I loaded the dream game

I see……

Recalling the dream game prompt before entering the copy to unlock the search limit for the term "time", Xia Zhi felt as if he understood something.

It’s no wonder that he didn’t recognize her at the first sight. After all, the girl in front of him didn’t even wear her real body. Anyone would probably be confused for a while.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. 18"

No matter what, having just suffered a strategic nuclear strike-level attack, they are still standing there chatting as if nothing had happened. This is a bit too careless.

Xia Zhi pulled the girl up from the ground, brushed the dust off her body, and prepared to take her away from here.

But before leaving, he turned around and looked in the direction where the bright white beam of light had just come from, but he did not find anything under the cover of the scarlet sky and the thick black and gray clouds. Instead, he noticed that there were several similar traces of being bombarded by violent energy flows on the plains and wilderness in the distance.

The locations of those explosion craters were very randomly distributed, which meant that the bright white beam just now was most likely not an attack directed at them, but was merely the aftermath of a battle.

"Just the aftermath of the battle has such power..."

Xia Zhi once again confirmed that this world is indeed very dangerous.

I don’t know what kind of battle can cause such an effect.

In short, just run away before they discover you. There's no need to get into conflict with that kind of existence at this time.

Thinking this way, Xia Zhi wanted to pull the girl away directly, but when he saw the ground was still emitting scorching heat and had not yet cooled down, he was silent for a moment, turned his head to look at the girl and asked:

"Can you fly?"

The girl shook her head when she heard this: "I used to."

Does that mean it won't happen now?

Recalling what the girl said before, that her power had disappeared, Xia Zhi sighed, picked up the girl by the waist, and awkwardly activated the magic power in his body, then flew away.

Not long after the two left, a petite figure fell from the sky and landed on the charred land that was still hot.

"Abnormal energy reaction detected. Response measures are being arranged. Dangers are being investigated. Targets are being set."

As the cold voice fell, a complex spell unfolded from the mechanical device above her head, and the faint blue light quickly illuminated the surrounding scene.

Under the illumination of the light source, the body of the machine gradually became clear—

She had waist-length hair with a gradient purple-black hue and snow-white skin that formed a sharp contrast with the hair color. If you ignored the large, glowing mechanical device on her head, the exposed mechanical structure on her body, and the two tubes like a tail behind her, she was an impeccable beautiful girl.

"Target search completed, sample analysis completed, data information recorded, file number: X001, recording completed."

The mechanical girl's gaze fell on the place where Xia Zhi and the other person had just been. Looking at the only intact piece of land on the charred earth, a strange light flashed in her yellow eyes with blood-colored lines.

——Its name is "doubt".

……

After finding a cave, Xia Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief and let the girl down.

What surprised him was that the girl, who had just been planning to "punish him" because he had teased her for a few words, behaved unusually quietly during the process and just let him fly with her in his arms for half an hour.

Strange, is it possible that verbal teasing is a more serious offense to her than direct physical contact? Or are gods always so fickle?

"You are now stronger than me. It is only natural for the weak to submit to the strong."

Facing Xia Zhi's doubts, the girl began to explain.

For her, who lives in an era where the strong prey on the weak, wars break out all the time, and weak beings are constantly being eliminated, plundered, and conquered, this is the most normal thing, whether it is for humans or for gods.

"You took away my power, cut off my faith, and completely defeated me..." Her voice was still emotionless, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her: "Therefore, I am now your property."

The girl said it easily, words that could just as easily get Xia Zhi thrown into jail in the real world.

"...?"

Xia Zhi was full of questions. What was going on?

"Why don't you think about it again?" he suggested after thinking about it.

"...What are you considering?" The girl looked at him blankly. It was obvious that in her heart, she had never had the possibility of making a choice.

So, she didn't try to understand it in that direction, but thought of something else.

"...I understand." She raised her head, her light grey eyes looked at Xia Zhi quietly and asked, "Have you decided to abandon me?"

Chapter 114: One Person's Faith

Xia Zhi felt that he could no longer keep up with the train of thought of this divine girl.

"Why would I abandon you?" he asked doubtfully.

"Isn't it normal to throw away items that have no value and no longer need to be kept?"

The girl looked at Xia Zhi and answered as if it was a matter of course.

Comparing themselves to an object so naturally can only mean that the values ​​of girls living in that era were indeed different from those of ordinary people.

"This kind of thing is not absolute, right?" Xia Zhi felt it was too troublesome to explain it from the beginning, so he just went along with what she said.

Just like many people have many useless things at home that are piled up in the corner because they are too lazy to throw away or forget to throw away, "worthlessness" is only one of the reasons for "discarding" and it is not even a necessary reason. After all, even "valuable" items are often discarded due to various circumstances.

"So, there is no necessary connection between 'worthless' and 'abandoned'. I will not abandon you just because you are worthless... Not to mention, you are still very important to me from some perspectives."

"Really?" It seemed like the first time the girl heard such a theory. She tilted her head slightly, a hint of doubt appearing on her face.

"Of course, would I lie to you?" Xia Zhi put into practice the experience he had learned from coaxing Ai Lu Ke in the past, and said this while gently stroking the girl's golden hair.

"But... I no longer have the strength."

