The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 200 Approaching the Gods (Twenty-Two)

Ten days passed without me noticing.

At the top of Xuanshan Mountain, a small pink and white flower blooms alone on the edge of the cliff.

A simple and slender hand reached out towards the flower, as if trying to pick it.

However, just as the fingertips were about to touch the petals shaking in the wind, an invisible barrier blocked their way.

Retracting his fingertips, Liu Sheng sighed: "This air wall is really everywhere."

"Yes, sir, Xuanshan has reached the edge of the map. If we are not careful, we will hit the air wall you mentioned."

At this time, Song Yanran, who had changed her name to Priest Yanran, followed Liu Sheng respectfully. She was wearing the same gray cloth robe as Liu Sheng, and holding a round object wrapped in cloth in her hand.

"What a pity." Liu Sheng said with regret as he looked at the little flower that he could not touch.

"What is the magical use of this flower?" Priest Yanran was puzzled.

"It's not that we feel pity for this flower, but it's a pity that we have walked all over the edge of the map and confirmed that there are no doors or passages, and everything is seamless." Liu Sheng shook his head and looked out along the little white flower.

As far as the eye can see, there is a deep valley shrouded in clouds and mist, with the faint sound of gurgling water below. Further away, there are endless layers of green mountains, with no sign of human habitation.

Priest Yanran widened her eyes in surprise and asked, "But has Priest Shi Kang also completed his exploration?"

Liu Sheng nodded and sensed that his consciousness in Ginkgo Village far in the north of the map was falling next to the air wall.

……

That consciousness is now stored in the strange object [Dangling Silk Ghost] in Tian Shikang's hand, and is looking at the outside world through the eyes of its small tentacles.

Although Tian Shikang had traveled all over Xuan Thirty-Nine Cities with the little tentacle, he still felt a little uncomfortable seeing a wriggling black tentacle emerging from a book, with round eyes, turning around curiously.

But he was already holding a book with a corpse dragging behind it, so it didn't seem too strange to have such a tentacle on him.

Moreover, this tentacle came from the power of the Earth Mother! If it weren't for her existence, which could inspire the power of the corpse dragged on the ground, he would have died countless times.

However, if he had not met the High Priestess of the Earth Mother, he would have been as cold as the corpse dragged behind him.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel ashamed of the fear and terror I showed when I first met the Earth Mother Priestess.

This Tian Shikang was naturally the scholar Liu Sheng met on the first day.

At that time, he was afraid of the small tentacles and fled.

As a result, when I got home, I had to face my childhood friend and classmate who was becoming more and more strange.

"Shi Kang, can you let me go? I feel much better." From the corner of the dim hall, the voice of my childhood friend was heard, sounding very weak.

When Tian Shikang heard this, he found that the patient's speech was still clear and his thinking was fluent, so he knew that he had indeed recovered.

So he sighed softly and walked towards his childhood friend who was tied to the beam.

He saw his childhood friend looking up at him with a pale smile pretending to be relaxed, but his face was covered in sweat, there was a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, and his clothes were soaked with sweat, which showed that he was not really relaxed.

"Your hysterical attack is so terrible that it doesn't even spare yourself. Open your mouth and take a look?"

Tian Shikang untied the rope for his childhood friend and looked into his open mouth as he spoke.

The tongue inside was a bloody mess, obviously bitten during hysteria, but luckily he could still open his mouth to speak. "It seems that I have to seal your mouth next time. I think the villagers will stuff cloth balls into the mouths of people who have epileptic seizures."

"Yeah, okay..." The childhood friend shook his stiff wrist and nodded.

"Is your hysteria getting worse?" Tian Shikang frowned, worried. "At first, it seemed like you were talking nonsense all night, then you were talking and walking around randomly, and then you started smashing things... Now, you're hurting others and yourself..."

"Shi Kang, you're right, you should just leave..." The childhood friend smiled miserably, "The farther away from me the better, I'm scared."

In order to take care of himself, Tian Shikang has not slept for several nights, and he runs around every day to find any treatment for himself.

He looked at Tian Shikang's increasingly haggard face and felt sorry for him.

Moreover, he could feel that the bloodthirsty and cruel part of himself was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the time he could stay awake was getting shorter and shorter...

He was afraid that one day he would completely lose himself, or even hurt Tian Shikang...

"That won't work. We grew up together and traveled from the other side of the mountain together just to study here. Although the academy is now closed... But it doesn't matter. In short, when you are away from home, you must take care of each other. This is what your parents told us before they left."

Tian Shikang glanced at her and said angrily, "You should take good care of her and don't think too much."

"Just take the medicines that the old doctor at Zhongyuan Hall prescribed. I'll go boil the medicine now."

"Shikang, to be honest, I think those medicines are useless..." said the childhood friend, grabbing Tian Shikang's sleeve.

He had begun to vaguely suspect that perhaps he was not suffering from hysteria, but was instead infected by the most terrifying "weirdness" of the moment.

If it is really as "weird" as the legend says, then there is no cure.

"You've only taken it for two days, maybe it hasn't worked yet." Tian Shikang stopped him from continuing.

"It's strange that the strange woman I met today made me so upset that I even forgot that I had to go to the east of the city to find Fuxian Hall to see if it was open..." He muttered, "I heard that the doctors at Fuxian Hall are better at treating hysteria."

"Strange woman?" asked the childhood friend in confusion.

"Yes, I met a scary weird woman today." Tian Shikang didn't want to mention it anymore, and said, "It's not important. I'll go boil the medicine first."

At that time, Tian Shikang had no idea that just one day later, he would be knocking on the door in the rainy night just to ask to see that terrible strange woman.

"You, what do you want coming here so late?" A middle-aged woman wearing the same gray clothes as the strange woman yawned, pushed the door open a crack, looked at the young man outside the door who was soaked by the rain, and asked curiously.

"I... I'm here to look for the Earth Mother, right? Is there such a woman?"

Tian Shikang was not sure whether the name "Mother Earth" was correct. It really sounded strange. He even suspected that the woman might have made it up.

"Mother Earth?" The middle-aged woman frowned even more tightly, making Tian Shikang's heart hang in the air.

"What exactly do you want to see the Earth Mother Priest about?"

Fortunately, the middle-aged woman's words confirmed that there was such a person, and he was a "priest", but no one knew what god he worshipped.

Tian Shikang's heart fell heavily into his chest, and he knelt down anxiously, saying, "Please, Mother Earth, save my friend!"

The middle-aged woman then noticed that the water beneath the young man was covered in blood.

(End of this chapter)