I Am God!

In a huge underground cavity.

The highest point here is several thousand meters above the ground, and the lowest point is several hundred meters above ground.

There is fresh air here because there are all kinds of plants growing here, and they are all special plant species that are difficult to see on the surface.

Insects of all sizes are crawling around in the soil, and some special small flying insects that can emit fluorescence can be seen among the plants.

Many plants here emit a faint light, especially the tops are covered with a layer of luminous moss, so sometimes it gives people the illusion that this is not deep underground.

Unlike the maze cave on the previous floor, a special ecological cycle has been formed here.

However, the ecological environment here is very weak and monotonous.

There are no large plants or different types of large animals. At least from the current situation, the environment here is difficult to sustain a single large animal to survive here.

Among the patches of fluorescent plants.

Two snake men, one large and one small, deviated from the normal path and walked deep into the wilderness.

According to the standard data of snake people, the older one looks to be only twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger one is probably not even ten years old.

It's just that the two of them may not be called complete snake people. One of their upper bodies is covered with a layer of scales, which has grown to the position of the chest, and both hands have faintly degenerated into claw-like existences.

Another scale even covered the lower half of her face, and even her tongue was bifurcated in half. When she walked, she was almost completely attached to the ground.

It's hard to tell.

Is this a snake man or some kind of monster?

The older snake man said: "Be careful, there are many snake monsters in the wilderness."

The little snake man with scales covering his face was wandering happily and talking.

"firefly!"

"What are we looking for? Are we looking for something to eat?"

When she speaks, she pauses for a few words, giving people a sense of stupidity.

The girl named Hotaru said: "I heard someone say that there is a passage to the upper level here."

The snake man who was lying on the ground and moving quickly asked doubtfully: "Even if we go, what can we do if we go to the next level?"

"No one can get through that maze of caves."

The sister who was following her said loudly: "But if you stay in the town any longer, you will soon turn into a pile of rotten meat."

"I don't want to then..."

The girl named Yingying looked at her sister with a slight reproach: "It's all Sika's fault. She always eats randomly."

Sika stopped, turned to look at her sister, and laughed: "But I'm very hungry!"

After saying that, Sika lay softly on the ground.

"I'm hungry again and can't walk."

Yingying wanted to say something else, but in the end she could only sigh.

He could only go up and hug his sister's body and pull her up.

"Okay, stop making trouble."

"Sika!"

"We have to hurry, we don't have time."

"If we find out that we escaped from the town, someone will come after us."

Sika had just stood up and the two were preparing to set off again.

Suddenly a shadow appeared in front of them, startling the two of them.

But upon closer inspection, they discovered that it was not the basilisk they were afraid of, nor was it a person from the town.

Instead, she was a tall, strange-looking woman, wearing a layer of clothes they had never seen before, with a star pendant hanging around her neck.

The other party stood on a high place, looking at them from a distance.

Sika raised her head and looked at the other party more quickly than her consciousness: "What is that?"

Firefly's eyes were thinking and identifying the other person, but her eyes were not very good either. This is also a common problem among underground snake people: "Is he from the town?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several basilisks rushing out from behind the woman.

The terrifying monsters opened their mouths wide and attacked the woman, their thick and huge figures raising wisps of smoke.

Firefly immediately shouted to the man: "Basilisk, run!"

There are far more basilisks here than above, and they are everywhere in the wilderness.

However, the tall woman just turned her head, and an invisible force descended from the sky.

"Boom!"

Gravity crushed the earth in front of him, and the basilisks were pressed into the earth together.

The earth's layers are cracking, and the movement is alarming.

Then.

The woman stepped forward and stamped out the opponent's eyes one by one. After finishing all the basilisks, the opponent stood on a high place and took one more look at Yingying and Sika before disappearing on the hillside.

The two people were left frightened and at a loss, staring blankly in the direction where Yin disappeared.

This underground cavity is really huge, and it is a completely new and unknown world.

The further the silver moves forward, the more obvious the traces of belonging to people become.

She kept following the traces of people and found several gathering places that were either abandoned or attacked by basilisks.

Finally I saw a town that was actually inhabited.

The reason why it is called a town is that it is divided according to the customs on the ground. Generally speaking, villages will not build walls, but only towns will build them.

