Who hid My Corpse! - Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Twenty-five Very good, you finally fell in

After leaving Kelsay, Ulu’s expression immediately darkened.

He wasn’t a fool; it was obvious why Kelsay suddenly decided to reveal the “Taboo” Rule to him and kept emphasizing that the cultist who had stolen his finger had no power beyond that extra rule, tempting him to confront the cultist.

“That bastard.” Ulu gritted his teeth, “He wants to use me as a pawn to kill, he actually wants to get rid of me!”

“Like you want to get rid of him?” Bai Wei slowly said.

Ulu was momentarily speechless, then stuttered after a long pause, “I, I just thought about getting rid of him, just a thought, but this guy, he has already taken action.”

“Are you trying to explain something to me?” Bai Wei’s head perked up again as if he were crossing his arms and looking at Ulu, “Are you saying that you still care deeply about your ‘brotherly’ bond with him and wouldn’t go against him unless absolutely necessary… Are you trying to show your loyalty, or your affection for him?”

“No, not at all!” Ulu immediately denied, “I just… don’t want to kill too many people, the situation is already dangerous enough, if I were to act against Kelsay…”

“The moment you attached my finger, you were declaring yourself an enemy of the world,” Bai Wei said indifferently.

Such a dramatic statement might stir up fervor among similarly melodramatic youth, but for Ulu, an old church priest with a skeptical look, it only made him shiver and glance nervously around, checking for any observers noticing a weird vertical finger, then he lowered his voice to remind cautiously, “Visas, Lord Visas, please be careful, after all, these people are still searching for you.”

Bai Wei genuinely felt helpless upon seeing Ulu’s reaction.

Why couldn’t he end up in the hands of a cultist who only thought about destroying the world, who would scream at discovering his existence and offer his full devotion? That would have been much easier.

This old skeptical priest really was quite troublesome.

But Bai Wei didn’t express his impatience, instead he spoke calmly, “Don’t worry, the inspection methods of these low-level knights probably aren’t sufficient to detect me.”

“Uh…” Hearing this, Ulu was somewhat puzzled, “Then why did you ask me to disguise when you came here?”

When leaving the church, Ulu had indeed gone through several checkpoints, but Bai Wei had gotten them past by disguising Ulu as a church priest.

The Rhein Divine Sect was a place with a strict hierarchy. Although Ulu was only a minor local priest, he was nominally higher in rank than these lowest-level knights, so the knights hesitated to confront him directly. Of course, this was also because they presumed that the finger was on a cultist and thus they excluded Ulu, the church priest.

However, this was still a risky act, especially since Ulu had just told Kelsay that he had been checked on the way there. If Kelsay were to verify this, Ulu would be in great trouble.

So, Ulu didn’t understand; if the church knights’ current detection methods truly couldn’t identify Bai Wei’s presence, why take the risk?

“I said, ‘probably,’ not ‘absolutely,’” Bai Wei naturally had an explanation and he spoke calmly, “Previously, you indeed didn’t have the technology to do this, but I’ve been asleep for so long, who knows if you have updated or not? I don’t mind, but do you dare to take the risk?”

“Uh, naturally, I wouldn’t dare.”

Ulu quickly moved past this topic but also because he didn’t see anything wrong with Bai Wei’s reasoning; it was sound enough.

Hence, he didn’t suspect that this was just another trap Bai Wei was laying for him.

In the days he had anchored himself to Ulu, Bai Wei had been busily setting various traps. Ulu had already fallen into some of them, and some were still set; to make sure he didn’t miss or avoid them, Bai Wei could only dig a few more.

Of course, this was something Bai Wei couldn’t let him notice.

Fortunately, Bai Wei was good at this.

“Cough, cough, cough…” Suddenly, Ulu started to cough into his hand, intensifying as he did. When he lowered his hand, not surprisingly, it was filled with blood.

“It seems your injury hasn’t healed properly yet,” Bai Wei spoke indifferently before Ulu could speak, “Once you have recovered, focus on building your strength first; you’re far too weak. How could you possibly serve as my disciple?”

Ulu discerned the undisguised sarcasm in Bai Wei’s words.

But unexpectedly, he didn’t feel as tense as before, and there was even a strange, indescribable feeling.

Perhaps it was because Bai Wei mentioned “the future.”

Indeed, no matter what, there was still Lord Visas. Even if he was no longer a priest of the Rhein, he was still a disciple of Lord Visas.

This gave Ulu, who was in a difficult situation, a slight sense of reassurance.

“I understand, Lord Visas, I will not disappoint you,” Ulu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, continued on his way, and thinking of what Kelsay had just said, asked, “By the way, Lord Visas, about the methods that Kelsay mentioned that could counteract your rules, what do you think?”

“Thoughts? I have no thoughts.”

“Then… Will it work?”

“I don’t know,” replied Bai Wei with a mix of truth and jest, “I have never been this weak before, weakened to just a single finger. In my lifetime, all your methods against me were useless, now I am reduced to a finger, and yet you still consider countermeasures. I can only say, it’s somewhat amusing to me, but I indeed have no experience in–fighting with one finger.”

Ulu felt that Bai Wei’s response sounded a bit… humorous.

Could Lord Visas be humorous?

He was curious, but he didn’t dare to ask. Just then, several well-dressed people approached, and he immediately put his hand down, pretending to be nonchalant.

The approaching individuals, as seen by their attire, were not knights but rather servants of the landlord. While the knights were not yet in place, Kelsay had borrowed these servants from the landlord’s house to act as temporary checkpoints.

Naturally, these servants dared not inspect a priest like Ulu, but they weren’t too concerned either; they acted as if they didn’t see him, chatting and laughing to themselves, carrying a bag of blood-stained food.

Ulu also noticed the bag of food, feeling it somehow familiar.

Then, he heard the servants talking.

“That whippersnapper, don’t know where he got it from.”

“Must have stolen it from the old master’s house, but no matter, it’s ours now.”

Ulu blinked in shock and looked back at the bag of food.

It wasn’t just stained with blood; it was soaked through, dripping drop by drop from inside.

At that moment, Ulu’s mind went blank.

The next second!

With a “bang.”

Ulu smashed one of the servant’s heads against the wall, roaring like a crazed beast, “Speak! What have you done with that kid?!”

Like a dog guarding its food.

And witnessing all this, Bai Wei smiled slightly.

Very good, you’ve finally fallen into the trap.

Even though it was in this manner.