I'm a villain, not a devil

The air was floating, Bodnar cried and roared.

Suddenly, an invisible wave swept across, and even Sean was stunned for a moment.

Is this...thinking projection?

The technology of the thinking hall...

The surrounding ruins gradually became more vivid, as if time was moving backwards rapidly.

This became the original appearance of the town square.

"It was Bernard's memory that was read, and a projection was constructed based on his etheric layer. This is the scene that Bernard had seen before..." The Three Saints of the Thinking Hall repeatedly expressed their opinions on this situation. Don't understand.

The Hall of Thought has the same effect, but there is still a big difference between stripping consciousness from the etheric layer and reading memories.

This is just the scene that the person involved saw at the beginning, and it does not necessarily match the reality.

Bernard's etheric consciousness unfolded around him.

He stood in the center of the town square, where there was a huge mirror.

Young Bernard was handsome and beaming with joy.

Standing in front of the mirror, he smiled and said to the lively town residents around him: "The great seducer Gao Zun has answered my prayer, and the Lord of the Ocean will answer."

The surrounding crowd cheered and praised, and a middle-aged man who looked like the mayor stepped forward and said, "Tell me, Bernard, what do you want us to do for you when you summoned everyone together?"

Bernard said excitedly: "Everyone in this town is my friend and the most important person to me. I hope to get everyone's blessing!"

The people around him laughed heartily, and the young postman was shouting: "Bernard, you must be doing it because of Krenina's pregnancy! Am I going to be an uncle in the future!"

Bernard beamed: "Yes, I got the ritual, I completed the sacrifice, and I can have the reward - and this reward is my child!"

"Where's Krynina?" asked a gentle old woman.

Bernard pointed overhead, where there was a ketch, moored in the air with a strange attitude.

He said happily: "Crenina is on the boat. Of course, the blessing of the ocean needs to be completed on the sea. After everything is completed, I invite everyone to attend the banquet!"

But no one around them seemed to have seen the boat, and instead applauded enthusiastically.

Bernard took out a lot of stuff.

There are necklaces, there are skulls, there are leather maps, there are kettles, there are keys.

It was something the fisherman once showed Sean, and everything was heavily polluted.

But in the mental projection, these things look perfectly normal.

Bernard pressed each object to his chest and recited the words of prayer devoutly.

“I stand in front of you with the most pious heart and offer this sacrifice to you.

I thank you for giving me life, guiding me to the depths of the ocean, and guarding me along the way.

I know that every breath and every step I take is inseparable from your gift. I thank you for giving me the wisdom to understand the world and understand the true meaning of life.

Today, I offer my most precious things and pray that you will come and give me your gifts.

Please let the son of the deep come to my love Krynina..."

He closed his eyes and recited a strange prayer, but he did not notice that while he was reciting the words, the originally joyful residents of the town all became sad. They looked at them quietly with pity and sorrow. Bernard.

When Bernard finished reciting the prayer and opened his eyes, they became happy again.

The mirror behind him floated, and the sky turned dark, as if there was thunder hidden in it, ready to strike.

"Please bless us!" Bernard threw everything into the mirror.

The residents of the town slowly knelt down, holding out their hands with an eerie look of calm on their faces.

Gradually, the mirror began to shake at a terrifying frequency, and the hands of the town residents began to twist randomly.

This is not a blessing ceremony... Sean, who was observing silently, thought.

In front of him on the left stood the old fisherman Bernard, who looked at all this in confusion.

"Krenina, I, I completed the ceremony... Everyone blessed us... But, you had an accident..."

At this time, a woman with a round belly walked out.

She was beautiful, but her skin was horribly pale, and there seemed to be something struggling to escape from under her swollen belly.

"Krenina..." The old fisherman was almost crazy.

He started crying again: "You and our children..."

Krynina showed a forlorn expression and walked over slowly.

"Bernard...what you saw is not real..."

"Why……"

The projection of his mind was fluctuating, and Sean frowned slightly.

