They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 129 The Day the Sea Submerged
Its architecture was not as grand and luxurious as I had imagined; instead, it leaned towards a retro brownish-gray tone, with climbing plants extending from the ground to the roof. These plants buried the windows but grew very lushly.

James warned, "These vines are mysterious items. Don't underestimate them. If anyone dares to trespass into the Guardian's territory without permission, the plants will absolutely devour that person until there is nothing left but ashes."

At the base of the climbing vine, the area had turned a gradually dark blue, while the soil below was dotted with scraps of clothing and blackened bloodstains.

Although the branch building cannot be described as towering, it is only relatively short compared to the surrounding buildings. Its interior space is vast, yet quite empty.

As Ria entered the branch's courtyard, the first thing that caught her eye was the main building's striking hundreds of steps.

The number of steps was unusually large, and as a branch, there wasn't a single doctor or patient in the entire area.

James cleared his throat twice: "The most interesting thing here is that what you see is not all of it. For example, the area we are in now is not on the surface, but underground."

Everything around is merely a spectacle to dazzle the eye, but it is not false; the real branch has been placed elsewhere.

"underground?"

"You can look up now."

After James finished speaking, Ria subconsciously looked up at the sky, and in that instant, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

He saw that the space above was like a mirror, reflecting the environment here, including themselves, but the other side looked very different.

In the mirror image above, they were surrounded by people wearing bird-beak masks, and all the surrounding buildings seemed to have been enlarged hundreds of times.

They possess a striking industrial aesthetic, with a giant clock made up of massive gears and thousands of smaller gears lying across the center of two mirrors, and thousands of interconnected metal pipes that occasionally leak out some white gas.

James twisted his lens a few times, and Ria suddenly felt that the things in front of him were upside down and flipped. Soon, he was in the original mirror, while the ceiling above had turned into a pure white roof.

The doctors with their beaks stood in neat rows, looking at Ria, their reflections mirrored in their glasses. Some of them were even writing something on their notes. James gestured to Ria not to care about the doctors' stares.

“We’re just here to visit. We’ll treat them as decorations. It’s a custom that doctors often bring patients back to the branch or headquarters to check their condition and discuss treatment options.”

“I’ll take you to find Layton. He might be able to help you get rid of Garn’s contamination. It’s not a good idea to keep having you run around pretending to be a doctor.”

Lia always felt that the last sentence was the key. It would be best to completely eliminate the pollution, and he had always been very curious about what kind of ability the white mask had to keep the pollution remaining until now.

Next, James and Ria began searching inside the building for a man named Layton.

Rumor has it that he is the superior of the doctors here, equivalent to the Health Commission in reality.

They wandered around in this environment, unsure whether they were up or down, for a long time. Ria noted down the general route and realized that the place had a maze-like structure, making it easy for people with poor memories to get lost.

Moreover, many of these rooms were locked, and some were completely transparent, where Ria saw bloody medical instruments and skeletons hanging on them.

The skeleton would even twitch from time to time. The head, which had rolled to the corner, rolled back upon seeing Ria, opening its mouth and shouting, "Help me! Help me! There's something wrong with everyone here!!!"

James tapped the glass twice nonchalantly, pointing to the heads inside: "Those locked rooms contain mysterious objects or extraordinary creatures. We use them for some medical research, so don't be surprised."

"Take this supernatural creature for example. It eats its own internal organs and flesh. We are still studying why it eats itself. If left unattended, this thing will split into more versions of itself. The only way is to string it on metal."

"You're talking nonsense! It was clearly you who ate the flesh of our patients!"

“Look, this thing keeps talking nonsense.” James walked away into the distance, while Ria silently used the Battantusa coin to test the authenticity of the supernatural creature’s words inside the glass. The result was obvious: it was fake.

Extraordinary beings often like to stir up trouble, so it's normal for them to say things they don't mean.

Ria rubbed her arm and followed James onward. James still liked to introduce Ria to strange and unusual things, including a little girl sitting in a glass room reading a book.

The girl had messy, long blonde hair that stretched from her shoulders to the ground. She was sitting quietly in her chair, engrossed in reading a thick book.

She recited the contents aloud.

"When the Lord comes, the sea will flood the earth, and His angels will sound their trumpets. Their enormous wings and thousands of white wings will dispel the gloom, allowing mankind to see His true face and offer their souls to Him."

"This child is telling the story of the radiant sunrise."

James knocked on the glass, and the girl quickly closed her book. Then she remained seated, motionless, her long hair obscuring her face, making it impossible to see her true features.

"Is the book she's holding a Bible?"

"No, no, of course not. That book was just something she copied from somewhere, and she didn't even copy it completely. She's been protecting it like a treasure ever since. No one but her can understand what's written in the book, and she only reads a small section of it every month, repeating it fifteen times."

fifteen.

It's the fifteenth again.

Ria looked at the closed book, which was almost as thick as a hand held upright.

Even so, that book is not the complete version; you should know that even the real Rising Sun Bible doesn't reach that thickness.

"Does she only tell stories about the same god?"

"I've told five stories so far, and it's been ten years. This child doesn't grow, doesn't need to eat, and just holds her books and tells her stories every day."

That's why they say she's an extraordinary being.

James shook his head and prepared to leave, but the girl turned to look at Ria, muttering the words she had just spoken.

"When the Lord came, the sea flooded the earth... His angels sounded their trumpets, and their enormous wings, thousands of pure white wings, dispelled the gloom..."

"When the Lord came, the sea flooded the earth... angels... gloom."

"...the ocean submerged the land."

"The ocean submerged the land."

"..."

Then, as if constantly reminding herself, she repeated the sentence fifteen times, her voice devoid of any emotion, her dark eyes filled with emptiness.

(End of this chapter)