Bo Yi instinctively glanced over the other players again, originally just wanting to see whether they had noticed anything strange about Shi Xinyi as he had.
He might have been better off not looking. What he saw shocked him-
The veteran players who had been looking around just like him, trying to uncover some clues, had all become engrossed as well, solemnly reciting the prayer along with everyone else.
Bo Yi wasn't sure whether he was imagining it, but as the somewhat hypnotic prayer repeated in his ears, he kept feeling that a warm yellow glow was gradually lighting up the featureless faces of the Saintess Statues at the very front.
Unfortunately, all the players around him had immersed themselves in the ranks of NPCs, leaving him with no one to discuss it with.
The warm light drifted up from the faces of the Saintess Statues, then scattered into tiny points of light in the air, floating gently toward the people still kneeling in the hall.
The sight was so strange that Bo Yi couldn't help rubbing his eyes before looking up again.
The faceless Saintess Statues still stood there quietly, their featureless faces perfectly bare. There was no warm glow... Likewise, the space above the hall was empty, without a single speck of light...
It was as though everything Bo Yi had seen earlier had been an illusion.
Thankfully, unlike in the cafeteria, there were no orderlies "supervising" this so-called "Blessing Worship" ceremony. Otherwise, with all his looking up, down, and every which way, the NPCs would have dragged Bo Yi out long ago to make an example of him.
He had no idea how much time had passed or how many times they had repeated the prayer before their leader, Miss Nina, finally rose from her kneeler. With