175: Chapter 175 Settling Yeros

After Lin Sheng agreed to go to the approximate location of the pollution source with Yeros, she left the shop.

Just as Lin Sheng thought the matter had come to an end, it wasn't long before Yeros actually returned to the shop.

Lin Sheng looked up in confusion at the young girl standing before him.

Yeros lowered her head and spoke in her characteristically flat tone:

"Why aren't you leaving?"

"Leave? To where?"

Lin Sheng was confused, not understanding what she was talking about.

"To the pollution source. Didn't you just say you would go with me?"

Yeros was also somewhat confused.

He had clearly promised her that he would go to the pollution source with her, so why was he remaining completely still?

"There's no rush. Let's wait a couple of days until the night ends before we go."

Lin Sheng waved his hand, making no move to stand up.

"Why?"

Yeros couldn't understand Lin Sheng's thinking.

In her view, the lives of mortals were the most important; the sooner the pollution was resolved, the sooner these mortals would be out of danger.

"It's night outside right now; it's quite dangerous to travel."

Lin Sheng casually made up an excuse.

But Yeros didn't seem to catch the subtext of Lin Sheng's words. She thought he was truly worried about danger, so she said very earnestly:

"With me here, you can rest assured."

"If there is danger, I will protect you."

Lin Sheng felt that it wasn't just a simple matter of this woman being dominated by her divinity; he felt there might be something wrong with her head.

A normal god, no matter how ignorant of human nature, couldn't possibly say something like that.

But Yeros really did say it.

And she said it very seriously, with no possibility that she was lying.

Lin Sheng stared silently at the girl in front of him.

At that moment, a thought suddenly popped into his mind.

She was born a True God; therefore, she only possessed divinity and had never had any humanity.

Furthermore, her personality was one of extreme tolerance, mercy, and kindness. Based on this, she wouldn't use malice to speculate about others.

This resulted in Yeros not doubting anything Lin Sheng said.

Because she didn't lie, she assumed that everyone else didn't lie either.

Under these circumstances, even if Lin Sheng was joking or teasing her, Yeros would believe him.

This led to Yeros appearing, in Lin Sheng's eyes, like a young girl who was slightly ignorant of the ways of the world.

"Sigh."

Facing such a unique deity, Lin Sheng was actually quite helpless.

He sighed and said to Yeros:

"I am stronger than you. If I say we wait two days, then we wait two days."

Lin Sheng knew that telling Yeros things like 'I don't want to go right now' wouldn't work; he could only use this forceful tone and attitude to limit her.

Sure enough, after Lin Sheng's words fell, Yeros opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing.

"Go back to the church and wait. I'll call you in two days."

Lin Sheng waved his hand at Yeros, already starting to usher her out.

However, Yeros made no move to leave at all.

"Hmm? Why aren't you leaving yet?"

Lin Sheng tilted his head and looked at her.

"I'm staying here."

Yeros spoke, stating her intention.

"Do you need to eat?"

"No."

"Will you walk around?"

"No."

"Can you stay quiet the whole time?"

Yeros nodded.

"Then you can stay here."

Lin Sheng also nodded, agreeing to the girl's request to stay.

He knew she was staying here because she wanted him to go to the pollution source with her sooner.

But Lin Sheng had his own ideas, and his ideas were difficult for others to influence.

Lin Sheng pointed to a corner in the inner room.

"I don't have any extra rooms here, so you stay there."

Lin Sheng wasn't being difficult with Yeros; his house truly didn't have any spare rooms.

The house only had one floor. Besides the storefront, there was only a kitchen, a bathroom, a storage room, and a bedroom.

Lin Sheng always stayed in the bedroom, and he couldn't possibly give his bedroom to Yeros.

Therefore, after weighing his options, he could only let her stay in the storage room.

This was already considered relatively good.

After all, even for Rona, until now, his sleeping place had always been that pet cage on the table.

...

"Father, what is... this?"

The spot where the statue of god Ximi was originally placed had, at some point, been replaced by a humanoid statue with an indistinguishable face.

Watching her parents dusting this unknown statue, Yisa cautiously asked her father.

Hearing his daughter's question, the Elf Father, who was cleaning the dust from the base of the statue, paused his movements slightly.

"What must come will eventually come."

The Elf Father sighed in his heart.

He hadn't planned on hiding the conversion of their faith from Yisa. Now that Yisa had brought it up, it was a good time to explain it to her.