This time it should be Krynina's etheric consciousness, but Krynina is already dead. At most, she is the obsession in Bernard's memory and the partial consciousness retained by that strange mirror.

This kind of existence should not have the etheric layer...

The image of young Bernard holding a blessing ceremony for his wife to give him a son disappeared, and was replaced by Krenina who was left alone on the deck.

The perspective is completely different.

The ocean was not calm, and the blue water showed strange horizontal amplitudes.

The surrounding seawater is rushing towards one place, which is... a small town.

The ship followed, and Krynina was shouting desperately, but no one could hear her.

Later, Sean and the fisherman Bernard see what really happened.

Young Bernard stood on the square with a crazy face. Next to him were a broken chain, the head of a huge sea beast, a huge prison map, a lot of corpses of recently dead sailors, and a A black key almost three meters high.

The original mirror turned into a huge mirrored door. The door knocker in the center was two big mouths oozing a fishy smell. The big mouths were devouring heads and corpses.

And Bernard has already raised the key - he wants to wait for the door to open and open the prison inside.

The residents of the small town were kneeling next to them. Each of them was reflected in the mirrored door. In the mirror, their own reflections were clinging to the ground and refusing to move, with a terrifying smile on their lips.

They were struggling, but they couldn't move.

The square was sinking, and all the sea water poured in, completely submerging their mouths and noses.

Crazy Bernard was still shouting: "Thank you everyone for your blessings!"

The residents of the town drowned in the water one by one, staring at Bernard with countless meanings in their eyes.

Krynina on the ship was shouting loudly, but Bernard turned a deaf ear.

Finally, the mirrored door ate the head and the sailor's body, and all the inhabitants drowned in the sea.

Bernard shouted happily, holding the key and walking into the opened mirror door.

On the boat, Krenina's belly bulged at a speed visible to the naked eye, and she made a painful sound.

The ship also began to sink, and it seemed that all the sea water was sucked into the open mirror door.

Krynina was drowning in the water. She struggled but no one could help her.

The chains floated out, tying Krynina securely in the cabin, and she drowned.

However, in the water, her belly was still moving strangely.

"Poof -" a cracking sound came.

The thought projection vanished into thin air.

The old Bernard stood there, watching all this in disbelief.

"This is impossible... this is impossible... this is impossible..." He shouted in pain and misery.

Sean watched all this in silence.

Same as my guess...

The so-called blessing ceremony is actually a sacrifice... Those contaminated props are sacrifices, and the so-called blessing is the lives of all the residents of the town.

The gift given by Gaozun the Seducer was indeed a child...

However, Krenina is just a container for recovery.

And the person who accomplished all this was Bernard who was deceived.

"This is impossible...this is impossible!" He was crying.

Krynina, the old mayor, the postman, the doctor...their bodies were all erratic.

"Everyone forgives you..." Krinina wanted to hug her husband, but she couldn't do it.

After trying several times, she had no choice but to stand up and cried softly: "Everyone remembers what you have done, and everyone knows that you have been deceived..."

The old mayor sighed, his voice hoarse: "Child, our town is famous because of you. Your fishing boats have brought countless wealth to our port. You always take care of everyone... Maybe this is the price... …”

"Mayor of Minsk..." Bernard's eyes had completely lost their luster.

Krinina cried and squatted on the ground. She looked at her lover and said softly: "Bernard... this may be fate. We have all become sacrifices for the evil god..."

Bernard shook his head in pain: "It shouldn't be like this... It shouldn't be like this... No, no... No! I resurrected you! I obviously did it!"

"No... that's..." Krynina's lips trembled. She hesitated for a long time, and finally spoke, "That's the evil god's plan... He was born, but the power was not merged with Him... …He has been tempting you, tempting you to revive Him, tempting you to save your strength for Him and then bring it to Him...I, I am just a bait in the sea of ​​gray, and you are a fisherman who was tempted..."

Bernard froze in place, he was shaking.

