"Haha," Li Hai said with a chuckle over the phone. "Don't worry, because God, he, recently saw how hard I've been working on exorcisms.

So he specifically bestowed some money upon me. I think we can use this money to improve the living conditions of the new believers."

""What?!"

Old Williams was dumbfounded. "Anthony, what are you saying? God—God gave you money?! This, this is unreasonable!"

In his traditional understanding, believers have always offered money to God.

Because although God is omniscient and omnipotent, he lacks and loves money.

This is normal; Old Williams also loves money. Who doesn't?

But now Anthony says God is going to pay money for believers to spend?!

This is completely topsy-turvy.

For a moment, Old Williams didn't know how to describe the feelings in his heart.

Anyway, it was explosively complex.

Then he calmed his emotions and asked again, "Anthony, how much money did God give you? Was it in US dollars or British pounds?"

"Neither," Li Hai said with a smile from the other end of the phone. "God bestowed gold, a total of one thousand three hundred and thirty tons."

"Oh my God! Hallelujah! My Lord is great!"

Old Williams first involuntarily thanked God, then excitedly shouted into the phone:

"Anthony, you, you're not joking, are you? Is there really that much gold? This, this is roughly how many US dollars?

With so much gold with you, won't it be stolen? Did you store it in a warehouse? Is that warehouse safe?!"

Bombarded and dizzy from this shocking news, Old Williams rambled incoherently on the phone for a while.

Li Hai didn't mind, just lazily said on the phone:

"I've roughly calculated that if all this gold were converted into US dollars, it would be around seventeen billion. However, the entire world probably can't absorb that much gold at once, so we can only exchange it little by little in the future.

Also, you don't need to worry about the safety of the gold. God bestowed two Divine Artifacts upon me, which can be used to store that gold. Hmm~

How should I describe it to you? Just understand this Divine Artifact as a magic bag that looks small but can hold many things."

"Phew~ That's good. The Lord is truly generous."

Old Williams let out a long breath, then said, "Oh, right, Anthony, you just wanted me to do something, didn't you? What was it?"

"Oh, I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it," Li Hai said blandly. "I want to buy Chunmu Town. Please send a team of professional business people and lawyers to me as soon as possible."

"What? What are you saying? You want to buy a town?!"

Old Williams said incredulously, "God, why would you do that?"

"Because I want to save all the townspeople of Chunmu Town!" Li Hai said righteously.

"I have received a divine revelation. From it, I learned that the Nightmare Demon is Satan's vanguard.

Its existence will eventually lead to Hell's army stepping into the human world, and the Lord will never allow such a thing to happen.

So, after an uncertain period of time, the Lord will unleash divine punishment to completely wipe out Chunmu Town. To save everyone in this town, I have decided to buy it and then relocate all the townspeople."

Upon hearing such astonishing news, Old Williams was naturally incredibly shocked.

He vaguely felt that he might be about to witness a nearly biblical-level myth unfold on American soil.

"In ancient times, Moses parted the Red Sea and led the Exodus; now, Saint Anthony saves all the people of Chunmu Town! Phew—"

Old Williams, both excited and awestruck, respectfully said into the phone, "Respected Saint Anthony, please allow me to call you—Prophet!

Your greatness is ineffable and awe-inspiring. Your deeds and your very being will surely be recorded in religious texts and even the Bible! This is beyond doubt!"

Then, as if remembering something, he asked again with some confusion:

"But—Saint Anthony, humble as I am, I don't quite understand. If you want to save Chunmu Town, you could simply explain the whole situation clearly to the townspeople. Why go to such trouble and spend a fortune to buy the town?"

Regarding Old Williams' question, Li Hai on the other end of the phone answered casually without a second thought:

"Mr. Williams, you have experienced decades of worldly affairs and should know that many people in this world are quite foolish. So, for these people, the fastest way is to throw money at them until they are willing to leave.

Additionally, I think it's time for the Gospel Society to establish a new branch base, besides Yuanha Town as its main base, and Chunmu Town, after being thoroughly cleansed by divine punishment, will be a suitable location."

"So that's how it is, I understand," Old Williams mused. "Alright, I will immediately arrange for professional personnel to go to Chunmu Town."

"Mm," Li Hai responded, "Mr. Williams, I'll leave everything to you."

With that, the call ended.

And as the hands of the clock slowly swept across the dial, reaching midnight that day, after almost all the townspeople in Chunmu Town had fallen asleep, Li Hai began his operation.

