Number 0 still remembered the old maid, but the old maid seemed to have forgotten Number 0. In the eyes of Maid Fu Li, everyone, except the Goddess, looked the same.
"Maid Fu Li, don’t blame them. I searched the temple for a while but couldn’t find the documents mentioned by the Goddess. I thought perhaps it was due to my restless heart, so I wished to make a wish in front of the statue, hoping to find the document," Number 0 indeed walked through the temple, but she didn’t see any statues.
How could such a large temple not have any statues for worship? Number 0 also inquired the maids about it, and they said they had never seen any statues in the temple.
"How could an outsider like you understand the true essence of what is worshipped in the temple, and the real significance of the statues," Maid Fu Li disdainfully commented, as she had always opposed the Goddess harboring these unknown people in the temple, "In the Babylon Temple, we never worship superfluous statues; that is an utterly vulgar practice done by ordinary temples. The Goddess and we worship the Living God. If your heart is devout enough, God will enter your dreams and mind."
After nightfall, the moonlight filtered through the curtains hung all around the temple, scattering a snowy light. From the deepest part of the temple, there came the sound of stone carving.
Basalt fragments flew out from time to time. Yijie’s upper garment had been removed and tied around his waist, he had been carving for two days and nights now, and hundreds of law codes had been inscribed.
Number 0 had only written down the articles of the law code, but didn’t request how they should be carved. The tip of the chisel grew increasingly bright, shining like the sweat on Yijie’s forehead.
"I didn’t expect stone carving to have such an effect," when Yijie struck the last blow, a notification popped up in his task manual: "spiritual power +5." The principle of carving stone and gun training is the same; both require high concentration.
Yijie didn’t know where Number 0 found this cylindrical basalt, but now, limited by resources in the temple, he paid great attention to each strike. After several days, the strength and control of his hands and palms had improved significantly.
He stood up, took off his military uniform, covered the Legal Code Stone Pillar with it, and walked to the table. Just as he lifted the kettle wanting to drink some water to relieve his fatigue,
A pair of hands silently wrapped around Yijie, his expression changed, his arms counter-lifted, throwing the person out.
"What a brute," Apoli, who he hadn’t seen for several days, didn’t yell out. As she was thrown out, her skirt fluttered like glimmering purple neon.
"Please respect yourself," Yijie now knew Apoli’s identity, if the temple were an army guarding the god, then Apoli’s words would equate to military orders. Yijie knew he must have been too focused, hence did not notice another person entering the room.
"Respect yourself? Outsider, why pretend to be decent? Know that everyone who comes to the temple covets the beauty of the Goddess; you are no exception." Apoli was unabashed, starting to remove her clothes.
Her purple chiffon fell to the ground, and now, standing in front of Yijie, Ziyu looked like a beautiful snake shedding its skin.
Knowing things were bad, Yijie wanted to avoid her. But all at once, he couldn’t move.
Unbeknownst to him, the entire room had turned purple, as if the veil cast over it had bound the whole room and Yijie together.
"Stranger, tell me your name?" Ziyu, now stripped bare, lay on Yijie like a vulnerable creature needing care, devoid of any thrill of soft jade warmth that was totally different from when she had embraced Number 0 earlier.
Ziyu’s body was icy cold, like a block of ice. Yijie felt as though he was frozen stiff, unable to move, as Ziyu rubbed against him.
His mouth involuntarily opened, "Yijie."
"No, tell me your true name," Ziyu’s lips stopped at the two protrusions on Yijie’s chest, and she began to nibble.
It felt like thousands of ants were biting him; Yijie felt pain all over his body. This woman was not any Goddess; she was a devil.
"Lu..." Yijie struggled to maintain his consciousness, trying to force all the remaining clarity from his mind.
"Yijie, are you asleep?" A crisp female voice accompanied by a knocking sound allowed a crack to open in his paralyzed body.
"Baldy, answer me, if you don’t respond, I’m coming in," Number 0 noticed that Yijie hadn’t left his room for several days, thinking he must have finished his work by now. Taking advantage of the quiet night, she wanted to find a suitable place to hide the stone pillar, then find an opportunity to retrieve it, hoping to complete the mission sooner.