The mayor of Minsk took a step forward: "Child, our consciousness has actually been parasitic on your body... But there is too little we can do... Run, child, the last thing we can do is to prevent the evil god from letting go." The power becomes one with Him.”

He showed a somewhat bitter smile, but the hand touching Bernard's head was still as kind as when he was a child.

"Run, get out of here... As long as you still remember us, we are not really dead..."

Other projections also shouted:

"Run, Bernard!"

"leave here!"

"The evil god might be coming, so hurry up!"

Krynina looked at Bernard, her eyes full of love and anxiety: "Get out of here, my dear."

"But...but...you...I killed you, I can't leave you..." Bernard was trembling.

Krynina said seriously: "Throw away that pocket watch. That is not the lighthouse I gave you. It is the incarnation of the evil god's power - that mirror door is the evil god's artifact, sucking away the wails and souls of everyone after their tragic death. , everyone you’ve ever seen before is your reflection in the mirror!”

"That's our shadow, but it's also the influence of the evil god... Leave here and throw the pocket watch far away!"

A large number of projections were displayed that seemed to have exhausted a lot of power. The projections of Krenina and the residents of the town were becoming transparent, and the pocket watch in Bernard's hand opened by itself.

Stormy waves set off on the azure dial, and the pointer beacon turned into a luminous protrusion of an anglerfish, waving wildly like tentacles.

Is the evil god nearby?

This idea just came to Sean's mind, and suddenly, the pocket watch seemed to come to life.

The ground beneath my feet began to tremble again, and the wind and sand roared.

The cabin and the square shook together, and a layer of dazzling blue light flashed on the ground next to it.

The bottom of the sand and rocks turned into a transparent floor, and blue energy veins shined from the deepest part of the ground.

"Mechanical creation..." Sean's pupils shook violently.

That means……

Just like the scene that once swallowed up the camel bell team, the huge black shadow swam forward.

But this time, Sean could clearly see that it was not the giant object approaching, but the energy blocks on the path that were constantly forming a body.

The whale jumped out and then fell back to the ground.

This is not a strange creature in the gray sea...

It should be said that the sea of ​​gray beneath our feet is all one!

This is a technological creation with energy veins as its core.

The entire gray sea...is a sea of ​​nano-creations? !

So, a pocket watch is actually...

The ground was shaking, and those nano-creations spread out along the energy veins, and a building seemed to appear deep beneath the feet.

The pocket watch is a starter... is this the main control room?

Sean had a ridiculous idea.

On the other side, the increasingly transparent Krynina was urging Bernard loudly.

"No one of us can see clearly what the evil god is, but pollution will affect everything! Bernard, get out of here quickly, and then throw the pocket watch outside the gray sea!"

Bernard was trembling, and the nano-creations seemed to no longer obey his orders.

A lot of gray-blue particles flowed from his mouth and nose, and his already old face was further fading.

Bernard gasped and murmured: "So that's it..."

"Get out of here!" Krynina screamed at the top of her lungs.

But Bernard just gave a relieved smile.

"Krenina..." He turned his head, "So that's it..."

He picked up the chain that had been sinking into the ground.

As the energy veins became clearer, this time, Sean could finally see them.

The chain connected the location, and it was also made of nano-creations. As long as Bernard kept holding on to it, various nano-creations would enter his body along with the chain, delaying his aging and providing him with strength.

Bernard laughed miserably: "Krenina...I'm sorry, I was not only deceived, but also manipulated..."

Suddenly, he was startled and turned his gaze to Sean.

Sean frowned slightly, and the latter whispered: "Mr. Sean, can you leave here with your pocket watch...please..."

Sean was thinking about it and was about to answer when suddenly, his elbow touched something.

Turning around subconsciously, his breathing suddenly became tense.

The mirror appeared on his side without knowing when.

The faint mirror reflected half of Sean's silhouette.

At this time, Bernard made a frightened and resentful voice, and Krynina and the residents who were about to disappear screamed miserably.

"The evil god... Gao Zun!"