The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 71 - Belief

It was raining.

Su Li was sitting on the second floor of the small building.

The weather had become cold enough to make one feel a chill in their bones.

While others still wore single layers of clothing, simply following the season and adorning themselves with winter-specific accessories like scarves and knitted hats…

Su Li had wrapped himself up into a rather presentable ball.

Not long ago, after Egbert and the raven had fought a life-or-death battle, Su Li didn’t ask who had won or lost, but a shapeshifting raven had appeared within the small building.

Faced with this fact, Su Li chose to accept it, but he also stuffed the notebook that had recorded information that couldn’t be revealed to anyone’s eyes into the furnace burning “silver charcoal”.

Although the Chinese characters on it could only be read by him.

But he did it anyway.

Rather than saying it was silver charcoal in the furnace, it would be more accurate to say it was a stone formed by the power of the elements.

Euphia, being a bit more considerate, knew when Su Li would get cold, so she directly gifted him a large number of fire elemental stones that she had condensed.

These things were usually used by Euphia as bombs, but when not activated by her elemental power, these stones merely radiated heat like ordinary fire stones, their surface temperature no different from a normal flame.

So when that notebook was thrown onto them and quickly burned to ashes, the raven standing behind Su Li finally realized, dumbfounded, that his previous actions had been mistakes from start to finish.

Su Li did not want any self-aware existence to see anything on that notebook.

When the raven understood this concept, a sense of guilt arose in his heart, heavy and muffled.

He wanted to ask the reason, but did not want to interrupt Su Li, who was quietly looking out the window at the falling rain.

After a while, it was Su Li who broke the silence.

“Is there something you need?” Su Li looked at the raven.

Apart from the shock of the rescued crow, from being a well-behaved rice eating crow to suddenly turning into a person, he didn’t have much prejudice.

It’s just that when he thought about those words being heard by an intelligent being, he couldn’t help but feel – the possibility of him moving to Mars was probably still less than the possibility of this world’s people all emigrating to Mars and leaving him behind.

Commonly known as social death.

Lost in thought, Su Li unconsciously lowered his breathing, afraid that the images in his memory would inadvertently trigger his overly sensitive embarrassment.

“I… I want to know why you burned that notebook.” The raven hesitated for a moment, but still asked the question.

As a monster beast, his thought processes were not as complex as a human’s, and after determining that he needed to ask this question, he just asked directly.

Su Li replied calmly, “Because the possibility of achieving great things in one step does not exist, so there’s no need to describe the scenery of the heavens on my own.”

Apart from wanting to destroy the evidence of social death, Su Li also genuinely believed, “It is impossible for people standing on the ground to regard the scenery in the sky that others see as real.”

“So the completely imaginary things only need to exist in the mind of me, who is good at writing stories.”

Although Su Li was simply expressing his own thoughts without any hidden meaning, the raven inexplicably felt that he seemed…a bit lonely.

Digging his nails into his palms, words escaped his mouth without deep thought. “Is it because they can’t keep up with your way of thinking, so you think they don’t need to know those things?”

The details in the recorded things were all about how humans, but the raven had always been remotely visualizing the monster beasts.

Humans were limited by the control of the upper class, while the monster beasts were completely hostile to humans due to the hostility of the human upper class.

Therefore, rather than saying the raven was now saying that the other people in the small building could not understand the knowledge in that notebook, it would be better to say that he was asking if he himself was not qualified to understand Su Li.

This kind of feeling was too complex, and after the raven spoke those words, he immediately lowered his head.

And Su Li…

He felt helpless.

“There is no theoretical and practical evidence to prove that everything that has not been realized before is just fantasy.”

Su Li was a person who, in many cases, would make rational judgments greater than emotional judgments, so he couldn’t understand why the raven could say such words filled with sorrow and pain.

“If the pie is drawn realistically enough and the people forced to eat it also believe in it, this is reality. But when the pie can never come true, what should the people who believed in the existence of the pie do?”

“If everything is just fantasy, everything is impossible to achieve, and Eden does not exist at all, then the original believers will only end up in a state of madness in the end.”

Of course, Su Li also hopes that the world will become better.

But some things cannot be directly applied to one’s own understanding.

Don’t think that just because you’re standing on the shoulders of giants, you’ve become a giant yourself.

Su Li absolutely did not think he had the possibility of becoming the vessel that bore the aspirations of others.

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But he was also painfully aware of the influence he had on the people around him.

