The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 398 Four Heavenly Kings and Five People
Coming back to the base where the marshlanders who had been rescued last night had lived before, Faust's attention was not focused on the items and facilities abandoned by the marshlanders.

To him, the entire stronghold can be summed up in one sentence: a few things that can barely be called houses, and the garbage piles surrounding them.

Of course, there are still some utensils that can be used.

Like pots, pans, and stuff like that.

Dark Forest has not formed a significant product advantage for this type of items, not because it cannot do it, but because the market is too small and not worth the scale.

Take the Ze people here as an example, those who are better off and more particular will just use exquisite wooden bowls, carving patterns on them, or inlaying them with rims.

The inferior ones are made of woven shallow plates with leaves on top, and used as food containers. This thing is left on the road in the Dark Forest, and ordinary people are too lazy to pick it up.

In addition, due to the excessive moisture, the clothes of the people in the swamps are also very simple, and they basically only have one piece on their body and one piece to change. Many men only wear a loincloth with a door curtain and a butt curtain, while women use a cloth strip and then tie an X on their chest. The better ones have some decorations, ranging from stones to shells to wood and bones. There is no gold or silver because they are too easy to rust.

So, in Faust's eyes, the people of the marshland were so poor that even the ascetic monks shed tears when they saw them.

This is a place for the poor to live in, and it has a disaster-inducing background. It really means that the shanty towns are all high-rise.

To put it bluntly, the excrement couldn't even be cleaned up properly, making it look like an alternative old-fashioned pigsty. What's so noteworthy about such a place?
Their mussel industry had long been destroyed by the fleeing refugees, to the point where even the crops they grew were eaten up.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Faust had arrived half a month later, even if these people had not all died, the remaining ones would have turned into cannibals and would have been impossible to take them in.

Faust is not willing to think too much about salvation. He neither feels that he is great nor that he has a guilty conscience.

The feeling of doing this was different from the feeling of seeing a litter of shivering puppies on the street and taking them in, because these refugees did not give him the emotional value that the puppies could provide.

The emotional value the refugees gave him was more like giving five dollars to a child on the street and asking him to help them get a bottle of iced mineral water from the store across the street, and the rest of the money belonged to the child.

He said that he was a big shot and there was nothing wrong with him spending his pocket money to order others around.

It is said that happiness is shared with others rather than enjoyed alone. If you are happy and your children are happy too, that's fine.

When you pick up a puppy, you're usually prepared to raise it, or at least hope that it will wag its tail or scatter flowers when you see it in the future.

He had no similar expectations for the refugees, and was even afraid that they would stick to him desperately.

But it is not right to say that he does not expect anything in return for his gratitude. He wants something in return, but ordinary people may not understand what this return is. That is, as long as they live well, that is enough.

The reason has been mentioned before, about the water god believed by the people of the swamp and the huge power of faith accumulated over a long period of time.

He was not interested in this kind of power, but he did not want it to be obtained by the evil god even more.

He also thought about it, why not create an artificial water god, take the opportunity of rescue, transfer the power of faith of the water god, and put it in his pocket?
Unfortunately, he himself lacked understanding of the belief system and did not want to cause trouble for Pastor Luo, so he asked Spring, but Spring could not explain it.

Although many werewolves believe in the Moon Cult, in fact, the sect is a typical secret cult. It does not preach or teach. Its believers are all a specific group, and most of the systems related to the clergy have nothing to do with the believers.

Such a cult is obviously not suitable for connecting with the water god, and Faust does not think it is the right thing to do to disturb Priest Luo at this time and ask him to design a belief system specifically for them.

After all, after designing, there is still a need to implement it. This is something he is not good at, so why should he make things difficult for Pastor Luo and himself by doing something so uncertain? Is this the only way to solve the problem?
In fact, he still hopes to do what he is good at.

What is he good at? Of course, reconnaissance, finding weaknesses, and then killing the opponent with one blow.

As an assassin, his reconnaissance can be very traditional, secretive and silent.

But most of the time, there seems to be no need to do so.

Like now, coming over here in a carefree manner and letting the existence hiding in the dark jump out is also a solution.

Unfortunately, Faust did not see anything evil here. Even the black fog that seemed like a living thing last night was gone. There was only gray fog, which was thicker than the water mist that the locals usually saw, but that was all.

"It's quite interesting. He's even playing tricks on the techniques!" Faust strolled around, looking for suspicious points.

It was this fog that trapped the people of the marshland, making it impossible for them to escape and causing them to suffer so much that they had to eat human flesh.

