Who hid my body?

"I say, how can that be the only standard?" Tim tapped the table lightly and said, "There are indeed not many 'God's Favored Templates', but there are a few every ten years. But there is only one position for the bishop, and the person who can become the bishop must have the mind, talent, and..."

"God's Favored One Template?" Uru caught an unfamiliar word, "What does this mean?"

Tim, who was interrupted, looked at Ulu in surprise: "Don't you know?"

Before Uru could react, Tim slapped the back of his head belatedly.

"I almost forgot that you are not a priest in Som City." He paused, "Theoretically, the concept of 'God's Favored Template' cannot be known to clergy outside the cathedral, but... this rule has long been in name only, so it doesn't hurt to tell you."

Wulu grabbed his knees tightly and tried to remain calm: "I really don't know, please."

"Yeah." Tim took out a copy of The Rhine Covenant and opened it to the first page. "This isn't a complicated matter. You know the Believers of the Origin, right? Oh, you definitely know."

Uru looked at "The Rhine Covenant", which he had watched countless times, but suddenly felt a little unfamiliar.

"The Origin Believers are what my Lord Rhine believes to be the most perfect template for humans." Tim's finger slid across the paintings of the four Origin Believers. "That's why they are deeply loved by my Lord Rhine and have obtained my Lord's power. While obtaining my Lord's power, they also obtained my Lord's..."

"Pollution." Ulu spoke softly, uttering the word that he thought was "blasphemy" a few minutes ago.

Fortunately, Tim didn't hear it.

"This is what we call purification. The four origin believers received the first purification in human history. Because the power of our Lord in their bodies is the largest and purest, they are very similar to our Lord in all aspects, such as will, vision, and even the aesthetics of the world. Afterwards, these four origin believers also passed on these and their power." Tim opened the "Annals of the Western Cathedral" again. "Every archbishop has received such inheritance. Of course, it is not just the bishops. With the spread of the Rhine Religion, the power and will of our Lord, as well as the aesthetics that transcend the mundane world..."

Tim became more and more excited as he spoke, a far cry from the old man who had seen through the impermanence of the world.

On the contrary, Uru stared at Tim blankly and suddenly asked, "Do the clergy who received this glory know it themselves?"

Tim stopped and looked at Ulu with a frown: "What do you mean?"

"I say, do the people who are changed have any choice?"

"I don't understand what you mean." Tim seemed a little angry. "The glory of the Lord moistens everything silently. Even the lowest-ranking priests can be purified unconsciously. Isn't this the gift of the Lord? Why do you still care about such a strange question?"

Ulu could no longer make any expression. He stared at Tim in a daze. He only felt the man's mouth moving and making annoying sounds, but he couldn't hear what he was saying. This made him feel unprecedentedly tired.

This exhaustion made him want to leave this place immediately, so he stood up as if he had lost his soul, ignoring Tim who was still chattering, and staggered to the door. Then, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the curtain out of the corner of his eye and his body stopped.

The next second, he suddenly felt extra strength coming out of his body from nowhere, allowing him to stride to the curtain. He ignored Tim's loud shouts and directly pulled the curtain open.

The two young priests lay unconscious on the bed.

Ulu slowly turned his head and looked at Tim blankly.

Tim suddenly looked a little embarrassed. He shrugged and said, "Well, you found me after all. As usual, one for each of us. I have been eyeing these two kids for a long time. It's really a bargain for you."

Ulu stared at Tim blankly, his vision gradually blurred, and then Tim's face changed little by little and turned into Luigi.

...Luggie?

Ah, why.

The dead are still talking.

Tim did not notice Uru's change. He was still muttering: "Really, those good juniors have been..."

"Pfft".

A pair of rusty scissors stabbed into Tim's lower abdomen when he was completely unprepared.

He widened his eyes and looked at Uru rushing towards him in disbelief.

"Why are you……"

"Pfft!"

Then the second knife, and the third knife.

Ulu did not stop, as if he had returned to the night when he killed Luji, as if he wanted to tear everything apart.

Tim tried his best, but he could only barely utter one sentence: "Why? Aren't we... the same kind of people?"

“Did you give me a choice?! Did you give me a choice?!” He put down the blood-stained scissors, pinched Tim’s neck hard, and screamed at Tim in despair, “I could have chosen not to be such a person! I could have chosen not to be such a person ah ah ah ah ah ah!”

"Why?!"

"Why?!"

Tim had no way to answer him, he seemed to be back to that failed night ten years ago.

After shouting at the top of your lungs, you will never get an answer.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 52: The Rhine Covenant

Hurry stood outside the lounge, looking at Tim who was dying with his eyes open not far away, and the blood that covered the entire lounge. His brows were tightly furrowed, and he immediately retracted the foot that had already stepped into the room.

"What happened?" He Li turned around and asked the knight who was maintaining order at the scene, "How did it become like this? Who did it?"

"Report to the High Priest," the knight reported, "We are still unable to identify the murderer, because he had already..." before we arrived.

The knight raised his hand and pointed to the only window in the lounge.

"He jumped from there. The corridor outside the window faces the street, so he was able to escape quickly. Apart from a blood-stained priest's uniform, we haven't found any other clues for now."

Heri's eyes widened immediately: "Bloodstained priest uniform? Is this a fucking inside job?"

"According to reports from a few eyewitnesses, there was indeed a priest who interacted with Father Tim," the knight said, "but his identity has not yet been investigated."

"How did this guy in there die?"

"Father Tim lost too much blood. He had eighteen sharp wounds in his abdomen."

...Being stabbed eighteen times?

