Liu Xiao followed Jiao Ning's footsteps and entered the temple.
The most eye-catching thing is a tall statue of a god directly in front.
The face of the statue is soft and kind, and the body is tall and has the appearance of a woman. However, the clothes are revealing and the chest is open, but it is a man's body.
There is an empty space between the statue and the temple gate, with dozens of futons neatly placed on the ground.
Looking around, there are ten portraits of different shapes on the wall, and there are two rows of fixed seats against the wall on the left and right sides.
There were several waiters doing cleaning work around, wearing the same indigo robes with complex patterns.
It is clearly standing under the light, but it is as cold as a statue and has no popularity.
Jiao Ning walked to the front futon and knelt down, with the palms of his hands facing towards himself, and folded together at the heart to make a heart-cup shape, which meant that he was heartbroken at the fall of the creator god.
After making the gesture, he crawled down.
Jiao Ningpao had reminded him on the way here, so Liu Xiao also drew a ladle in the same way, made a heart-grabbing gift, and knelt on the ground.
He didn't know how long he would have to lie down, and he was going to look up after a while.
After all, he used to be an atheist. Although he didn't hate kneeling down to worship gods, he didn't have much respect for them.
While he was thinking about it, he heard Jiao Ning's cold voice: "Okay, get up."
Liu Xiao looked up and found that Jiao Ning had stood up. It could be seen that this was just a formality, something similar to etiquette.
Go around the statue, and there is a cave behind it.
In the middle of a long and narrow corridor, directly behind the statue of the God of Creation, there is a door slightly smaller than the main door of the temple.
As soon as the door was closed, a figure in tight black clothes stood in front of the door. When Liu Xiao approached, he happened to turn around.
He is a middle-aged man with a somewhat arrogant look in his eyes.
After seeing Jiao Ning, her thin lips parted, revealing a big smile.
That smile was very familiar to Liu Xiao. When beginners who have just started to learn art draw faces, they often draw this kind of smiling face because they only know how to draw skin but not bones.
Weird and annoying.
"Team Leader Jiao, this is a rare visitor!" he said.
"Team leader Cheng, long time no see. Team leader of the sixth group, Cheng Xun."
Jiao Ning was always able to speak sparingly, and the second half of the introduction was very ambiguous, but fortunately Liu Xiao quickly realized that he was speaking to himself.
So he immediately bowed slightly and said hello: "Team leader Mu'an, I am number seven..."
"Your subordinates are still so unruly and don't understand basic etiquette. I'm very surprised that there are so few people in the seventh group, why can't you manage them well? Why don't you consider my suggestion and send them over to the sixth group to help you discipline them.
"
Liu Xiao narrowed her eyes, suppressed a trace of anger, and then straightened up.
After all, he feels older than he looks, so he is not so rash. This kind of matter should be left to people in the same position to handle.
This Cheng Xun looks to be in his thirties, much younger than Jiao Ning, but he behaves like this, which shows that the inspection team is relatively independent of each other, and only looks at status, not age.
Jiao Ning's face remained stern, without any change. He just said "hum" and then looked at the door behind Cheng Xun.
"A new guy with great potential and I like his personality very much."
Cheng Xun said and looked at Liu Xiao: "After all these years, are you finally willing to recruit a new person?"
"It's not about the number of people, it's about the quality."
"This makes sense. Compared with the third and fourth groups, my sixth group is closer to the temple. There are not so many extraordinary events and there are fewer people. However, they are highly disciplined, well-trained, and well-behaved."
In terms of distance to the temple, the seventh group is still closer. Combined with the previous criticism of Liu Xiao's lack of etiquette, both inside and outside the words are saying that the seventh group has no rules.
Liu Xiao naturally understood, but he didn't know what he did wrong. He frowned slightly at this moment and couldn't understand why Cheng Xun was so aggressive.
Suddenly, he suddenly remembered the noise in the next room when he first arrived at the seventh group in the afternoon, and thought that something might have caused some conflicts between the two groups.
Sure enough, Jiao Ning responded coldly: "Is it a rule to allow extraordinary events in one's own area to be leaked and push them to other groups?"
"Let it go?" Cheng Xun showed that careless smile again, "When it comes to leaking extraordinary things, who can compare to what happened two years ago? Besides, it was not an object, but extraordinary things.
Or, where should an extraordinary being want to go, should we impose restrictions?”
"Team leader Cheng, you are no longer a newcomer. You should know how to deal with an uncontrollable transcendent. Since my team members have taken over this matter, I will not shirk the responsibility anymore, but you sixth
It is absolutely impossible for the group to do so without paying a price."
Cheng Xun didn't believe what price he would pay, so he raised his hand and sneered: "Then there is Team Leader Lao Jiao."
