Chapter 113: Chapter 113

Looking up along the winding mountain road, the folded mountain walls and the wildly growing trees blocked the view, preventing a direct sight of the church.

Yi Chen was quickly organizing the points of doubt in the case within his mind,

1. Even after killing the Village Chief and combing through every corner of the village with the help of the chickens, including the underground river, the missing Gentleman Team was still nowhere to be found.

“In the memory of the Village Chief, any information related to the Church was blurred, which might also include information about the missing team. They were probably all captured and taken to the church. I hope they are still alive.”

2. The true purpose of the Regeneration Church remains unknown, with only a few keywords provided—”Fertility,” “Holy Embryo,” and “Umbilical Cord.”

As of now, not a single member of the church had been seen in person.

Currently, standing at the entrance of the slope, Yi Chen felt as if he was standing at the “Boundary.”

The ‘Combination Disease’ that spread among the village stopped here. Neither the illusionary spores diffusing through the air nor the various bizarre animal combinations ventured beyond the foot of the mountain.

“I suspect that the Church has intentionally confined this native illness to the village, using it solely for the birth of the Holy Embryo. The disease itself serves no purpose for them.

A statue of the “Mother of New Birth,” commonly seen throughout the village, stood in the center,

but this statue was several times larger than the small sculptures at the entrance of each house in the village, standing about four meters tall.

The mother’s face, riddled with holes, cradled a newborn baby, its face buried in the mother’s bosom, invisible,

With the umbilical cord still connecting the two.

Engraved on the square stone plinth at the bottom of the statue was a line of text—”Those who offer Essence Blood may receive new life.”

Before Yi Chen even got close to the statue, he already felt the aura of new birth emanating from within it.

He approached the statue cautiously, reaching out to touch the inscribed text.

The umbilical cord that connected mother and child suddenly came to life, snapping out from the baby’s navel,

At the end of the umbilical cord appeared a round, toothy maw full of sharp teeth, lunging at Yi Chen’s abdomen.

It seemed to want to extract the so-called ‘Essence Blood’ from inside his navel.

Just as it was about to get close, whoosh! A flash of silver slashed down.

The axe Yi Chen always carried on his back was held in anticipation of this very moment.

As he chopped down the writhing umbilical cord that was trying to slither away and then stepped on it…crack!

When Yi Chen looked up again,

He found the statue’s mother and child in her arms had actually turned their heads, staring at him with faces full of holes. Although there was no mental impact, such scrutiny was quite uncomfortable.

He continued to reach toward the base of the statue, vaguely feeling that something was powering the statue from below.

“Something underneath?”

Yi Chen raised his foot and kicked, yet the statue remained immovable.

This sense of weight and hardness indirectly proved that there might indeed be something hidden underneath the statue.

retreating to the front end of the colonnade, near the church’s main entrance.

Bending over, he struck a pose similar to that of a sprinter at the start of a race,

Inside, the plants covering his body concentrated upon his mobilization, covering his right shoulder and arm in response,

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As he charged into the rotunda, he veered to the side, his fully tensed right arm turned forward, ready to ram!

Perhaps sensing the intention of its host,

the gentleman’s clothes adapted on their own, thickening the fabric on the right arm to increase the buffering time during the impact.

A loud noise erupted in the rotunda,

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