I am God Chapter 404: : Crimson Goddess, Feathered Serpent and Curly Ball Jue!
Suinhall.
If the Shepherd's River is the waterway connecting the north and south of Ruhe Giant Island, then the Serpent Road is the main land route between Suinhall and the Ten Thousand Serpent King's Court.
Kurmis passed through the Alpens Fortress, left the border of the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court and entered this famous trade road.
There are many villages and towns along the way, and there is an endless stream of passing caravans, so there are hotels for rest and residence along the way.
Of course.
Occasionally, groups of robbers would rush out of the dense jungle.
Especially in these years, the number of bandits on the Serpent Road has increased day by day, and the early bandits even established very hidden gray towns on the Serpent Road.
These big and small bandit gangs and gray forces are notorious in Suinhall and the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court.
As these forces grew stronger, they also accepted a large number of powerful people.
Up to now, this place has completely become an extrajudicial area; their power is even so strong that the towns on the border between the two countries are being influenced and controlled by these people walking on the edge.
Caravans who want to pass this trade route not only have to be inextricably linked with these forces, but also have to cultivate their own guards or hire mercenaries for protection, which also makes the mercenary unions on the border extremely special. prosperity.
Kurmis walked this road alone.
You don't need to fly, you don't need any magical powers, you just walk like an ordinary snake man.
Although Su Kebu also taught him the method of transforming the form of God, Kurmis never thought of changing his form after he became an apostle; Everyone looked at him with the same eyes as ordinary people.
Kurmis especially likes to pay attention to and collect various plants along the way, collecting the seeds of gymnosperms or seed ferns.
"There are such plants."
"What kind of plant is this? Why is the vitality so tenacious, and it can survive in the sand and in the crevices of stones?"
"Why do some have seeds and some don't?"
Kurmis was carrying a pannier, which contained a lot of things.
Looks like a farmer in the mountains.
After becoming an apostle and reincarnation, Kurmis began to gradually discover the true mystery of spiritual power; he no longer needs to contact other people as before, but can observe the world from a special perspective through spiritual power, Observe the secrets of other living beings.
The powerful and special spiritual power even allowed him to perceive the terrifying aura of the giant Ruhe monster that enveloped the giant Ruhe island.
Though.
The moment he observed the phantom formed by the condensed breath, he was so frightened that he couldn't breathe.
Don't dare to look again.
He observed that every intelligent life has spiritual power in its body, and spiritual power can affect the life form of intelligent species, and even partially affect the health and lifespan of intelligent species.
When an intelligent species is on the verge of death, its spiritual power must fall into decay.
It's not exhaustion, but a kind of inexplicable decay, as if rotten.
This kind of decay is difficult to reverse, even if Kurmis repairs it with spiritual power, it can only be alleviated.
It is impossible to greatly prolong the life of a certain intelligent species, including himself.
There are only two ways to get rid of the shackles of lifespan, break the boundaries of mortals and become an apostle, and then master the secret of reincarnation.
So after mastering the power of spirituality, whether it is a sky angel or a feathered snake, it is more used for healing.
But now.
Kurmis had a novel idea.
What would happen if spiritual power were injected into these plants?
Along the way, Kurmis has been experimenting with this kind of power.
Unfortunately, nothing was gained in the end.
"Plants are not species of wisdom, they cannot bear the power of spirituality."
"Maybe it's possible, but I haven't found a way to do it."
Although Kurmis failed, he was still searching and trying.
Walking alone on this road full of bandits, even if Kurmis was lucky, he still encountered bandits in the end.
Kurmis was walking on the trail, and several figures who had been lying on both sides for an unknown amount of time suddenly rushed out.
"Stop for me."
"Hand over everything that is valuable."
A group of bandits dressed in rags and holding a few sticks chased Kurmis ferociously.
"Stop!"
It was a team of unprofessional robbers who stopped Kurmis, but this is also normal. Kurmis’s current dress and situation don’t really look like a rich man; robbing him feels more like It was a waste of effort, and only such poor and dizzy robbers would choose to rob him.
Besides, this place is already very close to the city. Generally, large robber gangs would not choose this kind of place, because if there are too many people, they will be easily discovered, and then they will be wiped out by the security officers in the city.
