The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 22 - Su Li Falls Ill

Su Li Falls Ill

Su Li hesitated at Roy’s question.

He didn’t possess much, but he definitely had self-awareness.

In this extremely dangerous world, without elemental powers for self-protection, he would be the easiest target whenever danger arose.

However…

Su Li still wanted to go. When this thought emerged, he realized he no longer needed to make up excuses for himself.

He had already provided other options.

Although these options weren’t clear at the moment.

“It’s better to live life somewhat confusedly; being too clear-headed only brings suffering,” Su Li stopped thinking about the realities that could endanger his life and simply said, “Even if I don’t go, you all will still go, right?”

Su Li started counting on his fingers. “Egbert is already there. Although Euphia is the heir, she needs merits to build reputation before officially inheriting her position. She’s already reached an agreement with the Lion’s Club leader, and with the war mission being inevitable, the guards will definitely go. As for you…”

Su Li turned his gaze to Roy. “Would you not go?”

The two-star mercenary laughed heartily. “Of course I’ll go. After all, I haven’t even started my mission to hunt the level-eight monster beast yet. Since Egbert is there too, I can’t avoid it this time.”

“It’s too dangerous.” Cyril’s ability to organize words couldn’t help him find excuses to refuse, given that Su Li had already decided. He could only frown helplessly and speak powerless words.

“Cyril will go too, right?” Su Li looked at him, “Jisuo Town is the most heavily impacted area. No matter how humble our lives were there, Cyril, you couldn’t abandon the place where we were born, could you?”

“If Cyril himself wants to go, how can he stop me?”

As for Mark, who had been excessively considerate throughout their conversation in this house… he had already packed their luggage while the others were talking.

When Mark asked if there was anything else they needed besides necessary clothes and toiletries, everyone’s minds went blank for a moment.

Finally, Su Li was the first to react, clearing his throat before saying, “You’ve done very well. These are exactly what we need to bring.”

As for other items like bandages and medicines, the Mercenary Alliance reportedly had small spatial devices created with elemental power that could quickly transport most resources.

Su Li chose not to act too clever and simply carried a suitcase full of basic supplies for the four of them as they headed directly to Jisuo Town.

Unlike their journey from Jisuo Town to Sadina City, this time their trip to Jisuo Town carried some unexpectedly heavy elements.

Fortunately, no one discussed these depressing matters, allowing everyone to maintain their composure upon arrival.

Jisuo Town had transformed from the bustling place they left behind into a dead silence, with barely a person visible on the streets every ten minutes, and those few who appeared moved like walking corpses.

Many buildings were destroyed, and mutilated corpses lay in corners, surrounded by flies due to improper handling.

Su Li had never seen corpses before. In his thirty years of life, he had attended many funerals, but as a non-relative, he had only seen either closed coffins or buried urns.

Forcibly suppressing his instinctive fear of corpses, Su Li also managed to control his sudden urge to lean against a tree and vomit violently.

He chose to close his eyes.

He muttered something seemingly pointless. “Indeed, for anyone, things you don’t want to see can be pretended away just by closing your eyes.”

Afterwards, knowing he would have to stay in this town for a while and not wanting to become a burden, Su Li opened his eyes again.

Roy’s slightly furrowed brow now creased even more deeply.

He was pondering the meaning behind Su Li’s words…

In the end, he couldn’t help but doubt himself.

Could Su Li already know… who he really was?

“Let’s go find people,” Su Li looked ahead again at the area. They didn’t have time to deal with the corpses; they needed to find survivors first.

During the carriage ride here, Su Li realized that the upcoming rescue operation would surely include many people from the Church of Light.

Since everything stemmed from initial calculations, those who didn’t want their schemes exposed would definitely try to bury everything.

Therefore, this time the Church of Light’s aid wouldn’t just involve sending a few healing elementalists; they would deploy many advance forces.

The Order of the Knights of Light’s deployment as military personnel would become the only choice.

With Egbert still here, Euphia would surely lend him an intelligence channel. Knowing that large numbers of Church of Light personnel were coming, the currently solo-operating Egbert would likely go into hiding, so Su Li no longer held hopes of seeing him during this rescue operation.

Sure enough, after Roy grabbed and threw him onto his back, quickly rushing toward areas with large concentrations of survivors, Su Li found no familiar faces in sight upon landing.

Su Li withdrew his gaze, and Roy quickly threw him back onto his back again.

As someone capable of becoming a three-star mercenary, when Roy wanted to, he could wrap Su Li in his elemental power, forcing the naturally avoiding elemental particles to create an illusion that Su Li was also an elementalist.

No one questioned whether this crude disguise was real or fake.

Su Li, lying on Roy’s back, watched as he turned his head to glance at him, trying hard to decipher the meaning in his eyes…

In the end, he couldn’t figure it out.

He could only respond with an even more profound gaze.

The king of understanding refused to admit defeat.

Roy, upon receiving that deeper gaze, was stunned for a moment.

In his view, his glance had meant that the situation was worse than they imagined, with the Church of Light already controlling the small town and possibly secretly eliminating those who knew internal information… shouldn’t they leave?

Su Li’s profound return gaze seemed to say, as people who came here for disaster relief, how could they possibly not help when they discovered new disasters unfolding before their eyes?

Roy admired Su Li’s courage while genuinely worrying about his safety.

Su Li, still unclear about what his bodyguard had imagined, turned his attention back to the crowd and realized that white-robed figures now made up a shocking half of the population.

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Even though these survivors couldn’t be all of the town’s residents, this proportion was still surprising.

This inversely proved just how powerful those who feared the “truth of the traitor” really were.

While the two were exchanging glances, Mark approached the nearest person, who seemed rather agitated.

