The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 161

When the familiar voice reached his ears, the Raven was sitting on a rock, gazing toward the deeper darkness of the cave.

He had maintained this position for several days already.

But the Raven never thought that a few days’ time could accomplish anything.

More precisely, it had only been a week since entering the monster beast society.

What could Su Li accomplish in such a short time?

The Raven certainly didn’t think he could accomplish nothing, but he also hadn’t expected that in such a brief period—so short that even Elvi, the dragon who needed a complete gene chain more urgently, hadn’t paid much attention to it—Su Li had already come to his side.

“Ah…” the Raven opened his mouth, thousands of words gathering together, but in the end he only said, “I’m sorry, I never actively thought about looking for you.”

“And I also never actively improved my strength, always maintaining a state of just getting by.”

The Raven himself felt like he was talking nonsense. “Furthermore, I also never attempted to do anything to actively gather intelligence…”

He was somewhat flustered, his tone uncontrollably quickening.

But all of this stopped under Su Li’s not particularly obvious, but still perceptible expression of pleasant surprise.

Slightly widened eyes and an upturned mouth corner both revealed his emotional expression, coupled with his verbal statement: “I don’t care about those things. What I’m more concerned about now is that you can actually speak so many words in one breath.”

“You know, sometimes I would wonder,” Su Li scratched the side of his face with his left thumb, “after such a long time, whether you still hadn’t gotten used to the human skill of organizing language.”

“But now it seems your proficiency is considerable.” Su Li extended his hand toward the Raven.

Su Li kept his hand raised, with no hint of urgency in his eyes, clearly giving the Raven enough space to think. At the same time, he also casually ran his fingers through his hair on top of his head.

His hair was as smooth and bright as always, with a slight curl.

The Raven instinctively transformed into a small crow, quite nimbly jumping onto Su Li’s palm, then walking along Su Li’s arm all the way to the top of his head.

Only after settling into position did the Raven seem to finally realize his obviously faster-than-brain behavior.

Su Li inexplicably felt an abnormal temperature on top of his head.

And… he felt that not only humans, but crows also couldn’t handle praise.

“I, actually, it’s just…”

The Raven simply closed his eyes, although in the dark environment, without close observation, one couldn’t tell whether he had really closed his eyes.

“I’ve gotten used to it,” he said.

“This habit was also fostered by me personally.” Su Li turned around, and when facing the cave entrance, he thought for a moment and explained, “Let’s consider it the romance of a cultivation game player toward their cultivation character.”

“It could also be called a conditioned reflex that bypasses brain thinking.”

Whether it was him running his fingers through his hair, or the crow climbing up his arm to his head.

Unfortunately, Su Li, who had managed to be literary for once, was immediately suppressed by the black dragon the next second.

Victoria looked disapprovingly at the particularly natural-acting human and crow. “I never said you could take him away.”

“Her Excellency Elvi did indeed say his strength was about to cross into another tier. But what Her Excellency required was for you to accompany him, not for him to accompany you.”

Victoria looked Su Li up and down, snorting through her nose: “Or do you think that because you have the same bloodline as Her Excellency, you can act recklessly and disregard orders?”

“Perhaps you’re just overthinking.” Su Li tried to use “perhaps” to soften the sharpness in his words, “Even for crows, their habitat doesn’t necessarily have to be caves.”

“Moreover, you also know that the Raven’s strength crossing into another tier is a risky matter. Since it’s risky, why not try to reduce the risk instead of insisting on staying in this unsuitable environment.”

“Or rather…”

“Could it be that in your view, whether the Raven succeeds or fails doesn’t matter? Whether Her Excellency you speak of can alleviate symptoms is also irrelevant? Even more so, knowing that I share the same bloodline as Elvi, you can still naturally ignore everything I say?” When Su Li abandoned softening the sharpness in his words, his language became extremely cutting.

First, he established a concept with something that was fundamentally unimportant to Victoria. Next, he carved into the black dragon’s mind the idea that she had unknowingly harmed Elvi’s related interests, and because of the first issue, proved that she had already hindered the Excellency she spoke of without realizing it.

Finally, using bloodline to prove identity, Su Li both elevated himself, placing himself on the same level as Elvi, and successfully avoided using honorifics toward the giant dragon.

Victoria didn’t even notice now that Su Li was still calling Elvi by name directly.

“I’m not the kind of person you’re describing, stop slandering me.” Victoria glared at Su Li.

But for a moment she couldn’t say much more.

Victoria couldn’t speak, but Su Li could still talk.

“If you think stating facts is so-called slander.” Su Li showed an emotionless smile at the right moment.

Victoria gritted her teeth.

“Get lost.”

The black dragon watched Su Li leave with a crow on his head.

