At the same time, prepare the witch selection warehouse.
Bai Liu and the others hid in the crowd. Mu Sicheng looked around cautiously, then whispered in Bai Liu's ear, "But I still don't know what Jiayi's three messages mean. Can you explain it to me?"
"No need to explain." Bai Liu looked calmly at the dozen women in the crowd who were slowly reaching their hands under their skirts, obviously holding weapons. He raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, "You will understand what I mean immediately."
Sure enough, a witch sneaked into the container they were in, no wonder there was that side quest.
Mu Ke immediately became alert. He looked around and said softly, "There is a witch, right?"
"Yes." Bai Liu spoke calmly, with a faint smile on his face, "It seems that this witch sorting ceremony will not go smoothly as expected by those people in the Vatican."
Almost at the moment Bai Liu finished speaking, a girl about three meters in front of him raised her hand and touched the loop on her right leg. There seemed to be a pistol hidden there. She had a very small red earring on her right ear. She stared at the video of Jeon Bora on the big screen, breathing rapidly, her chest heaving.
She was waiting with bated breath, and even though she was extremely angry, she was still waiting with bated breath - waiting for the order to attack.
The red earring on her right ear flashed - this seemed to be a signal of some kind of attack. She raised her arm without hesitation, pulled out the pistol from the inside of the leg ring of her long skirt, and then raised her head and aimed at the stands.
The girl's eyes were filled with an indescribable hatred and determination. She raised her hand and fired at the projector that was playing the video of Jeon Paula's teaching. She almost shouted hoarsely, "How dare you still play the video of Paula's trial!"
"You don't even deserve to look at her!"
The trigger was pulled, the bullet was fired, sparks instantly burst out from the projector, and Jeon Bora's projection on the big screen disappeared in an instant. The entire warehouse was briefly silent for a moment, and then everyone began to squat with their heads in their hands, screaming.
Bai Liu quickly pulled Mu Sicheng, who had not yet reacted, to squat down. He held his head up very respectfully, pretending to be an ordinary civilian.
Tang Erda and Mu Ke also quickly squatted down.
The dozen or so witches in the crowd moved quickly. They drew their guns and began shooting at the Vatican security guards on both sides.
Quan Zhendong panicked and hid behind the Vatican guards in the stands, shouting, "Quickly switch to the seven-star eel bone bullets specially made for witches!"
"Catch these evil witches!"
The Vatican guards changed their weapons instantly. With fierce looks in their eyes, they put a belt across their shoulders, replaced it with a rapid-fire gun, loaded the belt with bullets, and aimed it at the witches.
Bullets spurted out instantly. These guards of the Vatican did not aim their guns at the witches at all, but loaded their guns directly and fired indiscriminately at the entire place - which meant that they would also hit those innocent reserve witches.
But they didn't care. As long as they could kill the witch, the death of a few reserve witches didn't matter.
But the attacking witches care.
The witch who was the leader and fired the first shot that hit the projector suddenly looked gloomy. She raised her hand, made a grasping gesture, and said in a deep voice: "Witchcraft - Fish Scale Tail."
Her legs instantly stretched out and turned into a long, huge snake tail that surrounded all the reserve witches in the field. All the bone bullets shot at her penetrated into her snake tail and embedded themselves in it. Blood gushed out of the snake tail. Her upper body, which was lying on the snake tail, trembled and she groaned in pain.
"Leah!"
A witch nearby looked at Leah's injured snake tail in disbelief: "How could this bullet penetrate your snake tail!"
"It doesn't matter anymore." Leah looked up with a pale face, her eyes still calm and sharp, "Let the reserve witches go first, we will cover them!"
Tang Erda, who was surrounded by the snake's tail, looked at the situation with the gun in his hand out. He couldn't help but keep looking back. Mu Sicheng's monkey claws were also scratching the ground eagerly, and he would glance at Bai Liu from time to time - it was obvious that he really wanted to help.
Bai Liu Kancheng stopped him coldly: "No, we can't act easily without the tactician's order."
Tang Erda gritted his teeth and held back. Mu Sicheng groaned but remained obedient.
——Bai Liu was right. In the league arena, without Liu Jiayi's orders, they absolutely could not act rashly and disrupt the tactician's layout.
The reserve witches were evacuated quickly in panic under the protection of Leah's snake tail. The whole process took less than thirty seconds, and everyone seemed familiar with the route.
Leah's snake tail had been beaten to a bloody mess. She finally couldn't hold up her form anymore and turned back into human form. She rolled over and hid in a corner nearby. She leaned her back against the wall, pulled out a bottle of alcohol disinfectant from her lower back, bit it open, and fell down with the densely packed wounds on her normal legs.
She shuddered in pain, but gritted her teeth and held back a cry of pain with a pale face. Her chest heaved violently, and then she raised her head—
——They exchanged glances with Bai Liu and the other three who had deliberately hidden in this place and had not moved.
