Chapter 812: Chapter 600: The Young Man’s Fury: Da Dou Kidnapped My Son!
If believers are classified into levels based on faith, there are roughly five tiers.
They are general believers, ordinary believers, devout believers, fanatics, and saints.
What is a fanatic?
Fanatics have an extreme pursuit of their object of worship, to the point of madness. They believe that only by worshiping their deity can they obtain salvation or blessing.
They ignore all rational thought and devote themselves wholeheartedly. Even if the deity commands them to sacrifice their lives, they will execute it without hesitation.
Moreover, they cannot tolerate any criticism of their deity.
In such situations, they usually resort to persuasion, cursing, or even directly attacking.
For severe cases, they would not hesitate to transform into thugs and brutally attack their enemies.
The big guy being a fanatic himself was something the Dragon-man youth found strange and puzzling at first.
But as he thought more about it, he gradually understood.
By the standards of a fanatic, how could the big guy be anything else but his fanatic?
After the old shipwright died, the big guy firmly believed: the person who treated him best in this world, and his only relative, is the Dragon-man youth!
As long as the youth fell into danger, the big guy would instantly enter a berserk state, risk his life to protect the youth, and fight to the death for him!
“Why did he become my fanatic?”
Reflecting on the big guy’s life experiences, the Fishman youth gradually came to some realization.
The big guy was abandoned as a baby but was fortunate to be taken care of by the old shipwright.
He grew up but was a fool who occasionally went mad.
The people around him naturally didn’t treat him well—contempt, disgust, and rejection were the main themes.
The old shipwright was the only light in the big guy’s life. He raised the big guy painstakingly, tirelessly cared for him, fought for his survival space, and even taught him swimming.
The Dragon-man youth knew how severe the big guy’s intellectual handicap was, and he was very impressed and found it hard to imagine that the old shipwright could successfully teach the big guy to swim.
It was precisely because of the old shipwright that the big guy, living in a harsh environment, still harbored kindness in his heart.
The old shipwright’s utmost protection, the narrow and unique survival space on the ship, and the fact that the big guy was merely a mortal who couldn’t match the transcendent… these factors combined to make the big guy’s character timid and cowardly. However, the violent factors in his bloodline merely lay dormant, and when provoked, the big guy would also go berserk, fighting to the death to kill the enemy or protect what he cared the most about.
This was vividly displayed on the Mysterious Monster Island. To protect his father, the big guy pushed the boat himself, disregarded the Beast Tide, and willingly sacrificed himself.
He was closest to the old shipwright and distant from everyone else. This isolation made the big guy’s personal world very small. The old shipwright was his entire world, the whole meaning of his life.
But on the Mysterious Monster Island, the old shipwright died.
Before dying, the old shipwright entrusted the big guy to the knight youth.
The old shipwright knew his significance to the big guy, and he was very worried the big guy would lose hope and also wanted someone to take care of him.
This action by the old shipwright turned out to be a huge success!
The knight youth became the new father, replacing the old shipwright. The old shipwright was right in his judgment: the youth possessed knightly spirit, was upright, tolerant, and merciful, and felt compassion for the big guy, never abandoning him because he was dumb or mad.
He wasn’t even slightly averse to him.
Not at all!
Not even for a single moment!
The knight youth always took the big guy with him, protected him, and cared for him. Although the care might not have been very thorough and considerate,
the youth was indeed sincere, putting his heart and soul into it.
Back then, to secure the giant-type Intelligence Potion for the big guy, the youth did not hesitate to have a conflict with the Ice Eagle. He spared no efforts to help the big guy cultivate the Heartless Sleep Form.
Despite the big guy’s intellectual handicap, he could feel the youth’s affection for him!
Because of this, the big guy genuinely recognized the youth. He remembered the old shipwright’s words to him: the youth was his father, the sole meaning of his life, the sky over him, the sea embracing him, the ground bearing him.
The youth was his sky, earth, sea, his entire world!
In his view, the big world was unfamiliar and even hostile; only his father was trustworthy enough.
With such a mindset, it was very natural for the big guy to become a fanatic.
With the youth’s appearance, the big guy’s nightmares transformed into sweet dreams.
A massive mist took on the form of the Dragon-man youth, huge like a mountain. Just one finger of the youth was thicker than the big guy.
The big guy was already sitting on the deck, hugging the Dragon-man youth’s finger tightly with both hands, pressing his face against it, crying his heart out.
Sobbing uncontrollably, with snot running everywhere.
It’s as if a child lost and scared for a long time had been desperately waiting for their parents to find them.
Now, the father he had longed for, called for a thousand times, finally appeared. The poor child was greatly comforted.
“Daddy, save me, save me fast.”
“Little one, danger!”
“There are bad people.”
