The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 45 - Su Li: Exhausted.jpg
Su Li blinked, feeling he needed some time to process the impact of these words.
“Although I knew this was likely to happen, I didn’t think it was absolutely certain to occur.”
Su Li’s understanding of monster beasts was limited to their level classifications and some basic surface information. When making predictions, except for initially putting on an act of certainty to convince others, he had felt somewhat uncertain later when people actually believed him.
He knew too little but had said too much.
As a result…
Lan Zhe’s expression now looked quite unusual.
While Su Li didn’t have the ability to read others’ expressions, Cyril beside him could see at a glance that Lan Zhe’s expression showed both amazement and a sense of inevitability.
Everyone knew things might not happen as Su Li predicted, yet everyone firmly believed they would develop exactly as he had forecast.
So when events actually unfolded, those who marveled at Su Li’s wisdom only became more convinced.
To others, the subject’s denial merely meant: “The difference between 99% and 100% only matters to you,” Lan Zhe said dismissively. “The power of a level 9 monster beast – I really want to see just how strong it is in person…”
“Better not,” Su Li’s mouth twitched. “Since Jisuo Town now has so many powerful experts guarding it, having one more or less won’t make much difference. Just stay put for now. If you go, I feel everyone will naturally blame you for the level 9 monster beast’s appearance.”
The Dark Holy Son’s activities, since the news was somewhat covered up before, hadn’t caused much trouble. But if it happened openly again, even if the two churches didn’t go to war, there would definitely be small-scale conflicts.
It was better to avoid bloodshed if possible.
“So you didn’t deny the difference between 99% and 100%.” Lan Zhe’s focus wasn’t actually on the level 9 monster beast.
No matter how strong the monster beast was, as Su Li said, with so many powerful experts guarding Jisuo Town, even if something happened, it wouldn’t affect Sadina City.
Lan Zhe’s focus had always been on whether Su Li was truly as intelligent as he imagined.
As for why he cared and wanted to confirm this…
Perhaps it was because someone who could see everything clearly, understand everything deeply, yet still accept everything…
Should indeed be kept close by his side.
There wouldn’t be another person like him in this world.
Lan Zhe’s smile remained unchanged, and no one knew what kind of thoughts were going through the mind of the person deliberately seeking Su Li’s tacit agreement.
Su Li, who had been assumed to agree, said, “No, as long as it’s not absolutely 100%, there will definitely be a difference, and I didn’t put my predictions of reality at 99% accuracy.”
“In fact, I thought the probability of this happening was less than 50%.”
Now that things had happened, Su Li felt it wasn’t a big deal to explain his thought process.
“My understanding of monster beasts is so superficial that I only know what you’ve mentioned. I know nothing about different monster beasts’ personalities, racial differences, behavior patterns, character aspects, and historical records of species characteristics. Rather than making predictions based on existing information, it was more like half guesswork, half making things up.”
So when things actually happened, Su Li was quite shocked too.
But was Su Li’s explanation useful?
At least in Roy’s view, it wasn’t.
“You’re overthinking it.” Roy said directly, “Though I don’t know what complex environment you lived in before to develop your current way of thinking. But one thing I, who am not exactly weak, can openly state—”
“The intelligence of both humans and beasts in this world hasn’t reached the standard you acknowledge.”
“I’ve never seen someone declare their own lack of intelligence, and even publicly drag others into it, basically insulting everyone including themselves,” Su Li worried that someday Roy might get ambushed and beaten to death, which wasn’t impossible.
Su Li turned his gaze to the others.
Lan Zhe: “My desire to kill Roy isn’t because he says things like this.”
In fact, these two would fight every now and then under various pretexts like “peaceful communication,” “power interaction,” or “boredom,” and each time it was a battle to the death.
But surprisingly, Su Li had never witnessed the gorilla’s recovery ability after battles.
Often, shortly after fighting, they would clean themselves up to look presentable, then act as if they were ready for the next battle.
Ignoring these two’s absurdity, the honest Mark directly stated, “I’ve never been a clever person.”
Su Li tried to get some less absurd responses from his companions, but when he looked at Cyril, the latter simply turned his head away.
“What do you mean by that?”
“It means I don’t want to admit I’m stupid, but I also don’t want to acknowledge you’re a genius.”
“Then just don’t acknowledge it, why did you have to say it out loud!”
“But even if I don’t want to acknowledge it, I can’t deny it either.”
Su Li: ……
“You’re something else,” Su Li said, at a loss for words.
What was wrong with the people of this world?
How could they be so bizarre?
Lan Zhe coughed, interrupting the two children’s debate about genius and foolishness, and said, “The students Dean Asa took away will likely gain comprehensive improvements during this level 9 monster beast defense battle. What do you think, Cyril?”
