Rusger and his two dogs ran for their lives and finally reached the woods to rejoin the others. Jiang Ran also rushed back and, together with Arceus, each took charge of one of them, restoring the two to human form.
"Damn, running like that was exhausting, like being a dog!"
"It seems like you were a dog back then..."
There are so many people in Tianguang Town now. One group comes, then is left behind, and then the next group comes. This has been going on for three times already. As for the exact number of people, Jiang Ran has stopped trying to count them.
"Jiang Ran, it seems we still have to break Maridga's formation!"
Gwen's sudden words puzzled everyone. Since Rusgr and the other two had already been rescued, why bother with Marid?
While everyone was discussing the rescue plan, Gwen kept looking at the map of Tianguang Town in her hand. She immediately spread the map out and showed it to everyone.
Is there a problem with this?
Rusger looked at the map, but after looking at it from left to right, he couldn't see anything wrong with it. It was just an ordinary map!
“Fine, that was a mistake. I’ll just get straight to the point!” Gwen cleared her throat. “I suspect that the entire Tianguang Town is a giant array!”
"A massive formation?"
“That’s right! The outline of Tianguang Town looks like an irregular shape, but it actually matches the pattern of a certain array base in the formation.” Gwen picked up a pen and drew on the map. “Here is the location of Marid’s house, here is the location of the noodle shop, and here is the location of the mayor’s house.”
Gwen connected the three locations she mentioned with lines, and then circled some of the town's more important buildings, such as the library and the church. The interwoven lines formed an incomplete graphic!
“I’ve never seen such a formation before!” Gwen shook her head helplessly. “At least with the knowledge I have now, I can’t figure out how this formation works.”
This is, after all, a formation set up by a "true god." Regardless of its complexity, no one has ever seen it before, so there is no way to directly find a way to break it using known knowledge.
"But as long as it's a formation, the principles remain the same no matter how they change. Even if I can't directly know how to break it, as long as I can draw the entire formation diagram, I can gradually break it by copying it!"
Gwen clenched her small hands: "The most important thing now is to find the remaining important buildings. This may not be easy. After all, if we didn't know there was a noodle shop on the mountain, who would have thought that the noodle shop was also an important building?"
"But how can you be sure that this noodle shop is an important building? It's possible that it isn't, but you've just included it in your count."
"It's easy to confirm whether this is an important building. If it's a key point in the formation, then there must be materials inside. Since we're going to rescue the mountain anyway, we can just look for it along the way."
In other words, they now have three tasks: rescue the other assimilated people, find the location of a suspected important building, and then confirm whether it is indeed an important building.
Jiang Ran couldn't help but recall a saying: "Time is tight and the task is heavy."
They could consider the matter on the mountain later that night, saving some mental energy. The mental energy recovery balls that Yu Cheng had created had also been used up, and Song Yang was still hiding in the shadows. They needed to properly allocate their mental energy usage methods.
Their biggest advantage right now is their numbers; they need to make good use of this to guard against Song Yang's theft!
"Just like the last cycle, they ambushed us at the noodle shop. Although they couldn't physically harm the assimilated people, they knew where they were."
“So we should be ambushed next time.” Jiang Ran glanced at Alex. “We should do this…”
Jiang Ran then learned Alice's location; she had been assimilated and turned into a goldfish kept in the church, so everyone headed towards the church.
From the shadows, Song Yang peeked out halfway: "Jiang Ran went to the church. It seems he used the same method as before, finding the corresponding location through Alex's [Miracle]."
"It's time for us to make our move."
"Shouldn't we wait a little longer?" Jiang Bowen asked. "If we don't go a few times, they might lower their guard. Wouldn't the chances of success be higher then?"
“No, that applies to ordinary people.” Song Yang lowered his eyes. “The deeper we hide and the less we act, the more vigilant Jiang Ran will become. On the contrary, we might be able to succeed by launching a surprise attack.”
"Since you put it that way, why not just make your move on the first try?"
“I don’t know either.” Song Yang shook his head. “I always felt like there was a voice inside me telling me not to go, so I just played it safe.”
“Alex’s abilities have never stopped, and the power of faith he can rely on is only from the few people around him, so it must take a lot of energy out of him, which basically eliminates his combat power.”
“Jiang Ran and Arceus just used [Miracle] to restore the other two guys to human form, and their remaining mental energy is definitely not much. He made a bad move. If it were me, I would abandon Liu Xia directly, because saving him is completely useless. He is just an S-rank, a nobody.”
“No matter how brilliant his plans are, mental strength is the foundation of everything—” Song Yang looked at the departing crowd in the distance, “He might also be gambling, gambling that I won’t dare to make a move! Then I’ll gamble too, let’s see who wins!”
"Walk!"
"Okay, I'll do as you say!"
The two quickened their pace and swiftly circled around to the front of the crowd. They didn't rush to make a move, but waited for Jiang Ran to enter the church before heading to a secluded spot in the backyard.
Everyone is here, not one missing...
Song Yang extended his right hand. He suspected that Jiang Ran had already used [Loss] to prevent himself from being robbed, so using [Theft] on him would be useless.
Therefore, Song Yang's target for the theft was Arceus! Because based on the mental energy they had expended along the way, Arceus did not have any extra mental energy to protect himself!
Song Yang wanted to steal Jiang Ran's goodwill, leaving only pure malice! Knowing the uncontrollable factors in the fight against the Fallen Gods, if Arceus could steal even a little bit of his sanity, he could make him betray Jiang Ran on the spot!
Why isn't there any reaction? Stealing...?
In that instant, Song Yang finally realized something was wrong, and the "Jiang Ran" in front of him in the backyard vanished with the wind. Yes, it was just an illusion.
Yang Hai smiled and bowed to him: "Sir, I think this is a qualified magic performance."
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