The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 148

The sun was high in the sky, beside the training platform in Rota County.

Su Li and his companions had been squatting under a tree shade for two hours.

He was desperate to know how this city was formed.

And how one hundred people were selected from twenty to thirty thousand in a single day.

Right when the time struck twelve o’clock sharp, a semi-transparent white dome suddenly appeared on the large platform that was thirty meters in diameter.

Without any monster beast inspection or monster beast witnessing, humans were like livestock being herded into a pen, mechanically moving forward along the passage.

Until they lined up and entered what appeared to be a thirty-meter diameter training platform, but actually divided into three hundred training venues in an instant.

Outside the training platform.

Su Li stared in disbelief at the thirty-meter diameter platform that had accommodated the entire city’s population, except for the four outsiders like themselves, in just half an hour.

During this time, no blood-awakened being with monster beast characteristics noticed that their actions defied human common sense.

Additionally…

“Is that spatial stacking?” Su Li actually couldn’t see clearly inside the white dome that surrounded the training platform.

Even the white dome was something he only noticed after Egbert told him about it.

“It’s not quite spatial stacking,” Egbert shook his head. “Lord Su Li, do you remember the scene when Asa Academy students were being transported from the academy square to Jisuo Town?”

“In this transportation process, it wasn’t sudden; transportation required a certain amount of time.”

“This time refers to the period when humans are in the elemental reflection world.”

“A platform can accommodate so many people because the function of the magic formation on this training platform is to transport everyone from the training platform to outside it. And that transportation time, which is the period when humans are in the elemental reflection world, is extended until the winners are determined.”

“Saying it like this, doesn’t it mean that monster beasts’ development of elemental formations far exceeds that of humans?” Roy clicked his tongue. Even though they hadn’t truly entered monster beast society yet, he already felt that omnipresent sense of oppression.

“However, this fits with the scene of Elvi binding Leia with rope, yet Leia couldn’t move. That rope was probably designed to restrain prisoners and could restrict elements.”

Roy shook his head. “I really don’t want to admit that our human development is inferior to a bunch of non-humans.”

Lan Zhe couldn’t be bothered with such topics. “Rather than thinking about this, why not consider what will happen after the final winners are determined?”

“You should know that there isn’t a single transformed monster beast watching here. This itself means that monster beasts might have the ability to monitor this city.”

As soon as he spoke, with a “bang,” someone covered in fresh blood was slammed onto the ground of the training platform.

“Ah……” Lan Zhe looked at the “loser” not far away who seemed to have been ejected from the training platform, drenched in blood. His expression darkened considerably. “It seems we won’t need much time to figure out whether the monitors are watching the entire city or just the final winners on the training platform——“

“Besides……” Lan Zhe turned his head toward Su Li.

“Are you asking what I plan to do?” Su Li had already moved toward the “loser” immediately.

“Eg, can you give me some bandages?” Su Li directly crouched beside the loser who was already in a daze with blood continuously pouring from the corner of his mouth.

“Little master, this isn’t a good idea,” Roy said with an unclear expression, as his left foot’s sole rubbed against the ground when Egbert was about to react and take action. “What if that person is pretending and plans to attack you after being transported out? What would you do?”

“One should always be cautious.”

However, Egbert, who not only produced bandages but also took over Su Li’s task of bandaging the loser, retorted while working, “Lord Su Li naturally wouldn’t react in time. But precisely because the Lord can’t react in time, it proves that we have value. If he could react and resist accordingly, then what would be the reason for our existence here?”

Egbert was applying the bandages forcefully, with a smile that looked kind but was actually malicious.

Just thinking about Su Li wanting to bandage this injured person made Egbert completely uncomfortable.

That was a person covered in blood!

Lord Su Li had fallen into various negative mental states when the war hadn’t even truly started, just because of Euphia’s battle with people from the Church… Now facing a bloody person and wanting to bandage him personally to save his life…

If he had nightmares later, who would solve that problem?!

Egbert chose to vent his conflicted feelings on Roy, even though he knew Roy’s intention was to hope that Su Li would always prioritize his own safety.

And Roy’s thought was that even if someone as intelligent as Su Li knew nothing unexpected would happen, he could still let Egbert do the bandaging, just like now.

These two grown men were dramatic enough to perform an entire stage play in a one-on-one situation.

