Sir! Don't close the net!

Now Li Yili understood why these people with obsessive-compulsive religious beliefs could live in the monastery, which had been altered to the point of being unrecognizable, and stand before the moss-covered, grotesque statues.

In their eyes, all changes, no matter how absurd, are predetermined, the result of God's choice.

"what……"

"What if the contents inside change?"

Li Yili waved her hand, made a complaint, and stepped out the door. With her hands behind her back, she whistled and walked along the overgrown path, while Abel, who was standing at the door, slowly closed it.

"This is not something we should be considering."

Back at the ranch, Li Yili didn't encounter anyone again. Even Shub, whom she had run into by chance a couple of days before, was nowhere to be found. It seemed that the previous encounters were just simple coincidences.

"You're finally back! Are you alright?"

As soon as she opened the door, before Li Yili could even speak, Valkyrie, who had been sprawled on the sofa, jumped up and walked over to Li Yili with a worried expression. She began to examine Li Yili from head to toe, and her serious demeanor made Li Yili's scalp tingle.

Valkyrie seemed convinced that he would lose something by making this trip.

“What major incident could possibly happen?” Li Yili waved her hand and took off her coat. “I went to the Crusade and talked to the candidate who came to Guoweiton this time. He has agreed to cooperate with me to take care of Yeropon tomorrow and will ignore the black goat’s cubs, sending them back to where they came from.”

"Huh?" Valhae Rae looked on incredulously. "Does the Crusade have such considerate candidates?"

“Hmm? Of course, Abel, Abel Z. Morningstar, that future star with a bunch of terrifying titles,” Li Yili said, hanging her coat on the hanger and beckoning to Valhae Rae.

"Abel Z. Morning Star? Abel Z. Morning Star!!!"

Valkyrie was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened.

"Why is this guy in Guoweiton! Wait a minute..."

Valkyrie held her forehead with her left hand and raised her right hand toward Li Yili, signaling her to calm down first.

Li Yili shrugged, turned around and tugged at the slightly wrinkled coat hanging on the hanger.

"Were there any armed priests with you?"

"Huh? What's that?"

“You know, the kind with armor on your body,” Valkyrie gestured with her hand.

“Ah…” Li Yili nodded after recalling for a moment, “I did see a priest with armor on his shoulders, but the other priests didn’t. Maybe they weren’t wearing it because they were praying.”

"Others?" Valhae Rae was taken aback. "There are prayer priests?! How many are there?!"

Li Yili held her chin up, tilting her head slightly, "About twenty or so."

"Twenty...cough—"

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Li Yili's expression changed.

“Of course… no, it could also be my imagination,” Valhae Rei’s expression twisted. “More than twenty prayer priests, more than twenty prayer priests… that’s quite a configuration. Using it to fight Yerobo Ann is like swatting flies with a powerful legacy!”

“Uh…maybe they’re just being cautious,” Li Yili said, crossing her arms.

From his personal perspective, the Black Goat's offspring were like fish on a chopping board, easily cut down by anyone from the Crusades. Therefore, the stronger Abel's side was, the better, ideally able to instantly kill Jeroboam, thus ensuring that Jeroboam would not cause unnecessary damage.

“Or rather, they were just passing through Guoweidun,” Li Yili pointed at Valhou Lei, “and because they had more important things to do, they readily agreed to let go of the black goat's young, which were all ordinary people.”

“If you put it that way…” Valhae Rei blinked, rested her chin on her hand, and tilted her head back slightly, “it does seem to make more sense, but it really doesn’t seem like your style.”

"style?"

“Yeah, right now you’re kind of like you’re explaining to a guest why a chef uses this knife to cook the fish on his cutting board,” Valhae Rei quipped.

Li Yili paused for a moment, then slumped her shoulders. "I was just analyzing based on the actual situation."

“Alright, alright,” Valkyrie nodded quite casually, “Go to sleep.”

I'm not planning to sleep tonight.

"Eh...you're so enthusiastic?" Valkyrie asked, her face full of surprise. "Under these circumstances!?"

Li Yili's lips twitched violently. Sometimes he really wanted to shake Valkyrie's head to find out what was inside it.

“Maybe something will happen tonight,” Li Yili plopped down on the sofa, arms crossed. “I’m not a fish on a chopping board.”

"Really? Then I'm going to sleep."

Valkyrie stretched and went upstairs quite decisively, closing the door with a click.

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The halo fell along the crack onto the vortex's steps, shifting and changing.

The vortex staircase seemed to actually start spinning, pulling everything towards the central altar. On the altar, Yeroboam clutched his head and wailed incessantly, black, viscous liquid seeping and dripping from around his abnormally bulging eyeballs.

His back bulged up as if some alien was being conceived.

"Lolkis...Lolkis! You don't exist!"

As if mocking Yeropon's foolishness, the wind emanating from the various passages became incredibly sharp, and the caramel figures rose up amidst the piercing wind.

"Why..." Yerobo An covered his eyes with his left hand, staggered back a step, and waved his right hand forcefully, trying to intimidate the approaching Caramel Man.

"I'm not contaminated! Don't wake up! Why—"

Don't be curious.

Yeroboam's exposed right eye clenched sharply.

Reason crumbled like a dam that had reached its limit, and chaotic thoughts surged out uncontrollably.

He did not have any contaminants on him, but there is another possibility, which is...

He, as a chosen one of God, completely lost control and became a pollutant.

"No! No!"

Yeroboam stumbled and fell to the ground, and the caramel figures around him quickly got up and pounced on Yeroboam.

"I haven't lost control!"

