I Became a God in a Horror Game: 435, Evil God Festival Boathouse

After the royal boat left, the cabin returned to silence, only the frightened sobbing of children and the ignorant barking of kittens and dogs could be heard occasionally.

Cang Tai got a little black cat, and he stood quietly behind Bai Liu for a long time before he opened his mouth and asked in a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, can you see Xiao Kui? Why? How is it?"

With the help of the faint light, Bai Liu looked at Xiaokui on the bed. Petting the chin of the kitten assigned to me, the voice was hoarse and weak: "Good cat, be good."

“[Xiao Kui] Be good.”

Cang Tai heard Xiao Kui's voice, he was silent for a while, looked at the little black cat in his arms with almost indescribable eyes, and loosened his hands tremblingly.

The little black cat raised its head in confusion, looked at the boy who didn't hug him tightly, and let out a soft meow.

Cang Tai turned around cruelly, and he closed his eyes short of breath.

...It turns out that this is why these sacrifices will get cats.

It is almost every child's dream to have a little animal that has the same name as their own and is very close to them.

‌It can't be like this, it's too... painful.

This scares him a hundred times more than letting Cang Tai do coolies.

Seeing the death of two kittens named Xiaokui and a Shiba Inu, Sota, who was huddled on the bed and did not dare to speak out, listened to Xiaokui's heart-piercing screams, shivered, and covered his mouth The ears dare not listen any more.

The screams were so horrendous that Cang Tai almost thought that it was not Xiaodong that died, but Xiaokui herself.

He doesn't want to be a little sunflower, so he'd better not have feelings for these distributed pets, and it's best to separate now.

A wave came again, the cabin was bumped up, everyone was knocked by the waves and slipped to one side, the little black cat couldn't hold things steady with its paws, and it seemed to slide down the bed. , screamed twice in panic.

Cang Tai, who had passed by before, turned around in a panic: "Cang Tai!"

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he took the little black cat into his arms again and hugged it tightly.

When Cang Tai realized what he had done, he stared blankly at the little black cat tightly hugged by both hands, tears streaming down his face involuntarily.

...Why is this happening.

Although it was the first time he saw her, he couldn't help but watch 【Cang Tai】die.

In the dark cabin, many children cried and hugged their pets tightly when the waves hit, sobbing and calling their pets' same name as themselves.

In the vast sea, on a painful journey with unknown paths, these children who are about to become sacrifices to evil gods try to get something from this soft and close animal. The temperature of support, or the love that is domesticated by humans and given to them the first time they meet.

"You can't let go of the pets they handed out." Lying on his bed, a child named Bai Liu said flatly, "Now you know it When I call you by the same name, you won't be able to let go."

Cang Tai hugged the little black cat, sobbing and asked: "Why?"

Bai Liu said calmly: "It's the same as you. It's an animal cub used by adults. It's a lonely individual drifting in this sea after being abandoned and sold. It is a tool that is about to be tortured to increase pain.”

"From various perspectives, you are all the same kind."

"In the world, you should never meet a human being who is friendly to you. The human beings you meet, or the human beings you meet are all killing you, otherwise you would not be trafficked here A boat, under such conditions, you have met a 【‌class】who will love you after being carefully selected, and you also share a name, so it is hard for you to empathize with this animal. ‌Cub ‌."

Bai Liu turned slightly to the side, opened his eyelids and looked at the dazed Cang Tai behind him: "——In other words, the cat in your hand is no longer a cat, it is another yourself, another Cang Tai Too."

"You can't watch it die, just like you can't watch yourself die."

Cang Tai stared blankly at Bai Liu's dark eyes, he suddenly remembered some rumors, trembled a bit, opened his mouth hesitantly, as if he wanted to ask something, and finally Still fell silent.

Bai Liu said calmly: "Do you want to ask now, if people will empathize with another kind of motivation in a mutual predicament, why [me] in the orphanage would It’s cruel to kill animals, isn’t it?”

After a long time, Cang Tai took a hesitant look at the little white cat curled up in Bai Liu's arms, sleeping soundly, its belly turned upside down, and explained: "Actually, I don't feel it." You did it, I just don’t understand, I mean if, if there are rumors about you, why would he do this?”

Bai Liu was quiet for a while, and then said: "There is one important point in empathy judgment, which is empathy."

"First of all, feel the emotional similarities between the other person and you. For example, when you and the black cat in your arms are in the same predicament, you have pain, fear, and fear. Wait for the emotion, at this time you will feel that it is your kind, and then you will empathize, and then achieve the purpose of empathy."

"If a person encounters any kind of event, the emotions he produces are not the same as those around him, even the actions are different, and the emotions are not consistent. He will have no way to empathize. Naturally, it is impossible to empathize."

"Emotions have something in common, so he won't feel that he and the people around him are human, and when people hurt non-human things, they won't feel pain of."

"He is the same as us, he is a child who grew up in an orphanage." Cang Tai arched to the side of the white willow, and asked in puzzlement from the bottom of his heart, "Why would he have The way to produce the same emotions as us? Is it because the brain is different from ours?"

"I personally don't think so." Bai Liu's tone was light, "Because most people with normal brains can empathize with others even if they have the ability to exploit others."