Leah: “…”
Bai Liu: “…”
The bullet whizzed past the wall beside Leah's face. She suddenly came to her senses and turned sideways. Her legs, which had just been disinfected and were covered with scars, turned back into snake tails, coiling and stacking in front of Bai Liu and the others. She threatened the four people she was protecting with a fierce tone: "Go!"
"What are you walking for?" Quan Zhendong walked down triumphantly. He looked at Leah's snake tail covered with wounds and couldn't help but sighed with regret. "Look at the injuries, Leah, can you still walk? Or crawl?"
"You were originally a member of the Saint Patrol, with a name given by God, but look at you now?"
"How wicked and filthy you are! Why were you so desperate to defect with Paula? You were clearly not a witch at that time."
"Isn't it?" Leah's eyes became vertical because of the ups and downs of emotions. Her voice was hoarse, like a snake swimming: "I think I have always been."
Quan Zhendong's tone turned cold: "Catch her and send her to the court."
The guards on both sides loaded their guns, put them against Leah's neck, and whistled with a joking smile: "Snake girl, come with us."
Leah's jaw was slightly raised by the gun. She gasped twice and then said calmly, "I can go with you."
"But you released the four reserve witches behind me."
Quan Zhendong seemed to have heard something extremely funny. He laughed out loud: "You actually still think that you have the qualifications to negotiate with us who have obtained the seven-spot eel bone bullet?"
"It would be a kindness for us to not skin you alive right now."
Tang Erda's deep blue eyes darkened, and he slowly grasped the gun with his right hand. Mu Sicheng's monkey paws also began to move their joints, and his fangs were bared. Mu Ke pursed his lips and looked at Bai Liu, his expression tense -
——But Bai Liu remained unmoved. He was still waiting there quietly.
At the moment when the guards' hands were about to touch Leah, the receiver on Bai Liu's waist vibrated. The four of them lowered their heads at the same time and saw the message from Liu Jiayi -
——[Rescue has arrived].
A motorcycle with a loud roar directly crashed into the warehouse's roller shutter door. The driver stepped diagonally on the ground and spun the entire vehicle in a spinning motion, directly knocking away the guard member in front of Leah, and then stretched out his heels to brake on the ground.
After a huge spark from the heel, the car stopped exactly in front of Leah's snake tail.
Mu Sicheng was stunned. He whispered, "What a car expert!"
The woman in the car got out. She was wearing a tight black leather suit with a short jacket on top. She casually took off her helmet, revealing her hot and damp black short hair. She shook her hair casually, turned around and threw the helmet aside. Then she turned around and looked down at Quan Zhendong, who was thrown to the ground by a motorcycle and was screaming with her hot heels.
Quan Zhendong screamed again from the heat, but the woman stepped on his neck twice with great contempt: "Whose snake skin did you just say you wanted to skin alive?"
"Why don't I skin you alive first, you pervert."
"Youthful!" Leah let out a long breath. She was weak and returned to her original appearance. She asked with joy, "Why are you here?"
The whole place was quickly taken control by the witches brought by Youzhen. All the members of the Vatican Guard were killed, leaving only Quan Zhendong under Youzhen's feet.
"A powerful character has arrived in the area, so I'm here to support you." Youzhen wiped the sweat off her head and frowned at the wound on Leah's leg. "What happened? You're injured too. Why are so many witches injured today?"
"The Vatican seems to have developed weapons targeting us." Leah raised her chin indifferently, "Our Father Quan should know some inside information."
Youzhen made an OK gesture and nodded with a wicked smile: "I understand. I'll take him back and have a good talk with him."
"Then what's going on with these four women?" Youzhen looked at the four "women" behind Leah with some curiosity, and then her eyes lit up. She clapped her hands, rubbed them slightly excitedly, and said meaningfully, "They are the ones among the group of witches we rescued who want to join the witch district, right?!"
Leah looked at Youzhen's bright and expectant eyes, and for a moment, she opened her mouth but couldn't say a word.
They did rescue many batches of prospective witches, but only a few of them were willing to join them. It was good to have one in each batch - mainly because in such a chaotic situation, the Vatican would attack them indiscriminately in order to kill them. In order to protect most of the prospective witches, they would let them escape directly, and there was indeed not much opportunity to ask them whether they were willing to join.
After all, they almost got them killed, so it seemed a bit inappropriate to chase after them and ask them.
But this time there were actually four people left...
Leah could fully understand Youzhen's expectations, because she couldn't help but look forward to it.
She turned around pretending to be calm, trying her best to show her gentlest and friendliest side, and couldn't help but regret why it was she and not Paula who was here - if it was Paula, she would definitely be able to convince these people to join the witch district.
"You guys..." Just as Leah was speaking modestly, Youzhen could not wait to rush in front of her, her eyes full of bright and happy light: "Are you staying here because you like witches and yearn to be witches?"
"We welcome you to join us!"