But now it has disappeared, without even a trace left.

"It's not magic, it's more like witchcraft, a very ancient kind. But even if it's witchcraft, it has a core and some residual power. What is it?" Faust frowned.

Simply put, the main difference between magic and witchcraft is that the former tends to be order-oriented, while the latter tends to be chaos-oriented.

Spells are always accompanied by a spell model, as if an abstract device is used to process energy into the desired shape, just like using a lathe to process metal parts.

Witchcraft is like playing with chemical reactions. The caster's mental power is the stirring stick. When the chemical substances in the vessel react fully, it becomes what the caster wants.

There is no doubt that the spell is more precise, but the chemistry experts are familiar with the effects and formula ratios, and it doesn't look bad either.

However, no matter which type it is, there will be traces. Of course, you can cover up and erase the traces, but erasing the traces will also leave traces, just like using a blackboard eraser to wipe clean the handwriting on the blackboard, but there will be white powder left.

Faust is the son of nature. Who can erase the words on the blackboard of nature without him noticing?

Even if it can be done, what will the cost be?
If the opponent was really that wealthy, then he would have to completely overturn his previous analysis. This time, the opponent had no shortage of money, and everything in the swamp was just for fun!
Two hours, three hours passed quietly, and nothing was achieved.

All the scavengers from Spring came over, and the leader asked him if the Marshlanders' garbage dump could be moved. If it was like a murder scene, it would be meaningless if it destroyed the clues.

Faust waved his hand impatiently, and the scavengers started moving.

Everything else was fine, they just sorted them out, picked out the usable ones and took them away. What surprised Faust was that the scavengers could even use the feces excreted by the swamp people.

It degrades rapidly and extracts fertilizer-like substances in the process, which is really amazing. It is truly an extraordinary means and scientific and technological concept that has taken utilization to a certain extreme.

Faust acted as a bystander, and until the end, he did not find anything suspicious or anything that could be called a clue.

So he and the scavengers took a hovercraft back to Xinyibao.

This type of hovercraft was the same one that Priest Luo used when he went to the Great Swamp with Master Joani of the Spire of Order on Alex.

Of course, there are some differences in structure and size, but the core is the same.

This type of vehicle is quite suitable for use in swamps. It is much faster and more comfortable than riding a horse. It is not as fast as riding on water, but it is not of the same style as riding on water.

Faust thought that he might as well put on a show for fun.

New Castle No. 1, as the name suggests, Faust was too lazy to even come up with a name, and there will also be New Castle No. 2 and New Castle N.

In fact, there are now more than just the several thousand people rescued last night in Xinyibao.

When Faust went to the Marshland People's stronghold for reconnaissance for the second time, the Undead Slave Cavalry conducted a carpet search of the marshland sector involved in the new castle planned by Faust, and discovered and rescued several groups of Marshland People again, bringing the total number to over 15,000.

According to Faust's plan, he would build a series of shelters with fortresses as the core on the five sides of the marsh, namely the south, southeast, east, northeast and north, except the western side facing the ocean.

Each refuge has an area for exploring deep into the marshland.

This area is not a production and living area, but an area for searching for survivors.

Once his plan is completed, it means that nearly half of the land in the marshland has been swept away by him. It is like a pizza, biting from the outside to the inside, and eating away most of the circle.

The so-called nearly half of the land is calculated based on its total area, without any particular depth.

The reason for this plan was that he conceded that the deep areas and core areas of the swamp had all fallen and were no longer worth saving.

The fact that there is no value in saving does not mean that there are no living people or survivors, but rather that no matter in terms of the time, experience, etc. spent or the results harvested, it cannot reach the passing line he has set.

For this reason, the surviving marshland people in this area were essentially abandoned by him.

He just wanted to pick the weak ones and use his limited manpower to gather as many people from the swamp as possible as quickly as possible.

Of course, there were still some practical problems. For example, the fact that the people of the swamp were trapped by the active black fog greatly increased the construction period of the shelter.

Faust really didn't expect that the people of the Marshland would be so lame. They looked like they were ready to destroy their country and race if there was no external force.

He thought that as he rode here on horseback, he would at least be able to see a few refugee camps with smoke rising from chimneys on the outskirts of the swamp. However, he ended up being unable to move in the foggy swamp, and was left to eat each other.

He didn't want to complain anymore, so he asked Spring about the situation and confirmed that Spring could still hold on. He couldn't help but sigh that his teacher, Pastor Luo, was really awesome. Even these servants who he had taken in casually back then had become big shots who could take on big responsibilities after more than ten years of conversion.

