"Awesome."
Bai Ye's mouth was so wide open with disbelief that he almost broke his concentration and blinked.
Terrified, he quickly withdrew his gaze and focused on the straw figures inside the church.
He didn't dare to look at what Duan Chen and Wang Zihao were doing.
Wang Zihao felt like he was about to die.
He struggled to reach out and grab the rope around his neck, but his hands were already bound by the rope, and he could only cough.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
Duan Chen, with a hint of pity, kicked Wang Zihao's body.
The reason for kicking was, of course, that he couldn't bend down or lower his head at the moment.
He said with a touch of affection, "Just bear with it a little longer. You won't die anyway, and it's worth sacrificing a bit if it means we can get out of here."
After all, it was their own foolishness that led them to be captured and brought in.
Wang Zihao also understood the gravity of the situation.
He stared with dead fish eyes and chose to give up resisting, so that Duan Chen could drag him further out.
Duan Chen's eyes were fixed on the angel statue, and he retreated step by step, not daring to blink.
He dragged Wang Zihao with the rope in his hand, only able to spare a sliver of his peripheral vision for him.
Step by step, he retreated to the church door.
He glanced at the tightly shut church behind him, his heart sinking slightly. With his other hand, he gathered Long Yi's fireball and, with a bang, blasted it directly at the church.
The entire church trembled.
On the face of the angel statue that Duan Chen was watching, an expression of anger appeared, but it remained motionless.
Its eyes seemed to burn like flames, but because they were unable to move, they could not look at Duan Chen.
"So you can get angry?"
Duan Chen raised an eyebrow slightly, appearing amused.
"To think that you, a mere inanimate object, could also get angry."
He teased casually.
Bai Ye was nearing his limit and urged impatiently, "Stop messing around. I can't hold on much longer. Hurry up and find a way to get me over there too."
"I got it," Duan Chen nodded and said.
"Now that I am watching all the straw figures and the angel statue, you can come over."
Through this kind of handover, Bai Ye could return to his side.
Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief, carefully withdrew from the vicinity of the angel statue, and limped, hopping to Duan Chen's side.
He also carefully distanced himself from Duan Chen, not letting their bodies touch.
After all, they both still had ropes on them.
These ropes were too dangerous, and no one knew how to remove them.
"How did the ropes get tied onto you two?"
Duan Chen finally had the mood to ask.
However, the answer he received was not satisfactory.
Because neither Wang Zihao, who had woken up, nor Bai Ye knew anything about it.
Wang Zihao pursed his lips, "I don't know."
"When these straw figures touched us, our spiritual energy was drained, and we fell into a coma. We couldn't resist, and naturally, we didn't know what happened after we passed out."
"Were we tied up?"
He suddenly asked a question.
It was at this moment that Duan Chen suddenly realized something.
He frowned slightly, "But Bai Ye just said that you were tied up with ropes, thrown in front of the lectern, and then you fell into a coma."
The accounts of the two didn't match.
Could it be...
Duan Chen's heart hardened. "Bai Ye, watch all the straw figures and the angel statue for me. Don't look away."
Bai Ye agreed.
At this very moment, the True Sight activated.
Duan Chen deliberately avoided, using his True Sight, his pupil technique, to look at the straw figures and the angel statue in the church.
He only looked at Wang Zihao and Bai Ye.
But upon looking, he suddenly discovered something was wrong.
"Don't you guys feel anything in your bodies?"
Closing his True Sight, Duan Chen asked with a frown.
Both of them were bewildered by his question.
"What feeling?"
Duan Chen was now certain that these two were his companions, and no one could deceive his True Sight.
However, their bodies were undergoing a transformation.
Where the ropes touched, it had clearly begun to turn into straw.
It wasn't obvious from the outside, but when Duan Chen activated his True Sight, he could see directly through their bodies to the inside.
It was glaringly obvious that their bodies were indeed transforming.
Bai Ye shook his head, "I don't feel anything."
Wang Zihao also nodded in agreement.
"Regardless, let's not talk about this for now," Duan Chen frowned slightly and put these matters aside for the moment. "The most important thing now is to get out quickly."
Otherwise, if they stayed here all the time, the three of them together, constantly watching the straw figures, would eventually grow tired. These straw figures would slowly surround them.
If they couldn't open the church doors before being surrounded by these straw figures and the angel statue, their fate would be uncertain.
Bai Ye and Wang Zihao also understood the seriousness of the situation, but their expressions were grim.
Bai Ye said with some shame, "I'm afraid I can't help you, Duan Chen. All the spiritual energy in my body has been completely drained."
Duan Chen sighed.
He really wanted to say, "What use are you?"
But this was not the time for internal conflict, so he could only nod helplessly.
"I know. So, you two will take turns watching these straw figures and the angel statue, while I will break down the church door."
Wang Zihao and Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as there was something they could do, it was the best.
If they couldn't do anything, they would hate themselves for being so careless.
Duan Chen's spiritual energy, due to the presence of Wang Qi, was constantly being generated and absorbed.
However, in this church, he couldn't absorb a single trace of spiritual energy and could only use the spiritual energy stored within himself.
Fortunately, because he had merged with Wang Qi, his spiritual energy had practically opened up a second source of spiritual power.
And a third was about to open.
The stored spiritual energy was about three times what it was before, which was barely enough.
Duan Chen gathered his breath in his dantian, extended his hand towards the door, and in his mind, he instantly figured out what he needed to do.
His pupil technique activated.
"True Death Eye, open!"