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Chapter 630 Falling into a trap

Although they still suspected something was amiss, it didn't stop Feng Xue and Chen Xuan from wandering around the city under the guise of being calm.

Although there were armed forces with obvious monster-like auras on the street, they showed very little vigilance. Feng Xue could even sense from the faint traces of willpower leaked from the passing guards that he was reliving a sensual encounter from the previous night.

On the way to the temple in the city, you can occasionally see people wearing exquisite priest robes walking by. Compared to the group that intercepted them before, these priest robes are full of various symbolic patterns and are obviously not cheap. When passers-by see them, they will spontaneously make way and bow to them. But beneath this respect and piety, there is a hint of complaint from the people.

Everything seemed normal; this was how an ancient desert city under the rule of theocracy should look. But the more normal it seemed, the more Feng Xue felt something was amiss. Or rather, in an environment where one's true name was in the hands of those in power, and where one could lose their life without any reason, could things really be this normal?
However... it's possible that so much time has passed that people in this area have come to regard this as common sense.

After all, the White Elephant side...

Thinking of a certain magical country, Feng Xue suddenly felt that everything seemed to make sense again.

"Tsk."

"What's wrong, brother? Is there danger?" After following Feng Xue around a couple of times, Chen Xuan noticed that Feng Xue's behavior was a little different from usual. Hearing his question, Feng Xue simply shook her head and said:
"We haven't found anything yet, but don't let your guard down. Let's go straight to the temple. If there's a problem, they definitely won't let us take action. If there's no problem, then we can just grab the stuff and leave."

"Okay!" Chen Xuan had recently received some feedback on his new destiny, and Feng Xue's psychoanalysis had awakened a sense of mission to save the world. He nodded vigorously and tried to explore his extraordinary intuition to find something while following Feng Xue toward the temple.

With the temple almost within reach, Feng Xue still hadn't found any signs of an ambush. Although the defenses were much stronger than in the previous oasis, they were still within the normal range for the city's size. The defenses in front of the temple remained chaotic, but having already gained experience, Feng Xue didn't even need to perform any rituals. She simply used the primordial matter transformed from the previous temple's defenses to open a small door in the defenses.

"Am I just imagining things?" Feng Xue arrived at the main gate of the temple and was somewhat surprised to find that both his and Chen Xuan's buffs were active. However, he did not hesitate and stepped into the temple. The light emanating from inside obscured the view of the doors.

The temple appears to be made of stone, but considering the difficulty of its construction, it may well have been formed from a single piece using real stone. Passing through the long corridor illuminated by lights that were specially set to a warm color, a rather spacious hall came into view.

The stone statues are arranged in a certain pattern, and beside them are stone slabs carved with monsters.

Compared to the previous shabby oasis temple, there are at least a thousand stone slabs here, and looking at the corridors on both sides and at the back of the main hall, there are probably many more stone slabs in this temple than just this one.

"If this is a trap, isn't this a bit too much?"

Feng Xue's gaze swept over the stone slabs, their shape and structure identical to those seized from the oasis.

However, just as Feng Xue was about to collect the stone slabs—

"Buzz!"

With the humming of the vibrating stone, the stone slabs suddenly emitted light. The runes that Feng Xue speculated were "true names" emitted a strange power, but it was not to summon monsters, but rather to connect the entire temple.

"Oh no!" Little Bell belatedly exclaimed, directly displaying everything observed by the nanounits scattered throughout the city into his consciousness.

Before entering the temple, the city, which had seemed unremarkable, had now transformed into a war machine. People who had been living and working like ordinary people were now making prayer gestures in unison. Streams of prayer power were woven into threads and flowed into the temple. Not only the temple, but the entire city, along with the oasis, seemed to have become a whole!
"Damn it, that oasis was a trap!"

Only then did Feng Xue belatedly realize what had happened. The assassins lurking in the oasis were just cannon fodder used to divert attention; the real killer was the oasis itself!
It was precisely because of the Oasis's clumsy ambush, which he could easily see through, that he developed the perception that the system's ability to infiltrate was worrisome. Perhaps he didn't think so directly, but subconsciously he already had this idea.

That's why, when he saw ordinary people living in peace and contentment, he never imagined that they were actually being "ordered" to do so!
Because if they could do that, the ambushers in that oasis wouldn't be so bad!
But the truth is, everyone in the entire oasis deliberately exposed themselves, just so that Feng Xue could relax a little after entering the oasis!

"I was so careless. I often use mind control to make the enemy 'forget everything that happened,' how could I overlook the fact that the enemy is using their real names to force civilians to 'live a normal life'?"

Just as Feng Xue, who felt no tension at all, was reflecting on her actions, the statue in the main hall suddenly moved.

Feng Xue had thought that these things would attack like golems, or even become possessions of some god, but in reality, all of these statues were shattered.

The complex power of will was released at this moment, and Feng Xue did not feel the slightest discomfort. However, from his over-the-shoulder perspective, Chen Xuan suddenly turned into stone!
"!"

Seeing his lifespan disappear in an instant, Feng Xue immediately rushed to Chen Xuan's stone statue. Looking at the statue, which showed no lifespan, he frowned slightly and then took out a photo from his pocket.

"Hmm, he still has a lifespan left, so he should be fine." Looking at the photo showing that Chen Xuan still had more than 60,000 days of lifespan remaining, Feng Xue breathed a sigh of relief. Although he looked like he had turned into a stone statue, it was probably because his original body had been replaced.

"But why did they replace Chen Xuan instead of attacking me?"

Feng Xue looked at the shattered stone slabs and began to investigate the temple, but after wandering around in circles, he found that he was lost!
"What's going on?" Feng Xue's question was directed at Xiao Lingdang, since with a guiding divine role, there shouldn't be any possibility of her getting lost.

Upon hearing Feng Xue's question, Xiao Lingdang hesitated for a moment before answering:

"Master, the interior of this building is movable. It's not that we're lost, but rather that every time we arrive at a room, the original rooms are switched... Ah!"

Hearing the little bell suddenly exclaim in surprise, Feng Xue was startled, and then heard her say nervously:

"Master, something terrible has happened! We've lost contact with the nanounits! But before the connection was severed, the nanounits sent back some videos and photos..."

As she spoke, a scene appeared in Feng Xue's field of vision. The original location of the temple was now empty. No, there was a person standing there now, a young man who looked completely different but made Feng Xue hallucinate Hermes. Beside him was a stone slab as tall as a person, and the temple was carved on it!
This time, however, Feng Xue inexplicably understood the inscription on the stone slab—

The invaded temple.

(End of this chapter)