That evening, before dinner, Tahir and a cavalry team returned.

They were the last group and went the farthest.

Tahir has a sense of mission, and he works tirelessly and fears no danger in order to save his compatriots as much as possible. Because he knows that the search red line drawn by Faust is basically the line between life and death. On the other side of the line, the probability of survival will suddenly drop to a desperate low.

Therefore, he is willing to walk the line, but not too far, and take as much as he can.

But for Faust, this is not much of a credit.

Faust only looked at the big data, 320, no more, no less. But he was unwilling to delay the progress of the entire journey because of these 320.

After all, that meant giving up at least three thousand and two thousand, or even more, for three hundred and two hundred. As time went on, people died every day, and the efficiency of rescue became worse as time went on.

But Tahir brought some other intelligence that interested Faust.

According to Tahir, he talked to the survivors and found that not all groups of survivors were as miserable as the one that Faust and his group rescued last night.

Some are fine, although they are trapped, they seem to be able to hold on.

This is not the point. The point is that the weird things they suffered were not that serious.

This is quite interesting. Bullying the weak and fearing the strong?

The problem is that the gang is not that strong, there are only a few hundred people, and among them are the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled and pregnant women.

A light bulb suddenly lit up Faust's head, and his intuition told him that the secret of the black fog might be hidden in this.

So he had the two relatively typical gang elders called in for questioning, with Tahir acting as the translator.

By understanding the details, Faust discovered that these two gangs, also local residents, could be understood as an alternative natural village, where they had lived for generations.

They are less susceptible to external shocks, including receiving fewer foreign refugees.

This was not the point, because Faust knew that there was a settlement that simply refused foreign refugees, and that they encountered a situation even more horrible than the weirdness faced by the thousands of people he saved last night. In their own words: "Flying monsters came directly into the settlement and slaughtered them!"

If it comes from the ground or the water, you can still use fences or something to defend yourself. But if it comes from the sky, there is really no way to stop it. It comes in the form of black fog, appearing and disappearing from time to time. After the knife is used, the person flies away, and then another knife comes down...

It’s not about taking in foreign refugees, but it seems to be somewhat related because not many are taken in.

So what is the reason that the situation of these two gangs is far less serious than others?
As the understanding deepened and became more comprehensive, the answer surfaced. Both gangs had leaders that everyone could trust. They handled the situation properly and in an orderly manner. The mentality of the gang members was stable, they shared the same hatred and faced the same difficulties, and their resistance performance was relatively outstanding.

Faust understood, it was emotion!

The power of the evil god can absorb and utilize people’s negative emotions!

The more panic, fear, worry and despair one has, the more powerful and bizarre the evil will be.

The answer was found, and the reason why nothing was found during the second investigation during the day was also found.

The main body of the black fog is the refugees!

The refugees were relocated, and the main reason for the existence of the black fog disappeared, leaving only thick fog.

This kind of fog is indeed abnormal, but there is no need to study it in detail. It is like spreading gunpowder on a large piece of land. Even if you know it exists, it is not worth sweeping it back. It may not be of much use if you pay a lot but get little in return.

But in the hands of people who specialize in playing with this system, it can be a background. With this little bit, many ways of playing can be constructed.

Not the key, not even a supporting role, but a necessary part of the play.

Faust went to find Spring.

Emotional power is classified as soul power. It is completely understandable that the evil god would use this method, but he is not good at it. He can only seek help from the Moon God Cult to see if there is any way to deal with it.

Of course there are.

Priest Luo is one of the Old Ones and is a colleague of the Dark Ones.

The dark side is good at utilizing soul power represented by negative emotions, and Priest Luo is also good at it.

However, the approach angle of the Soul Wizard's technical system is not like this. Usually, Pastor Luo only needs the ability of the psychic warrior as protection, then he will be immune to all evil and will not be taken advantage of in this regard. No matter how rich the dark forces are, they will all miss and he can do nothing.

But Priest Luo is well aware of how evil and terrifying this set of tricks to erode and play with the minds of living beings is, so the Moon God Cult has top-notch preventive measures and strength in this regard that can be regarded as top-notch in the main material plane.

After listening to Faust's words, Spring laughed and said, "It's also because the gods worshipped by the people of the marshland are false and unreal. If they were a true god, they wouldn't let this happen, at least they wouldn't be so miserable and become a candle being used.

We will solve it. A little trick and a torch of faith can solve the problem..."

Soon, Spring's trick came.

To put it simply, it is to build confidence and make people believe from the bottom of their hearts that this torch can eliminate the black fog and repel evil.