Lan Zhe chose to ignore the two fools and after pouring a bottle of dubious-looking potion down the half-dead person’s throat, he whispered, “This way he won’t die even with rough bandaging.”

Su Li’s mouth twitched.

But soon, with Egbert and Lan Zhe’s joint efforts, plus Roy’s verbal support, the person who had been coughing up blood mixed with organ fragments gradually regained consciousness.

“Who-who are you? People from the hospital?” The rescued person, after regaining consciousness, showed not happiness at being saved but a kind of inexplicable panic.

“No,” Su Li guessed that what he feared was the hospital and immediately said, “We just saw that you were seriously injured……”

As soon as he said this, the rescued person visibly let out a huge sigh of relief.

Egbert thought of Su Li’s purpose of entering the city to gather information and immediately began questioning this monster beast blood-awakened person who had just had his life saved.

“We’re newcomers. Can you tell us why you’re so afraid of the hospital?” Egbert thought for a moment and added, “Consider the answer to this question as payment for treating you. This way, it shouldn’t be too difficult for you to answer.”

Egbert also conveniently gave the rescued person an excuse.

Sure enough, that person sighed with relief again. “Phew…… No wonder you’re asking why I’m afraid of the hospital.”

“Rather than saying I’m afraid of the hospital, it’s more accurate to say I’m afraid of what those people in the hospital represent.”

“Those guys have the power to decide whether people who don’t make it into the top one hundred on the training platform should die from severe injuries or receive emergency treatment.”

“There’s nothing much to say about dying from injuries, but emergency treatment is different.”

The rescued person sighed deeply, lowering his head, somewhat sorrowfully saying, “Those people who are saved need to pay an astronomical treatment fee.”

“This amount equals the failure fee for the sixth month.”

“That’s a number I simply cannot afford to pay. And once those guys confirm that I can’t pay, they’ll directly abduct me. I don’t know what happens after being taken away, but the rumor in Rota County is that people who can’t pay the treatment fee are subjected to indescribable horrific experiments by those doctors, making them unable to live or die.”

As he spoke, the rescued person trembled uncontrollably.

Even his pupils contracted at one point into vertical slits like an animal’s, and the shaking speed of his irises during this time could truly be described as a pupillary earthquake.

This fear appeared not only as if he had witnessed it firsthand but as if he had personally experienced it.

Su Li suddenly began to believe Lan Zhe’s claim that someone could manipulate memories.

Otherwise, even if the person before him would be frightened, it wouldn’t be to the extent of completely losing his will.

The rescued person barely regained his composure. He trembled while saying, “Thank you very much for helping me, but just telling you these things that everyone knows hardly counts as payment.”

“So if you have anything else to ask, as long as I know the answer, I’ll definitely tell you.” The person clenched his fists, his gaze gradually shifting from trembling back to determination.

The others exchanged glances, and the first to ask a question was Roy, who hadn’t previously participated in the treatment.

“Do you know what happens to the one hundred selected people after they’re chosen?”

The person replied, “After being selected, they’ll gather together on the training platform and then be transported away amid everyone’s envy and celebration.”

“And the destination of the transportation?” Roy followed up.

The person revealed a confused expression and said, “I don’t know.”

Egbert pushed Roy aside and said to the person, “Let’s change the question.”

“Do you know roughly how many people couldn’t pay the residence fee this month?” Residence fee and failure fee meant the same thing.

The rescued person’s expression immediately turned grim.

He smiled bitterly and said, “I don’t know about others, but I definitely won’t be able to pay this fee. I’ve already paid the residence fee three times. The first time was one hundred gold coins, the second time was two hundred gold coins, the third time was four hundred gold coins, and this time’s eight hundred gold coins is clearly wealth I cannot accumulate.”

Lan Zhe pulled Egbert aside and questioned the person himself. “Do you still remember your memories from the human world? Or, do you know which city you were born in?”

“Of course I remember, I was born in Sadina City!” The person answered very firmly, but then he revealed a confused expression and said, “Where is Sadina City?”

“Why do I feel like I’ve always been in Rota County……” He directly held his head, showing pain on his face.

This confirmed that the people who came to this city had indeed had their memories affected.

Su Li wanted to explain to him that it was the Mercenary City, the hometown of numerous mercenaries, but what ultimately came out was: “It’s okay if you don’t remember clearly. People tend to forget some memories as they grow older.”

