Zhao Kongcheng felt like he was about to explode with anger.
"Me! You're asking me who I am? I'm the innocent victim who was deceived by you last night, left in the cold wind for most of the night!"
Zhao Kongcheng tightly held Lin Qiuye's hand, like an innocent uncle afraid of losing his boyfriend to someone else. "Let me tell you, don't act in front of me. Today, you won't get away!"
Lin Qiuye looked at his locked arm, gave up futile struggles, and assumed a submissive posture. "Okay, you tell me, where are we going to chat?"
"Follow me."
Zhao Kongcheng, still holding Lin Qiuye's hand, headed confidently in some undisclosed direction.
When Lin Qiuye saw himself getting closer to a love hotel, his expression suddenly changed, and he tried to escape the scene by turning his head!
However, Zhao Kongcheng didn't give him the chance. He kept a tight grip, dragging Lin Qiuye towards the hotel.
"You... what do you want? I'm telling you, I have hemorrhoids, don't mess around!"
"What are you high school boys thinking? We're just going to chat, and you take me to a love hotel? Haven't you seen the way people look at us on the way here? I'm so embarrassed!"
"You know, this is a safe house. Bringing you here doesn't mean anything else. Besides, do I look like that kind of person?"
Zhao Kongcheng rolled his eyes, dragging the struggling Lin Qiuye to the front desk and giving an extremely greasy wink to the stunned female clerk.
"A dynamic and passionate themed double bed room, thanks."
Lin Qiuye: ...
The female clerk stood still, and after a moment of brain freeze, she inexplicably became excited!
"Alright, sir, we need your identification, and, um, the young... young comrade, show your ID too."
Forced to hand over their IDs, Lin Qiuye looked strangely at the overly excited female clerk, wondering what yaoi fantasy she was imagining...
But he couldn't blame her. It was the middle of the night, a middle-aged man forcefully bringing a teenager to a love hotel to book a double room, claiming they were just going to chat... Who would believe that?!
"Here's your room card, room 3966. I wish you both a pleasant stay!" The female clerk smiled, eyes almost squinting into slits as she looked at Lin Qiuye, who seemed distressed.
Lin Qiuye's fists tightened.
"Why are you standing there foolishly? Follow me upstairs," Zhao Kongcheng said, releasing Lin Qiuye and heading for the elevator.
After swiping the card into the room, witnessing the array of bizarre facilities, the innocent Lin Qiuye realized how the rich played...
Truly dynamic!
Zhao Kongcheng locked the door, finally releasing Lin Qiuye. He sat down on the electric bed, relaxing his stiff body after a day of tension.
"Don't be so nervous; we're really just here to chat," Zhao Kongcheng said, noticing Lin Qiuye's guarded expression.
Lin Qiuye sighed, sitting on the sofa near the door. "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Of course, I want to talk about you."
"Lin Qiuye, male, 17 years old, single, height 175, weight..."
"You know I'm not talking about that," Zhao Kongcheng interrupted, massaging his forehead and pointing to Lin Qiuye's eyes. "I'm talking about your eyes."
Lin Qiuye fell into silence.
"Have you seen Michael?"
At the mention of this name, Lin Qiuye's body trembled slightly. After hesitating for a while, he nodded softly.
Indeed, the man in front of him knew a lot, and the force behind him was not simple either!
This sentence also revealed important information to Lin Qiuye: the archangel he saw ten years ago was none other than the famous Archangel Michael.
Seeing Lin Qiuye nod, Zhao Kongcheng finally relaxed, and his gaze towards Lin Qiuye gradually intensified.
"Why did He find you? What did He say to you? How much can you use the Forbidden Ruins now?"
Realizing he had asked too many questions, Zhao Kongcheng laughed awkwardly. "It's understandable; you must have a lot of doubts now. Let me answer them for you. Ask anything you want to know."
Lin Qiuye pondered for a moment, staring into Zhao Kongcheng's eyes, and asked his first question, "Does the world really have the mythical gods?"
"They exist," Zhao Kongcheng answered without hesitation, nodding, "But not all gods exist."
"What do you mean?"
Zhao Kongcheng contemplated, as if deciding where to start, "What do you think mythology is?"
Lin Qiuye thought for a moment, "Is it the spiritual sustenance of ancient people? Is it the fear and fantasy of unknown forces in nature?"
"You're right," Zhao Kongcheng nodded, "Until a hundred years ago, everyone thought so."
"A hundred years ago?"
"Yes, before the appearance of the fog, there was no trace of gods in this world." Zhao Kongcheng's eyes narrowed slightly. "However, since that fog covered the Earth, everything... seemed different.
In September 1922, just a year after the fog appeared, a mist exploration team dispatched by Great Xia observed a super-sized dragon flying slowly in the sky over the Marianas Trench. It was the first time in human history that a mythical creature was observed.
After research, the dragon was identified as Leviathan, the chaos dragon from the Bible, created by God. The discovery of this giant dragon overturned the cognition of the entire Great Xia upper echelon. They realized that since this fog, the world had changed compared to before.
When the fog first appeared, Great Xia was in a panic. To stabilize the country, the upper echelons concealed the results of this exploration.
As the first mythical creature observed by humans, the chaos dragon Leviathan was coded as 001, and subsequent discoveries of mythical creatures were sequentially numbered.
The Archangel Michael, whom you saw, was the third mythical creature observed by humans in 1928, coded as 003."
"1928?" Lin Qiuye was taken aback. "At that time, we didn't have the technology to land on the moon, right? How did they find the archangel on the moon?"
"It wasn't us who found Him," Zhao Kongcheng shook his head. "In March 1928, a golden sword aura emanated from the moon, traversed the universe, and turned a large volcano in North America into flat ground. It wasn't until then that we knew there was still a deity on the moon."
"North America? What's there?"
"Later, our exploration team took a year to reach that volcano. In the ruins, we discovered the sealed deity 004..." Zhao Kongcheng paused, then continued, "The fallen angel, Lucifer."
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