Doomsday courtyard begins to survive by planting pea shooters

In the pitch-black darkness, the hairy chimpanzee Hopper touched his belly, and then a mottled stone book appeared in his broad palm.

Xiao Jian took the stone book from Hopper and observed it carefully.

Unlike the holy book he already had in his hand, this stone book was extremely worn, and even the edges of the pages were rounded and smooth, like a carefully polished jade.

But unlike the smoothness of jade, the smoothness of this stone book was somewhat similar to those stone statues in the classics that were touched and polished by countless tourists...

... Only the key parts became smooth, and the rest of the places still retained the roughness that the stone should have.

This is the case with the stone book in Hopper's hand. Only the places that are often turned over are smooth like jade, while those places that are not often touched still retain the original appearance of raw stone.

It can be seen that the former owner of this stone book used it a lot.

In comparison, the stone holy book in Xiao Jian's hand is as new as a textbook in the hands of a poor student.

In addition to the problem of manual polishing, this stone book is also covered with dark red.

Unlike the bright red of chicken blood stone, it is a dull, gray or black dark red.

If Hopper had not mentioned how they "charged" this stone book, Xiao Jian would not have thought about what the dark red was.

However, Xiao Jian already knew... it was blood, the blood of the enemy, the same kind, in short, the blood of intelligent creatures.

Xiao Jian looked over and over for a long time, but did not receive any prompts like "instructions for use", nor could he directly enter the sunlight value into it.

At least for Xiao Jian, this is just an ordinary stone slab, and he might not notice it even if it was thrown on the ground.

Of course, in a place like the Black Stone Mountains, its unique material alone can explain its specialness.

"How do you use it?" Xiao Jian fiddled with it for a long time and couldn't figure it out, so he simply handed it back to Hopper.

"It's like this..." After Hopper took it, he bit his wrist with his sharp canine teeth, and then evenly smeared his blood on the dark red stone book.

Then...

... nothing changed.

"That's it? Nothing else?" Xiao Jian asked.

"No, just wait for it to absorb the blood... This will probably take a whole day." Hopper explained.

"Oh..." Xiao Jian frowned, hooked his finger to pass the stone book, and then looked at Hopper's wrist.

At this time, his wrist had stopped bleeding, and Hopper's health value only decreased by 1 point.

"Is your injury... okay?" Xiao Jian asked.

"It's okay, it will be healed in two days." Hopper said nonchalantly.

Although he said so, Xiao Jian could still feel that he was weaker than before.

Obviously, in addition to the 1 point of health value, there are other things sacrificed to this stone book.

As for strength, agility, endurance, or other attributes, Xiao Jian couldn't figure it out due to the current detection ability.

"You are very good." Xiao Jian patted Hopper's shoulder and directly granted him the characteristics of [Soldier].

Suddenly, Hopper felt a strong force seeping into his body from his shoulder.

"Wow, wow..."

Hopper couldn't help but pound his chest, and then said in surprise: "Great Eye of Fire, I have become stronger!"

"Yeah." Xiao Jian smiled and asked casually, "How is your marriage? Is Nie Li okay?"

"... Alas, I tried very hard, but I still couldn't make her pregnant with my child." Hopper sighed, "And other people always surround Nie Li, which is very annoying..."

"Fortunately, Nie Li really abides by the rules. She only mates with me now. No matter how others seduce, she ignores them..."

"Hehehe..."

Hopper suddenly laughed while talking, and his face was filled with the stench of love.

"Okay, okay, I'm leaving first." Xiao Jian said, without waiting for Hopper to reply, holding the stone book and summoning wings, straight into the sky.

The cold wind blew past Xiao Jian's ears, and soon he arrived above the Saint Peak.

As he fell from the sky, he could still hear a faint complaint.

"Hmph... so annoying."

Of course, this complaint was very quiet, and as Xiao Jian descended faster and faster, it was soon drowned out by the wind.

Like last time, Xiao Jian walked straight into the wooden door, and was politely allowed in by the tall elephant guard.

