Chapter 257 Imitation
One day later, Bai Wei and Vic entered a new town.
Compared with Yadna, a town with only a few hundred people that is more like a village than a town, this new town already has some of the appearance of a city.
Of course, this is not accurate. If Bai Wei remembers correctly, this was originally a city... during the Senluo period.
After the death of the God of Senluo, night fell and the population of this land dropped sharply, so the city became a town, the town became a village, and the village became the few small dilapidated houses they passed by yesterday.
After entering the town, Bai Wei took Vic to a small hotel with ease, which was also the only hotel in the town.
The innkeeper was a little girl with a ponytail. She glanced at Bai Wei, who was obviously not a local, and then at Vic, who was standing behind Bai Wei and wrapped up tightly. She raised her eyebrows and asked with interest, "Where are you from, you outsider?"
"Why?" Bai Wei asked with a smile, "Do I need to prove my identity to stay here? Or do you not allow outsiders to stay here?"
"Of course... no need." The little girl spread her hands and said, "We don't even have a church here, so who would care about outsiders? I'm just curious, because there are very few outsiders coming to this place. I'm just curious. If you are willing to satisfy my curiosity, then I can waive half of your room fee."
"Really?" Bai Wei asked with a smile, "Do you keep your word?"
"Of course." The little girl patted her flat chest, "My promise is as sincere as my faith."
"But it seems that all the gods here are dead...Okay." Bai Wei shrugged and said indifferently, "I'm from the Rhine."
"...Rhine?" The little girl's expression became even more interesting. Her eyes kept wandering around Bai Wei. "I heard that your priest in Rhine... doesn't like women. Is that true?"
"Well... before I answer your question, I'd like to know where you got all this information from?" Bai Wei looked at the girl with interest. "Didn't you say that you rarely come into contact with outsiders? And you rarely go out, right?"
"Of course, I have never left here." The little girl said, "But don't think I'm a country bumpkin who knows nothing. I know a lot of things about the outside world, such as the priests of the Rhine, the notes of the Holy Sound, and Tianqin's group of psychopaths who like to change their bodies into metal lumps... Of course, I don't know if it's true or not."
"You actually know so much." Bai Wei stroked his chin, "It seems someone told you. Let me think... Wildfire Cultist?"
"Huh? How did you know that?"
"In this land, the only ones who can contact the outside world are those guys, right?" Bai Wei smiled and looked around, as if looking for something.
"Don't worry." The little girl seemed to see through Bai Wei's thoughts and said, "There are no weird guys here."
"Not at night?"
"Of course... In fact, they never stay overnight in this town." The little girl shrugged and said, "They just come here occasionally during the day to buy some daily necessities and bring some news from the outside world. For example, the information about other churches that I just mentioned was all obtained from them."
"I see." Bai Wei nodded and said, "They are pretty nice people."
"Remove the word 'good'. I just think they are weird." The little girl said, "Okay, okay, I have answered your question. It's your turn to answer mine... Do your priests dislike women? I heard that they all like little boys."
Seeing the little girl's excited look, Bai Wei smiled and said, "Actually, gender has nothing to do with it. The most important thing is appearance. For them, a small, fragrant one, preferably one whose gender cannot be identified, is even better."
"...Tsk, your explanation is too strange." The little girl said, "And why can you explain it in such detail? I think you are lying to me."
Bai Wei shook his head: "I didn't lie to you."
"Where's the evidence?" The little girl stretched out her fair little hand towards Bai Wei. "If you don't have evidence, then I can't trust you, and I can't cut your room rate in half."
"So you were waiting for me here. You've been thinking about not reducing the room fee for a long time, right?" Bai Wei slowly put his hand into his arms. "Unfortunately, I actually have evidence."
As he spoke, he placed an armband in the little girl's hand.
The little girl looked at the armband and asked in confusion, "What is this?"
"The badge of the Rhine Fathers."
"How did you get this thing?"
"Because I am the Rhine priest."
The little girl was stunned. Before she could react, she saw Bai Wei lean forward slightly and his nose moved slightly.
"To be honest, you smell pretty good."
The little girl was dumbfounded. When she came to her senses, she immediately shrank into the corner and threw the badge in her hand back to Bai Wei.
"Okay, okay, I believe you. I'll waive half of your room fee. I'll keep my word!" She said as she threw a rusty key on the table. "I won't take you to the innermost room on the second floor."
Bai Wei took the key with a smile, and then gave the little girl an interested look, which scared the little girl so much that her face turned pale, and then he took Vic upstairs.
The little girl watched the two figures disappear at the stairs, and then she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she sniffed her sleeves and murmured to herself, "...Do I smell good?"
…
After entering the room, Bai Wei leaned against the window, folded his hands, and looked at Vic, who had been silent for a long time, and said, "Do you want to find the truth through silence?"
Vic was silent for a while, then slowly raised his hand and took off the hood that covered his entire face.
Then, the half-human, half-wolf face appeared in Bai Wei's eyes.
Bai Wei looked at Vic carefully, then nodded slightly: "The wolf part has dissipated a little, and it should be back to normal in two days."
"…Can I still say it's normal now?"
"It depends on what you think." Bai Wei shrugged and said, "Haven't you always wanted to find that puppy? Now that you know it's in your body, shouldn't you feel happy?"
“…I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
"Of course, no normal person would think of that."
"But you seem to know something." Vic looked at Bai Wei, a little excited, "Why don't you want to tell me?"