With a few taps of her toes, she crossed the ground and stood on the earth wall of the town.

"Whoa whoa whoa~"

Something important seemed to have happened in the town. Many people gathered in the center of the town and made all kinds of noisy noises.

Perhaps because she hadn't heard such a noisy sound for a long time, Yin couldn't hear what these people were saying for a while. It wasn't until her ears became familiar with the frequency of the sound that she finally heard what these people were saying clearly. .

His accent was very similar to Shik's. Silver could understand most of the words, but there were some nouns that were completely different from those of the snake people on the ground. They might be words unique to this place.

"Someone else wants to leave the town and go up there."

"The road to the top is blocked. Are there still such fools now?"

"Everyone is part of the town, how can they just leave."

"Has the food been distributed today?"

"It's not time yet."

"You have to listen to the whistle~"

"..."

Silver fell from a height and walked on the street.

She wanted to buy some food in town.

She hadn't eaten for a long time, and the only flavorful thing she had eaten recently was the sugary water given to her by Shik.

The snake people in the town are somewhat similar to the two snake people Yin saw before. They all have more or less mutations, and some people with severe alienation will also show the mental retardation of the little snake man before. .

"Look at that person?"

"what happened?"

"She's not a snake."

"Coming in from outside?"

The appearance of Yin immediately aroused the attention and anxiety of the residents of the town.

Many people came out and blocked the streets.

Fortunately, she had a face similar to that of a snake-man, and she didn't look like a monster who couldn't communicate. Someone had the courage to come up to her and ask, "Where are you from?"

Silver told the other person: "I came down from above."

The crowd was in an uproar.

"above?"

"Did she mean that she came from the ground?"

"impossible!"

"The priest once said that everyone on the ground is dead."

"There are no traces of the City of Life before. Without the protection of the Mother of Life, all the snakes went underground."

"That person should be from the Divine Heritage City."

"That's right, only the Divine Heritage City has such an existence."

Everyone was quarreling, and more people on the street crowded over, as if they wanted to see the weird guy in clothes and no tail that others said.

However, Yin had already left to care for herself, and when everyone came to their senses, she could no longer be found.

Silver avoided the crowd and wandered around the town.

She walked in the streets and alleys, crossing paths with people but never meeting them head-on.

Although this is just a town, it can already reflect part of the situation of the snake-man country in this underground world.

This place is not as primitive and wild as Yin Gang imagined at first, and is inhabited by a group of savages.

Instead, these snake people developed a special civilization underground. They should be a branch of the snake people when they left the City of Life.

At that time, some snake people went to the south, and they became the people of the city-state.

Some stayed in the central part and are today's Wanshe people.

Some went to the north and became the current Aiweier people.

After living on the surface for a period of time, these snake people suddenly entered the underground due to an accident and disaster, and finally came here to thrive.

They believe in the Mother of Snakes, and have excavated and discovered many props left over from the ancient era in the earth. Their civilization is built on these props.

For example, this town is built around a prop called the Fire Element Silver Lamp.

This town can rely on fire element silver lamps to produce pottery products, bacon, and can even make a small amount of ironware and other items to arm itself. It can also resist the attack of the basilisk. It is famous in the neighborhood.

Finally, Yin came to a place that looked like it was selling food.

Because there were many people queuing outside, Yin deliberately waited until there was no one around before walking in.

"Please sell me food."

The vendor was a very fat snake man with a big belly and thin hair.

He had a sinister face and was holding a sharp knife.

Not surprisingly, the other party's body is also somewhat deformed, so his smile is extremely captivating.

The butcher looked at Yin and then said with a smile.

"You are a big shot from the City of Divine Relics. I heard that people there can control their distorted forms. I never thought that you could become such a perfect being as you."

Unlike people on the surface, these people underground do not have as deep a concept of the form of God as the people on the surface do. Many people do not even know what gods should look like.

Yin ignored him, and the butcher could understand that such a big man certainly didn't bother to talk to a humble person like him.

The butcher asked Silver, "What do you want?"

Silver asked: "Is there any meat?"

Butcher: "Want fresh ones?"

Make sure to choose fresh silver, don't use it that has been left for a long time or even smells bad.

