Just as Yi Chen guessed.
The village's underground river is adjacent to the church ceremony area, separated only by a wall.
With the fall of the church, the seal set here no longer exists, and the chickens use their excellent wall-breaking ability to easily open up a connecting passage on both sides.
Passing through the winding underground river, we soon arrived at the wellhead corresponding to the center of the village.
Without rushing up, Yi Chen first asked the chickens,
"Xiao Pei, did you see anyone else during your time in the underground river?"
"No cluck!"
After ten minutes of getting along, Xiao Pei finally plucked up the courage to stand firmly on Jin's shoulder after confirming that Jin really didn't know how to tear a chicken with his hands.
"Um."
It was a bit strange. Yi Chen had clearly agreed with the girl Laini that he would notify her once the problem was eradicated.
They all came to the wellhead but still couldn't see her.
"Maybe it's the chickens' problem. Lai Ni has never seen so many chickens before, and they are a group of chickens that can easily break down the wall to make a way. She didn't show up because she was worried about the danger."
Just then,
The chickens began to flap their wings and flew out of the well one by one.
Jin was even more exaggerated. Through the explosion between his calves, he jumped nearly ten meters high and jumped out of the wellhead directly from the bottom.
The same problem was before him again. Due to a temporary heart problem, Yi Chen, who was unable to move his body outward, found it difficult to reach the height of the wellhead.
At this moment, Jin suddenly poked his head out from the upper wellhead.
"William, this is so strange! We have killed the source of the ash and eliminated the root cause of the disease among the churches, but the ash in the village has not decreased. Instead, it is even more intense than when we first arrived.
According to what we learned in Gethsemane, this unnatural gray area should slowly disappear after we clear the root cause. Could it be that there are still seriously ill people hiding in the church?"
“There can’t be any remnants, otherwise they would definitely come out to stop us when we’re dealing with the Holy Fetus.
Perhaps it is due to environmental delay, which is also mentioned in the books. Some of the gray aura squeezed between the strata will take several hours or even days to slowly disappear as the source is eliminated.
Jin, there should be some butchers and scavengers active in the village. Would you like to try to clean them up and make some meat cubes for us? This will prevent us from encountering any accidents on the way back to the city."
"Sure. What about you?"
"I'll take a walk through the underground river to see if there are any hidden patients that need to be dealt with."
"See you later then!"
In order to hide the embarrassment of being unable to go up the well and considering Jin's crazy nature, Yi Chen decided to meet the girl Lai Ni alone.
However,
Walking down the familiar cave corridor, the closer Yi Chen got to Lai Ni's residence, the more solemn his expression became.
There was a dark air current filling the corridors that had never been there before, and even the air seemed to become thicker.
Even after getting close to a certain distance, the water drops falling from the stalactites turned into black slime, and sticky black water began to flow on the ground.
These black liquids do not have a bad odor, but instead smell quite fragrant, like a special freshly produced juice.
And it carries an attribute that Yi Chen is very familiar with - "rebirth".
But this rebirth of black liquid is completely different from the flesh-colored rebirth of the Holy Fetus Marcos, and it even feels better.
Little Grape, who was sleeping and resting, also smelled something and was forced to open his mouth and eyes. He even instinctively wanted to replace Yi Chen's left arm to deal with the danger in front of him.
"William! Didn't we just kill the Holy Fetus? Isn't the incident over?"
Could it be that there are deeper secrets among the churches? This shouldn't be the case. All their resources are clearly used to produce the Holy Fetus, and the mother's body is also there.
"The situation is a little different. I am on my way to Lai Ni's residence."
"It's that girl... Could it be!" Little Grape guessed something and immediately came out from his shoulder, staring wide-eyed as he and Yi Chen observed the situation ahead.
Not far away is the cave where Lai Ni lives, which is also the source of the black liquid.
Bang!
As Yi Chen stepped into it, the kerosene lamp illuminated the interior.
The image of the girl who once sat by the campfire to keep warm and eat was instantly deleted from my mind.
In its place was a swollen, wriggling black mass.
It was stuck in the center of the cave, with more than a dozen pitch-black arms growing on its body... or rather, soft arm-like tissues, sucking up as much liquid from the stalactites as possible.
The mass is still growing and getting bigger.
There is also a black-haired girl's head at the top of the center.
It seems that someone is visiting.
The head began to turn slowly, eventually facing the visitor at the door.
"Big brother, you're here! You actually succeeded in curing the disease!
However, a strange gray light enveloped me more than ten minutes ago, causing my body to change. I am sorry that I was unable to come to greet you."
As he spoke, soft arms covered in slime extended over him.
Yi Chen did not dodge and let the soft tissue slide across his body. There was no malice in it, it was just a very friendly touch.
The girl's head is Lainie Histra
Her hair, which originally covered half of her face, now floated upwards like her soft arms, revealing her horizontal eye pupils and a forehead with curved horns.
"One-horned sheep boy"
Such characteristics instantly reminded Yi Chen of an important piece of information he had obtained during his investigation of the village - the holy fetus.
The human-like fetus with goat characteristics is regarded as a holy fetus. Church members will personally go to the door to take the holy fetus away and send it to the depths of the church for the birth ceremony.
The answer is clear.
The girl Lai Ni was a holy fetus that was left in the underground area for some reason and could not be brought to the church... It was probably her parents who threw the child into the well in advance without telling the church members, hoping that she would continue to survive.
"Brother, I'm so sorry... I may need you to do me a favor."
"What?"
"My movements have become inconvenient. Could you please carry me to the base of the high wall?"
Yi Chen did not ask for the specific reason.
Just carry the black mass and head to the destination as quickly as possible.
The narrow paths along the way were all broken by the village chief, just enough for Lai Ni's round body to pass through.
Soon they arrived at the edge of their destination. A few dozen meters below was the gathering place of huge roots, which was a mud pond where they absorbed nutrients.
"Brother, just throw me down! If you carry me down, you might get hurt."
"All right."
Yi Chen tilted his body to the side and let Lai Ni fall freely.
Pah! A large amount of mud splashed up, and the girl's head immediately looked up to express her gratitude to Yi Chen.
Then, a strange scene happened.
A large number of mouth-shaped structures appeared on the surface of the black mass, frantically sucking nutrients from the mire.
The soft arms on the body surface grew sharp thorns on the palms, piercing into the thick tree roots, sucking the nutrients of the plants despised by the church.
The black mass grew rapidly during this process, gradually filling the lower area and turning into an oversized uterine tissue.
outside world
The tall wall of trees that enclosed the forest stopped expanding and within minutes they withered, died, and finally died.
Yi Chen stood at the edge of the pit the whole time, watching the situation below.
Until a brass-framed strip appeared in the field of vision, with an umbilical cord relief engraved on the beginning, and the space between the frames was filled with a black liquid symbolizing rebirth.
Titles and names are also attached to the frame
§The-Bla-of-Palingenesis§
Yi Chen looked at this scene and smiled mockingly:
“It’s really ironic… A girl who was not trained by the church, did not accept the so-called teacher’s sacrifice, and fed on the lowest flesh and blood plants every day, actually became what the church wanted to create in the end.
It is even more perfect, and the freshmen level is higher.
It seems that this group of church members and the so-called Mother of the New Birth are just the initiators. They establish a connection with some ancient things through rituals and ask the other party to bestow blessings.
This gift does not stop with the death of Marcos.
'Gift' will actively look for the next target,
Lai Ni, the lost holy fetus, is an additional high-quality option."