Vivian noticed Hao Ren was observing the mural, she also came up and asked, "It looks very strange, right?"
"What the heck is this painting?" Hao Ren knew Vivian had asked about the information of the church when they were in Lamberg town, and so he turned to ask her.
Vivian shrugged and answered, "This is the Goddess in their mind."
"... Their Goddess looks like this?!"
"Abstract art, I think," Vivian frowned and looked at the grotesque strange picture, "Honestly, I also think they painted the Goddess a little too ugly, are they not afraid that the goddess sees herself being painted like this, flare up and destroy the world once again?"
Hao Ren looked dumbly at the 'Goddess' painted in thick black and red pigment and phosphor powder at random, completely confused what the people in the Disciples of Glory were thinking. He wondered what the consequences would be if the followers of Raven 12345 were to draw her a portrait like this, probably they would be struck by lightning for more than hundreds times. At the same time, he admired the painters of the Disciples of Glory: It was also a skill to draw such irregular things. It was a tough job for her followers to worship such abstract Goddess.
Vivian looked at the mural for a while and turned her eyes, said, "You go on with it, it's so ugly that it makes me a headache."
Who did not headache when looking at this stuff? Hao Ren also lost the interest. He returned to the center of the chapel and found that Lily had taken off her mask and was now lying on the ground and sniffing around. Y'zaks drew some green runes in the air and examined the remnants of the nearby energy using demon's way. Nangong Wuyue created a water ball in the air to let Lil Pea swimming in the water ball. Although this one had nothing to do with the task, it was the most creative way. Who else had the leisure to come up with this trick?
However, there seemed to be no evidence left in the chapel. Hao Ren had expected to find the fluctuations left behind by the teleportation portal, unfortunately, there was nothing here. There were only one big pit and an abstract picture of the Goddess which gave them a headache.
When Lil Pea saw Hao Ren passed by, she immediately jumped to Hao Ren's arm and continued hanging on his arm like an armband. Hao Ren was looked outside through the long narrow window of the lower part of the church of (it was a rectangular hole, did not know what was it for, but one could see the outside through the hole), he recalled the scene of the night when the Orb disappeared described by the noble knight who was responsible for guarding the Orb.
The earthquake, a strange beam of light in the sky, the lake was boiling, peculiar planktonic phosphorescence emerged from the lake.
He decided to go to the bottom of the lake.
The Disciples of Glory had not yet sent anyone to search the bottom of the blood lake. On the one hand, the lake was sacred, and beneath the lake was said to have buried the holy remains of previous popes, so no one dared to extend the search to the bottom of the lake. On the other hand, the water of the Beinz Blood Lake was really odd. Ordinary people, even the highly skilled church knight, would soon be unconscious and infected with strange disease after soaked in this water, and the situation in it was getting worse with the depth of the dive. Therefore, no one had checked the bottom of the lake so far.
However, Hao Ren decided to dive into the lake, he instinctively thought that this was a blind area of significant suspicion.
They could not go out from the front door because it was heavily guarded. Therefore, they were teleported directly back to the shore of the lake. Hao Ren revealed his idea to them, Nangong Wuyue muttered, "You sure you want to go to the bottom? The lake water isn't normal. What if there is really any infectious disease in it?"
"Can't you control the water? You can also cure all diseases," Hao Ren said and looked at Nangong Wuyue, "You've also purposely tested it, isn't the water of blood lake nothing special to you?"
"I heard that the deeper the blood lake, the more obvious the peculiar power in the water. The bottom of the lake is the restricted area where no one has been successfully set foot in," Nangong Wuyue said with a little insecure, "In case I start losing scales, you have to take care of it."
"Don't worry. There is a real Goddess behind me," Hao Ren said and swung his arm. At the very moment of waving his arm, he felt something dropped from his arm. Something shiny jumped out from his arm, and then he heard splashing sound came from the lake not far away.
Lil Pea jumped out again!
