The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them-Chapter 132 - Abnormal Salvation

The fire issue was eventually resolved. Su Li tried to show off his cooking skills, but Cyril and Qi didn’t give him the chance.

Several days passed this way.

Su Li witnessed Cyril and Qi taking turns fighting monster beasts. Though he couldn’t clearly see how much their strength had improved, he could determine from their increasingly calm demeanor when facing monster beasts, as well as their bright eyes, that they had indeed made some progress.

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After another battle ended, Cyril bandaged himself while telling Su Li, “We should probably start interacting with others now.”

Su Li, who had been mentally modeling the monster beast that Cyril had just fought, casually tossed another log into the campfire nearby.

He understood what Cyril meant.

In this world, there was an unspoken rule of reciprocal gain and loss between people.

The training in the Beast Forest wasn’t just about letting inexperienced students feel the danger that comes with life-or-death situations.

The other aspect was the trial of people using each other as stepping stones.

This rule gave the impression that someone who could become strong wasn’t worthy unless they trampled enough people, stepped on enough spines, and experienced various schemes and plots.

Was this reasonable? At least in Su Li’s view, it was absolutely unreasonable.

And Cyril’s words represented that he also deemed it unreasonable.

Su Li and Cyril’s mutual understanding was fully revealed in his subsequent words.

“Now with Qi and me joining forces, we can at least subdue eighty percent of the students participating in this training.”

“As for later...”

Qi curved his eyes while looking at the campfire. “With our strength, we’ll definitely make them understand what it means to ‘respect the strong.’”

Earlier, when they were still in the plaza before arriving at the Beast Forest, Cyril had a particularly strong impression of that comment about whether Su Li was being used as bait for fishing.

This phrase could reflect many situations.

In the Beast Forest, weak students without protection were like walking bait that could be manipulated at will by those who considered themselves strong.

Su Li hadn’t become such a target because he had sufficiently powerful guardians beside him, but others...

Those people would only naturally harm their own kind.

Cyril wouldn’t self-righteously claim that his desire to help them was some sort of righteous rescue mission.

The reason he had this thought, and had even thoroughly communicated it with Qi, was simply because neither of them wanted to be left behind by Su Li.

Before entering the monster beast civilization, what could weaklings like them do for this journey?

Nothing at all.

——However, they still had things they could accomplish.

Such as rescuing those who were used as bait.

No one should rightfully be destined to die.

And when those viewed as destined to die were rescued, it meant they became connected to the trio.

What was more valuable was never what was right in front of you.

Many of Su Li’s behaviors had conveyed this message.

He was like someone casting a large net, never knowing what would be caught until it was pulled in.

The Asa Academy’s tuition was substantial. Students who could enter were naturally like they had been filtered, and even if they weren’t from wealthy or noble backgrounds, whoever could pay their tuition had extraordinary value behind them.

These people would become the most obvious resistors.

Offspring sent to study at the academy at great expense, only to become bait in others’ hands?!

Rules would always be trampled by the stronger.

And true leaders needed to transform all uncontrolled malicious influences into positive guidance for the better.

For example, after they extinguished their campfire, they began to explore by following the traces left by their kind.

During this process, the trio indeed discovered many fishing operations.

The combat power of monster beasts gave their flesh value—a concept that humans could attain by defeating monster beasts and taking their flesh.

Choosing to use relatively weaker characters as bait, luring monster beasts to traps set up by humans in advance, relying on intelligence—even relatively disadvantaged humans could achieve the feat of killing stronger monster beasts.

And obtain their “deserved treasures.”

As for whether the role of bait would be depleted in the process...

For the profiteers, it wasn’t worth mentioning.

The fish bait that died would even be judged by the surrounding crowd: if you weren’t so weak, how would you be treated this way?

Cyril ran forward quickly. In his line of sight, a person running toward him had a face full of despair and terror, with tears and snot everywhere, constantly wailing, “I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die...”

This was a person who, to any strong individual in this world, possessed no value.

But before that person could have their neck bitten off by the monster beast, Cyril kicked them toward where Qi was positioned.

Using this relatively opposing force, Cyril distanced himself from the rather large-looking porcupine.

Because he hadn’t actively attacked, Cyril hadn’t successfully drawn aggression in this action, so the porcupine charged straight ahead toward the trap.

But without bait, the porcupine didn’t stop its advance.

