Chapter 757: Impact, Illusion, Belief

"You're the one hallucinating..." Paimon stamped his feet angrily, "They've truly been cured. If you don't believe me, go in and see for yourself!"

"We didn't lie to you." Ying nodded.

The man sat slumped on the ground for a long time, looking at the medicine basket behind him: "Forget it, forget it... No matter what, I have to go in and take a look."

After working so hard for so long, I would be unwilling not to take a look to confirm their death.

"Besides, I can't leave even if I want to! I must have been targeted by the mutated creatures in this village." The man stood up numbly. The foreigner and the noisy elf had probably become puppets bewitched by the village.

With a look of fearlessness in his eyes, he walked into the village step by step.

Paimon snorted from behind: "This guy is really good at using his imagination."

"It was Jiang Yi who did this. It's too hard to believe!" Ying shook her head, "Let's go back too."

The man walked on the road of the village and saw ronin and pirates at the village gate, and saw a former patient who was clearing weeds beside the village house.

There was also a smell of smoke from cooking, calm and peaceful, just an illusory dream.

“Break the capital?”

"Is Dr. Baoben back?"

The villagers and miners recognized the man and immediately greeted him with a smile. Although this doctor had no skills and was completely unable to treat them, they still saw his efforts.

"I seem to have heard of this name..." Paimon fell into deep thought.

"It's the doctor Changci mentioned last night." Ying looked at the other party's medicine basket, which contained several herbs, with the purple-red Mingcao on the top.

Everything clicked.

Bao Ben looked dazed, "It's so real! It's like everyone's illness is cured. But... it's too fake. There was a miner who had his leg crushed by a rock when he escaped, and it was broken. He was also eroded by the 'evil spirit' and was lying on the bed ready to die, but now he is fine."

"I've only been gone for two days, not two months or two years. Even if there really is a way to cure people, it's impossible to cure all people with different degrees of illness so quickly!"

"Everything before my eyes is like the mirage in the desert and the sea in legends... It's like encountering the illusion of a great monster that confuses people."

"Under the surface, it must all be rotting corpses!"

"What happened? How could Himeki Village bring about the thing that people most long for?"

Ying and Paimon caught up.

"Do you believe it now?" Paimon said proudly, "Our companions worked tirelessly to save everyone."

"Believe..." Bao Ben's eyes were filled with tears. "I really want to believe! How wonderful it would be if everything is true. God really responded to our prayers and saved us."

"Alas! This guy still thinks the scene before his eyes is fake." Paimon put his hands on his hips, feeling a little anxious. "Why don't you slap yourself and see if you are dreaming."

When Ying heard Paimeng’s bad idea, he held his forehead in silence.

"Give yourself a slap?" Baoben stopped and thought for a moment, "Snap!" A quick and clean slap, leaving red palm and finger marks on his face.

"Hiss—it hurts." As he said this, he covered his half-swollen face.

Paimon was dumbfounded: "So... so hard, so cruel to yourself."

"Ahem!" Paimon coughed awkwardly, feeling a little embarrassed. "Now you believe it, right?"

"A terrible mutation really happened..." Bao Ben wanted to cry but had no tears. Perhaps he should not have come in so recklessly. The illusion was so terrifying that it made him think for a moment that this place was real.

If you truly believe that everything you see is real, then it means that you are completely confused.

"Oh my god! This guy is hopeless." Paimon looked at this and still thought it was an illusion.

The three of them came to Choji's house, where pottery jars were emitting the aroma of medicine.

Choji was staring at the stove in a daze.

"Choji..." Baoben was shocked, "You didn't escape from this strange Himiki Village and became a part of the illusion. I..."

He felt remorse and guilt in his heart and was about to kneel down.

"Baoben?" Changci looked up. "What are you talking about? It's just right that you're back. I have something to ask you. Have you seen my mother?"

Baoben's expression changed: "Your mother...I..."

"Think about it before you answer." Jiang Yi walked out of the room, "What you see is not an illusion."

"Look! He is our companion, the super powerful Jiang Yi who cured all the patients in the village. To you, his ability is almost the same as that of a god!" Paimon pointed at Jiang Yi.

"God!" Baoben was stunned and surprised. It was the first time he heard someone praised like that.

"Give me some time, I'm going to take a walk in the village..." Baoben felt absurd, and he wanted to confirm again whether he was hallucinating.

"You guy, you still don't believe it?" Paimon shouted with his hands on his hips.

"Let him be!" Jiang Yi could understand very well that a person could not alleviate the symptoms brought by the aura of the "evil spirit" no matter how hard he tried. Before leaving, the village was still lifeless, with people who had fallen into madness, or could be called madmen, wandering around.

Two days later, when I came back from the long journey, I found that the village was full of vitality and the residents were peaceful and comfortable, just like a paradise. This shock naturally made people feel like they were trapped in an illusion.

Baoben didn't care whether this place had changed or not. He kept questioning anyone he knew, asking all kinds of questions that only a living person could answer. He also explored the village, looking at the demon-subduing marks on the stones of the village, feeling the tranquility inside the village and the ominousness and depression outside the village.

It was a thundering and rainy day, but the village seemed to be glowing with light, while it was dark outside.

Check the physical health of those villagers and fall into self-doubt.

"Illusion, not an illusion?" Baoben covered his head in pain.

The villagers looked at Baoben, who seemed to be going crazy, with pity and told him what had happened in the past two days.

"The doctor came from the rain and is at Choji's house to treat us."