"For example, Master Mifune just now, he should be the county magistrate of Luming County near Xiaokui's mouth. He sounds like a good person before, and he should be good to Xiaokui, but now he is completely lacking in Xiaokui Without empathy, Xiaokui is not treated as a living person at all, but as a sacrifice.”

Cang Tai asked lightly in a daze: "...Yeah, why did this happen?"

"I think it's because of desire." Bai Liu continued to explain in a flat tone, "When a person desires too much, when he sees any living thing, the first thing he feels is not a sense of humanity, but a sense of exploitation."

"Extreme desires will make people imagine that they are in a huge social food chain, and other people are also in the food chain with them, so they will only have two judgments on the people around them, What can exploit them, and what they can exploit.”

"What they can exploit is low-level animals like kittens and puppies, and the one who can exploit them is the infinite God."

"In their world, the weak are prey to the strong, the fittest survive, and human nature is evil. People are born to cannibalize all kinds of food chains to increase assets and value. They take it for granted that empathy is a It's a sign of weakness, because beasts don't empathize with hunters."

Cang Tai asked weakly: "We are humans, we are not beasts."

Bai Liu paused: "If a person stays in the food chain of self-desire for a long time, he will become a beast from a human, or even a monster."

"Humans with only desires can eat people."

Cang Tai fell into a kind of creepy sluggishness, he suddenly repeated Bai Liu's words: "Cannibal...?"

Xiaokui gave two nervous laughs from the shop, and then murmured: "Xiaokui, Maomao, be good."

The wind and waves on the sea finally stopped, and the big ship carrying a boat of sacrifices from Bai Liu and the others docked at the port of Luming County on a sunny afternoon.

The royal boat stood neatly at the port, holding a stick made of bamboo poles in his hand, and looked down at the lowered man in a steadfast manner, his footsteps were weak, and he walked out of the cabin in a weak line ‌The sacrifices who came.

The sacrifices are all children under fifteen years old, just sensible and a little ignorant, which is Luming County's favorite age for sacrifices.

Bai Liu is considered big here, almost seventeen, normally there shouldn't be such a big sacrifice, because it's not good, because he is thin and small, and his appearance looks It was only about fifteen, so it was successfully sold here.

These sacrifices who have experienced the wind and waves are all hugging the little animals in their arms. Some children are still weak, so they don't care, and they just throw themselves into their arms wholeheartedly. The weak little animal moved all over his body.

They repeatedly inspected the paws of the puppies and kittens, put their faces on their bellies, and felt their breathing ups and downs. She didn't dare to ask the people around her for help, she just cried in a low voice.

The royal boat looked at the tearful sacrifices and nodded in satisfaction, then nodded sideways: "Go and help them heal the pets and send them to their houseboat."

Bai Liu looked around from the corner of his eye, and he saw that many children, even if they were afraid of this imperial boat because of what happened to Xiaokui before, their eyes lit up because of this order of imperial boat. .

A few children whispered: "Thank you, Mifune-sama."

Fifteen years old is the age at which the concept of right and wrong has not yet formed. Many children seem to have grown up in a cramped and abnormal environment, and they probably have insufficient awareness of the world.

It is too easy to deceive.

Yu Fune slowed down his expression: "You children are all good children, love animals, love relatives and friends, and have rich feelings. I am very satisfied."

"I know you were very scared when you saw me teaching Xiaokui on the boat. What I have to say here is that Xiaokui is a bad boy!"

Yufu suddenly lost his face, he held his cane and slammed it heavily on the ground: "I don't like small animals, and I haven't been tested by priests for several years. Qualified, and even injured her attendants and dogs and escaped from us, she is a very bad girl!"

"We will not be friendly to such a bad child. I hope everyone will learn from Xiaokui and strive to be a good child. We will treat you well."

All the children turned to look at Xiaokui standing motionless in front of the sacrifice, as if they hadn't noticed that the eyes of these children looking at him had become repulsive and vigilant, and they were still holding Looking at the cat, he stood numbly in the bed.

Mifune withdrew his gaze from Xiaokui, and then fell on the group of sacrificial children looking up at him:

"The place where you live is called a houseboat. It's on a coast not far from here. You can see the sea every day when you wake up. It's a very beautiful place."

"Before you arrive at the houseboat, you need to do one small thing."

The imperial boat said: "I need two of you to become good friends, and then one of you will be the attendant of the other, and the other will be the sacrificial offering."

His eyes became dark and dull:

"Children who become the sacrifices, you can enjoy the best everything in Luming County, food, clothing, travel, education, and even your pets can enjoy the best treatment, never again ‌Someone dares to hurt them.”

"We will select the most famous big family in Luming County to be your adoptive parents. You are the most precious existence in Luming County, above all ordinary people, and if you If you can successfully provide a round of sacrifice at the Evil God Sacrifice, after that, you will enjoy it forever."

The eyes of all the children couldn't help showing longing.

"Become a servant's child." Mifune's tone changed into a pity, "It's just a servant."

"——It's the same as the days you lived together, you are just a servant who will be abandoned at any time."

"If one day your good friends don't like you or don't need you anymore." Mifune smiled kindly, "We will send you back."

"I will keep your pet here."