Diffit Claude, his daughter, and eight dazed servants left their apartment on Champagne Avenue under the reassurance... and watchful eyes of the Mother Goddess Church personnel, and headed for the church.
For the entire night, they would need to undergo examinations by the priests at the church, to ensure that the survivors were still themselves and not monsters disguised as humans.
As for Dorothy and the maid's bodies, the church had temporarily taken them away as well. After they were purified and confirmed to be safe, they would be buried in a cemetery in the outskirts.
Of course, if Diffit had other arrangements in mind for his wife's body, the family's wishes would take priority.
As for what Yu Xing had told the banker—that Dorothy might have had ties to a cult—the matter wasn't brought up during the emergency response. After all, his source was Nightmare, and he had already eaten her.
Yu Xing had no tangible evidence, and Diffit would have a hard time accepting it right away. The best they could do was wait until the church personnel had secured their safety, then investigate the matter at their leisure.
Anyway, the church personnel would question the Claude family closely about what had happened that night and what they had encountered in their dreams. As long as they weren't fools, they would surely notice something fishy.
The priest who had come to assist invited Yu Xing and Qu Xuanqing to accompany them to the church, corroborate what had happened, and help with the investigation. Yu Xing declined. The priest had been about to say more, but fell silent when he saw Yu Xing's look that seemed to ask, "Are the church's people really so incompetent?"
Investigators from Ideal Nation held a very high status.
The investigators had come to