Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Having decided to make the existence of the Crimson God a reality, Bell was prepared to go all out.

His will, piercing through the dream, swiftly arrived beside a house bathed in warm yellow light. There, a woman in an apron stood on tiptoe, gazing at the street corner, waiting for a certain figure to appear.

Her appearance perfectly embodied the phrase "eagerly awaiting," and before she could wait long, a tall, strong man quietly appeared at the street corner, appearing beside her in the blink of an eye, like the wind.

"Welcome home."

The woman said this, reached out and took the man's coat from him, and walked into the house side by side.

Having been married for four years, they are considered an old married couple, but they still maintain the passion of newlyweds.

This young couple were not from Chishui City. Their purpose in coming to Chishui City was to get married and settle down here. In fact, their union was not easy. It was a typical case of eloping for love. Both sets of parents disagreed with the marriage, but once the two young people got angry, no one could stop them.

This kind of thing is common in this world. Because when lovers have different professional ranks, they know that they can still make a living in other cities, so eloping is a rebellious act that is only natural.

Under this trend, apart from a few regions with conservative customs or a few parents with conservative views, many elders completely disregard the marriage and love situation of their younger generations.

The situation of this couple is quite rare.

Those who dared to elope naturally possessed a skill: the man was a level 15 hunter, and the woman was a level 9 chef.

Logically speaking, if the two of them were working normally, the wages they could earn would have allowed them to move to a more prosperous area long ago, and they wouldn't have stayed in this poor area for long.

But every family has its own problems, and without some special circumstances, Bell wouldn't have found this young couple from among the many people living in the slums.

Three years ago, the woman gave birth to a son. Normally, the arrival of a child would bring hope to a family, but for them, the child was an unimaginable burden.

Their child has a congenital disease that is extremely difficult to cure, clinging to their child like a leech.

In a big city like Chishui, they took their child to see many doctors. In front of those well-known doctors, their child's congenital disease was not incurable.

However, the treatment fees quoted by the doctors were astronomical for them, amounting to thousands of gold coins, which they simply could not afford.

Even a single consultation with these doctors would cost them a month's net income.

A doctor once bluntly said, "Let the young couple give the child a quick death, and then they can have another baby later."

After all, if the child doesn't receive treatment before the age of five, there's a high probability he won't survive to adulthood. Even if he does, he'll be a disabled person, only bringing continuous survival pressure to the family.

Everyone in this world has a hard life. If this young couple didn't have this burden, they would be living a much better life now.

However, the solution that is theoretically most in the couple's best interest is one that they would never adopt under any circumstances.

Just like many critically ill patients who have lost consciousness, their families will go to great lengths to keep them alive for a few more days, no matter the cost. Even if the patients are in immense pain and death is inevitable, their families still want to hold them back.

This is something outsiders can hardly judge. Just like women today, she is using her magic to massage her son's meridians, her eyes full of love.

This was advice they got from the doctor: to use magic to soothe their son's body so that he could stay in a relatively good condition. At least if their son had magic to soothe his body every day, he wouldn't feel intense pain.

However, this also limited the couple's opportunities to go out to work. In the past, when their child was just born, the woman could use her own magic to channel her son's meridians. But now that her son is older, the magic channeling required for each channeling has become much more powerful. The woman feels powerless to complete a channeling session and often has to rely on a man with a higher level and more magic power to help her.

As my son's condition progressed, the magical energy channeling that was originally used only once a day now needs to be done about three times a day, and the frequency of magical energy channeling will increase in the future.

Originally, her husband, a hunter, would venture into other dangerous places to earn money to supplement the family income.

But his son's situation is holding him back, making it difficult for him to travel far. At the same time, he is also worried about what will happen to his mother and son if something happens to him in a dangerous place one day.

Although he could still smile and comfort his wife, telling her that everything would be alright and that he would take care of everything.

