Chapter 372

The Guide from the Future

Miss Moon was moved. She bit her lip tightly, looking at the hand in front of her, struggling and hesitating. But after a few seconds, she closed her eyes and handed over her own hand.

But she grabbed at empty air, because there was no longer any vagrant in front of her, nor any mysterious person who knew the secrets of Dolgode. There was only the air and the bewildered gazes of the people around her.

Miss Moon's face showed shock, but immediately after, she became even more excited.

Doesn't a person who can disappear right before her eyes prove that he truly comes from mystery?

She craned her neck to look around, still not seeing that figure, but she felt that the other party might be joking with her, so she was willing to wait a while—at least until the moon rose. By then, she could let this mysterious person evaluate once more whether she or the real moon was more beautiful.

But to Miss Moon's disappointment, she stood there alone for the whole night and could not wait for the mysterious vagrant to return. She did not know that the vagrant might never return again.

Because... Scorpio had already taken him away.

Just as this high-spirited Avros was preparing to harvest tonight's prey, Scorpio took his hand and dragged him into a dark alley.

Avros seemed to be scared silly; he sat on the ground, shivering.

Scorpio hummed a laugh and asked straight to the point whether he knew about an old affair from over a decade ago concerning a life that should not have been born.

The vagrant trembled and said nothing, but Scorpio clearly saw that he knew. So, he promised a heavy reward for the vagrant to go to a place with him. As long as they could find clues related to this matter, he could give the vagrant a huge sum of money and get him a real citizenship.

The vagrant was moved, just like Miss Moon before, his face full of struggle.

But he agreed quickly; perhaps for him, the temptation of money was simply impossible to refuse.

But what he did not know was that Scorpio's promises were all fake. He did not have these things, nor would he scour for them for an NPC. This was the only trick he had learned from Cheng Shi: talking nonsense.

Just like that, this Avros from ten years in the future was brought to the present by Scorpio using the power of 【Time】 deduction and overwritten onto the current moment.

Cheng Shi frowned and listened from beginning to end. After listening, he had only one doubt in his heart, and that was...

"Is that Miss Moon really that pretty?"

"?"

"..."

Looking at the two speechless people in front of him, Cheng Shi gave a dry laugh:

"Just lightening the mood, don't take it seriously.

I think the Assassin brother's plan is very good, better than I expected, and I think there is nothing wrong with the whole process, so where did the problem arise?"

Cheng Shi rubbed his chin, frowned, and discovered the problem.

"I think I know. So... where did this Avros you brought back go?"

Cheng Shi asked the key question, which was exactly what the two were most troubled by!

When Scorpio brought Avros back, he happened to encounter the Divine Nurture Church welcoming a "Divine Descent." Under the pressure of the giant tentacles' aura, Scorpio was stunned for a moment, but it was in that moment of distraction that the Avros who had followed him back actually disappeared!

He ran! He ran away silently from Scorpio's side!

He didn't seem to be lying; he might indeed have been a former staff member of the Church, because in the blink of an eye, he had navigated from the outer courtyard to the inner hall with ease, and then vanished into the crowd. The pressure of the Divine Descent, the Church Leader's shouting, the chaotic footsteps, and the clamor all hindered Scorpio's perception, preventing him from following the other's trail immediately, and so...

The person was gone.

The more Cheng Shi listened, the tighter his frown became. He thought for a moment and asked:

"You, a 2100-point player, were still intimidated by that giant tentacle, yet he, a common NPC, could escape in that gap?

Are you sure you didn't see wrong?"

"I'm sure, he has no abilities at all!

I've thought about it and can only think of one possibility: he has experienced this scene before and happens to be a Church staff member, which is why he had some immunity to the inexplicable intimidation of the Divine Descent. After all, I was only startled by the tentacle; it didn't spread any negative effects outward.

He said he was a staff member of the Evil Infant Tribunal, so I'm wondering if he could be a Uma sinner?"

Hearing this, Cheng Shi hummed a laugh:

"Interesting, this is the most problematic part.