Perhaps Su Li’s voice was too calm, and the person’s expression was no longer pained.

Lan Zhe asked again, “If you can’t pay this month’s residence fee, when will you be taken away?”

“The end of the month.” It was currently the beginning of the month.

“Would you mind if I give you a physical examination?” Lan Zhe’s identity as a pharmacology specialist told him that this examination could reveal important things.

“Of course not.” The person nodded resolutely.

He probably still felt that Su Li and the others were asking for too little.

However, compared to those so-called hospital doctors, Su Li and his companions only asked questions as payment for his treatment, and even gave him a physical examination afterward. They seemed almost like angels.

Afterward, they directly decided to go to the inn they had found yesterday.

Lan Zhe used professional methods to conduct a complete physical examination for that person, Joel.

The conclusion was——

“Joel’s brain is obscured by a mass of elements. This elemental mass has the ability to mislead cognitive thinking. Joel still remembers Sadina City because he hasn’t lost his memories; they’re just covered by elements. As for why he gets headaches after mentioning Sadina City, my conclusion is that Joel triggered the elemental mass’s mechanism of covering human emotions.”

“Joel still has memories of staying in human society, but those things seem like movies to him, unable to be defined with accurate emotions. The reflexively mentioned Sadina City is a shadow that tugs at emotions. After the shadow triggered the elemental mass’s automatic counterattack ability, what Joel felt was pain as if his brain was being pierced. And when he chose to abandon this part of his emotions, he returned to normal.”

Lan Zhe walked out of the room, unhurriedly removing the examination gloves.

Inside the room, Joel, during the examination of that elemental mass, had behaved as if mentally disturbed, with his eyeballs moving so fast they seemed about to fly out of their sockets, causing Lan Zhe, whose attention was disrupted by his behavior, to directly knock him unconscious with a hand chop.

“This elemental component also has information-overwriting characteristics, such as the rules of Rota County,” the Dark Holy Son said.

“You know, since hearing this place’s name, I’ve wanted to ask the person who named it why they would name a city ‘county’.”

After eliminating the gloves with elements and clapping his hands, Lan Zhe said, “Ignoring these unimportant things, the conclusion drawn after research…… no, after the examination, besides the above, is that this element can be dispelled with potions and the power of the overlapping force formed after the fusion of light elements and dark elements.”

“I’m really glad Mavis previously achieved the fusion of light and dark elements; otherwise, I might not have thought of this solution.”

“You’ve said too much irrelevant nonsense.” Egbert couldn’t be bothered with Lan Zhe, who was mentally excited after conducting medical research. He said, “Lord Su Li now surely only cares about how to dispel the elemental masses in the brains of monster beast blood-awakened beings on a large scale.”

Su Li nodded. “Indeed.”

People who couldn’t pay the failure fee would be taken away at the end of the month, so those who couldn’t pay last month had presumably been taken away before the training platform opened.

This meant they had nearly a month of free time——

Of course, this needed to include another premise.

That was the negotiation time between Elvi and the water tribe using Leia.

That was an unquantifiable number.

Su Li didn’t consider it for now; he only wanted to solve the elemental mass in the brains of people in this city.

Not having forgotten the past, but having lost the emotions used to judge the current situation, resulted in everyone mysteriously following the cruel rules set by monster beasts……

Honestly, it was too terrible.

After Su Li expressed his agreement, Egbert immediately nodded and said, “Then our next objective is to research how to dispel the brain elemental masses of Rota County residents on a large scale, and to inform them of the truth about blood-awakened monster beasts.”

“Two tasks. Lan Zhe said dispelling the elemental mass requires light elements and dark elements, so you two can team up, and I’ll take the little master to tell those people the truth.” Roy suddenly became interested.

He rarely spent time alone with Su Li; the last memorable time was when he took Su Li to an alchemy tool shop in Sadina City.

However, Egbert squinted at him. “What’s with your excitement?”

“Talking about telling others the truth, your true purpose is to wander around this city with Lord Su Li, isn’t it?”

“Can’t you speak properly? We’re clearly going to probe for detailed information.” Roy had already moved to Su Li’s side.

“Besides, why do you care so much? Doing your own task well is the greatest help for the little master.”

The veins on Egbert’s forehead pulsed uncontrollably. After forcefully pressing them back, he deliberately lowered his voice and said, “Idiot.”

“Without emotions, telling the truth won’t help, will it?”