Chapter 27 The Ability to Revive

Hao Ren stared blankly at the scene before him, stunned for a long while before he reacted: so this siren was so powerful?

"Hoo—" Nangong Wuyue breathed a long sigh, her expression uncertain, no one knew what she was thinking. Then she slithered forward, picked up the still unconscious child, and returned to Hao Ren's side. "This side is taken care of. This child should be knocked unconscious by the medicine. A breath of fresh air outside should be enough."

Hao Ren glanced at the child, only then realizing that it was a little girl. She was so dirty and dressed in rags that he hadn't recognized her at first. He turned his head and looked at the situation in the rocky hall, disappointed to find that he didn't see any survivors. The cultists either exhausted their life force and magic and turned into a pile of mud, or they turned into sand in front of Nangong Wuyue's bizarre ability. It seemed impossible to capture them by ordinary methods.

The two carefully searched the hall, wanting to find information and classics related to this secret cult, but to no avail. Hao Ren began to rummage through the clothes and equipment left behind by the dead cultists, and found that these cultists were likely residents of Layton Town and the surrounding areas. Judging from their clothes, there were farmers, merchants, the poor, and the rich, and even professional soldiers and mercenaries. He even found a small pendant on a cultist who had turned into mud, which made him exclaim in a low voice: "Kingdom Knight?"

There were soldiers from the Kingdom Knights in these heretical cult members?! What was the origin of this organization?!

At this time, Nangong Wuyue also made a discovery. She found a crest in the lining of the clothes of the cult leader who had turned into dust. This crest was clearly the symbol of the Radiant Church: "There's one from the Radiant Church here too!"

Hao Ren quickly ran over to take a look, confirming that the crest was indeed something that church clergy would embroider on their bodies. Then he carefully searched through the dusty clothes and found a thin booklet, which he immediately flipped through.

The booklet recorded long passages of dreamlike, crazy words, as if an unconscious person had directly imprinted his chaotic thoughts on paper. The more Hao Ren read, the more he frowned. The chaotic sentences and content made him feel very uncomfortable. All the words used various ways to describe the greatness and wisdom of a certain "goddess," while constantly accusing the Radiant Church of stealing the power of the true god and deceiving the world. Hao Ren was very curious how such a chaotic and dry pamphlet could brainwash a group of people like this: he only felt it was laughable.

But even if it was laughable, the things on this booklet were still taken very seriously. Hao Ren thought of the illusion he had shared from the memory of the giant brain, and vaguely connected them with the Radiant Church and the evil cult in front of him, and felt that the key to the three was in these crazy paragraphs. He asked the data terminal to scan and archive the contents of the booklet, and then threw it into his personal space, ready to return to Layton Town and find a chance to give it to a "professional."

He knew that it would be troublesome for him to investigate these things in a place where he was unfamiliar, so it would be better to guide the Radiant Church or the Knights to investigate this matter.

After discovering that he could no longer find more clues in the rocky hall, he and Nangong Wuyue left the cave together. At this moment, the night was still dark, and there were probably two or three hours before dawn, and the dark clouds in the sky were accumulating more and more, as if a heavy rain would fall before dawn. Nangong Wuyue curled the little girl she had rescued with her tail, and walked slowly behind Hao Ren, always looking worried, while Hao Ren was still thinking about what the "giant brain" was. After a moment of silence, Hao Ren decided not to think about these things that made his head ache. He turned his head and smiled at Nangong Wuyue: "I didn't expect you to be so powerful!"

Wuyue's face was a little ugly for some reason, and she curled her lips: "Don't mention it, I'm just getting back to my senses now."

Hao Ren looked at her curiously: "Getting back to your senses? Tell me about the situation just now."

The siren girl scratched her hair and hesitated before opening her mouth: "You know the saying that sirens are immortal, right?"

Hao Ren nodded, he had heard Vivian say this a long time ago.

