Chapter 322 I’m relieved
It has been a while since Wu Chang left the Quiet Town copy. Before entering the plane, he and Irene had a general understanding of what happened in the copy after he left through the faith absorbed by the Miracle Tree.

At the end of the Quiet Town dungeon, he killed Count Jermaine who wanted to become an artificial god, and merged the Mother Mary and Irene into the remains of the saint. Then the islanders were freed from the shackles of the seven deadly sins.

Including the fish addiction that Count Jermaine brought to them with the golden flying fish, the curse-like transformation into a murloc, and the rigid and dull lifestyle.

The islanders regarded the Madonna who appeared at the end of the battle as Irene’s rebirth under the blessing of God, and regarded their liberation as Irene’s credit. Guilt and gratitude transformed the islanders into Irene’s believers.

It is thanks to the islanders’ faith that the Tree of Miracles can be connected to the plane of the quiet town.

In Wu Chang’s memory, Briver Island was almost isolated from the outside world, especially after the islanders ate the golden flying fish and began to transform into fish-men and plunder everywhere, fewer and fewer ships came near.

Even when delivering mail to the island, they would just drop the mail boxes off from a long distance away from the dock and then walk away.

In this kind of environment, believers purify each other and the place should soon be filled with crystallized believers.

But when he arrived in the town of Briver, the facts were quite different from what he had expected.

Wu Chang stood on the top of Seabird Mountain where the Earl’s Manor was located, overlooking the small town of Briver in the distance.

He could see a sense of fear spreading through the town, and only a few faint traces of faith in Irene remained.

The faith is so weak that it is not even enough to stabilize the roots of the tree of miracles.

If we wait a few days, the Quiet Town dungeon might have been disconnected from the large Kingdom of God and completely separated.

The reason for such a significant loss of faith is obvious: someone or some fish is trying to poach the people.

It seems like he’s about to get hurt after poaching someone from his position.

The situation has changed, and exposing it in advance might alert the enemy. He and Irene plan to hide their identities first, pretending to be outsiders, to find out why the remnants of the evil god are planning to attack Briver Island.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. The remnants of the evil god did not attack the islanders before, but only attacked at this juncture. There must be a reason.

You can’t be afraid of Earl Jermaine, right?
Not to mention that Count Jermaine has not become a man-made god. Even if he did, he would be at most at the level of an archangel, or at most at the same level as Poseidon.

In front of the remains of the evil god, they are only fit to hide in the distance and serve as atmosphere group.

If the remains of the evil god in the deep sea really fell to the point of being afraid of Jermaine, then Wu Chang would not be worried.

Wu Chang used the method of condensing the virtual into the real to create a small steamboat. He asked Irene to wear a disguise mask, and he took the transformation pill. Then the two of them rowed the boat around the island and came to the port of Briver.

Although the Brever Islanders have freed themselves from the yoke of Lord Germaine, they are still sensitive to outsiders.

The old sailor guarding the port glanced at the two men and asked in a bad tone, “Who are you?”

Wu Chang said: “We are travelers, and we are on a journey around the world. We found an island here through the sea chart, so we wanted to come and take a look.”

The old sailor frowned as he looked at the two men, a young man with no signs of sun or rain on his body, and a mysterious man wearing a hood and a robe. If this combination traveled around the world, it would only take a storm to turn them into food for sea fish.

“Leave, we don’t welcome outsiders here.”

Wu Chang said, “We have been drifting on the sea for four days. The food and fresh water on the ship have been consumed. For the sake of the Holy Mother and the Saint, please let us go to the island to replenish supplies.”

“We promise not to cause any trouble and will be gone in two or three days at most.”

Hearing the word “saint”, the old sailor’s eyelids twitched. He still had a cold face, but his attitude softened a little. He waved his hand to signal the two to come to the shore:

“For the sake of the Saint, you can stay here for one night.”

Wu Chang pulled the boat to the shore and said, “Thank you.”

After the two men came ashore, the old sailor led them to the hotel near the pier and introduced himself:

“I’m the manager of the dock. You can call me Tyran. Where are you from?”

Wu Chang spoke in the authentic old Ogri accent:
“We are all students of Ogeri First University and are on our graduation trip.”

When Tai Lun heard that the two people were from the Royal City, his eyes became a little excited, and he asked in a low voice:
“Lady Saint, is she okay now?”

Wu Chang glanced at Irene, grabbed Irene’s hand and said:

“I met the Saint Lady not long ago. She is doing well now, better than before.”

