C255

"Who, who are you?" An Zi's voice sounded a little lost. In the seemingly endless darkness, someone gently hugged his head.

"I'm here to rescue you." Merlin's voice was very soft.

As An Zi listened to Merlin's comforting words, the pain in his stomach also lessened. Unbeknownst to him, the ruptured intestines in his abdomen were connecting.

Merlin stroked the back of An Zi's head and asked knowingly, "Are you feeling better?"

An Zi nodded slightly. The sweat on his forehead rubbed against Merlin's clothes: "I feel much better now, I feel much better now."

"When you need it," Merlin smiled as he made a promise that was impossible to fulfill, "as long as you pray with all your heart, I will appear."

"Who are you, are you a god?" An Zi raised his head, but in the darkness, he was still unable to see the other party's face clearly.

Merlin did not say anything. He released An Zi and stood up.

An Zi fell to the ground in a daze. He reached out his hand to grab onto Merlin, but how could he do such a thing?

"Don't, don't leave me!" An Zi's anxious voice sounded like he was crying. He crawled forward with all his might, his intestines had not been completely restored, and his intense movements had caused him to experience pain once more. However, An Zi did not care anymore.

"I didn't leave you," Merlin said to An Zi as he floated in the air. "I will never leave you, you are already my citizen."

Hearing Merlin's voice, An Zi's emotions gradually stabilized. He stopped his actions and raised his head in the darkness, just like a devout believer.

Zhou Heng, who was watching from the sidelines, suddenly felt a little disgusted. What Merlin showed him was the most basic form of religious manoeuvre, which was to create suffering and help people out of it. If An Zi knew that the person who destroyed his intestines was the person he worshipped right now, what would he think then?

"What are you going to do next?" Zhou Heng asked Merlin.

"Watch me." Merlin returned to Zhou Heng's side and snapped his fingers in the air.

The control of light and sound was completely removed after this snap of the finger.

"Is the electricity back on?" The corridor regained its hubbub after a split-second.

"What just happened? Is it really a power outage? " Some began to doubt the truth, but by guessing, they could not find it.

"An Zi, An Zi, are you alright?" Some of the gangsters realized that An Zi had stood up.

"It's a miracle, a miracle! It must be it!" An Zi's eyes were fixated on the ceiling of the corridor, but other than the ceiling light that suddenly lit up, there was nothing on it.

"An Zi, what's wrong?" His companion shook his shoulder.

"Just now," An Zi's gaze slowly fell down, his face was filled with an unbelievable expression of devotions, "I just saw a god."

"What?" The bullies would never have thought that An Zi would suddenly say such words after cutting off the electricity for just a short while.

"It's true! I saw a miracle!" An Zi closed his eyes and began to recall the "miracle" that happened to him not long ago.

"Could this guy's brain be damaged?" Not only the hoodlums, even the attendants were shocked by An Zi's strange behavior.

The atmosphere between the two of them, which was originally filled with swords drawn, had been lightened by the sudden power outage and An Zi's strange actions.

"Do you know what the scariest thing in the world is?" Merlin suddenly whispered.

Zhou Heng did not answer him. For him, the worst thing was the same thing that helped him the most.

"Is it a powerful force, or extraordinary intelligence, or a destructive weapon that is ahead of this era?" Merlin asked.

Zhou Heng still did not give his an answer.

"Religion."

Zhou Heng's pupils suddenly enlarged a bit in shock. He completely did not understand why Merlin would say these words to him in this kind of situation.

"Christianity is a religion, Buddhism is a religion, and science is also a religion." Merlin's voice was extremely soft, and was transmitted into Zhou Heng's ears in the form of a sound wave. However, to Zhou Heng, it was as loud as thunder.

Why is he telling me this now? Merlin would always give Zhou Heng an unfathomable feeling. Was he a good person or a bad person? Or swaying from side to side in the gray?

"I only need to plant a little seed of faith in order for it to blossom and bear fruit." Merlin continued, "This is the power of religion."

As if to confirm Merlin's words, the bullies wavered.

An Zi's abnormal behavior caused them to feel a little panicked. The blackout just now was truly a little strange.

"God, it must have been a god just now." An Zi was still muttering to himself, his tone was extremely firm, but the more determined he was, the more he would be able to cause slight wavering in the hearts of others.

What happened just now? The bullies were all confused by what had happened during that time in the dark. Although it was short, everything that had happened just now was still unknown to them.

Man naturally fears the unknown, and fear breeds faith and religion.

Although it was impossible for Merlin to understand the meaning behind the seed, Zhou Heng could imagine that whatever Merlin did would affect the person named "An Zi" for the rest of his life, and An Zi would also affect the people around him unceasingly. If Merlin wanted to, he could control everyone in the room by repeating what he had just done.

Whether it was powerful strength, extraordinary intelligence, or a destructive weapon that was ahead of this era, none of them could thoroughly subdue the "human heart". The only thing that could conquer people's hearts was "religion".

Even though "Greed and the King of Sickle" were strong enough, he could not control the "Heart of Sickle". Even his close disciples had betrayed him in the end.

Compared to the "Greed and the King of Sickle" from the past, Merlin's advancement was not limited to strength.

In the end, the lackeys still decided to retreat first. An Zi's condition was really too strange, and their moods were more or less affected. The waiters were victorious. Since before this group of hoodlums came to make trouble, they had never won in this way.

Victory did not make them happy. On the contrary, the question "What happened just now" lingered in everyone's mind.

The answer to this question could become a legend circulating in the city, or it could disappear.

But Merlin did not care, for he had only casually dropped a seed that cost nothing.