They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 85 Do you know me?

Guy Cosso.

Those mountains, like giant beasts, lie across the middle of the southeastern continent, cutting it in half and blocking most of the transportation between the two sides, resulting in obvious barriers and cultural differences between the people on both sides of the continent.

But the difference between rich and poor is normal; without this difference, Ria would not have had the opportunity to develop memes.

If his meme is a virus, then this environment created the virus and provided it with an excellent environment for growth and division.

Ria closed her eyes, rested her head on the back seat, and placed one hand on her knee, drifting into a light sleep.

Time always flies when you're asleep.

Unbeknownst to them, the Hini was getting closer and closer to the Gekkoso Mountains, and the surrounding fog suddenly thickened.

The steam train was approaching a valley in the Gekkoso Mountains, with a railway track situated right in the middle of the valley, while the peaks on both sides were still shrouded in mist.

At night, the light shining from the train windows is the only source of light, as it weaves through the fog like a snake with a tremendous roar.

"..."

Ria opened his eyes again, feeling his own eyes begin to stir restlessly. Little Swarth stared at the thick fog outside the window, raising the feathers on his body and swelling himself to almost twice his original size.

Meanwhile, all the other passengers in the carriage had fallen into a coma and were fast asleep.

This is not normal, after all, there is someone with a baby on the bus, and that baby will cry from time to time, so Liya is not used to not hearing the baby cry.

Now he looked back and saw that the baby's mother was asleep, and the child had fallen from her arms to the ground without moving.

Lia got up and surveyed the general situation inside the carriage—a baby less than ten months old was lying on the floor, the train attendant was leaning against the wall, and the passengers were sleeping in all sorts of crooked positions.

The same applies to the other carriages.

He casually lifted the child back onto his mother's lap.

"Wait, the train is still moving, so who's in the engine now?!"

Alarmed, Ria called to little Swarth and rushed to the front of the vehicle, where they found the stoker lying on the ground, while another person dressed exactly like the stoker was tirelessly wielding a shovel.

He shoveled the coal into the scorching furnace, and when he sensed movement behind him, the man slowly turned his head, his face showing only his mouth opening and closing.

His voice sounded like a mix of several people speaking at the same time: "Don't worry about these anomalies, go to sleep, and you'll be able to get to where you want to go when you wake up."

Hearing his words, Ria felt her eyelids growing heavier and heavier, as if she were about to collapse: "You want to send us all into the mountains?"

"It's just picking a few passengers as gifts, nothing special."

The "person" was slightly surprised, "So many people are asleep, why are you still awake?"

"Because I don't want to be thrown into the mountains without knowing what's going on."

Ria tore at her skin to stay awake, and golden eyes appeared one after another on her smooth skin.

He possessed some of the original owner's memories, so he was acutely aware of the danger posed by Guy Coso.

The original Ria was tricked into mining coal in the Gaikoso Mountains, where she contracted a pollution disease. After escaping, she went through several twists and turns and hid in the relatively remote town of Wins, where she lived a life of fear and misery.

He didn't know how this disease had befallen him. His companions were either dead or missing. The original owner of this body felt he would have been better off like them, so he wouldn't have to watch himself grow into a monster and die while he was still human. Now, Ria absolutely refused to allow anyone to bring him into Mount Gekoso again. His drowsiness grew stronger, and he was on the verge of losing his mind. At this moment, he commanded the mythical creature: "Entangle me with your tentacles!"

"Ow!"

Little Swarth immediately reacted, letting out a shriek as countless tentacles sprouted from inside Ria's skin, tightly binding and constricting him, slowly extending from his neck to his face, and fiercely seeping into his flesh.

The next second, strong acid seeped from the tentacles. The intense pain, along with the smell of acid corroding flesh and eyes, instantly brought Ria to his senses. He gritted his teeth and raised his hand to send countless tentacles to attack the fake stoker.

The fake fireman didn't move, but he was clearly more interested.

"This power...you're a contaminant of Meme Nine!?"

"Shh-"

As he spoke, countless tentacles pierced through his body, yet the man seemed oblivious to the pain, laughing uncontrollably.

"The power of drowsiness is hard to resist. I am impressed that you have been able to stay awake. However, excessive pain can numb your brain and make you unable to perceive anything. Don't make things worse."

Ignoring the pierced body, the fake stoker continued to add coal to the hot stove: "Killing the stoker is not a good idea. Besides this job, I also use my supernatural powers to maintain the stable operation of all aspects of the train. If you want so many people on this train to perish here, then keep attacking."

"I am merely a friendly supernatural being, destined to take only a few lives. But if you kill me, the other supernatural beings in the mountains will notice you."

Ria slowly retracted the tentacles attached to her body, and countless eyeballs emerged from the black marks they left behind.

"Who are you threatening...me?"

Those eyes rolled, their pupils uniformly fixed on the stoker, and Ria walked toward him, turning around halfway.

The enormous eye on the back of its neck coldly scrutinized the extraordinary creature before it, seemingly pondering the meaning of its threatening words.

The extraordinary creature's smile vanished abruptly.

He froze, suddenly wanting to say something, but couldn't even manage the simple action of opening his mouth in front of that eye.

He felt his skin tearing, the tearing sounds were crystal clear, and he also felt many constantly rotating round things appearing inside his internal organs.

“You—Ria…Kelcha…”

At the last moment, he said Ria's name, and then fell silent. Ria turned around, wondering if she had just hallucinated.

"He just called my name?"

No, he couldn't possibly know me. That means he's calling for the original body. Those eyes just now reminded the supernatural being of him!?

Ria wanted to ask more questions, but once the fake stoker collapsed, there was no one to add charcoal to the stove. In the moment of crisis, Little Swarth looked around and rushed over to use his tentacles to feed coal into the stove.

"Thank you for your hard work, my friend."

"Aww!" Little Swarth responded, his movements as he delivered coal becoming increasingly skillful.

However, it was somewhat dissatisfied that its host actually called it a "friend".

This title made it feel a distance between them, after all, little Swarth truly regarded Ria as his biological parents, but one day his parents told him that their relationship was just that of friends.

(End of this chapter)