You might not know, but that great fire at the Evil Infant Tribunal burned the entire Tribunal to the ground. If he really experienced this scene, he couldn't possibly be a survivor of the Tribunal, because if nothing went wrong, Mi... Old Zhang has already wiped out the last of the Uma sinners in Dolgode."

"... Ah? The Gravekeeper set that fire?" Scorpio was stunned. "Why would he set a fire? Is this also part of our plan?"

Gao Ya clearly guessed everything. She frowned, seemingly connecting the clues before her. Just as she vaguely guessed something, the alarm bell rang from the back courtyard of the Church.

"Dong—dong—dong—"

The surrounding Church personnel looked at the back courtyard in bewilderment, their faces full of shock. They couldn't imagine that at the moment of the Divine Descent, someone would dare to cause trouble inside the Church.

A few older ones craned their necks to look and shouted in righteous indignation: "The library! There are rebels trespassing in the library!"

Cheng Shi was shocked upon hearing this: "Not good, Turadin is back!"

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers and vanished from the spot, appearing in the corridor of the back courtyard. Scorpio was not far away and followed by traversing the shadows.

Gao Ya looked at the tentacles waving above the high tower with flickering eyes, then looked toward the library, lowered her head to ponder for a moment, and then followed quickly.

But just at this moment, the terrifying tentacles waving above the high tower suddenly changed direction and smashed down toward the library in the back courtyard of the Church!

"Boom—"

Cheng Shi hadn't even managed to rush to the library door before he saw a large shadow blocking the moonlight sweep over him and land on that ancient and magnificent building. Then, dust and smoke rose, and the earth shook.

This strike almost leveled the entire back courtyard of the Church; everyone in the Church was even shaken off the ground for a moment by the violent tremor.

Cheng Shi stopped abruptly, looking with a gloomy face at the ancient building—which he didn't know how many classics and files it housed, or how many secret arts and evil scriptures it had sealed—being destroyed right before his eyes. His heart sank.

Is Turadin... still alive?

This so-called father has a cruel heart. Does he know that the person stealing things inside is his son?

Or is it that no matter who it is, on this chaotic night, he must use this terrifying attack to establish his own inviolable and unprofanable authority?

Cheng Shi suddenly turned back to look at the high tower, only to see that the figure above the tower appeared even more "sacred" against the backdrop of the moonlight.

Church Leader Berios stood before the high tower, staring coldly at the direction of the library, and declared to the congregation again:

"Heretics attempted to fish in troubled waters within the Church to liberate sealed evil scriptures. My Lord has guided me to destroy these evil scriptures, giving them no chance to take advantage.

All congregation members return to the hall to gather. Later, the Church will organize forces to orderly purge the remnants of the heretics in the city. The glory of 【Birth】 shall not be profaned by any evil!"

With just this one sentence, the chaos in the Church visibly settled down. Everyone was gathering toward the front hall. Cheng Shi saw that the opportunity to fish in troubled waters in the Church had vanished, so he frowned and hid toward the resting place where players descended.

Now he could not go against the flow of people; he could only avoid everyone's sight before quietly going to find Turadin's whereabouts. He didn't believe this clever person would die under his father's attack. He should understand his father and couldn't possibly do something stupid at a time like this.

Even if his faith in 【Filth】 was fanatical, he at least hadn't lost his mind.

So Cheng Shi followed the Church's main flow toward the front hall. Along the way, he reunited with Scorpio and Gao Ya. As soon as he entered the front hall, he took advantage of the crowd's chaos to run to the lounge.

But just as the three were about to push the door and enter, they heard a hoarse voice calling them from the end of the corridor.

Cheng Shi's figure paused, and he turned his head abruptly, only to see that the person craning their neck to look at the end of the corridor seemed somewhat familiar!

Looking at this figure...

"My brother, over here, I'm over here!"

"Turadin!?"

Cheng Shi widened his eyes in shock and immediately led the others to run over. But when he turned the corner and saw Turadin's current appearance, his pupils shrank slightly.

Not only him, but Scorpio and Gao Ya were also stunned—one dumbfounded, the other thoughtful.

"No, how did you..."

"What, my brother, don't you recognize me anymore?"