Coffins were delivered one after another into the Mad King Building, then taken by elevator into the enormous underground church.
The Purifiers of the Purification Society bustled about, opening the coffins and carrying the still-unconscious holy vessels into the huge iron cage at the center of the church, locking them together with the holy vessels that had arrived earlier.
When those who had already been imprisoned inside saw the iron cage open and newcomers brought in, they all struggled frantically, trying to escape, but they could not break free of their restraints.
The unconscious holy vessel candidates were each injected with a dose of medicine, then gradually woke amid groans.
Seeing their surroundings, these kidnapped innocents all looked terrified, having no idea what was happening.
Some even thought they were still dreaming and pinched themselves hard several times. When they failed to wake up, they truly panicked.
They had all been working, studying, and living their ordinary lives, never expecting to suddenly be kidnapped. After waking up, they found themselves trapped in a huge iron cage, surrounded by people in robes bearing strange eye patterns.
The building looked like a church, but what stood upon the altar was not a cross or anything else, but a massive sculpture of an eye!
The bald, bearded man in purple-and-gold robes had deep, unfathomable eyes, as though he could see straight through every one of them.
Even more baffling was that the people around them did not look at them with malice. Instead, their gazes carried a trace of reverence. It was simply too strange.
At the same time, Shen Feng and Jingwei projected their consciousnesses into their respective substitutes, pretending to awaken from their comas under the effects of the awakening drug.
Looking outside the metal cage through his substitute's eyes, Shen