Chapter 209: Boarding the ship
Under Ling Xiyao's strong resistance, Ji Wenjin didn't succeed in the end, and hugged her sadly as Yanagi Hui, who had been her all night, so that when she got up the next day, she had big dark circles under her eyes.
Ling Xiyao had a good night's sleep, and after gloatingly glancing at him, she packed up and went out.
At this time, Stellar just poked his head out shyly, and downstairs Li Qian and Parcy were doing morning prayers, which was a routine for believers, and Ling Xiyao had no intention of joining it, but fortunately, she was a beginner, and she was about to go to the Holy Land, so no one forced her.
After a brief breakfast, several people changed into pure white special prayer clothes, and each carried a white handmade cloth bag, and then went to the meeting place. With the approval of Lord Evans, in addition to the first recommender Li Qian, Patsy also had the honor to go with him, because there were not many believers recruited in this batch, and there were about 150 people on the entire planet, so some of the previous believers were allowed to go.
When they arrived at their destination, the statue was already surrounded by a dense crowd of people dressed in white, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single out-of-town tourist in the entire area, and it should have been banned. The leading emissaries at the front were whispering to each other, including Evans and the dangerous Winnis.
Behind them floated a white oval spaceship, carved with an unfamiliar string of characters, like some ancient language.
Ji Wenjin blocked the crowd with one hand and hugged Ling Xiyao with the other, firmly protecting her in front of him, full of gentlemanly style. And Li Qian, who was walking in front, was not so lucky, Patsy's unreliable only looked around for himself, and urged his wife to speed up from time to time, completely forgetting about escorting.
When several people crowded to the front to show their identities, the staff instructed Ling Xiyao and the others to enter the newcomer team on the right, and Li Qian and the others were arranged to go to the left.
Most of the newcomers were tourists from other places, all with ruddy faces, excitedly whispering information about which planet they had come from, the latest news about the Holy Land, who recommended them, and which adults they had met. Ling Xiyao had no intention of joining in, so he found a corner to stay, Ji Wenjin stood by his side with his face slightly lowered, and from a distance, he could only see the thick beard on half of his head and chin.
Seeing that he was cautious, Ling Xiyao couldn't help but persuade: "You can take it easy, that Winness's attention is not here." Just a minute ago, several figures walked out of the oval-shaped spaceship, and all the messengers were circling around them.
Ji Wenjin glanced at it with his peripheral vision and continued to maintain his posture, "There can't be the slightest relaxation now." ”
"Okay, whatever you want."
After waiting for a while, Winnis stopped talking, he faced the crowd, looked at them with arrogant eyes, the crowd gradually quieted down, and when the birds were silent, he smiled with satisfaction, and began the opening remarks in a voice that most people could hear, his voice was subdued and abrupt, and his words were accurate and humorous, and he received a warm applause every few words, which was enough to prove that he had put a lot of effort into it.
After mobilizing the emotions of the group, he invited the messenger sent by the Holy Land to speak, the latter was a slightly short, middle-aged man with a bald forehead not common to interstellar people, and his voice was flat compared to Winnis, but his gestures were full of majesty, so no one could ignore his presence.
At the end of the boring speech, Winnis announced the beginning of the prayer, and all the believers knelt in front of the idol, clasped their hands together, and recited the prayer in a strange way, especially in the voices of the new believers.
In order to be as realistic as possible, Ling Xiyao, like most people, spent the past two days trying to memorize the long and strange prayer shrines, and I don't know who invented them, these prayer shrines are even more awkward than classical Chinese, and she suspects that few people understand the true meaning of them, or that they have no special meaning at all, just to highlight the mystery.
The prayer lasted for about half an hour, and when Winness announced the end, the new believers obediently stopped their movements like obedient children, while the old believers seemed to have entered some kind of mysterious state, and continued to close their eyes and pray silently, Ling Xiyao looked back, their expressions were pious and soft, and they exuded a pleasant breath, as if they had gained some kind of strength.
"You see they're in a weird state." Ling Xiyao said in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Ji Wenjin deeply agreed, "It may be some kind of spiritual power cultivation method." ”
Winnis's order was not carried out immediately, and he frowned in displeasure, and the rest of the messengers, seeing this, raised their voices to alert those who were still praying, and after a few minutes, the scene was quiet again.
"Let's start boarding, starting with the team on the right." At this point, Winnes announced, his job for the day was done.
The new believers were arranged in two columns in turn under the guidance of the staff, and the line of one hundred and fifty people was only about thirty meters long, which seemed insignificant in the huge crowd of believers, but today they were the protagonists, so they attracted the attention of the audience.
In the middle of their queue, Winnis and the others respectfully sent the messengers who came to meet them onto the spaceship, and then it was the turn of the new believers. Ling Xiyao and Ji Wenjin stood in the middle of the team and took out a yellow metal identity badge from the white cloth bag, which was engraved with everyone's name, which was the only credential to log in to the spaceship.
When it was Ling Xiyao's turn, she imitated the practice of her predecessors, respectfully put the identity card on the metal card slot next to the door and swiped it, and the green light on the card slot suddenly flashed for two seconds, proving that the identity card was authentic, and she boarded the spaceship according to the prompts.
Before the inspection procedure was over, a staff member wearing a white system at the door held a square machine in his hand, scanned her whole body, and made several "Didi" prompt sounds, and the staff next to her was immediately alert.
The staff member frowned impatiently, "You brought electronics?" ”
Ling Xiyao looked at the light brain and space button on the bowl and explained, "I'm very sorry, I haven't had time to settle in Luo Actress yet, and my personal belongings can only be carried with me."
The staff member understood, but his face was still unhappy, because he had to do two more jobs, one to double-check her identity, and the other to lock the electronics with another device to ensure that it could not be used for a while.
Three minutes passed, and the series of processes was completed, and Ling Xiyao also witnessed the device that could lock up electronic products, which was actually only the size of a baby's palm, and was fastened to the wrist of the staff member with a metal band.
When she was informed that she could go to her personal suite, Ling Xiyao did not leave, but apologized again: "The one in the back is my husband, I will wait for him to be with me."
Ji Wenjin's verification procedure was also smooth, but on the way to the suite, they happened to meet Wennis and others who were about to get off the boat, and the two of them tightened their hearts, and subconsciously lowered their eyes to avoid standing on the side, and let the passage out.
Seeing the two of them, the messengers immediately stopped talking, held their heads high, and returned to their usual arrogant appearance, Winnis walked in the front, he glanced at the two lightly, and then walked away, the other messengers did the same, but Evans looked at them a few more times, and smiled strangely. As he had gone some distance, he leaned over and whispered a few words in his companion's ear, who couldn't help but glance back at the two of them with a lewd smile on his face.
After the figures of the envoys disappeared completely, Ling Xiyao and the others raised their heads.
"Looks like Winnis didn't recognize you." Ling Xiyao pulled the corners of her mouth and said with a relaxed expression.