The two stopped talking and stood aside quietly waiting.
Liu Xiao also understood the reason from the conversation.
An uncontrollable extraordinary person appeared in the sixth group, which triggered related extraordinary events. However, for unknown reasons, the matter was not resolved. The extraordinary person left the area responsible for the sixth group and came to the seventh group.
The seventh group wanted to let the sixth group continue to be in charge, but the sixth group refused because the extraordinary person was not in the area they were responsible for. This was also the reason for the quarrel in the room in the afternoon.
It seems that the final result is that the sixth group shied away and the members of the seventh group had no choice but to deal with it on their own. Jiao Ning, as the group leader, did not blame the group members.
I don't know how much time passed, but there was still silence inside the door. Cheng Xun, who was waiting, had a trace of impatience on his face.
Half an hour later, the faint light exposed through the crack of the door suddenly became stronger, and Cheng Xun's face finally looked much better.
After the light returned to normal, Cheng Xun opened the door first and walked in.
Liu Xiao followed Jiao Ning and walked over.
Behind the door is a much smaller temple, roughly fan-shaped, with tall statues carved on the curved wall in front, ten in total.
The ten statues were strangely shaped, but slightly human-shaped. Liu Xiao glanced at them hastily and rested his eyes on the ground in the middle.
Facing the statue, at the center of the fan-shaped circle, a young man about his own age sat there with his head lowered.
Cheng Xun stepped forward and called out a few times before he woke up leisurely.
Asking him to stand up and move out of the way, Cheng Xun said to Jiao Ning: "Please."
Jiao Ning looked at Liu Xiao.
Liu Xiao followed the request and stepped forward to stand at the center of the circle. At this moment, no matter which statue he looked at, he was face to face with it.
Jiao Ning said: "Sit down."
Although Liu Xiao had doubts in his mind just now as to why the young man was sitting here instead of kneeling, he did not ask.
However, Jiao Ning appropriately explained: "Acquiring divinity is the way to becoming a god. You don't have to kneel down."
Then he said: "If it doesn't work once, you can try it one more time, but you can only do it twice. No matter how disrespectful you are, I will wait for you outside for half an hour."
Cheng Xundao: "You are still so old-fashioned."
Jiao Ning did not reply.
The three of them left the Holy Son's Hall and closed the door.
Liu Xiao saw that the young man who had obtained divinity was walking unsteadily and staggering.
Sitting alone in the Temple of the Holy Son, the lights from the top illuminated the entire space, allowing him to clearly see the statue of the Holy Son.
The ten statues without human figures made him feel a little nervous. He didn't know what was left after the death of the God of Creation, and why he himself had a human form, while the Sons of God were so weird.
For example, one of them has a trunk-like main body in the middle, with four water-like strips extending out like limbs, and the head position explodes in all directions, with countless water droplets flying out.
The other one has no torso, and his "limbs" are tangled and tumbling.
There is another person whose "limbs" are spread out and branched out into countless branches, but his head is like smoke, hazy.
…
Scanning them one by one, Liu Xiao didn't understand the meaning of these seemingly incorporeal statues, but this was not the time to delve deeper.
Look down at the note and recite the prayer softly:
"The great and benevolent God, the omniscient and omnipotent Creator God, the saints who have transformed into ten, your loyal believer Liu..."
Halfway through the words, the holy statue shook, and rays of light appeared out of thin air and shone on Liu Xiao.
"So fast!"
Outside the door, Cheng Xun, who had just reached the end of the long and narrow corridor, suddenly looked back.
Jiao Ning's face was also full of shock.
Countless dazzling brilliance leaked from the cracks in the door, making the entire corridor as bright as day. There were even clear shadows cast behind the three people, swaying in the brilliance.
"ah--"
A scream of pain came from Liu Xiao inside the door.
Jiao Ning made no move and waited quietly.
After the light faded, Jiao Ning immediately opened the door and walked in.
Liu Xiao was seen curled up in pain and didn't respond to the screams, so Jiao Ning supported his body and let him lie down while he sat cross-legged and alone.
Cheng Xun returned, looked at the unconscious Liu Xiao, moved his lips, and finally said to Jiao Ning: "Congratulations, Team Leader Jiao."
Jiao Ning said nothing.
Liu Xiao did not expect that he had not yet taken a good posture, had not formally prayed, and was directly infused with divinity before he finished speaking. Countless and confusing information in his mind were like a tsunami, instantly overwhelming his consciousness.
White, dazzling white, stinging and painful.
Liu Xiao wanted to rub it, but she couldn't feel her hands.
In fact, he can't feel any part of his body, not even his eyes. Instead, he "sees" his surroundings in a strange state.
