The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 173.1

He had clearly shown abnormalities in so many places, yet when facing emotions—or rather, the reproduction that emotions represented—could he still maintain normalcy?

This overly calm thought flashed through his mind, but what Su Li said aloud was: “I don’t know what I’ll ultimately face, and I’m not clear about what I’ll do when faced with the choice between transforming into a monster beast to survive or death… but at least now, I don’t think you should die, especially not for such a ridiculous reason.”

Because he had returned, he should die?

Simply ridiculous.

Egbert immediately became excited, as he was always thrilled by Su Li’s initiative. “Lord Su Li is right. Rather than saying we should leave you alone to go out, instead of dwelling on these matters, we should think about how to break through.”

“By the way, since you’ve already given out the gift, I assume you won’t have any particularly deep attachment to this city. In that case, go back to your original idea—find the monster beast groups of the other two tribes, then die in battle. No matter how you look at it, this would be much better than wasting your life at the hands of your own people.”

At least he had to give Gabriel a reason to delay his death wish, even though this reason was essentially just another reason to seek death.

Gabriel fell into a dazed state.

Roy had already taken out several weapons from his alchemy items, and Egbert took a long spear. When he was the Son of Light, he was most skilled with spears and swords—these two weapons.

An inch longer, an inch stronger—at this moment, the spear was the most suitable choice.

While Gabriel was in his brief confusion, Lan Zhe stuffed several potion bottles into his hands. The Dark Holy Son said calmly, “We’ve prepared for the breakout. As for you, whether you choose to come with us or really want to seek death at the hands of your own people, my suggestion is—at least don’t die in front of Su Li.”

“I agree with that too,” Roy raised his hand and said. “From the very beginning, the little master never harmed you in any way, and even had Lan Zhe save you from suicide. No matter what, you shouldn’t repay kindness with ingratitude by dying in front of him and leaving him with psychological trauma.”

Su Li’s eye twitched. During those two days of rest at the inn, no matter how he explained to them what dangerous scenes he had witnessed with the dragon, when facing situations that might make him witness dangerous scenes again, their attitude was…

Who dares?

Before causing trouble, practice first!

Who lives, who dies—we’ll know after the fight.

That was roughly their attitude.

Su Li really wanted to say that he would no longer vomit from seeing others covered in blood.

But it was completely useless.

Su Li took a deep breath and calmed his turbulent emotions.

The young man took the initiative to stand in front of the door that was only opened a crack. After exchanging glances with the other humans and receiving their nods, he pulled open the door that had been left slightly ajar.

Outside the door, the monster beast named Colin turned his head when he heard the sound, and what he saw was Gabriel’s figure.

Or rather, he could only see Gabriel’s figure.

The other humans had extremely weak elemental fluctuations. At a glance, no monster beast would consider them threatening.

Colin shouted loudly, “Gabriel, do you know your crime!”

“I… I…” Gabriel began to stutter.

He didn’t think the desire to see someone he cared about was wrong, but he had indeed violated the King’s rules by returning to monster beast territory as an exiled being.

“You, you—what ‘you’? You’re calling the wrong name, Gabriel. You’re clearly Gabrielkin,” Roy directly adopted a rogue attitude and glanced at Lan Zhe’s hand.

Who would believe it?

Although monster beasts had high resource reserves, they weren’t generous enough to casually use those life-and-death revival medicines. In just one or two days of absence, how could someone be completely bone-shaved, flesh-cut, operated on, fully restored, and have their entire face drastically changed?

Those medicines were for saving lives, okay? Who would use them for plastic surgery…

As long as they insisted on this point, Gabriel was just his brother Gabrielkin.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone saw the confusion that flashed through Colin’s eyes.

Lan Zhe found it interesting and simply lifted Gabriel directly into the center of everyone’s gathered gaze. His tone was unhurried, maintaining perfect calm, completely different from Roy’s agitation. “Look carefully at this face. What basis do you have for saying he’s Gabriel?”

“He’s merely Gabriel’s brother who previously lived in another city. Gabrielkin only chose to come to this city after learning that his brother had been exiled, wanting to see the place where Gabriel once lived.”

Colin didn’t believe it, but looked at Gabriel’s features with some suspicion.

“I don’t believe it. Don’t think that with such excuses, you can prove Gabriel is some Gabrielkin.”

“If they’re really brothers, how could they not live in the same city?”

“Can’t brothers have disputes? Your attitude makes it seem like all blood relatives must be lovey-dovey. What’s wrong with brothers feuding?” Roy crossed his arms, fastened his weapon at his waist, and his raised chin showed complete disdain.

Colin: …………

“Then since he’s Gabrielkin and doesn’t have a good relationship with his brother, why would he still come to this city?”

“Don’t you think this explanation is completely abnormal? Moreover, if Gabrielkin isn’t Gabriel, how could he immediately know my sister’s location and present her with a gift?”