At this point, the trap’s effectiveness greatly decreased, and those ambushers hiding in trees and bushes could only scream and scatter in all directions. Their pathetic appearance was no better than the “bait” from earlier; some even wet their pants while fleeing, appearing even more miserable.

The “bait,” who had been caught by Qi and steadily placed against a tree, broke down sobbing uncontrollably after escaping the danger of death.

Su Li, who had cooperated several times already, pinched the bridge of his nose and stepped forward.

His voice, always calm and never pressuring yet with a naturally tranquil quality, became the only clarity in the midst of the breakdown.

“What you should be doing right now isn’t breaking down and crying by yourself, but laughing at those people who didn’t treat you like a human before.”

Su Li noticed a momentary pause in the person’s sobbing breakdown, one that even the person themselves hadn’t realized.

So he continued, “No one is asking you to forgive them. Whether it’s mockery, sarcasm, or cursing them loudly—it’s all your right.”

The “bait” continued to shed tears uncontrollably like an open faucet while slightly opening his mouth and staring at Su Li with wide eyes.

Su Li knew this was a “false contemplation” when someone’s mind was empty and suddenly forced to process information.

What he needed to do was to further solidify that information, and transform what he said into the “bait’s” internal thoughts.

Su Li stared at the “bait” leaning against the tree and said, “Of course, in non-fatal situations, if there’s some punching and kicking, I can pretend that the weather is bad today, making my vision as an ordinary person somewhat blurry, so I can’t see clearly.”

As he spoke, he deliberately covered his eyes with both hands. Unfortunately, the gaps between his fingers were large enough to fully reveal his beautiful green eyes.

Under this series of “treatments,” the “bait” successfully recovered.

“I personally think your eyes are clearer and brighter than the largest river outside Sadina City.”

Saying this, the “bait” stood up with the help of the tree.

He revealed a sinister smile at the group of ambushers who had scattered but somehow returned.

Being bait naturally meant being weak.

But the porcupine that was treated as prey had already successfully become the vanguard that broke open the situation.

Thus, the person who was used as a small fish to catch big fish unhesitatingly revealed fangs that had previously been useless.

“He looks much better than I did before. When Lord Su Li rescued me, even seeing that trash group being chased everywhere by monster beasts, I didn’t have any thought of getting back at them,” another previously rescued bait said.

“Do you think you didn’t do it because you were too weak?”

The trio had rescued many people, and now the rescued baits could communicate quite naturally.

“No, of course I don’t think it was because I was too weak to dare get revenge.” The person who spoke earlier flashed a smile so dazzling it was blinding. “I just decided, and successfully carried out, stripping them of their clothes when they were chased by those monster beasts until they were exhausted, severely injured, and barely alive.”

A group of apes wouldn’t feel cold due to the season, but they wouldn’t dare face their own kind with naked bodies.

This was the sense of shame ingrained in human bones after civilization.

The other person who asked the question fell into deep thought....

“I thought putting laxatives in those guys’ drinking water was already a good method.”

“Now that I think about it, the two methods can be combined.”

The person who spoke earlier finally replied, “...Brother, I think you’re not bad either.”

Su Li, who had listened to the entire conversation: shows a tired smile.jpg

Regarding the sudden increase in the concentration of perverts around him, Su Li could only say that fortunately, he wasn’t the perverted one...

This thought didn’t last long.

But before it was broken, it was solid as a rock.

Until the newest bait tied up all the ambushers who had used him to fish for level-five monster beasts like zongzi, everything that had been rock-solid turned to dust.

That person walked up to Su Li, and his first words were: “I bet you never know what kind of new world your words opened up for me.”

“You’re like a god appearing suddenly during humanity’s ignorant period, guiding foolish me to continuously take actions to save myself.”

Su Li: ...

“When you stand silently behind, without seeking credit, neither rejoicing in my joy nor grieving in my sorrow, I feel from the bottom of my heart that my world has been illuminated by you.”

Despite the exaggerated language, Mr. Bait truly felt salvation in that instant.

Not a selfish kindness that abandoned him after saving him, but one that gave him the possibility to take revenge himself.

Su Li: ......

“You have no idea...”

Su Li felt that an excellent adult should take the reins when the situation was running wild like an untamed horse and couldn’t be pulled back.

“I don’t want to know, thank you.”

Just like how he could clearly see why Cyril and Qi always made him the one to comfort the bait.

Pretending such ability didn’t exist was a skill Su Li had already mastered to the fullest.