Harry didn't want to talk anymore.

Isn’t this way of killing too LOW?

The two priests fought, using neither magic nor divine arts, they just stabbed the person to death with knives... Although low-level priests could not use magic in battle skillfully, such battles, or murders, still made He Li feel that they were too low-level, and he did not want to get involved.

In fact, there was no need for him to intervene in a murder case of this level, but he was the person in charge of this library, and the dead priest was nominally his subordinate, so he came to take a look.

After watching it, I realized that there was really nothing interesting to see, so I waved my hand and prepared to leave.

But at this time, a knight brought two young priests to him and said, "High Priest, these two guys have been at the crime scene the whole time."

Heli stopped and asked, "What?"

"They both had been sleeping at the crime scene and only woke up when we arrived," the knight said. "According to what they said, they lost consciousness after drinking the tea prepared by Father Tim. We also detected hallucinogens in the tea just now."

LSD, sleep, and teenage priests.

Putting these key words together, Hurry could guess what happened without even looking.

The uneasy expressions on the faces of the two young priests and their disheveled clothes directly proved this point... However, they were indeed two low-class guys who could afford to kill such a bastard.

"So you two are the source?" He Li said calmly, "Are you anxious because the spoils are not evenly divided?"

The two young priests exchanged blank glances, not understanding what Harry was saying.

But Hu Li was too lazy to explain. There was no need to delve into such an obvious matter, so he just left it to his subordinates.

"and many more."

A steady voice sounded behind Hurry. Hurry was slightly startled, then turned around suddenly and saw Archbishop Corey appeared behind him at some point.

"Bishop Corey?" Hurry was very surprised, "Why are you here?"

"I heard something happened here." Corey walked over slowly, "A priest was brutally murdered, and...he suffered a severe blow to the abdomen with a sharp weapon."

"Yes." Heri nodded. "He was stabbed 18 times. The murderer was very cruel."

Although he said so, He Li was still very confused in his heart. A murder case of this level should not alarm the bishop.

But Corey just said calmly: "Kelsey once told me that Father Luggie died in the same way."

...Luggie?

After a moment of hesitation, Heri remembered who this name belonged to, and guessed what Kelsey meant. His face changed drastically: "You mean, it was Uru who did it? He came here? But how is this possible? Why would he come here specifically to kill a librarian?"

In the face of Hurry's barrage of questions, Corey simply said, "Don't worry, we will figure it out."

In fact, Corey came here not only because Tim's death was very similar to Luke's, but also because...

Corey gently touched his left eye. He could feel the restlessness beneath the calm surface of the left eye.

It wants to bite again.

"Hurry, you!" Heri, who had come to his senses, immediately ordered the knight, "Find the portrait of Father Uru of Petain in the archives of the cathedral, and send it here immediately!"

The knight was about to agree, but was interrupted by Corey: "Don't bother."

Hurry was stunned again. He watched Corey walk up to the two young priests and gently stroke their faces.

"Haven't these two children seen them?"

Heli immediately understood what Corey wanted to do and subconsciously raised his hand: "Bishop! Let the knight go back and get the portrait now. It won't cost much..."

"Look at my left eye." Corey smiled at the two young priests, "Then recall the appearance of that priest... Don't be nervous, relax, we will take it slowly."

The two young priests were a little nervous at first, after all, they were facing the archbishop, but they gradually recovered after Corey's comfort. With trust in the bishop, they looked at Corey's left eye together.

Those eyes are like stars, making people unable to help but sink into them.

...It's too late.

He Li put down his hand with a complicated expression.

About half a minute later, Corey slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he understood everything.

The murderer's appearance had already been reflected in his eyes from the minds of the two young priests.

It was Uru.

"I didn't expect it." Corey said softly, "It's really you... You really dare to come back."

Then he paused, and a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Alright." He murmured, "I'll take that finger."

After saying that, Corey turned and left without looking at the two young priests again. The two young priests just stood there blankly, all the emotions in their pupils had disappeared, leaving only... dullness.

It's like turning from a person into a doll.

Heli walked up to the two of them, shook his head helplessly, and then instructed his knights: "Take them both to the choir, and assign them a physical job that doesn't require any brains."

"Yes! High Priest!" The knight stepped forward immediately, "Come with us."

The two young priests stood there blankly, as if they didn't understand what they were saying.

The knights could only pull them away.

Harry shook his head and was about to leave, but then he heard a "puff" sound.

He turned around and saw a package fell out of the arms of the two young priests. It was obviously something they had been holding in their arms before, but now they could no longer hold it.

Hurry walked over, picked up the package and opened it.

There were two books in there that had been read to pieces.

The Rhine Covenant.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 53 Fifty-three And I want your life

Corey came to the top rooftop of the library.

The West Library is the second tallest building in the city of Somme, second only to the West Cathedral. Standing here, you can see half of the city of Somme.

Corey himself also likes to stand on high places and look into the distance, just like the Rhine statue standing at the highest point in the city of Somme. He feels that he is in control of the world and that he is the Rhine.

Especially after getting this special eye, Corey can see even farther.

The whole world is in his eyes.

But now, he obviously didn't come here to climb up and see the distance.

After dismissing everyone around him, Corey stood alone on the top floor, feeling the wind blowing from afar, and squinted his eyes slightly.

"I don't know why you dare to come back..." Corey murmured softly, "but now that you are here, don't leave."

Then, he slowly closed his left eye, and at the same time recalled the scene he had just retrieved from the memories of the two young priests. Ulu's face gradually enlarged in his mind, and a powerful force surged around him.