Chapter 12: Supreme Fear
Chapter 12: Supreme Fear
As night fell, the hall of the courtyard became brighter, and the dim light filtered through the window lattices and was divided into pieces and fell on the snow outside.
Guangfeng Building was still full, but Liu Ruhai decided to be a hands-off boss today and have a good meal with his wife and daughter.
He cooked a table full of dishes, including the pig's trotter soup that Liu Sheng had been craving for, as well as braised chicken with potatoes and eggplant with fish flavor. He also made a dish of sauerkraut and bacon with the bacon that Liu Sheng brought back.
A large piece of pig’s trotter dipped in red oil was placed on Liu Sheng’s rice. The grease and red oil seeped into the snow-white rice, which looked very appetizing.
"Try it quickly, your father's cooking skills have improved a lot!" her father urged with a proud look on his face.
Liu Sheng took a big sip of the pig's trotter. After a long period of stewing, the meat was soft and glutinous, almost melting in the mouth. The aroma of the meat was permeated with a faint aroma of medicinal herbs. Paired with Liu Ruhai's special spicy dipping sauce, every bite could feel the rich spiciness and the richness of the gravy. Paired with a mouthful of rice, a sense of satisfaction arose spontaneously.
Liu Sheng ate with her mouth full of oil and gave her father a thumbs up.
Her father's craftsmanship is naturally good, otherwise Guangfenglou would not be able to open. More importantly, if he didn't have this skill, he would not be able to pursue her mother.
Ling Youlian is pretty and good at refining weapons. Although her family has fallen on hard times, she is a branch of the Guanghai Ling family, a noble aristocratic family. She is still a real lady from an aristocratic family, and the people who pursue her can line up from the entrance to the end of the village.
When the two were studying at Changxing Academy, Liu Ruhai was well aware of the principle that "to capture a woman, you have to capture her stomach". Today he would give Ling Youlian the braised pork with bamboo shoots he made, and tomorrow he would give her the small snacks he made into the shape of little rabbits. After a few visits, the two eventually became friends, and after graduating from the academy, they decided to live together in Xiaoluyuan.
Then there was Liu Sheng.
"Eat slowly, your face is all greasy." Ling Youlian took out a handkerchief and wiped the red oil off Liu Sheng's face, looking a little disgusted.
"It's a blessing for my daughter to be able to eat. Look, she's become thinner due to hunger." Liu Ruhai looked at his daughter with eyes full of heartache.
Then he picked up a piece of chicken for Ling Youlian. The chicken was first fried in boiling oil until the surface was crispy, and then stewed with potatoes until it was fragrant. It was perfect to eat on a snowy day.
"Try this. I removed the chicken skin because I know you don't like greasy food."
Hearing this, Ling Youlian smiled softly at Liu Ruhai.
Liu Sheng wrinkled his nose because of his parents' annoyance, but there was a smile in the depths of his eyes.
However, this smile suddenly dimmed.
She thought of "Yi Yu".
For the girl, the family sitting together, chatting and laughing while eating leisurely seemed to be a scene that had not appeared for a long time.
How can we help "Yi Yu"?
Unconsciously, Liu Sheng went from being obsessed with completing the high-dimensional analysis of [３４５７６] to wanting to truly free "Yi Yu" who was trapped in it.
……
Under the cold night sky, Liu Sheng sat alone on the roof wrapped in a thick coat.
The higher she stood, the stronger the wind was. Fortunately, her full stomach provided her with a constant supply of heat energy.
Liu Sheng looked up and saw a huge god's face in the dark night sky overlooking the world. Divine light danced on its face, and that glow made the small green garden look pale.
The pair of broad, bright eyes on the god's face that could see through everything seemed to be looking at her, and the slightly parted lips seemed to be telling her something.
She suddenly had a feeling that if the Supreme God took a light breath at this moment, he could suck her into his mouth, and she would disappear in the deep mouth without any sense of existence, without even chewing.
Compared to the Supreme God, she is not even as good as an ant.
This fantasy made her legs go weak, and when she looked at the Supreme God again, an indescribable fear welled up in her heart.
It shouldn't be like this.
Liu Sheng heard from her classmates who could communicate with gods that when they saw the Supreme God, they could feel a kind of sacred grandeur and natural amiability, and they naturally wanted to crawl under Him, try their best to get close to Him, throw themselves into His arms, and obtain eternal peace and belonging.
It's not just those spiritual practitioners, everyone in the world believes in the Supreme God. For them, the Supreme God gives the world spiritual energy and resists evil and weirdness. He is the supreme power to maintain the order of heaven and earth.
At every important moment, whether it is celebrating a good harvest or praying for disasters, people will pray devoutly to the Supreme God, hoping to get His protection and guidance.
But for Liu Sheng, the Supreme God was distant and cold, huge and oppressive. She looked up at him for a long time, and her desire to escape became stronger and stronger, but she desperately realized that she was just a tiny human trapped on this ground. The Supreme God was always above her, looming over her, looking down on her, and imprisoning her...
Could it be that this difference in thoughts prevented her from establishing a connection with the Supreme God?
In the end, it made it impossible for her to achieve spiritual enlightenment?
But she must practice.
She is going to participate in the Honghu Project.
Going to the National Academy.
Liu Sheng tried to steady his breathing and wrapped his clothes tighter, trying to control the trembling all over his body that was not sure whether it was caused by the cold or fear. He held the Seven Mysterious Order in his hand, looked up at the Supreme God, closed his eyes, and tried to meditate according to the method of communicating with the gods taught in the academy, trying to find the faith and desire hidden by fear in his heart.
In this world, people do not need to rely on statues or temples to pray to the Supreme God, because the Supreme God has mercy on the world and directly shows his holy face in the sky visible to everyone. People only need to tell the Supreme God what they want under the blue sky.
The night wind continued to howl in the air, but Liu Sheng's heart gradually calmed down.
As her meditation deepened, the Seven Mysterious Orders in her hand grew slightly warm, and a faint cool air passed through her palms into her body. Her brain seemed to become much clearer, and her consciousness gradually immersed in a strange tranquility, as if the whole world had stopped, and only she and the huge face of the god were left confronting each other in the vast dark universe.
She seemed to see not only the face of God, but also the neck beneath the face and the body beneath the neck. It was an unspeakable existence, neither a real entity nor an illusion. It was tall and well-proportioned, white and transparent, and shrouded in a faint sacred glow.
Is this God?
God is huge.
She is very small.
She and God were facing each other from a distance, like a speck of dust floating in the air, surrounded by the deep and vast universe, and stars seemed to be twinkling in the distance.
She felt terrified and wanted to kneel down and surrender at His feet, an oppression that was felt on a soul level.
No.
Another thought came to mind.
Once you surrender, terrible things will happen.
That thought said so.
She felt like she was in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, but when she wanted to open her eyes and see clearly, everything disappeared.
She was still sitting on the roof of her house where the cold wind was howling. In the distance, the lights of the small green garden were twinkling, and the mountains stood silently in the dark night.
That inexplicable connection is gone.
Liu Sheng has tried to communicate with the gods countless times since he was a child, but this is the first time he has felt such a faint connection. Perhaps it is really the work of the Seven Mysterious Orders.
But Liu Sheng felt that this was different from the connection with the gods. All she felt was coldness, even...
And there is malice.
As soon as this thought came to mind, Liu Sheng suddenly felt a chill all over his body.
How could the Supreme God possibly harbor any ill will towards her?
This should be the warmest and most sacred existence in the world.
She must be mistaken.
(End of this chapter)