The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 172.2

Time passed quickly, and two hours flew by in the blink of an eye. The Beast Tribe monster beasts’ city was now close at hand.

Gabriel brought everyone to a halt at a subtle position where they wouldn’t be noticed by the personnel within the city. He then placed one hand against the tree bark and said, “I can only bring you this far. I cannot go any further.”

“As an exiled one, I have no qualifications to enter Ergonikin.” Gabriel gazed at the city from afar. If one looked carefully, they could see that the tree bark he was pressing against bore obvious finger marks due to the gray wolf’s excessive force.

“Compared to me, as unawakened ones, you would find it easier to enter this city precisely because you are unfamiliar faces. If anyone asks, you just need to say that your monster beast characteristics are of the less obvious type.”

“If anyone wants to test your strength, you just need to put on a good show and openly say that you are newborn Beast Tribe monster beasts.”

Gabriel lowered his head, making it impossible to see the meaning in his eyes.

The others could only hear him say, “Since I’ve been so detailed, you shouldn’t have any other questions, right?”

“Unfortunately, I have many, many questions waiting for your answers.” Su Li was completely uncooperative.

Su Li looked at Gabriel with calm eyes and said in an even tone, “For example, I really want to know whether there are people you’re familiar with in this city. And whether there has ever been a phenomenon of exiled people secretly returning.”

“Also, what do monster beasts use to judge each other? If unawakened ones are twins and happen to awaken to the same bloodline, are they one person or two people?”

The overly academic questions gradually made Gabriel dumbfounded.

Setting aside everything else, the gray wolf with his handsome original form truly had no chance to secretly grieve now.

Gabriel could only honestly answer the questions. “There are familiar people, and I don’t know.”

“All exiled people have never returned. After twins awaken, they become two monster beasts. However, since they are twins, there wouldn’t be a situation where one just happens to break through within the limited time while the other doesn’t, yet uses the identity of the one who broke through to continue living in the city, right?”

“Are you certain?” Su Li tilted his head. This light, casual questioning wouldn’t make the already exiled Gabriel firm in his answer, but would instead make him uncertain whether his previous words were correct.

“I… I don’t know.” Gabriel’s eyes showed panic.

“Then would you like to try entering Ergonikin using the identity of Gabrielgo or Gabrielni?” Su Li asked in return.

Gabriel’s eye twitched. “Ergonikin is the name of this city. Even if the first character of this city’s name is the same as the last character of my name, it doesn’t mean that its second, third, and fourth characters can all become variations of my name.”

(TL: 加布力爾= Gabriel; 爾戈尼金= Ergonikin)

“Who knows.” Su Li shrugged indifferently.

However, Gabriel stared at him for quite a while before finally saying, “I understand. From now on, I’ll be called Gabrielkin, Gabriel’s younger brother. I’ll enter this city together with you all, at least…”

Gabriel raised his head, his tone deep, “At least I must replace ‘my brother’ in saying farewell to his secret admirer.”

“Do monster beasts develop feelings for each other?” Lan Zhe raised an eyebrow and asked curiously.

Gabriel didn’t answer this question, but instead said, “We should enter the city now.”

“Tell me the answer to the question, and the trade condition is that I’ll make some subtle adjustments to your facial features to make your false identity more authentic.” Lan Zhe didn’t think his curious question should go unanswered.

“What do you mean by making subtle adjustments to facial features?” Gabriel was stunned for a moment.

“Actually, I prefer to call it plastic surgery.” Lan Zhe took out various knives that gleamed with deep cold light from his spatial alchemy device.

Cold sweat poured down Gabriel’s back. “Yes, yes!”

“The answer is yes.”

“Monster beasts naturally develop feelings for each other. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know either.” Gabriel decisively shook his head.

“I understand.” Knowing he couldn’t get more details, Lan Zhe sighed with a sorrowful expression, then placed a blade gleaming with deep cold light between each of his fingers.

The blades were of different types.

“The upcoming scene is too bloody. Lord Su Li, please do not watch at close range.” Egbert pulled Su Li aside and also took out several rice balls that Lan Zhe had previously distributed to him from his alchemy device.

Egbert immediately stuffed them into Su Li’s hands.

Su Li withdrew from watching the full-scale plastic surgery performed under the open sky with the earth as bed.