"My dear daughter, it's like this."

"Actually, on the way back, your mother and I encountered several polluted beasts. Although I defeated those beasts, your mother and I were also significantly polluted during the battle."

"The moment we were polluted, we headed to the nearest branch church."

"However, when we reached the church, it was already overcrowded; we couldn't receive the Lord's protection."

"Out of necessity, your mother and I left that branch church, intending to go to another one."

"However, the other branch churches were in a similar state to the first one, all filled with the polluted."

"At that time, both your mother's and my bodies were severely polluted. Just when we thought we would fall into depravity, it was the appearance of the Lord Missionary that saved us."

When mentioning the "Missionary," the Elf Father's face was full of gratitude.

"The Lord Missionary is spreading the Lord's glory on this planet. He not only saved us but also brought new hope to the creatures of this planet."

"The New Lord is also a great Chief God whose mighty power is far beyond what we can speculate."

"So, Yisa, Father hopes that you..."

At this point, the Elf Father suddenly paused.

Looking at his daughter's red-rimmed eyes, he couldn't bring himself to say the words that followed.

"So, you've betrayed the Lord, right?"

Yisa held back her tears as she questioned her parents.

Even if she didn't want to believe it, the facts were right before her eyes.

The father she had always admired, a Tier 4 Transcendent powerhouse, had actually taken her mother and betrayed the Lord together, turning to a new master.

And right now, in the place protected by the Lord, they had brazenly placed the statue of another deity in the Lord's original position.

"Yisa, this isn't betrayal, we were just..."

"Just forced by circumstances, right?"

Yisa directly interrupted the Elf Father's words, her tears now streaming down her face.

"The Lord has given us protection for so long. If it weren't for the Lord, we would have died in some pollution event long ago."

"And you? Just because of one pollution incident, you betrayed the Lord and turned to someone else."

"The Lord has given you so many years and so many instances of protection, yet this one time you just, just..."

Yisa pointed at her parents, but the words that followed wouldn't come out.

She loved her parents dearly; therefore, even at this time, knowing full well they had betrayed the Lord, she couldn't say anything harsh.

"Yisa..."

The Elf Father opened his mouth, wanting to say something.

However, just then, a gentle divine power suddenly enveloped their family of three.

Not just Yisa's family, but at this moment, all living beings on the planet, regardless of whether they believed in the God Ximi, were enveloped by this gentle divine power.

While the divine power cleared the pollution from the living beings, it also blocked the pollution in the atmosphere.

"The Lord has not abandoned us."

Feeling this gentle power around her, Yisa immediately knelt and bowed toward the center of the star domain.

A hint of regret also surfaced on the faces of the elven parents at this moment.

They never expected that even though they had already betrayed God Ximi, the God's power would still protect them.

How could they face this?

The elven parents looked at each other, and then they too, following Yisa, knelt and bowed toward the center of the star domain.

This scene was playing out in every household on the planet; all those mortals knelt and bowed toward the center of the star domain.

"Sigh~"

"Yisa, it's Father's fault. I have disappointed you."

After a long time, the Elf Father stood up.

His face was now filled with remorse.

"It's okay, Father."

"As long as you can repent, I believe God will forgive you."

Seeing that her father realized his mistake, a smile appeared on Yisa's face.

However, there was no joy on the faces of Yisa's parents.

"What's wrong, Father? Do you still have doubts?"

Noticing the expressions on her parents' faces, Yisa asked in confusion.

This time, the Elf Father did not hide it; he pulled a small wooden pendant from his pocket.

Meeting his daughter's puzzled gaze, the Elf Father explained:

"This was given by that Missionary earlier. He said he would use this to notify us to go to the sacrificial site to perform sacrifices to the deity."

Hearing this, Yisa felt her father's worry was a bit unnecessary.

"Can't you just not go?"

"Not go? What if that Missionary comes looking for us?"

The Elf Father did not have Yisa's naive and optimistic mindset. He worried that if he angered that Missionary because of this, it would be a catastrophe for their entire family.

When preaching, in order to leave a deep impression on these people, the middle-aged man in red had directly revealed his Half-step Legend realm.

This inevitably created some pressure in the Elf Father's heart.

What if he didn't go to the subsequent sacrifice and ended up angering that Half-step Legend Missionary?

Although that red-clothed Missionary had already been killed by Rona, the Elf Father didn't know about it.