Learn To Believe Me Dear Chapter 6

"That's true... I'm not as pretty as you, and even if I weigh by pound, I'm probably not as valuable as that pill. Why should I be on guard against you? Besides, if you really are an evolved alien plant, you wouldn't use second-hand houses outside the Sixth Ring Road as a standard for measuring prices. Houses are not worth much now, they're not as valuable as a bag of dried fish..."

Adrian suddenly felt that what he said made sense. The aroma of the dried fish and chili fried in fine oil was also very tempting. The thin, slightly yellow fish strips were coated with red oil sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds. Without tasting it, one could imagine the spicy taste that would make the tip of one's tongue numb.

He didn't think about how long it had been since he had eaten such a luxurious snack, nor did he wonder if there was any drug in it. He took the paper bag, grabbed a piece of dried fish and stuffed it directly into his mouth. The dried fish was thin and tough, very chewy, and the spicy taste was mellow but not too irritating. The sauce was mixed with sweet honey, and the meat was different from what he had eaten before, with a chewy gelatinous texture and an especially sweet and fresh taste.

He ate one by one without stopping, sometimes swallowing without even chewing, and in the blink of an eye he had finished half a pack, breathing in and out because of the spiciness. Ellian opened a new bottle of mineral water and placed it on the bench, he picked up the bottle and gulped down half of it, then lowered his head and ate like he hadn't eaten for days.

Ellian was worried that there would not be enough dried fish to eat, so he took out the lotus root slices, fish tofu and duck wings wrapped in oil paper from the Spirit Lake space, opened them and piled them on the chair. The snacks were all spicy, and the two bottles of mineral water were soon empty. He took out a small pot and a few smooth bluestones from the space, built a stove on the ground, lit the dried reed stalks with a lighter, and used his fingertips to draw water from the Spirit Lake to cook.

The water quality of the lake is actually quite good, but a lot of lotus roots, water chestnuts, foxtail millet, water chestnut, and water shield have been planted over the years, and magical birds and cranes are raised on the shore, so it is inevitable that some excrement will fall into the lake, so it is more in line with modern hygiene habits to boil the water and drink it.

He did all these things in front of Adrian, intending to let this young and stubborn human know his magical powers. Adrian raised his head from the fish tofu, looked at the pot of clear lake water, and asked incredulously: "You also have superpowers? Are you a space superpower? Do you also have water superpowers? No, no, it doesn't matter which one, you are an alien plant... a lotus, aren't you afraid of fire? You actually boil water for yourself and drink it, isn't that too human? Compared to you, I live like an alien beast."

Ellian got up after lighting the fire, lifted the corner of his cloak, and fanned away the smoke as he walked. His snow-white shirt and trousers were half exposed outside the cloak. He had just worked for half a day, but not a trace of smoke stained his clothes, and they were still shining white. Only his face was slightly red because of the smoke, and a few drops of sweat slid down his hairline, making his complexion particularly bright.

Adrian accidentally saw his face flushed, and his throat tightened for some reason. He swallowed and said dryly: "I was not praising you just now... You don't have to blush."

I didn't blush.

My face just isn't white enough.

My face is not white enough because you don’t believe that I am a pure white lotus.

Ellian touched his cold face and thought gloomily: This guy has taken the elixir, his body functions have been comprehensively improved, and I have also seen him blossom, but now I still think he is an evolved alien plant. Could he be a staunch atheist?

This is not going to be easy. It seems like I have to resort to force... He narrowed his eyes, stood up, grabbed the collar of his cloak and swung it in the air, covering Adrian's head with it.

The cloak fluttered down without any obstruction, and spread flatly on the bench, and the person covered by it disappeared into thin air. He picked up the lock dust, touched his forehead with his fingertips, and he turned into a thin, swaying shadow, slowly dissipating between heaven and earth.

After a brief period of darkness, the world before Adrian's eyes changed.

The place where he settled was next to a vast lake. The lake was so wide that there was no end in sight. There was a light mist on the water. There was no sun in the sky, but the sky was very bright. A variety of aquatic plants were planted a little further away from the shore. Lotus, water lily, and water chestnut flowers bloomed one after another, and their round leaves almost covered the water surface. There was originally a mangrove forest by the lake, but someone had hollowed out a piece of it in the middle and planted a bamboo forest. A delicate and small stilt bamboo house was built on the edge of the bamboo forest.

Rare cranes and ibises, as well as ordinary-looking ducks and geese, lived in the mud on the shore. There was a kind of human-like agility in their eyes as they stared at him, the sudden outsider.

Adrian was holding a half-eaten duck wing in his hand, and he felt like a thorn in his back when he was surrounded by dozens of ducks and geese. His keen sixth sense, honed from long battles, reminded him that these water birds looked ordinary, but they were more dangerous than the high-level beasts outside. If he wanted to get out alive, he had better not act rashly.

He quietly hid the duck wing in his pocket and whispered, "Ellian?"

He had only heard this name once, and in such a tense and confrontational atmosphere, he thought he had forgotten it long ago, but he didn't expect to call it out so smoothly now.

And there was an immediate response - the air in front of him rippled like water waves, and when the ripples dissipated, Ellian stood in front of him just like normal, as if he had been standing there from the beginning, and the group of ducks, geese and unknown water birds surrounding him folded their wings and dispersed. Adrian asked him incredulously: "Are we leaving Tiandu City? Did you take me across time?"

