After learning what had happened from the Priestess, Fang Zheng immediately activated his Personal Terminal to contact Mein. The moment it connected, Mein's panicked voice came from the other end.
"Help! Mr. Fang Zheng!"
"Hm? You still have the energy to scream? Looks like you're doing pretty well."
Although Mein sounded miserable, Fang Zheng could see through the screen that she had not been captured and tortured or anything. She seemed to be doing alright, so he cracked a joke.
"What do you mean, doing pretty well?"
Hearing Fang Zheng's joke, Mein immediately cried out.
"I'm having the worst luck right now!"
"Alright, alright, don't panic. Tell me what happened."
Seeing Mein's furious expression, Fang Zheng stopped smiling and soothed her before asking what had happened. Faced with his question, Mein hesitated for a moment, then awkwardly explained everything in a small voice.
By the time he finished listening, Fang Zheng was nearly dying of laughter.
It had started when Mein went to the temple for her baptism. Since only children of the same age group were allowed into the temple, her parents and older sister could not accompany her, so Mein went in alone. Everything had been normal at first. A priest came up and told everyone stories about the gods, such as Aqua, Goddess of Water, Eris, Goddess of Fortune, Loki, God of Flame, and so on. Mein had simply treated it as storytime.
But after the stories were over, the priest said, "Let us offer our prayers to the gods," then struck an incredibly... ridiculous pose that Mein did not even know how to describe.
"What kind of pose was that funny?"
Fang Zheng grew curious when he heard this. He had never attended a baptism ceremony, but if even Mein, another modern person, thought it was