Chapter 3 Tiangong Religion

Chapter 3 Tiangong Religion

Chapter 3 Tiangong Religion

"Within thirty breaths, I will get a hint and analysis of anything I look at."

"It can leave the body and is not affected by anything in the real world, but the range is only about ten feet."

These two pieces of information were understood directly when Li Yu looked at him.

He suppressed his excitement and glanced at his eye mask again.

Sure enough, the smallest bubble retained its iridescence but no longer flickered.

On the contrary, the second-to-last bubble, which had been silent, began to flash and charge, but its speed was much slower than the first one.

Run out?
Once the time limit is up, he will be reduced to his original form?

This seemed to confirm his guess!

Can it be unlocked by absorbing extraordinary knowledge?
Every time you use a bubble, you can transform into a bubble body and analyze everything?
There are still many questions in my heart, but time is tight.

Li Yu did not bother to think or explore, and immediately began to use the golden finger that had finally worked, trying to find a chance of survival.

He immediately turned his head to look at his body, and what he saw was a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a delicate but rather unkempt appearance, standing in the jar like a puppet.

With just this glance, Li Yu immediately had information from somewhere in his mind:
"The child of the forbidden god is hatching... the body is being repaired... the five senses are being strengthened... the strength is increasing... the forbidden god recipe is being obtained... the forbidden meat-eating technique is being obtained... the forbidden god eye is being obtained... after one stick of incense, the forbidden egg will occupy the brain..."

This information immediately aroused Li Yu's fear.

It seems that he is acquiring a large number of extraordinary secret skills and becoming an extraordinary being.

In fact, it is a death warrant.

A stick of incense!

This is the remaining life span of him!

How can I survive?

It seemed that because of the change in the direction of his pursuit of knowledge, new information emerged in his mind:

"Inflicting high-intensity damage to the parasitic body will force the forbidden egg to consume its energy to repair itself... This is the forbidden egg's instinct... If too much energy is consumed, the forbidden egg will fall into a deep sleep..."

"Life! It appeared!"

Li Yu's face suddenly showed joy.

Almost subconsciously, he wanted to get back into his body and start to hurt himself crazily.

But on second thought, this time-travel benefit that can be described as a cheat has been finally unlocked, and it would be a pity not to make full use of it.

While there were about ten breaths left, Li Yu quickly looked at the two corpses on the ground.

Immediately, another extraordinary message popped up:

"A deceased follower of the forbidden god."

"The brain marrow has mutated due to excessive consumption of flesh and blood of the same kind. It contains a highly toxic substance. Even a single drop of it can drive a person insane and kill them. However, it is a rare extraordinary material for the believers of the Forbidden God."

"The boning knife has been demonized by drinking human flesh and blood. It has the characteristics of being sharp, breaking bones, and sucking blood. The holder can gain many enhancements, but will become crazy and bloodthirsty, and likes to chop people."

……

"A deceased follower of the forbidden god."

"The intestines mutated due to excessive consumption of flesh and blood of the same species have the ability to suck blood and devour flesh, and can be activated into some kind of taboo pet."

"The Fallen Human Skin Scroll, a token of the Forbidden God Cult, is engraved with the song "Song of the Vegetable Man". Chanting the verses of the song can make the viewer fall into a mad desire to eat humans."

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This look really yielded some results, as he discovered forbidden treasures and transformed special organs hidden in the bodies of his original parents. Unfortunately, they were of no use to Li Yu at this moment.

On the contrary, it was a great start for the Son of the Forbidden God who had successfully taken over another body.

You can just take out the brain, prepare a butcher knife, animate the blood sausage as a pet, and go out singing the vegetable song...

Ok?
Perhaps the visual was too vivid, causing Li Yu to immediately come up with some guesses.

"What a trick!"

After sneering and praising, he turned around and drilled into the body without any further delay.

It was just in time. At this moment, the "Li Yu" in the tank slowly began to stand up. His limbs had obviously been repaired. The tentacle tongue full of teeth in his mouth was also extending out. On his forehead, two rows of scarlet evil eyes were opening little by little...

"My uncle's!"

After cursing, Li Yu's soul returned.

