Raiders of the Queen of the Damned

Su Nuo took Yuan back to her former shrine.

Because Yuan didn't show up for too long, her former believers gradually stopped coming to the shrine, and naturally no one came to clean it.At this time, the quaint shrine looked gray, especially the roof where Minamoto used to stay was covered with a layer of dust after a long period of wind and rain.

Minamoto stood in front of the stone steps of the shrine, as if in a lifetime.

At the beginning, she took the initiative to leave here with the shadow, wanting to see more scenery.Now the black shadow has turned into Su Nuo, and she was brought back by Su Nuo, with bad karma, she may die soon.

While she was standing in a daze, Su Nuo grabbed a random boy from a nearby village and asked him to clean up the shrine.

Being captured by the four-eyed and four-armed "monster" to the old shrine, the young man was terrified at first, but when he saw the black-haired god standing in front of the shrine, an excited expression appeared on that delicate face: "Mr. ,you are back!"

Hearing the boy's surprised voice, Minamoto glanced over.

She looked at the boy quietly, and had no impression of him - although she couldn't say many of her former followers, there were quite a few, and it was impossible for her to remember every face, let alone she didn't need to remember.

The young man didn't expect the gods to have an impression on him, so he took the initiative to speak: "Our village had a severe drought one year, and it was you who brought heavy rain to alleviate the drought. Back then, I came to pray to you with the people in the village, so I met you, you I will never forget your kindness."

Still no impression.

Since Yuan was born, there have been eighty or one hundred rains, so she just nodded her head.

Seeing this, the boy didn't feel lost.He knew, how could the gods remember such a small thing?He just wanted to express his gratitude.

He was about to say something, but he heard a "tsk" sound from the side, it was the sound of the "four-handed monster" who caught him, followed by a sense of panic and oppression.

The boy suddenly remembered the purpose of the monster to capture him, he respectfully and piously worshiped Yuan a few times, and then hurried to clean the shrine.

Seeing that the young man began to clean with interest, Su Nuo curbed his murderous intentions towards him.For the sake of the young man being Yuan's believer, he let the young man say two or three words to Yuan, but if the young man wanted to continue talking, he would kill the other party and replace him with someone else.

The boy worked very quickly. Not only did he clean the shrine clean, but he also repaired the damaged roof, and the whole shrine looked brand new.

Su Nuo was very satisfied with the result of his cleaning, so he decided to save his life and let him clean it every two days.

The boy bowed his head in response.In fact, even if Su Nuo didn't say anything, after learning that Yuan had come to the shrine again, he planned to come to worship from time to time.

Su Nuo asked, "What's your name?"

The boy still lowered his head, with a submissive look: "You can call me 'Mei'."

He could see that everything about Lord Shenming was now in the hands of this monster.Although he didn't know what happened, his instinct told him not to ask.

"Mei, I want you to spread the news of her return." Su Nuo ordered him.

She naturally refers to the source.

Mei responded: "Yes." For him, the return of the Lord Shenming is good news, and it should be publicized.Besides, he is just a weak human being, even if he is unwilling, he has no ability to refuse.

Su Nuo no longer looked at him: "You can get lost."

Hearing this sentence, Yuan seemed to think of something, and suddenly looked at Su Nuo.

Sensing Yuan's sudden gaze, Su Nuo walked towards her.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

From the corner of the eye, seeing the young man named Mei leaving safely, Yuan shook his head gently, without saying a word.

She seemed to understand something, but felt indifferent.

Yuan's reaction made Su Nuo a little unhappy.Now, any reaction from Yuan that treats him differently from Sombra will make him feel uncontrollably irritable.

He rested Yuanyuan's jaw with his index finger, making her look up at him: "Talk to me, do you want me to pry your mouth open?" He said, pressing his thumb on Yuanyuan's lips, as if ready to push it into her mouth at any time, Pry open her lips.

Yuan didn't want to annoy him, so he said, "It's okay."

At the end, as if to increase credibility, she said it again: "It's really all right."

