Chapter 830 Encountering the Child of God

The Kingdom of Bread and Trees.

This is a place favored by the gods and the center of civilization.

Before I knew it, it was surrounded by dozens of densely packed oil bread trees, as if forming a circle. Nine human-faced trees were like giant pillars guarding the roads, like giant guards guarding this land.

This land became more densely populated and experienced several chaos and power struggles, so a high wall was built outside the royal city, but it was generally stable.

The originally messy houses became neat and tidy, and there were various other buildings in the middle. The more conspicuous ones were the halls for worshiping and sacrificing to the gods, the stone-paved square built for gathering people, and the political hall next to the square. Some of the houses were built spaciously.

The temple was built by the new king after the death of the previous generation of kings in order to gain the support of the people and the army, and a bronze statue of the god was cast.

Perhaps because the gods had not visited the human world for many years, people's image of the "iron bird" ridden by the gods gradually became a little vague, so the object ridden by the gods became a big bird, and no one had really seen the appearance of the gods. In the end, they merged with the big bird and became a human head and a bird body.

However, this is not the only image of the gods. There are also stone statues of gods with wings outside, with bird heads and human bodies.

There are even some wearing loose robes and transformed into mortals.

There are more and more believers in the gods, especially those who live in this land favored by the gods can almost be said to be devout believers. There are also endless people worshipping the gods outside the temple. In the morning and evening, you can see groups of people praying outside the temple, and at least they will bow in the direction of the temple when they go out in the morning.

Early in the morning.

An old woman led a large group of people from an oil mill to the outside of the temple.

Among them were middle-aged people, women, teenagers, and babies held in the arms of women.

They are a big family that has lived here for generations.

A large group of people came to the temple and began today's pilgrimage, thanking the gods for giving them food and homes.

When the old woman was still a child, she saw a sacred figure passing by and told her that this land would become a place favored by the gods, and a place that would produce oil, bread and fruits would be built here.

The barren and barren land will eventually become a paradise on earth.

The prophecies of the past, those absurd and bizarre words, gradually became true over the years.

She became a girl over the years, had a family, and then grew old little by little.

Now she has children and grandchildren around her knees.

Perhaps because of her longevity and the growth of her status, or perhaps because the prophecy was so accurate, the absurd stories that she dared not tell when she was a child are gradually no longer taboo, and are gradually believed by some people.

People are unwilling to believe the stories told by a wild girl, but they are willing to believe the words of a long-lived old man and the patriarch of a large family, and believe that the great god really gave instructions and prophecies to mortals before sending down blessings and miracles.

Under the morning sun.

The family came to the high stone foundation of the corridor on one side of the temple and knelt down, bowing to the stone statue standing in the deep corridor. There were figures like them everywhere outside the temple, and the scene was solemn and sacred.

A child who was only four or five years old followed them to do the same actions, saying the same words of gratitude and prayer, but his eyes could not help but look at the stone statue in the deep corridor.

You can vaguely see a sacred silhouette standing in the light and shadow, pointing his hand to the distance, and a child standing in front of Him with longing eyes looking at the earth He pointed to.

After everyone stood up, the child asked the old woman.

"Great-grandmother."

"Does God look like that?"

The old woman also looked back at the depths of the corridor of the temple. The little girl in the stone statue was her.

To be honest, she could no longer remember the appearance of that figure at the time, but that figure became more and more sacred and tall in her memory.

What exactly did that figure look like?

Wearing a sacred and wide robe, speaking elegant words like prophecy, with a temperament like a person from heaven.

Is He a God, or a messenger sent by God?

Finally, she held the child's hand and said.

"God can be anything."

"Everyone sees the God in a different way, but you will definitely recognize Him when you see Him."

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More and more people gathered here, because this place has never attracted the attack of the tide of weirdness due to the increase in population. It seems that everyone has begun to believe or even be certain that the weirdness is impossible to attack here.

However, the weirdness did not attack here because of the large number of first-level weird oil bread trees that turned into a circle of farmland, and the shock of the second-level human-faced trees. They gathered together to cover up the breath of the wisdom species.

But they are only first-level and second-level weirdness, so the population that this land can carry is ultimately limited.

