Chapter 264 I won’t pull the cart for you anymore!
Bai Wei raised his head and looked in a certain direction thoughtfully.
"What's wrong?" Vic, who had just come out of the house, noticed his strangeness and looked over. "Is there anything over there?"
But he saw nothing.
"Nothing." Bai Wei also retracted his gaze and said lightly, "It's just that there is one more troublesome enemy."
"Another, another enemy?" Vic's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief. "How come you have more enemies than me? And can this be called 'just'?"
"If you knew what I did before, or if you had heard my name before." Bai Wei shrugged, "then you would understand all this."
"...I've heard of your previous name?" Vic tilted his head, as if he only heard half of the sentence. "Wasn't your previous name Uru? What was your name then?"
"Then you don't have to worry about it. You just need to know that my name is Ulu now."
Vic nodded, "Okay."
Bai Wei looked at Vic from head to toe and asked with a smile, "Did you inject blood? How does it feel?"
"...It feels weird." Vic frowned and answered honestly, "It's like there's something in my body that doesn't belong to me. I don't know if it's power or... something else. Is this normal?"
"Well... as long as you don't hear any weird voices in your head."
“…Strange noise?”
"Yes." Bai Wei said with a smile, "For example, someone said to you, 'Let's make a deal.'"
"...Ah?" Vic suddenly became nervous. "Could something like this happen again? Is it abnormal that I didn't hear it?"
"Oh no, if you didn't hear it, then you're normal."
Bai Wei waved his hand and decided not to joke with Vic anymore. This guy's brain seemed unable to distinguish between jokes and serious words.
However, Bai Wei's question was not entirely a joke, because he didn't know what would happen to Vic after inheriting the hunter's blood, so he could only wait and see.
But there are some changes that can be seen at the moment, that is, it can be clearly felt that Vic's thinking has become much slower.
…It seems like there are too many things fighting in my mind.
In this way, Bai Wei couldn't be sure who would win in the end...but this was also what he wanted to see.
"Okay, it's time for us to get going." Bai Wei said, "This place should be not far from the sacrificial site, right?"
"Oh, yes." Vic paused for a moment before nodding and saying, "We've already come here, so we're already halfway there. If we continue along the mountain road, we'll only need to..."
"I didn't say we had to take the mountain road." Bai Wei patted Vic's shoulder and said softly, "Your body has almost recovered, right? In that case, it's time to digest the old hunter's blood."
Vic tilted his head again, feeling uneasy.
"Let's go." Bai Wei turned around and left. "When I came here, I saw a luxury version that no one wanted. This is a good opportunity for me to test how strong you are."
Vic said "Oh" and quickly caught up with Bai Wei.
But before he walked away, he looked back at the cabin, then opened his mouth, whispered "thank you" before he really left.
…
Soon after, Vic stood in front of what Bai Wei called the "deluxe version".
This is a horse-drawn carriage.
No matter from which angle you look at it, it has nothing to do with the word "luxury", but everything is afraid of comparison. Once compared with the previous cart, this carriage is much better, enough to be described as "luxury".
But its size was nearly twice that of the cart. Vic felt his calves trembling just by looking at it.
"You want me to pull this?"
"Yeah, is there a problem?" Bai Wei glanced at Weike, and then he sighed softly as if he suddenly understood something. "Of course, I won't force you if you don't want to. Although my body was injured to save you, and I saved you twice, so that I can't walk at all... But you don't have to worry too much. There's no need to take it to heart. I can still walk by myself. Even if my legs are lame, I can crawl with you to the place."
"...You don't have to go to such lengths." Vic sighed, "Isn't it okay for me to pull it? But where did you get this car from? Did you pick it up on the roadside?"
Hmm... my thinking speed has recovered a lot. It seems that I have completely integrated with the hunter's blood.
Bai Wei thought about it in his mind, but he remained calm on the surface and said with a smile: "Of course not, I bought this at a high price."
"Bought it?"
"Yes, from that young lady boss."
"Young boss lady...Rila?" Vic recalled the name.
"Yes, you still know her name." Bai Wei said casually, "By the way, she still thinks that you killed the old hunter, so I told her that I needed some transportation to take you away, and she gave me this carriage without saying a word..."
Hearing this, Vic's eyes dimmed.
The image of Ella shouting at him at the top of her lungs "You lied to me" last night reappeared in his mind.
He had not deceived Ella.
But it was indeed he who killed Ryan.
"Okay." Bai Wei walked to Vic's side, patted his shoulder, and put the reins on Vic. "We'll take another way out of the city later, so you don't have to meet her... How about it, am I considerate?"
Vic was speechless and just let Bai Wei put on the reins in silence.
"Okay, let's get going." Bai Wei patted his head, and then he lay down on the carriage leisurely, "I'm ready."
Vic didn't say anything, he just pulled the cart in silence.
I don't know if last night's battle made him more alienated, or if the hunter's blood strengthened his body, making him stronger. A small carriage is really nothing to him now.
But his steps still felt heavy.
This feeling was especially intensified when looking at the collapsed houses on both sides of the street and the townspeople who were numbly dealing with the bodies of their loved ones.
He couldn't help but think in his mind.
Even if he inherited the blood of a hunter, is he really a hunter?
Maybe he is the monster.
Nothing you do can change this fact.
His mood became increasingly heavy, so heavy that he almost couldn't breathe.
But at this moment, he heard an incredible cry: "What are you doing?!"
Vic's heart suddenly started to panic because he recognized the owner of the voice.
