Chapter 103

There were two reasons why Wu Pifu made a move so decisively.

First, the side effect of his title would affect those who were hostile to him. The greater the hostility, the greater the influence. For example, the little wolf girl was hostile to him, but this hostility was actually not great, so it only affected the little wolf girl's feeling that he was weak, so she wanted to rob his meatballs. The position where the little wolf girl attacked him initially was his leather pouch, but she didn't want to hurt anyone.

This was also the reason why he fed the little wolf girl meatballs.

But these few people in front of him, except for the sub-giant and the priest, the others all had huge hostility toward him, and the two biggest ones were the man in the felt hat and the one-eyed red-haired woman. Their hostility was even great enough to launch an attack directly.

This was the side effect of Wu Pifu's title. It wasn't just simply pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, but it could test whether there was hostility toward him and how great the hostility was.

The second reason was the little wolf girl herself.

From her self-introduction, she was a White Wolf Clan princess, so no matter what, she shouldn't be in such a sorry state. That set of clothes was clearly modified from a linen bag for grain, and there were bruises on her body, etc.

All of these showed that there was a problem with this village. The little wolf girl was probably robbed.

The corroboration was the villagers in the distance who didn't dare to come forward. Almost every one of them looked sallow, while these few people at the entrance of the village seemed to be living very comfortably.

As Wu Pifu spoke like this, the sub-giant pulled himself out of the mud and said in a muffled voice, "I am not! I am a blacksmith! I collect food, fur, and minerals, sell weapons and armor, and repair farm tools!"

The priest also bowed slightly and said, "I am a shepherd of God, collecting faith to reinforce this village, so that everyone in it can avoid being swept away by the chaos storm, and in exchange for food and a stable residence. I am not a slave owner."

The man in ancient Greek clothing turned pale. He opened his mouth, but before he could speak, more than a dozen villagers ran over from behind, shouting things like "slave owner" and "kill him." The man in ancient Greek clothing turned even paler and looked ugly. He only ordered the two granite stone men to guard him, but he didn't dare to move randomly because of Wu Pifu's deterrence.

Wu Pifu didn't guess wrong.

This village was a place where the weak were the prey of the strong.

People from all over the world and all eras randomly entered the Castlevania region. This itself was a huge chaos. Barbarians from ancient times, weak scholars from modern times, and cyberpunk people from the future had vastly different philosophies. It was impossible to convince each other. In the end, what had to be obeyed was actually power.

Just now at the entrance of the village, Wu Pifu saw with his own eyes a mecha with highly developed technology being smashed by a hammer. The fluctuation of its explosion was not much bigger than a firecracker. Clearly, the technological weapons of this world were weakened very miserably. According to the little wolf girl Daphne, once objects without spirituality encountered the extraordinary, they would be weakened or even ineffective.

This was really like Gaia weapons being taken to the Dream World. The lower the baseline reality, the smaller the power.

Therefore, in this Castlevania region, the strongest were definitely not those who possessed technological knowledge or future creations, but extraordinary people from ancient times, from mystery, and from extraordinary systems. And ordinary people with concepts of equality, future people, and the like were weak and unbearable in this world.

Of course, there might be extraordinary people with concepts of equality, but the probability was too small.

Great power belonging to oneself too easily led to the emergence of the concept of the weak being the prey of the strong. Even modern people and future people living in an equal world, once great power belonged to themselves, were very easily lost in power, let alone extreme situations like the Castlevania region.

So Wu Pifu confirmed in a very short time that these few people who drove him away were slave owners.

They treated other weak people as slaves to bully!

At this time, the villagers all ran out of the village, surrounding the man in ancient Greek clothing from afar, shouting in anger.

The man in ancient Greek clothing said with a pale face, "Although I obtained the fruits of your labor, I also protected you, gave you a residence, and gave you safety. This is in accordance with Athenian law! I have a clear conscience!!"

The villagers were still noisy. Although some of them seemed relatively numb, most of them clearly didn't think so.

Wu Pifu couldn't help but complain, "This is the first time I've heard someone describe slaves and slave owners so refreshingly and refinedly. Satan would have to tattoo you on his body."

The man in ancient Greek clothing looked at Wu Pifu with resentment, then immediately lowered his head and said, "Let me go, I am willing to give up all the wealth here."

"What are you thinking?"

Wu Pifu picked his nose and walked toward the man in ancient Greek clothing step by step.

The villagers hurriedly made a path. The man in ancient Greek clothing was full of despair and immediately shouted loudly, "This is unfair! They are all mortals. Without our protection, they wouldn't even be able to survive a single chaos storm. Why, why..."