The other party showed a flattering smile, bent over and walked inside with this being who looked very noble at first sight.

"plz follow me."

"You can pick whatever you want."

After walking through a passage, the tent curtain was opened.

Silver entered it and just raised his head.

Suddenly I saw a scene that was so horrifying that it was indescribable.

Even Yin, who had forgotten his expression because he had been walking in the dark for too long, opened his mouth slightly at this moment, and his pupils dilated due to the horrifying scene in front of him.

Several huge basilisks had their eyes gouged out and were tied to huge long stone tables. Their bodies were cut open one after another, and the bones were clearly visible.

More importantly, these basilisk bodies are still alive.

They were squirming and hissing.

Yin looked at the butcher: "You eat this?"

The other party nodded: "Of course, this is the freshest. I can cut the meat for you right now."

Yin originally wanted to say that they were transformed from snake people.

But looking at the other person's expression, she knew that the other person knew.

only.

He doesn't care.

Yin stared at the other person's eyes, which had no luster at all and were covered with a thick layer of white.

Silver finally turned around and walked outside silently.

The butcher shouted, somewhat confused.

"grown ups?"

"grown ups?"

But just as he reached the door, he heard some kind of sound.

"woo woo woo woo!"

Silver looked behind him and frowned.

A wave of his hand.

She opened a door inside, and there was a figure hanging inside, struggling and making noises, trying to attract Yin's attention.

Yin's sharp eyes penetrated the darkness, and he immediately discovered that the hanging figure was the person he had seen on the hillside before.

It was one of the sisters, a girl named Hotaru.

When the butcher saw that Yin had discovered the deep secret, he did not panic at all. Instead, he stepped forward and introduced it calmly.

"grown ups!"

"She violated a taboo and actually wanted to go up there."

"Everyone who breaks the taboo, everyone who tries to escape the town, must pay the price."

When he mentioned the word "escape", the butcher's eyes revealed ferocious hatred.

As if fleeing town was something heinous.

The look in his eyes was like seeing a shepherd whose overcooked livestock jumped out of the fence and ran away.

"All the people born in this town, from birth to death, everything they have belongs to this town, and now they want to escape."

"This is inexcusable and a crime."

"The Chief of Fire caught them. They stole my flesh before and committed a serious crime. Now they should pay for it themselves."

"But she was caught not long ago, and we haven't had time to feed her fluorescent plants to turn her into a snake-man."

"So I'm going to hang here first."

In this fluorescent world, all food is problematic.

Whether it is those plants or those glowing bugs, once you eat too much, your body will become more and more deformed, and finally turn into a basilisk.

And even so, there is something wrong with the food.

There was still not enough food.

However, when people face a crisis, they can always learn to change and find solutions to the problem.

Soon, someone discovered a way to supplement food.

That's the basilisk.

The basilisk's meat is not only durable to eat, but also uses some special methods to add nutrients to keep it active for several years, and the cut meat can also grow slowly.

Although eating the flesh of a basilisk will make people turn into basilisks faster, no one would care at this point.

Snake people eat plants, eat bugs, and eat basilisks.

Then turns into a basilisk.

Eventually, he was eaten.

In this way, these people actually survive here.

The butcher looked at Yin, as if he suddenly understood that Yin had turned around and left after looking at the goods.

That’s because you’re not satisfied!

"I understand, my lord."

"The fresh thing you mentioned turns out to be such a fresh method!"

The butcher thought to himself that this big shot from the City of Gods was indeed much pickier. He disliked the basilisk's meat as being unclean. He wanted to eat "clean meat" directly!

Fortunately, the butcher had also heard of such rumors.

"As long as you can afford the price, I will now..."

However, Yin's voice became hoarse and he interrupted the butcher's words.

"Stop talking!"

She raised her head, her white eyes glowing.

"Monster~"

Yin opened her mouth and spit out the bytes one by one, with a cold emotion that was unique to her.

"You are monsters too!"

"You are... no longer human."

After the words fell, a huge force fell from a high place.

"Dong buzz~"

The greed and ugliness on the face of the guy in front of him were frozen for a moment, and then he was instantly crushed into a puddle of meat paste, with blood splattering all over the butcher shop.

