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Chapter 428 Quiet Companion

The quiet companion lay limply in the mud, motionless. Except for the golden light that occasionally emerged from his body, he looked like a pool of stagnant water.

The lively companion kept rolling around, happily rolling up mud and sand, and running around between different mud pits. It seemed to pay no attention to the people on its body and did not care about the wishes they made.

"You have created two companions, from whom you can learn the experience of being a god..."

"He who is idle is not a god..."

"He who rejoices is not a god..."

That vast voice appeared again, echoing in Mo Ling's body.

He quickly glanced at his two companions and found that they were still doing their own things and did not respond to the sound.

"Only I can hear it."

The voice didn't just say some incomprehensible words, it also led a ray of golden light from Mo Ling into the body of that quiet companion.

……

This is a windless sea.

The sea is vast, but without any waves, as calm as a mirror.

As soon as Mo Ling arrived here, he smelled a foul odor.

It was the smell of a sewer filled with garbage, so disgusting that it made you vomit.

Only then did he notice that there was a thin layer of oil film floating on the sea, with a sticky sheen.

The sea seemed to have completely lost its vitality. There were no currents, no waves, and it was dead silent.

Mo Ling's golden light brought up a stream of sea water and transformed it into a human form.

The figure made of sea water walked onto a small island, and the voice was guiding Mo Ling to the center of the island.

"Friend, are you here to participate in the sacrifice?" Before Mo Ling reached the center of the island, he was stopped by a creature.

This is a cylindrical creature that looks like a bamboo tube, with hands and feet growing on the tube. It looks very bloated when moving.

At this time, the bamboo tube creature was asking Mo Ling's water man body in a strange language, and his tone was very friendly.

"Yes." Mo Ling nodded.

"Then come quickly, I'll take you in, the sacrifice is about to begin." The bamboo tube creature called Mo Ling and walked towards the center of the island.

Along the way, Mo Ling discovered something strange. There seemed to be no plants on the island and it looked very desolate.

The land is dry, there are no rivers or lakes, and it is too barren to be an island where one can survive.

"Has this place always been so barren?" Mo Ling couldn't help but ask.

"Ah? What did you say? Isn't this good?" The bamboo tube creature looked around and answered in confusion.

Looking at its puzzled look, Mo Ling could only remain silent for now.

Not long after, the bamboo tube creature brought Mo Ling to the center of the island.

From a distance, Mo Ling saw a strange building that seemed to be made of countless bamboo tubes. It looked extremely unstable and shaky.

The bamboo tubes were put together in a strange way, without any aesthetic appeal.

After seeing those bamboo tubes, Mo Ling quickly looked at the bamboo tube creature next to him and found that the two were extremely similar.

"That was built with the corpses of our compatriots. Isn't it spectacular?"

The bamboo tube creature was not afraid at all. Instead, it introduced it to Mo Ling excitedly.

"Why do you use the bodies of your compatriots to build buildings?" Mo Ling asked in disbelief.

"What to use then?"

The bamboo tube creature asked back in surprise.

Now, Moring didn't know how to answer. The island was so barren that there were indeed no building materials to be found.

Not even stones...

Mo Ling stretched out his foot and casually crushed a stone on the ground.

"The stones on this island are so brittle." No wonder these bamboo tube creatures choose to "recycle waste."

With doubt in his heart, Mo Ling followed the bamboo tube creature into the strange building.

It looks messy from the outside, but it is a different world inside. The bamboo tubes with grooves cut in them are plugged into each other to form areas in a regular pattern. In the center is a hall paved with bamboo strips. The sunlight falls from the gaps above and sprinkles the entire building.

"Isn't it beautiful?" the bamboo creature asked expectantly.

"Yes..." If you ignore the fact that these are their corpses, the interior of the building is indeed beautiful.

The hall in the distance was already crowded with all kinds of creatures.

Most of these creatures were looking around, and there were many bamboo tube creatures around, checking the arrangements for the sacrifice.

"You go over there first." After the bamboo tube creature said something to Mo Ling, it turned around and left.

Mo Ling walked to the center of the hall curiously.

His aquatic body attracted many eyes, and those creatures exclaimed in amazement when they saw the surging water on his body.

"The ceremony begins, silence!"

A bamboo tube creature standing on a high platform suddenly shouted, and the whispering creatures immediately shut up and stood in the hall in an orderly manner.

"Offer a sacrifice!"

Following a loud shout from the bamboo tube creature, the other creatures began to take out various offerings:

Skulls, oil, silt, shells...

Mo Ling stared at the offerings carefully, and became more and more confused.

"Why is it all garbage?"

Mo Ling originally thought that the sacrifice would be something precious, but the things those creatures took out were things that could be found everywhere.

"Where is your offering?"

Seeing that Mo Ling had not yet taken out the sacrifice, a nearby creature asked curiously, "Didn't you bring any?"

The creature was holding a rotten shell carefully in its hands.

It was clearly just garbage that could be found everywhere, but the creature protected it like a treasure and was extremely careful.

Seeing Mo Ling staring at its shell, it quickly moved the shell behind it.

"You're not going to steal my things, are you? Don't mess up during the sacrifice!" It looked at Mo Ling warily and took a few steps back.

Mo Ling was even more stunned now.

"Is this also considered a treasure?"

Mo Ling was slow to take out the sacrifice, and the eyes of the people around him gathered again. The bamboo tube creature on the platform also stared at him.

Mo Ling looked around and finally thought of a solution.

He raised his hand and grabbed himself hard, scooping out a ball of sea water.

"This should be considered a sacrifice, right?"

Sure enough, after seeing the ball of sea water in Mo Ling's hand, their eyes shifted away, and the bamboo tube creature on the platform no longer stared at Mo Ling.

"Start praying now!"

As the bamboo tube creature spoke, all the creatures present began to recite silently.

The offerings in their hands suddenly glowed with golden light.

Soon, the offerings began to change. They were emitting golden light and looked extraordinary and magical. However, the scattered golden light soon converged, and the offerings quickly returned to their original ordinary appearance.

"The sacrifice is over!" The bamboo tube creature jumped off the platform and relaxed.

And those creatures held the offerings in their hands with joy, cherishing them even more.

Only Mo Ling's ball of water remained unchanged.

Looking at the offerings in the hands of those creatures, Mo Ling instantly understood everything:
Those offerings became relics.

(End of this chapter)