Sure enough, when he looked up, he saw Ella standing in front of him with an angry look on her face.
Vic became even more panicked. He didn't know how he ended up in front of Ella. Vic had just said he wanted to take a detour.
But before he could figure out what to do, Ella walked towards him angrily, with the same expression as when she last saw him last night.
This made Vic lower his head involuntarily, like a child who had done something wrong, and his ears seemed to droop.
Ella walked up to Vic, raised her stubby little hand, pointed at Vic, and said angrily, "You lied to me!"
Vic lowered his head even lower.
Just when he didn't know how to answer, Bai Wei's lazy voice came from behind him: "What did I lie to you about?"
……Um?
Vic was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously raised his head, and saw that Ella was pointing angrily not at him, but at the person behind him.
That is...Bai Wei.
"You said he was injured and needed this carriage to get out of the city, so I gave it to you." Ruila pointed at Bai Wei's nose and said angrily, "But this is how you ride a carriage?!"
"Yes." Bai Wei nodded, "Any questions?"
"What's the problem?!" Rilla pointed at Vic again, "You let him pull the cart, and you still say there's a problem? Isn't he your man? Is this how you Rhine people treat your own people?"
"Yes." Bai Wei nodded again, "This is how we Rhine people treat our own people. Is there any problem?"
Ruila was speechless. She had obviously never met an opponent like Bai Wei. Her flat chest kept rising and falling.
Vic still didn't understand what was going on. He looked at Ella with a blank look and fear in his eyes: "Ms. Ella?"
Ella suddenly turned around to face Vic, then stood on tiptoe and took the reins off Vic.
"Hey, hey, hey." Bai Wei noticed Ruila's actions and said with some dissatisfaction, "What are you going to do?"
"What?" Rilla gritted her teeth and said, "I want to take this car back. I won't give it to you anymore!"
"Is it necessary? I paid for it."
"I'll return all your money to you." Ella threw the money on the ground. "I want it back anyway! Come down here right now!"
Bai Wei groaned softly, but he was not angry. He slowly jumped off the carriage and said to Vic who was still in a daze, "Pick up the money. Let's go buy a car from someone else."
Vic responded subconsciously and then prepared to pick up the money.
But as soon as he bent down, Ella grabbed him by the collar.
Although it was such a small pair of hands, they seemed to have infinite power and he couldn't bend them at all.
"He told you to pick it up, so you picked it up?!" Ella finally looked Vic in the eye, "He told you to pull the cart, so you just kept pulling it?!"
"I……"
Vic still didn't understand why Ella was angry until Ella almost yelled out loud without a voice.
"Do you have any dignity? You are a human being, not a dog! Do you hear me?!"
"The thing that Uncle Ryan risked his life to save should not be a dog, nor a monster, but a human! Do you understand?!"
Vic was completely stunned.
He looked at Rilla's completely distorted little face and felt something in his heart loosen.
"When Uncle Ryan was saving you, I told him not to go, but he said you are not a monster." Rilla's body kept shaking. "He said he believed in you, and said that if possible, he would give you his hunter's blood. He said only you can find the truth... So, don't let him down, okay? And don't make me think he is wrong, okay?"
"You are neither a dog nor a monster."
"You just want to find your dog. You just want to be a hunter like Ryan. Don't think of yourself as a monster, okay?"
Vic opened his mouth, but no sound came out. He felt as if sand had suddenly filled his eyes and he couldn't open them.
And Ella seemed to have finished saying everything. She slowly loosened her hand and stepped back little by little.
"That's it, go find your puppy." Rayla whispered, "It must still be alive and must still be waiting for you."
After saying that, she didn't give Vic a chance to respond, but turned around and looked at Bai Wei "viciously".
"You despicable Rhine priest! I won't let you buy a car in this city!" She shouted, "Don't even think about asking him to pull the car! You in the Rhine don't treat people as human beings, but it's different here! Remember my words, if I find you doing this kind of thing again, I will definitely not let you have a good result!"
After that, Ella left with her carriage, leaving Bai Wei and Vic standing side by side.
"Really? This young lady boss has such a big mouth." Bai Wei said while pinching his ears, "What do you mean we in Rhine don't treat people as human beings? We obviously treat everyone equally. How can an Orthodox priest like me be educated by cultists? Tsk tsk tsk tsk."
After saying that, Bai Wei turned and looked at Vic.
"What are you still standing there for? Let's go."
Vic didn't move. He just stared at the direction where Rilla left, and then said softly, "I'm not a monster."
"Um?"
"I said, I'm not a monster," Vic repeated. "I'm a human."
"I know, I know. You are a human being."
"I'm not a monster! I'm a human!" There was no more confusion in his tone. "I am a human, a hunter, Hunter Vic! Yes, I am Hunter Vic!"
"Okay, okay, I get it. You're a hunter."
"Yes, I am a hunter!" Vic waved his fist excitedly, "So I won't pull your cart anymore!"
"…Is there any connection between the two? Fine, fine, whatever you want. If you don't want to pull it, then don't pull it."
"No matter what you say, I won't pull it for you!" Vic said in shock.
"Okay, okay, I won't pull it anymore."
Bai Wei waved his hands and walked in front while muttering "Omnic crisis" and "That little girl is really a nuisance", looking very distressed.
But when Vic could no longer see him, a faint smile immediately appeared on Bai Wei's face.
"Isn't it a monster?"
He said softly.
"I hope you can always remember it."
(End of this chapter)
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