But the man knew exactly how critical the situation had become. His family simply couldn't afford the medical expenses for their son's treatment. Moreover, with the excessive use of magic, his wife's body had become quite depleted, and if this continued, her condition would deteriorate further.

The man is the pillar of the family. When his wife can't bear the pressure, she can confide in him. But when his pressure accumulates, he doesn't want to share it with his equally distressed wife, because that would worry her. Bearing it silently is his best choice.

But this despair cannot be ignored. In the dream realm, which is difficult for outsiders to see, the man yearns from the bottom of his heart for someone to save his family. He would give his soul to the devil if it meant his child would be healthy and his wife would be happy.

'Please, anyone, save our home...'

The deepest desire buried in his heart did not attract demons. After all, demons are extraordinary beings who can rival dragons. They can tear mountains and rivers apart and alter flesh and soul. How could they be attracted by his insignificant wish?

Following the normal course of events, his family would soon face the long-foreseen despair.

"But from this moment on, you will no longer despair. Give your heart to the God of Crimson Light."

Chapter 226 The Appearance of Sacrifices

When the sun rose again, Bell was in a terrible state. Overnight, he had been jumping through a large number of dreams, examining other people's lives through them, which greatly depleted Bell's mental energy.

But all that effort that night was worthwhile for Bale.

As dawn broke and the vibrant dreams subsided, faint points of light appeared one after another in the city.

Each of these points of light is the result of Bell's efforts last night. With the help of his dream, he successfully developed nearly a hundred believers of considerable individual level who were willing to give their hearts to the God of Red Light.

These people not only acknowledged the existence of the Red Light God, but were also willing to take the Red Light God's will as their own code of conduct and practice the god's requirements with their own bodies. This is a necessary requirement for the birth of faith.

Getting them to choose to embrace faith from a dream is no easy task; after all, no amount of sweet talk is truly effective.

The real reason these believers were successfully converted was the potion that appeared in their hands when they awoke from their dream.

Over the past century, Phil has stored an astonishing amount of Crimson Essence. Bell, who has reverse-engineered a stable formula for Crimson Essence, can use this Crimson Essence to mass-produce Crimson Essence.

If this is done, Bell's daily output will have a tremendous impact on the Redwater City market. The massive amount of Red Light Essence will allow Bell to extract a large amount of cash from Redwater City. In just one day, Bell will become the richest individual in Redwater City.

"But if we use this crimson marrow to make money, it would be a complete waste of such a high-quality material."

The crimson marrow possesses the miraculous effect of compensating for congenital defects in life. Using the crimson marrow as a base for drug preparation, even with Bell's skill as a pharmacist, he can create all sorts of incredible medicines, after all, the raw materials are simply too excellent.

Congenital diseases, organ damage, mental disorders, backlash from failed upgrades... all these diseases can be cured if there is red marrow fluid present.

As he strolled through the increasingly bustling city, Bell observed the changes that followed his night's activities.

"Our child can be saved!"

A gasp came from the house next door. Bell knew that the gasp belonged to the child's terminally ill father. To Bell, it was just a small episode from last night, an insignificant part of Felicity's plan to become a god.

But for this man, his family would undergo astonishing changes after today. Since he woke up, a glass test tube had appeared in his hand without him noticing, with a wine-red liquid slowly swaying inside.

If what happened in the dream is true, then this medicine is his family's hope.

There are many others in this district who have received gifts after waking up like him. This is the beginning of Jasmine's plan to become a god. All those chosen are the people with the greatest potential to become believers.

The process of becoming a god is a long one. Of course, you won't see the results in a day or two, but after a week, people throughout the city were quietly talking about the Crimson Light God.

"Have you seen Lao Luo's children? They used to look like they were about to die, but recently they've been getting healthier and healthier, and they can run and jump now."

"

"Perhaps it was divine intervention... but I heard that this matter is related to the Crimson Light God."

"The Crimson Light God? You mean that legendary one that devours all misfortune... Be careful what you say, talking about that might cause you trouble..."

