I Am God!

The Kingdom of Bread and Tree.

This is a place blessed by the gods and the center of civilization.

Unknowingly, this place has been surrounded by dozens of densely packed fields of oil bread trees, as if forming a circle. Nine human-faced trees are guarding the avenues like huge pillars, like arch guards. The giant guards guarding this land.

This land has become more densely populated, and has experienced several conflicts and struggles for power, so a high wall has been built outside the royal city, but it is generally stable.

The original messy houses became neater, and various other buildings were added in the middle. The more conspicuous ones were the halls for worshiping and worshiping gods, and the stone-paved square built for gathering people. Beside the square There are also political halls, some of which are even more spacious.

The temple was built after the death of the previous king and the new king made a promise to gain the support of the people and the army. He also cast a bronze statue of the god.

Perhaps because God has not visited the human world for many years, people's image of the "iron bird" that the God rides on has gradually become a little blurry, so the thing the God rides on has turned into a big bird, and who knows the appearance of the God? I have never really seen it. In the end, it directly merged with the big bird and turned into a human head with a bird body.

But this is not the only image of gods. There are also stone statues of gods with wings and carvings of birds and beasts outside.

He even looks like a mortal wearing a large robe.

There are more and more believers in the gods, especially those who live in this land blessed by the gods. Almost all of them can be said to be devout believers. There is also an endless stream of people worshiping the gods outside the temple. You can see groups of people in the morning and evening. People who pray outside the temple will at least bow in the direction of the temple when they go out in the early morning.

early morning.

An old woman led a large group of people from an oil mill to the outside of the temple.

Among them were middle-aged people, women, teenagers, and babies held in women's arms.

They are a large family that has lived here for generations.

A large group of people came to the temple and began today's worship, thanking the gods for giving them food and homes.

When the old woman was a child, she saw a divine shadow passing by and told her that this land would become a place favored by God, and a place would be built here that would continuously produce the fruits of oil and bread.

The barren and barren land will eventually be transformed into a paradise on earth.

The prophecies and absurd words of the past have gradually turned into reality over the years.

Over the years, she became a girl, had a family, and then grew older.

Today, descendants surround our knees.

Perhaps because of her increased longevity and status, or perhaps because the prediction was so accurate, the absurd stories that she dared not tell when she was a child are gradually no longer taboo, and are gradually believed by some people.

People don't want to believe the story told by a wild girl, but they are willing to believe the words of a long-lived old man and the patriarch of a large family. They believe that the great god really gave instructions and prophecies to mortals before sending blessings and miracles. .

Under the morning sun.

The family came to the high stone foundation of the corridor on one side of the temple and knelt down, bowing to the stone statue standing deep in the corridor. There were figures like them everywhere outside the temple, and the scene was solemn and sacred.

A child who was only four or five years old followed them and made the same movements, saying the same words of thanksgiving and prayer, but couldn't help but look at the stone statue deep in the corridor.

You can vaguely see a divine silhouette standing in the light and shadow, stretching out his hand and pointing into the distance, while a child stands in front of Him and looks longingly towards the earth that He points to.

After everyone got up, the child asked the old woman.

"great grandmother."

"Does God look like that?"

The old woman also looked back to the depths of the temple corridor. She was the little girl among the stone statues.

To be honest, she could not remember the appearance of that figure at all, but that figure became more and more sacred and tall in the memory.

What does that figure look like?

Wearing sacred and spacious robes, speaking words that are as elegant as prophecies, he has the aura of a heavenly being.

Is He God, or a messenger sent by God?

Finally, she took the child's hand and said.

"God can be anything."

“Everyone sees God differently, but you will definitely recognize Him when you see Him.”

——

More and more people are gathering here, because this place has never been attacked by a wave of monsters due to the increase in population. It seems that everyone has begun to believe and even determined that it is impossible for monsters to attack here.

However, the reason why weird things don't attack here is because the farmland circle formed by a large number of first-order weird bread trees is a shock to the second-order human-faced trees. It is because they gather together to cover up the aura of the intelligent species.

But they are just first- and second-order weirdness, so there is a limit to the population that this land can support.

this day.

The population that exceeded the limit finally attracted strange things from afar.

Not just one, but a group of them.

