Chapter 217: Flame Church
Ksenia had watched the military academy league, which was the most important reason why she chose to protect Xu Lingqu. It was also why she let Xu Lingqu sleep on the bed in the lifeboat while she slept on the floor.
The low-level believers living underground are managed by priests. Ksenia is under the management of Father Meren. Unlike other solemn and dignified clergy, he has many interests and hobbies, such as watching the military academy league.
Sometimes when he was in a good mood, he would let these low-level believers who were practicing hard watch the military academy league with him. It was at this time that Ksenia met Xu Lingqu and became her little fan.
Looking at Ksenia's tearful eyes, Xu Lingqu silently thought that he seemed to have been a bit too harsh, but -
She quickly grasped the key point from the little girl's messy expression.
"Is this the neutral planet?"
Ksenia nodded.
That’s great. If she remembered correctly, this was the Dream Forging Master’s territory. She would be able to find him soon and have him repair Lumen.
"How do we find Master Duanmeng?" asked Xu Lingqu.
Ksenia's face paled. "You're going to see the Dream Forger? What do you want to do with him? He has a weird temper, okay? But the point now is that we can't leave the Flame Church's island at will. Everyone needs the bishop's approval to enter or leave. And it's very difficult to enter the Dream Forger's island. He has surrounded his island with drones and defense robots. Without his invitation, no one can force their way in."
"I can." Xu Lingqu repeated, looking at Ksenia's stunned expression, "I can."
Then she took out two guns from her waist. In addition, there were many knives in her pockets, which were the self-defense weapons she carried with her.
Ksenia turned pale.
She thought Xu Lingqu was too rough with her at the beginning, but if he wanted to kill her, he would have shot her long ago. In fact, he was very gentle to her.
"You, what are you going to do?"
"Tell me what this church is like inside." Xu Lingqu replied.
Ksenia scratched her head hesitantly. "Which aspect do you mean?"
“For example, is the bishop who refuses to accept a good person?”
Speaking of this, Ksenia was shocked. In fact, she was not a pure believer. She was an interstellar orphan who pretended to have faith and came to the neutral planet to beg for food. After she came here, the brainwashing church culture did not assimilate her.
So, she saw everything here very clearly.
"The bishop taught him that every year he would go to different planets and adopt many interstellar orphans to this island in the name of doing charity. I am one of them..." Ksenia looked at Xu Lingqu, mustered up the courage, and spoke out the fear that had been plaguing her for a long time.
"I remember there were several children, both boys and girls, who came with me. Most of them were pretty, but I... I was just trying to make a living, so I pestered the bishop to come here," Ksenia recalled, her body shaking uncontrollably. "Once I arrived, I was immediately relegated to a low-level cultist and thrown into the basement, but they didn't come down with me. I was always curious about where they went, and one time I couldn't help but run upstairs to see."
"The ground was filled with senior believers, priests, bishops, and visiting believers. I searched for a long time before I found them in a closed banquet hall. They were dressed in beautiful clothes and placed in rectangular glass cases, like merchandise being sold on a stage. There were many people sitting below, wearing masks, commenting on them. It seemed like they were sold after a short while, and then something else was brought on stage to continue the sale."
Ksenia's eyes were filled with confusion and fear. "What were they doing? Why were they doing this? I didn't know what they were doing, but I knew it would be dangerous if I was discovered, so I quickly ran back. When I ran back underground, I met Father Mellen. He noticed me, but didn't accuse me of running to the surface without permission. The incident was kept secret."
It seems that the Flame Church is secretly holding some shady auctions to satisfy those wealthy people with special fetishes...
It is called a holy place, but in fact it is a den of filth and dirt.
Xu Lingqu got a general understanding of the church's situation: "Are most of the people here in cahoots with the bishop?"
Ksenia shook her head. "No, Father Myron probably isn't. The others are probably about the same..."
She looked at the weapon in Xu Lingqu's hand and stammered, "I know you're powerful, but I think you should not be too impulsive. They will attack you with holy fire."
"Holy fire?"
"I've only seen it once. It's a silvery-white flame that never goes out. If you touch it directly, you'll be burned to ashes. Father Mellen said that Master Forge Dreams allowed the bishop to enter the neutral planet because of it."
"I will be careful, thank you." Xu Lingqu remembered that he had looked up information when he was in the fourth galaxy. The bishop of the Flame Church used the holy fire he found in the big pit in the fourth galaxy to preach.
So, could this sacred fire be related to the Milky Way?
The Tomb of the Galaxy that we saw that day was simply beyond the technological capabilities of Earthlings or interstellar humans.
Xu Lingqu wondered if Yinhe might not be human at all, but if he was not human, then what about her?
Is this body, which has the same physique as Galaxy, still a human?
If it weren't for the wormhole, Xu Lingqu had a hunch that if he pushed open the door and walked in, he would get a complete answer.
"You..." Ksenia looked at Xu Lingqu hesitantly and said, "Don't you consider telling those people in the empire that you are still alive?"
She thought that the first thing Xu Lingqu would do after waking up would be to return to the empire. Ksenia had even thought of a solution for her, which was to let Xu Lingqu put on her space garbage collector's clothes and clean up the garbage in the neutral star field.
Although the starships that the Yanyan Church equipped their garbage workers with were basically scrap metal and not much better than those wreckages, Ksenia believed that if it was Xu Lingqu, there would be no problem driving it out of the neutral star field.
Anyway, the federal D zone star field has now fallen and become the territory of the empire, and Xu Lingqu can return to the empire no matter where he drives.
Xu Lingqu paused.
Now that some time has passed since the wormhole explosion, the people of the empire should have initially accepted her death.
With her single-handedly taking away a million federal troops, the Empire now has the advantage over the Federation and there is no need for her to do anything.
But it would be a lie to say that he was not worried about Xu Xizhen and the others at all. But now, for Xu Lingqu, the most important thing was not them, but Liu Ming.
Before repairing and awakening Lumen, Xu Lingqu didn't want to care about anyone or anything between the Empire and the Federation.
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