Youzhen was so happy that she even wanted to shake Tang Er's hand, but she was afraid that he would hate the witch, so she stopped in mid-air and just looked at them with such a bright look: "Really?"
——The light in her eyes was so bright, as if their nod would turn into a spark that ignited the light in her eyes, turning it into a firework explosion, making her cheer and jump for joy on the spot.
Facing that look, Tang Erda opened his mouth, almost at a loss. He didn't know how to refuse - he was a man.
Mu Sicheng also fell silent.
"Someone told me to be honest with you and not to lie to you." Bai Liu calmly took off his wig. "Although I really want to say directly that I want to join you, but before that, I must tell you——"
"—We are men."
Mu Sicheng also slowly took off his wig, followed by Tang Erda, and then Mu Ke. They took off their inappropriate female clothes silently and without saying a word, as if they were in silence - as if they didn't want to take them off at this moment.
The light in Youzhen's eyes slowly went out, and then changed again - from a bright light to a tearful light.
She shook her head in disbelief and stepped back, as if unable to accept the reality. She smiled absentmindedly and pointed at all of them: "You, are all men?"
"How is that possible?"
"One..." Youzhen stubbornly pointed to the number one with her fingers. With tears in her eyes, she questioned them, "Are there no girls at all?"
"Are there any girls among you who stayed here because they were attracted to witches?"
Leah silently patted Youzhen's shoulder to comfort her.
Youzhen raised her head to hold back her tears. She took a deep breath and lowered her head again. She turned into that extremely aggressive look. She suddenly pulled out a gun, pointed it at Bai Liu's head, and asked him coldly: "OK, you are a man, then let's enter the routine interrogation of men by witches. A friendly suggestion, don't lie to witches, unless you have two lives-"
"—First question, have you ever done anything to harm a witch?"
Bai Liu raised his hands calmly: "No."
Yuzhen continued to ask coldly: "Have you ever watched any witch trial without making a sound?"
Bai Liu said, "No."
Youzhen asked: "Do you think the existence of witches is a sin and a mistake? The reason why only witches can digest eels is because we are born with sin, God is punishing us, and we must atone for our sins?"
"Never." Bai Liu said calmly, "The first child who cried for me and treated me was a witch."
"She is one of the most precious friends I have in the world, someone I would trust with my life, my triumphs and my trust."
"If she was a sinner and a mistake in God's design, and was the one who was born to atone for her sins—"
Bai Liu looked straight at You Zhen: "Then I will kill the God of Death for her."
Youzhen stared at Bai Liu for a long while, then she put down her gun and turned around. She raised her hand and wiped her eyes fiercely, then choked with sobs and cursed: "Get lost, you stinky men, don't let me see you again!"
Bai Liu looked at Youzhen's back as she left and lowered his raised hands. He watched from a distance as Youzhen was halfway through her walk and got so angry that she kicked the warehouse door several times, crying and cursing in a breakdown:
"I'm so angry! All the people I rescued were bastards!"
"Not a single girl left for me!"
"Wuwuwu! You are from the Vatican! Why!"
Leah patted Youzhen's shoulder and comforted her silently. Youzhen buried her head in Leah's shoulder and cried silently, and then they walked away together.
"...Eh, it feels like it's wrong that I'm a man." Mu Sicheng sighed from the bottom of his heart, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Tang Erda sat aside with a serious expression and nodded in agreement.
"What does Jiayi want us to do next?" Mu Sicheng sat on the floor of the warehouse. He looked up at Bai Liu with some sorrow, "Let me do something quickly! Otherwise, I will feel so sorry for them!"
Tang Erda nodded seriously again.
"Why didn't you let us take action just now?" Mu Sicheng thought for a moment and asked Bai Liu, "The witch named Leah was badly injured!"
Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng and said, "Because they don't need it."
"When Quan Zhendong was about to touch Leah, Leah made a gesture with her hands behind her back. She must have some witchcraft that she could use."
Bai Liu retracted his gaze and said calmly, "They are fully capable of handling this matter on their own. If you go to help them, you will only cause trouble and interrupt their attack rhythm."
Mu Sicheng shook his head awkwardly: "Is that so?"
"If we do other things, will it also disrupt their rhythm? Is there anything we can do?"
"Of course there is." Bai Liu looked at Youzhen's departing back, "Jiayi gave us the order to assist them in robbing the court."
"Robbery?" Mu Sicheng was stunned. "What robbed the court?"
Mu Ke explained: "The court here has to try many witch cases every day. They should be trying to hijack these trials."
"But there should be a lot of trials, right?" Tang Erda asked with a little doubt, "How do we determine the time and location of the court robbery?"
Bai Liu's gaze shifted. He looked at the priest's clothes left behind by Quan Zhendong who was dragged away by Leah. He narrowed his eyes, walked over, reached his hand in and searched for a moment, then picked up a paper envelope with two fingers.
Almost at the same time, the receiver on Bai Liu's waist vibrated:
【Priest's service, timetable for the court robbery. 】