"With great mercy and gentle power, he took away the 'evil spirit' in us, soothed our spirits, healed our bodies, and used precious medicine to resist the erosion of the 'evil spirit' from the outside world. He exchanged food with us and built a demon-subduing stone for us so that monsters dare not invade..."

"he……"

Some people look up to him.

"In my heart, he who saved this place is undoubtedly a 'God'..."

The gods they once believed in did not respond to them, but "he" responded to their numb and desperate prayers.

They would have decayed and died like dust, and no one would remember their names or any trace that they had ever lived, but because of "him"'s arrival, the dark world had the light of hope and life could continue.

Baoben put down his hands that were covering his head, looked at the people in front of him who were familiar yet unfamiliar, and opened his mouth.

"Everything is true...right!"

At this moment, true and false may not be important. Even if it is false, I hope it is true.

"I'm confused." He wiped his eyes, the back of his hand was slightly wet.

I thought about how I insisted on staying and the difficult journey of making medicine.

He could obviously leave. The son of Lord Tenryo Bugyo had directly invited him...that is, Lord Masahito who should still be supervising the battle in the army.

"You have medical skills, which are different from those of ordinary people. It is really dangerous to stay on the island. Why don't you become my military doctor? I can recommend you directly to my father."

Before the war, he was invited to treat the Lord of Narukami Island, which was an honor that a small country doctor like him could never even dream of.

But... now, when he thought about it, Lord Fengxing would have many famous doctors around him, but what about Bayin Island?

The "evil spirit" is rampant, and he is the only doctor he can rely on here.

I just couldn't take the step to leave.

He could not and did not want to treat the soldiers of a particular side, so his only enemy was the "evil spirit".

Should I be happy now? Yes!

The evil spirit met a doctor who could control it.

Not a lousy doctor like him, but a real doctor who can cure people's strange diseases. He is called an incredible doctor who is like a god.

All the herbs on Bayun Island have been contaminated by the "Evil God". Those that are needed are mostly located in dangerous environments, either separated by natural barriers or inhabited by monsters. These are the areas where the "Evil God" wreaks havoc most severely.

As a doctor, he wanted some special herbs to prepare a prescription to try to treat the strange disease caused by the "evil spirit", but he did not dare to take the huge risk to collect the herbs.

Slow-acting conservative treatments... after a long period of experimentation, no new prescriptions were found, and people called them liars.

He really didn't know the effect of the imagined prescription. After he finally got some medicinal materials and prepared the trial medicine himself, he was almost attacked and killed by a monster.

The prescription is infiltrated with a large amount of "Evil Spirit" energy, and the creatures infected by the "Evil Spirit" will be unconsciously attracted to the source of the ominous aura. This is a normal phenomenon and a natural side effect, but it is also a ridiculous and helpless adventure.

Now it seems to be over.

He no longer needs to try to prepare medicine, but to try the medicine himself.

His courage is as ridiculous as his ability, and his stupidity and inability to deal with the danger he brings.

It's passed.

He doesn't need to pray for success or worry about the consequences of failure.

It was raining in the Himuki Village, but there was no eerie chill like on the island.

Baoben looked up at the sky and took off the medicine basket.

The herbs inside, which had been mutated by the "evil spirit", emitted a strong odor that could not be dispelled even by the sea breeze.

After thinking about it, I couldn't bear to throw it away, so I carried it again.

"I'm going to find other people, call all the sick people on the island over, and... and Choji's mother... No... there's no need to go to Xumi, she can be treated here."

He suddenly started running and ran out of the village.

The villagers' cries were left behind.

"Ah! That guy ran away?" Paimon and Ying came over to look for him. They opened their elemental vision and saw that the scent left by the herb continued to extend outwards.

"Jiang Yi also told us to ask this traveling doctor to come and help with some simple medicinal materials."

Jiang Yi's figure appeared next to Ying and Paimeng.

“Since he’s busy, forget it…” He looked at a field in the village, which was a field cleared by the villagers and miners according to his enrichment.

There is not enough food in the village, and it will be even less with more people coming in the future. We can’t rely on the food in their cave every day.

Therefore, he planned to follow the method he used in Kamisato Prefecture to solve the problem of relief food.

According to Choji, when the village chief was in power, the "evil spirit" broke out and the Hime Village accommodated too many people who fled from the mines, and the food supply ran out.

Therefore, they pooled everyone's property and distributed it according to the plan, leaving some money to buy food from nearby pirates to overcome the crisis.

Now, their food source is also pirates.

Those at the village gate were actually contacts, but the villagers only had enough money to buy violets. Those contacts actually arrived at the same time as Jiang Yi came that day, and they were not always there.

That day, they were actually waiting to see if a patient in the village would die, so that they could get some of the patient's unspent money as payment to transport the body away.

But because Jiang Yi rescued the people and a huge change happened in the village, some people were sent back to communicate, and some stayed behind to observe.

Jiang Yi came to the field. The pollution in the surrounding ground veins had been cleared by him, and the aura of the "evil spirit" was also blocked by the magic array and barrier he had set up.

A little fire fell and burned the fields, and the soil and grass roots were charred into ashes.

The law of fire is a bright and dazzling light that brings hope and vitality.

Under the raging fire, there is a new life with all filth removed.

The wheat seedlings grow, produce wheat ears, and burst into yellow and fragrant wheat kernels.

"Have some porridge today!" He packed the food into bags with a faint smile.

The villagers had seen it come into being out of nothing, and seeing this sudden abundance, they looked on from afar in fear and excitement.

"god……"

A fire also ignited in my heart, from the embers of collapsed faith.

This is not betrayal, but choosing a master.