chapter 15 003

Sam Zhao felt like he was about to explode with anger.
"I! You still ask me who I am? I am the innocent victim who was deceived by you last night, left in the cold wind for most of the night!"
Sam Zhao held onto Ben Li's hand tightly, like a naive uncle afraid his boyfriend would be taken away by someone else. "Let me tell you, don't pretend here. You're not getting away today!"
Ben Li looked at his locked hand and gave up futile struggling, appearing like someone at the mercy of another.
"Alright, you call the shots, where are we going?"
"Come with me."
And so, Sam Zhao walked hand in hand with Ben Li, striding confidently in a direction known only to him...
When Ben Li saw himself gradually approaching a couples' hotel, his face suddenly changed, and he tried to escape from the scene!
However, Sam Zhao didn't give him the chance. He turned around and held him firmly, dragging him towards the hotel.
"What... What do you want? I'm telling you, I have haemorrhoids, don't mess around...!"
"...What's going on in the minds of you high school boys? We're just finding a place to chat."
"Do we really need to go to a couples' hotel for a chat? Haven't you seen the looks from people along the way? I'm dying of embarrassment!"
"You don't understand. This is a safe house. I didn't bring you here for any other reason. Besides, do I look like... like that kind of person?!"
Sam Zhao rolled his eyes and, with Ben Li struggling, went to the front desk. He gave a greasy wink to the astonished female clerk.
"One dynamic and passionate themed room, please."
Ben Li: ...
The female clerk stood frozen in place. After a brief mental pause, she inexplicably became excited!
"Alright, sir, we need your identification, and also, young... young comrade, please show your ID too."
Forced to hand over their IDs, Ben Li looked strangely at the overly excited female clerk, wondering what yaoi fantasy she was imagining...
But this couldn't be blamed on her. In the middle of the night, a middle-aged man forcibly dragging a young man to a couples' hotel for a big bed room, even a passionate one, claiming it's for chatting... Who would believe that?!
"Here's your room card, Room 3966. I wish you both... a pleasant stay!" The female clerk looked at the somewhat uncomfortable Ben Li with a squinted smile.
Ben Li's fist tightened.
"Why are you standing there stupidly? Come with me upstairs." Sam Zhao pulled Ben Li and headed for the elevator.
When they swiped the card and entered the room, Ben Li saw a variety of wondrous facilities, and the pure-hearted Ben Li realized that this is how rich people play...
Indeed, it was quite passionate!
Sam Zhao locked the door and finally let go of Ben Li. He sat down beside the electric bed, and his body, stiff all day, finally relaxed.
"Don't be so nervous, we're really just here to chat." Sam Zhao saw Ben Li's expression as if facing a formidable enemy and laughed while scolding.
Ben Li sighed and sat on the sofa by the door. "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Of course, I want to talk about you."
"Ben Li, male, 17 years old, single, height 175 cm, weight..."
"You know I'm not talking about that." Sam Zhao rubbed his forehead, pointing to Ben Li's eyes with his other hand. "I'm talking about your eyes."
Ben Li fell into silence.
"Have you met Michael?"
Upon hearing this, Ben Li's body trembled slightly. After hesitating for a while, he nodded gently.
Sure enough, the man in front of him knew a lot, and the force behind him... was definitely not simple!
And this sentence also revealed an important piece of information to Ben Li: that the Angel zhi he saw ten years ago was none other than the famous Angel zhi Michael, the King of Angels.
Seeing Ben Li nod, Sam Zhao finally relaxed and his gaze towards Ben Li gradually became fervent.
"Why did He seek you out? What did He say to you? How far can you use the Forbidden Ruins now?"
Sam Zhao's questions came out like a rapid-fire burst. Ben Li furrowed his brows slightly, shaking his head.
"You have too many questions," Sam Zhao realized he was getting a bit out of hand, chuckling twice. "Well, I guess you must have a lot of doubts now. Let me start by answering them. Ask whatever you want to know."
Ben Li pondered for a moment, looking into Sam Zhao's eyes. He asked the first question, "Are the gods from mythology really existent in this world?"
"They exist," Sam Zhao didn't hesitate, nodding directly. "But not all gods exist."
"What do you mean?"
Sam Zhao fell into thought, as if deciding where to start. "What do you think mythology is?"
Ben Li thought for a moment. "Is it the spiritual sustenance of ancient people? Fear and fantasy of unknown forces of nature?"
"You're not wrong," Sam Zhao nodded, "Until a hundred years ago, that's how everyone thought."
"A hundred years ago?"
"That's right, before the appearance of the Mist, there had never been a trace of gods in this world," Sam Zhao's eyes narrowed slightly, "However, since the Mist covered the Earth, everything... seemed different.
In September 1922, just a year after the Mist appeared, a mist exploration team sent by the Nation Xia observed an enormous dragon flying slowly in the sky over the Marianna Trench. It was the first time in human history that a mythical creature had been observed.
Through research and verification, it was confirmed that the dragon was Leviathan, the chaotic dragon from the Bible, said to be created by God. The discovery of this giant dragon directly overturned the understanding of the entire Nation Xia upper echelon. They realized that the world had changed drastically since the appearance of the Mist.
When the Mist first appeared, the entire Nation Xia fell into panic. To maintain national stability, the upper echelons concealed the results of this exploration.
As the first mythical creature observed by humans, the Nation Xia upper echelon codenamed it 001. In the subsequent exploration process, they discovered more mythical creatures one after another, continuing to assign them numbers.
The Angel zhi Michael, whom you saw, was the third mythical creature observed by humans in 1928, codenamed 003."
"1928?" Ben Li was momentarily stunned, "But at that time, we hadn't even mastered the technology to land on the moon, right? How did they find the Angel zhi on the moon?"
"It wasn't us who found Him," Sam Zhao shook his head, "In March 1928, a golden sword aura emitted from the moon, traversing the universe and reducing a large volcano in North America to a flat expanse. Only then did we know that there was still a deity on the moon."
"North America? What was there?"
"Later, our exploration team took a year to reach that volcano. In the midst of the ruins, they discovered the sealed deity labelled as 004 within the Divine Ruins..."
Sam Zhao paused for a moment before continuing, "The Fallen Angel, Lucifer."
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