Chapter 54 I Reject
After nightfall, a heavy rain suddenly fell on the city of Som.
This suddenly reduced the once lively nightlife in Som City by 80%, so that when Ulu sat in the alley, the only sound he could hear was the dripping sound of raindrops hitting the eaves.
He has been sitting here for a long time, from dawn to dusk, and has never moved, like a sculpture.
This was because he was afraid that the knights would search for him outside, after all, the bishop already knew that he had come to the city. Secondly, the "new deal" that Bai Wei had proposed to him before kept echoing in his mind.
This was the first time that Bai Wei stated his purpose so directly and without any concealment.
He wanted his life.
Although Uru had expected this, after all, Bai Wei had not concealed it before, but today was indeed the first time.
Ulu had fantasized before that when Bai Wei really revealed his ultimate goal, he would be able to immediately laugh at Bai Wei, mocking Bai Wei for his wishful thinking, and then quickly cut off ties with Bai Wei in a physical sense (although this would be difficult, he would try his best to do it, as he would never give his life to Bai Wei).
But when that day really came and Bai Wei really said those words, Ulu found that he had no way to do it.
He still didn't intend to hand over his life to Bai Wei.
But... I'm not as sure as before.
His mind kept echoing everything he had encountered and seen in the past two days since he came to Som City.
Yes, he only came for two days, just two days.
Two days ago, he was firm in his belief. No matter what Bai Wei said, as long as he knew who killed his mother, he would immediately end his connection with Bai Wei. No matter what Bai Wei said, he would never go deeper. But now, he still didn't know who killed his mother, but the thoughts in his heart, the things he had always believed in, had changed drastically.
This made him very tired, really tired.
He was so tired that even though the eaves that could shield him from the rain were less than two meters to his right, he did not have the strength to move and allowed himself to be soaked like a drowned rat, looking both embarrassed and ridiculous.
"You seem to be in distress." Bai Wei's voice slowly rang in Ulu's mind, "Want to talk to me?"
Uru ignored it.
Bai Wei didn't get annoyed and continued, "Ah, what on earth made you waste your time like this? This is really unlike you. Do you remember the night half a month ago when you first got my finger? You were so full of energy back then."
Hearing this, Ulu's body trembled, and then gradually "woke up". He said in an extremely hoarse voice: "I will not give you my life."
"Of course, it's your freedom." Bai Wei said calmly, "I told you, it's just a deal, a fair deal, you can totally refuse it. I'm very easy to talk to, and even if you're really tired of it, you can cut ties with me right now and terminate the current deal, and I won't stop you."
"I know, you don't have to worry." Wu Lu said coldly, "Anyway, I will not do as you wish. I will never give you what you want."
"Isn't that great?" Ulu seemed to hear the sound of clapping in his mind. Bai Wei said with a smile, "In that case, why don't we have a good chat? Like old friends. After all, we are really connected in heart at this moment."
"Don't think I don't know what you want to do." Ulu said, "Every time you try to get close to me, you just want me to die. I've seen through it. This trick doesn't work on me."
"Really? I'm quite sad when you say that." Bai Wei said, "So do you regret it? Regret buying that finger and then meeting me."
Wulu did not answer Bai Wei directly. Instead, he remained silent for a while and then asked, "I want to ask you a question."
"As long as it's not about the transaction, I'm happy to answer it."
Wu Lu took a deep breath, then looked at Bai Wei again and said word by word: "If using the power of the God of the Rhine will affect you, then will using your power affect you?"
"Of course. Look at your broken body now, don't you have the answer?"
"You know that's not what I'm asking."
"Haha, okay, okay." Bai Wei said calmly, "By asking this question, it seems that you have noticed something, or in other words, you found that you lost interest in those things that once made you unable to stop, right?"
Wu Lu stared at Bai Wei without saying anything, and then he heard Bai Wei's answer.
"You guessed right, it was indeed me who influenced you."