“Furthermore,” Colin showed a cold smile, “there’s the most important point—if he’s Gabrielkin, not Gabriel, then why didn’t he leave this city directly after giving the gift to my sister?”

“But isn’t the current problem that we’re questioning you?” Su Li lightly clapped his hands, drawing everyone’s attention to himself. Then he tilted his head, his voice clear and bright, clearly amplifying his youthful aura. “Don’t answer questions with questions.”

“The one with the problem now is you, not us,” Su Li nodded.

Egbert was so excited he nearly took off on the spot. How long had it been since he acted together with Lord Su Li? How long since he’d seen a group of people who didn’t use their brains as brains become shocked by his words…

Ignoring these thoughts, Egbert cleared his throat and cooperatively said, “Don’t ask us who we are either. We’re just accompanying him to see the place where his brother once lived, then fulfill Gabrielkin’s brother’s dying wish and help clean up the place where he once lived, so the next tenant won’t feel uncomfortable.”

“We’ve been so considerate—what reason do you have to doubt us? Or is it just because you don’t believe in Gabrielkin’s existence that you arbitrarily define Gabrielkin as Gabriel, then try to punish him on the grounds that Gabrielkin is Gabriel?”

“Oh—?” Egbert deliberately made an expression of sudden realization. “This isn’t punishment at all. You’re clearly inciting other monster beasts, trying to stir up everyone’s anger toward Gabrielkin. Then Gabrielkin would die on the spot because he’s outnumbered and has no chance to explain.”

Egbert actually had better arguments, but he also had consideration for females.

Otherwise, having Colin’s sister directly confront Gabriel would more easily divert the conflict.

But this action would harm two people, though these two had already moved beyond the human category into monster beasts.

Discovering this subtle consideration, Lan Zhe became the villain role in the team besides the rogue.

He crossed his arms and didn’t fully step out of the door, letting the house’s shadow add a layer of blurring effect to him before saying: “Gabrielkin’s current value might not be high, since his power isn’t particularly strong, but who can say he definitely won’t surpass his brother and successfully break through his current power level within the allotted time?”

“By acting this way, have you considered that the King might lose a warrior loyal to him in the future?”

“Besides, even if he doesn’t succeed, he can still, like his brother, kill as many Water Tribe or Winged Tribe members as possible before dying.”

No matter how Colin opened his mouth, his throat couldn’t make a sound.

But the other monster beasts didn’t engage in the heated discussion the humans had expected.

Even when they spoke, their statements were very reasonable and well-founded.

“Colin loves his sister dearly—how could he possibly believe that brothers could have poor relationships? Secondly, Gabrielkin and Gabriel look so similar that even occasional misunderstandings wouldn’t be unreasonable.”

“Besides, how could things be as serious as you claim? If we really wanted to kill Gabrielkin, you wouldn’t have the chance to explain for him now.”

“No monster beast wants to get involved with an exiled monster beast. Who cares how complex the relationship between Gabriel and Gabrielkin is? What we’re doing doesn’t violate any of Ergonikin’s rules. On the contrary, as outsiders, you should carefully explain whether you’ve submitted identity certificates to Ergonikin’s city lord.”

This dialogue led to a moment of silence.

Su Li looked at the monster beasts whose eyes flickered occasionally, and the others who had become somewhat stiff after discovering things weren’t developing as they’d imagined. After a light sigh, he said, “There’s no need to completely erase your mistakes.”

“What we’re saying isn’t entirely impossible. As for your arguments, they might be correct, but don’t you think you’re excessively obscuring the main point?” Su Li looked at the silent monster beasts and instantly grasped the rhythm.

He said calmly, “I understand you don’t want to be punished. In that case, let’s each take a step back and act as if nothing happened.”

“Moreover, Gabrielkin doesn’t plan to stay here long this time. He just wants to clean up this room and leave directly.” Su Li obscured the existence of Colin’s sister.

The monster beast’s face no longer showed any anger.

Su Li’s tone became increasingly calm. “If it weren’t for you all, we—who were preventing Gabrielkin’s emotions from becoming too unstable and causing him to stay in Ergonikin too long—would have taken him away already.”

“Therefore, if you still have any questions, we don’t intend to continue explaining in detail. Because we’re planning to leave Ergonikin directly now.”

“For you, there’s no need to make this matter bigger, is there?”

The final rhetorical question struck the hearts of the monster beasts present.

Lan Zhe’s words were particularly sharp. For a group of monster beasts who followed the rules established by their King, once you suggested they were touching the rules or were no longer loyal to the King, it would cause them to panic.

But this panic could easily be reversed into forced calm due to these monster beasts’ living environment.

This was also why they weren’t as easily emotionally manipulated as humans.

But correspondingly, this forced calm wasn’t without targeted methods.

