Chapter 77 Why did you, the culprit, survive?
"ah!!!!"
A sharp pain attacked from the bottom of his eyes, instantly ending the previous scene. Jellal leaned down, covering his left eye tightly. Blood kept overflowing from the eye socket, as if the whole eye was about to jump out.
Fortunately, the pain came and went quickly. Not long after, the pain disappeared, and only a pool of blood in the palm of my hand proved the existence of the pain.
"What... is going on?" Gerard asked in a low voice.
"This is the price of using this eye." Bai Wei said, "I told you, you have to bear it yourself."
"...You know I'm not asking that!" Gerard gritted his teeth, No. 44's smile still echoing in his mind, "What did I just see?!"
Bai Wei smiled and said, "What else can you see with your eyes?"
Jellal raised his head sharply and looked at Clerk No. 13 again.
Her expression remained the same as before, and the smile on her lips looked fake as if it was painted on.
But Gerard stared at her head, as if he wanted to see through it again, to verify whether what he just saw was real.
"I want to watch it again," Gerard said in his mind.
"You can't watch it." Bai Wei said calmly, "In your current state, even if you don't die on the spot if it happens again, you definitely won't be able to walk back alive... If you still want to do something, you'd better leave now. Your reaction just now has been seen by many people."
Jellal came back to his senses and looked around subconsciously.
Indeed, although there are not many people on this floor, it does not mean that there is no one. His shouting just now has attracted the attention of many people. If it happens again at this time, it will be a big trouble.
Therefore, Gerard had to suppress his doubts and said to Clerk No. 13: "I have no questions."
Clerk No. 13 nodded slightly: "Then I wish you a happy life."
Then he returned to his previous dazed look.
But Gerard obviously couldn't look at her the same way he did at the beginning. He stood up, walked to the gear ladder, and then subconsciously looked back.
Most of the clerks were in a dazed state of waiting, looking nothing special, but the smile he had just seen reappeared in Jellal's mind.
He took a deep breath, turned and went downstairs.
But what Gerard didn't know was that someone on the sixth floor saw everything. After Gerard left the fifth floor, this person quickly left, walked through a corridor, and knocked on the door of a room.
A young male voice sounded from inside the door: "Come in."
He pushed the door open and saw an equally young figure sitting in front of the window, overlooking half of the Lyra City from the sixth floor of the Tower of Babel.
"Here he comes again?" the young voice asked.
"Yes," the man replied, "It's the same as before, looking for the whereabouts of Clerk No. 44."
"Oh, he's really persistent... Did he find any clues?"
"Of course not. There's no reason why he could find it, and..."
"Um?"
"His health doesn't seem to be very good," the man replied. "Our efforts over the years have paid off."
The young man smiled and said, "Really? It seems that even the most useful tools will eventually become obsolete."
"But we still let him live ten more years."
"He is a knight of the Evening Star. How could he die so easily?" The young man said with a smile, "But he did struggle in the prison we built for him for ten years. Now is the last moment. Hmm..."
The young man tapped his fingers on his head, as if he was thinking about something. The other person did not dare to urge him and just waited quietly by the side.
Finally, the young man spoke again: "We can't let our guard down. We still need to send someone to follow him in case he finds out something at the last moment. Until the last moment comes."
Another person was a little surprised: "Is it really necessary to take him so seriously?"
"As I said before," the young man said softly, "he is a knight of the Evening Star."
…
"What...is that?" After returning to the first floor, Gerard immediately asked Bai Wei.
"Dismemberment, what else could it be?" Bai Wei said calmly, "I have quite a bit of experience in this area."
"That's not what I'm talking about!"
"Shouldn't you have the answer yourself?" Bai Wei chuckled and said, "Why can't you find No. 44? Why did No. 44 disappear but the total computing power didn't change? The reason is right there. No. 44 is still there and has been integrated into the body of every clerk."
Bai Wei's words made Gerard's body tremble. When he thought about the person he once knew well and now ended up like this, he couldn't help but clench his fists.
"Why, why would someone do this, what on earth do they want to do?!"
"The truth is so cruel." Feeling Gerard's slightly trembling body, Bai Wei said lightly, "And you have only revealed a corner of it. So, do you want to continue?"
"……certainly."
"So where are you going to start?"
Where to start...
Gerald began to think.
In Lyra, the only ones who could do such a thing to the clerk should be the five archbishops, but the five archbishops have hardly shown up for more than ten years, and few people know their true situation. It is also impossible for Gerard to find them in a short time and ask them one by one.
So apart from the bishop, is there anyone else who can directly influence the clerks?
Gerard paced back and forth on the first floor.
Then, he thought of something, slowly raised his head, and murmured, "Maintenance worker."
"Um?"
