The Social Life of the Supreme God

The sudden shout broke the slightly awkward atmosphere between the five people.

Sun Ze, the leader of the hunter team, patted Li Ren on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I was so busy chatting with you that I almost forgot about the important matter."

After Sun Ze finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the mole-faced lady who was resting her chin on her hand and eating a handful of melon seeds enthusiastically at the cashier window.

"Auntie, I'm Sun Ze from the Suppression Department." Sun Ze took out a black ID from his pocket and handed it to the window: "We are here to escort the prisoners of the 'Séance' to the headquarters for detention."

"I see," said the mole-faced aunt as she took the certificate and casually glanced at the information on it, saying, "The higher-ups just called and talked about you guys."

She handed the documents back and said, "How many passes do you need?"

Sun Ze heard this but did not answer immediately.

Instead, he turned to look at the bus and began to mutter, "Fourteen plus one, plus two, then plus four." It sounded like he was calculating something.

After a while, he turned around and replied, "Auntie, please give us four visitor passes and seventeen exhibit passes."

"Okay, pay the money." The mole-faced aunt said as she stretched her hand out of the window.

Sun Ze nodded upon seeing this, then he motioned Xu Ya to take off the military backpack behind her, and then began to search inside it.

After a while, accompanied by the sound of metal collision, Sun Ze took out a shopping bag tied with a noose from his backpack.

“…It’s quite heavy.” Sun Ze said as he untied the bag, and a bag full of brass coins appeared in front of everyone.

Li Ren stared at the bag and noticed that it was filled with the same plum blossom five-cent coins that Honglian had given him not long ago.

"It seems that if I want to pass through this toll booth, I must pay this coin that is almost out of print on the market." Li Ren thought to himself, and a dangerous idea came into his mind: "... But what will happen if I try to force my way through here without paying the coin? Could it be... that I will be attacked by these aunties?"

While he was thinking about this, Sun Ze had already counted out seventeen coins from his bag and handed them to the mole-faced aunt.

Then, when the aunt turned around to get her ID, Sun Ze looked at Li Ren and Hong Lian with a smile.

"You are going to the headquarters as well, right? Why don't we all take one car so that we can take care of each other on the way..." Sun Ze pointed to the bus behind him and said, "We are escorting several heavyweight criminals on this trip. What if there is any emergency on the way..."

“…It will be safer with you present.” Although Sun Ze said “you”, his eyes were always on Li Ren, as if he was hinting at something.

Honglian on the side did not answer immediately. Instead, she cast a questioning look at Li Ren and then said, "Li Ren, do you want to go with us? I respect your opinion."

Looking at Honglian's serious expression, it seemed that if Li Ren did not agree to go with her, she really planned to reject Sun Ze's invitation.

"That's fine, let's just ride in the same bus." Li Ren said slowly, "I'm also curious about what kind of 'heavyweight criminal' is on the bus."

Seeing that Li Ren agreed to go with them, Sun Ze asked Hong Lian to stop her motorcycle at the toll station. Zhao Tiezhu and Xu Ya took Li Ren to the bus first.

After getting on the bus, the first person Li Ren saw was the male driver wearing a military cap and hospital gown, with snow-white eyes.

He looked very anxious. When he heard someone entering the car, he immediately stood up from the driver's seat and said, "You guys are finally back! I just heard...something moving in the statue of the Messiah! But I can't see anything right now. You guys should check the situation quickly."

Hearing this, Zhao Tiezhu's face changed and he hurried into the carriage.

Xu Ya pointed at the snowy-eyed man in a hospital gown and introduced him briefly, "Brother Li Ren, this is our team's communications officer, Wang Mian. He was still in the hospital a few hours ago, so he came to work overtime in a hospital gown. As for his eyes... they became like this because he saw Minister Ren's naked body."

Li Ren was stunned when he heard this. He felt that this sentence contained too much information.

The man in front of him, named Wang Mian, was also stunned when he heard Xu Ya's words. Then he carefully confirmed: "You... brought Li Ren into the car?"

"Yeah." Xu Ya replied.

When Li Ren saw this, he realized that this brother named Wang Mian was really blind.

So he walked forward, patted Wang Mian on the shoulder and said, "Nice to meet you."

After greeting Wang Mian like this, without waiting for Wang Mian's response, Li Ren turned his head and looked inside the carriage.

The carriage, which was not very big to begin with, was now filled with more than a dozen taboos of various appearances. Among them were green-skinned zombies that kept muttering "Brains, Brains--" and plant women with cabbage-shaped heads but graceful figures.