Before the words fell, the two granite puppets were directly shattered. Wu Pifu didn't attack his main body but blew up his extraordinary system puppets. Now he was no different from a mortal, unless he was given time to recreate puppets. Wu Pifu spread his hands and said, "I don't understand what you're saying, but I know that you were the ones who attacked me first, so isn't it normal for me to fight back?"

The next moment, the villagers swarmed up and beat the man in ancient Greek clothing into meat paste...

That night, the villagers sang and danced, moving food they couldn't eat or couldn't bear to eat on weekdays out of the rooms and warehouses of the three dead "nobles." Nearly a hundred villagers lit three bonfires, all eating and drinking happily, while imagining the future.

The future person who operated the mecha was named Yi Shanjiu. He seemed to be a chatterbox. While drinking sour beer, he pulled Wu Pifu and said, "Fortunately you came, otherwise I guess I would have been forced by them to farm and be a serf."

According to Yi Shanjiu's self-description, he had only arrived in the Castlevania region for a few days. After finally finding this village with people, he immediately intended to join it.

But although he entered the village, he was immediately ordered by these few extraordinary people to farm, and at the same time, he was assigned a very dilapidated thatched cottage.

At first, Yi Shanjiu didn't act immediately. After talking to the villagers who were farming, he confirmed that except for the blacksmith sub-giant and the priest who were considered self-respecting and didn't oppress them, the other three extraordinary people had already considered themselves protectors. In fact, they were slave owners, exploiting all mortals who entered the Castlevania region.

Yi Shanjiu naturally couldn't be willing to be a slave. He had a mecha parked in the nearby woods, so he took advantage of the time farming during the day to run to drive the mecha, intending to let these ancient natives take a good look at the power of technology.

But the result was that the mecha was smashed flat by the blacksmith with a hammer.

"... In fact, there are records of ancient myths in the library. It is said that some special humans mastered extraordinary power hundreds of years ago. That is a great power that transcends technology. But I didn't believe it before, thinking that it was just ancient feudal superstition. One is that extraordinary power doesn't exist, and the other is how could the power of technology be weak?"

Yi Shanjiu sighed and said, "Only now do I truly believe that the power of technology will be suppressed by extraordinary power."

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The little wolf girl Daphne was also sitting on the side. She was eating a skewer of roasted meat and said while eating, "The power of technology is quite strong against nature or people without extraordinary power as long as it doesn't encounter the spread of spirituality."

Wu Pifu and Yi Shanjiu said almost in unison, "What exactly is spirituality?"

Daphne shook her head and said, "I can't explain it clearly either. I only know that spirituality is the source of extraordinary power. Without spirituality, there would be no extraordinary power in the world. By the way, the light you just showed is spirituality, and it is spirituality that is highly condensed and imprinted with life. If it is promoted to another level, it will turn from spirituality into divinity, and that would be incredible."

Wu Pifu and Yi Shanjiu were both confused and had no idea what Daphne wanted to express.

At this time, a gentle voice rang out, "Let me explain it."

The two turned their heads and saw the priest sitting beside them with a glass of sour beer. He smiled at the surrounding villagers and toasted to these villagers from time to time.

Wu Pifu said, "It seems that the priest takes good care of them on weekdays. Then why doesn't the priest help them get rid of being enslaved?"

The priest said helplessly, "I haven't climbed the Saint Name; I'm just a shepherd of God. How could I be the opponent of three extraordinary people? Don't look at how easily they were killed by you. That's because you are too strong, and your flesh and blood have been tempered to the level of a saint. They just have poor eyes and can't see it. Otherwise, believe it or not, they would have knelt to you directly?"

Wu Pifu didn't speak, just nodded to the priest.

The priest smiled and said, "The so-called spirituality is actually just an activation term for chaos."

Daphne immediately shouted, "Liar! Chaos is the enemy of all life in the world, and spirituality is the power to fight against chaos. How could it be another term?"

The priest spread his hands helplessly and said, "This is what God said. Even if you ask me, I don't know."

At this time, a villager next to him called out, "The priest is lying here. I come from... according to the future people's saying, it should be the Renaissance era. Although I am a painter, I graduated from a seminary. God has never said that spirituality is another term for chaos."

The priest's expression was even more helpless, "Because this is a forbidden canon. Only extraordinary people with shepherd qualifications like me, or those who have climbed the Saint Name and approached or arrived at the Saint level, can read the classics."

"In the classics, chaos is called pollution."

"And spirituality, and even all extraordinary things, are actually the products of life diluting and activating it through its own sentience."

"So... spirituality is chaos, spirituality is pollution!"

(End of chapter)