Chapter 378: Back to the Tribunal

Back to the Tribunal

Cheng Shi and his group carefully bypassed the church personnel's line of sight, climbed over the high wall of the inner courtyard, and left the church. Not long after they left, they saw Gou Feng keeping watch in the grass outside the church.

This burly and sturdy Chieftain's momentum was declining at this time, his body hunched and his face pale, having long lost the heroic look he had during the day.

But he was still so fond of smiling. As soon as he saw Cheng Shi, he grinned with his bloodless mouth.

"Cheng Shi, thank you."

"?" Cheng Shi was startled, then immediately understood that it must have been something Zhang Jizu said to Gou Feng that caused the other party's misunderstanding. But this little thing wasn't worth over-explaining, so he nodded and went along with it, "We're all teammates, it's only right."

Gou Feng smiled even more happily, and even some color returned to his face.

"No, there is nothing in the world that is 'only right.' You have won my gratitude; I will remember you.

I didn't like the wrong person."

"..."

Brother, don't be like this, I'm a little scared.

Whether you remember or not doesn't matter; just don't give me a human life when the time comes, and I'll thank heaven and earth.

"Polite words can wait. Let's find a place to hide first. Afuluosi, is there any place that can avoid the church's search?"

Tulading frowned and thought for a moment, just about to speak, but Zhang Jizu spoke before her.

"I do know a place."

"Where?"

"The Evil Infant Tribunal!"

Cheng Shi was startled: "The Tribunal?"

He pondered carefully for a while and felt that going to this place was quite risky.

"The Tribunal has just been burned down. When you came out, you should have encountered the church personnel who went in to search, right?

If it were me, I definitely wouldn't check a place with such abnormalities only once. Although we are highly likely to deceive the search personnel, it's better not to take risks."

But unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Jizu shook his head.

"I also thought that the church personnel outside the Tribunal would care more about the burned-down church institution, but when I resurrected the Chieftain, I found that those people at most walked to the outer courtyard and were unwilling to go further inside.

These people just looked around casually, observed the situation on the second floor, and then, fearing they would get involved with the Uma sinners who died inside, ran away as if flying.

What's ridiculous is that after they left, there wasn't even a shadow around the Tribunal gate that had been pushed open.

So I think the Tribunal might be a good hiding place."

There's such a thing?

Cheng Shi's expression was somewhat surprised. He frowned and turned to look at Tulading, but saw that Tulading's face was also filled with shock.

But what she was shocked by was obviously not the attitude of these church personnel, but the fact that Squinty Eyes was making trouble at the Tribunal.

"Did you set that fire? Did you burn all the Uma sinners to death?"

"No, no, no, that was indeed a great fire from heaven. We just happened to be there and saved a friend by the way."

"Happened to be there..." Tulading's expression became extremely speechless, "Is this accident also part of the plan?"

Cheng Shi laughed dryly: "If you think it is, that's not impossible. Let's not talk about this first. Do you think it's feasible for us to hide in the Tribunal?"

"It should be feasible. That place is the private territory of the former Church Leader. Even my father is unwilling to get too involved. The Uma sinners became strange in character after starting their path of atonement. Except for the Uda people who consider themselves children of 【Birth】, probably no one is willing to provoke them."

"Then let's go!"

Seeing Cheng Shi make the decision, the group quickly killed their way back to the Tribunal.

The route back was still that familiar road. Zhang Jizu walked in the front, leading everyone to walk along the walls all the way, avoiding all the church personnel still running on the road. This skilled posture made Cheng Shi admire him endlessly.

"Old Zhang, your sense of direction is not bad."

"Walking the old road often makes the heart familiar."

"..."

It's over, he let him show off.

Cheng Shi curled his lips in disdain and didn't continue the conversation.

Not long after, everyone climbed over the high wall again and hid on the second floor of the burned-down Tribunal. Looking at the pools of Uma scorched ash in front of him, Cheng Shi frowned and asked:

"So these Uma people, how exactly do they atone for their sins?"

Tulading didn't know what she was muttering to these ashes with her head bowed. She raised her head and said with great emotion:

"Remember the history I just mentioned? In the cognition of ancient tribes, the fetus is the existence closest to Him, so this group of people turning back into fetuses is to win the sympathy of 【Birth】 and let Him watch over them again.

Things like umbilical blood shackles cannot be unlocked by oneself once put on; they can only be liberated by external intervention.

And this kind of deliverance helped by others, in the eyes of Uma sinners, is His forgiveness for the Uma people!

When an infant who is at the mercy of others and has no power to resist is saved by an outsider, it means that this Uma sinner has washed away their own sins and become a free soul with no more shame or oppression.

