Chapter 244 Night

In the desert at night, the scenery was completely different.

A thin layer of frost had condensed on the sand, and the water vapor that seeped out from who knew where had turned the entire desert into a pale grayish-white.

The cold wind howled.

Near the village established by Payne and the others, however, there wasn't a trace of cold wind. A special technological environmental protection barrier isolated this area, turning it into a small, warm greenhouse like spring.

After discussing and confirming the plan with everyone, Li Cheng颐 finally took a slow walk with Payne outside the village.

Both he and Payne had a lot to say. It was just that in that kind of environment, with so many people around, it wasn't easy to communicate.

The moonlight was hazy, and the huge white full moon released a soft white light, enveloping the ground.

"Back then, I brought you to a dead end. Do you hate me for it?" Li Cheng颐, who was walking in front, suddenly asked.

Payne was silent for a moment.

"Actually, I hated you a little at that time, but then I thought about your initial help, and I wasn't so emotional anymore."

"The dead corners, us, the Earth-Moon, the collapse, the sudden natural disasters, one heavy change after another came too violently, leaving me no time to breathe, and I had to take everyone and flee everywhere. That kind of pressure, I couldn't sleep every day and night, and I could only rely on taking a large amount of sleeping pills to barely fall asleep. But now that you're back... I can finally let go."

He reached out to his heart, his expression relaxed a lot.

"Thank you for your hard work..." Li Cheng颐 understood in his heart how difficult it was for a former ordinary person, a Hua Yu (Flower Whisperer) holder without direct combat ability, to face so many variables.

"This world is really mysterious, very wonderful, with endless dead corners, mysterious outsider forces, incomprehensible powers and phenomena. And you... You seem to possess unimaginable power. You're still as mysterious as before." Payne sighed.

Li Cheng颐 was silent. He didn't know that he would be seen in such a light by them.

Thinking about it, it made sense. He would suddenly disappear from time to time, inexplicably develop various abilities, and possess formidable strength. Such a person was indeed as mysterious as a dead corner in the eyes of ordinary people.

"What level has your Hua Yu evolved to?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"It has reached the final third level," Payne replied. "I can create a shield that completely isolates all induction of causal connections at any time. I have integrated it into the technological force field that I am currently supporting, and it has become a powerful force field that can completely shield external perception. This is the real reason why we have been able to avoid Bai La (White Wax) for so long."

Li Cheng颐 didn't expect that there was this reason among them.

"In that case, I may have to trouble you to continue to maintain this place. If possible, would you ultimately like to go back, or stay in this world to live?"

"Naturally, I want to go back. Although this place is safe, it's not our home," Payne said. "The others have the same idea as me. We already asked internally."

"That's good." Li Cheng颐 suddenly paused and looked at the few figures approaching in the distance.

"Uncle..." In the front, a short, staggering shadow swayed and approached him.

It was Nie Xi, Li Cheng Jiu's son.

This little guy was wrapped up tightly like a ball. When he approached, he looked like a ball rolling over slowly.

Behind him were Li Cheng Jiu and Nie Qing Che.

Li Cheng颐 smiled and walked over, picking up his little nephew. A strange feeling welled up in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, he had become an elder.

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Anze, the Saint Talia Kingdom.

The prosperous capital city of Nadi Jiane.

Several mysterious figures wearing gray-white robes were moving quickly through the city's underground sewers.

The sewers were overflowing with sewage, and rats and cockroaches could be seen everywhere. The stench and moldy walls and floors made the people moving forward frown.

But they didn't speak. There were three of them in total. Soon, they passed through the long, dark sewers and came to a dead end that was supposed to be a maintenance point.

Here, the walls and ground were covered with a huge, complex symbol drawn in rotten blood.

In the center of the symbol was a goat's skull, its empty eyes emitting wisps of black gas.

"What else is missing?" the gray-robed man in the lead asked softly.

"All the hair and flesh of a thousand local people. I obtained them from the hospital through medical examinations," the second gray-robed man answered in a low voice.

"What number is this ritual chart?"

"Eighty-five. There are fourteen more. The wish I've been waiting for is about to be fulfilled, but the closer we get to this moment, the more careful we must be," the leader replied.

The second gray-robed man fell silent. She looked at the leader in front of her, and a trace of strangeness rose in her heart.

Recently, the leader had become increasingly indifferent to his own people. Especially after returning from a trip some time ago, the gentle temperament he once had had suddenly disappeared.

She remembered that she had met with Bai La (White Wax) members sent by the Holy City. She didn't know what had happened to the leader, but the unfamiliar feeling of coldness made her increasingly uncomfortable.

And this situation was becoming more and more serious in the church.

So far, at least one-third of the middle and high-level members had experienced similar problems.

The person was still the same person, but inside, it seemed that they had been greatly affected.

The three stepped forward and placed the collected materials in front of the goat skull, then retreated.

*Tap.*

Suddenly, as the leader retreated, something seemed to fall from his body, hitting the ground with a soft sound.

The others two were top experts, extremely sensitive. In an instant, they projected their senses over and looked at the ground.

But what made their pupils shrink was that what fell on the ground was actually a gray-white wax block!

"Let's go, it's time to go back." The leader seemed to be completely unaware and turned to leave first.

The other two exchanged glances, and they could both see the deep worry in each other's eyes.

"Even the leader has been affected. The erosion of waxification by Bai La (White Wax) is becoming more and more serious. I'm worried that before the final destruction comes, there may be problems with the church. We can't wait for the destruction to purify and reshape."

