828 For I So Loved the World Part One (1/2)

”Bacon tastes better if smoked by pine woods for a month or longer.”

She looked at the Butcher and spoke her second sentence after entering the mortal world. The sentence silenced the meat shop even more. The Drunkard's and the Butcher's facial expressions were complicated. They were shocked and confused upon hearing her praising the wine and then the bacon. They didn't expect such casual praises coming out of her mouth.

She frowned because those words were also out of her own expectation. She didn't know why she still kept those meaningless things in her mind, or even worse, saying them out loud.

After the two sentences, the solemn sound of nature coming out of her became common. It was still spiritual and clear, but not as complicated as before.

The Drunkard asked her three questions which he had never understood throughout his life, and which had haunted philosophers or priests till they died. He asked her because he wanted to distract her with these complicated human cliches, so that he could sneak away.

But just like how he sighed before Chang'an City, since Haotian had come to the mortal world, no way could the Butcher and him avoid being found by Haotian.

She did know why the Drunkard would ask the three questions, but she had found their answers long ago. The question was once meaningless to her, but now they suddenly turned somehow meaningful, so she crossed her hands behind her back and looked into the distance thoughtfully.

She made her final decision, and looked at the Drunkard and the Butcher without any emotions, saying, ”If your first question is about how you will call me, you can call me Sangsang.”

Her name was Sangsang. She was Sangsang. But as soon as she made the decision to use the name, she felt hatred, just as much as how she hated her comments about the wine and bacon.

The Drunkard and the Butcher confirmed it when hearing the name. Their fear gradually settled, and wrinkles of thousands of years made up the bitter smiles on their faces.

The Drunkard said respectfully, ”I was told that you had gone back to the Kingdom of God, so I didn't expect you to still be in the mortal world.”

Sangsang said, ”I had things to do.”

The Butcher signaled the Drunkard with a glance, but the Drunkard deliberately ignored him, and wouldn't reply to Sangsang as the Butcher hinted.

Sangsang asked, ”Are you two willing to do it for me?”

The Drunkard's voice sounded dry. He said, ”To complete the mission on Heaven's behalf is beyond honorable, but please forgive us for having been too tired hiding away from you in the last thousands of years.”

She looked at the furnishings in the meat shop, hands behind her back and said, ”You two are different from other folks because you're able to fly high enough. It's so stupid of you not to leave the shabby world.”

The Drunkard replied, ”The Kingdom of Haotian is your residence, and we wouldn't presume to disturb you there.”

angsang said: ”I'll grant you immortality.”

The Drunkard and the Butcher fell into silence. They would've thrown themselves into Haotian's arms, and become the most devout followers before the last Everlasting Night if they believed their faith could grant them immortality.

Sangsang looked at them and said indifferently, ”I mean the real immortality.”

The Drunkard and the Butcher looked at her in the eyes, then they could no longer escape.

Her crystal eyes were charming and pure, in the deepest of which was nothing but real starlight. On every star, there was an independent Kingdom of God. Those kingdoms looked so beautiful because of their eternity, which was made up of the universe's origination, and granted by time.

The most shocking thing for them was to see the presence of their own self-consciousness. The perfect lines made up of rules shone and faded as the self-consciousness ebbed and flowed.

The Drunkard and the Butcher bent their knees and knelt down on the ground before her.

They had been hiding for thousands of years, only to be found by Haotian in the end. They saw the Kingdom of God Haotian had promised them, and they now believed it truly existed, then what else could they possibly want?

Sangsang went out of the meat shop with the Drunkard and the Butcher humbly following behind her. She waved her hand, then the rein, with one of its ends on the neck of the Big Black Horse, fell off the carriage like petals.

She took the Big Black Umbrella out of the carriage and held it in her hand. Then she turned to the Drunkard and said indifferently, ”Tell him, death is the reunion after a long separation.”

After that, she left the small town with the Big Black Horse. The Drunkard and the Butcher looked at the fading figure of the girl and the horse, silent and shocked, because they still doubted if what they had seen today was real.

No religious classic had recorded the presence of Haotian in the mortal world, nor did any legend tell about it. According to the description in Haotian Taoism, Haotian was the beginning of everything in the world. Haotian had countless shapes, big as the universe or small as sand. Haotian was omniscient and omnipotent, so it was understandable that he could turn into a chubby girl with fair skin and come to the mortal world. But the Drunkard and the Butcher felt it hard to accept that Haotian had the form of a human, and they couldn't believe they had just talked to Haotian.

It took long before the Drunkard and the Butcher recovered from the shock. The Butcher looked at the cumbersome carriage and said, ”The way to Chang'an is too far and the carriage is too heavy. Haotian wouldn't allow me to help, it will be hard for you.”