At that moment, infinite power suddenly erupted from Ulu's body. He tightly grasped the middle finger of his left hand, as if he wanted to break Bai Wei off like this: "It is true! Then what is the difference between you and the God of the Rhine?! You are also turning me into a monster!"
"Of course there is a difference." Facing the rampaging Ulu, Bai Wei remained calm, "Because my power is not addition, but subtraction."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that I can't add things that don't belong to you to your soul and mind like the God of the Rhine did." Bai Wei said lightly, "But I can remove all the things that don't belong to you."
"So, I didn't turn you from one monster into another."
"I just turned you from a monster into a normal person."
"That is to say, the pain you are experiencing now is not caused by me, but by your instinct."
"Your instinct makes you suffer even more."
"And what's even more painful for you is..." Bai Wei paused, then chuckled and said, "You've already noticed this, but you're unwilling to admit it."
After saying this, Ulu was like a punctured ball. The power that had suddenly burst out was instantly removed, and he collapsed in the rainstorm again. It was unclear whether despair or pain filled his gray pupils.
It was unknown how long he was silent before Wu Lu raised his head and looked at Bai Wei again, his eyes full of bloodshot: "No matter what, I will not give you my life. In my eyes, there is no difference between you and the God of the Rhine, so I refuse this last deal."
"Really?" Bai Wei didn't seem surprised by Wu Lu's answer, and said indifferently, "It's up to you. What about the current deal? Do you want to continue?"
Ulu fell into silence again, and this time the silence was longer than before, so much so that Bai Wei could feel the fierce struggle deep in his heart, as if there were two voices arguing.
But in the end he closed his eyes and answered softly.
"want."
…
Originally, Uru thought that after Corey had confirmed that he was the murderer, he would immediately order the knights of the West Cathedral to blockade the entire city and then search for his whereabouts house by house.
But to Ulu's surprise, Corey didn't do that.
In fact, he did nothing. Not even the most basic wanted order was issued. There was no martial law in the entire city of Som, as if he had tacitly approved his escape.
Why is this?
Although Uru did not ask directly, Bai Wei still "heard" what he was thinking and said lightly: "How many knights do you have in the entire Western Cathedral? Do you think it is possible to blockade such a huge city of Som?"
Wu Lu didn't say anything, but he knew that Bai Wei was right.
Although he was a priest in a small town, he had some understanding of the situation in Som. After hundreds of years of development, the population and area of this huge city had expanded more than tenfold. The church knights who were once able to stand around the entire city wall had long been facing the dilemma of insufficient manpower and had to recruit more mortal sheriffs to maintain the daily work of the city.
But the mortal sheriff is obviously useless when facing the extraordinary people. After all, in their eyes, Uru is the one who even killed Kelse, the knight commander.
As for the wanted warrant.
"Your bishop still doesn't want to expose your existence... or the existence of my finger," Bai Wei said. "Although this is his city, he doesn't want to cause trouble... especially when there is a delegation from the Lyra Cult in this city."
At this time, Ulu finally couldn't help asking: "Why do you know so many things?"
If it was some secret knowledge before, it would be fine if Uru didn't know it, but Bai Wei knew the existence of the Lyra Cult delegation very well, which really shocked Uru and... feared.
"Didn't you see their church gear car when you entered the city?" Bai Wei said calmly, "It's quite conspicuous."
Wu Lu indeed did not see it, so he had no way of judging whether Bai Wei was lying or not, and he ignored the matter.
Naturally, Bai Wei no longer needed to find more excuses to cover up.
Originally, Ulu wanted to move to another place, as he felt that returning to the previous hotel was a bit risky.
But with Bai Wei's reminder, he realized that in this kind of weather and at this time, it would be more risky to find a new hotel to stay in, or just find a random place to spend the night, so it would be better to return to a more familiar place.
Tomorrow is the last day anyway.
With this thought in mind, Ulu quickly set out on the road back to the hotel.
This road is generally safe. Except for a small church on the way that requires caution, there should not be any obstacles in theory.