The moment the body and soul merged, pain and torture several times more intense than before surged over.

The endless whispers and noises forced him to look inward, and he watched helplessly as the scarlet wireworm-like egg filaments broke through his skull, penetrated the unknown resistance, and were about to touch his extremely fresh brain.

"Don't think about it!"

Li Yu cursed angrily and immediately took control of the body.

He climbed out of the water tank using his hands and feet, and pounced directly on Jiao Qing. He ignored the stench and blood, and snatched the filthy boning knife.

I don't know if it's because of being parasitic, or if it's the potential that was stimulated by the life-and-death situation.

Li Yu didn't even hesitate for a moment and pointed the blade directly at himself.

The next moment, the small dark room was filled with wailing and screaming, mixed with the sounds of chopping meat and cutting the stomach, and finally ended with the rustling sounds of rats gnawing at flesh.

“It’s amazing!”

"The bet was right."

As he muttered these two sentences, Li Yu quickly let go of the bloody boning knife and suppressed the strong urge to chop people.

At this moment, he was lying like mud next to the scorched corpse, shaking all over, gasping violently, sweating profusely, his face as pale as paper, and next to him was a large pool of fragrant flesh and blood.

It is obvious who the source is.

As a reward for his ruthless self-mutilation, almost all of Li Yu's "abnormalities" disappeared, leaving only two tightly closed red eyes on his forehead, indicating the presence of the forbidden egg in his belly.

Although Li Yu could still sense that shit, he could even feel the egg filaments slowly wriggling inside his body.

But it is also certain that it seemed to have fallen into hibernation again due to excessive consumption.

"If these two beasts knew that I wasted the energy that [Forbidden Egg] had worked so hard to accumulate, and chopped out so much fragrant flesh and blood, I'm afraid they would be so angry that they would directly resurrect and eat these things raw."

"Hahaha……."

Li Yu has gone through a process of time travel, horrific parasitism, and self-mutilation for survival, and seems to have completely adapted to this body.

At the same time, he also regained the memories of his original self, and at this moment he was cursing and laughing, feeling quite happy.

However, after lying down for a while, the strong feeling of hunger in his stomach reminded him that he had to face the cruel reality that was to come.

"Being parasitized by the forbidden egg for a long time, in addition to giving this body some inhuman strength, it also gave it an appetite far beyond that of an ordinary person."

"They need to eat a lot every day... otherwise the forbidden egg will go crazy and break out of the abdomen even if it doesn't develop properly, looking for a new host."

"By then, I will definitely die."

Li Yu realized this, cursed inwardly, and then staggered to his feet.

At the same time, he also stole a bunch of keys hanging on Sun Sanniang's waist.

Although he had some memory of this "home", Li Yu had just arrived, so he still wanted to explore and familiarize himself with it first before thinking about the follow-up.

He finally walked out of the small dark room. The first thing he saw was a courtyard with an eerie but rather spacious atmosphere.

Li Yu did not look at the layout of the courtyard. He glanced left and right, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he went to a storage room on the left that was covered with yellow talismans and wrapped with many iron locks.

He was now in a state like a starving ghost, and he should go to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Unfortunately, this is the home of an ogre couple.

All the food was stored in the storage room that the original body was curious about but had never entered.

As the brass keys rattled, Li Yu began to open the iron locks one by one. After a few clangs, the chains fell to the ground and he pushed open the door.

Almost instantly!

A fishy smell that he had never smelled in his past or present life, a smell that could not be compared to even if a pile of dead fish, rotten animal carcasses and stinky tofu were mixed together, came surging over like a tornado.

At the same time, Li Yu also caught a glimpse of the scene indoors.

His face became paler and paler, and he turned around and vomited, wanting to vomit out everything in his stomach.

But his stomach was empty.

There was not a single bit of food to be seen except for pools of bitter bile.

What's worse is that it seems that because of that quick glance, the dormant eggs in his stomach began to stir again. His appetite doubled!

Saliva secretion in the mouth!

The evil god's eyes on his forehead rolled around!
There were whispers in my mind, reciting the vegetable man's song.

"Damn Jiao Qing!"