Hao Ren had brought this little fellow out several times, now she finally dropped her guard and began to be curious about everything. This time she saw such big lake in front of her (although it was red), the little kid immediately forgot the thrilling scene that she was almost washed away by the river, jumped into the lake cheerfully the moment Hao Ren swung his arm!
"OMG!" Hao Ren cried out and rushed to the lake, but only to see the little phosphorescence flashed and gone on the lake surface under the moonlight, the little mermaid was nowhere to be seen.
Vivian was also anxious, "quickly get her out!"
Without anyone's instruction, Nangong Wuyue directly jumped into the water. She transformed into siren the moment she entered the water, and then froze her clothes into an ice ball and thrown it ashore, and then slapped her golden red tail and dived into the water. They waited anxiously on shore for a while. Finally, they saw a pale red water ball floated from the lake. Lil Pea was swimming around the water in the water ball merrily. The little kid seemed to want to swim out of the water ball, but Nangong Wuyue controlled the flow so that the little kid could only swim around the center of the water ball.
Nangong Wuyue emerged from the lake and threw the little kid to Hao Ren and said, "Watch your daughter! Don't let her get into trouble again."
Hao Ren quickly hugged the little mermaid. The little mermaid was twisting her body restlessly in Hao Ren's arms, and then spit out the water. She did not seem to like the salty lake water of the blood lake, but other than this, there was nothing wrong.
Lil Pea looked just fine. Hao Ren nodded blankly and said, "It seems that the lake is really no problem, at least for Lil Pea, it has no problem…"
Nangong Wuyue jumped out of the water. Because she had to put on her clothes when she transformed back to the human form, so she remained in siren form and staggered to Hao Ren and said, "How come the kid like to look for trouble that will kill her? She has been asking for trouble since she was born."
Hao Ren recalled and found that it was really so: Lil Pea was hatched in boiling water, the first thing she did after she was hatched was jumping into a burning gas stove. She was interested in the kitchen knives. She liked to suddenly jump to the ground when they were walking in the house to give them a fright. Finally, she even often teased the cat—as a fish.
He immediately held Lil Pea tight and dared not let go. He should not recall the memory, as he discovered that this kid was looking for trouble all the way!
At this time, Lil Pea lifted her head from Hao Ren's arms and saw Nangong Wuyue in the form of a siren. The little kid was stunned instantly.
There was a lot of thought in her tiny little brain, and then she finally got completely confused and jabbered loudly.
Hao Ren was startled by the sudden loud noise of the little kid and asked, "What does the kid say?"
Nangong Wuyue was testing the water, preparing to let them go down. When she heard the noise, she touched Lil Pea's forehead. The moment their minds were connected, she instantly jumped up and yelled, "What's wrong with this kid's brain?"
This made Hao Ren even more curious. "What exactly did she say?"
Nangong Wuyue's tail was flapping hard on the shore, and her face was all red. She put her hands on her waist and shouted at Lil Pea, "I am not your grandmother! I'm not your father's mistress either. I can't give birth to a pot! You won't have a lid on your head when you grow up! Your father doesn't have a flame under his body when he's sleeping because he's not a pot! The reason your mother doesn't talk is because it's made of iron! I don't usually have a long tail is not because I don't eat enough chopsticks! Your father doesn't have a long tail is not because he's conflicted with your mother! The pipes aren't the gateway to your grandma's house! There are three circles of violet gold patterns on my tail but it has nothing to do with you. I'm a siren and you're a mermaid! I can also transform into a shrimp, can you?"
Suddenly it was all silent. Hao Ren could never expect that there were so many confusing yet subtly connected questions in the tiny brain of Lil Pea. Even Y'zaks who was always quiet, also asked, "What's wrong with this kid's brain?"
Lil Pea was bombarded by the lessons and was frightened instantly but was soon jabbering even more confusedly. This time, Nangong Wuyue just ignored her. And Hao Ren, who was still confused, could only hold his fish girl and comfort her, and it took for quite some time to calm her down.
And the little kid basically ruined the task that was supposed to be serious.