Su Nuo gave a low "hmm", then walked into the shrine with Yuan Yuan in his arms, and untied her belt.When the clothes on his body were stripped off, Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help being afraid.It was only then that she realized that she was lying when she said she was fine, and that she would be "rewarded" for lying, and she didn't want to experience the pain of being bruised and bruised again.

"No..." Yuan grabbed the lapel of his shirt.

"Don't move." Su Nuo broke her hand and took off her clothes, "Let me see."

He turned Yuan over, his back to him.

It turned out to be looking at the karma behind her.

Yuan's tense body relaxed, and he couldn't help wondering whether Su Nuo could see that she hadn't told the truth just now.

At this time, she felt a little rough fingertips caressing her back, and there was a dull pain in the skin of her back, which made her relaxed body tense again.These dark spots are very painful when they first grow out. After a period of time, the pain will decrease, and finally the pain will only be felt when touching.

She heard Su Nuo ask, "It still hurts?"

Yuan nodded, remembering that Su Nuo asked her to speak, she said again: "It hurts."

"Tsk, there's a new one growing here."

Accompanied by Su Nuo's words, Yuan's shoulder hurt.

Yuan knew that she had karma on her shoulders. She passed out because of the severe pain in her shoulders.

Moreover, she suddenly looked at Su Nuo just now because——

She found that before she gave birth to "karma" twice, Su Nuo seemed to be killing people.

The news of Minamoto's return to the shrine was spread, but perhaps because of the influence of the previous rumors about the god of disaster, for four or five days in a row, very few people came, and there were no people who prayed at all.

Mei would come here every day, and besides cleaning the shrine, he would bring some fruit, but Yuan didn't need to eat, and in the end, all these went into Su Nuo's stomach.

After waiting for another two days, when Su Nuo got impatient and prepared to arrest a few people by force, the number of people visiting the shrine finally increased, and someone finally expressed his wish to the god.It's just that the person's wish was not strong enough to fill the transparent ball used to realize the wish.

But this is not a bad thing for Yuan, because after the wish fails, the ball of emotions will be eaten by her directly and become her nourishment.

Su Nuo checks the back of the source every night. He is like a child who broke his beloved toy, trying to fix it.He found that Riyuan's karma did not increase any more during this period, and thought this method was useful, and he felt much happier.

In fact, Yuan knew that it should be because Su Nuo had been guarding her these days and hadn't done any evil.

But she did not speak out about this guess.She didn't want Su Nuo to know whether the other party would stop doing evil or not.

She had an idea in her heart, maybe a little selfish, but she was really in too much pain and tired——

"Although this...may be sorry for the newborn me." Yuan hugged his legs and curled himself up into a ball, sitting by the window, his deep black eyes looking at the full moon embedded in the night outside the window, his lips opened and closed silently "It would be nice if I could die."

- so she can be free.

After the number of people visiting the shrine gradually increased, Yuan temporarily returned to his original life, sitting on the roof of the shrine every day, listening to various wishes.

Perhaps it is because of Sombra's credit for bringing her to understand the world, and the wish that Yuan heard that there was no difference began to have a difference.Some people are full of love and hope that their children will be healthy and safe; some people are malicious and want to offend him; "emotional".

It's just that the emotions they prayed for couldn't fill the transparent ball of Yuan.

The change started with the arrival of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man came late at night, he looked very rich, and he was dressed luxuriously.Behind him are many servants, some carrying lamps, and some leading slaves tied together with long ropes.

Seeing this, Yuan's memory was awakened, and she knew that the middle-aged man was going to sacrifice.

But she didn't care, or she didn't feel it.Because she only needs emotions, it doesn't matter what method the other party uses.

"Master God, I got gold from you ten years ago." The middle-aged man knelt down devoutly, suppressed the greed in his eyes and sang several words of kindness to him, and then said, "Now I am young Matters are high, and to leave something for my children, gold is the most suitable thing."

Su Nuo, who was leaning behind the door, sneered.

Hypocrisy, having said all that, still want gold.

Yuan didn't speak, but silently held out the transparent ball to him.

