Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 230 Welcome to my world
The ending that haunted Milo's mind like a shadow was the main reason for his decadent state in the years after arriving in Nanwei City.

It all started when Milo contracted the plague.

He was revered as a messenger of the gods.

At first, Milo just treated it as a joke.

He didn't object, because this way he could be treated with respect by everyone in the village, and he could enjoy better and more generous conditions. The supplies sent from each household even improved the fisherman's family's living conditions considerably.

Milo was also able to learn and understand information about the world more easily.

He has selfish motives.

"This is their belief; I'm not lying."

That's what Milo told himself at the time.

but……

What began to unsettle and frighten Milo was that after he contracted the plague, the villagers began to try every means to save his life, methods that Milo still cannot understand to this day.

Like many distorted traditional sects, ignorant people only know how to serve, and when they encounter problems they cannot solve, their first reaction is to ask God for help.

How can one please the gods and receive their blessings?
Sacrifice.

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All people need to be served.

These are the villagers' original words, and also the original words of that family of three.

While Milo was bedridden, he witnessed the fisherman strangle his daughter to death at the door.

Because in the teachings of the sea god, the messenger of the gods is greater than everything else.

If a messenger sent by the gods dies in their own home, it is considered blasphemy against the gods, and their family will fall into an abyss, never to see the day of blessing again.

……

What shattered Milo's faith the most was the fisherman's daughter's calm acceptance of death.

He saw in the girl's eyes an endless fear of death, but what was even more chilling was that he also saw another emotion that surpassed fear: the unspeakable devotion she placed in Milo.

Milo could never accept that those clear pupils gradually lost their light under his gaze, eventually becoming bloodshot and filled with hideous veins, before slowly bulging out of their sockets...

……

That child was so innocent, and her death was so utterly meaningless.

He died at the hands of his most trusted and closest family members, and at the hands of those illusory and ethereal theological theories.

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No matter how much Milo roared from her illness, the fisherman did not loosen his grip on the rope until his own daughter's body had completely cooled down.

Milo, dragging his ailing body, tried to stop it all, but no matter how he explained the plague virus to the villagers, they just stood by Milo expressionlessly, saying things like "this is the right way."

……

If nightmares are real...

The crime scenes that Milo saw during his nightmares as a visionary were not nightmares at all. The fisherman's little daughter's gaze before she died was Milo's nightmare.

That twisted, chillingly devout gaze still evokes mixed feelings in Milo to this day.

His emotions broke down at one point.

But the villagers comforted him, saying that after the gods received the girl's soul, they would descend to bless her and restore Milo's body to life.

……

But the truth is never that simple.

Milo's condition did not improve because of this worthless sacrifice.

As time went on, his symptoms worsened.

Not only Milo, but more and more villagers in the village also contracted the plague because they had no awareness of the virus at all. In their minds, the ever-spreading death was a punishment from the gods, and they must have committed some unforgivable sins unconsciously in the past.

The only way to save it now is to allow the messenger of the gods to return safely to its side.

……

As Milo's condition worsened.

A new sacrifice was decided in the darkness of night.

This time, it wasn't just about the life of a single villager, nor was it about being strangled with a rope.

...The villagers built an altar by the sea.

They carried Milo to the top of the altar.

Then, to the sound of melodious bells, they slowly walked one by one into the turbulent sea area where Milo had first been washed ashore.

If not for fear, death would go unmourned.

All the surviving villagers disappeared silently into that dark sea.

There was no fear of death.

It was just a simple sacrifice.

The virus didn't take their lives, but they threw it into the cold sea.

……

The sound of that bell became a permanent source of pain for Milo.

He could never understand why these people valued their lives so little and so insignificantly.

In Milo's mind, his own life always comes first. There is no such thing as a god in his world. He cannot, and never wants to, understand the words these people murmur before they die.

He lay on the altar, feeling the cold air blowing from the sea.

This was the first time Milo had felt himself enveloped by the aura of death, making it hard for him to breathe.

……

However, after a long time, he still managed to get up with difficulty.

Ultimately, he doesn't belong to this world.

His understanding of life is far more profound than that of the people here, especially regarding his own life.

Milo knew that the so-called sea god wouldn't favor him just because a few more people died in the sea; if he wanted to survive, he would have to find a way out himself.

In the end, he dragged his broken body away from that small village.

He kept walking and walking until he could see nothing but trees and mountains, and he saw signs of human habitation.

He learned from the fugitives that there was a city in the south that could cure the disease.

……

The will to survive unleashed boundless strength in Milo, and he actually managed to reach the city—Nanwei City.

As he approached the city, he encountered a new family of three.

He is also an elderly father, and has two children.

Milo saw the shadow of a fisherman's family in them.

It's as if the fisherman's daughter hadn't been strangled to death, and the fisherman and his son hadn't drowned in the turbulent current.

Already somewhat delirious, Milo used his last ounce of strength to help the family enter the Nanwei city just before the city gates were sealed.

……

...

“Buzz...buzz...buzz…”

At that moment, the sound of bells from the coast continued to echo in Milo's ears.

He knew perfectly well that this was an illusion created by the ancients.

Regardless of how this differs from the Dream Guide, it is ultimately an illusion.

It can only be said that it precisely addressed the deepest ailment hidden in Milo's heart.

……

Perhaps the canal water triggered Milo's memory, or perhaps Milo revealed a flaw in his story.

However, the ancients overlooked one thing.

That is, even in the memories it least wanted to face, the power of Milo's will far exceeded its imagination.

……

"You shouldn't have gone any further when you realized you hadn't succeeded in luring me into a dream the first time, and now..."

"Welcome to my world, you prisoner of the Outer Gods."

(End of this chapter)