Unlike others who appeared numb, this person was visibly upset. When Mark asked, “How’s the situation now?” he spilled everything like beans from a pod.

The death toll hadn’t changed, and the Church of Light had taken over the safety of Jisuo Town’s people. As for whether church members were secretly dealing with those who knew internal information…

It couldn’t be confirmed yet. But one thing was clear, as Mark reported when he returned to the trio.

“The church members plan to organize all mercenaries currently in town, along with their own people, to hunt the Crystal Winged Dragon.”

Mark had sensed what that agitated person was angry about and honestly explained, “Though I don’t know why, I could tell that person doesn’t want the upcoming hunt to happen, but is powerless to stop it.”

“And the Church of Light has scheduled the hunt for tomorrow.”

Heaven knows the town had just suffered a monster beast rampage three days ago.

It wasn’t that organizing resistance now was wrong, but when comparing how other towns similarly ravaged by monster beasts only received a few healing elementalists from the church…

The contrast would make anyone who knew the truth despair.

Yet all those who knew the truth could only hide in the deepest waters, even having to cover their tracks with mud.

Su Li, lying on Roy’s back, unconsciously bit his left thumb’s nail – a habit that emerged when he was anxious.

Commoners shouldn’t concern themselves too much with upper-class conflicts – this was something ordinary people had already begun inscribing into their bones even before his transmigration…

So what should he do?

The question seemed impossible to answer. In their group of four, Mark wasn’t particularly clever. If Reiji was an emotional intelligence lowland, then Mark was definitely easily fooled, except for his intuitive abilities…

An Intelligence Quotient Lowland.

Cyril was very young, and as for Roy…

In his view, how could someone paid just ten gold coins monthly as a bodyguard fee be expected to risk their life protecting their employer, especially when that amount wasn’t even considered money to some?

It was too complicated.

Su Li’s intelligence wasn’t sufficient, so he decisively gave up thinking and started focusing on what he could still decide.

“Roy will definitely go to the Beast Forest, so Mark should stay to protect Cyril and me. I’ll try my best to avoid appearing before church people.” Su Li hadn’t even noticed that Roy had covered him with elemental particles, thinking Roy had carried him back just to use an adult’s body to shield a youth’s presence.

“So finding a relatively safe place to stay in this chaotic city will depend on Cyril.”

“As for later, since we as individuals can’t represent the main rescue personnel, we should just focus on collecting the data we need to understand.”

For instance, the number of irregular deaths in Jisuo Town during these three days.

Monster beasts not only possessed self-awareness, but after reaching certain levels, they could even speak human language.

Though the Crystal Winged Dragon wanted revenge, it definitely wouldn’t forget who it truly wanted to kill during its retribution.

Su Li wasn’t clear about what Egbert wanted to do, but as long as he was alive, he would inevitably be at odds with the Church. Having evidence of the Church’s conspiracies in advance could provide leverage when facing crisis.

And then there was.....Su Li put himself in the others’ shoes – if his most important person died “accidentally,” he would definitely investigate the truth with all his might.

Conveniently, even together, their small group didn’t draw attention. Roy would definitely head to the Beast Forest, and the other three weak members staying together would just be seen as huddling for warmth.

So investigating certain information now wouldn’t attract notice due to their insignificance.

After Cyril, who knew the terrain well, led them to a somewhat habitable place, Su Li already knew he’d likely have nightmares tonight and might develop a fever tomorrow, so he explained in advance. “Tomorrow we’ll go find that irritable little brother Mark talked to.”

That night, no one slept peacefully.

By midnight, Su Li had fallen into a nightmare.

In the dream, those things he deliberately ignored during the day not only became more obvious but seemed more terrifying due to the lack of light and shadow.

Su Li was an ordinary person who knew he couldn’t handle horror movies, so he never watched them, never challenging his own limits.

As Cyril predicted, this nightmare brought Su Li a fever with no clear recovery time.

Before joining the main force heading to the Beast Forest, Roy could only hurriedly leave some ice wrapped in towels for Mark to care for Su Li.

But shortly after he left, Su Li struggled up despite his dizzy head.

“Let’s proceed according to plan.”

Su Li guessed that irritable little brother might be one of those who knew the truth.

After nearly an hour of searching in two separate groups, they found the irritable little brother.

Upon seeing them, the guy’s features crumpled in Su Li’s blurry vision.

“Why are you blocking my way? Don’t you know time is precious to me? I have no interest in playing with children.”

He tried to leave after speaking.

“But what if we know that you know something, and what you’re trying to do?”

Though all of Su Li’s deductions were based on the premise that the irritable little brother knew the truth. If the situation was different or opposite, this would definitely be a failure, and they’d have to flee with Mark…

“What do you know?” The irritable little brother’s suddenly enlarged face before Su Li made him involuntarily step back. Due to weakness, he almost fell to his knees.

Cyril glared at him. “Stay away from Su Li!”

“Your name is Su Li? Quickly tell me what you know!”

“You’re heading toward the Beast Forest, but you don’t seem to care about the united forces. Instead, you look agitated… Could this suggest that you’re actually worried about the Crystal Winged Dragon they’re going to surround?”

“So I’m betting you know the truth.”

The irritable little brother became even more agitated. “So what if I know?”

“You know why the Crystal Winged Dragon attacked Jisuo Town, but don’t you also know how many people died because of this?” Su Li suspected he had some connection to the Dragon, though the relationship wasn’t clear.

“What do they have to do with me?” The irritable little brother replied without any emotion.

This response left Su Li stunned.

Setting aside any moral judgment for now, Su Li’s single question made the irritable little brother fall silent.

“Then do you know that the child the Crystal Winged Dragon kept alive is very likely in trouble too?”