Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Now, except for Bai Tianming...
This time, except for Bai Tianming, everyone around, including Noah, was shocked.
"What's wrong?" Apos was a little confused by the strange silence at the scene. He raised his eyebrows and asked them what was going on. They looked at each other but just shook their heads without answering.
"So are we going to the temple or not? Do you want to rest?" Apos felt that they were more and more strange, and asked slowly with a frown.
"We want to go to the temple! We want to rest!" people answered hurriedly.
"Then let's arrest the people who need to be arrested, take away the things that need to be taken away, and then go back to the temple." Apos was determined not to ask them what they were thinking anymore, as long as they could return to the temple as soon as possible.
Everyone nodded repeatedly and finished everything at an incredibly fast speed. Bai Tianming stood by and didn't even have time to find a place to sit down.
Apos approached Bai Tianming, still wary but more respectful than before. He politely asked, "Hello, stranger! We're planning to return to the temple later, and I'd like to take the liberty of inviting you. Could you please join us and rest for a while?"
He hesitated, his voice lowered, more respectful, more polite, and more cautious, like a leopard that had witnessed a tsunami, cautiously exploring the edge of calm water. "By the way, I'd like to be alone. Please answer some questions for me."
"I'll go with you." Bai Tianming replied with a smile.
Compared to the vigilant opponent, he looked much more casual.
In fact, if he suddenly appears and disappears, it will most likely arouse suspicion, but if he comes and leaves openly, even if there are suspicions, once they are made clear, the matter will be resolved and it will not be a big deal.
That's why he didn't leave immediately after resolving the crisis. If he was invited, he would go with them, but if not, he would turn around and leave.
In any case, he can't be considered strange.
After receiving this answer, Apos felt relieved and asked Bai Tianming to walk in front. After all, the village was safe now, and whoever walked in front would be the one with noble status.
Regardless of strength or events, in Apos's mind, Bai Tianming should walk ahead of him, and Apos has no objection to this.
Bai Tianming didn't want to waste time arguing with him, so he walked in front. Apos walked beside Bai Tianming, half a step behind him, and carefully observed him as he walked.
He said he lived nearby. Does that mean he lives here? But we didn't see him when we came in. Where exactly does he live? He didn't say where exactly. Maybe he lives farther away? Or maybe in that forest we were in earlier? Is he an elf?
If he had never been there before, would he know the way? Would he know where the temple was? Could he find it? Would he recognize it? Would he know what the temple actually looked like?
If he was there when I prayed earlier, he should have known. But if he was there then, was he there before that? Was the him in this hallucination real or fake?
Bai Tianming had never been to this village before, but it was still easy for him to find the way. What's more, the place he was going to was the temple. To him, the temple was like a firefly shining in the dark night, which he could not ignore.
To trace the reason, we have to go back to a long time ago. The priest who followed him to build the temple, whether intentionally or not, engraved a symbol in every holy book. The only function of that symbol was to call for the bright day.
Perhaps he did this because he thought that Bai Tianming didn't respond to him because there were too few people calling him. But because he did this, Bai Tianming directly blocked the influence of this symbol on himself, and would only do some small things like determining the location based on this symbol when necessary.
It is not possible not to block it. If you don’t block it, you will hear all kinds of calls every day and it will be easy to lose your mind.
Besides, Bai Tianming didn't want to respond to them, so there was no need to listen.
When they arrived at the temple, the priest had already dealt with the two culprits who had turned themselves in. He greeted them at the door and asked them to sit down and rest in the spacious hall.
The reason why they stayed in the hall instead of the previous room was because they took into consideration that the collapse of the house caused by the formation just now might have some impact on them. Instead of staying in the room and worrying from time to time whether the room would collapse, it would be better to stay in the hall. Even if it really collapsed, it would be easier to escape.
Besides, the air circulation in the hall is much better than in the room. After all, the doors and windows are so much bigger, so there is absolutely no problem in taking a rest.
Apos looked at the open hall and frowned. He wanted to find a more private place to talk to Bai Tianming. He didn't want others to hear their conversation, so doing it in the hall was absolutely not an option.
He thought about it and found the priest. The priest listened to his request, smiled and said, "When it comes to hidden rooms, there is no room more secluded than the prayer room you visited before."