According to the church's dogma, after they completed the destruction ritual chart and initiated the restart of all things, their church members would be granted immunity and their consciousness would be passed on to the next world's rebirth.

But the addition of Bai La (White Wax) and the secret erosion had created another layer of crisis within the church.

The Main God had actually acquiesced in this and paid no attention to it.

This had created an increasingly large division within the Pure White Church.

The leader's changes had cast a shadow over the hearts of both of them.

Recently, the Holy War had also become increasingly inadequate. Many high-level members had begun to superficially perfunctorily deal with it and did not push it forward.

*'This can't go on...' *the two quietly transmitted their voices. *'No one knows what Bai La (White Wax) wants to do, but there are more and more mid-to-high level members who are showing abnormalities. In the end, something bad will probably happen.'*

*'This is God's will.' *the other said in a low voice.

The two were silent, and the chill in their hearts grew stronger. After the members of Bai La (White Wax) joined, the promotion of the ritual chart had indeed been much faster, but a deep chill was silently spreading throughout the entire church.

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The surface.

A suburb somewhere in the Venus Federation.

Wen Lin, a municipal official from Luding City, and Lideman, the head of the Hunter Branch, stepped out of a luxurious black car together.

The two looked around and found that the surroundings were desolate and quiet, and the environment was barren, as if it were an abandoned ruin.

And right in front of them, a strange gray-black stone fortress stood quietly on this plain that should have been wasteland.

The fortress did not occupy a large area, about a hundred meters long and thirty meters high. The whole structure was like a triangle placed on top of a cube, simple and crude.

In addition, some climbing vine plants were arranged on the outer walls, and there was a strange and peculiar pattern in the center of the gate.

"Is this the nearby stronghold of the Garden?" Wen Lin asked in a low voice.

He was just a city-level government official and didn't know why the task issued by his superiors required him to be responsible for solving it.

Lideman didn't explain this, he just asked him to follow him all the way, and as a result, they drove to this place.

"Yes... Let's go. Let's go in." Lideman nodded, his expression complicated.

He was also a little inexplicable when he received the message.

He had also heard of the Garden organization, but he didn't expect that even the upper levels would be alarmed.

The two did not bring any subordinates and came to the iron gate and pressed the doorbell.

*Ding.*

A clear ringtone sounded.

The door opened automatically.

The two did not hesitate and quickly entered, following the cobblestone path and continuing forward, arriving at the main entrance of the fortress.

The main door also slowly opened. It was dark inside, without lights, only faint sky light projected in from the open window, falling on the ground and illuminating a small piece of black wooden floor.

"Hunters and us have always kept to ourselves. What is the purpose of your visit?" A beautiful woman with long silver hair slowly walked out of the dark corner. The upper half of her face was wearing a silver mask, but it could still be seen that her appearance was charming and enchanting, far surpassing ordinary women.

"We are here to convey the request of the Sunlight Council. The Pure White Liturgy's arrangement of the Destruction Ritual Chart is about to be completed. Once completed, the world will be completely destroyed and restarted. We have mobilized all our forces to prevent it everywhere, but we still can't catch up with their speed in arranging new ritual charts. Therefore... in this situation, we should unite all the forces that can be united to fight against the Pure White Liturgy's destruction plan together." Lideman carefully considered his words, and said each word solemnly.

The Garden not only occupied the underworld, but also rapidly eroded the Alliance of Gods, the Elemental Theocracy, and the Elven Theocracy. The size of its power and the speed of its expansion made all those who knew about it dumbfounded.

So someone at the Sunlight Council proposed the idea of ​​letting the Garden also join this battle against the Holy War.

The final voting result was unanimous agreement.

Thus, Lideman and Wen Lin came together, after all, they had the most contact with the Garden member Li Cheng颐.

"I will report to the leader. You can go back and wait for the result." The woman said indifferently.

Wen Lin and Lideman could only retreat and leave.

Not long after the two left, Li Cheng颐 slowly walked out of the darkness, looking thoughtfully in the direction the two had left.

"Sending these two over to unite us to fight against the Pure White Liturgy?" Obviously, the Alliance of Gods, the Elven God System, the Elemental God System, and the War God God System behind the Sunlight Council had all determined his identity to some extent.

They just didn't know that he was the real leader of the Garden.

"Master, I have also received information here that the Sunlight Council not only sent people to contact us, but also secretly sent people to contact some archbishops of the Pure White Liturgy. They will hold a meeting soon, using the birthday banquet of Katchi, the deputy speaker of the Venus Federation, as a cover." The silver-haired woman was Morpheus, the Luding leader of the New Moon Cult that Li Cheng颐 had subdued.

"Interesting, while fighting the Holy War, they are secretly holding banquets to exchange information. The Sunlight Council is playing a lot of tricks." Li Cheng颐 said lightly.

"The confidentiality of this banquet is extremely high. If we didn't have high-level members of the cult who were invited to participate, we wouldn't have been able to discover the clues. Perhaps the high-level members of the council plan to negotiate a truce with the Pure White Liturgy?" Morpheus guessed.

"Ignore it and just follow the plan," Li Cheng颐 ordered.

The Garden is still collecting various flowers on a large scale. The latest type of wisteria has been found by him again, and it is being sent from all over the world to converge.

Soon after gathering, he will be able to upgrade the wisteria again to reach the seventh evolution and achieve the ultimate form.

Each evolution will increase the amplification factor of the flower scale garment on him, and the enhancement of a single flower scale garment will also lead to the overall enhancement of the final flower god garment.

In addition, as the Sword Furnace enters the realm of true fire, Li Cheng颐 is becoming stronger every moment.

(End of this chapter)