Borrowing a Flower to Offer to the Buddha

Slap!

Sima Mu raised his hand and slapped himself hard.

"What are you doing?"

The Old Aunt was startled by his sudden action, thinking something had happened!

"Damn my jinxed mouth!"

Sima Mu was depressed. This kind of Rule Pollution was truly unpredictable.

"Handsome guy, quickly help me take a look!"

The one who screamed just now was a girl with long hair wearing a light blue dress. She held an oil lamp and rushed over to Lin Baici, asking for his help.

"My blood seems to be burning very fast too!"

"How fast is fast? Isn't it all like this?"

"No, yours is clearly much faster!"

Hearing the girl in the dress, the tourists all started staring at the blood in the oil lamps. Some of them were horrified to discover that the burning speed of their blood was different.

Visibly faster.

This scared them.

"Yours is burning so fast you can almost see the bottom of the lamp. Add more blood!"

Hua Yueyu offered a suggestion. She looked at hers and thankfully, it was fine.

"Oh! Oh!"

The girl in the dress nodded repeatedly, took the Cleaver handed over by Lin Baici, and cut her finger.

Drip! Drip!

"The blood is flowing too slowly. Cut the wound bigger!"

Sima Mu urged, "What time is it now? Are you still afraid of pain? If you can't do it, I'll help you!"

The girl in the dress cried, enduring the pain, and cut her finger again. Unfortunately, the wound was still too shallow.

Sima Mu couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed her left hand.

The sharp scythe blade sliced across her fair palm, and blood gushed out.

"Ah!"

The girl in the dress screamed in pain.

Tourists whose blood was burning too quickly were anxiously borrowing knives, rushing to add blood to their oil lamps.

Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen exchanged a glance, seeing a flicker of fear in each other's eyes.

"Why... why is it still so fast?"

The girl in the dress shivered, her face drained of color, pale and lifeless.

"Damn it, what's going on? Why is mine burning so fast? Did I not use the right oil lamp?"

"Handsome guy, what do we do?"

"Wuwuwu, I don't want to die!"

There were about two hundred tourists, and the blood in their oil lamps was burning quite quickly.

"Hungry God Brother!"

The little girl hugged Lin Baici's leg. Her mother, Zhang Ju, stood beside her, holding an oil lamp in one hand.

The blood inside was burning at a normal speed.

Sima Mu glanced at his oil lamp and found no issues. He remained steady as a rock, having the leisure to direct others: "Don't just stand there, keep adding blood!"

"Looking at this, if we can't find the reason, adding more won't help!"

Hua Yueyu thought Sima Mu's suggestion was unreliable and harmful.

"How much blood did you add to the oil lamp the first time? Did you fill it up?"

Lin Baici looked at the girl in the dress with light makeup and pressed further.

He had roughly guessed the reason.

"I... I filled it up, right?"

The girl in the dress mumbled.

"I need an accurate answer!"

Lin Baici raised his voice.

"No... it was a little short..."

The girl in the dress's tears flowed even more torrentially: "It... it hurt too much, so I didn't continue bleeding!"

"Those of you whose blood is burning too fast, did you not fill your oil lamps just now?"

Sima Mu's loud voice.

Hum!

Everyone froze.

Was this the reason?

Damn it, If I had known, I would have just filled it up.

"What do we do now?"

Someone asked urgently.

Sima Mu didn't know, so he naturally looked at Lin Baici, waiting for an answer.

Lin Baici was silent, because he felt, There was no solution.

Fortunately, when the God of Gluttony said, 'Fill it up once, and it can burn for three years,' he was cautious enough to fill the lamp with blood directly. If he had been afraid of pain, if he had thought a little would be enough, then he would be finished now.

"Why aren't you saying anything!"

"Yeah, what should we do, tell us quickly!"

"Please!"

The tourists whose Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infants were constantly growing on their backs couldn't sit still anymore, and they roared around Lin Baici.

"He said everything he needed to say, it's because you didn't follow his instructions!"

Hua Yueyu saw their agitated and frantic expressions and, worried they would do something drastic, quickly explained for Lin Baici.

"It's your fault!"

Jin Yingzhen reprimanded.

Those who had followed Lin Baici's reminder and filled their lamps with blood were now extremely fortunate.

The situation was clear now.

Blood could serve as lamp oil. By filling the lamp and lighting the wick, the light could dispel the Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infants on their backs.

If this wasn't done, the ghostly things would grow larger and larger until they matured and devoured the person beneath them.

"Fortunately, these ghostly things don't attack others, they only eat the person beneath them."

The Old Aunt patted her chest and took a deep breath.

"Calm down! Calm down!"

Soon, within a few minutes, the blood of several tourists was burned away. No matter how much blood they added to the lamps, it was useless.

The Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infants on their backs began to grow rapidly, then like rabid dogs, they attacked them, gnawing and tearing.

"Damn it, if I can't live, none of you will live either!"

A youth wearing Puma Sports Shoes saw that he was beyond saving and wouldn't let others live either. He suddenly lunged at a woman beside him and punched her head fiercely.

Crash!

People nearby, afraid of being involved, pushed him away instantly.

"It's none of my business, so I'll stay out of it."