The middle-aged man excitedly commanded the servants, quickly drew a formation on the ground, and then pushed all the slaves in.

Blood flowed like a river, and the fear and resentment of the slaves turned into light blue light, filling the sphere in Yuan's hand.

Yuan fulfilled the wish of a middle-aged man.

Su Nuo watched the middle-aged man happily leave with the gold, as if he had discovered something interesting, he narrowed his eyes with interest.

He wants to play with people's hearts, strip away their hypocritical appearance, and see how far they can go.

So from the second day, all the people who came to make a wish got the "suggestion" of Su Nuo.When Su Nuo casually said "sacrifice" to people, there were waves in Yuan's calm eyes, like a breeze blowing across a smooth lake like a mirror, sparkling and fluctuating.

Yuan thought, Su Nuo would definitely not be able to resist.

She might be free soon.

Faced with Su Nuo's malicious proposal, some people were firm-willed and kind-hearted, and did not choose this inhumane way; some people were bewitched by him, and secretly came to offer sacrifices with innocent people. life to satisfy one's own desires.

Within a few days, rumors that had been forgotten by people were turned up again and circulated in everyone's mouth again.

"Gen will bring her demons and take people's lives. But if you offer enough blood and fear to her, she can grant you any wish."

History is always similar.

This time, because Su Nuo did not kill indiscriminately as before, the first half of the sentence was omitted.However, the title of "God of Misfortune" has not been removed.In the process of spreading rumors, either because of the accent or because of unclear memory, the name of the source was lost, and people replaced it with the god of disaster.

Eventually, the rumor became—

Gao Tian originally had a god of misfortune, as long as you can offer enough blood and fear to him, he can fulfill any wish for you.

A few more days.

Su Nuo had seen enough of the despicable people who chose to sacrifice, and felt more and more boring.Finally, when someone came to offer sacrifices, he saw the cruel and bloody scroll unfolding in front of his eyes, and Su Nuo couldn't help but participate in it, releasing his desire to kill that had been suppressed for too long.

Playing with people's hearts is fun, but killing is even more fun.

Su Nuo killed all the sacrifices in one go, and when he became interested, he also killed the people who came to offer sacrifices. The flames licked the corpses that were still warm, and burned all the traces.

During this period, Yuan just silently held the transparent ball in his hand.She squeezed her white fingertips and the cold sweat on her forehead, silently expressing her pain.

She was right.

Every time Su Nuo kills someone, new karma will grow on her body.

Yuan felt excruciating pain all over his body, and his vision gradually blurred.

With a smile on his lips, Su Nuo shook the blood on his hands, exhaled freely, and sighed: "As expected——"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the thin figure not far away suddenly fell down.

"……source?"

When Yuan woke up, he found himself lying in the shrine, with a dull pain all over his body.The flickering candlelight illuminates the dark room, casting it in a dim yellow hue.

Suddenly, a face with a cold outline appeared in front of her eyes, the other's sword eyebrows were furrowed, and there was anger in the red eyes.

"Ugh!" Yuan was lifted up by Su Nuo's slender neck, and the clothes covering her body slipped off, revealing the girl's body covered with large black spots.The warm yellow candlelight fell on her delicate and beautiful skin like suet jade, which made the dark spots like splashed ink ugly and destroyed her beauty.

"You discovered it a long time ago." Su Nuo's forearm muscles were tense. He looked at the girl with half-closed eyebrows and asked, "Isn't it?"

This time Yuan suddenly fell into a coma and grew karma, which made him feel strange.He is not a fool, after thinking about it a little, he found that Yuan grew up in front of his eyes twice, both after he killed someone.Based on this conjecture, he went back and found that Yuan's shoulder growth was born after he killed a god.

Therefore, the karma on Yuan is related to his actions.

Yuan was silent, but at this moment, silence meant acknowledgment.

Su Nuo was so angry that he laughed. When he was trying to keep Yuan, the other party was thinking about how to leave him.

"Want to die?" Su Nuo's five fingers began to tighten.

