The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 137.2 - Using Ophelia as a Unit of Intelligence (part 2)

Elvi thought she had won this smokeless war.

But in the end, she lost completely and thoroughly.

“So why would a human like you consider things from a monster beast’s perspective?” Elvi wasn’t angry; she was merely curious about this point.

“Looking at problems solely from a human perspective is too one-sided,” Su Li smiled as well. He sat upright in the chair opposite Elvi, his slender and frail appearance resembling that of a nobility admirer who indulged in the fragrance of a garden.

Even though Su Li knew that this atmosphere without conflict was deliberately created, and that the dragon lady before him might snap his neck in the next second, he could still maintain this state and continue the conversation.

“I should thank you for reminding me that human common sense doesn’t equal monster beast common sense.”

“I don’t know what you were like in the past, but since you’ve experienced betrayal from humans, I can’t possibly believe that you still consider yourself human.”

In the history related to Elvi, not only was that noble’s entire family wiped out, but the city where the noble resided was also largely destroyed.

“So, I only needed to try thinking from a monster beast’s perspective to discover just how much incorrect information you’ve revealed to me.”

“After all, in common sense terms, a dragon wouldn’t possibly explain the worldview of another world in detail to a human so weak that a single breath could kill them.”

“Unless you’re the legendary saint.”

“Ugh...” Elvi immediately made a retching gesture. “Don’t disgust me like that, really.”

If she were a saint, how could she have wiped out the noble’s entire family and then attacked the human city?

And from Su Li’s perspective.

He had confirmed new information.

When everyone around him looked bewildered, Su Li was able to confirm that the intellectual development of monster beast civilization far surpassed human social systems.

The people here had very low adaptability to conspiracies and schemes.

Only those who controlled vast resources at the upper levels had some twists and turns in their minds.

Elvi, as a being who transformed from human to monster beast, if monster beast society’s civilization was close to human society, couldn’t possibly have grown from a young dragon deceived by nobility into someone who could reverse-utilize Su Li’s way of thinking in the 200-plus years she had survived.

As the saying goes, time doesn’t give fools a brain.

Only learning does.

Monster beast civilization must have had an adequate cultural inheritance system.

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But this wasn’t important right now.

What was important was...

“Do you now think I’m qualified to enter that world?”

“I never thought that going to certain specific places required so-called qualifications. If you want to go there, it depends on whether you can bear the price you might have to pay,” Elvi said, completely contradicting what she had said in their previous conversation.

She was utterly corrupt.

This dragon...

Had been digging traps all along.

Su Li couldn’t help but think that if Ophelia were used as a unit of intelligence, then Elvi would be about three Ophelias.

“Ah——“

“They’re here.”

In the midst of silence and thought, Elvi suddenly said this.

Su Li stared at her blankly.

Elvi, however, had no intention of telling Su Li what she meant by “they’re here.”

She wanted to see just how far Su Li could go.

And she felt that she might truly be a wicked dragon; otherwise, how could she possibly want to see the expression on a human boy’s face change?

But he was too much.

So excessive that Elvi felt her 200 years of learning and battlefield experience were all worthless.

All of her tactics were ultimately resolved in ways Elvi couldn’t imagine.

She had emphasized the difference in cognition between humans and monster beasts, not to make Su Li think from a monster beast’s perspective.

It was to indirectly tell Su Li that they were fierce enough, and absolutely could not be understood by humans as a brutal race.

But the result...

Su Li had said something cruel even for a dragon.

Elvi couldn’t imagine that a human boy who looked thirteen or fourteen years old would think from a monster beast’s perspective about how to use human lives and social systems to hold back other monster beasts, thereby fishing in troubled waters.

When everyone thought emotions would hinder Su Li’s rational thinking, he directly presented the worst possibility.

Moreover, during the process of stating that possibility, Elvi didn’t sense even a hint of pain in his demeanor.

Was he a madman?

After these three words appeared in Elvi’s mind, she suddenly felt that she wasn’t much different for producing such a question.

Heh.

Su Li still maintained his dazed appearance but said, “So soon?”

Elvi: .................

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“You’re truly damned.”

Even though she said she wanted to kill Su Li, Elvi’s eyes and body language uncontrollably showed excitement.

She knew that Su Li understood her vocal tone and the words “they’re here” represented those who wanted to compete with her for the Raven had also arrived.

Su Li sat in his place for a long time.