Accompanied by a miserable howl from the gray wolf, Su Li couldn’t help but shudder, then quietly asked, “How did Lan Zhe… how did Lan Zhe know he could perform plastic surgery?”

“It’s probably because when we were in the Mercenary City, we always fought in the suburbs,” Roy thought for a moment before answering. “At that time, everyone’s faces would get injured and their appearances would become strange and varied.”

Su Li: “……”

Forget it, better to pretend it doesn’t exist.

Afterward, Su Li quietly observed the gray wolf who had been given plastic surgery by the Dark Holy Son despite knowing him for less than a day.

In terms of facial changes, “Gabrielkin” looked more gaunt in his features compared to Gabriel.

—After all, even his bones had been shaved down by a section.

Later, this gray wolf actually used the rather casual name Gabrielkin and led several people into Ergonikin together.

Unlike their previous speculation that someone might question them, in fact, after entering Ergonikin, everyone hardly saw many pedestrians on the streets.

Gabriel’s explanation was: “Most monster beasts have work during the day, except for their evening cultivation time.”

“The work mainly involves mining and collecting medicinal materials. Some ores have beneficial effects on cultivation, as do the medicinal materials. The collected medicinal materials and ores are handed over to officials, and after unified calculation, part is submitted to the King, while another part is redistributed.”

Gabriel guided everyone toward his former residence.

Compared to Roy, who lived under his wife’s name, the other two adult men had no gossip interest in who Gabrielkin’s secret admirer was.

After arriving at Gabrielkin’s residence, the gray wolf indicated that they could use this place freely in the short term, while he…

He needed to take time to prepare some gifts, then during the evening free time, give them as tokens of gratitude to the monster beast he cared about.

However, Egbert was quite moved. “I originally thought entering a Beast Tribe city would be much more difficult than imagined.”

“It’s actually not that easy either. As for more detailed intelligence, let’s wait until evening to discuss.” Lan Zhe glanced at the house, which looked particularly spacious and lacked furniture.

Later, Su Li was directly given a sleeping bag by the Dark Holy Son.

He was asked to rest well in the afternoon because no one knew what would happen at night.

Su Li chose to accept.

In the blink of an eye, half a day passed. The last ray of sunset disappeared on the horizon, and Gabriel returned to this house that looked so empty it didn’t seem like anyone had ever lived there.

At this time, pedestrian footsteps gradually appeared on the streets, along with continuous lively conversation sounds.

After Gabriel returned, he appeared somewhat dejected. He didn’t say what he had encountered, but the others knew that the so-called farewell probably hadn’t yielded good results.

Truthfully, it would be strange if it had yielded good results.

Exile represented an inevitable outcome with no choice other than death.

The gray wolf quickly pulled himself together and told Su Li, “This time period is considered the most relaxed time for Beast Tribe monster beasts. If you have any information that needs to be investigated outside, now is the most suitable opportunity.”

“Thank you.” Su Li nodded seriously in gratitude.

Gabriel was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, “I should be the one thanking you all. Otherwise, just the gatekeepers alone would have made it impossible for us to enter so simply.”

“Moreover, I’ve now seen that monster beast…”

Gabriel shook his head vigorously. “Sorry, I spoke of irrelevant matters.”

“Whether it’s irrelevant or not, we’ll discuss when we return.” Lan Zhe shrugged. “Anyway, my intuition tells me that your so-called irrelevant matters still contain rules that normal humans couldn’t possibly accept, yet you consider them common sense.”

Afterward, everyone dispersed separately, trying their best to explore for intelligence.

Su Li and Egbert formed one group.

……

“Ask about recent major events? That would definitely be the Winged Tribe’s internal strife. I really hope those winged creatures can die in large numbers during the internal conflict. That way, when the King declares war on the Winged Tribe in the future, it will definitely be much easier.”

“What do I think of the King? A great ruler. I can’t say anything more detailed since I’ve never seen him, but we don’t need to personally see the King’s countenance. We just need to know that the King’s decisions are always correct!”

“The most recently promulgated rules? Hmm… if you hadn’t suddenly asked about this, I would have forgotten that the most recent rule was promulgated 100 years ago. Sometimes I feel like the King might have forgotten about us, though I suppose that wouldn’t be the case since we’ve always been working very hard to contribute ourselves for the King.”

On the other side.

Roy and Lan Zhe.