However, when Uru was walking cautiously past the chapel, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the church.
"Master Father...is it really not going to work?"
Ulu's heart sank as he recognized the owner of the voice - it was the hotel proprietress.
He immediately became more alert.
Why is the proprietress in the church at this time?
Is he reporting himself?
Ulu immediately stopped walking back to the hotel, walked quickly to the wall of the church prayer room, and looked inside through the window.
I saw the proprietress, who looked even weaker than during the day, talking to a priest. There was a hint of pleading and helplessness on her face.
"Ms. Kaiya, we must first say sorry to you. Your illness is really strange and we have no way to cure it. The best we can do is to prevent it from getting worse." The priest said, "As long as you take the medicine on time every day, the disease can definitely be contained. If you want to cure it completely... I'm afraid it can only be done by our bishop himself. But you also know that the bishop is very busy, really busy. Everyone in this city wants to see him, although he also wants to..."
"So you still want money, right?" the proprietress Kaiya said in a low voice.
"No, Ms. Kaia!" The priest's expression immediately became serious. "How can you insult Bishop Corey with money? Bishop Corey never divides the Lord's believers into different levels because of money. It's just that he is really busy. He is so busy that he can only meet those who have made great contributions to Rhine. And the gift money... is just a kind of contribution."
“…I really can’t make that much of a contribution.”
"That's a pity, Ms. Kaia." The priest spread his hands, "You can only continue to drink the medicine."
Kaiya was silent for a while, then said softly, "But I have no money left. All my money has been spent on medicine... Father, you know I run a hotel, but I can't even afford the breakfast for my guests tomorrow."
Hearing this, Ulu suddenly felt something in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was a few copper coins that the proprietress had returned to him during the day. His expression gradually became complicated.
"That's a pity, Ms. Kaia." The priest said, "Although we don't charge for your treatment, the value of the medicine itself is huge. If we pay for it for you, we will have no way to help other believers. Do you understand, Ms. Kaia?"
Kaiya fell silent again, this time for longer than before.
Finally, she nodded as if she had figured something out: "I understand, Your Excellency."
Then she staggered to her feet and slowly walked away.
When she walked out of the church, Uru saw Leah who had been waiting outside the door, and he immediately stepped forward and held an umbrella for Kaiya. Kaiya touched Leah's head, and the two women, one big and one small, slowly disappeared in the rain.
Ulu waited by the wall for a while, calculating that the two people should be almost at the hotel before he prepared to leave.
Then, he heard the priest in the church speak again, talking to another priest: "It's almost time for that woman."
"She can't come up with more money?"
"Yes."
"May Rhine bless her then." Another priest spread his hands and said, "But remember to take back the 'holy worm' after she dies. It is much more valuable than that woman."
"Of course." The priest who had just talked to Kaiya said with a smile, "We have to use it on the next one quickly... Who's there?!"
They seemed to see a figure flash by the window, so they immediately stopped talking and rushed over.
But there was nothing outside the window, only the heavy rain, constantly washing away this ancient city.
I'll give you a heads-up in advance. I know everyone wants to see Uru and the church fight right now, but in my plot structure it's not enough, there's still a little bit of plot missing, because in my opinion, it's not just despair that makes a person decide to die, but now Uru is only desperate, and the despair hasn't reached its peak. Although this may not be a very good experience for readers who are following the book, I can only say sorry, but I still want to complete all my set plots. But I don't want to save this plot until the book is put on the shelves to rush the first order. I said before that the Rhine chapter will be written before it is put on the shelves. I will give all the readers who are following this book a complete story, so that everyone can judge whether my book is worth continuing to follow. So please be patient, of course it would be better if you can follow it, after all, the follow-up reading data during the new book period is still very important~
PS: By the way, I want to complain about Qidian's review. I clicked the green agreement, but they kept changing the text without notifying me, so many words in the previous chapters were deleted without me knowing... I feel helpless.
(End of this chapter)
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