Apos's eyes widened, and he was suddenly shocked. He subconsciously refused, "No! I can't be under the gaze of the Holy Scripture..."
If the strange and powerful man wasn't who he thought he was, wouldn't it be like betraying the temple right in front of him if he spoke to him in the prayer room? This was too much! Absolutely not!
If things were as he thought, talking in the prayer room, under the gazes from two completely different directions, no matter what he said, it would be a bit too much of a challenge for his psychological limits.
The priest blinked as if he had misunderstood something, muttering to himself, "I was wondering how someone could suddenly appear and solve such a huge problem. So you two already knew each other? No wonder."
Apos wanted to explain, but the priest didn't say anything wrong. Apos had indeed met and talked with Bai Tianming before, so they knew each other. If he really explained, it would seem like he was trying to cover up his mistake.
He could only sigh: "Is there really no other place?"
"Yes," the priest pointed to a room on the side of the corridor not far away. "Open the door and there it is. There's a big bed, just enough for two people."
Apos felt a headache. "Forget it. If that's the case, let's go to the prayer room. I'd rather do everything under the gaze of the Holy Scripture. That way, in the end, at least the Holy Scripture will prove my innocence."
The priest smiled and said, "Go ahead. The prayer room is empty."
Apos walked over to Bai Tianming and invited him to go to the prayer room with him. "I want to talk to you. Do you have a moment? How about going to the prayer room?"
"Okay," Bai Tianming stood up, "Let's go."
Apos nodded and hurriedly led the way, pushed open the door of the prayer room, and waited for Bai Tianming to go in before he went in.
After the door was closed, there were only the two of them in the prayer room, plus the holy book on the table next to them, and nothing else.
The priests around Noah looked at the closed door with curiosity, and the discussion suddenly became louder.
"Apos found the mission target alone in the maze forest. His leg was broken, and he managed to complete the mission before we arrived. He didn't even ask to delay the mission at that time."
"Yeah, he even helped us clean up after killing the target, collecting the bodies and handling the aftermath. He didn't even mention delaying the mission!"
"What's wrong with him? Is he here to rest or to talk? Is there some secret he can't let us know? Why is he so mysterious?"
The priests looked at each other, and finally looked at Noah: "Why don't you say anything?"
Noah sighed. "I watched him the whole time, but he didn't notice at all. He was always looking at the person next to him. We didn't even ask that person's name, and they were just talking in the same room. It's really weird."
"Indeed, the stranger looks like a forest elf, or even a hell elf that may have been contaminated by hell and has special bewitching abilities."
"Maybe he was bewitched."
"Maybe he wants to handle this alone."
The priests realized that if they continued talking, the matter would seem to develop endlessly, so they gradually stopped talking.
Meanwhile, in the quiet, narrow prayer room, Abos took a deep breath, suppressed his nervous anxiety, lowered his head, and asked Bai Tianming respectfully in an almost trembling voice, "Excuse me, is your name, Bai Tianming?"
"That's right." Bai Tianming nodded in reply.
"Then may I ask," Apos took another breath, his voice much hoarser, as if a fist-sized steel pipe had been forcibly crushed into noodles, "are you the person in the story on the first page of the Holy Scripture?"
Bai Tianming was silent for a while. If he admitted this identity, something might happen. It was better to pretend to be confused. He smiled and said, "I don't know. Maybe, that's someone else."
Apos probably confirmed his identity, because only the real person would speak like this. If he just happened to have such a name and didn't know it, and the temple didn't allow it, when he heard the question just now, he would only say, "That's not me," not "maybe."
Given the other party's ambiguous attitude, Apos didn't want to kneel down and ask the other party to acknowledge his identity. Instead, after careful consideration and hesitation, he cautiously asked, "Is there anything you need my help with?"
After he finished speaking, he thought for a moment and immediately felt that he was really not good at speaking. If he was really the Bai Tianming in the Holy Scripture, why would he need his help? It was almost like he was asking for help from the other party!
He immediately changed his tone and said, "Is there anything I can do? I will do my best!"
It's really strange to ask for help for no reason. It's better to find a reason so that you can explain it clearly when others ask.
Apos said again: "You just saved me and my companions, as well as this village and its people. No matter what, I should thank you."
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