The two-star mercenary’s first question was: “Must we hand over all the resources we obtain?”

“Of course!”

“If we privately kept any resources, it would very likely weaken the King’s power. Everyone knows that Beast Tribe members absolutely cannot be alone. Once alone and discovered by the other two tribes, we’d face merciless slaughter. Rather than hoping the Water Tribe and Winged Tribe would show us mercy, I’d rather work harder at mining and preparing medicinal materials to make the King’s strength even more powerful.”

“Opinion of the Water Tribe? Everyone feels the same way, right? Those slimy, slippery things that smell fishy—I really wish such monster beasts didn’t exist in this world at all. I don’t want to admit that I and those things are the same species from a broad perspective.”

“Opinion of the Winged Tribe? An incompetent group that only knows how to rely on the Dragon Clan. I heard the so-called internal strife is about suppressing the dragons. Honestly, if the Winged Tribe had given enough resources to the dragons, how could they possibly have thoughts of rebellion? Unlike our King, who treats all monster beasts equally.”

……

Finally, both sides reconvened at Gabriel’s house. Out of discretion and not wanting to know what these humans had actually learned, Gabriel proactively blocked his own ears and went to another room.

The basic intelligence gathered from their previous exploration revealed numerous details that were terrifying upon deeper thought.

Egbert explained the key points he and Su Li had learned together. “The Beast Tribe monster beasts’ attitude toward the Winged Tribe’s internal strife is the same as Gabriel’s. They all think the more Winged Tribe members die, the better, so that when the Beast King attacks the Winged Tribe in the future, it will be easier.”

Su Li nodded and added, “All Beast Tribe members have the premise that the Beast Tribe will definitely declare war on the other two tribes in the future. This has created a fact where the Beast Tribe’s lower-level personnel make sacrifices but don’t feel they’re suffering unjust treatment.”

“The Beast King is supported by the entire Beast Tribe, but the so-called promulgation of rules hasn’t been updated in a timely manner. One hundred years ago was when the most recent existing rule was promulgated.”

Lan Zhe and Roy exchanged glances, with the former speaking first. “Our side is about the same. The key point is that the Beast Tribe doesn’t judge that they’re being expelled, leading to death. They uniformly believe that the cause of their death is harm from the other two tribes.”

“This has also caused all Beast Tribe members to look forward to the day when the Beast King declares war on the other two tribes.”

Roy pursed his lips at this. “But in fact, when Gabriel first saw us, he immediately launched an attack without making any evasive moves.”

“I don’t think this is what Gabriel called ‘dying in battle is better than dying by suicide.’ I’m more inclined to believe that the current state of the Beast Tribe’s default rules is a form of group control.”

“Just like Rota County before.” Roy frowned and said, “Obviously, this is full of abnormalities.”

This conversation related to the Beast Tribe didn’t continue for long.

Just as everyone wanted to delve deeper, the pedestrian conversations that had been coming from afar suddenly became noisy and chaotic.

The clamor was immediately conveyed.

Then Gabriel didn’t have time to knock and forcefully pushed open the door to the room where everyone was.

Without any unnecessary words, Gabriel said with an ugly expression, “We’re surrounded.”

The reason was unknown, the cause unclear.

Just like that, suddenly, Gabriel’s house was surrounded by the pedestrians who had been walking on the streets before.

However, shortly after, those people’s conversation also revealed the reason why this place was surrounded.

“When I was working earlier, I discovered Gabriel. That man who had already been driven out of Ergonikin has returned to this city for unknown reasons!”

The male monster beast held a torch in his hand and said with a hateful expression. “The weak have no right to live! This is a rule established by the King.”

“Gabriel not only failed to use his shallow life to perish together with Water Tribe and Winged Tribe monster beasts, but even secretly ran back. This is wrong! A grave error!”

Roy looked outside through the door crack with displeasure. “Who is that?”

“Colin, the brother of the monster beast who previously helped me.” Gabriel said softly.

Roy’s expression immediately became astonished.

Gabriel lowered his head and fell into bitter laughter. “I didn’t think I absolutely had to live. I just wanted to say farewell to Connie.”

Saying this, he raised his head. “Let me go out. You’re all humans. As long as you follow what I said before, you won’t be targeted by them.”

“Colin only wants me alone to die. This matter has nothing to do with you all.”