The five time travelers were still basking in their relief.
Clinging to Xia Yan's leg, tears streaming down his face, before he could even ask about the association's benefits, he suddenly felt his feet lighten.
The next second, the surrounding ruins and the stench of the demonic corpses vanished instantly.
Instead, there is a white deck underfoot, smooth as jade, and a magnificent sky above the sea of clouds, where you can almost see the stars moving.
"Holy crap..."
The briefcase in Manager Zhang's suit fell to the ground with a thud, and his mouth gaped open wide enough to fit an egg.
He adjusted his crooked gold-rimmed glasses, the lenses reflecting the flowing golden divine patterns on the deck, and he was completely dumbfounded.
"These special effects are more realistic than top Hollywood blockbusters! How much would a set of this holographic game cost?" Zhou Peng rubbed his eyes hard, his messy blond hair looking particularly comical under the soft glow of the Shenzhou.
Li Sisi, a girl in her school uniform, clutched her "Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation" book tightly, equally dumbfounded.
Lin Anniang didn't have time to explain to them what aerodynamics and divine force field stability were.
Her tall figure stood there, and with a wave of her large, fan-like hand, she pointed to a palace in the distance that emitted a soft light, her voice as loud as a bell:
"Follow me, everyone!"
The five people were stunned by her undeniable aura and scrambled after her.
It was a mountain god temple built on the deck of a Shenzhou spacecraft.
The eaves and brackets are simple and solemn, but the building material is the same as that of the Shenzhou spacecraft, a white jade-like material that exudes vitality.
In the center of the temple, there is a statue of a deity.
The statue's face is blurred, making it impossible to discern whether it is male or female, yet it possesses an aura of majesty and compassion that overlooks all living beings.
Simply gazing at the statue brought a sense of peace to the five terrified transmigrators.
Lin Anniang walked to the statue, respectfully lit three incense sticks, then turned around and looked at the five people with a serious expression.
"This is Tianyu Divine Mountain, and we worship the Mountain Goddess." Her voice carried a threatening tone.
"Your survival is a blessing from the Queen. In this world, demons and monsters abound, disasters rage, and otherworldly gods are lurking. If you don't want to become food for those monsters, or be used as a location coordinate for otherworldly gods to sacrifice, you have only one choice."
She paused, her gaze sweeping over everyone.
"Believe in the Mountain Goddess and become her devotees. She will protect you, grant you strength, and enable you to survive here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Manager Zhang was the first to react. He knelt down with a thud, his forehead hitting the jade floor with a loud thud.
"I believe! I believe! By the Mountain Goddess, I, Zhang Wenhua, am your most faithful follower from this day forward! I beg you to bless me!"
He knelt down.
Zhou Peng, Li Si, and the other two also knelt down one after another, shouting "I believe you! I believe you! Long live the Empress!" and "Please protect me!" The scene was quite lively.
Xia Yan, who was standing next to her, was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
She tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, and her purple mage robe swayed gently in the breeze.
I had assumed that these fellow countrymen from the modern materialist world would be stubborn and that I would have to use my words, or even "physical persuasion."
Who knows? They're more pragmatic than anyone else.
Just as the five people knelt in worship, two soft golden lights suddenly shone from the statue's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, five even thinner golden rays shot out from the statue and entered the five people's foreheads like lightning!
The five of them exclaimed in surprise at the same time, feeling a warm and powerful force surge into their limbs and bones, as if their entire bodies had been cleansed, and the previous fear and fatigue were swept away.
"Holy crap! There's an attribute panel right in front of me!" Zhou Peng, the e-sports enthusiast, was the first to yell, jumping three feet high in excitement. "Health points, mana points, and skill slots!"
Weakness detection, fatal blow, and flash!
Good heavens! This is the template for the top-level account in the game I've been playing all night!
He turned around abruptly and kowtowed three times to the statue of the god, his face filled with unprecedented fervor.
"Thank you, Mountain Goddess! You are my second parents! I, Zhou Peng, swear that I will wholeheartedly believe in you for a hundred years! No! A thousand years! I will come over tonight to clean your statue! I will clean it from head to toe!"
As he spoke, he piously lunged forward to kiss the toes of the statue.
A pale white hand promptly grabbed the back of his collar.
Wang Wan appeared behind him at some point, her Taoist robe spotless, a rare hint of helplessness appearing on her usually aloof face. "The statue of a deity is not to be profaned. Come with me; you need to understand some things."
…
Wang Wan, carrying the still-screaming Zhou Peng, led four other equally shocked newcomers through several futuristic corridors to a brightly lit laboratory.
Professor Qian and a group of researchers were surrounding a huge glass container, inside which a cloud of black gas was surging wildly.
“This is…” Manager Zhang looked at the black mist, his face turning pale.
These were all things that had almost swallowed him up in the ruins.
"This is the true nature of the evil you encountered," Wang Wan explained in a cold voice. "A highly concentrated corrosive energy body, and behind it lies an otherworldly deity who covets our world."
She paused, her gaze sweeping over the five people. "Our world is like a piece of fat meat without an owner. There are too many hungry wolves outside. Unable to descend directly, they send a large number of coordinates into this world, which are transmigrators like you."
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