"Sirens are not actually immortal, but can constantly revive," Nangong Wuyue pointed to her body, "See, made of water. As long as there is water, we will revive infinitely. I'm really not good at fighting, and that wasn't an attack ability just now. I just revived once—using the water in the bodies of those cultists."

Hao Ren felt a chill down his spine.

"I usually don't like to use this trick," Nangong Wuyue seemed to recall some unbearable past events, "First, it's a bit cruel, I'm soft-hearted, and second... second, it can go wrong. You know, I'm only half a siren, and I probably have some defects in my talent. Originally, sirens had to concentrate highly when they revived to choose their revival point, but I often get distracted—sometimes I accidentally get confused when I die..."

Hao Ren was stunned by this statement: "Confused when you die? Is that even possible? Then what happens?"

"Then I can't be sure where the revival point is," Nangong Wuyue stuck out her tongue. "I randomly choose any place on the entire planet with a lot of water vapor to reshape my body. When I was wandering around the world, I was accidentally hit and killed by a train once, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself soaking in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—I swam for two months, damn it."

Hao Ren's eyebrows twitched: "With your swimming speed, that shouldn't be the case?"

Nangong Wuyue sighed: "I caught up with the ocean current, got lost, and you know I haven't actually been to the deep sea..."

Hao Ren was immediately speechless, thinking that every demon girl really had her own unknown quirky side. No wonder Nangong Wuyue was most afraid of fighting—she really couldn't beat anyone, relying entirely on reviving after death to trick people, but this revival had a 50% chance of throwing herself to the other side of the earth. At this time, he suddenly felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry, I should have protected you... I let you get hurt just now."

"That little injury is nothing, the siren's body is originally amorphous, just treat it as a failed transformation that cracked a few pieces," Nangong Wuyue waved her hand indifferently. "And thanks to you for solving the meat ball floating in the sky just now. By the way, what exactly was that thing?"

"Heaven knows." Hao Ren shrugged.

Just then, the dark clouds in the sky were already dense, and suddenly a thunderbolt sounded. Seeing that a thunderstorm was about to come, Hao Ren smiled a little awkwardly: "Okay, it looks like it doesn't know either."

The two no longer delayed their journey, and directly used space teleportation to return to Layton Town. Because they didn't know how to place the little girl they had rescued, they also brought her to the other building where they were resting.

After a while, Vivian and Izhaks also returned. The personnel who went out to investigate the situation tonight were all gathered.

As soon as they met, Lily excitedly circled around Hao Ren several times like a dog returning from a wild run, her tail wagging so hard that it could stir up a small whirlwind: "Landlord, landlord, we have a discovery, we have a discovery!"

Vivian hurriedly cleaned up the water glasses on the table and grabbed Lily's tail: "Can't you change your crazy habit?"

Lily licked Hao Ren's hand, not caring at all, with a look of wanting credit: "We found a tentacle underground, and I and the bat fought the tentacle for three hundred rounds... of course, it's mainly my credit."

Vivian squinted at Lily: "You have the nerve to say that? You ran with your tail between your legs all the way."

Hao Ren was sweating profusely. Lily's way of speaking always caused misunderstandings to arise. This husky was simply a girl with her own .avi...

In the end, Vivian explained the situation clearly, and at the end, she added a few words: "Later, we went to the Twisted Woods to confirm it. The tentacle was indeed the root system of the forest. However, the trees in the forest didn't look any different, and didn't seem to have any sensory abilities."

"The root system of the Twisted Woods?!" Hao Ren was shocked. He thought that his discovery tonight was already shocking enough, but he didn't expect that the situation that Lily and Vivian encountered was even more incredible. "The tree roots are spreading towards the surface?"

Lily squatted on the chair and slowly wagged her tail: "It's not necessarily spreading, after all, we only saw one tentacle, maybe it just happened to grow crooked."

Hao Ren felt that her guess had her own characteristics—which meant it was useless.

It seemed that the water in the Beinz area was deeper than he imagined.