At first, the villagers outside the city discovered the abnormality. A black cloud gathered in the distant sky. A terrifying storm came with the rain, and strange shadows appeared in the storm and black clouds.

"Something appeared on the horizon. Is it a storm?" The villagers were busy making a living. Some people stood up and looked at the strange scene at the end of the forest.

"It's coming this way." More and more people noticed, and the crowd gathered together to discuss, and an inexplicable panic began to spread.

"Look, there's something in that storm." Someone stood up and shouted.

The terrifying and strange wave was getting closer and closer, coming with fierce winds.

Wherever you pass, you can see patches of forest withered, and the lush leaves are withering and brittle, as if spring has suddenly entered late autumn.

"It's weird!" Everyone noticed the terrifying shadow, and then a cry of extreme fear tore through the air.

"It's not just one person, it's a large group. It's a weird wave." Everyone was completely panicked.

"How is it possible? How could the strange tide attack here? This is the place of God's protection." Everyone looked pale, but they still couldn't believe it was true.

"Did God abandon this place?" Many people have this thought deep in their hearts, but they dare not say it out loud.

A large number of villagers began to gather towards the city to escape the disaster outside. Screams rang out from the top of the city, and someone blew a conch horn on the street to warn everyone. Every household began to close its doors tightly, fear and despair shrouded the city. Over the royal city.

However, many people left their homes and headed towards the temple, as if they felt that the power of protection there was stronger.

The old woman brought her whole family outside the temple. You can see that the door of the temple is open at this moment. A large number of monks are running in a hurry. Many nobles have also come here. Even the king himself came to pray under the statue.

Everyone was extremely scared, but just like that, the temple became more solemn and solemn.

The sky is changing with wind and rain.

The sea of ​​clouds turned from sunny to overcast, and the bright and majestic street buildings gradually turned into shadowy ghost alleys.

Everyone was kneeling on the ground, their bodies trembling slightly, praying for something to the gods.

"God!"

"Please let your protection come to this land again!"

"Please don't abandon us."

The same is true for the old woman, but she seems to have a lot more faith. She doesn't believe that those weird things will destroy this place.

But the children around her didn't have this kind of belief. They were all so frightened that they even stumbled over their words.

In the distance, the forefront of the strange tide finally approached this sheltered land.

The oil bread tree that originally grew in the earth without any movement sensed danger at this moment. One piece after another began to move, and the entangled and spreading root system deep in the earth began to squirm.

The roots break through the ground and gush out crazily.

"Swish swish!"

Dense roots wrapped around the city wall, stacked layer by layer, turning into an extraordinary high wall.

Immediately afterwards, the tall trees also moved.

The human-faced tree opened its branches and leaves, and human faces squeezed out of the bark, facing the oncoming storm.

A large number of human-faced trees are connected to the farmland of oil bread trees, exuding their extraordinary power, controlling the temperature, humidity and moisture in the outer range, blocking the erosion of wind and rain, and turning into an invisible barrier. .

When the rain falls, it evaporates instantly.

When the wind reaches here, it dissipates invisible.

The storms brought by the strange tide are getting stronger and stronger, but the powerful barriers turned into farmland of human-faced trees and oil-bread trees still block their power.

"It has appeared." Such a scene instantly cheered up the people in the royal city. A large number of people stood up and cheered at the farmland and big trees that protected them outside the city.

"This is... this is... God's protection." Some people were dancing with excitement, some were trembling all over, and some were kissing the ground under their feet.

"Weird forces can't come in, they can't come in, because we have God's blessing." Figures also appeared on the street, shouting ecstatically.

"Look, God has not left. He is still here. He is still watching us." Even the king came out, extremely excited about this scene.

But at this time, a terrifying and strange shadow fell from the clouds.

That is the leader who leads the strange tide.

The most powerful monster among them.

A series of terrifying tentacles drooped down and entangled themselves in a human-faced tree.

Immediately, I saw the face on the bark of the Human Face Tree let out a shrill scream. The whole tree began to rot, eventually stinked, and then gradually withered and collapsed.

This time.

The blessing left by "God" here doesn't seem to be that effective anymore.

The tall human-faced tree exceeds the height of the city wall. Even standing on the flat ground in the city, you can see this scene intuitively, and it also makes the people who were just rejoicing feel like they have fallen into the abyss.