I said my eyes hurt, but in fact my whole body was stinging.
After a while, whether the white light became weaker or Liu Xiao got used to it, some changes slowly appeared around her.
As far as the eye can see, there are faintly visible giant figures with strange body proportions. Their limbs are short and thick, but their bodies are extremely huge.
His waist was half bent, his head tilted, and he held his head against the sky with his thick fingers and short neck.
Looking around, the giants formed a circle one after another, shoulder to shoulder, with different postures, but they were all half-bent and pushing against the sky above their heads with all their strength.
Even though there were so many giants, they could not move at all that day and could not be lifted. Instead, they were so overwhelmed that they could not breathe. If even one of them was weak, the sky would fall down.
At the feet of the giant, there are countless people the size of ants, all dressed in gorgeous clothes, robes, golden tents, and sacred beasts and holy chariots.
As Liu Xiao cast his gaze, those people in gorgeous clothes also turned to look over at the same time...
Liu Xiao took a breath of air and woke up instantly.
When he woke up, he found himself lying on the ground and Jiao Ning sitting cross-legged nearby.
At this moment, his head was dizzy, and countless thoughts seemed to be flashing around. This made him feel extremely irritable, and he couldn't help but want to smash things and destroy things.
"is this normal?"
Liu Xiao rubbed her throbbing temples and asked, holding back her headache.
Jiao Ning stood up with both feet: "Everyone is different, let's go."
On the way back, Liu Xiao only felt that the swelling in her head became more and more severe, and finally turned into a simple headache. At the same time, the irritability in her heart increased instead of decreasing, and her desire to destroy became stronger and stronger, so she could only lie down in the back seat.
It was already dark, but it was still bright inside the seventh inspection team.
Jiao Ning had just stabilized the car, and Su Gu, who had not yet left, nervously came over to check the situation.
"You take care of him."
After Jiao Ning finished speaking, he got out of the car and walked into the seventh group.
Su Gu opened the car door and saw Liu Xiao lying there, rubbing her temples with pain on her face. She couldn't help feeling a little apologetic in her heart, so she stepped forward to comfort her gently.
Feeling a soft hand caressing her forehead, Liu Xiao grabbed it and said, "Can you help me?"
"No." Su Gu said, "But I can make you relax, which should relieve your pain."
"Hurry." Liu Xiao said.
Su Gu held Liu Xiao's hand with his backhand and said, "Look at me."
Liu Xiao endured the increasingly severe headache and opened her eyes to look. Su Gu was startled. She had seen this kind of look in some extraordinary events, including those extraordinary people who did not know where they obtained impure divinity.
.
Crazy, cruel.
After all, all things have divinity, and it is not just the way of being gifted by saints.
But she calmed down immediately. Saints will not give gifts to those with impure hearts, so there is no need to worry about Liu Xiao.
When their eyes met, Su Gu's eyes became dark, as deep as the ocean, which made people sink.
Liu Xiao couldn't bear it any longer, so she suddenly retracted her hands and hugged her head and huddled in the back seat of the car, making bursts of pain from her mouth.
Su Gu's eyes returned to normal, his face full of disbelief.
She actually failed?
Jiao Ning returned with a paper bag and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I want to help him relax, but...it doesn't seem to have any effect."
"He has acquired more divinity than I have ever seen before. It is not surprising that there are some abnormalities. I will send him back. You can go back too and have a good rest tomorrow."
Jiao Ning said as he got into the car, and Su Gu got into the back seat after him.
"I am coming too."
Jiao Ning didn't drive. She looked at Su Gu from the rearview mirror with wrinkled eyes. Her cold eyes made her restless.
"No, you can go back."
Although the tone was neither cold nor tough, it was unquestionable.
Su Gu shrank his neck and got out of the car obediently. With his sweet appearance, he made people feel pity for him.
"Always pay attention to changes in your emotions."
Jiao Ning started the car and left, leaving behind these words.
Emotions correspond to mental states.
Su Gu's beautiful figure remained motionless in the darkness.
She remembered Jiao Ning once reminding herself: Indulging one's emotions without controlling them is letting go of mental disorder.
Although it was a very common thing for her to want to take care of Liu Xiao, it also showed that Su Gu gave up resistance and indulged in his emotions.
Although self-blame and worry are common emotions, when it comes to Su Gu in this state, they are no longer indifferent things.
"If you don't control it every time, then after you sink into a certain emotion, you can only get out of the previous emotion with a stronger emotion, and if things go on like this..."
Su Gu suddenly covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably, and she soon tried to hold them back again.
Anyone who experiences great joy or great sorrow will lose control, let alone yourself. This chapter has been completed!