She wasn’t worried at all that the young man would run away with the crow.

Of course, if he really did run away in this situation, it would only end up as a situation where escape was impossible.

****

Rota County.

Egbert: “Lord Su Li has been away from me for three days.” He showed a grave expression.

“Was it that fast? I remember it was only two days.” Roy counted on his fingers, feeling that Egbert was simply going crazy again.

“This is already the daytime of the third day.” Egbert was dissatisfied that Roy could still maintain rationality in this situation to calculate so-called time.

What was time? A cold and merciless river that would never flow backward.

How could Roy, this mutated ice elementalist, possibly understand that after leaving Lord Su Li, no matter how passionate a person’s heart was, it would gradually cool?

Roy, who felt chills down his back from being stared at by this increasingly perverted man, said sternly but weakly, “Well then, isn’t it exactly forty-eight hours!”

“Instead of being bored and idle thinking about these things, why not think about how to deal with that humanoid monster beast who suddenly came here.”

“I agree with Roy’s statement.” Lan Zhe expressed approval, “After all, a snowy owl that treats aquatic monster beasts as food can hardly be associated with words like peace and kindness.”

“I remember that snowy owl’s name seems to be Asgari, but I hope he’s not like what his name suggests. As far as I know, this name in Amikbi legends has always meant mythical-level beasts.”

“What’s the relationship between mythical-level beasts and humanoid monster beasts?” Roy was curious.

“How would I know! The various legends spread among wandering poets, based on the history we’ve determined and verified so far, are just stories.” Lan Zhe didn’t want to talk to this person who didn’t focus on the main point, but still spoke.

“I’m just giving an example, and what I mean is that Asgari is very dangerous.” The Dark Holy Son emphasized.

“That level of danger is not something we can handle. If we really want to handle it, we’d better prepare in advance. Otherwise, forget about finding Su Li and providing him with help—our being able to live to see tomorrow’s sun would be because we’re blessed by Su Li.”

Roy, who couldn’t read the atmosphere: “Isn’t your last sentence supposed to say that our being able to live to see tomorrow’s sun would be because we’re blessed by the [God of Darkness]?”

“Do you think those humanoid monster beasts would bless us humans who want to destroy their social order?” Lan Zhe already wanted to hit someone, his knuckles cracking as he clenched them.

Egbert: “If you want to fight, go outside. Also, don’t compare Lord Su Li with those humanoid monster beasts. Is this something that can be compared? You’re being disrespectful to Lord Su Li. If you dare show even the slightest bit of disrespect to Lord Su Li again, you can all go die…”

In the blink of an eye, the three men started fighting in the inn.

****

Back to Su Li’s side.

The young man had already returned with the crow on his head to the building with a dome over ten meters high where he had stayed before.

It was then that the Raven carefully asked Su Li, “Was what I did before not very good?”

“If you’re referring to those things where you didn’t make good changes to the current situation, while also not moving toward a bad direction…”

Su Li cupped him in his palm.

“Since there are inevitably only two choices at present, thinking about the future developments brought by the two choices can indeed be called preparing for rainy days. But similarly, not thinking is also fine. Acting on instinct can also bring unexpected benefits.”

“For example, the fact that you never thought about the subsequent impacts brought by the other option shows that you didn’t overthink. Thinking less makes one more relaxed, and sometimes thinking less, not thinking so much, is itself a kind of luck.”

“In slacker terminology, this benefit would roughly be, ‘think less, kill fewer brain cells.'”

“In short, congratulations on gaining mental relaxation.” Su Li slightly tilted his head and winked with one eye.

The Raven was completely stunned by this continuous barrage of words.

The crow’s knowledge reserves were temporarily insufficient for him to fully understand this philosophical-level explanation.

Moreover, even if someone understood the meaning represented by these words, they might very well interpret them as malicious mockery.

Thinking of this, Su Li decisively stopped his train of thought.

“Alright, relax.”

“What we should think about now is when you want to level up.” The young man extended his finger to poke the crow’s head.

The smooth texture inexplicably soothed his mood.

“Leveling up refers to your breakthrough.” Su Li briefly explained.

“My opinion is that the most suitable time for you to level up is when the Winged Tribe Queen sends troops to attack the Dragon Clan territory.”

“Your leveling up will result in Elvi’s attention being diverted. Although for a powerful giant dragon, this bit of attention diversion won’t cause any obvious disadvantage in war, but I…”

No one knew better than Su Li how to smile sweetly to the point of being cloying.

He said, “But I can add advantages to the opposing side.”

The Raven’s brain completely turned to mush.

“Huh?” In fact, the Raven didn’t even have a clear concept of the three-way power structure in monster beast society.

But the Raven would say word by word seriously: “Whatever Su Li wants to do, just go ahead and do it.”