The wind and rain fell, and large areas of oil-loaf farmland were flooded.

A gap was opened in the entire protective circle.

The power of the strange tide also found its way into the gap and spread towards the city, one after another terrifying strangeness amidst the wind and rain.

There are things floating in the sky like phantoms, there are alien shapes moving forward with the rain, and there are deformed monsters running wildly on the dark earth.

Mighty and unstoppable.

Even a glance can make people scared to death.

This proved that it was impossible to stop the strange tide just by relying on the oil bread farmland and a few human-faced trees. Everyone was frightened. The entire royal city was shaking like a boat in the huge waves, and it could shake at any time. Possible to sink.

"Ah!" The king standing in front of the temple seemed unable to accept this blow and collapsed to the ground.

"How could it be? The Holy Tree...the Holy Tree was killed?" One of the symbols of the Oil Bread and Tree Kingdom is also the most important force guarding them, but the human-faced tree has no way to fight back against the powerful and unknown weirdness. Of course, the human face tree is not dead, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this situation is almost as if it has been killed.

"What should we do?" The monks and nobles in the temple were also panicked.

"It's over. God has really abandoned this land." People in the city trembled.

"The disaster has finally come." They looked at the approaching monsters from a distance.

"Perhaps the peace God has given is only for these few decades, and now He has finally withdrawn his blessings." They seemed to have accepted their fate.

Sensing the children's fear, the old woman shouted.

"do not worry."

"We have God's blessing here, and God will not abandon us."

"He said that this will be a city that protects us. This is the promised land that God has given us."

But no matter what she said, the reality seemed to be contrary to what she said.

"But...but..." Her children's confidence also began to waver.

"God has left. He no longer cares for us. He wants us to perish." Someone in the crowd stood up shouting angrily and resentfully.

"We have to leave, we have to get out of here." Someone ran outside in panic.

It seems that faith has become a quantifiable value at this moment, rising and falling like waves with the arrival of wind and rain.

If you meet their needs, exceed their expectations, or make them feel scared, you are God in their eyes, whether you recognize it or not.

But once you don't do what they want, they start to complain or even curse at you.

But these people had just ran a few steps, and the stone paved ground under their feet suddenly arched.

The ground tilted.

It also caused them to fall to the ground instantly.

They lay on the ground with their hands on the ground and looked at the sudden change at a loss, not knowing what happened.

The ground bulged and bulged, and finally something came out of the bulges.

It was a wooden root-like thing, but the roots were surprisingly thick. The thinnest ones were one or two meters thick, and the thick ones were even about seven or eight meters thick.

"Boom!"

A large number of wooden roots stretched out from the ground one after another, entangled and extending upwards, with hundreds or even thousands of roots connected together.

entangled with each other and eventually merged with each other.

"What's this?"

"Underground, something is growing underground."

"It swallowed us up and swallowed up the temple."

Everyone was swaying left and right, as if the whole earth was in turmoil.

They were terrified, but had nowhere to hide. In the end, they could only lie on the ground and tremble.

In the process, the temple was gradually wrapped by the trunk of the giant tree and became a part of the tree cavity inside the giant tree.

Not only that, the large number of buildings around the temple were combined with the roots that were constantly rising and spreading on the ground. The roots did not destroy these buildings, but just entangled them and accepted them as part of themselves.

A strange giant tree gradually matures. It rises from the ground and stretches toward the sky.

The huge tree canopy blocks the top of the temple and is still growing.

Everyone was stunned.

Watch the miracle happen.

Seeing the giant tree that was beyond their knowledge and imagination, it forcefully ate up their temple and a large area of ​​surrounding buildings.

The power of that giant tree should have ended here.

but.

Here is its kindred spirit, and its kindred spirit.

That power attracts it to expand and extend again.

Then the giant tree opened its huge crown, and aerial roots hung down from the sky. The dense wooden aerial roots spread vertically and horizontally.

The human-faced trees outside the city wall also changed. They stretched toward the sky one by one, sprouted branches, and embraced the giant tree.

The roots of the acres of breadbasket farmland outside were also surging wildly, as if hands were stretching out, trying to grasp the limbs of the giant tree.

finally.