These people attacked Kurmis as soon as they came up, and they didn't have a clear division of labor like skilled robbers.
Kurmis stretched out his hand, and a ball of light spun out of his hand, and the surrounding air flow fell into his palm, and these robbers seemed to be exhausted and fell to the ground.
"Not good!"
"It is the power!"
"It's that kind of power!"
Kurmis walked towards one of them, who fell to the ground weakly but shouted in horror.
"Don't kill us, we don't know you are the powerful one."
"We are also robbers for the first time, please let us go!"
Kurmis doesn't really believe this kind of nonsense, but the other party really doesn't look like a professional robber, and he doesn't even have a weapon.
He asked the other party: "Why do you want to be a robber?"
The other party replied: "I can't live anymore, I have no land."
"Because of tax arrears, the land was confiscated by the nobles."
Kurmis also knows this kind of situation, and has seen a lot of it before. He sighed: "You can also farm land for the nobles, and you can barely survive. Why do you want to be a robber?"
The other party suddenly said angrily: "Plow the land for them?"
"There is not even enough rations left all year round. Every winter, I don't know how many people starve to death and freeze to death. They just try to force us to die, and they don't treat us as human beings at all."
Kurmis was very puzzled. It was good for him to farm land instead of nobles in his year.
Because population and servants are also assets, most nobles still cherish them very much.
But now Suinhor seems to be completely different, the nobles no longer take the population and servants of the territory seriously.
Kurmis doesn't know why, he can only think that it is a special case of the border territory.
"Are all the nobles on the border so cruel?"
Kurmis put forward another idea: "You can also enter the workshop, and you can support yourself by working in the workshop!"
At that time, workshops were also a good job, and many people without land would choose this path.
Kurmis did not expect that when he mentioned the workshop, the other party immediately yelled and roared.
"What?"
"Do you think I don't know where to go?"
The other party was furious: "The owner of the workshop is even more black-hearted, more cruel than those nobles; they make us work day and night, and many people are exhausted to death within a few years."
"Not only did they not treat us as human beings, they didn't even treat us as livestock."
"When it's time to send money, I try my best to deduct it every time. You must know that the money is so small that it's not even enough to fill your stomach."
"Even animals have to be fed, but they can't even eat enough after working day and night, tired and hungry, and have no strength to work, so they beat me and said I was lazy."
The other party sat up from the ground and pointed to the scar on his body.
"Look at the scars on my body, they were the ones who beat me. I was almost beaten to death by the workshop owner's men."
"I'd rather be a bandit than go to a workshop."
The more they talked, the more uncomfortable they felt, and the robbers wept bitterly; in the end, they even shouted directly, asking Kurmis to kill them.
"I can't live anymore anyway."
"Master Powerful, please kill us, let us suffer less."
"I can't live anymore."
Kurmis suddenly sympathized with these robbers, but he didn't know what to do.
He put down some money and gave it to these people, and left without saying anything high-sounding.
He was going to see what Suin Hall had become now.
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He traveled all the way to the Moonlight City of Suinhor.
The guards at the city gate stopped him and asked him to pay to enter the city.
Kurmis was very puzzled: "I am a doctor, and you see, I have nothing on me except my personal belongings. I am not a businessman who brings things into the city. Why do I have to pay taxes?"
"For a person like me, you shouldn't ask me to pay."
In Meiya City, only merchants who brought goods into the city paid taxes.
But the guard said: "What are you talking about, you don't pay taxes when you enter the city?"
"I've never heard of it."
Kurmis: "More than a hundred years ago, there was no need to pay taxes when entering the city in Meiya City."
As soon as the words came out, everyone on the other side laughed.
"What?"
"More than a hundred years ago?"
"Return to Meiya City?"
"Hahahaha!"
After the other party finished laughing, they immediately surrounded Kurmis fiercely.
"You're not here to make trouble, are you?"
"This is our common decree, the decree issued by the city lord; everyone who enters the city must pay taxes, otherwise you poor ghosts will all sneak into the city.
"Looking at you like this, you are just a farmer, and you still say you are a doctor."
"I also said that I am a powerful person, do you want to kneel down and kowtow to me?"
"Hahahaha!"
Kurmis also used to be a guard, and he was the servant who guarded the city lord when he was very young. Now he has seen how powerful his colleagues are.