"Maintenance personnel, they are maintenance personnel. No matter who wants to touch the clerk, they need to go through the maintenance personnel!" Gerard gradually became excited. "The maintenance personnel who were responsible for maintaining the clerk ten years ago must know!"
"Really?" Bai Wei said with a smile, "Doesn't that mean we have a clue?"
"Yes, I have a clue." Gerard wanted to immediately find the maintenance workers from ten years ago, but he was stunned as soon as he raised his foot, "No... No."
He thought of something.
"The information of the maintainers...has always been kept strictly confidential."
Bai Wei asked, "Even you can't get it?"
"It's not that it can't be obtained. It's in the archives. Anyone can get it." Gerard said, "But it's not allowed. This is an iron rule. I can't violate it."
Bai Wei raised his eyebrows.
The most important thing for Tianqin and his gang is rules. No matter who they are, they must follow the rules. Even the Skeleton Squad who want Jellal to die must follow the rules.
Rules are the most important thing for Lyra believers.
Even though Gerard had been tortured for more than ten years, he was still unwilling to cross this red line.
"Even if the truth is right in front of you, are you unwilling to take another step forward?" Bai Wei asked.
"No." Gerard gritted his teeth and rejected Bai Wei again, "The rules cannot be broken."
You really have principles.
but……
Bai Wei was not in a hurry, but looked to the side. If he remembered correctly, there should be a person here who could change Gerard's decision.
Sure enough, not long after, a woman suddenly appeared next to Gerard.
After seeing Jellal's back, she said softly: "Jellal?"
Hearing the voice, Jellal's body stiffened slightly. He slowly turned his head and looked at the woman who suddenly appeared.
"It's you..." The woman approached Gerard little by little, looking dazed, "When I heard them say you were here, I couldn't believe it. We haven't seen each other for so many years..."
Jellal looked at the woman with a complicated look in his eyes: "Sanna..."
"It's been five or six years since we last met, I think. I can't remember the exact time." The woman had already walked in front of Jellal, her voice becoming lighter and lighter. "I'm finally seeing you... I really want to see you in my dreams, Jellal. But you never show up..."
"Shana..."
"I've been waiting for this day." The woman leaned forward, "Really, I've been waiting for a long time..."
Gerard did not move, and Bai Wei was also watching quietly.
With a "puff" sound.
He slowly lowered his head and looked at the dagger that was stabbed into his waist.
"Ah, I finally did it, I finally did it." The woman who was very gentle just now immediately became excited. She pulled out the dagger and stabbed it again. "You finally showed up, Gerard... I have been looking for you for ten years, why do you dare to show up again!"
She became hysterical.
"Do you still remember my husband?! My husband Herme! You called him brother! You brought him into that polluted land! Then why didn't you bring him back!"
The woman's actions finally attracted the attention of the Skeleton Army, and two members rushed over immediately.
"Hey, what are you doing?!"
"Warning! Warning! The rebel's widow is hurting people, the rebel's widow is hurting people!"
Hearing this name, the woman's expression became even more miserable, and she continued to roar and attack Jellal.
"Did you see that?! Did you see that?! You didn't bring my husband back, and you made him a rebel! He will have to die with this shameful name!"
She was hysterical.
"Why?! Why you? Why you, the culprit, are still alive today?!"
"Why don't you want to die? Why don't you want to die?!"
Soon, the woman was subdued by members of the Skeleton Corps.
She collapsed and cried wildly, while the members of the Skeleton Army had a cold conversation.
"You are a criminal and have violated the rules. Madam, I'm afraid you will have to add another ten years to your sentence."
“Hahaha…” The woman cried and laughed, “I have nothing left! I have nothing left, why should I care about these? I just want to kill him, you guys let me kill him!”
The woman was quickly dragged away, leaving Gerard standing there in silence.
When being attacked by the woman, he never took a single step back, and now his entire abdomen was bleeding.
At this time, Bai Wei slowly said, "Do you want to treat the wound?"
Gerard was silent for a long time.
Then he turned around and walked towards the archives room.
I'd like to recommend Qimao's book again! This is also the first PY I want to get. Oh, I wish I could be such a big guy! Also, starting tomorrow, I will update at 11 o'clock.
…
During the demon summoning ceremony, Aiwass finally recalled his past life memories.
This should be an online game that has been published and operated by his own company for six years. Now his adoptive father is the leader of the villain organization in the latest version.
And his identity will be exposed six years later, and he will hesitate to defect from the protagonist. In the end, because he decided to block the fatal blow for the player character, he was killed by the big brother with a good background in the cutscene CG before he even had the chance to enter the game.
——But it’s not a big problem. Because Aiwass also knows many secret promotion routes that are exclusive to the player characters, as well as the principles of each path as secret knowledge, which will surely be able to change his unfortunate fate...
So now there is only one question left.
"According to the original plot, shouldn't I have been rescued by the protagonist before this crappy ceremony began?"
(End of this chapter)
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