Chapter 439

Priest Priest Ao Gu Si found the location of the grave through the gravedigger's records. And while the two were searching in the cemetery, the occasionally startled snakes and the mice hiding in the ground became the only things that would bring them surprises.

Because the cemetery was not big, the two soon found the target.

That was a small, inconspicuous grave near the cemetery fence on the west side of the stone building that served both as a "church" and an "entrance to the underground tomb." The tombstone embedded slightly above the ground said that the person buried here was named Muhier Li Nemu, and this poor guy died half a month ago.

Besides this information, there was nothing on the tombstone: no date of birth, no cause of death, and no life evaluation left by the person who paid to bury him. But considering that this was just a small cemetery in the countryside, this situation was understandable.

After all, being able to have a regular cemetery that was not disturbed after death could be considered a treatment that many poor people couldn't imagine.

"This is it, Xia De, quick, dig it open with me."

Priest Priest Ao Gu Si spat twice into his palms and then rubbed his hands to prepare for work.

"Priest, do you have a grudge against this gentleman?"

Xia De asked hesitantly.

"Of course not. I have done good deeds all my life. Even if there are some acquaintances with whom the relationship is not friendly, I wouldn't go to move their graves."

The priest replied and greeted Xia De not to waste time; the ritual must be set up before two o'clock in the morning.

"Then you are..."

"Oh, you are puzzled by this."

The priest laughed while shoveling soil, and Xia De put the cat on the fence and also prepared to work. He originally wanted to warn this cat not to touch those mice that definitely had infectious diseases, but looking at Mia squatting on the wooden stake of the fence, squinting her eyes and looking up to bathe in the moonlight, she probably wouldn't go to chase mice with effort.

After all, the city cat Little Mia didn't look like the kind of cat that was good at catching mice no matter how you looked at it.

"A few days ago, I met a believer who came to the church from the countryside to repent. The other party was a farm woman from a nearby village who repented in the prayer room through a small window that she hadn't handled her husband's funeral well."

"Isn't this a very good cemetery?"

Xia De took off his coat, and he and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si dug from left to right, with the shovels piling the mud under the fence.

"She and this deceased gentleman were outsiders and had no acquaintances in the village to help hold the funeral. So, the farm woman entrusted a person who happened to be staying in the village and claimed to be a scholar to help handle the funeral. Originally everything went smoothly, but after the funeral, the farm woman always dreamed of her husband, and the dead man claimed in the dream that his soul was suffering torture."

The priest was struggling to lift the soil from the grave, and when telling the story, his words were also intermittent:

"The scholar who took the money to help hold the funeral has already entered the city, and the farm woman suspected that the scholar desecrated the corpse, so she specifically went to the church to pray for the god to forgive her for her negligence of the funeral. That woman never thought of digging up the corpse to see the situation."

Looking at it this way, there was indeed something tricky about this matter.

"Then why didn't you let the church handle this matter?"

"This is not a matter in the city, and there is no clear evidence to prove that this matter has anything to do with Ring Warlocks. Even if the church accepts the case, it will take several weeks to send people to check this matter. After all, there are many truly important things in the city."

The priest explained, and Xia De also understood what he said. Like the three commission tasks Yiluna gave him last week, they were things that were backlogged at the Black Stone Security Company and were not taken seriously.

The results also proved that although those things sounded tricky, there was indeed no necessity to handle them urgently.

"Then how did you determine that there was a problem with this matter? If you had to check it yourself every time you encountered similar things, I think there would be too many things to handle."

The priest nodded, panting heavily, and looked up at Xia De:

"From this angle, why has your skin become so good? What have you encountered recently... Oh, I probably haven't mentioned to you that I have a strange ability. When a person repents, I can vaguely distinguish whether he is lying. This vague feeling allows me to easily distinguish what those believers want to express. This is not an easy thing. When I listen to people's repentance, I have seen countless dark stories."

Xia De was very glad that when he prayed to the priest in the distance for the sake of reporting Dakenisi in Coldwater Harbor on the grounds of "falling in love with multiple girls," that priest in the distance didn't have this ability of Priest August.

"However, is this the special ability of Priest Priest Ao Gu Si's 'other me'?"

Dong~

The shovel in Xia De's hand hit something. Because it was hollow inside, the dull sound was completely different from the sound of hitting a stone while digging soil.

"Wait."

The priest immediately knelt on one knee and pushed away the floating soil, and sure enough, he saw the wooden coffin lid that hadn't rotted yet:

"Found it!"

The priest was very happy. This old man came out so late and even invited Xia De in the name of the Angel Potion, just to confirm the things inside the coffin, not for reward.

From this aspect, although Priest Priest Ao Gu Si always thought that human hearts were dark, he was probably one of the people with the most noble character that Xia De knew.