"Damn Sun Sanniang!"

Li Yu suppressed his movements, held his breath, and cursed in his heart.

He moved very quickly, picking up all the locks and locking them again.

Those yellow talismans seemed to have the effect of isolating odors. Once the door was closed, the stench disappeared completely.

Only then did Li Yu dare to breathe a sigh of relief and walked away from the storage room with a look of fear on his face.

The memory is correct!

There was indeed a lot of food stored there.

Various meats, grains, fruits...even pastries.

But each one was terrible, smelling, rotten, and ugly, which reminded Li Yu of the recipe of Cai Ren's secret medicine.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but what really made Li Yu want to skin Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang alive were the many human fragments.

It’s really like hell on earth!
Li Yu couldn't help but replay scenes from Hong Kong movies he had watched in his previous life, such as "Eight Immortals Restaurant", "Hell's Gate", "The Ghost Eats the Human Fetus", etc. in his mind.

In such an environment, even if there was normal food, he would not dare to go in to pick and identify it, as it must have been contaminated.

With a sigh, Li Yu hurriedly ran to the kitchen on the right. At this time, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He lifted up his clothes and saw a patch of blood on his flat abdomen. These were egg filaments trying to get out.

If we delay any further, the forbidden egg will surely burst out of the abdomen.

The kitchen was not locked and could be opened with a push. What could be seen was a normal earthen stove, wood, a big pot, clay pots, bowls and chopsticks, etc., but they were all covered with a thick layer of dust.

It shows that Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang, the fallen couple, once lived a normal human life when they first came to Wanfu City.

Li Yu didn't look at anything else, his eyes were fixed on the pieces of black bacon hanging on the beams. They were all pork, not any suspicious meat.

He jumped forward and took them all off.

The moment he started, many cooking methods flashed through his mind involuntarily, and then he remembered one of the side benefits of being parasitized: the forbidden god recipe.

Now, with a quick glance, I can see that all the dishes that emerge are strange and hard to find in ordinary times. According to the description, not only are they delicious, but eating them can also bring many benefits. Unfortunately, most of the seasonings and cooking methods are not what normal humans would choose.

Of course, there are some that can be used, but he can't take care of them now.

He didn't even wash it, but just quickly wiped off the dust and started to chew it. His teeth were now so sharp that they were inhuman.

There were a total of seven or eight kilograms of bacon, and it all went into his stomach in a short while.

The hunger that wanted to eat people was finally suppressed.

Ban the laying of eggs and return to peace.

Li Yu held a water scoop and drank to relieve the salty taste in his mouth while continuing to explore the ogre's home.

Soon, he searched the rest of the area except for that scary storage room.

At this moment, he was in the master bedroom, sitting at the table, counting a pile of things in front of him.

What attracted him most was not a thick volume that looked like a book on spiritual practice, but a strange brass lamp standing on the corner of the table.

A transparent round glass bottle is embedded on the metal base. The bottle is filled with amber liquid, which soaks the slimy, eyeless and mouthless corpse of a blue monster snake. There are exposed objects similar to electrical conduits around the bottle.

At the very top were two light tubes standing opposite each other like bull horns, and the light that was slightly weaker than the incandescent lamps of the previous life sprinkled out, illuminating the entire master bedroom.

“What kind of technology is this?”

As doubts arose in Li Yu's heart, related memories emerged.

It was still a conversation between Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang. The latter complained that Jiao Qing was out of his mind and believed the Tiangong sect salesman's nonsense and spent ten taels of silver to buy a so-called electric eel lamp.

Although the lighting effect is much better than that of kerosene lamps, you have to spend one or two taels of silver to replace a new electric eel every once in a while.

"A miracle of nature!"

"A few years ago, a group of Tiangong believers entered Wanfu City to preach and quickly established a foothold in the southern district. Their religious products were all subversive and were easily sold in the city."

"Electric eel lamp, for one."

When Li Yu extracted these extraordinary information from his chaotic and scattered memories, his eyes couldn't help but glance at the eye mask.

Sure enough, the second, slightly larger bubble gained some energy.

Li Yu immediately became more interested and continued to organize other things.