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In this lowest-level urban area, the existence of the Crimson Light God seems to have become an urban legend passed down only by word of mouth. Everyone knows about it, but no one talks about it openly.

The reason for this is that when Bell develops followers in his dreams, he deliberately applies certain mental suggestions to make them keep the existence of the Red Light God a secret from their superiors as much as possible while they are subtly spreading the word about it.

Although Bell knew that this tactic would eventually be exposed to the administrators of Red Light City, the longer it dragged on, the larger Bell could expand his base, and the greater the possibility of Feli becoming a god.

Bell, who has been spreading the existence of the Crimson Light God through his dreams, is actually under a lot of pressure because there is always the possibility that his secret will be exposed. Once he attracts the attention of the higher-ups in Crimson Water City, most of Bell's previous work will be wasted.

However, Bell seemed to have overestimated the reaction speed of the Redwater City administrators. Even though the phenomenon of the Red Light God in the lower urban areas was getting worse, no control measures were introduced in Redwater City. Bell was able to develop believers smoothly for two months using dreams.

In fact, the city patrol team of the city guard and the ordinary clerk of the city hall had already discovered that the phenomenon of the Red Light God had caused a great uproar. They compiled and reported the matter, hoping that the higher-ups of Chishui City would send more powerful specialists to investigate the matter.

However, the reports sent to the city guard and the city hall got stuck with their superiors.

The city patrol team is the lowest-ranking unit under the city guard. After all, Chishui City has been at peace for a long time, and the daily patrol teams are mostly spoiled rich kids in their early teens. There are hardly any normal people. Their reports are usually for various reasons to ask for funding, and the city guard headquarters no longer pays much attention to the patrol team's reports.

This time, we finally had a proper report, but after submitting it, it was just left aside to gather dust.

The report submitted by the ordinary clerk was carefully read by his superior, but his superior believed that sending such a trivial matter to the city hall would only bring him unnecessary trouble.

As the saying goes, Chishui City has enjoyed peace for a long time. Now, he, as a grassroots leader, is about to be transferred and promoted. If he reports on the urban governance problems that have occurred under his jurisdiction, his promotion will not be so secure.

He was just a so-called Red Light God. Before he was transferred, he was treated as if he didn't exist. He was left to be dealt with by his successor. Anyway, with the church around, this kind of heretical believer would be crushed soon.

The lack of attention paid to both municipal and military affairs allowed Bell to develop quite comfortably.

Logically speaking, the church, which should be the one to take action against him, is not so worrying for Bell.

Although the churches in this world are powerful and have a wide reach, their relationship with God is not that great anymore. The God of the churches has not answered anyone's prayers for thousands of years.

The church has become increasingly conservative in its practices over the years because city-states and nations around the world are subtly suppressing the church's powerful and uncontrollable influence. They will not arbitrarily create trouble for these secular forces.

Before the Red Light God incident reaches a certain scale, no one will interfere with Bell's development.

It was during this precious time that Bell completed the first step of his plan to become a god: developing followers and acquiring priests.

Chapter 227 Compiling the Myth of Crimson Light

Sacrificial rituals are very important to a god, but Bell doesn't know exactly how important they are. Similarly, Feli, who is tinkering with the method of becoming a god through faith, is not very clear either, since neither of them has experience in becoming a god.

But the first step to becoming a god is to develop believers and gain power through their sacrifices.

During these two months of development, Bell repeatedly communicated with the believers he had developed in his dreams. These believers, who had received life-saving grace from Bell, were also very willing to cooperate with the prompts Bell gave in his dreams.

The people Bell selected all had their own families, and when one of them developed a belief, that family became a potential target for development.

The emergence of sacrificial rituals further accelerated this transformation process.

The rumors and gossip about the Crimson Light God may have been noticed by some, but in these beneficiary families, the shrines were being quietly completed.

“Son, you must remember that you were able to survive because of the Red Light God. You must sincerely thank the Red Light God and come to the Red Light God’s shrine to pray every weekend evening, understand?”