Given the current actual situation, it is natural that a play needs to be staged to match the situation.

Basically, it's an evil invasion, which is quite scary, with black fog, hideous shapes, and a huge momentum.

As a result, the refugees were naturally trembling with fear, and some began to enter the countdown to collapse. Spring sent people to meet the enemy, and when the torch came out, the monsters retreated, and it was awesome.

The refugees breathed a sigh of relief. The savior was awesome and was no match for the weird and evil.

As a result, Spring started to PUA, saying that we are not your parents and we cannot take care of you forever. You have to learn to take care of yourself. This torch of faith is given to you, but you have to work harder and learn how to use it...

The people of the swamps are not actually wimps or losers. If they were, they would have been eliminated by nature long ago given the harsh living environment in the swamps.

They were just deeply frightened, and at the same time shocked by the werewolves' greatness. They felt insignificant and inferior, and lost the courage to face danger bravely.

Of course, the loss of this courage also lies in the fact that the enemy is too unfamiliar and unknown. They are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, but no matter how much blood they shed, they will not get any results, which makes people despair.

So what they need is understanding and technology.

But their cultural background was there, and it was not so easy for them to understand the extraordinary. Spring had seen similar fools before, so he pretended to be a god.

It is wrong to fool people, but sometimes achieving the goal is more important.

Soon, a new drama began. Since the camps were divided into different groups, some performed well and some performed poorly.

Then there is on-site teaching, and people share their own experiences as to why they performed well. Everyone firmly believes in the power of the torch of faith, because it really works. It is especially effective in the hands of a werewolf. Ordinary people cannot compare to werewolves, but they can still do it generally. If you can't do it, it means that you are not good enough. If you really can't do it, then die!

As a result, they successfully rebounded from the bottom. In order to survive, many people burst out with powerful thoughts. Spring secretly controlled them, which naturally gave them sufficient effect.

When these hopeless people saw their success, they were so happy that tears filled their eyes and they hugged each other and cheered.

Once basic self-confidence is established, the next step is to cultivate and strengthen it.

In fact, the power of the evil god has not yet spread to this area. The dark invasion was secretly created by Spring. After a period of training, even if the evil really arrives, it will not be able to make a big noise because there is not enough negative emotion. Then it will really become a paper tiger.

Faust understood the evil god's tricks and resolved his worries. He was no longer limited to the seven-day cycle he had originally agreed with Spring.

Because, a fortress is not absolutely necessary.

The fortress was originally used as the last refuge. Once the evil god became powerful and invaded with great force, the refugees would rely on the fortress for defense and wait for help.

But looking at the tricks that the evil gods are playing now, their capital seems to be limited. Even if it snowballs, since it is too small at the beginning, the transition period before achieving great success will inevitably be longer.

To put it more simply, the evil god's power has been stretched to its limits, and the core area of ​​the swamp is enough for it to be busy swallowing and digesting for the time being. These things on the periphery are just its early preparations, so that when it swallows them in the future, these things will have been made into delicious dishes, or it can simply be fed into its mouth.

In this case, building a fortress is a bit too conservative. Not to mention that the possibility of the evil god's expedition is very low. Even if it does happen, it will not be a frequent event, or a multi-pronged attack. At that time, Spring can just provide support with aerospace battleships.

Of course, in order to change to a more radical strategy, there is still one thing that needs to be done, which is intelligence.

The intelligence work is actually not that stressful. We just need to keep an eye on the large forces of evil gods, and each shelter will have a guide who is also a super thug to lead the refugees to deal with it. It won't be a big problem.

In this way, basically one shelter every five days, from the beginning of autumn to early winter, Faust built a total of twenty-two shelters, not counting Heisenberg on the Greyspear Coast.

Later, in the deeper part of the marshland, there was a brief confrontation with the minions of the evil god. The enemy's forces were not weak, with sufficient numbers and many high-level ones. It seemed that they wanted to launch a large-scale operation, but they were hit head-on. In just ten minutes, one third of them were wiped out. Among them were many high-level extraordinary people.

It must be said that such killing power scared the evil gods. In the middle and late stages, they had already sensed the intervention of external forces and integrated the remaining forces of Zeguo, but they never expected that this external force would be so strong.

After all, according to their thinking, if the enemy had such strength, they should have already attacked directly and destroyed the core of their power. Why would they need to wait around on the periphery?

Little did they know that they were afraid of Faust's strong fighting ability, while Faust was afraid that the evil god would play a game of life and death too early. He asked him to chop off the evil god's claws. His knife was very sharp, but if he confronted the evil god, he would have no way to defeat him.