The aerial roots are connected to the branches, and the root fibers are integrated with the root fibers.

At this moment.

They cover almost every building in the city.

The vast farmland of oil bread trees, tall human-faced trees, and this newly born giant cave house tree.

At this moment, it became a whole.

——

What appeared on the ground was a giant joint structure that the bird people had never seen before.

It is a huge living town formed by the fusion of a large number of weird forces. It is not a dead thing, but an individual that has life, can breathe, and can even cycle and grow itself.

The main body of the city wall disappeared, and it was covered with dense vine roots, as if covered with ivy.

The buildings in the city disappeared and turned into treehouses embedded in trees with wooden roots.

The temple is embedded in the largest tree hole of the giant tree, and the height is also tens of meters higher. Slopes tangled with tree roots extend down from the front of the temple like stairs.

This is an ordinary royal city.

It instantly transformed into an extraordinary city full of fantasy.

The people in the city had not yet recovered from this huge change. There were strong beating sounds, as well as weird roars and roars coming from outside.

"Buzz buzz"

"Dong dong dong!"

"Bah buzz!"

Huge roots whipped at the monsters that came in, seriously injuring them, and then drove them out.

Even the terrifying third-level monster headed by Tianshang became hesitant, seeming to be afraid of this huge combination.

And as the power of farmland, human-faced trees, and giant trees gradually merged, a completely closed life town was formed, so that the monsters that attacked could no longer feel the breath of a large number of intelligent species.

They have lost their purpose.

Wandering around in confusion.

Gradually, they seem to have forgotten the purpose of coming.

Finally, they passed around and disappeared into the distance one after another.

After the rain, the sky clears up.

The sun returns.

It was sprinkled on the huge magical tree, and also scattered through the mottled and lush branches and roots inside this fantasy city.

With the emergence of the sun, everyone now had a sense of reality, feeling that what just happened was not a dream, but everything that really happened.

They also felt that the fantasy city they were in now was also real.

The people lying on the ground stood up one after another as the ground stabilized again, and walked outside into the sunshine.

"God!"

"Amazing."

"It's incredible how our city has become like this."

“This is the home God has given us, and this is God’s new gift to us.”

They raised their heads, their faces showing confusion at first, then excitement, and finally ecstasy.

If the value of faith really exists, then it must have reached a new peak at this moment.

People became more religious and more fanatical.

everyone chanted.

"Thank God!"

"Thank God."

"God is so great."

The old woman stood up with the help of the children. Behind her was the temple integrated into the giant trees. At her feet were the tree root stairs that continued to extend all the way, as well as the city and homes that had completely changed their appearance.

Looking at this scene, that figure seemed to reappear in front of her eyes, and the memories that were so long ago and somewhat vague became much clearer at this moment.

The figure was thinking, and glanced at the barren land and hometown behind her.

For a moment, his eyes seemed to see the future, and then he spoke to her in a calm and determined voice.

"A city that can produce countless breadfruit and shelter tens of thousands of people, so that the people living here will not lack food and no longer be afraid of strange attacks."

"How long will it take to see it?"

"It will take a while. After all, beautiful things are like flowers. They always need to wait. They will bloom quietly until the season comes. There is no rush."

"But you should have seen it."

The old woman looked at the city that blended in with the trees and farmland, like a bird's nest and a secret forest.

She stepped forward tremblingly, walking on the tree root stairs, walking under the mottled light and shadow.

She went down step by step.

"turn out to be……"

"It turns out this is the city he really wanted. It's incredible."

“The construction started at that time and it was finally completed at this time.”

"It turns out that the period of time he mentioned happened to be my life."

"It happened to be at this time that I saw it."

This city has been integrated with her life, as if it was integrated with her life. It was built at the beginning of her life and appeared in front of her when her life was about to end.

She was so excited that tears filled her eyes, as if she had been waiting for this scene her entire life.

but.

When she saw the city, she didn't feel that the process was long at all. She even felt how lucky she was to be able to wait for this scene throughout her whole life.

She firmly believed that the happiness and luck in her life came from that encounter, because she met a child of God.

"It's so beautiful. It's really the most beautiful thing in the world."

"No, it's so beautiful that it seems like it doesn't belong to this world, but comes from another country."

"Same as that figure." (End of chapter)