Enforcer Manual
Chapter 576: What Are You Doing?_1

Chapter 576: Chapter 576: What Are You Doing?_1

The sudden celestial phenomenon interrupted the execution and led the members of the Tribunal, including Father Aige, to abandon Father Delari and quickly leave the square.

Rumors were already spreading rapidly among the believers.

They believed that the souls of those who had died wrongfully had angered Father God, and thus He had descended in wrath, allowing them to witness the process of Father Delari’s rebirth from the flames.

When they tried to locate Father Aige on the execution platform, they found that the Chief Judge and his subordinates had already disappeared without a trace.

Before long, some believers rushed onto the platform and saved Father Delari.

The now wide-awake believers angrily proclaimed that they would make Aige pay.

The weakened Delari listened to the noise of the square, and even as the oldest sage in the Church, he had no idea where the downpour had come from.

The devotees of the Lunar Eclipse Sect had always believed in the existence of the Moon God, calling the great Deity "Father God," yet throughout the long past, their Father God had never directly responded to them.

Meanwhile, Song Lan and the others had returned to the hotel.

At this moment, with most of the believers gathered in the square, the hotel environment became much quieter.

Lu Xiang had been observing Song Lan all along.

For a long time, she had a vague feeling that Song Lan possessed all the characteristics of a villain, but because he was always so nonchalant, people tended to overlook this issue in daily life.

She had also thought more than once that if Song Lan were a person full of initiative, then he might well become the greatest General the United Government had ever seen, or conversely, the most threatening enemy their entire civilization had ever faced.

But after the incident at the Purple Wisteria Academy and this great expedition, these fixed ideas changed.

Perhaps, Song Lan’s indifference to the United Government did not stem from his personality, but rather from teachings such as those of the Lunar Eclipse Sect which describe that "Deities will not condescend to partake in the wars of mortals." At the Purple Wisteria Academy, someone once tried to strip away the cloak of faith and divine color, viewing them as higher life forms created by the "Ascension" process.

"What is the Sea of Souls?"

After entering and closing the door, Lu Xiang suddenly asked.

This ocean does not belong to the United Government, nor does it belong to any place in this world.

"It’s the destination of human residual consciousness and souls."

Song Lan did not know how he had come to know this information; it seemed as if it had been placed in his memory from the start, and the closer he got to this faith-filled country of the Church, the more these memories sprouted like bamboo after rain.

This answer was expected for Lu Xiang, yet it also gave her a sense of unreality.

Back in the square, she had also glimpsed through the fissure in the sky torn open by thunder, a projection that seemed to come from another world, which made Song Lan seem somewhat abstract and distant, and at the same time, sparked a new thought in her.

If higher life forms really do exist, what is the difference between them and humans?

"Song Lan."

She steadied herself and fixed her gaze intently on Song Lan’s eyes.

"Ah?"

"Come on, give me a hug."

Lu Xiang’s open arms and unusual behavior gave Song Lan a bad feeling. He was far too familiar with Lu Xiang—familiar to the point where hugs and embraces usually happened without her asking for his permission.

He wasn’t opposed to this gesture, though.

It didn’t drain too much of his energy, and more importantly, the Third Neutral Country was really cold. Compared to the United Government’s limited technology, they hadn’t installed temperature control systems within their core cities. Before setting out on this great expedition, they hadn’t expected it to be so cold here.

The tide of the Sea of Souls had not only temporarily quenched the devotees’ fervor, but had also soaked his clothes, making him shiver in the cold wind.

In his memories, Lu Xiang’s embrace was always warm.

Song Lan accepted her invitation.

"Are you very cold?"

Lu Xiang quickly furrowed her eyebrows, Song Lan’s touch was as consistent as ever without any change, but based on the frequency of his body’s shivering, she had made an unexpected discovery.

A certain unnamed researcher of mutant creatures had once mentioned, "Icek Flight."

Considering Song Lan’s identity as the Dumb Bird, everything seemed to make sense.

"I just glanced at my phone, and it’s minus 25 degrees in this damn place."

Song Lan tried to set aside subjective emotions and described the coldness of Antigon from an objective standpoint.

"So, you know..."

Lu Xiang breathed out a puff of warm air, her eyes casting towards the big bed not far from them, "The warmest place is under the blankets."

Song Lan seemed to know a lot about the Pre-war World, so he must also be aware that in the Pre-war World, where technology was not as advanced as it is today, people often kept themselves warm through blankets and exercise.

"Song Lan, it turns out that Father Delari is not a heretic—!"

A pleasing voice came through the window and stopped abruptly as it entered through the broken glass; Yeying’s excited expression froze on her face, and instead, she observed the two people in the room with a shocked gaze.

She had no idea what Song Lan and Lu Xiang were up to in the room, but she distinctly felt that something innate in her genetic sequence was triggered by this scene, which made her momentarily forget the good news that Father Delari had survived.

"...What are you doing?"

After a brief silence, Yeying did not hide the curiosity in her eyes and pressed for an answer.

"Warming up."

Lu Xiang’s tone returned to its usual cadence, yet her eyebrows involuntarily knit even tighter.

"Warming up? Are you that cold?"

Yeying found it stranger, in her opinion, Lu Xiang and Song Lan, as leaders of the Bug Swarm, should not have any trouble with the cold climate, but then she had another astonishing thought—could it be that the weakness of these invincible creatures of the Bug Swarm on the battlefield was the cold?

Father Delari had indeed told her that there are no perfect life forms, every creature has its weaknesses.

She decided to tell The Archbishop about this important piece of information before the ritual officially started, but before that, she was still their guide; thus, those giant bat wings unfolded behind her, forming a huge net.

Yeying believed Lu Xiang’s reason, "Then I’ll help you warm up too."

"No!"

This decisive refusal from Lu Xiang halted Yeying in her tracks, confusion once again taking hold of her young mind.

Yeying was confident that she could be of help to the two of them in staying warm.

A headache began to throb in Lu Xiang’s head.

Her plan to measure the upper-level life forms had to be terminated due to Yeying’s arrival. Facing Yeying’s naïve gaze, she said, "In our culture, it’s customary that members of the opposite sex should not engage in overly intimate behavior; you can’t be hugging and cuddling with Song Lan."

What Lu Xiang didn’t expect was that this normal explanation would stir up a storm in Yeying’s young mind. The shock in her eyes uncontrollably spilled out as she looked back and forth between Song Lan and Lu Xiang for quite some time before incredulously pointing a finger with a sharp nail at Lu Xiang.

—"You’re the same sex!?"

You unlucky child, are you trying to kill me!

Lu Xiang’s vision went dark all at once.

She felt her luck was especially bad this year to have encountered both Xinya and Yeying, these two Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chicks, in less than a month.

One called her auntie; the other didn’t even clearly distinguish her sex.

"Come here, go sit in front of that table!"

The commanding tone made Yeying’s body shrink slightly, then she obediently followed Lu Xiang’s instruction and sat at the table, before Lu Xiang commenced a lesson on physical health for the clueless young girl, urging Song Lan to go to the bed and wait under the blankets.

In her frustration, Lu Xiang displayed the imposing presence of a Bug Swarm queen.

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