“Bad people!”
“Little one wants to go back.”
“But can’t go back!”
As the big guy’s cries continued, the Fishman youth’s expression gradually changed.
He tried advanced divine arts for the first time; he was a novice and didn’t know how to evaluate the distance and location between him and his believer.
So, at first, he thought the big guy was still in Snowbird Port.
But now, he gradually realized something was wrong.
The Dragon-man youth had left the team for some time and was unaware that many things had happened in between.
He always thought that after he left, the commercial plan was advancing smoothly, everything was orderly and even idyllic.
But now, from the Big guy’s few words between sobs, he sensed something amiss.
“Is there an enemy threatening Xiao Guai?”
“What’s going on?”
“Isn’t Xiao Guai by everyone’s side?”
“Perhaps he’s talking about the nightmare encounter?”
The Fishman youth felt puzzled and couldn’t help but become nervous.
He had to confirm it.
The next moment, his attention re-focused and reached the third layer.
According to his previous attempts at divine arts, summarizing his experience:
The first layer of attention allowed him to detect light spots. Each light spot represented a believer.
The second layer of attention could let him observe the mental activities or emotions of the believers.
The third layer could delve into deep information.
The Fishman youth did this hoping to gain more information, making it easier for him to make the right judgment.
Soon, he felt various deep-level information contained in the Big guy.
“Big guy’s strength actually reached the Silver Level, how did that happen so fast?”
“He’s still practicing the Heartless Sleep Form Fighting Energy Technique, good lad.”
“His fighting energy is very abundant now.”
“There isn’t a single injury on him.”
“This recovery ability… is stronger than my Dragon-man form. Truly worthy of the Giant Bloodline.”
“Why is there a heap of food in his stomach?”
The Fishman youth was delighted and relieved by the Big guy’s progress, but at the same time, had more questions.
The information he obtained showed that the Big guy was very full and ate very high-end food.
The Silver Level magic meal he consumed was downgraded from the Golden Level, most suitable for Big guy’s cultivation!
From this point of view, Big guy was living better than he did!
“Did not get information about Big guy’s bloodline, lifespan, and others.”
“Wait, it seems possible to dig deeper into the information?”
After the Fishman youth deeply perceived the information, he found that there seemed to be some spare capacity, unlike when he perceived other Mei Lan believers, where there was a feeling of reaching the top.
Now, on the Big guy, he felt he could dig more.
“Let’s try it!”
The Fishman youth attempted to focus more attention.
Successful!
The fourth layer of attention focused down, allowing him to access Big guy’s memory.
His memory unfolded like magic images, scene by scene.
However, it was in reverse and always from Big guy’s first perspective.
Thus, the Fishman youth first saw Big guy opening his eyes, his vision still blurry, seeing Da Dou. Hearing Da Dou speak, Big guy erupted with a furious strike. Subsequently, Big guy and Da Dou engaged in a fierce battle, and soon after, Big guy was knocked unconscious by Da Dou.
The memory continued to rewind.
The Fishman youth saw Da Dou leading Big guy to escape to the Nameless Desolate Island.
Big guy jumped into the sea to swim, Da Dou chased, then suddenly, the Honey Snow Tower appeared.
“Let’s speed it up.” In the Fishman youth’s mind, the speed of the memory rewinding did increase.
He saw Big guy discovering “Zong Ge” (alchemy puppet) being attacked and killed, and Big guy, enraged, went into a frenzy, pursuing the enemy all the way out.
Then Big guy somehow muddled into the Snowbird Port dueling field, participated in the food quantity contest with Da Dou, Ci Haishen, and played a rather important role in it.
Memory rewound again.
Big guy had a conversation with Sanda, feeling increasingly hungry as he made progress in cultivation.
Big guy’s memory was segmented.
Many truths were not revealed, even though Big guy was a participant.
This was because when Da Dou vs Shuanglian, Big guy was packed ahead of time. Big guy was also often knocked unconscious. In a state of slumber, he couldn’t perceive the outside world, thus missing out on that part of the memory.
Similarly, Sanda hitting Big guy to interrupt his cultivation of fighting energy muscle memory — Big guy also had no awareness. Therefore, the Fishman youth didn’t see it.
Despite this, the youth learned many things through these!
“‘Zong Ge’ was ambushed and killed by an enemy; he was actually impersonating me, and impersonating him was just an alchemy puppet.”
“The reason Xiao Guai was kidnapped by Da Dou is probably because Da Dou saw the Big guy’s talent.”
The Fishman youth already knew Da Dou’s name.
In the food quantity contest memory, it was filled with the audience’s discussions about Ci Haishen, Da Dou.
“Da Dou, you actually abducted my son!!!” At this moment, the Fishman youth was extremely furious.