The next thing was the booklet, which he had previously suspected was the secret book used by Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang to practice evil magic.

When I opened it at this time, I realized it was an account book.

Sun Sanniang had the habit of keeping accounts, and she started from the first day the couple entered the city.

This made Li Yu even happier. It was impossible for him to practice the evil art of cannibalism. This detailed account book could help him quickly understand and integrate into this strange world.

Sure enough, he only flipped through half of the account book and understood his current situation.

Very bad!

Li Yu's original plan was to escape from Wanfu City, where evil people lived together and evil practitioners were everywhere, and go to Qian, Li, and Jing, three peaceful countries that were protected by righteous religious sects.

With the help of righteous gods such as Haotian, Earth Mother, and Demon-Dangling Heavenly Lord, the forbidden egg in the belly was solved.

But only then did I realize that this path was not feasible.

After the daily balance in the account book, there would be a repetitive record from Sun Sanniang, like an obsession: Two taels of silver have been saved for the redemption fee of leaving the city, five taels of silver, and three taels of silver again…

Li Yu thought about it carefully and soon realized:
"What the hell is this place?"

"The rules of Wanfu City: entry to the city is free, but anyone who chooses to leave must pay a high ransom fee."

"The cost for extraordinary people is several times that of ordinary people, and for those above Sequence Eight, it will be doubled further."

"Jiao Qingsun Sanniang was about to accumulate enough money, but in order to cultivate the [Son of the Forbidden God], she spent almost 99% of her wealth. Now she only has a dozen taels of silver left. Not to mention redeeming me and leaving the city, I'm afraid she can't even support herself."

Muttering to this, Li Yu looked at the money he had collected on the table with a troubled expression.

A few pieces of loose silver were thrown there casually.

The strong sense of crisis almost made Li Yu lose the motivation to look through the account book.

"Although I wasn't rich in my previous life, at least I had enough food and clothing."

"Now that I've been lucky enough to travel through time, not only am I being tortured like this, but I'm even worried about eating?"

No wonder Li Yu complained.

If he were a normal person, he could survive for a while with just a dozen taels of iron.

But it was not the case. Because there was no egg in her belly, she had to eat a lot every day to appease herself, otherwise that horror thing would recreate the famous scene from his favorite movie "Alien" in his previous life.

Li Yu suppressed his restlessness and continued to read.

During the process, he sometimes frowned and sometimes looked amazed.

The reason was very simple. He had seen the types of mutton sold by the ogre couple. The most popular ones were the internal organs and brain marrow, while the skin and bones were also purchased by someone special.

At the same time, I also witnessed many strange and beautiful things belonging to the extraordinary world.

The key is!

The second bubble under the door of truth began to charge faster.

Therefore, Li Yu no longer cared about the horror and disgust, and would study carefully anything related to the extraordinary:
"To tour the city for a day, the steam bus of the Tiangong Sect is very expensive, costing two taels of silver, but it is very fast. I heard that it uses the essence of extraordinary monsters as its power."

"I went to the East District. The old demon Zhu Can opened a new Garuda Restaurant. As expected of a Forbidden God Path Sequence Five expert, the dishes are extremely rich, but they are extremely expensive. A simple table costs ten taels of silver. It's really shameless."

"The dirty nuns passed by carrying the Goddess of Childbirth and coaxed me out of a few taels of silver. Then they said that pagans were ineffective. I drafted a plan..."

"I went to the North District to buy weird creatures and flesh to feed that bastard. I spent fifty taels of silver and was almost dragged into a dark alley by that group of stinky barbarians. I was stopped by the boss."

"A bronze rooster for crowing, two taels of silver. The head of the family is crazy again. He was tricked by the shitty salesman of the Tiangong Sect into buying this piece of rubbish. He said it could be used as a 'fire bell' and would be very effective in waking people up."

"One visit to the Ecstasy Club costs ten taels of silver. God damn Jiao Qing, a bastard, and he said he was fooled by the Tiangong Cult and fell for it."

"One consumption at the Mechanical Maid Shop costs five taels of silver. I will kill Jiao Qing."

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(End of this chapter)