But when he was dying, he still didn't understand why Yin wanted to kill him.

He didn't do anything wrong.

With a wave of Yin's hand, the girl hanging inside was put down.

The girl untied the rope and hurried outside. She looked at one long table after another, and finally lay down weakly on a long table.

Then, he let out a hoarse wail.

"Sika!"

"Sika...Sika!"

"ah!"

Yin followed Yingying's gaze and saw a being tied to the table whose eyes had been gouged out and had completely transformed into a basilisk.

Several large holes were dug out of his body, exposing his pale bones.

Extremely penetrating.

But even so, it is still breathing and squirming slowly.

She suddenly understood that one of the meat sources that had just been placed on the table for sale was the snake man she had seen before.

If she comes later, the girl in front of her will also be placed here.

On the streets of the town.

Yin dragged the three-meter-long basilisk toward the outside, and the girl followed him step by step.

Firefly's body was swaying, as if she had lost her soul.

At this time, a sound suddenly came from the distance.

"That's her!"

"That guy."

"They say they are from the City of Divine Relics."

The ruler of the town, a being known as the Fire Chief, came with a large number of people and surrounded Yin.

Yin looked at Huo Chang and asked before the other party could speak.

"Is he the one who sent you to the butcher shop?"

But what he asked was not the person in front of him, but Yingying behind him.

Firefly didn't answer, but her eyes said everything.

The fire chief was startled when he saw Yin's appearance. He understood that the other party should be extremely difficult to mess with, and when the other party asked questions, he looked like he was about to attack, which made him feel his heart in his throat.

The Fire Chief immediately raised his magical tool, the Fire Element Silver Lamp, to activate the extraordinary flames.

But before the flames could erupt, the gravity star on Yin's neck floated.

A powerful force directly pressed everyone to the ground, unable to move.

Silver pushed forward again.

"Dong buzz~"

The ground shook.

People in the whole town were swaying around, and there was a puff of smoke and dust.

When the others stood up to take a closer look at their surroundings, they started screaming.

All I could see was that the middle of the street was a mess of flesh and blood. The former Fire Chief and his subordinates were completely integrated together, and it was impossible to pick them apart.

"Let's go!"

Finally, Yin carried a basilisk without eyes, picked up the fire element silver lamp on the ground and walked towards the outside of the town.

No one dared to stop her anymore.

The snake girl named Firefly followed behind Yin and walked out with her head bowed deeply.

Even when she reached the town's entrance, she never looked back at her former hometown, even though she knew she might not be able to come back.

——

The bonfire lit by the magic tool, the pyrometal silver lamp, illuminates a small area in the darkness.

Yin sat next to the flame and watched the jumping fire carefully.

No matter what era or who you are, if you can watch the firelight at night, you can always feel that your heart can calm down.

Silver was finally able to sit quietly without thinking about anything.

But at this time, a subtle voice came from the side.

"Sika."

"I told you not to eat randomly."

"I told you to walk faster."

"I said……"

At the other end of the bonfire, Firefly was holding the basilisk, her face pressed against its skin and saying something.

The puddle of rotten flesh was still alive and still squirming weakly.

She caressed the other person and murmured as if comforting a baby.

at last.

Tears continued to streak down his face.

After a long time, the girl wiped her tears and put her head against the basilisk's forehead.

"not afraid."

"It won't hurt soon, soon..."

"It won't hurt anymore."

She stood up and looked at Yin: "Can you lend me the lamp?"

Then, the girl faced the basilisk holding a fire-silver lamp.

She raised the lamp in front of herself, but did not move for a long time.

After a long time, she finally gritted her teeth and blew the fire into the body of the eyeless basilisk.

"call!"

The blazing flames swept across the ground and swallowed up the eyeless basilisk.

The basilisk seemed to make a faint whimpering sound in the flames, but the sound soon disappeared, and finally it was burned cleanly, leaving only a ball of ashes.

After doing all this, the girl collapsed on the ground, and the silver lamp in her hand also fell to the ground.

in the dark.

Yin looked at this scene and suddenly spoke.

"Have you ever eaten other people's flesh?"

Hearing Yin's question, the girl turned to look at her, her eyes blank.

Yin looked down at the ashes on the ground and asked again.

