In F Country, the outlines of two famous buildings stood as solemn silhouettes beneath the darkening sky, and even the air carried the faint scent of candles from the Church.
Golden light shimmered across the river. Dusk softened the stone bridge spanning it, where angel statues on the railings hung their wings as though gazing down at the water.
The trio had barely escaped the statues pursuing them and huddled by the bridge, catching their breath.
The Witch's and Silas's statues were easy to deal with. Neither of them shied away from trouble.
But there were a full fifty-six couples here. As more and more statues appeared, not every couple could step forward and smash their corresponding statues.
Moreover, aside from their designated partners, these statues attacked anyone else indiscriminately, making things much harder.
Some people had even lost their partners to other statues. Fortunately, when one member of a couple died, the statue representing them disappeared too. Otherwise, the whole thing would have been far too broken.
Now, most of the couples were too afraid to leave the Church, which only allowed the statues to run increasingly rampant.
Lin Darong wiped her face, which was covered in plaster residue from the statue they had just smashed together.
"This is just too difficult. This instance keeps throwing dangers at us without giving us any tasks or objectives. There's no way to solve it."
Holding a computer, Li Yang crouched at their feet, tapping away and plotting line after line of data. He cleared his throat.
"I ran the numbers. Based on the statues the drone identified on its flyover, the fifty-six couples in this instance have produced a total of 223 statues. Forty-two have been smashed, thirty-eight of those by the Witch and her group. The remaining statues are still