It was still the empty cave. There were few pedestrians in the store in the main hall, but there were faint noises from the cave leading to the lower street.

However, Xiao Jian chose to go up.

He came to the outside of the cave of the blind saint with ease, and knocked on the "particle board" wooden door made of countless plants.

"Knock knock..."

"I'm coming."

"Squeak..."

The door opened.

The blind saint, who had changed into another set of clothes, stood behind the door. Seeing Xiao Jian, she quickly hugged his arm and welcomed him in enthusiastically.

Xiao Jian struggled to pull his arm out of the abyss, and then found a place far away from the blind saint and sat down.

In the boudoir, some clothes were thrown randomly on the bed.

And the gray robe that the "blind mother-in-law" wore before was also among the pile of clothes.

These details made Xiao Jian wonder if the blind saint sensed his coming in and quickly switched to the "saint" form. In this short period of time, she changed several sets of clothes and finally chose the one in front of her.

It must be said that this set of gauze clothes, chest binding, and long skirt like smoke... combined together really emphasized her identity as a "saint".

With several relics suspected to be gold products as accessories, it looks both sacred and a little bit secretly burning.

"Great Eye of Fire, it seems that you have got what you want?" The blind saint glanced at the blood-stained stone book in Xiao Jian's hand.

At this time, she looked very normal. It was hard to imagine that she had just submerged Xiao Jian's arm with the abyss, and he struggled for a long time before he struggled to get free...

But her face seemed as if nothing had happened, and there was no embarrassment at all.

"No, the Tribunal of the Howling Cemetery also expelled the old liar, and now his whereabouts are a mystery." Xiao Jian shook his head, "And this, I got it from my family. It is said that it used to belong to the old liar... Do you have any impression?"

"It seems that there is no impression."

After the blind saint took the stone book from Xiao Jian, she read it over and over again for several times, and suddenly said: "Oh, I have an impression... This is a broken trading terminal."

"Trading terminal?" Xiao Jian asked.

"This thing was very popular for a period of time. According to legend, it was used by a certain outer superior who was far stronger than the [True God] to collect faith and driving force..."

"...But although there are taxes on transactions back and forth, the problem is that it is already the cheapest material exchange platform for many civilizations, so it was very popular for a while."

"Once?" Xiao Jian noticed the key words.

"Yes, once..." the blind saint nodded, "...before my world collapsed and fell."

"..."

"As for this, it's broken...the normal trading terminal will frantically ask you for driving force like an unsatisfied pug."

Speaking of this, the blind saint shook the stone book in her hand, and the mountains and ridges also shook with the ground.

"And this, it's already 'dead'."

Xiao Jian lowered his eyes: "But my family relied on it to contact me...they can activate it by sacrificing blood."

"...What!? This is impossible...hiss, wait! Let me think about it."

Hearing Xiao Jian's words, the blind saint suddenly widened her eyes, but soon the expression on her face gradually turned into solemnity:

"This was originally impossible...but I suddenly thought of a problem."

The blind saint said in a deep voice: "I...when I fell into madness before, I used to be very eager for flesh and blood, especially organs with the symbolic meaning of 'light'."

"For example, eyes?" Xiao Jian raised his eyebrows.

"For example, eyes." The blind saint said heavily.

"So?"

"...So, I suspect that the flesh and blood of the local residents contain a trace of driving force." The blind saint gave the answer.

As soon as this conclusion came out, it was like a thunderbolt, instantly piercing through several clues.

The blind saint who craves eyeballs, the Aba who craves torture, the Jasmine grandmother who craves flesh and blood...even the disaster stone tribe that is launching a large-scale hunt!

Obviously, all the "gods" are collecting flesh and blood intentionally or unintentionally.

It's just that those who are not so crazy like the blind saint just gather a group of people and protect them, and occasionally steal a bite from them.

And other semi-crazy or even completely crazy "gods" either torture the unbelievers madly to extract something, or simply eat flesh and blood directly.

It seems that along with "pollution", there must be a desire for flesh and blood or something.