This day.

The population that exceeded the limit finally attracted the weirdness from afar.

Not just one, but a group.

At first, it was the villagers outside the city who discovered something unusual. A black cloud gathered in the distant sky, and a terrible storm came with rain. Strange shadows appeared in the storm and black clouds.

"Something appeared on the horizon. Is it a storm?" The villagers were busy making a living. Some people stood up and looked at the strange scene at the end of the forest.

"It's coming this way." More and more people noticed, and the crowd gathered together to discuss, and an inexplicable panic began to spread.

"Look, there's something in that storm." Someone stood up and shouted.

The terrifying and strange wave was getting closer and closer, coming with fierce winds.

Wherever you pass, you can see patches of forest withered, and the lush leaves are withering and brittle, as if spring has suddenly entered late autumn.

"It's weird!" Everyone noticed the terrifying shadow, and then a cry of extreme fear tore through the air.

"It's not just one, it's a large group. It's a weird wave." Everyone was completely panicked.

"How is it possible? How could the strange tide attack here? This is the place of God's protection." Everyone looked pale, but they still couldn't believe it was true.

"Did God abandon this place?" Many people have this thought deep in their hearts, but they dare not say it out loud.

A large number of villagers began to gather towards the city to escape the disaster outside. Screams rang out from the top of the city. Someone blew the conch horn on the street to warn everyone. Every household began to close its doors tightly, fear and despair shrouded the city. Over the royal city.

However, many people left their homes and headed towards the temple, seeming to feel that the power of protection there was stronger.

The old woman brought her whole family outside the temple. You can see that the door of the temple is open at this moment. A large number of monks are running in a hurry. Many nobles have also come here. Even the king himself came to pray under the statue.

Everyone was extremely scared, but just like that, the temple became more solemn and solemn.

The sky is changing with wind and rain.

The sea of ​​clouds turned from sunny to overcast, and the bright and majestic street buildings gradually turned into shadowy ghost alleys.

Everyone was kneeling on the ground, their bodies trembling slightly, praying to the gods for something.

"God!"

"Please let your protection come to this land again!"

"Please don't abandon us."

The same is true for the old woman, but she seems to have a lot more faith. She doesn't believe that those weird things will destroy this place.

But the children beside her didn't have this kind of belief. They were all so frightened that they even stumbled over their words.

In the distance, the forefront of the strange tide finally approached this sheltered land.

The oil bread tree that originally grew in the earth without any movement sensed danger at this moment. One piece after another began to move, and the entangled and spreading root system deep in the earth began to squirm.

The roots break through the ground and gush out crazily.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Dense roots wrapped around the city wall, stacking up layer by layer, turning into an extraordinary high wall.

Immediately afterwards, the tall trees also moved.

The human-faced tree opened its branches and leaves, and human faces squeezed out of the bark, facing the oncoming storm.

A large number of human-faced trees are connected to the farmland of oil bread trees, exuding their extraordinary power, controlling the temperature, humidity and moisture in the outer range, blocking the erosion of wind and rain, and turning into an invisible barrier. .

When the rain falls, it evaporates instantly.

When the wind reaches here, it dissipates invisible.

The storms brought by the strange tide are getting stronger and stronger, but the powerful barriers turned into farmland of human-faced trees and oil-bread trees still block their power.

"It has appeared." Such a scene instantly cheered up the people in the royal city. A large number of people stood up and cheered at the farmland and big trees outside the city that protected them.

"This is... this is... God's protection." Some people were dancing with excitement, some were trembling all over, and some were kissing the ground under their feet.

"Weird powers can't come in, they can't come in, because we have God's blessing." Figures also appeared on the street, shouting ecstatically.

"Look, God has not left. He is still here. He is still watching us." Even the king came out, extremely excited about this scene.

But at this time, a terrifying and strange shadow fell from the clouds.

That is the leader who leads the strange tide.

The most powerful monster among them.

A series of terrifying tentacles drooped down and entangled themselves in a human-faced tree.

Immediately I saw the face on the bark of the Human Face Tree let out a shrill scream, and the whole tree began to rot, eventually stink, and then gradually wither and collapse.

This time.