Feeling the warm touch on her head, the girl was silent for a moment, and then spoke in a light tone, as if stating a fact.

"It doesn't matter if you don't have power. Strength is not important to me." Xia Zhi said softly as he tidied up the girl's messy blonde hair.

"I have lost my faith." The girl raised her head and looked at his profile, saying calmly.

"It doesn't matter if you lose your faith. You can always find it again if you lose it." After combing the girl's hair into the way he remembered it, Xia Zhi took out two small red ribbons, tied up her hair on both sides slightly, and braided it into a cute double knot.

In this way, except for the clothes and the body on her head, the girl was exactly the same as the "Suwako" in Xia Zhi's memory.

"I... will disappear soon." The girl paused slightly and then continued.

“You’re going to disappear soon…huh?”

Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and looked into her eyes again.

"I'm going to disappear soon." The girl looked into his eyes quietly and repeated it again.

"..."

It was not until then that Xia Zhi noticed that the girl's figure had become a little illusory at some point. If one looked closely, one could even vaguely see the scenery behind her body through her light gray eyes.

Soon, Xia Zhi realized what was going on.

Unlike some gods that were born from mythology, Suwako, as an indigenous god, was born from people's beliefs, and her existence is entirely composed of faith.

Since she is a god born entirely from faith and fantasy, when faith is severed and no one remembers her name anymore, her existence will naturally disappear.

Rather, it is a very remarkable thing that the girl has been able to persist until now after her faith has been completely cut off.

"Why didn't you say this earlier?"

Xia Zhi admitted that he was negligent. He still maintained his subconscious thinking and had no habit of linking "faith" and "existence" together. In addition, the girl had been acting as if nothing had happened before, so he subconsciously ignored the matter.

However, it is understandable that he would ignore it, but the girl should not have failed to notice something that concerns her own existence.

In other words, she deliberately did not mention this matter to Xia Zhi.

"Isn't this what you were going to do?" The girl tilted her head, looked at Xia Zhi and asked, "..." Cut off my faith, deprive me of my power, and make me disappear completely... As a loser, I should have accepted this fate. "

Summer Solstice: "..."

He sighed softly: "I'm sorry, I never thought about this."

"Besides, didn't I just say that? You are very important to me."

Xia Zhi reached out his hand again and gently pressed it on the girl's head.

"So, I will never allow you to disappear like this."

As Xia Zhi finished his words, suddenly, as if it were an illusion, the girl saw a blurry, illusory, dreamy golden thread appear in front of her eyes, emitting a faint fluorescent light.

As the golden thread appeared, her body, which had become increasingly illusory, suddenly became solid again.

"This is……"

Looking at the golden thread in front of her that connected her and Xia Zhi, surprise finally appeared in the girl's eyes.

She could feel that her faith, which had completely dried up and disappeared, suddenly regained a faint but unexpectedly solid faith at this moment.

"As a believer in God, you rely on your faith to exist. Once you lose your faith, you will lose your existence."

"But in other words, as long as you have faith, you will never disappear, right?"

Xia Zhi chuckled, gently took the girl's hand and said, "Then, from today on, I will be your temporary believer."

"Thank you for your guidance, Suwako-sama."

Chapter 115 [Players please choose your camp carefully]

I can't understand, I can't understand...

Suwako was filled with confusion and puzzlement.

As a believer in God, she can feel the emotions, thoughts and wishes contained in the faith, which is why she feels puzzled.

The faith she had in the past was either based on fear, or worship, or praying for her mercy and protection of peace, or hoping that she would bestow divine grace and benefit all people.

However, no one's faith has ever been like that of the young man in front of him, without purpose, without asking for anything in return, but simply coming from the tiny wish that she could continue to exist.

In other words, this is pure faith that exists only for her...

Looking at the smiling boy in front of her, Suwako began to feel a strange emotion in her heart.

"You..." She opened her mouth, and her voice finally contained a hint of emotion that she herself didn't even notice.

"Why...do this?"

"Didn't I tell you?" Xia Zhi stroked the girl's soft golden hair and said, "I hope you can continue to exist, and always will."

"Is that all?"

"if not?"

Faced with Xia Zhi's question, Suwako fell silent.

Incomprehensible, incomprehensible...

Just believing in her for things like this...

Besides... why would he do such a thing when he had cut off all his beliefs?

"I never said that. I did it, right?" Xia Zhi replied to the girl's question.

"Between two worlds that are isolated from each other by cause and effect, past beliefs will be completely cut off. Isn't that normal?"

"Two worlds?"

Is this another world?

"That's right." Xia Zhi replied.

So that's how it is. This is understandable.

However, it is still difficult to understand the boy’s behavior.

Looking at the girl lost in thought, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, finally solving her problem temporarily.

If you are forced to exit the dream dungeon just after entering it because of the death of the "heroine", it would be a huge loss no matter how you think about it.

Not to mention, this world is very important to Xia Zhi... Unlike the previous two dream copies, this time he invested a lot of upfront costs in order to come to this world.

(bidb)Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that even if Xia Zhi himself died, he could not let the girl die.

After all, the girl whose existence is made up of faith does not have the ability to jump out of the coffin like Xia Zhi.

"Well, let me see what kind of world the dream game has chosen for me."