"...Is it possible that the entire Black Stone Mountain Range is the domain of an extremely powerful being? And you were defeated in your own domain without knowing it, and your cognition was modified by it without realizing it?"

"For example, the Ancients?"

Xiao Jian proposed this idea.

"The Ancients?" The blind saint frowned slightly, "The Ancients are not more powerful than the Greats, they just live longer."

"They?" Xiao Jian noticed her choice of words.

"Yes, it is generally believed that the IQ of the Ancients is not high... or even if it was very high, there is nothing left now."

At this point, the blind saint looked at Xiao Jian meaningfully and said: "They are the remnants of the last great destruction, immersed in chaos for a whole prosperous era... Even if they once had any wisdom, they were almost cleansed in the long chaos."

Here it comes again, another new term.

Great destruction, prosperous era, chaos...

Xiao Jian did not ask, but just silently digested these terms.

The blind saint seemed to be observing Xiao Jian's expression indifferently, but it was a pity that Xiao Jian had a cold face all the time and did not reveal any inclination or information.

"But the facts prove that you are indeed polluted... If it is not the domain, what kind of power can affect so many "gods", and even a great person like you is corroded and painful?"

Xiao Jian raised a new question.

"This..." The blind saint was stunned when she heard it, but soon her face changed drastically.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Jian asked hurriedly.

"...I didn't realize this before!? I didn't realize the existence of corrosion!!" The blind saint said with a livid face, "I am weakening, I am dying...but I just keep struggling, but I have never thought about why!!"

"Something must have affected me!"

"What is it?"

"What is it..."

The blind saint gradually stretched her hands to her hair, and then grabbed it tightly...

"Ah——"

Suddenly, she rolled on the ground holding her head in pain, and the countdown above her head also collapsed at the same time!

Originally, 1 point of sunlight value could last for 1 minute, but now it can't even last for 1 second!

The sunlight value is "melting" rapidly like ice cream in the oven! !

Seeing this, Xiao Jian hurried forward and directly injected her 10,000 points of sunlight value!

But the speed at which the sunlight value melted was getting faster and faster, and 10,000 points of sunlight value didn't last for 1 minute!

Xiao Jian made up his mind and directly injected another 50,000 points of sunlight value!

But this did not stop her intense consumption... until there were only 10,000 points of sunlight left, the speed of its melting gradually slowed down.

And when there were only more than 800 points of sunlight left, the crazy consumption finally stopped.

Yes, it stopped!

Xiao Jian had been observing for more than ten minutes, and the countdown on the head of the blind saint remained at 832, not more or less.

It seemed that she had gotten rid of the invisible and shapeless corrosion?

Just when Xiao Jian thought so, the countdown started again, and Xiao Jian was so scared that he quickly injected another 1,000 points into her.

But this time, the countdown came very slowly, and it took almost 10 minutes to reduce 1 point of sunlight.

Then, the blind saint finally slowly opened her eyes.

"I... what happened just now?" The blind saint instinctively hugged Xiao Jian's arm, and then asked weakly as if relieved.

"... To be honest, I don't know much."

Xiao Jian told her everything that had just happened.

"What!? I consumed more than 60,000 driving forces in total!?"

The blind saint looked Xiao Jian up and down for a long time, and then asked with a slight tremor: "Are you...are you okay?"

"No, what's wrong?" Xiao Jian was puzzled.

"Consuming 60,000 units of driving force at a time...how come you don't feel anything?" The blind saint was shocked.

"Otherwise? What can I feel?"

"...Can I believe in you?" The blind saint was stunned for a long time, and suddenly said this.

"Aren't you a great one? Can you believe in others?" Xiao Jian frowned.

"I...Compared to you, what kind of great one am I." The blind saint smiled bitterly, "Consuming 60,000 driving forces without blinking...Even in my prime, I would be crushed to death in the face of such a great existence as you."

For such flattery, Xiao Jian has long been immune, and asked directly: "...So, what just happened?"

"Nightmare..."