CHAPTER 156: CHAPTER 98: THE CRUCIFORM FEMALE CORPSE (PART 2)

When the weather was clear, sunlight poured down through the clouds, casting a golden veil over Birui Island.

Saint Father David clasped his hands in prayer, looking up at the sky. Gazing at the area of clear sky that broke through the dense fog, the sky was crystal clear. His white pupils flashed with fluctuations. Lines formed on his forehead as smooth as pure white marble.

"Ling, is it you?" As he spoke, his white hair fluttered like dancing snowflakes.

Inside Birui Tower, no wind dared to pass. The man who could even bind time had bound himself to this completely sealed space. "It’s been four years already, you’re still playing hard to get with me. You’re just like when you were little, so mischievous, loving to play hide and seek with me. This time, after I catch you, don’t think about escaping again. Our kingdom is expanding. One day, the whole world will bow at our feet. This time, no one will stop us from being together." Saint Father David smiled lightly, his face pale as floating light, his lips bright red, delicate as a rose.

Water splashed. In the darkness of the night, the reflection of the water shimmered, immersing the summer room in coolness.

Perhaps the temperature difference inside and outside the room was too great; Ling shivered and continued to exert force. She and Yijie together sank the black basalt into the water. In the Babylon Temple, there are pools everywhere, which, besides cooling, also facilitate irrigation of the temple’s medicinal herbs.

The pool chosen by Ling and Yijie was the main hall where the Goddess usually received and treated external casualties.

"You’re quite strong," Yijie had previously wondered how Ling had managed to move such a large piece of basalt outside his room. It was only while moving the basalt pillar with her just now that he realized that Ling alone could move the pillar. With Yijie’s strength, transporting it over a long distance was somewhat challenging, not to mention Ling, who seemed to only eat without doing much else. After a few actions with Ling, Yijie had realized that her appetite wasn’t much less than a man’s.

Ling, who had been running marathons, used to eat more than the average woman. Later, after being locked inside a Blood Pupa in Prehistoric Space for over a month, perhaps due to the influence of the mixed blood inside the Blood Pupa, her strength and appetite had greatly increased. If it were now, under her fury, encountering Anke again, she wouldn’t end up as embarrassed as before.

"Alright, tomorrow morning we just need to go tell Apoli that the so-called Demon Document is hidden under the water. This way, Ziyu will no longer have any worries. In a few days, we’ll mix into the Personal Guard and offer up the true Hammurabi Code, and that’s nearly it," Ling calculated the timing; she needed to rest and prepare to enter ’Golden Splendor.’

Yijie suspiciously did not express any opinions. "You go ahead, I’d rather not," he thought about Apoli’s previous eerie demeanor and worried about what Forbidden Technique he might encounter again tomorrow.

"Are you worried she’ll eat you up? A tall figure with a mouse’s courage," Ling teased. Yijie’s face flushed, fortunately, his dark skin camouflaged his embarrassment. His chest still ached from the residual fear.

Although Ling was teasing him, she genuinely didn’t look down on him. Knowing that Apoli was full of malevolence, luring men with top-notch skills, Yijie managing to maintain his integrity in the face of such beauty was already stronger than many. How many players entering ’Military Road’ would be delayed by such beauty?

She rested the night, and the next morning, she sought out the old Chief Maid Fu Li, saying she wanted to check the temple’s pools. Chief Maid Fu Li, perhaps weary of seeing Ling, a layperson, wandering daily in the temple, was quite cooperative this time.

In ancient times, there were no water pumps, but fortunately, to maintain clean water flow, the temple’s pools were always equipped with extensive water channels. After finding the channel’s water valve, it became much easier to drain the water.

Ling, to make the process appear more legitimate, even specifically started draining from a few pools inside the inner temple. The drainage project took a full day, and only by early moonrise did it reach the central pool of the great hall.

During the day, a green expanse, the deep water level receded, revealing the corner of the Xuanwu stone pillar first, then the pillar itself. Upon hearing the news, Goddess Apoli, still dressed in purple, arrived silently and expressionless.

After the pillar was completely out of the water, Apoli ordered people to lift it up.

"God will always be grateful for your help," Apoli motioned for Ling to come forward. Not seeing Yijie there, she showed little reaction, and after giving her 20,000 Military Road Coins, she ordered Ling and Yijie to quickly leave the temple.

After the two left, Apoli had the black Xuanwu stone pillar moved to her room, then did not leave for several days, until the third day... When dawn broke over Babylon, the sky turned blood-red like blooming Rhododendrons covering the mountains.

Chief Maid Fu Li, as usual, carried warm water sprinkled with petals to Apoli’s door, tapping lightly, "Goddess, it’s time to see the patients."

The room was silent. Just as Fu Li was about to push the door open, a Maid rushed over, eyes filled with hot tears and terror, "Chief Maid, the Goddess, she’s dead."

In the temple’s great hall, the parallel pools floated a purple-dressed female corpse, her face slashed with a deep cross. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)