My wife is a magical girl, how can I be the villain?

Hua Lingyou took a few steps forward, feeling something was off. She turned around and saw Tang Ming standing there, twitching slightly, looking at her in confusion.

"Are you having an attack?"

"I don't know what happened just now, but I suddenly couldn't feel the alien substance anymore. The crystal armor tore at me, and then I couldn't feel it anymore." Tang Ming described the feeling just now, but that momentary sensation was fleeting, and he found it difficult to describe it in detail.

"Never heard of that... The foreign substance attached to your body should be connected to your spiritual connection. You mean it's out of control?" Hua Lingyou looked incredulous.

"I'm probably just too tired, and my blood sugar is a little low. I'm fine, let's go."

After hearing what Hua Lingyou said, he became somewhat insecure. Since he couldn't sense anything unusual, he had no choice but to continue forward.

As they approached the edge of the earthen-yellow cave, they crouched down and lay prone on a mound of earth a few hundred meters away, not daring to go any closer. If the priest was inside, they needed to consider the risk of being discovered.

Within the core building complex, there is a spacious plaza surrounded by stone pillars, around which sits a dark purple pool of water. The pool is calm and murky, its bottom unseen.

The crowd around him was densely packed with people dressed in black robes. Tang Ming recognized them; he had seen many people dressed like this when he was caught up in the illusion with the magical girl Xingyu last time.

A cultist at first glance...

Not a single person was carrying a sickle.

As Tang Ming thought this, he raised a giant scythe, as tall as three people, from the edge of the pool, its blade and shaft smeared with bright red blood.

"..." Now they are completely in agreement.

With his withered hands gripping the tall, blood-red scythe, he swung it forcefully forward, pulling an unrecognizable body into the pool. The blade splashed up viscous ripples, and the pool's purplish-black hue seemed to come alive, swallowing the body into its depths.

Hua Lingyou's gaze fell on the abrupt black-robed man. His tattered gray robe and the blood-stained scythe in his hand both indicated that he was no ordinary man.

"I've seen this person before; others call him the priest..." Tang Ming also noticed this person and reminded him.

"Is this some kind of sacrificial ritual?" Hua Lingyou searched around for clues, but was blocked by the crowd. Although they were all lying on the mound, the terrain was not high, and she could not see what was being surrounded by the crowd.

"That thing that just flew by... was it a person?" Tang Ming pointed to the pool of water that was constantly "swallowing" and "spitting out" water.

"Pitch black all over, perhaps someone who failed to absorb the alien substance and is now offering it as a sacrifice to something in the pool? The aura of the void in this pool is extremely dense, far exceeding anything I have ever seen..." The alien substance released by Hua Lingyou burrowed into the ground and wriggled toward the location near the altar.

"How does it compare to the valley where I first went on this mission?"

Tang Ming was referring to the time when he was first chased by Qiang Hong, and he was responsible for infusing his alien substance into the same well filled with the aura of emptiness.

It is said that the organization's "official" mission was to build a bridge between the void and the real world in order to open up the connection between the two weak points in space. However, they had to give up the mission last time because Gun Red arrived.

"There's no comparison..." Hua Lingyou carefully sensed the altar and everyone around her. Her tentacles only covered the outer edge, and no one noticed her.

"The aura of the void beneath the pool is frighteningly strong; nowhere in or around the city can match this intensity. Perhaps the altar is directly connected to the void."

"Directly connected to the void?! Wasn't it said that the bridge connecting the two spaces was sealed off in 22?" Tang Ming was somewhat horrified. If the void could directly connect to reality, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Although Tang Ming was enjoying using "others'" power, he did not welcome the true invasion of void life forms.

That's what everyone in their organization thought...

"It shouldn't be that easy. This is the Voidquake Zone, so it's understandable that there's such a passage... If it could directly connect to reality, then what would emerge from the rift wouldn't just be a few useless, weak illusory beasts."

"That makes sense..." Tang Ming said.

"The New Human Cult's intentions are truly far from simple. These 'sacrifices' are probably just their own followers, aren't they? Are they just going to throw them down to their deaths like this?"

Hua Lingyou sensed what was happening inside by probing the alien perceptions of the cult members on the periphery. From a different angle, she finally saw the scene clearly.

One by one, the believers who could not coexist with the alien matter were corrupted beyond recognition by the void alien matter, lying on the ground like corpses. In fact, apart from still emitting a trace of life, they were no different from corpses.

These believers lined up and were thrown into the pool by the priest's blood scythe. The action was like a chef cooking noodles in an orderly manner, feeding the noodles into the pot.

"I've never heard of the Void having a cannibalistic fetish... And since the aliens can't adapt to these people, what's the use of their life force?"

Hua Lingyou was completely baffled. Her boss had close ties with the Void, so she knew the organization's situation better than anyone. In the past few years, she had never heard of the Void needing to "sacrifice people to eat." Did they really think they were some kind of charlatan?

"These religious cultists are just playing dumb for themselves. They should turn to magical girls instead of trying to play the faith card."

Hua Lingyou scoffed at the blade in her hand, not believing the priest's "trick" at all.

No wonder she always looked down on the group. They were too weak. Tang Ming could take down a branch of the group by himself. They said they could capture magical girls by introducing the Voidquake Land, but they left nothing behind. These things made it hard for her to take this organization from the neighboring city seriously. They were just like them, "exploiting" aliens.

By the way, Tang Ming… Hua Lingyou suddenly realized that Tang Ming hadn’t said a word. Usually, he would always chime in with a comment when she said a few words.

Just as she was preparing to withdraw her senses from the alien tentacles and return to her true self, the pool stirred, with densely packed ripples constantly spreading across its surface. These ripples did not originate from the offerings thrown down, but rather emanated from the depths of the purplish-black depths towards the pool's surface.

Hua Lingyou silently enveloped the body of a follower from beneath her feet. She chose the weakest follower at the edge of the altar, and the other person did not make a sound before Hua Lingyou sealed off their senses. Her alien substance tightly penetrated the other person's body and locked them in place.

Through the other person's eyes... she clearly saw the scene in the pool.

A massive lump of flesh emerged from the pool, enveloped in a viscous liquid that was the size of several elephants. As the viscous substance receded, fine purple veins became faintly visible on the flesh.

This pattern is exactly the same as the purple pattern on Hua Lingyou and all the Void Beasts; it is an evolutionary trace of Void Alien.

"This lump of flesh looks so rough... Could it be from that pile of corpses we just saw?"

Hua Lingyou shuddered, feeling as if she were seeing severed limbs... The mass of flesh was constantly changing shape, and she prepared to focus her gaze and take a closer look at the mass of flesh.

"Who's there!"

A sharp shout rang out, and the gray-robed priest, who had opened his arms towards the altar to receive the results of the sacrifice, suddenly turned his head and stared intently in one direction.

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of followers turned their heads at the same time, making the whole scene particularly spectacular.

Hua Lingyou, also attached to a believer, curiously turned her head and even tiptoed to see what was going on over there.

...Wait, that's where she and Tang Ming were!

"How were you discovered?!"