But the predatory nature engraved in the bones of the Uma people is not so easy to discard, so after they are reborn, the first thing they often do is find a 'container' with suitable physical conditions and use that Inheritance Technique that blasphemes 【Birth】 on her one more time.

In their crazy cognition, the sin of this inheritance should be borne by the newborn child. When the newborn grows up, they will pick up that unlocked umbilical blood shackle and turn themselves back into a fetus, waiting for His forgiveness, and continuing the next reincarnation.

Only in this way can the Uma people barely continue to exist today when they are disliked by people and dogs, and avoided by the world.

But the poor person who is forced to become the container for the Uma people's pregnancy won't think so. She will only live in the fear of blasphemy, slowly being tortured to madness by her own fear, and even dying helplessly.

That's why I advised you not to provoke this group of lunatics.

But now... we probably won't encounter this kind of risk anymore."

For some reason, after hearing this "atonement story" of the Uma sinners, Cheng Shi always felt something was wrong. He frowned and pondered for a moment before asking:

"I remember the God-Colonization Technique of the Uda rioters can make the next generation consider themselves Uda bloodline. Does the Inheritance Technique have a similar effect?

Will the newborn fetus retain the previous memories of the caster?"

"No, the newborn will only inherit the excellent bloodline and physique of the previous generation, but still needs someone to raise them and teach them to recognize and understand this world."

"So that's how it is." Cheng Shi nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly asked Gou Feng, "You... as His follower, you know this, right?"

Gou Feng nodded with a pale face, his body seemingly still enduring great pain.

"That's right, I saw these rumors in the old objects of the Life Era, so I used this method to escape a disaster."

Cheng Shi nodded without asking more, then turned to look at Squinty Eyes: "You guys rest. I'll keep watch tonight. After we survive the night's search, I'll go find Lisfeier with Tian Xie tomorrow morning."

Everyone nodded and cleared a space in the ruins to rest. Zhang Jizu squinted his eyes and cast a calming spell of clearing the heart and soothing the soul on everyone.

"You go rest too, I'll keep watch." Zhang Jizu walked to Cheng Shi's side and said in a low voice.

Cheng Shi tilted his head and smiled when he heard this: "How come this sounds so skilled? You worked the night shift in the cemetery every day in the past?"

"Yeah, my colleagues don't like working the night shift, but I don't reject it, so they always arrange me at night when they make the schedule."

Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows in surprise: "They are squeezing you out. You are so smart, you can't not see it, right?"

Zhang Jizu squinted and smiled: "So what if I see it? I can't just resign. But the night shift has the benefits of the night shift. At least compared to the cold daytime, the cemetery is livelier at night."

"..."

Lively?

You'd better hope this liveliness is the liveliness of the living world.

"So this is why you chose 【Death】? You like that pile of chattering little skulls?"

Hearing Cheng Shi's mockery, Zhang Jizu shook his head with a smile:

"Before I stepped on the path of 【Death】, I didn't know they were so noisy, but it's quite good. At least a world with only skulls is much simpler than the human heart in reality."

Cheng Shi looked at Squinty Eyes in surprise and asked with great interest: "Can I ask how your colleagues are doing now?"

"They...?" Zhang Jizu's eyes suddenly narrowed into slits, and he said with great emotion, "They probably all went to serve that Lord."

Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows and smiled knowingly.

He could tell that the "serving" in Squinty Eyes' mouth wasn't walking on the path of 【Death】 like him, but like those chattering little skulls, padded under the bone staircase leading to the bone throne.

Sure enough, the one who lives to the end is the biggest winner; this saying holds true both before and after the game's descent.

As for how to live to the end...

Some choose to kill all their opponents, while others choose to hide and survive.

Squinty-eyes might be the latter, but that doesn't mean he can't be the former.

This gravedigger is truly interesting.

"Oh right, one more thing: why didn't you cast a healing spell on our Chieftain teammate? I see his complexion is looking a bit rough."

The voice was very soft, so soft that if Zhang Jizu didn't have keen hearing, he wouldn't have heard what Cheng Shi said at all.

He glanced thoughtfully at the Chieftain, who had walked to a corner to rest alone, and whispered back:

"He refused. He said he needs to use the pain to keep his nerves taut and stay alert at all times."

"You believe that?" Cheng Shi asked, stunned.

"I don't, but since he refused, why should I heal him?"

"..." Reasonable, too reasonable.

Let go of the healer complex, respect the teammate's fate.

Cheng Shi smacked his lips, looked toward Gou Feng's direction again, and said nothing more.