"These guys are disciples of the Seance Society." Xu Ya explained at the right time. "Séance Society?"

"An illegal taboo organization," Xu Ya said as she stepped forward. "A few days ago, with the help of the ministers, we wiped out the séance."

Xu Ya raised her hand and pointed to the last row of the carriage: "Look, that's the leader of the séance."

Following the direction of Xu Ya's finger, Li Ren saw a male statue holding a fluorescent stick.

I saw that the image carved out of blue-gray stone was a middle-aged man wearing a wide holy robe, with a halo on his head and a look of despair on his face.

At this moment, for some reason, the stone statue was shaking slightly, as if something was about to break out of the stone.

Zhao Tiezhu was standing next to the statue at the moment. He turned around anxiously and asked for help: "Hey, Xu Ya! Wang Mian! What should we do? It seems that the Messiah is really coming back to life!"

"Ah? Are you serious?" Xu Ya was stunned when she heard that. Then she turned around and said to Li Ren, "Sorry, I have to excuse me." Then she hurried into the carriage to check the situation.

Seeing this, Li Ren turned his gaze to Wang Mian.

He thought about it for a moment, then asked, "Wang Mian, what did he mean by saying that the Messiah will come back to life? Is that statue also a taboo?"

Wang Mian turned to Li Ren and replied after a moment of thought: "…Well, this is not confidential information, so it should be okay to tell you."

He continued, "That statue is the Messiah. I heard he is a powerful conceptual-level forbidden being."

"I heard?" Li Ren discovered the problem in the words and asked with a frown.

"Yes, I heard that." Wang Mian nodded: "Minister Gu said that the Messiah is the embodiment of the concept of 'God' and the embodiment of 'omniscience and omnipotence'. His destructive power and frontal combat ability are also ranked among the top in the conceptual taboos."

"The omniscient and omnipotent God..." Li Ren continued to ask: "...then how did He become like this?"

"Because He met Minister Ren," Wang Mian said, taking a deep breath, "It was Minister Ren and the dragon he raised who turned the Messiah into what he is now."

Although he didn't quite understand what "a dragon" meant, Li Ren didn't rush to ask, but continued to listen to Wang Mian.

"Perhaps it's because of Minister Ren's sudden disappearance..." Wang Mian touched his chin, as if he had suddenly figured something out, and the snowflakes in his eye sockets burst out excitedly: "...It's because of Minister Ren's disappearance that the Messiah showed signs of waking up!"

After Wang Mian finished speaking, he said to Li Ren, "Excuse me, I have to tell Tiezhu and the others about this guess right away." Then he groped his way into the depths of the carriage.

Seeing that even Wang Mian had left him to deal with the matter of the god's concept, Li Ren wiped the snowflakes on his face, then looked around and decided to take a closer look at the prisoners of the séance in the carriage.

But at this moment, something suddenly tapped his shoulder.

Li Ren frowned and looked back, then his face showed three parts of surprise and seven parts of confusion.

Sitting behind Li Ren was a middle-aged woman with foundation thicker than the putty on the wall. At this moment, the woman had an extremely weird and stiff fake smile on her face, and the corners of her mouth were trying to rise up almost to her ears.

This woman with a fake smile just stared at Li Ren with her eyes wide open.

After a long while, she slowly spoke: "...Li...ren...Li...ren...is...Li Ren! It's Li Ren!"

The woman kept repeating Li Ren's name, her voice full of joy.

"It's Li Ren! Li Ren! Li Ren! There's salvation! There's salvation! There's salvation! Humanity is saved!" The woman raised her hand in ecstasy, and then the content of her words suddenly changed: "Li... people... want to see... a... dragon? A dragon! A dragon! A dragon!"

Upon hearing this, Li Ren frowned and looked at the hand stretched out in front of him.

The woman then saw that she was holding a dying little snake in her hands.

The snake looked very strange, with black scales all over its body and a pair of bird-like wings on its back. The snake looked extremely weak, as if it had not eaten for many days, and it was barely breathing, so it was obvious that it would not live long.

Perhaps it sensed someone approaching, the little snake suddenly opened its red eyes as if it were regaining consciousness.

When the little snake saw who was coming, a gleam of light flashed in its eyes, and then it spoke in human language: "Ren..."

There was pain in Xiaoshe's voice, and he seemed to have exerted all his strength to slowly utter a few words: "...Brother Ren, you...are back?" (End of this chapter)