Additionally, what Colin feared most was probably his sister getting involved with Gabriel, this person who should have died.

One concern was that his sister might feel sad about Gabriel’s destined death, and the other was that “Gabrielkin’s” gift seemed to remind Colin’s sister that Gabriel cared about her deeply but couldn’t realize this care due to his own incompetence.

For females who, no matter how much they changed, would still possess delicate qualities, this action could easily constitute years of agonizing torment.

This was probably what angered Colin.

Su Li’s gaze was calm. His aura was steady, unchanged by being surrounded by numerous monster beasts, nor would he feel useless because the people around him could now face most situations.

As always.

Su Li still stood at the front of the group.

“Let’s leave it at that then.” A monster beast standing beside Colin spoke this sentence for him.

Colin took a deep breath. He didn’t seem to want to ignore what he had done, and he took responsibility saying, “It’s my fault for not understanding the truth of the matter clearly before venting my emotions on Gabrielkin. This is my problem, but you’d better do as you said and leave Ergonikin as soon as possible.”

“Gabrielkin” spoke with difficulty. He looked for a long time but didn’t find “Colin’s sister” in the crowd. Finally, he could only lower his head and say dejectedly, “I understand.”

The chaos and fighting that should have occurred was quietly prevented through verbal sparring.

The group left Ergonikin directly under cover of night.

Under the moonlight, Su Li’s eyes glowed with a clear, ethereal light.

Out of understanding—just as he knew that the people around him would always act according to the common sense of the world he came from before crossing over, which didn’t conform to this world’s common sense.

Because of the previous forced calm, the three men who felt they hadn’t controlled the entire situation and had nearly been suppressed probably all felt vague disappointment and guilt toward him.

Not wanting to understand where this inexplicable guilt came from, and not planning to give them too much time to let their overly sensitive hearts wander, the young man raised his eyelids slightly and said peacefully, “Tell me what else you discovered during our conversation with those monster beasts.”

This topic broke the silence.

Egbert instantly transformed from a droopy-eared domestic dog into a tail-wagging, enthusiastic hunting hound.

“What I saw most clearly was that those monster beasts didn’t respond as we predicted.”

Egbert analyzed the reasons: “This was partly because we didn’t consider the possibility of their calm responses, and partly because the so-called rules established by the Beast King might not have been the final rule promulgated a hundred years ago, but rather that a hundred years ago, the closed loop of rules was finally perfected.”

He also evaluated this group of monster beasts.

“This attitude of staying calm when faced with situations, high collective dedication, strong collective awareness, and full trust and support for the King… in my view, even though they’re currently just ordinary residents of a city, once in wartime, they would become the best weapons under military command, each able to display power far exceeding their current individual strength.”

Then Egbert turned his gaze to Lan Zhe.

The Dark Holy Son was speechless. “Don’t look at me meaningfully after saying everything that should be said. This behavior really looks like showing off.”

Egbert coughed.

Lan Zhe showed an expression of not being able to bear watching, but he still said, “Under Eg’s analysis, there’s another point—that group of monster beasts still possesses emotions.”

“Whether these emotions are based on reproductive needs or the inevitable expression of individual feelings, Gabriel’s performance also indirectly proves one point—that in the rules and possible consciousness manipulation, there are no restrictions on this aspect.”

Lan Zhe glanced at the still-dejected Gabriel, then withdrew his gaze and said, “I personally believe that the reason these emotions weren’t sealed is that these transformed monster beasts had their human-stage emotions already sealed during the Rota County period. They were like blank paper, and after the early transformation period was arbitrarily painted over by the monster beast world’s rules, they finally evolved into this appearance.”

Lan Zhe then turned his gaze to Roy.

The two-star mercenary felt like all his eye-rolls for this lifetime were concentrated in these few days.

“Why are you looking at me? Do you want me to add something?”

“Is it about the hidden meaning of the timing of the final rule from a hundred years ago? Or the possibility that emotions could become a factor for turning the tide in war? Or perhaps…”

Roy deliberately created suspense, but after discovering no one was cooperating with him, he could only say with a heavy heart: “Those monster beasts—rather than saying they still follow the law of the jungle, it’s better to say that the law of the jungle has become outdated. What they follow are the decisions made by the ‘King.'”

“The timing of a hundred years ago is subtle. Perhaps that period was when Rota County established the rule of sealing emotions. Elvi was transformed into a monster beast over two hundred years ago. Just looking at Elvi’s abnormal appearance already proves that the madness disease, besides the influence of bloodline issues, might also involve the severing and changing of memories and emotions.”

“When humans were human, memory was very important, but once they become monster beasts, what impact time ultimately has on consciousness and the brain… I think this answer would be better suited to having Castor tied up and brought here for patient research.”

After everyone shared their discoveries, Su Li nodded accordingly. “You’re all correct.”