The youth in sports shoes caused a stir, and some people were incited. They also wanted to follow suit, kill and slaughter, since they were all going to die anyway, and the law and morality could no longer punish them.

But just then, Lin Baici darted out like a leopard, quickly rushing behind the youth in sports shoes and hitting him hard on the head with the Pine Wood Bat.

Bang!

The youth in sports shoes instantly bled from his face and fell to the ground in a daze, only to be bitten awake by the Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infant the next moment.

Bang!

Lin Baici lifted his foot and kicked him in the mouth.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Lin Baici roared, glaring at them.

He was over 1.8 meters tall. Although he hadn't exercised, his body had developed perfectly since childhood due to that mysterious hunger, with well-proportioned muscles and even eight-pack abs.

Standing in the Great Hero Hall now, holding a torch and glaring angrily, his aura was domineering and mighty, quite intimidating.

"Instead of wasting time killing, why don't you hurry up and escape? Maybe you can survive!"

Lin Baici shouted.

Those who intended to drag others down were instantly stunned. Coupled with his words, it gave them a glimmer of hope, and they began to flee out of the hall one by one.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

But Lin Baici knew they were beyond saving.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Everyone who fled the great hall was crushed into a pulp by a giant Buddha palm that descended from the sky not long after they crossed the threshold.

The people behind them were so terrified they didn't dare to flee. However, the oil lamps had burned out, and the Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infant on their backs began to attack.

Chaos erupted inside the great hall.

"Oppa, you were so cool just now!"

Jin Yingzhen watched, mesmerized. Lin Baici had single-handedly subdued over a hundred people. Otherwise, if these people had rioted, some would have met misfortune.

Hua Yueyu clenched her small pink fists and annoyedly tapped the GOPRO sports camera clipped to her collar. If only this thing worked, she could have captured Lin Baici's imposing presence.

"Hungry God Brother is so amazing!"

In the crowd, a little girl, held tightly by her mother, looked at Lin Baici with her big eyes sparkling.

"Buddy, that Buddha is looking at you!"

The Hook-nosed Man didn't expect this student to be so brave.

"What?"

Lin Baici hadn't even felt scared yet, but Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen were startled. They instinctively turned their heads and looked at the Dark Great Buddha on the altar.

It wore an unreadable smile and was appraising Lin Baici.

[In its eyes, you are now six parts cooked. After removing the head, you can be eaten. But it's rare to encounter such delicious ingredients, so it can wait.]

Lin Baici frowned slightly.

Another fifteen minutes of anxious waiting passed, and everyone suddenly discovered that the Shoulder-Riding Buddha Infant on their backs had disappeared.

"It's gone, it's really gone!"

"Should we be okay now?"

"That's great, we're saved!"

The surviving tourists wept with joy.

Lin Baici counted. There were over 800 tourists who entered the great hall. After the two Rule Pollutions of 'Bowing to Buddha' and 'Burning Lamps', 271 people remained.

"In just this short time, nearly 600 people have died!"

Jin Yingzhen looked at the survivors, completely stunned.

Since they hadn't found the God's Taboo Objects yet, the Rule Pollution wasn't over, which meant more people would die. At this rate of attrition and proportion, wouldn't they all be wiped out in the next round?

"Using fresh blood as lamp oil, and having to fill it all at once, this is too much of a scam. If I had been scared of pain and chickened out just now, I would have been finished!"

Hua Yueyu felt lingering fear. Rule Pollution was terrifying.

The Old Aunt nodded vigorously.

"Handsome guy, thank you!"

The survivors gathered around, thanking Lin Baici.

They owed their survival to him in these past two rounds.

"Blood-Fueled Lamp, Buddha's light shines forever!"

The Dark Great Buddha spoke, its voice high-pitched, solemn, cold, and it suppressed all the clamor in the hall. "But don't you think something is missing before this Buddha?"

"What do you want? We'll give you anything we have!"

Someone pleaded bitterly, "Please let us go!"

"I regard incense offerings as dirt, why would I want your wealth?"

The Dark Great Buddha smiled. "As the saying goes, borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha. You just need to pick a bunch of wildflowers with your own hands and place them before the Buddha!"

Lin Baici wouldn't take this at face value. He didn't miss a single word, remembering it all.

"Go!"

"Go to Lotus Lake in the east to pick flowers!"

After speaking, the Dark Great Buddha closed its eyes.

The crowd exchanged glances, unsure what to do, and looked to Lin Baici again, waiting for him to lead.

"Do we even need to think about this? Let's go pick flowers!"

The Hook-nosed Man ran his right hand through his hair and slicked it back.

No one moved, not even sparing him a glance. They were all waiting for Lin Baici's decision.

This made the Hook-nosed Man very awkward.

[By the way, all beings remember, the offering table is too small, it can only hold thirty flower bunches!]

The Dark Great Buddha suddenly added another sentence, which confused everyone.

"What does that mean?"

Someone was still foolishly asking, but some smart people had already bolted out of the hall.

"Hurry up and go grab the flowers!"

Sima Mu was anxious.

The Dark Great Buddha meant that it would only allow the first thirty people to offer their flower bunches to survive.