The laws of the other world that he saw as ordinary, once discovered by the people around him, even if they did not revere them as the truth, they would still believe them firmly.

But this causality is precisely because it is simple enough to be terrifying.

After all, Su Li himself couldn’t even be sure that those things could be applied to this world.

Apart from him, who else in this world needs “charcoal for heating”?

Just like apart from him, who else would know that the billions of people in the other world have no elemental power.

Su Li didn’t want to bring trouble to the people around him by acting recklessly, but the ignorant raven had heard everything in the notebook.

When the snowflakes began to fall outside and the rain stopped, the raven said, “I was too one-sided.”

The raven frankly admitted his mistake.

Su Li also chose to skip this topic and casually started a new topic. “Speaking of which, I wonder how Willard is doing now.”

At that time, Qi had no intention of taking action against Willard, and Euphia didn’t mind keeping him locked up for Qi, but when Willard himself planned to become a tool in Su Li’s hands, the others also felt that it wouldn’t be a big deal to let him go back.

Su Li had asked, “Is it really good to let him go back so easily?”

In Su Li’s eyes, Lan Zhe’s simple drug threat didn’t have much effect.

The claim of not leaking information was too broad.

Assuming Willard leaked the information and then died, the trouble he brought would be far greater than his life.

However, the long-sighted Su Li received a very short-sighted answer.

At that time, Euphia happened to come to Su Li’s place to deliver the fire elemental stones, and when faced with this question, the Flame Maiden candidly replied, “Of course it’s because Willard has already made you his everything.”

“Even Cyril, who has been with you for a long time, and Qi, whom you met later, didn’t treat you with as much reverence as Willard.” Euphia pondered for a moment, “Well… now that I think about it, the word to describe Willard’s feelings towards you is not quite appropriate.”

“The right word here is – faith.”

Euphia looked up at Su Li, who had retreated a few steps due to the scorching heat of the fire elemental stones, and nodded firmly.

Su Li said in a mixed tone, “So, the reason why Willard was simply sent back is because he… believes in me?”

“Of course.” Euphia deliberately teased Su Li.

Unlike the other people’s perception of Su Li, Euphia usually just treated him as a clever younger brother who didn’t seem quite human.

But the facts were not much different from what she said.

Willard went through quite a lot before being allowed to return.

Egbert later specially found this daring little fool who had dared to use Su Li to fish for Qi, and gave him a one-sided beating. But the conclusion was that Willard, with blood all over his body, looked up at Egbert fanatically and said, “If you can believe in his existence, why can’t I?”

“After all, I just want to become the most handy tool in his hands!”

That’s what Willard said at the time, and Egbert was simply unable to express the slightest bit of annoyance at Willard’s desire to compete with him for position.

Euphia almost laughed to death outside the prison cell at the time, and bluntly retorted at Egbert, “You have this day too.”

That scene was something that could still make people laugh when recalled now.

And then Euphia really laughed out loud, which made Su Li certain that he was being teased.

Returning to the present, the now-returned-to-the-inner-city Willard, as expected, had been stripped of his position as heir.

The report submitted by the soldiers, once fully known by the King, Willard’s only use was gone, and he could only slink back to his own palace.

It was only when passing by the garden that Willard encountered Ophelia.

Ophelia, the eldest among the royal descendants of the Amikbi Kingdom, had the title of Grand Princess and was greatly favored by the King. Not only did she have her own fief, but the King had even publicly stated that he was unwilling to let her go to the fief, because he couldn’t bear to part with her.

Interestingly, Siliqing City was one of Ophelia’s fiefs…

People who are bestowed with all kinds of glory seem to also have the capital to cultivate real arrogance, so when faced with the desperate Willard, she unhesitatingly spoke derisively, “Waste.”

Whether it was the disdainful gaze or the repugnant body language, it made Willard clench his fists for a moment, while the magnificently dressed Grand Princess didn’t even want to spare him a glance, turning and leaving.

But also…

Standing in the position of the Grand Princess, she must have known long ago that the so-called heir was nothing more than a tool.

Willard laughed self-mockingly, but also temporarily stopped his steps toward his own palace.

As a spy, how should one acquire valuable and important information?

As a tool, how should one act to perfectly accomplish one’s mission?

Willard didn’t know, but he knew that Ophelia must know more than he did.

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Less than an hour after Su Li brought up the topic related to Willard, on this snowy day, someone brought the news that Willard had almost given up everything to obtain.