That action of seemingly emptying his thoughts and spacing out made those around him afraid to interrupt, fearing that if startled, he might have a seizure.

Until Egbert cautiously asked, “Lord Su Li...? Are you alright?”

Only then did Su Li come back to his senses and said, “I’m fine.”

Not only did the boy smile, but he also took off the silk ribbon on his head.

Elvi had already gone out.

So Su Li didn’t need to worry about seeing something he shouldn’t.

Su Li only told the others, “Later, the suburban area where you often used to fight might become ruins.”

“Also, everyone should rest well tonight.”

Following a trembling of the earth and mountains, Su Li said with a forced smile, “Try your best.”

Try their best.

Euphia’s forehead veins started throbbing. “That’s impossible no matter what!”

“Knowing that city-destroying level beings have suddenly appeared in the city we’ve been protecting wholeheartedly, and not just one, but they’ve also started fighting with each other... how could I possibly rest easy?!”

Lan Zhe’s mouth twitched. “But even if we don’t rest, we can’t make any impact on reality, right?”

“Then tell me, can you fall asleep?” Euphia mocked him.

The veins on Lan Zhe’s forehead continued to throb, but he didn’t respond.

“Don’t fight. If you start fighting now, there’s no place for you to do so,” Mark tried to mediate, but his implied words were miserable.

Who would compete with a group of self-propelled natural disasters for a battle area?!

It was truly hellish!

While everyone else’s emotions were in various states of collapse, the Raven asked Su Li, “Did you mean it when you said ‘can you take me too’?”

“Probably... yes...” Su Li looked at the black crow tilting its head.

Perhaps because what had happened today was too explosive, Su Li felt a weariness that he couldn’t resist mentally. While rubbing the black crow’s head, he said, “What I can confirm now is that humans being annihilated is relatively the worst outcome for monster beasts.”

“But relatively worst doesn’t equal absolutely worst.”

At this moment, grammatical errors became the best descriptive method.

“We still don’t know if monster beasts transformed from humans like Elvi can reproduce with other transformed monster beasts.”

“I guess perhaps they can’t, or maybe the difficulty in breeding with true monster beasts is no different.”

“But whichever it is, if monster beasts truly exist in a situation where humans are completely annihilated, I don’t think they would maintain the struggle between different forces.”

“The current existence of humans is more like a backup force resource for monster beasts, but if that backup force doesn’t exist or completely disappears, the first thing monster beasts need to consider must be how to continue reproducing.”

“Given that their intelligence is generally not lower than Ophelia’s, I don’t think those thousands of years of lifespan would be useless time.”

Su Li pressed his fingers heavily on the position of one temple; his tone was slow, but he was constantly trying his best to convey what he had already guessed to others.

“In other words...”

Egbert picked up on Su Li’s topic.

The enormous fatigue that came after the boy relaxed mentally had already made him drowsy.

And with the information exchange that followed, in the situation he had already laid out, others could fill in the gaps.

“In other words, in monster beast society, there exist some who consider the destruction of humans as the path to peace for monster beasts.”

“No intelligent life would willingly live in a war with no end in sight,” Egbert said after gently exhaling.

“As for why these beings haven’t appeared, it can only be said that the struggle between monster beasts hasn’t reached that severity yet,” Lan Zhe added.

They were all speaking information that Su Li already knew, so at this moment, the Dark Holy Son casually directed Mark to take Su Li back to his own room.

After discussing the issues, Lan Zhe would have to find time to check Su Li’s physical condition.

Euphia watched as Su Li was carried away by Mark, and after sighing gently, said, “Sometimes I really don’t understand why Su Li does so much.”

“What he wants is actually very simple, and that kind of simplicity should be easy to achieve.”

Cyril, however, said, “Rather than thinking about this question, we should be grateful that he has made everything that can help us develop better a part of his own goal.”

“Although for Su Li, it’s a very unfair thing.”

After these words were spoken, the air was as silent as dead water.

After quite a while, Roy exhaled and said somewhat desolately, “What we should think about, besides things related to monster beast civilization and society, is most importantly that the little master wants to enter that world.”

They couldn’t stop him, and that was the most important issue that needed to be discussed.

Su Li had never changed.

But the world was constantly changing.

