Chapter 483: Accompanying Evil God

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Kader Town.

Xu Zhi, having traded a single chicken feather with a legendary expert for a large sum of gold, became a wealthy man. He arrived in Kader Town and acquired a semi-charitable bookstore, owned by a church, located in a district on the other side of town.

The Church of Light Bookstore.

Its location was quite good.

It stood at a crossroads, with a bus stop nearby. The bus stop featured a brass sign bearing black, worm-like characters that spelled "Old West Street."

The shop, covering eighty square meters, was small and aged. Rows of old mahogany bookshelves were densely packed with books, and the white wallpaper on the walls had begun to peel. Behind the cash register hung an elegant oil painting of a forest landscape in a silver frame, said to have been painted by the previous owner in his youth—a down-on-his-luck minstrel.

The defining characteristic of this shop was its non-profit nature. It was a welfare facility established by the Church of Light and distributed across major towns and cities. Anyone could borrow books for free, similar to the model of Xinhua Bookstores.

After all, the Church of Light worshipped Hermes, the God of Wisdom. As books are a vital source of knowledge, the bookstore naturally served as an excellent place to spread their faith.

Many similar non-profit initiatives were in place. For instance, the Church of Light regularly offered free porridge and assisted commoners in exchange for their faith. Mortals, in turn, had grown accustomed to attending regular prayers at the church on Sundays and weekends.

Other churches of professional spellcasters operated similarly, not pursuing profit but acting as charitable organizations that benefited the land. What they sought was not gold from the populace, but their faith and piety.

The churches' primary economic sources stemmed from their high-level powerhouses, who engaged in magical farming, manufactured and sold alchemical machinery, and managed other various industries.

Alchemical buses, bus stops, and streets were all funded and laid out by the major churches to gather faith from various towns. The gods in heaven served mortals, and life here was, in fact, significantly happier and more beautiful than in countries on Earth, making it a utopian world in some sense.

Xu Zhi stretched. While corrupt noble powers and slave trading still existed, they were actively targeted by the major churches.

In Kader Town, apart from the Church of Light, the entire settlement belonged to the Redstone Warlock Church. This church was responsible for maintaining the town's facilities, and the arrival of any other church would inevitably ignite disputes over faith.

Sitting at the cash register, he pondered:

New humans? What kind of genes should I use?

Every time he created a new world, he habitually conducted research and exploration within his sandbox. This was true when he created the ancient Cube-Humans, and when he engineered life in the lava world, he even established a large research institute. Now, acquiring a bookstore signified a more simplified approach.

After all, the creatures in the Gourmet World had already proliferated and matured considerably; they merely lacked a catalyst.

Did it really have to be humans? Xu Zhi pressed his temples. This kind of research wasn't his first, nor would it be his last. He decided to first examine the genes and the current state of the Gourmet World.

He opened his eyes while sitting in the bookstore.

The rules of the Gourmet World were quite unique:

Evolution.

Whenever a creature broke through a rank or underwent a fundamental life transformation, Xu Zhi would simultaneously accelerate the evolutionary speed of their bodies to a divine pace, allowing them to morph and evolve their forms, much like sprites.

Even a single species could manifest in various forms due to different evolutionary paths!

Players within the system had already devised a fascinating biological evolution chain, incorporating concepts like fire and water-based evolutions, and even 'Mega Evolution'.

Though the side effects were stark, those brief seconds of acceleration drastically shortened their lifespans, condensing them tenfold. Even a Heavenly Emperor possessed a mere eighty-year lifespan.

However, this was inconsequential because the Gourmet World's time flowed at a 1:1 ratio compared to the real world. This was a setting barely suitable for the general player base in an online game; an overly long lifespan would, in fact, be highly disadvantageous!

It was a world of short lifespans and fierce competition, where creatures devoured each other, using one another as evolutionary ingredients—a brutal struggle for survival and advancement!

Xu Zhi remained seated at the cash register.

Many students and elderly patrons were borrowing and reading books inside the store.

Operating on a semi-self-service model, Xu Zhi had little need to intervene. Above the bus stop was Misoia High School, the town's local school, and every day after classes, numerous students would disembark at the stop and come to the bookstore to pass the time.

Later, as the other patrons departed and Xu Zhi prepared to close, a slender, handsome, and tall young man, carrying a black satchel, cautiously entered. He quietly made his way to the adult section and furtively opened a book with a particularly suggestive cover.

"Miraki, exploring the adult world again?" Xu Zhi remarked from the cash register. "Young man, you're at the cusp of youth, but a little restraint is advisable."

The young man's face instantly turned crimson, yet he didn't put the book down. He awkwardly stammered, "I'm just… observing a little…"

He's quite sensitive.

Xu Zhi merely smiled. The Church of Light's bookstores also stocked such books. To attract diverse believers, they justified it as a form of knowledge dissemination, adopting a very open policy.

Miraki was the individual who had stumbled upon the Dream God. Xu Zhi, having noticed his anomaly, was extremely curious: a human had become host to a grotesque deity? And the Dream God's unique properties were causing surrounding humans to actively manifest their own grotesque entities?

He had incidentally come to this town while conducting research for his new world.

Miraki frequented this bookstore and secretly perused those 'unhealthy' books because they retained the residual negative thoughts of their readers, which he used to feed the Dream God dwelling within his shadow.

This was the most effective method for harvesting negative thoughts.

"Eat faster, eat faster…" Miraki, breathing heavily, continuously flipped through the book, his face flushed with embarrassment.

The naive voice within him continued to absorb the lingering thoughts left by past readers on the pages. "Today's residual thoughts make me sense your excitement," it mused. "Your pupils are contracting, your heart is racing, and you're radiating exhilarated emotions. Don't you enjoy this very much?"

"That! That's different!"

Miraki took a deep breath and swallowed, his face burning. "I'm not doing this on purpose! I don't want to look... I'm not pure anymore! I'm so sorry to Sia, my crush!"

He could no longer adequately describe his own life.

He had been just an ordinary high school student—timid, cowardly, lacking cultivation aptitude, unable to even integrate magic potions, destined for a mundane life. Yet, unexpectedly, he had rescued a strange, terrifying evil god from a subway station. This deity possessed the chilling ability to passively induce inner thoughts in those nearby during dreams, causing their negative emotions to manifest as their own personal "heart-born evil gods".

Could every single person spontaneously generate an evil god within their hearts?

He couldn't fathom what such a thing was!

Aren't evil gods supposed to be monsters born from the collective malice and negative thoughts of sentient beings?

Yet, one person alone could generate one?

Though incredibly weak, far inferior to a true evil god, they undeniably existed!

If this knowledge were to spread, what kind of upheaval would it cause in the world? It was hard to imagine!

Even... even at Misoia High School, where ordinary students attended and everyone lacked special abilities, quiet changes were occurring around him. He pursed his lips. The hardworking and beautiful class president had manifested a "Barrier Cat" within her, and his crush, Sia, had developed a "Heavy Crab"...

They were clearly ordinary people with no abilities, seemingly destined never to walk the path of cultivation. Yet, as if by generating these inner companion evil gods, they were now stepping into an unknown realm of the supernatural!

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