But he didn't say anything more, and finally chose to pay the money and enter the city.
Just when he entered the city, he suddenly remembered what Long had said to him.
"Kurmis!"
"It was more than a hundred years ago when you left, so you can go back."
"Everything has changed, and you won't find anything after you go back."
Kurmis has just stepped into this country, and he feels as if he has entered another country, and he can't find the slightest breath of the past.
After more than a hundred years, he once again looked at all this from a human perspective.
"It seems that a hundred years have passed, and everything is really different."
"Did the country change, or did the people change?"
"Or... have I changed?"
The urban population of Suinhall is much larger than that of the north. Many of the cities here can be traced back to hundreds of years ago, even to the era of the Fire Guardians, unlike the city of the Ten Thousand Snakes Court Most are newly built.
The stench is everywhere in the city, and there are crowds of people everywhere.
The streets are crowded with people, and if you don't pay attention, you will step on the feces of humans and animals.
In the outer layer, a large number of shacks built by the poor at the bottom are squeezed together, piled up and pressed together.
In the twilight.
There is a sense of horror and depression that is twisted and dark.
Kurmis came to this slum, not far from a fresh market.
The stench is enough to make people faint, but the people who live here seem to be used to the smell.
Kurmis didn't want to see what the life of those nobles was like. He came here mainly to see how the lower class people in this city lived.
Is it really what the robber said?
Because he came from such a place, his parents were workers in a workshop, so he grew up in the city, and finally became a guard of the city lord's mansion.
Every morning.
Before dawn, he saw groups of workers going to work like walking dead.
Then waited until it was completely dark, none of these people came back.
"It's getting dark, why haven't you come back?"
"How do you work when it's so dark?"
Kurmis went to take a look secretly, and found a new style of things.
Gas lights.
Also known as the alchemy gas lamp, although it is made by alchemy, it does not possess extraordinary power. Adding the word alchemy is more like a gimmick.
However, this kind of thing completely changed the night of the city, and also changed Suinhor's workshop.
Since the arrival of cheap alchemy gas lamps in the Land of the Rising Sun, night can no longer stop workshop owners from earning shiny coins.
The workshop owner ordered the workers to work in two shifts, no matter whether it was day or night.
When Kurmis went to observe these workshops, he found that there were not only a large number of women in the workshops, but also many children.
The women were all hunched over, and the children were all skinny. The scene looked terrifying.
And the food eaten by the observing households is a kind of pulp lake that he doesn't know if it can be called food, and it smells so bad that it is hard to swallow.
Even for this kind of thing, they can't guarantee it.
It's all about eating the last meal and not the next meal.
Sometimes, people in the slums would gather together to chat, and Kurmis would join in as a doctor.
He has recently treated many people in the slums, and he is quite popular in this area.
During this gathering, he couldn't help asking a question.
"Why aren't adult men used in the workshop? Most of them are women and children?"
"Is it because you can't find a man?"
Someone in the crowd sneered: "How is it possible, it's because women and children have cheaper wages."
"Those greedy workshop owners can hire a woman and a child with half or even a quarter of the money, and some don't even need money."
"Why do they spend money to hire men? Women do not necessarily do less work than men. Although children may work slower, the price is also lower!"
Kurmis was stunned: "So it is!"
Someone replied: "We are not bad here, at least we have a place to live, and at least we still have freedom."
"Many children were sold to those workshop owners as slaves at the age of ten, and worked in the workshop like livestock."
Speaking of which, the man kept shaking his head.
"You haven't seen it, it's really miserable."
"I don't know how many people die in the workshop every year. When they die, they are dragged out. They don't seem like individuals at all."
The people on the side laughed at him and said: "I have lived like this, and I am not much better than others. I still have the heart to sympathize with others."
Someone said: "He is worried about his children."
The other party didn't say the second half of the sentence, he was worried whether his child would be like this in the future.
When the words came out, everyone fell silent.
Kurmis asked these people again: "Slaves are wealth. It stands to reason that workshop owners should cherish them. If they die in a few years, wouldn't they lose money?"
The other party said: "Slaves are not worth much. Sometimes you only need to give a few copper coins to buy a small slave."
"Someone will sell you or your own child even for no money, as long as you give him a meal."