“We can certainly choose to pretend not to know, not to understand. But...” Roy sat on the sofa, leaning forward with his hands crossed in front of him, his gaze fixed firmly on the ground. “I don’t think I, or any of you, can watch him follow the Raven into that world and then do what he thinks is achieving his own goal but is actually doing it for everyone else.”

He demanded too little and did too much.

And he self-centeredly considered everything as merely done to achieve his own goals.

Everyone believed that it was just Su Li’s pale method of self-comfort.

Because it was impossible for a person to keep moving forward for the sake of the entire world.

That goal was too grand, too enormous.

A person bearing the pressure of the entire world would be crushed the moment they took on that burden.

Su Li needed a simple goal.

A goal simple enough to keep him persevering on this road with no end in sight.

The Raven, having listened to this entire conversation, eventually went with Lan Zhe into Su Li’s room. During the process of the Dark Holy Son examining Su Li’s body, the boy never woke up.

The Raven also nestled on one side of the boy’s pillow, staring at that face whose features had become distinct, either from growing up or simply from losing weight.

Wanting to say something...

But in the end, nothing was said.

Later, Lan Zhe was the first to tell the Raven about Su Li’s diagnosis.

“He’s lost a lot of weight, has severe malnutrition, and has grown taller during the month of training, but this kind of growth seems like it’s depleting something.”

Su Li’s height had already reached 175 cm.

“Then there are some inexplicable wounds on his body.”

They might have been insect bites, or scratches from thorny plants in the forest.

But whatever they were, these were things Su Li shouldn’t have had to endure.

Lan Zhe didn’t leave Su Li’s room immediately after the examination results appeared.

Instead, he brought up another topic.

“Do you think humans could possibly obtain power surpassing monster beasts?” Lan Zhe asked the Raven.

It was useless to ask this question of the Dark Pope, who was somewhat stronger than him.

Because Elvi, who had appeared today, possessed power that completely overwhelmed humans.

“I don’t know,” the Raven actively nuzzled Su Li’s cheek with its head. The boy’s breathing was too light.

This might have been developed to prevent monster beasts from suddenly appearing during training in the monster beast forest.

But even the Raven couldn’t help thinking that Su Li shouldn’t have gone through all this.

The Raven truly didn’t know, just as it had said.

It didn’t know how to make this group of guardians around Su Li truly possess the power to protect.

Nor did it know how to keep Su Li from facing danger.

The Raven didn’t think as much as humans did. It simply hoped that this boy could always walk back home with Cyril in the sunset from the academy; could lie in the yard of the small building during rest times, basking in the sun; could sit by the window on days when rain was falling steadily, writing down various words it couldn’t understand.

Those thoughts of his, his wisdom, different from the strong attraction brought by his appearance—the Raven at this moment even wished they didn’t exist.

It was too hard.

“You’re right,” Lan Zhe thought about it. “Monster beasts probably don’t know how humans can become strong enough to surpass monster beasts either.”

Lan Zhe left the room with his medicine box.

The breathing in the room remained faint, and after closing the door, Lan Zhe saw Egbert, who hadn’t taken any action.

Lan Zhe blinked and said, “I thought you’d be crouching in some corner or something, desperately training.”

“That’s what you thought,” Egbert denied this.

“I do want to become stronger,” Egbert admitted. “But I’ve already realized that humans’ existing methods of becoming stronger are destined to be unable to surpass monster beasts whose civilization towers above ours.”

Lan Zhe was stunned for a moment and then suddenly asked, “So, you have an idea?”

Egbert nodded and then shook his head.

He said, “But this question, at least, should be asked of Castor, who has researched Lord Su Li’s blood.”

Egbert had a hypothesis.

Monster beast bloodlines had long been mixed into human bloodlines.

But the only thing the monster beast bloodline gave humans was elemental affinity.

No increase in lifespan, no improvement in other special abilities.

This bloodline only provided humans with the qualification to cultivate elements.

But what if humans gave up this qualification? Would elements truly become special powers that could no longer be controlled?

Egbert was more inclined to believe that when humans chose to discard the part of their bloodline mixed with monster beast bloodline, humans would still be able to continue cultivating elements.

A ball of light appeared in Egbert’s palm, and he could clearly feel all the traces of light element moving in his body, cells, and blood vessels.

Were these truly just things brought by the monster beast bloodline?

Egbert felt that perhaps initially, humans also had the qualification to cultivate elements. It was just that the sudden actions of monster beasts distorted the human development that should have existed.