"Calm down, Vic." Bai Wei said calmly, "No one knows what happened to you. And even if I say I know and tell you the answer, will you believe it?"
"...I'll go and verify it."
"Yes, just like the little girl downstairs just now, she knows that she needs evidence." Bai Wei said, "So you also need evidence. In that case, why don't you go find it yourself and then draw your own conclusion? Maybe you can avoid some detours... What do you think?"
Vic fell silent again.
His mind is in a mess, really in a mess.
When Vic found out that the person he had been looking for, Ade, was in his body, he almost collapsed.
If Bai Wei hadn't held him down in time and said he would help him find the answer and asked him to follow him, he really wouldn't know what to do.
After calming down a bit, Vic asked, "You think I'm related to the Wildfire Cultists, right?"
"It's not me who thinks, it's you who thinks." Bai Wei corrected him, "You think so, so we started from this direction first."
Vic thought back.
At that time, the first thing he thought of was whether he was related to the Wildfire Cultists. After all, the Wildfire Cultists fought by transforming their bodies into wolves, and he was doing the same now, so it was hard not to connect them together.
When he told Bai Wei about this idea, Bai Wei also gave his affirmation.
So it was indeed his guess, not Bai Wei's.
But Vic seemed a little confused, as if Bai Wei attached great importance to who made the guess.
But when he asked Bai Wei, he only got Bai Wei's answer "I just don't want to take the blame", which felt very perfunctory.
But compared to that, there are more important things to pay attention to right now.
"Why are we here?" Vic said, "Shouldn't we go directly to the Wildfire Cultists? As long as we catch one or two cultists and interrogate them, we will know the answer."
"That's a good idea." Bai Wei gave Weike a thumbs up. "You're worried that others won't be able to find you, so you're rushing to fall into their trap, right?"
Vic was speechless again, and after a while he said, "What should we do now? I really don't want to just wait, I just want to know the truth, and..."
Vic didn’t say the second half of the sentence, but Bai Wei still “heard” it.
He still wants to get Ade back.
Vic didn't know what condition Ade was in now, whether he was alive or dead.
If he was dead, he wanted to know the truth. If he was alive... he would still find Ade.
Even at any cost.
He really thought so.
Bai Wei looked at the impatient Vic and said slowly, "Generally speaking, dogs don't lose things, because their excellent sense of smell allows them to easily find most lost things. But it's different for people. If people lose something, they need to rely on their eyes, memory, and brain to find it back. Although in most cases, these three points are not as good as a dog's sense of smell, but if the lost thing is in a place where the sense of smell cannot reach, you can only rely on these three points."
"...Can you explain what you mean more clearly?"
Bai Wei sighed: "What I want to say is, didn't you realize that I was just leading you to find the truth?"
"...Ah, just now?" Vic hesitated, "Weren't you flirting with that little girl just now?"
"If you can only see the surface, you will never find the truth in your life."
Vic was even more confused.
Bai Wei slightly turned his body to allow Vic to look at the town outside from the window behind him.
The sun has not yet completely set, and the sunset has dyed the entire town a light golden color, giving people a feeling of tranquility and peace.
Such scenery would not seem strange anywhere.
But it happened to be here, in this godless place ravaged by darkness.
"Do you remember what that girl said?" Bai Wei said slowly, "The Wildfire Cultists never stay here overnight. They only come during the day. And when they come, they do business and bring some news from the outside world. Don't you think this treatment is completely different from that of the Yade town on the border?"
After hearing what Bai Wei said, the confusion on Vic's face slowly turned into contemplation.
Of course he had been to this town and experienced its uniqueness.
But at that time he was focused on finding the lost sacrificial site, so he didn't stay here for too long and didn't think much about it.
And now that Bai Wei specifically mentioned it, he began to think about it seriously.
"It's really... strange." Vic said softly, "This town is very lively, just like the proprietress."
Bai Wei had a relieved expression as if he had finally discovered the blind spot. "Yes, that little girl doesn't look like a resident controlled by the cult at all. Her eyes are full of clear... stupidity. In this land, this is absolutely abnormal."
……really.
Normally, under the dual interference of Night and Wildfire Cultists, the living conditions of the residents here should be more like those of the townspeople in the small town of Yad.
But why is this?
Vic subconsciously wanted to continue asking Bai Wei, but then he thought of what Bai Wei had said before.
The biggest difference between humans and dogs is that they can use their brains.
So he forced himself to use his brain.
A small peaceful area in a dangerous place, untouched by darkness and wildfire.
Isolated from the world.
That is to say...
Suddenly, images popped up in Vic's mind.
He stood in a shallow fence that he couldn't cross, with blood and flesh all around him.
Then he shouted angrily: "Asshole! What are you doing?! That's my wolf, not your livestock!"
In an instant, the answer came to his mind and he blurted it out.
"Beast!"
"Um?"
"This town is a place where livestock are kept in captivity." Vic didn't have time to think about where the image just now came from, because he was already frightened by his own guess. "This town is a place where livestock are kept in captivity... I've seen it! They are fattened up and then killed for meat. Only livestock know nothing about the outside world, and only livestock are protected in a dangerous world. At least they are safe before being killed for meat."
Vic looked at Bai Wei expectantly. He was nervous and excited, and felt that he had found the answer.
"Am I right?"
Bai Wei had a faint smile on his face.
"certainly."
Wrong answer.
The answer is imitation.
Bai Wei quietly looked at Vic, whose face was filled with joy.
It's like you're imitating someone.
them.
In imitation of God.
The god who rules the world.
(End of this chapter)
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