Kurmis: "How could this be?"
The other party replied: "Because many people can't support themselves and their children at all, being a slave at least won't starve to death."
Kurmis was silent for a long time: "Is it all like this?"
The other party shook his head: "Where is it not like this?"
Kurmis suddenly wondered if the same is true in his hometown.
"Why did it become like this?"
"It wasn't like this before."
"Why has civilization developed more and more, after so many years."
"The situation is not getting better, but getting worse?"
Everyone was talking, but no one could tell a real reason.
At this time, someone said a word: "It would be great if there is food that can't be eaten, so that everyone doesn't have to go hungry."
This sentence touched Kurmis.
Yeah!
The most important thing people live in this world is food.
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In the distance, a strange jungle radiates light.
Special tall plants rise from the ground, each with a big ball hanging on it; the ball radiates light, the light is dreamy and cool.
Kurmis looked at the jungle and pronounced its name.
"Moonlight Forest."
One of the famous death forbidden places on Ruhe Giant Island.
Although the Moonlight Forest is not as large as other forbidden areas, it is extremely dangerous.
Because there are more or less rumors of people who entered other forbidden areas returning alive. Although the scope is large, the real dangerous place is not large; but people who entered the Moonlight Forest have never heard of returning alive, so don't It is said that they entered the jungle, and no one dared to approach even a large area around them.
Kurmis came here for a reason.
It is said that at the beginning of the era, Arsine, the ancestor of the city-state people, discovered the Juanjue here, and finally opened the civilization of the city-state people in the entire south.
Then Juanqiujue was introduced to Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, to the Land of Sunrise, and to Lei Ze Kingdom.
It can be said.
Snake people cannot have today's civilization without this jungle, and with Juanqiujue.
Kurmis didn't dare to enter this jungle, but he walked around the periphery, and he was not very afraid as he possessed the power of an apostle.
"Why was Juanqiujue born here?"
"Is it because of something special about this place? Or is it because of this jungle?"
Kurmis raised his head and looked at the huge and strange glowing plants in the distance.
He felt that the birth of Juanqiujue might have something to do with the legendary giant **** Luhe.
So Kurmis wants to look here to see if he can find any special plants.
He even wanted to find a plant like Juanqiu.
He kept shuttling around the Moonlight Forest, wearing a woven frame on his back, wearing very short short sleeves, and a vine tied around his waist as a belt.
Turning around for several days, Kurmis did find a lot of novel and never-before-seen plants, but he couldn't find the kind of plant he wanted that could be used as food that could be compared to the curly ball.
This day.
Kurmis was lying on the ground carefully observing a plant, when suddenly there was a slight tremor from the ground.
"Is the caravan coming?"
Kurmis looked in the direction of the movement.
He saw a shadow coming from a distance, passing by the road in the blink of an eye, and disappeared into the distance with a reddish afterglow in the setting sun.
Wherever you pass, you can faintly see the image of flowers blooming and fading under the scroll wheel. It is a kind of blood-colored flower cup.
Ordinary people may not feel anything.
But as an apostle, Kurmis, who still has a special sense, saw the characteristics of the passing existence at a glance.
His spirituality felt the overwhelming sea of blood, even to the point where the endless Old One chanted something.
"The Sage of Truth."
"Inheritance of the Temple of Truth...the successor of the will of the saints..."
"The Great Sage of Truth..."
The breath possessed by the other party is huge and vigorous, not as agile and mysterious as wisdom and power, but it is as terrifying as heaven's punishment.
It is similar to the breath of the giant **** Ruhe.
"It's the car of the gods!"
Kurmis went from laying on the ground to getting up immediately in just a moment.
But when he caught up, the other party had already faintly disappeared at the end of the sky.
But when the god's car passed by, the existence in the car seemed to take a look at him.
It was a beautiful woman.
The other party stood in front of the window, his head full of red hair burning like a flame in the setting sun, and he glanced at Kurmis lightly as the car passed by the moonlight forest.
Kurmis suddenly trembled all over, and he said with an excited expression.
"The Scarlet Goddess."
He had seen each other before, in the city of Meiya more than a hundred years ago.
Kurmis involuntarily lay down on the ground and kowtowed, shouting the other party's **** name.