"Did she become like this because she ate other people's flesh?"

At this time, the girl's expression turned into helpless and ashamed.

"This is."

"The law of our survival."

She looked at Yin as if she wanted to see something.

However, Yin only has an expression that has gradually lost its change after living in the darkness for a long time, and a pair of eyes that can distinguish the whites and eyeballs even if you don't look carefully.

Yin looked at the girl in front of her. She was holding her face tightly, pressing her cheeks with white fingers, and even clasping her eye sockets.

"We want to live, and we don't want this," she said with despair.

"Father and mother told us to leave here. There is sun on the surface and endless food. We will never become monsters on the surface."

"We want to go out into the world and get out of this damn place."

"But……"

"I can't get out!"

She fell to the ground, looking at the ashes on the ground, and let out a desperate cry.

"I can't get out!"

"We can't get out!"

Silver was silent.

In a daze, Yin suddenly thought of Shik.

The shadow that laughed to cover up the despair in his heart appeared before his eyes.

He doesn't look like he has much variation and is skinny.

Perhaps, he couldn't stand this kind of purgatory, so he wanted to leave here.

Yin did not ask the previous question again. After a while, he asked Yingying, who had finally recovered from the collapse: "Do you know where the altar of life is?"

Yingying looked confused: "Altar of Life?"

Then, she seemed to remember something.

"I seem to have heard my father talk about those ancient myths before. In the era of the Mother of Snakes, there was an altar in the City of Life, which was later placed deep in the earth by the great Lord of Life."

Silver: "Then do you know other legends?"

Yingying racked her brains and thought: "I don't know, but it is said that the altar of life was placed deep in the earth by the master of life. That thing must be under the third layer."

Silver: "Under the third floor?"

Firefly tells Silver how the underground world is divided.

"The first level is the maze of the earth."

"The second floor is the fluorescent cave."

"The third level of the dark sea is an ocean under the earth."

"But I've heard other people say it, but I haven't actually seen it."

Silver: "Is there only three floors?"

Yingying shook her head: "I heard that some people have gone deep into the Sea of ​​Darkness before. I guess there is a deeper place under the Sea of ​​Darkness, and the Son of the Titan came from there."

Silver: "Do you know how to get to the Sea of ​​Darkness?"

Yingying: "I guess only people in the City of Divine Heritage know about it. There are many big shots living there, as well as the Ten Thousand Snake Priests."

Silver understood the goal of the next stop, and finally she told the other party.

"You take me to the City of Divine Relics, and I'll tell you how to get to the ground."

The girl was stunned for a long time.

Suddenly she got closer to Yin and finally understood what the other person was saying.

She opened her mouth wide and raised her head to look at the existence in front of her that clearly did not belong to the snake man. Her originally dark and gloomy eyes opened with incredible light.

It was hard for her to understand that the other party could talk about going to the ground so lightly.

That was the surface world, a legendary place.

Then there is only one possibility.

"Did you come from the ground?"

Silver didn't answer, but under the jump of flames, Firefly saw hope.

It was the first time she saw people coming from the ground. She had heard someone say that there was a sun on the ground that illuminated the whole world.

Yingying asked the other party: "What is your name?"

Silver: "Silver!"

Firefly said in surprise: "My name is Firefly too."

The pronunciation of their names is the same, but they represent two different meanings.

What Yingying doesn't know is that not only do they have similar names, they are also about the same age.

The tall and mature-looking woman in front of her is actually a child.

Yin didn't chat with Ying anymore, but turned over and lay down, and gave Ying a blanket to cover her body, because they had to set off again tomorrow, and both of them needed to be energetic, especially Ying as a guide.

Hotaru also lay down.

She first had a nightmare, in which she was not saved by Silver, but turned into a basilisk along with her sister Sika, becoming one of the recent sources of food in the town.

After the nightmare, she had another sweet dream.

She dreamed that she and her sister climbed out of the ground together, walked out of the endless cave, and looked up at the sky without a top.

There is a huge fireball hanging in the sky, green plants cover it from the front to the end of the sky, and groups of animals are running in the sun.

"Does it really exist?"

"Such a wonderful world!"

Even in her dream, she couldn't believe it.

A questioning murmur came from his mouth.