Pastor Luo had a conversation with him not long ago and talked about the situation in the evil god dimension.

The evil god is indeed in prison, but this cell is the result of external forces and also a prison created by the evil god himself.

Simply put, the evil god was defeated in the distant past, an era completely unrecorded in human history, but because it was deeply bound to the four elemental planes, the victor could not completely destroy it.

In metaphysical terms, evil gods are beings that are in harmony with the Tao, and are in harmony with the important principles of the universe. If you kill them directly, even if you have the ability to do so, it would be like breaking the load-bearing pillars. You can't even bear breaking one, let alone four.

The four elements are the basic forces for constructing the extraordinary universe. Unless the evil gods are separated from them, there is really no good way to deal with them.

So the victor took the measure of sealing.

The evil gods did not dare to jump too much. The losers must treat them with the minimum attitude of losers. If the winners really wanted to deal with them regardless of the consequences, then they would have no future at all.

Therefore, the evil god gave up the power of elemental laws, which was considered as surrendering his gun.

But what they handed over were the guns they built in this universe. Some of the guns they had when they came here were not handed over, and could not be handed over.

In addition, although he surrendered his gun, he had a deep understanding of the elemental laws, so he could still make use of them. This is the origin of the dimensional cage.

The victors also accepted this outcome, giving them a chance to recover slowly.

The subtext of this opportunity is that if we still can't come up with a method that we think is appropriate to deal with you by then, then even if you turn the game around and escape successfully.

Then, the world changed dramatically until today.

According to Pastor Luo, those winners at that time might have been too confident and have not been able to come back for so long.

But the four evil gods were not in a much better condition. Although each of them was not a pile of dead bones in a grave, they were not much better either.

But there are some surprises. The surprise is that the Four Heavenly Kings may be five people.

There are not four evil gods, but five. It seems that the fifth one did not participate in the war that year. The reason is not that the other party is prophetic or insidious enough. The victorious party will not allow such a variable to exist, or ignore this fish that slipped through the net.

According to Pastor Luo's estimation, these five might have been killed together when the four evil gods were committing evil in this universe.

In other words, this fifth evil god was the weakest one at the beginning.

Among the evil gods, there is basically no one who is so annoying that the others would join forces to target him.

The biggest possibility for it to be targeted is that it is weak, and weakness is its original sin. Once the other four are absolutely sure of dividing it up and devouring it at a lower cost, they will do it.

As a result, although the Fifth Evil God was weak, he was still an outer god of the heavenly level. Although he died, his death was not clean.

It is not clear whether it is a backup plan in this universe or an incarnation coming from another universe.

The only thing that is certain is that this guy outside the cage is causing trouble. His strength level is not very good, but he has the technical level, vision and awareness of the evil god after all, so he is trying to exploit the four evil gods in prison.

The four evil gods, who were arrogant at the time and thought they could break out of the cage and restore their former glory with full motivation, were repeatedly beaten by reality and had to bow their heads and cooperate.

The pollution of the dream dimension was most likely planned and started by the fifth evil god under such a background, and was gradually implemented.

Therefore, Priest Luo reminded Faust that if he was forced too much, the evil god trapped in the water element cage behind the swamp would not hesitate to help the fifth evil god, and the situation would immediately become out of control.

As for the evil god trapped in the cage of fire element, that is, the so-called evil god dimension, as long as Pastor Luo is given a few more years, there will definitely be a good result.

Although Pastor Luo did not specify what the good result would be, Faust could sense that it was not as simple as the Fire Evil God being completely separated from the laws of the fire element and being completely and thoroughly killed.

Because once something like that happens, the other evil gods will most likely cooperate with the Fifth Evil God through a special contract, at the cost of their own sacrifice, to help the Fifth Evil God fight to the death with Pastor Luo.

One must keep a humble hope, and then try to repeat the successful method, or kill the fifth evil god first, and then think about other things.

No matter what, it is undeniable that it is not suitable for him to fall out with the water evil god behind Zedi for the time being.

In comparison, let alone the core area of ​​the swamp that has been sacrificed, even if the twenty-two shelters that have been built are sacrificed, or even the human kingdom that he and Pastor Luo are familiar with, it is an affordable price.

If we really want to make the evil god desperate, we can only rely on the laws of the Hedao level to pry open a kind of elemental force, which will cause landslides, tsunamis, land subsidence, ecological extinction, the main material world, and even the structure of the universe. They will be distorted and changed.

(End of this chapter)