After hearing this, Terran breathed a sigh of relief, a look of relief appearing on his face.

In order to repay Wu Chang for the good news, Tai Lun took the two to the cleanest room in the hotel. Before leaving, he said to them:

“Briver Island rarely contacts the outside world, and we do not welcome outsiders, especially now. When you go to the town to resupply, if no one is willing to sell you anything, just like you did just now, mention the name of the Saint.”

“For the sake of the Saint Lady, we will provide you with the most basic supplies.”

“besides……”

Tai Lun lowered his voice and said to the two of them:
“If you don’t want to get into trouble, remember two things: close the doors and windows at night, don’t go out, don’t look outside, and cover your head with a blanket if you hear any noise.”

Wu Chang blinked and asked, “What should I do if I need to go to the toilet?”

Tai Lun pulled out an iron bucket from behind the door. “Hold it in or do it in the house. This will save your lives.”

Wu Chang opened his mouth exaggeratedly and said, “You said it so dangerously that it scared me a little.”

Tai Lun said calmly: “Just get used to it. There are always many taboos on the sea.”

It seemed that Tyrone did not want to have too much contact with the two. After explaining the precautions and briefly introducing the town of Briver to them, he left in a hurry.

After leaving the hotel, the two walked on the road to the town.

Wu Chang asked, “How does it feel to be back again?”

Irene was silent for a moment, then said, “Tyron is in a very bad condition. I feel that the suppressed Murloc curse in his body has loosened a little. If this continues, his fish addiction will soon explode again.”

Wu Chang sighed and said helplessly: “I’m asking about your mood, not asking you to evaluate the physical condition of that guy just now.”

Irene said: “The atmosphere on the island is very depressing and I am very worried.”

Wu Chang slapped himself on the forehead. The saint’s past had a huge impact on Irene, causing her to always subconsciously think of others first and ignore her own feelings.

At times like this, he needs to make things clear.

“Ms. Irene, the islanders here once stabbed you in the back, causing your death and turning your body into a monster.”

“Now you have completed your emotions. You are no longer the flawless saint without negative emotions. When you face these murderers again, do you not have any emotions such as unwillingness, disgust, hatred, etc., even a little bit?”

Irene stopped and Wu Chang stopped with her.

He didn’t mean to use sharp questions to bring out Irene’s negative emotions and make her retaliate against the islanders of Briff.

All he did was point out the problem, allowing Irene to think about and face up to her relationship with the islanders, and not to subconsciously ignore the problem and forgive others due to inertia of thinking.

Irene thought seriously for a while and replied, “Now that I think about it carefully, I do feel a little sad.”

Wu Changjian saw that his guidance had worked, and was about to comfort Irene, but Irene continued:
“But when I think about the fact that they are just Jermaine’s pawns, and that it is because of them that I was able to meet you, go to different worlds with you, see different scenery, and meet different people, I suddenly feel less sad.”

Wu Chang: …

Oh no, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to let Irene realize the ugliness of human nature and not to be blindly kind when encountering problems, but after hearing Irene’s answer, he suddenly felt that none of this mattered.

He was worried that Irene would suffer because she valued others too much, so he just had to stay by her side and help her keep an eye on others.

He rubbed his face, suppressed the corners of his mouth that couldn’t help but curl up, and said with a straight face:
“Since you have such a weak sense of crisis, I can only stay by your side and supervise you from now on.”

As we entered the town, the tense atmosphere in the air became more and more obvious.

It is now ten o’clock in the morning, the busiest time in the town, but the number of residents going out is much less than Wu Chang remembers.

Wu Chang found the restaurant waiter who was a chatterbox and couldn’t keep secrets in his memory and asked him some questions.

By praising the Saint, he successfully learned from the waiter that everyone in the town was praying at the moment.

But when asked the reason for the prayer, the waiter refused to say.

They arrived at the entrance of the cathedral and saw the faceless statue of the Virgin Mary, now covered with a white cloth.

Wu Chang lifted the white cloth and found that the originally faceless statue of the Virgin Mary had been replaced with Irene’s face.

They patched up the face, but then covered it with a white cloth. He was puzzled by the townspeople’s behavior.

“Who are you and what are you doing!” A shout sounded behind the two of them. Wu Chang turned around and saw Sheriff Morena with red hair walking towards them.

Wu Chang used the same old trick again and continued to say what he had said to Tailun.

Faced with the two travelers from the royal city, Morena put away her gun and temporarily suppressed her malice.