"The Scarlet Witch is the ruler of the country of blood in the deep sea, the great ancestor of blood, the king of the oldest race."
"I saw you come to the world again."
He was a believer of this goddess when he was young and young, and his hometown and relatives were once saved by this goddess.
No matter how it is now, he once received the grace of this goddess.
After getting up, I watched from a distance for a long time.
Kurmis couldn't help but said.
"Why do I always meet gods?"
He seems to have a kind of inherent luck, or misfortune.
But Kurmis shook his head again, thinking that this should be a coincidence.
"No!"
"It may be that this period of time is different. The gods have begun to walk in the world, so I just met them."
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On the Way of the Serpent.
"Here we come."
"There is a lot of movement."
A group of robbers lay on the ground listening to the movement, and immediately sensed the movement, and got up and shouted.
But as soon as the words fell, they saw the shadow of a vehicle approaching in the distance. The speed was extremely fast, and they rushed down immediately.
"Stop!"
"Stop!"
But the comer slid past like a hurricane, they didn't even see the shadow clearly, the other party had already disappeared into the distance.
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what had just passed.
"What's that?"
If someone can see clearly, they will find that it is not a vehicle at all, because the other party has nothing in front of it.
It was a house running on the ground, with two big wheels on the ground on both sides, and a clockwork-like wheel behind it.
Miracle Props · Magic Wheel House.
It looks a bit dreamy, like something out of a fairy tale.
Dream power props always have the color of a fairy tale.
Inside the magic wheel house.
The red-haired demigod also naturally saw the scene on the road of the giant snake, the thieves everywhere, and the gray forces entrenched on this road.
There was a hint of sadness in the eyes of the red-haired demigod.
A sigh followed.
What worries her is not only the chaos, but the root cause behind it.
At this time, someone came out and stood behind the red-haired demigod.
"Master Vivien!"
"The border has been reached."
Vivien looked at Alpens and Smallkel who had been following her all along: "There is really a big problem."
Although Suinhall seems to be still strong on the surface these years, in fact, very violent contradictions and conflicts have erupted at the bottom.
Between cities and within cities.
There are constant wars and conflicts.
The only thing that didn't appear was that none of these people dared to declare rebellion against the King of Divine Scrolls.
But the King of Divine Scrolls' control over this country is indeed getting weaker and weaker, or there is no way to change this situation.
A large number of farmers lost their land, and this is the result, plus there are robbers everywhere.
Not only on land, but also on the sea pirates needless to say.
They are entrenched on various islands in the sea, driving ships to plunder in all directions, and constantly attacking the border coast of Suinhor and the Land of Sunrise.
Right now, the entire Suinhall is like a porcelain jar that is full of cracks and is about to be burst by water.
It's just that a powerful force pinched this exquisite and gorgeous porcelain tightly, preventing the water inside from bursting out.
That power is the nobility, the mighty.
It is also the will of the gods.
It is the power of the king granted by the gods.
Vivien asked Alpens and Smerkel: "Tell me, both of you, what is the most fundamental problem."
Alpens said: "The population is growing too fast, but the arable land is decreasing, and internal conflicts are intensifying, but they are suppressed by extraordinary forces."
"Behind the chaos, there is only despair."
"Ordinary snake people can't even shout out, they are completely swallowed up, making people feel hopeless."
Smerkel: "The planting of Juanqiu requires land. The suitable arable land area in Suinhall is limited, and it has grown to a certain extent. Many places are either too barren or It is not suitable for development."
"There is too little arable land, and the population is gradually increasing."
"It ended up like this."
Vivien asked them: "Can all this be changed by taking back the power granted by the kingship?"
Smerkel shook his head: "This is not enough, because it cannot fundamentally solve the problem."
Alpens: "Dynasty change is nothing more than using wars to consume and reduce population, and to redistribute land and wealth. This is an infinite loop process."
"Reduce the population and redistribute; then the next kingdom will be replaced, and the cycle will be repeated."
"This is meaningful to ordinary people, but it is not enough for you, Lord Vivien."
In other words, it is meaningless,
The Scarlet Goddess nodded: "Yes, a civilization that cannot move forward, a civilization that has been walking in circles, is hopeless."
But even gods can't solve all problems sometimes.