The blessing left by "God" here doesn't seem to be that effective anymore.

The tall human-faced tree exceeds the height of the city wall. Even standing on the flat ground in the city, you can see such a scene intuitively, and it also makes the people who were just rejoicing feel like they have fallen into the abyss.

The wind and rain fell, and large areas of oil-loaf farmland were flooded.

A gap was opened in the entire protective circle.

The power of the strange tide also found its way into the gap, spreading towards the city from that gap, one after another terrifying strangeness amidst the wind and rain.

There are things floating in the sky like phantoms, there are alien shapes moving forward with the rain, and there are deformed monsters running wildly on the dark earth.

Mighty and unstoppable.

Even a glance can make people scared to death.

This proved that it was impossible to stop the strange tide with only the oil bread tree farmland and a few human-faced trees. Everyone was terrified. The whole royal city was shaking like a small boat in the huge waves, and it could sink at any time.

"Ah!" The king standing in front of the temple seemed unable to accept this blow and collapsed to the ground.

"How could it be, the holy tree... the holy tree was killed?" One of the symbols of the oil bread and tree kingdom, it is also the most important force to protect them, but the human-faced tree has no power to fight back in front of the powerful and unknown monster. Of course, the human-faced tree is not dead, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this situation is almost the same as being killed.

"What should we do?" The monks and nobles in the temple were also panicked.

"It's over, God has really abandoned this land." People in the city trembled.

"The disaster has finally come." They looked at the monsters that were gradually approaching.

"Maybe the peace given by God is only these few decades, and now He has finally taken back the blessing he once gave." They seemed to have accepted their fate.

Feeling the children's fear, the old woman shouted.

"Don't worry."

"We have God's blessing here, God will not abandon us."

"He said that this will become a city that shelters us, this is the paradise given to us by God."

But no matter what she said, the facts seemed to be contrary to what she said.

"But...but..." Her children's faith began to waver.

"God has left, He no longer favors us, He wants us to perish." Among the crowd, someone stood up and shouted angrily and resentfully.

"We must leave, leave here." Someone ran outside in panic.

It seemed that faith had become a quantifiable value at this moment, rising and falling like waves with the arrival of wind and rain.

If you meet their needs, exceed their expectations, or make them feel fear, you will be God in their eyes, whether you recognize it or not.

But once you can't do what they want, they will start to complain or even curse you.

But these people just ran a few steps, and the stone ground under their feet suddenly arched.

The ground tilted.

They fell to the ground instantly.

They lay on the ground, holding their hands on the ground, looking at the sudden changes at a loss, not knowing what happened.

The ground bulged and bulged, and finally something came out from the bulges.

It was a wooden root-like thing, but the root was surprisingly thick. The thinnest was one or two meters thick, and the thickest was even about seven or eight meters.

"Boom!"

A large number of wood roots stretched out from the ground one after another, entangled and extended to the height, hundreds and thousands of them connected together.

Entangled with each other, and finally merged with each other.

"What is this?"

"Something grew underground."

"It swallowed us and the temple."

Everyone swayed left and right, as if the whole earth was shaking.

They were panicked, but there was nowhere to hide, and finally they could only lie on the ground and tremble.

In this process, the temple was gradually wrapped by the trunk of the giant tree and became part of the tree hole inside the giant tree.

Not only that, a large number of buildings around the temple are combined with the roots that are constantly rising and spreading on the ground. The roots do not destroy these buildings, but only entangle them and accept them as part of themselves.

A strange giant tree gradually matures. It rises from the ground and extends to the sky little by little.

The huge tree canopy covers the top of the temple and is still expanding.

Everyone is dumbfounded.

Watching the miracle come.

Watching the giant tree that exceeds their cognition and imagination, eating up their temple and a large area of ​​surrounding buildings.

The power of the giant tree should have stopped here.

But.

There are its kind here, and the power of the same species and origin.

That power attracts it to expand and extend again.

So the giant tree opened its huge canopy, and aerial roots fell from the sky one by one, and dense wood aerial roots spread vertically and horizontally.

And the human-faced trees outside the city wall also changed, one by one stretched to the sky, grew branches, and embraced the giant tree.