Yerobo An struggled to his feet, prying aside the sticky arms and reaching his hand toward the light-filled gap above him.

"I've found the secret to Dela Pal's return to normal! I'm about to recover!"

The faint sense of being watched made Yerobo An, who was struggling, stiffen. The cracks in his eyes, which were gradually being submerged and had an eerie halo, continued to enlarge and approach, eventually revealing a pair of dark green eyes that were watching him through the cracks.

Chapter 91 They Made the Same Decision

The loud crowing of roosters announces the sunrise and the departure of night.

Li Yili raised her hand and slapped her face hard; the stinging pain chased away her sleepiness.

There were no earth-shattering explosions, nor any eerie wriggling sounds. He spent an ordinary night in Gowerton. Although it was difficult to stay awake through the night, he felt at ease, so he spent the whole night drawing flyers for the Gowerton Temple revival event.

Because he was certain that he could sleep peacefully every night after that.

Li Yili got up, stretched her stiff body slightly, yawned, went into the bathroom and took a cold shower. She also washed her hair twice with soap quite thoroughly. After drying her body and hair with a towel, Li Yili whistled and walked out of the bathroom naked. She went up the stairs to the second floor, and without caring whether Valkyrie was awake or not, she pushed open the door and started rummaging through the wardrobe.

Waking up, Valkyrie rubbed her eyes and mumbled as she sat up. But when she saw Li Yili, Valkyrie froze on the bed, her shoulder strap slowly drooping.

"What are you doing so early in the morning?"

"Change your clothes."

Li Yili carried a suit in her left hand and a short-sleeved shirt with the words "Future! The Best!" written on it in her right.

Which outfit do you think would suit you better?

“Hmm…” Valkyrie rested her chin on her hand, thought for a while, and then tilted her head. “Isn’t there some kind of Goweton revival event today? Even if you have no intention of reviving the Goweton Temple, you should at least dress more formally.”

"I understand—"

Li Yili casually tossed her formal attire into the wardrobe.

Valkyrie rolled her eyes and lay back down.

Looking at himself in the mirror, dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, black trousers, and with a large travel bag at his feet, Li Yili was filled with emotion. As a transmigrator who had transmigrated into another world, these were all his memories. Although he had tried to recreate the clothing from Earth, no matter how similar the appearance was, he could not find the feeling of nostalgia.

Li Yili bent down and opened her backpack, whistling as she put the items from the suitcase into her travel bag one by one. Just as she was about to close the backpack, her gaze fell on the shotgun at the bottom of the suitcase.

He bought one specifically for self-defense. After all, when infiltrating a dangerous place like the black goat's cubs, one has to be prepared to fight back. However, his plans have always gone smoothly, so he has never had to use it.

Of course, he would prefer to buy an automatic rifle if he could, but the world's rich heritage stifled his imagination. Guns, which require high craftsmanship and whose destructive power cannot compare to those of the heritage, were limited to this. Moreover, guns, such superfluous items, could only be purchased in the millennium.

Li Yili let out a long breath, pulled out a shotgun, loaded it with bullets, stuffed it into her backpack, and rolled the leaflet around the shotgun.

Always keep something in reserve.

Li Yili slung her heavy travel bag over her shoulder and waved to Valkyrie, who was hiding her head under the covers.

"I'm off then. Aren't you going to blow me a kiss as a blessing? Seventy years of happy eating, drinking and having fun are all about today!"

Valkyrie lifted the glass, slowly raised her right fist, and snapped her middle finger upwards.

"I received your blessing. Tonight I'm going to put rat poison in your food. You better be prepared."

Li Yili rolled her eyes, wanting to slam the door shut, but remembering that she had paid for the house, she abandoned the idea, gently closed the door, and carried the heavy...

The heavy travel bag left the wooden cabin where it had lived for most of the year and headed towards Guoweidun.

Although there were no birdsong and fragrant flowers along the way, the bright sunshine made Li Yili feel uncomfortable, as if the ever-burning starlight had dimmed and was about to disappear.

"It's a memorable day for Guo Weidun, God really gave us face," Li Yili said, a smile spreading across her face as she felt the warm sunlight on her skin.

Arriving at the very edge of Guoweidun, Li Yili saw dilapidated, single-story houses whose coldness could not be dispelled even by the sunlight.

Despite being just a small town, it's already a city in terms of development, with vastly different levels of development. Everyone is scrambling to get to the Sheep Village Building, the city center. Every time he goes to the Sheep Village Building, he feels like he's traveling through a time tunnel.

Rich places are full of people, while poor places are like wastelands.

Li Yili sighed helplessly, pulled out a new notebook, and quickly wrote down the words "renovate the old house" on the first page.

After passing through the abandoned circle of dilapidated and incomplete houses in Guoweidun, Li Yili arrived at the commoner's circle where most of Guoweidun's residents lived. Here, the houses were no longer like those in the abandoned circle; they were like seeds casually shoved into the ground and taking root.

The houses are arranged neatly, with two or three houses close together, and all the doors and windows facing the city center where the Sheep Village Building is located.

The wind brushed past Li Yili's face, and its chill made her subconsciously frown. Although most of the residents of Guoweidun were working or looking for work in the city center during the day, it shouldn't be as deserted as the abandoned circle.

And today is a big day for Guo Weiden!

As Li Yili quickened her pace, she kept looking around. The tightly closed door and the curtained windows made her heart sink.

Was it because they were afraid of being discovered by the Crusaders?

It's not impossible, but it's a bit of an exaggeration to think that everyone in Guoweiton is hiding!