Seeing that its sneak attack had failed, the monster turned its four tentacles toward Wendy. The monster wasn't very intelligent, but it understood what had just happened. The blue-haired woman was quite skilled and her strength shouldn't be underestimated. The little girl and the person she was protecting also seemed to be quite powerful. So the person next to her, whose gender was unknown, was probably the weakest.
Therefore, the four tentacles immediately launched an attack on Wendy.
"Bard, be careful." Without thinking, Sister Geng drew her longsword, trying to sever the tentacles to buy the bard time to chant his ability. She had seen those who controlled natural elements, and their chanting times varied, so Sister Geng could only buy time for Wendy to chant.
Unexpectedly, Wendy teleported to the monster's belly, abruptly stopping the four tentacles. The longsword clattered to the ground, and then the four tentacles flew towards Wendy.
"Hmm, not bad speed, but flying might be faster than running, you know?" Wendy was still thinking about whether flying or running was faster when she moved to the monster's head. The lyre appeared, accompanied by a playful "Let's play together," and the monster's head was lifted into the sky. Then the monster's body stiffened and fell directly from the ceiling.
"This..." Sister Geng's beautiful eyes widened. She had never seen a superhuman who could use natural elements so naturally. The superhumans she had seen who used natural elements, no matter how natural they were, always had some kind of repulsion towards those natural elements. In other words, they simply could not control natural elements at will.
“Feifei, you…” Then Sister Geng saw Feng Aofei’s calm face and was even more surprised. “Hmm? Sister Geng, don’t you know? Oh, right, I’m sorry, Sister Geng, I forgot to introduce you. This is Feng Shen, and also my friend.” Feng Aofei looked at Sister Geng with a puzzled expression, then suddenly realized and reintroduced Wendy.
“Wind… Wind God? I… I don’t believe it. How can there be a god in this world? Even if there is a god, why can’t he save humanity?” Sister Geng muttered to herself. Wendy slowly descended from the sky, her body clean and spotless. Wendy didn’t speak, but brushed aside the dried corpses. One of them was wearing a robe, perhaps a godfather or something similar, with a Bible on his robe.
"Hmm, devout believers, hmm, a non-existent god and devout believers, that's really something." Venti calmly put away the Bible, planning to embellish it after returning to Teyvat and then sing it as a new poem. Hmm~ The Bible of another world turned into poetry, just thinking about it makes me feel like Mora is dancing in front of me.
"There shouldn't be any more mysteries here, but this should be the lowest level. There are still mysteries without physical form, so everyone should be careful." Sister Geng adjusted her state and said to the three of them, while Wendy started browsing through the National Fortune Mall.
He remembered that when he bought things for Miss Xu before, he saw some talismans or similar items. Although he didn't know if they were effective, buying them for self-defense and to boost his courage should be a good idea.
"Hey, a Lightning Strike Talisman! Wow, only 3 for 200,000 National Fortune Coins. Oh well, I'll buy it." After getting a Lightning Strike Talisman, Wendy reluctantly spent 200,000 National Fortune Coins. Three yellow talismans appeared in Wendy's hand. Wendy quickly put them away, thinking that these talismans might be very useful.
There was a basement beneath the church, but it was completely hidden from view by the floorboards. Plus, the only source of light was from Sister Geng's place, so it took the four of them a lot of effort to find the basement.
The staircase leading to the basement was long, like a deep tunnel with no end in sight. Sister Geng held a light source as they descended. Wendy, however, didn't seem to care; he could see in the dark. Luckily, Sister Geng and the other two didn't have Wendy's eyesight, or they would have been terrified.
The four were standing on a floor covered in congealed blood, with white bones embedded in the walls all around them, and their empty eye sockets staring straight ahead, as if watching them move.
Wendy didn't say it out loud, afraid of scaring the three of them, but the viewers in the live stream were different. What Wendy could see, they could see too, and the number of comments in the chat increased even more.
The path ahead suddenly became flat, indicating that they had arrived at the basement. Feng Aofei clung tightly to Sister Geng, as if afraid that Sister Geng would disappear at any moment.
None of the three of them noticed that Wendy had unknowingly broken away from the group.
With her night vision, Wendy could move around more easily on her own. There were countless experimental devices in the basement, which seemed to be conducting some kind of shady experiment. Human bones were scattered everywhere, and the basement was divided into many rooms, each of which was locked.
Following the remaining words on the room, Wendy successfully found the archives. She pushed open the door, which made a creaking sound that was quite jarring in the quiet basement.
"Who!" Sister Geng shouted, gripping her long sword even tighter, but only the echo answered her, along with the restless beating of her heart.
"Sister Geng, Wendy... Wendy is missing." Feng Aofei's trembling voice reached Sister Geng's ears. Sister Geng looked around and, sure enough, there was no sign of the Wind Goddess. Only Feng Aofei and Shanshan were by her side.
“Could he have already been...?” Feng Aofei dared not think any further. “It’s unlikely. If he can’t beat them, he should still be able to run away,” Sister Geng said, but she moved forward even more cautiously.
In the archives, Wendy quickly flipped through all the available materials. This church had no god, only a group of greedy people corrupted by profit. The so-called savior was just something they imagined. Their real purpose was to find a way for ordinary people to gain superpowers without lifting a finger.
Those believers would pay a considerable sum of money every week as a so-called believer fee. If they really couldn't afford it, they would ostensibly go to the basement to atone for their sins to the Savior, but in reality, they would become guinea pigs, ruthlessly dissected and turned into various specimens in the basement.
The official claim was that the savior could not forgive his sins and had cast him into hell, where his soul would never be reborn.
This not only serves as a deterrent, but also makes those believers who are unwilling to pay willingly pay.
It was a win-win solution, and they continued like this until the mysterious invasion. These believers never understood why their savior did not appear to redeem them until the mysterious invasion.
(Dear readers, could you please recommend this book to the author? If anyone in the book search section wants to read Genshin Impact or Venti, please recommend it. Thank you, dear readers!)
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