When Wu Chang asked the townspeople why they were praying, Morena only vaguely mentioned that today was the funeral of Mayor Harrison and it was not convenient for outsiders to enter. If the two wanted to pray, they could come back tomorrow when they left.

Wu Chang noticed that Morena’s tone was a little strange when she mentioned the mayor’s death, and there seemed to be something else behind it, so he pretended to ask casually: “I’m sorry to hear this news, but before I came here, I heard that the mayor of the island was in his prime. Did the mayor die of illness?”

Morena shook her head and said, “He drowned.”

Morena didn’t want to talk more about this topic. After giving a brief answer, she changed the subject.

Like Terran, she asked the two whether the Saint had returned to the royal city and what the current situation was.

After getting the information, she did the same thing as Terran and also told the two of them not to go out at night.

Wu Chang waved goodbye to Morena, turned around, activated his social phobia and elite stealth, and walked straight into the cathedral.

The cathedral was unusually quiet. The air was very damp inside, with tiny drops of water hanging on the walls, like the return of the south wind.

The townspeople sat on the benches in silence. No one prayed or talked. They just stared ahead with their slightly bulging eyes.

Right in front of everyone’s eyes was a coffin with Mayor Harrison’s body lying inside.

As soon as he approached, he saw that Harrison’s body had turned into a 60% merman, his height stretched to two meters and two meters, organs similar to fish gills appeared on his neck, and a layer of almost transparent scales grew on the surface of his skin.

This appearance was probably the reason why Morena stopped them from attending the funeral.

On Harrison’s body, he smelled the same fishy smell of the sea as on the wreckage of the Earl’s estate, and the same divinity.

Harrison’s death was not only caused by the outbreak of the fishman curse, but also related to the remains of the evil god.

If you want to find out what happened, you should come back again in the evening.

The day passed quickly, and when the sun was about to set, Terran approached the two and urged them to return to their room.

As soon as the two entered the room, they heard the sound of the door being locked outside. They opened the door and found that Tyrone had locked the house. They turned their eyes to the window and saw that Tyrone had sealed the window with wooden boards from the outside while the two went to town.

In order to prevent the two from committing suicide, Terran used physical methods to prevent them from going out.

Taillon’s caution made Wu Chang more curious about what was happening in the town.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye it was late night.

Wow~
Wow~
The sound of waves lapping in the distance became clearer and clearer. Water droplets began to seep out of the dry walls in the room. The water droplets flowed down the walls and soon formed a pool of water on the ground.

The air became extremely humid, and every breath was like pouring water directly into the lungs, but at the same time, it did not make people feel suffocated, as if they suddenly gained the ability to breathe underwater.

At midnight, Brever Island seemed to sink into the water and turned into an underwater world.

Wu Chang and Irene looked at each other, the time had come.

A teleportation formation appeared in the room, and the next moment the two of them appeared in a blind spot in the church hall.

The townspeople now sat in the cathedral, looking towards Harrison’s coffin.

In the coffin, Harrison slowly sat up. At this moment, he had completely turned into a murloc, even more seriously than in the Quiet Town copy.

His entire body was covered in scales, all his hair fell off, and his head became pointed.

Wu Chang felt a divinity in the body of the fishman Harrison that was no less than that of the God of the Sea. Harrison’s body had already merged with a god-level being.

The fishman Harrison walked up to the bishop, took the bishop’s robe and mitre from his trembling hands, and put them directly on himself.

The loose robe was stretched out by him like a tights, and the white bishop’s miter was just enough to cover his pointed head. The fishman looked funny, but he didn’t feel it at all.

He said in a solemn and heavy voice:
“The tide has arrived, and the stars will go out. When my Lord fully opens his eyes, the land will be swallowed by the sea, and all things will return to nothingness. Abandoning the useless old beliefs, converting to my Lord, turning flesh and blood into scales, and heading to the city of the deep sea is the only way out.”

“My patience is about to run out. Now tell me your final answer.”

Hearing the voice of the fishman Harrison, the townspeople showed a mixture of fear, hatred and awe on their faces. They avoided the fishman Harrison’s gaze and dared not answer.

The fishman Harrison snorted coldly, and she walked up to Morena and said with a cruel look in her eyes:
“Acting Mayor, tell me your answer. Is it to convert to my Lord…”

The fishman Harrison showed his five sharp fingers and scratched five bloody marks on his face. Then he tore off Harrison’s face and asked in a sinister tone:

“If you continue to be stubborn like him, your soul will forever wander in the depths of darkness.”

Morena seemed frightened by the fishman’s face. She stood up and took a half step back.