Yuan couldn't breathe, her pale and weak face gradually turned red, but she didn't struggle.

After a while, Su Nuo suddenly let go of his hand.

"Cough cough cough..."

Yuan fell back to the ground, and the oxygen-deprived chest cavity suddenly sucked in a large amount of air, making her cough uncontrollably.

"I won't let you die." Su Nuo's voice was low and hoarse, with a bit of anger hidden, "Even if you die, you should be killed by me."

After speaking, he left the shrine straight away, and the door was slammed shut with a loud bang.

Then there was a click.

source:"……?"

She got up, staggered to the door, and tried to open the door of the shrine.

The door didn't budge.

Su Nuo locked the door of the shrine from the outside.

Yuan patted on the door, wanted to speak but couldn't make a sound because her throat was too sore, she tried several times before she made a weak breathy voice: "Su Nuo?"

There was no response outside.

Minamoto ran to the window again. The windows of her shrine are long lattices that can be pushed open from the inside.She tried to push it, and found that Su Nuo might have left in a hurry and didn't lock the window, so she easily pushed a gap open.

She slowly moved her eyes close to the gap, looked left and right but didn't see anyone.

Do you want to climb out?

Even if she ran, she couldn't go anywhere, could she?

Yuan stood in front of the window and hesitated for a while, and finally turned around to pick up the clothes that fell on the ground and put them on, trying to escape.When she opened the window, she found that her body was extremely stiff as if being tied up, and she couldn't climb out of the window no matter what.

After these days of getting along, she became more and more afraid of Su Nuo, so that the way to escape from him was in front of her, and she couldn't develop courage.

"What are you doing here?"

Su Nuo's voice suddenly sounded, and he carried a young figure into Yuan's field of vision.

Yuan trembled in fright, subconsciously rejoicing secretly, fortunately she didn't climb the window, otherwise Su Nuo would just see it when she came back.

"I..." Yuan opened his mouth, barely making a sound like he was breathing.She didn't know what to answer, Su Nuo would be even more angry if she told the truth, and she couldn't tell a lie.

Su Nuo left Mei aside and walked to the window alone, looked down at the purple pinch marks on Yuan's neck, and asked, "Can't speak?"

Finding an excuse not to speak, Yuan nodded hastily.

"Put on your clothes." Su Nuo closed the window, preventing Mei from seeing her like this.

It was only then that Yuan realized that she was a little hasty when she put on her clothes just now, the skirt and belt were not arranged well, they were a little loose, and her body could be seen vaguely.

She untied the belt and rearranged it, listening to the voice from outside the window: "I'm going out for a while."

The movement of Yuan's hand paused.

What Su Nuo meant was that he wanted to leave her here and leave by himself?

"You wait here for me obediently, don't run around."

Familiar sentences hooked up bad memories, and she couldn't help shrinking her neck.

"I'll let Mei watch you." Su Nuo seemed to be talking to himself, knocking on the window lattice, "Haven't you dressed yet?"

Yuan quickly fastened his belt and pushed open the window.

The man with four eyes and four hands stood in front of the window, looking down at her with scarlet pupils.

He asked, "Did you hear that?"

Yuan nodded.

"Mei, keep an eye on her." Su Nuo ordered the young man standing not far away, and said as he walked, "If she is allowed to escape, I will kill all the people in your village."

Mei's palms were full of sweat, and she said to Su Nuo's leaving back, "Yes."

After Su Nuo left, Mei sat on the stone steps in front of the shrine, acting as a quiet watchman.

Yuan stood in front of the window, looking at the scenery outside.

It was already night, and the silvery white moonlight poured down into the mountain forest, and the cold night wind blew from the mountain, rustling the branches and leaves along the way.

She remembered that she used to sit on the roof of the shrine, staring at the moon in a daze.Later she and Sombra left, they didn't need much sleep, they would go for a walk together at night, Sombra would catch monsters and animals, in short, he would catch anything that could run and show her.Occasionally they would snuggle together and warm themselves by the fire, although neither of them felt cold, they just wanted to imitate human beings.