Ellian crossed his arms over his chest, raised his chin slightly, and said in a dignified and solemn voice that was not human: "This is a place that does not exist in the world. It is my personal space. I am not an alien plant that has evolved to the pinnacle, but a god who has descended into this world... the White Lotus God."

Adrian was silent for a moment, then asked in confusion: "Isn't this your spatial ability? Victor... One of my team members also has a spatial ability. His space is not as big as yours, and outsiders cannot enter or exit, but it can keep the food stored in it fresh. I think it is also quite practical."

"That's different..."

"And the White Lotus God... this sounds a bit like something made up by a middle school girl."

...

What's wrong with the white lotus? Can the white lotus not become a god, but only a demon? Are you discriminating against the lotus or the demon cultivators?

Ellian didn't want to argue with the ignorant human, so he raised his right hand and pressed it in the air. The whole space then underwent amazing changes. Spiritual rain fell from the sky, lotus flowers bloomed all over the lake, white cranes and ibis danced around the lake, and their calls were in harmony, like the sound of nature.

In this fairyland-like fantasy, he quietly stepped on the lock dust, making his body several centimeters higher than Adrian, and said solemnly: "Don't waste your words, come, let me show you a miracle - do you want to live forever or escape from the catastrophe and become an immortal? No matter what you want, as long as you can tell me, I can make it happen for you. Then you should believe in me, right?"

Adrian stared blankly at the beautiful scenery in front of him, seemingly not hearing what Ellian said. But his eyelashes were trembling, and the faster they trembled, the more he suppressed his emotions, and he suddenly lost control. He grabbed Ellian's white sleeves and asked, "Can you let us leave this dmn city? We have been trapped here for half a year... I don't want to live forever, nor do I want world peace. I just want to leave this dmn place, and let everyone leave this dmn place alive and return to the normal life we used to have!"

"As long as you can lead us out, I will kowtow to you three times every morning and evening, burn incense every morning and evening, and even give you my life... I will even give you my soul after I die!"

Ellian silently pulled out his hand that was not stained with red oil, rubbed the future believer's head, and smiled calmly: "Get ready to believe in me."

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The air began to reappear with a ripple-like texture, and the two of them passed through the fluctuating air film and returned to the normal world outside.

After staying in that fresh and clean space for a long time, his entire respiratory tract seemed to have been washed by water. When he came out to take another breath, he felt that the air was full of dust, with a bitter metallic smell and a lingering corpse stench, which choked him and made him cough violently.

Ellian pushed him a cup of slightly hot water and a pack of unopened wet wipes, sat on the other side of the bench and said, "Now that we have settled our relationship, you should first tell me how this city became like this and where it is easier to leave."

Adrian wiped his hands, raised his head slightly, and followed the sun that appeared and disappeared between the leaves, carefully recalling what had happened in the past few months.

It should be 10 o'clock in the morning of June 13. He had just finished working on an interior rendering and was going to meet a client after washing his face. But as soon as he walked to the water room, he felt the building shaking. Everyone in the building thought it was an earthquake, and some people rushed out, but because the shaking stopped after a while, everyone just panicked for a while and went back to work.

When he returned to the office after washing his face, he heard colleagues in the office talking about the shaking: the shaking was not an earthquake, but a meteorite that had fallen on a street in District F, not far from their company. At the time, he even joked that he was on his way to meet a client and could take a detour to take photos and send them.

Who would have thought that would be the last time he saw his colleagues alive.

From that day on, plants, animals, and insects in the entire city began to mutate, and humans also gained superpowers. Fortunately, there were no zombies like in apocalyptic novels. However, the endless stream of evolved plants and beasts were no better than zombies. He followed the crowd in a daze for a long time, and witnessed countless times his companions being taken away by giant monster birds, cats, and dogs. He was also on the verge of life and death, until he discovered that he had superpowers, and then he felt that he might be able to survive.

Ellian had seen what happened next in the movie, but he listened carefully to what the man himself said. After all, the movie was accelerated and the content was incomplete, while Adrian's story was more detailed and included some information that could not be seen from the screen alone.

For example, Victor, who has a very pure and innocent temperament in their team, spent several times more time talking about him than introducing others.

Although this person's combat power is slightly weaker, he has a precious spatial ability that can quickly transfer food and supplies, and is very popular among the military and the supernatural. He also seems to have a deep understanding of this catastrophe. This time, the military decided to take action to investigate the source of the catastrophe - the meteorite that landed that day - which was also his suggestion.

He was the first to propose that meteorites contained viruses that could change the genes of animals and plants and cause super evolution. He also used a special algorithm to calculate the mutation speed curve of alien plants and animals, and proved to the top military officials that meteorites must be sealed to prevent mutations at the source.

"So the military temporarily gave up the idea of forcing our way out, and decided to let us, the psychics, cooperate with the military to go deep into the location of the meteorite, get the meteorite out, and study how to eliminate the virus. The evolution of the alien plants and animals around the meteorite must be higher, so we need to collect more supplies and medicines before we officially take action. Because the military also needs people now, I split up the team, and the other team members cooperated with the military to sweep Area C. Victor and I teamed up with Qiao Kun's Fenglei Squad to enter the forest..."

He swallowed a mouthful of lukewarm water to moisten his throat, and concluded: "And then I met you in that hospital."