He would rather go back to the environment he truly wanted to be in than stay in such a place.
Whether it was recalling things that made me feel at ease or something else, the suffocating feeling that this home brought was gradually disappearing.
Zhong Mu raised his hand and pressed it against his chest, feeling the unease transmitted from the other end.
Perhaps he had been in too much pain just now, causing Mu He to suffer along with him, and Mu He was worried about him.
How could you let a blind man in the City of Fallen Life worry about you?
Zhong Mu took a deep breath, gripped the axe in his hand, and suddenly opened his eyes.
The light before him changed rapidly. Through his somewhat blurry vision, he saw the twilight light fall on the streets. The large areas of houses in the Forgotten City that had been destroyed looked so wasteful. He had returned to this dangerous city, but he had never felt so at ease before.
"Awake?" A head suddenly appeared beside him. The child blinked, stared at Zhong Mu, and then nodded as if to confirm. "Awake, your eyes are bright."
Zhong Mu was stunned for a moment, realizing that he had returned to the house at some point, his body bound hand and foot by tentacles, with a priest sitting to one side and Li Mo sitting to the other. For some reason, the big boss Li Mo was covering his neck with one hand and staring at him with a smile.
"What's wrong with me?" Zhong Mu asked blankly, his mind still reeling.
"You have been affected." The priest nodded with a smile. "Although you were not affected by the illusion, forgetting others or being forgotten, your resistance was far greater than that of ordinary people."
"Huh?" Zhong Mu asked, confused, wriggling the tentacles on his body. "Can Boss Li Mo let me go? Why are you tying me up?"
The child standing nearby pointed directly at Li Mo, "You took the axe and chopped it into his neck in one go..."
Zhong Mu: ?!
"He even chopped it twice."
Zhong Mu: !!!
He looked completely innocent, staring clearly at the smiling Li Mo, "Boss Li Mo... I didn't mean to."
"It's alright." Li Mo smiled faintly. "It's good that you're awake. I'll let you go inside my stomach to see the dismembered body in a bit."
Zhong Mu was on the verge of tears, "Boss, I was really wrong... I didn't mean to! How could I dare to cut you when I was conscious?!"
He was sobbing, and before he could even cry, a tentacle curling around him poked his head with its tip. "I won't really put you in my stomach. I'm just playing a human joke."
Zhong Mu sniffed, "Boss, jokes have to be funny."
Li Mo tilted his head slightly. "Isn't it funny?"
Zhong Mu forced a smile, "It's funny, I'm laughing right now."
Li Mo nodded in satisfaction and released Zhong Mu. Just then, the wound on his neck had healed and looked completely intact.
"You two… are really something else…" The priest beside him didn't know what to say. "One of you quickly escaped the influence on your own, and the other was unharmed even after having his neck cut off. You don't seem like people from the Forgotten City, and you don't even seem like people from other cities."
The priest stared intently at Li Mo, "Your aura is different from that of the gods; it's very special."
Li Mo smiled. "I was never a god. I came here to find a way to kill a god."
The priest was slightly taken aback, "A god of death..."
Her gaze became unfocused. "Perhaps all the gods of these cities suddenly disappeared, or were killed."
Zhong Mu silently put away his axe. "In your understanding, can a god be killed?"
The priest shook his head. "Normally, it's not possible, but... there's someone who might be able to."
"Hmm?" Zhong Mu quickly moved closer to the priest, feeling that he had caught some important clue. "Tell me?"
The priest frowned, deep in thought. "I've only seen him once. He was a man who came to our city's god on his own initiative. He seemed to know the god very well, but I've never seen him in the City of Oblivion or any other city. It's like he appeared suddenly and disappeared just as suddenly. I remember the god called him… 'Lin'."
Zhong Mu stood up in surprise, "It's him! I remember 408 saying that the man who brought the breeding program was named Lin!"
"He is also familiar with the gods of this world, and then he also..."
Zhong Mu looked at Li Mo; clearly, this man was connected to all the gods.
Li Mo nodded. He was indeed in this world, but it seemed that even the High Priest didn't know his whereabouts, and all the gods who knew him had disappeared. He wondered if the man had deliberately hidden his whereabouts.
So now their only option is to go to the City of Immortality and ask the priests, find the vanished god, and then they can find the man and learn how to kill the god.
Zhong Mu sighed, feeling that things were so complicated and troublesome; he hadn't expected the world to undergo so many changes.
So he turned to look at Li Mo, "Then what should we do now—"
Before he could finish his question, he heard a commotion of voices in the distance again, as people ran in panic, shouting, "They're coming again!! Hide!"
"I knew they wouldn't let the High Priest go so easily!"
"This time... even the leader of the Forgotten Order has come. Are they serious?"
"I wonder if we'll see God's punishment again this time."
"You know what, I've been thinking about that too."
As many people ran past on the street in front of the door, Zhong Mu peeked out again. This time, a huge crowd had arrived. At this rate, if these people from the Forgotten Society didn't make any progress, wouldn't they be wiped out by Boss Li Mo?
"Boss, they're here again." Zhong Mu pointed to the door and quickly pushed Li Mo to the doorway.
There was still a large crowd, along with Li Mo, who was blocking the high priest's door, and residents of the Forgotten City watching the spectacle from afar.
The two sides stared at each other, war seemingly imminent. Leading the Forgotten City was a gaunt man with a somewhat crazed look in his eyes. As soon as he appeared at the High Priest's gate, he pointed directly at Li Mo and shouted, "He! Is not human! He is an evil spirit! He is an ominous creature! His appearance will bring even greater disaster to the Forgotten City! We must eliminate him!"
Li Mo leaned calmly against the doorway with his arms crossed, waiting for the other party to finish speaking before launching his attack.
As soon as the man finished speaking, the people behind him nodded in agreement, clearly indicating that he had considerable authority in the city.
"Priest, who is that?" Zhong Mu secretly pointed outside.
"The diviner," the priest said calmly, "used to divine for the residents of the Forgotten City. Because his predictions were very accurate, everyone believed him. That's how he established the Forgotten Society."
Zhong Mu seemed to understand something. "So people believe in him more because they believe he can point everyone in the right direction for the future, while you are a dying man, and they will not rely on you."
"Yes." The priest nodded slightly. "After the gods disappeared, people started to choose fortune tellers more often."
Zhong Mu stroked his chin. "Indeed, the people of the Forgotten City used to rely on God, and now they rely on Him. Everyone desperately needs a faith."
He muttered to himself, glaring at the gaunt man outside the door, "But who says everyone's faith has to be in him? He comes up here saying that I, Boss Li Mo, am a disaster, that he doesn't like me, and that he should go cause trouble for me."
Zhong Mu straightened his clothes behind Li Mo, then coughed lightly and walked around from behind him, standing straight in front of Li Mo, receiving the questioning gazes of the crowd.
"You call him a disaster?" Zhong Mu sneered, feigning sarcasm. "You blind fool, not only do you not kneel before a god, but you even dare to call a god an evil spirit?"
He pointed directly at the man and shouted, "Those who disrespect God will be punished by God!"
"You! And all of you! Will suffer true calamity from God!"