Thinking of humans, Yuan looked at Mei.

Mei was wearing very thin clothes, and she was holding her arms, shivering in the constantly blowing night wind.

May is human and he gets cold.

Yuan quietly watched Mei shivering from the cold, and after a while, she saw Mei rub her hands together, then stood up and jumped, as if this would warm him up.

She is a natural god, unless it is a very cold season, she will not feel how cold it is.

She watched Mei think of ways to keep herself warm, and inexplicably remembered that when she was traveling with Heiying, there was a heavy rain, and she casually threw the umbrella she didn't want to open to a rain-drenched woman on the side of the road.The woman thanked her with an umbrella, and then left with an umbrella.

At that time, the black shadow was not far away, seeing her walking in the rain, he said, "It turns out that you also have good intentions."

"Good intentions?" She didn't understand why it was good intentions, "I just want to get in the rain." She didn't need that umbrella, so she threw it to the people who saw it on the side of the road, it was that simple.

"It seems that I was wrong." Hei Ying patted her on the head, "You bastard, it seems that you still don't understand what kindness is."

Goodwill, what does it feel like?

Source turned his eyes away from Mei and turned to the candle behind him for lighting.

She doesn't need fire.

Yuan walked over to pick up the candlestick, and went back to the window, but she couldn't make a sound, so she raised her hand and knocked on the window lattice.

Mei heard the voice, got up and ran over: "My lord, what's wrong?"

Gen handed him the candle in his hand.

Mei took it and looked at her with some puzzlement: "Master God?"

Seeing that Mei was not as grateful to her as the woman in memory, Yuan was also a little puzzled, but his face still had a flat look: "Are you cold?" Because of her throat injury, her voice was a little hoarse and very soft, Light as if it could be blown away by the night wind.

Mei was still a little puzzled: "Yes."

Yuan said, "Take it to light a fire."

Only then did Mei realize why Yuan gave him candles.He was stunned for a moment, and then he showed a bright smile. The candlelight shone into his smiling eyes like bright starlight.

"Thank you, Lord God." He said gratefully, "You are so kind to me."

That's all right?

Yuan asked: "Okay... is it good intentions?"

Mei had never been asked such a question, but when this question was asked from the mouth of the gods, it seemed special, like a test.

He would not have thought that the god in front of him did not understand good and evil.

"Yes." Mei replied respectfully, "When you treat me well, you are showing me kindness."

Yuan asked: "Goodwill, what does it feel like?"

Mei racked her brains to find the answer to this question. When he saw the candle in his hand, he had an idea and passed the candle to Yuan again, saying: "Put your hand next to the candle and you will feel the warmth of the fire. Kindness is like this." a feeling of."

Hearing this, Yuan hung his hand above the candlelight.

The warm yellow candlelight reflected on her palm, bringing a comforting warmth, just like she felt every night when she and the shadow cuddled by the fire.

She looked slightly startled.

It turns out that kindness is such a feeling.

Like fire, it is warm.

The author says:

I don't know if the door of the shrine can be locked, but I say it can be locked if it can be locked! (righteous x)

【Settings related to gods in this article】

① It was fabricated after reference by all parties, please do not take it seriously.

I already said it in archive 43 before, but I will mention it again~

Japan's native religion is Shintoism, which belongs to the panspiritual polytheistic belief, that is, the 800 million gods that everyone is familiar with.The setting of the gods in this article is also based on Shintoism. The gods need faith or they will disappear and they will be reborn after death, etc., which refer to the settings of Natsume and Noragami.Because I think the Japanese also believe in Buddhism, so on the basis of Shintoism, some Buddhist concepts are incorporated, such as karma and cause and effect.

②I don't know what to sum up, bond?

There is a rather interesting concept in Buddhism. If you had a good or bad karma with someone in your previous life, you can easily meet him again in this life or in the next life.Your closest friend now may have been your enemy in the previous life; the person you hate the most may have been your relative in the previous life.

This article also introduces this concept, so May... you know who.