Thanks for Nature's Bounty-I'm Digging In!

2024-08-19

The wooden stage floor had rotted and grown moldy. Lin Baici stood on it, gazing at the silent, empty audience seats.

"Hey, Head God, are you inside our bodies?"

Lin Baici shouted.

Although the god had spoken earlier, neither Lin Baici nor Rafios, with their keen senses, could pinpoint its location by sound.

They could only reason their way through this trial—or take a guess.

Lin Baici had reached this conclusion because he'd once been swallowed by a god, and because he was certain the god wanted their bodies.

"WHAT?"

Rafios was startled by Lin Baici's unexpected answer. But the more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed, so he immediately lowered his head to inspect his body.

He saw no signs of anything amiss, which made him wonder if Lin Baici was trying to pull some kind of trick.

The god didn't respond, and the atmosphere suggested that Lin Baici had guessed wrong.

"..."

Lin Baici felt a little awkward.

That couldn't be, could it?

Hadn't the other party said it was nearby?

There was nowhere to hide in plain sight. The Head God couldn't be burrowing underground like Sun the Earth Traveler, could it?

That would be a serious fall from grace.

[Your reasoning is correct, but your answer is wrong!]

God of Gluttony commented.

"What do you mean?"

Lin Baici didn't understand. "Do I have to recite scripture and scare the Head God's consciousness out?"

There was no way this could be possession, was it?

His Sanskrit Chants and Buddhist Sounds were powerful, but exorcism was beyond him. He didn't have that kind of ability.

[Not reciting scripture. You need to cut open your abdomen and take out its head!]

"What?"

Lin Baici thought he'd misheard. "Say that again?"

[Cut open your abdomen and