With more powerful people appearing, those protecting Su Li couldn’t be too weak.
Cyril: “I think with my eyes.”
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After being pierced by Lan Zhe’s glare, he quickly corrected himself. “I’ll train harder!”
“Good.” While nodding, Lan Zhe was already planning how to improve Cyril’s strength to a level absolutely no weaker than those taken by Dean Asa before they returned.
Roy gave Lan Zhe a look, and he understood the intention to get involved as well.
Noticing Cyril inexplicably shudder from the corner of his eye, Lan Zhe pretended not to see and said, “Tonight’s dinner is egg fried rice.”
“I haven’t figured out how to make crispy rice yet. If Su Li particularly wants to eat that, please give me more time.”
“Being able to make egg fried rice is already a miracle itself.” Su Li never expected this world to have rice.
Even if they did, it might not match the taste in his memories.
Thus, after long periods of eating bread and bread and more bread, with occasional “Stargazy Pie,” Su Li’s eating had gradually become about getting minimum nutrition just to stay alive.
But surprisingly, Lan Zhe, who had been wandering around the Beast Forest for who knows how long, actually discovered wild rice.
When Lan Zhe produced grain similar to what Su Li had described from his memories, Su Li witnessed what could truly be called a miracle.
However, when Su Li tried to praise the God of Darkness in gratitude, Lan Zhe immediately stopped him, saying that they in the Dark Church didn’t worship the God of Darkness, so there was no need for someone without faith to put on an act.
“I do have faith – belief itself, gazing at the stars.”
While eating egg fried rice and reminiscing, Su Li unconsciously spoke the words he had swallowed back then because he hadn’t known what to say.
“Of course, this isn’t about stargazing for the sake of it. Rather, it’s about stars that have existed for who knows how many light-years – even if separated by an equally unknown number of light-years, just being able to still gaze at them is already a kind of fortune.”
Su Li spoke these words without context, while others, already accustomed to his way of speaking, went about doing various things.
Lan Zhe took notes, Mark contemplated before giving up, and Roy was thinking about whether those stars in the sky, which had never received much attention from people, really held so many special meanings.
Cyril, however, was thinking that Su Li had immersed himself in his own world again.
Also, the scrambled eggs in the egg fried rice smelled really good.
As for late at night, whether the people sleeping in their respective rooms were compelled by Su Li’s words to uncontrollably pull open their curtains and look up at the starry sky – well, that was something everyone except Su Li knew very well.
Rather than saying Su Li believed in the stars, it would be more accurate to say he believed in science.
But believing in the stars, a concept even more distant than believing in gods, had deeply penetrated others’ hearts.
Although Su Li was aware that others often made assumptions about him, he didn’t think he had reached the point where everything he did would be over-interpreted. The next morning, maintaining his pleasant feeling of having had enough sleep, he greeted several panda-eyed individuals. “Morning.”
“Morning,” Cyril responded hazily.
Staying up late was something he used to do often during his beggar days, after all, when he couldn’t eat his fill, he would easily wake up hungry at night. But now staying up late without being hungry was clearly due to self-consciousness…
Cyril rotated his dry eyeballs to look at where Su Li was.
Being good at reading others’ expressions, Cyril could tell at a glance that the others who had stayed up late weren’t doing well either.
Was Su Li the only one doing well?
Even if a god descended right now, that wouldn’t be possible!
“There’s no rice today,” Cyril said expressionlessly.
Lan Zhe nodded firmly and said, “I agree.”
“Haven’t had bread for a while, kind of miss it,” Roy scratched his cheek.
Mark honestly said, “I’m fine with anything.”
“I’m not okay with this, I think this isn’t right!” Su Li’s eyes widened.
It didn’t matter that Su Li thought it wasn’t okay – if the others thought it was fine, then he wouldn’t see a single grain of rice today.
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But there was one thing.
Just when he thought he would have to go to sleep hungry today, there were knocks on his door one after another.
Cyril came first, and not long after Su Li opened the door, this guy, while flashing dragon scales, pulled out a bowl of rice from his chest, topped with many dishes that were completely different from tonight’s dinner.
It was obvious he had gone to the kitchen late at night.
Su Li: !
“Cyril, truly we are the closest buddies.”
Cyril left blushing, his dragon scales still flashing.
After that, Lan Zhe came in carrying a pot…
He was saying, “During the day while you and Cyril were at school, I went to find a fire elementalist under Euphia’s command.”
Then, he made crispy rice.
Su Li: !
“As expected of you, the legendary Lord Kitchen God!”
Then, Lan Zhe coughed once and left too.
After that, Roy knocked on his door…
And even Mark came later…
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