They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 80 I want to go home
A small card is stuck to the top of the box, one side of which bears an indescribable abyss symbol. The color is fading and will soon disappear.

On the other blank side, someone wrote their wishes in a childlike and beautiful handwriting.

"I want to go home."

The first sentence was written with exceptional neatness and unusually deep strokes.

"I hope everyone can be happy, I hope my parents will always love me, and I hope we will never be separated."

I hope we can meet again after we die, and they can explain to me that it wasn't intentional, and I will forgive them with a smile.

I hope we will always be the happiest family.

I wish someone would wish me to remain forever as a twelve-year-old corpse...

happy Birthday.

Yes, today is my birthday.

I will definitely make my dream come true.

—Signed by: Derenya Indran.

This card contains words written by Derenya when she was a "little girl".

Ria couldn't imagine how she felt at the time, nor could she imagine whether she was sober. The patients with the contamination disease were innocent, and no one understood their innocence better than them, but every living being seemed to harbor a natural malice towards them.

He tried to guess what Delenya was feeling at the time.

“You’re seeking revenge, but what can a little girl retaliate against? At most, she can only cry and hit people a couple of times. You’ve been forced to slaughter the townspeople for so long, and you’ve always been afraid.”

The abyss has taken away your independent consciousness, and you have willingly surrendered your consciousness to it. You are afraid to face your family and everyone else.

Your meme can't advance, perhaps because you're hoping someone will end it all, ending your own sins.

"Congratulations, your wish has come true. It may be a little late to say it now, but I should still say it—"

"Happy birthday to you."

Ria put down the card and opened the gift box. The note inside had long been thrown away somewhere. In its place, a rectangular meme card lay quietly.

The front of the card depicts the silhouette of a werewolf facing the camera with crimson pupils, while the back is a solid gray-white color with no design whatsoever.

This also confirms James's point that the advantage of the disordered players lies only in the fact that the backs of their cards are more aesthetically pleasing than those of the non-disordered players.

Ria extended a tentacle and touched the meme card. After confirming there was no trap, she retracted the tentacle and picked it up. The card did not react in her hand, as if it were just an ordinary piece of paper.

"Did the werewolf foresee its fate by throwing the meme card here?"

No matter how much speculation Lia makes, the werewolf will not come back to life.

Ria wouldn't easily use the Batantusa coin to determine the answer to such a matter. The experience of having his eyes taken away still caused him phantom pain in his body, and he wouldn't use the mysterious item unless it was absolutely necessary.

Whatever the answer, the truth will forever be buried with the vanished, collapsed abyss.

Her life can neither be described as hateful nor tragic, because she is no longer herself.

"Goo!" Little Swarth slowly poked his head out at this moment, and Ria casually stuffed the werewolf card into its throat.

Although the card's purpose is currently unclear, meme cards are mysterious items, and even if they are useless, they shouldn't be left lying around like this. "Does it taste different from the previous ones?" Ria asked Little Swarth. It blinked a few times, its gaze shifting upwards as it seriously considered its host's question, before finally shaking its head.

Mythical creatures cannot distinguish the differences between the two meme cards, and the meme cards do not become damaged over time.

“The patient has disappeared, but won’t the card disappear?” Ria watched as Little Swarth swallowed the [Werewolf] card and burrowed back into his body.

Ria didn't linger any longer. He gestured to the neighboring couple to return to their previous state and not to mention what had happened there to anyone.

The neighboring couple readily agreed, their eyes practically practically darting to the ground, and they even threw all the religious items related to other deities out the window and smashed them to pieces.

"No need to exaggerate!"

Ria wasn't used to this feeling, so she quickly turned them back to normal and told them to go about their business. She then left the Wright Inn and went back to the tavern to say goodbye to Steyr before heading to the train station alone.

James said he wanted to stay at the pub for a few more days, while Steyr said he considered the pub his home and might consider leaving for somewhere else in the future.

In short, the meme hasn't been successfully developed yet, and he needs to play the role of an "idiot" for a while longer.

"My illness is not that serious yet."

Steyr rolled up his sleeve to show Ria his condition; half of his arm was covered with large and small red rashes, sharp in shape, as if they would start to ooze pus if poked.

"Look, this is a perfectly normal situation. It's just mild contamination; there's absolutely nothing to worry about..."

But you're not so great, my friend. Your body is almost completely contaminated. If you weren't still talking to me and still able to look human, I wouldn't believe you're a human being.

Your time is running out, and I hope I can see you again someday. I mean it.

Goodbye, my friend... Ria.

Steyer downed a glass of wine, seemingly drunk to the point of incoherence, but his voice was unusually clear.

Lia silently raised her glass, finished her last drink, put down the glass and left the tavern with a few coins.

He arrived at the station under the cover of night. The wind seemed unusually strong today, and this was just the right time to catch the last steam locomotive.

The station is located in the northwest of Grani, surrounded by empty space, with a railway track stretching endlessly into the distant mountains, and only a simple station sign on the platform.

Looking north, Lia saw that the Gaikoso Mountains were shrouded in continuous mist from the waist up, making it impossible for anyone to see the bottom of the mountains and to perceive how high and steep the top was.

It was getting late, and the moon reappeared in the sky, accompanied by dark clouds. The chirping of insects and the faint roars of beasts echoed in Liya's ears, which cheered her up.

He kept an eye on the next train. Besides him, there were many other people sitting or standing waiting for the train to arrive, and some were even sleeping on the edge of the station wrapped in their clothes.

Of course, some people seized the business opportunity and went to crowded places to sell baked cookies.

The cookie sellers were a few children, which made Ria pay a little attention to them. He remembered that Steyer had said that the children here would steal money and that he needed to be especially careful.

As expected, a boy soon noticed Lia and came over to ask if he needed to buy some cookies to fill his stomach.

The boy was holding a large metal plate filled with cookies, with straw rope tied to the edge of the plate and hanging around his neck to prevent the plate from falling and spilling all the cookies.

Several folded newspapers were placed on top of the cookies, so that if someone bought the cookies, they could wrap them up in the newspapers and enjoy them at their leisure.

(End of this chapter)