, "Where is Huang Li?"

He Li pointed to a room behind him, "It's right there."

Xiao Ming didn't care whether the other party was cheating or not, he pushed the door open and walked in. Sure enough, he saw Huan Li with a livid face, his body had already cooled down, and his breath could no longer be touched.

Xiao Ming hugged him to his chest, gritted his teeth and asked, "You...you let them eat, eat in the city..." He couldn't say the last word.

He Li glanced at him coldly, and said, "You think I let them do this?"

"Isn't it?"

"Oh——" he sneered, and said, "I never asked them to do this, even he—" he pointed to Wu Li in Xiao Ming's arms, "when they sent him, he was already a That's it."

Xiao Ming said, "There were tens of thousands of people in Licheng before, but now there are only a few hundred people left...does it have nothing to do with you?"

He Li turned his head and looked straight into his eyes, and said, "Of course it has something to do with me! If it weren't for me, everyone in this city would be fucking dead now! Li Ran wants tens of thousands of people to live together, then It's impossible! According to his method, these tens of thousands of people have to die together!"

Xiao Ming resisted the urge to kill him to vent his hatred, and cursed, "You fart!"

"Yeah," He Li laughed, "How could Li Ran be wrong? He's always right! I'm a bad guy, right? I just made a choice for myself to survive. Am I fucking wrong? ?! The people we left survived by their own strength!"

"I was born in a den of bandits since I was a child. All I knew was to use all means to survive, even killing people. And what about him? He was destined to be superior and admired since he was born. He was born Being favored by others, I had to use those methods that you despise to survive since I was born. So I made up my mind when I fought against him for the first time... I want to watch him lose everything he has—— The admiration and love that those people had for him, the awe that he had so effortlessly."

"So, even God blessed me...I became the leader of Li City...I brought them to survive! I used my way to make them survive—— Li Ran lost."

He Li said that Li Ran lost, but there was no trace of happiness on his face, even his voice trembled, sounding empty and sad.

Xiao Ming listened without saying a word, seeing two lines of tears in the flushed eyes of the person in front of him, he threw himself on the ground, and finally burst into tears.

"But I don't want this ending—"

"I haven't eaten--how can I eat..."

He babbled about how he survived the burning of Yitu Mountain, how he led people to rob and kill people in Licheng, and became the leader of everyone.

But later, everything got out of control... Those who killed people and survived started to eat people, and all the weaker ones would be targeted and appear in the pot the next day.Everyone is in danger and dare not close their eyes at night.

This is not the result he wanted.

He had indeed learned to survive by various means since he was a child, but what he expected more was a peaceful and prosperous world. His hatred for Li Ran was nothing but hatred for those things in him that he didn't have.He wants everyone's approval and affirmation, and is even willing to put in all his efforts, but it often backfires.

Xiao Ming didn't want to listen to him anymore, and walked out of the yard step by step with Huan Li's body in his arms... leaving behind a broken He Li.

He walked step by step, looking at the dark City Lord's Mansion in front of him, recalling the brightly lit place in the past.

He remembered what Emperor Kaiyang said to him when he let him out, and he could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes.

"You said that they arbitrarily imposed on others because of their innate abilities superior to the human world, but why didn't you kill them yourself like this?"

"I also know about the matter of Licheng, but the situation has evolved to this point, and it is not directly manipulated by the two of them. Although we are gods... how much role can we play in this?"

"Less participation in the affairs of the human world...everything has its own decision."

"The sins of all things are not caused by humans, but are determined by nature, do you understand?"

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