The townspeople’s eyes were focused on Morena, as if waiting for her to make a decision.

The fishman Harrison enjoyed Morena’s frightened expression. He tore open Harrison’s chest and took out two things from it.

A hammer made of coral, and a black and purple pearl.

“Come, use this hammer to smash the statue outside, then you can take this orb and be qualified to go to the Deep Sea City.”

The fishman Harrison put half of his bloody face in front of Morena and said, “You have such a beautiful face, don’t you want to become like this?”

Morena whispered, “I don’t want to…”

Harrison the fishman showed a winner’s smile, looked up at the townspeople sitting behind him, and shouted, “Louder! You don’t want anything!”

The fear in Morena’s eyes suddenly disappeared, and her eyes were full of murderous intent. She kicked the fishman Harrison in the crotch.

While the fishman Harrison was bending over, she pulled out her pistol and emptied the magazine at his head. When she pulled the trigger and no more bullets could be fired, she threw away the pistol, grabbed the coral hammer on the table, and smashed it madly at the fishman Harrison’s head.

“I said, I don’t want to see you again! Disgusting monster!”

“You and your disgusting master, get out of Briver together! You are not worthy of defiling the statue of the Saint!”

Morena hammered the fishman’s head into minced meat with one blow after another.

Until she was too weak to swing the hammer again, Morena threw it down, leaned on the table and gasped.

She turned back to look at the townspeople and said, “I won’t stop you from believing in that monster, but if you want to do anything to the statue, you’d better wait until I’m dead.”

A sticky and dark voice sounded behind Morena, “Do you really want to die?”

Morena turned around and saw that the flesh and blood of the merman Harrison dissolved into blood, mixed with water vapor, and re-condensed into a giant four-meter-tall merman.

Facing a divine being, Morena’s attack only shattered Hudson’s flesh and failed to hurt the fishman’s essence.

The appearance of the murloc is more ferocious than before. It has the head of a carnivorous deep-sea fish and a mouth full of long, needle-like sharp teeth.

“You dare to insult my Lord. How can I tear you into pieces bit by bit?”

Morena pulled out the baton from her waist and fought back with a determination to die: “You are angry because your faith is insulted. That means you have experienced my current emotions.”

Just as Morena was about to be killed, a figure rushed in between the two of them. He stretched out his hands to both sides and said:
“Don’t be impulsive, angel of God. This woman doesn’t know how to appreciate your kindness. If she doesn’t do it, there are plenty of people who can do it. It’s just a statue, I’ll do it!”

Morena looked at the person who came. It was the stranger who had wandered around the door of the cathedral during the day and whom she had met once.

Who would have thought that he, a royal city noble with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would be the first to rebel against humans!

Damn it, she actually believed that the other party had seen the saint and was worried about his safety.

Morena was about to swing her baton at him twice, but before she could raise her hand, she was stopped by the hooded man next to the traitor.

The hooded man was very strong and grabbed her wrist, making it impossible for her to struggle.

The fishman looked at Wu Chang who suddenly appeared, and was a little confused for a moment, “You? You look strong, you can do it. But even if you smash the statue, that woman will die.”

Wu Chang picked up the coral hammer on the ground, picked up the black and purple pearl on the table with his other hand, and asked:

“Her matter is not urgent. There is something I need to confirm with the Envoy of God first. With this pearl, can I really enter the Deep Sea City and see my Lord?”

The fishman felt something was wrong, but he still answered subconsciously:
“Of course you can. This orb records the route to the Deep Sea City. Once you enter the Deep Sea City, you will be able to see our Lord with your own eyes and worship him.”

Wu Chang put the black and purple pearl into his personal space and said with a smile: “It really works. I feel relieved.”

“Take out the pearl. What are you so relieved about?” The fishman was a little anxious. How could the benefits be taken away without doing anything?

He was just about to teach this greedy human a lesson when the next moment he saw the mysterious hooded man float into the air, a pair of giant wings big enough to fill a church extended from under his robe, emitting a divine power far greater than his own.

The wind created by the wings lifted the other person’s hood, revealing the face of a human female.

This face looked familiar to the fishman, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Oh, he remembered, he had seen this face on the statue that was to be smashed outside the lecture hall!

The moment he remembered, a coral hammer enlarged in front of his eyes and directly hammered his face into a dent.

Wu Chang stepped on the fishman, pulled the coral hammer out of the fishman’s face, and said:
“Since the orb is genuine, I can kill you without any worries.”

(End of this chapter)