The corpse was not cremated. After lifting the coffin lid, the choking smell made both Xia De and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si couldn't help but frown. After experiencing the summer, the corpse buried deep underground was severely rotted, and the insects nourished by the corpse were even surging in large patches under the moonlight.

Xia De endured the nausea and looked up at Little Mia. The very timid cat also saw this scene, but it didn't seem to be afraid at all. Probably in the cat's view, this was just something very ugly.

"Priest, don't tell me we are going to move this corpse out... Did you bring gloves? I want to wear three layers."

Xia De asked with a frown, and the old priest also endured the nausea, covered his nose, and replied muffledly:

"Rest assured, if we are lucky, we don't have to touch the corpse at all. I want to set up a ritual to appease the corpse so that the soul can be liberated. Before I set up the ritual, detective, use your moonlight to help illuminate and see if there is anything abnormal about the corpse."

While speaking, Priest Priest Ao Gu Si also lifted the horse lamp borrowed from the gravedigger and illuminated the disgusting scene above the grave. The moonlight at Xia De's fingertips also lit up, and the silver light shone on the corpse, and there was actually faint black mist rising upwards. This at least meant that there was something evil on this corpse.

"Look at this!"

Priest Priest Ao Gu Si pointed to the hands held together in front of the corpse's chest. The rotted hands could almost see the bones, and the flesh inside the skin seemed to have been drilled empty by insects. And in the hands, there was actually a black dagger.

No matter in which region of the Delarion Kingdom, there would be no custom of letting the buried person hold a dagger.

"Not a relic, didn't feel the trace of elements."

Xia De said muffledly while covering his nose.

"That's good news, watch me get it out."

The priest wisely didn't reach out, but used the curse 【Move Object】 to carefully move the dagger out of the corpse's hands.

Just, when the black metal dagger had just completely left the corpse's hands, the hands actually grabbed upwards, grabbed the dagger back into the hands, and then returned to the original position.

The cemetery was silent for a while, and Xia De and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si looked at each other in surprise.

"Detective, I shouldn't have been dazzled just now, right?"

The priest asked in surprise.

"I saw it too."

Xia De said, thought for a moment and asked:

"Priest, if you don't mind desecrating the corpse, then I will cut off the corpse's hands."

He thought the priest would disagree, but he didn't expect him to nod after thinking about it:

"Okay, we'll sew it back up in a while."

Xia De sincerely hoped that "we" meant the priest and the cat, not the priest and the detective.

He didn't summon the Moonlight Greatsword. This sword was too sharp and would pierce the corpse if he was not careful. Xia De took two Luo De Pai from his arms and flicked them gently. The sharp cards flew towards the wrists of the rotted corpse.

Xiu!

The cards cut through the relatively cold air in the second half of the night, but the next second, they were pierced from the center by the sharp dagger.

"Oh, I knew it wouldn't be that easy!"

Xia De and Priest Priest Ao Gu Si retreated at the same time, while the cat waiting on the fence nimbly jumped onto the big tree beside the grave and opened its eyes wide to look down. In the dark night, the cat's eyes seemed to be glowing.

And the corpse, holding the dagger, sat up from the grave.

"Priest, was this also in your expectation?"

Xia De asked, preparing to fight. But after the corpse crawled out of the grave, it actually rushed towards Priest Priest Ao Gu Si.

The old priest dodged in a sorry state and then kicked over. His intention was to kick the corpse down, but he didn't expect to pierce the fragile corpse's abdomen with one kick.

Rotted flesh, insects, and pus flowed out from the corpse, and it silently raised the dagger and stabbed at Priest Priest Ao Gu Si's head.

The old man pointed with his hand and said the ancient curse word representing the power of elements at a fast speed:

"Wind!"

The invisible wind was like a silk ribbon, entangling the corpse's hands. Then Xia De, who ran from behind the corpse, held the sword with both hands, made a big jump, and from top to bottom, neatly split the corpse into two sections.

The black dagger fell from its hands and then stabbed into the ground. The land that was originally growing green grass immediately began to turn black and stink with the dagger as the center.

Priest Priest Ao Gu Si didn't care about the dagger and hurriedly took out a bottle of brown liquid that Xia De was very familiar with from his pocket. After throwing it onto the corpse, the old hand pointed again:

"Fire!"

The raging flames immediately ignited on the corpse.

That bottle of liquid was the potent fire oil that Xia De used once when he and the doctor shot people, set fires, and scattered banknotes.

"Priest, does this count as desecrating the corpse?"

Xia De was surprised by the priest's skilled movements.

"This is an undead, not a corpse. Detective, such basic common sense mistakes cannot be made."

The old priest said, and then in Xia De's even more surprised expression, he squatted down and directly pulled up the black dagger.

The dagger that corroded the land immediately produced a more terrifying effect on the priest's right hand. The arm, which was already somewhat thin and dry due to the aging of the body, immediately shrank and turned black and dry.