The roots of the oil bread trees outside were also surging wildly, like hands stretched out to grab the limbs of the giant tree.

Finally.

The aerial roots were connected to the branches, and the roots were fused with the roots.

At this moment.

They almost covered all the buildings in the city.

The vast oil bread trees, the tall human-faced trees, and the newly born cave tree.

At this moment, they became a whole.

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What appeared on the earth was a giant joint structure that the bird people had never seen before.

It was a huge living town formed by the fusion of a large number of strange forces. It was not a dead object, but an individual with life, breathing, and even self-circulation and growth.

The main body of the city wall disappeared, covered with dense vine roots, as if covered with creepers.

The buildings in the city disappeared, and turned into tree houses embedded in the trees combined with wood roots.

The temple was embedded in the largest tree hole of the giant tree, and its height was also raised by dozens of meters. The slopes entangled by tree roots extended down from the front of the temple like stairs.

This place was an ordinary royal city.

It instantly turned into an extraordinary city full of fantasy.

The people in the city had not yet recovered from this great change, and there were strong beating sounds, as well as strange roars and roars outside.

"Buzz buzz buzz"

"Boom boom boom!"

"Snap buzz!"

The huge roots whipped the monsters that attacked in, seriously injured them, and then drove them out.

Even the terrifying third-level monster headed by the sky became hesitant, as if afraid of this huge union.

As the power of farmland, human-faced trees, and giant trees gradually combined, forming a complete and closed life town, the monsters that attacked could no longer feel the breath of a large number of intelligent species.

They lost their target.

Wandering around in a daze.

Gradually, they seemed to have forgotten their purpose.

Finally, they passed by and disappeared into the distance one by one.

The rain was over and the sky was clear.

The sun was back.

It sprinkled on the huge magical tree, and also passed through the mottled and lush branches and aerial roots and scattered inside this fantasy city.

With the appearance of the sun, everyone had a sense of reality, feeling that everything just now was not a dream, but everything that really happened.

They also felt that the fantasy city they were in was real.

The people lying on the ground stood up one by one as the earth stabilized again, walked outside, and walked into the sun.

"God!"

"It's amazing."

"How did our city become like this? It's incredible."

"This is the home given to us by God. This is God's new gift to us."

They looked up, their faces were confused at first, then excited, and finally ecstatic.

If there really is a numerical value of faith, then it must have reached a new peak at this moment.

People became more pious and more fanatical.

Everyone shouted.

"Thank God!"

"Thank God."

"God is so great."

The old woman stood up with the help of the children. Behind her was the temple integrated into the giant tree, under her feet were the tree root stairs that continued to extend all the way, and the city and home that had completely changed.

Looking at this scene, the figure seemed to reappear in front of her eyes, and the memory that was so long ago that it was a little blurry became much clearer at this moment.

The figure thought and glanced at the barren land and hometown behind her.

In an instant, his eyes seemed to see the future, and then he spoke to her in a calm and determined voice.

"A city that can produce countless breadfruits and shelter tens of thousands of people, so that people living here will not lack food and will no longer be afraid of strange attacks."

"How long will it take to see it?"

"It will take a while. After all, beautiful things are like flowers. They always need to wait until the season comes and they will quietly bloom. There is no rush."

"But you should see it."

The old woman looked at the city that was integrated with trees and farmland, like a bird's nest and a secret forest.

She trembled forward, walked on the tree root steps, and walked under the mottled light and shadow.

She went down step by step.

"So..."

"So this is the city he really wanted, it's incredible."

"It started to be built at that time, and finally completed at this time."

"It turned out that the period of time he mentioned was exactly my life."

"It just happened to let me see it at this time."

This city is combined with her life, as if it was integrated with her life, built at the beginning of her life, and appeared in front of her when her life was about to end.

She was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes, as if she had been waiting for this scene for a lifetime.

But

When she saw the city, she didn't feel that the process was long at all. She even felt how lucky she was to be able to wait for this picture all her life.

She firmly believed that her happiness and luck in life came from that encounter, because she met the child of God.

"It's so beautiful, it's really the most beautiful thing in the world."

"No, it's so beautiful that it doesn't belong to this world, it comes from another country."

"Just like that figure."