That is, through the dream world, he pulled all the sleeping townspeople into the same dream.

Richard Saxon was an ordinary car mechanic in Chunmu Town.

Today, as usual, he worked busily all day, then went to a bar and drank until midnight before drunkenly returning home.

His wife and child had died in a fire ten years ago.

Afterward, Richard never remarried, merely living a day at a time, growing increasingly despondent.

Thus, being a lonely man, he returned home tonight, took a few sleeping pills, and then lay down on his bed without showering or brushing his teeth, slowly drifting off to sleep.

But when Richard awoke again, he found himself in an endless, boundless cloud world filled with Holy Light.

At the same time, Richard also discovered that Robert the bartender, Johnny the department Store Owner downstairs, his card-playing and fishing buddy Adams, and many other people he knew or didn't know, were all now in the cloud world.

Then, just as Richard was utterly bewildered, an immensely tall, incredibly majestic, and incomparably sacred humanoid light figure appeared in the higher clouds above the cloud world.

And the moment they saw this light figure, an infinite sense of reverence, worship, and awe immediately surged within the hearts of everyone, including Richard.

It was as if this majestic light figure was the Father and Lord of all of them.

So, starting from someone unknown, gradually everyone knelt down.

Including Richard.

Because at this moment, everyone realized the identity of this humanoid light figure.

It might be God.

And after seeing God, who seemed both extremely distant and yet right before their eyes.

The bitterness, grief, sorrow, grievance, pain—all these emotions that had been buried in Richard's heart for ten years—suddenly erupted.

They turned into uncontrollable tears and choked sobs, gushing from his eyes and throat.

Richard was not the only one with such an emotional reaction.

At this moment, thousands of others present were also like him, their faces streaming with tears and their bodies trembling.

Yes, seeing the Lord they had believed in their entire lives with their own eyes.

How could they not be excited? How could they not tremble?

It was just that due to excessive excitement and awe, no one spoke at this moment. They all knelt silently in the clouds, their faces streaming with tears.

And on this boundless cloud, as thousands of people were all incredibly excited, the majestic, supreme, divine, and holy God finally spoke:

No one could understand what language God was speaking, but everyone understood all the meaning within these unknown words.

This feeling was so magical that Richard couldn't describe it specifically with his limited vocabulary.

However, at this moment, Richard also couldn't spare a thought for these minor details.

Because the Lord told him, and everyone, a terrifying piece of news: Chunmu Town was about to face divine punishment.

This was not because someone or some people in Chunmu Town had committed a great sin of blasphemy, but because a Nightmare Demon from Hell

was about to open a gate to Satan's palace in Chunmu Town.

The reason this would happen, the reason the Nightmare Demon appeared in the human world, was also because Chunmu Town had been overflowing with arrogance, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust for many years.

So full that it overflowed and flowed into Hell, thus summoning that Nightmare Demon to crawl into the human world.

If that Nightmare Demon, reeking of sin and evil, were allowed to successfully open the portal, then the entire human world would fall into Hell, and all humanity would become Satan's pathetic playthings.

Even more terrifying was that the insidious Hell Nightmare Demon had now merged with the entire Chunmu Town.

To completely annihilate it, the entire Chunmu Town would have to be destroyed along with it.

At the same time, this act was also to cleanse this land of the overflowing seven deadly sins.

And for the thousands of people in Chunmu Town to receive salvation, they would need to find a person named Anthony Williams.

Before him, they must confess all their sins,

because only this Saint, who has descended into the world, has the right and ability to save all of Chunmu Town and redeem all its residents.

Finally, as if afraid they would mistake someone else, God specifically used light and shadow to depict an image as clear as a photograph, projecting it into the eyes of everyone on the cloud.

Then these people vaguely left the clouds and returned to their beds and sofas, continuing their deep slumber.

"It's done."

In the illusory and ethereal dream world, the God who had just been high above and resplendent suddenly shrunk from large to small, transforming into Li Hai's appearance.

That's right, everything Richard and the other thousands of townspeople had just experienced.

It was all a dream illusion created by Li Hai through Freddy's dream abilities; it was all fake.

"Very good," Li Hai said leisurely with a smile. "Just waiting for a team of professionals from Yuanha Town to come over in the next two days, settle all the matters, and then it will be completely OK."

Ding-a-ling-ling~ Ding-a-ling-ling~

Just then, Li Hai's Nokia suddenly rang in his pocket in the real world.