Who hid my body?

Clerk No. 13 nodded slightly: "Then I wish you a happy life."

Then he returned to his previous dazed look.

But Gerard obviously couldn't look at her the same way he did at the beginning. He stood up, walked to the gear ladder, and then subconsciously looked back.

Most of the clerks were in a dazed state of standby, looking nothing special, but the smile he had just seen reappeared in Jellal's mind.

He took a deep breath, turned and went downstairs.

But what Gerard didn't know was that someone on the sixth floor saw everything. After Gerard left the fifth floor, this person quickly left, walked through a corridor, and knocked on the door of a room.

A young male voice sounded from inside the door: "Come in."

He pushed the door open and saw an equally young figure sitting in front of the window, overlooking half of Lyra City from the sixth floor of the Tower of Babel.

"Here he comes again?" the young voice asked.

"Yes," the man replied, "It's the same as before, looking for the whereabouts of Clerk No. 44."

"Oh, he's really persistent... Did he find any clues?"

"Of course not. There's no reason why he could find it, and..."

"Ok?"

"His health doesn't seem to be very good," the man replied. "Our efforts over the years have paid off."

The young man smiled and said, "Really? It seems that even the most useful tools will eventually become obsolete."

"But we still let him live ten more years."

"He is a knight of the Evening Star. How could he die so easily?" The young man said with a smile, "But he did struggle in the prison we built for him for ten years. Now is the last moment. Hmm..."

The young man tapped his fingers on his head, as if he was thinking about something. The other person did not dare to urge him and just waited quietly by the side.

Finally, the young man spoke again: "We can't let our guard down. We still need to send someone to follow him in case he finds out something at the last moment. Until the last moment comes..."

Another person was a little surprised: "Is it really necessary to take him so seriously?"

"As I said before," the young man said softly, "he is a knight of the Evening Star."

……

"What...is that?" After returning to the first floor, Gerard immediately asked Bai Wei.

"Dismemberment, what else could it be?" Bai Wei said calmly, "I have quite a bit of experience in this area."

"That's not what I'm talking about!"

"Shouldn't you have the answer yourself?" Bai Wei chuckled and said, "Why can't you find No. 44? Why did No. 44 disappear but the total computing power didn't change? The reason is right there. No. 44 is still there and has been integrated into the body of every clerk."

Bai Wei's words made Gerard's body tremble. When he thought about the person he once knew well and now ended up like this, he couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Why, why would someone do this, what on earth do they want to do?!"

"The truth is so cruel." Feeling Gerard's slightly trembling body, Bai Wei said lightly, "And you have only just revealed a corner of it. So, do you want to continue?"

"……certainly."

"So where are you going to start?"

Where to start...

Gerald began to think.

In Lyra, the only ones who could do such a thing to the clerk should be the five archbishops, but the five archbishops have hardly shown up for more than ten years, and few people know their true situation. It is also impossible for Gerard to find them in a short time and ask them one by one.

So apart from the bishop, is there anyone else who can directly influence the clerks?

Gerard paced back and forth on the first floor.

Then, he thought of something, slowly raised his head, and murmured, "Maintenance worker."

"Ok?"

"Maintenance personnel, they are maintenance personnel. No matter who wants to touch the clerk, they need to go through the maintenance personnel!" Gerard gradually became excited. "The maintenance personnel who were responsible for maintaining the clerk ten years ago must know!"

"Really?" Bai Wei said with a smile, "Doesn't that mean we have a clue?"

"Yes, I have a clue." Gerard wanted to immediately find the maintenance workers from ten years ago, but he froze as soon as he raised his foot. "No... No."

He thought of something.

"The information of the maintainers...has always been kept strictly confidential."

Bai Wei asked, "Even you can't get it?"

"It's not that it can't be obtained. It's in the archives. Anyone can get it." Gerard said, "But it's not allowed. This is an iron rule. I can't violate it."

Bai Wei raised his eyebrows.

The most important thing for Tianqin and his gang is rules. No matter who they are, they must follow the rules. Even the Skeleton Squad who want Jellal to die have to follow the rules.

Rules are the most important thing for Lyra believers.

Even though Gerard had been tortured for more than ten years, he was still unwilling to cross this red line.

"Even if the truth is right in front of you, are you unwilling to take another step forward?" Bai Wei asked.

"No." Gerald gritted his teeth and rejected Bai Wei again, "The rules cannot be broken."

You really have principles.

but……

Bai Wei was not in a hurry, but looked to the side. If he remembered correctly, there should be a person here who could change Gerard's decision.

Sure enough, not long after, a woman suddenly appeared next to Gerard.

After seeing Jellal's back, she said softly: "Jellal?"

Hearing the voice, Jellal's body stiffened slightly. He slowly turned his head and looked at the woman who suddenly appeared.

"It's you..." The woman approached Gerard little by little, looking dazed, "When I heard them say you were here, I couldn't believe it. We haven't seen each other for so many years..."

Jellal looked at the woman with a complicated look in his eyes: "Sanna..."

"It's been five or six years since we last met, I think. I can't remember the exact time." The woman had already walked in front of Jellal, her voice becoming lighter and lighter. "I'm finally seeing you... I really want to see you in my dreams, Jellal. But you never show up..."

"Shana..."

"I've been waiting for this day." The woman leaned forward, "Really, I've been waiting for a long time..."

Gerard did not move, and Bai Wei was also watching quietly.

"Pfft" sound.

He slowly lowered his head and looked at the dagger that was stabbed into his waist.

“Ah, I finally did it, I finally did it.” The woman who was very gentle just now immediately became excited. She pulled out the dagger and stabbed it again. “You finally showed up, Gerard… I’ve been looking for you for ten years, why do you dare to show up again!”

She became hysterical.

"Do you still remember my husband?! My husband Herme! You called him brother! You brought him into that polluted land! Then why didn't you bring him back!"

The woman's actions finally attracted the attention of the Skeleton Army, and two members rushed over immediately.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

"Warning! Warning! The rebel's widow is hurting people, the rebel's widow is hurting people!"

Hearing this name, the woman's expression became even more miserable, and she continued to roar and attack Jellal.

"Did you see that?! Did you see that?! You didn't bring my husband back, and you made him a rebel! He will have to die with this shameful name!"

She was hysterical.

"Why?! Why did it have to be you? Why did you, the culprit, survive until now?!"

"Why don't you want to die? Why don't you want to die?!"

Soon, the woman was subdued by members of the Skeleton Corps.

She collapsed and cried wildly, while the members of the Skeleton Army had a cold conversation.

"You are a criminal and have violated the rules. Ma'am, I'm afraid you will have to add another ten years to your sentence."

“Hahaha…” The woman cried and laughed, “I have nothing left! I have nothing left, why should I care about these? I just want to kill him, you guys let me kill him!”

The woman was quickly dragged away, leaving Gerard standing there in silence.

When being attacked by the woman, he never took a single step back, and now his entire abdomen was bleeding.

At this time, Bai Wei slowly said, "Do you want to treat the wound?"

Gerard was silent for a long time.

Then he turned around and walked towards the archives room.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 78 Times Have Changed

Gerard pushed open the door of the archive room, and the dust on the door fell down, as if indicating that no one had set foot here for a long time.

Behind the door was a hanging crystal. Gerard looked up at the crystal and then walked under it. The crystal just flashed slightly and did not make any further noise.

Gerard walked between rows of bookshelves. The archive room was so quiet that only the sound of his own footsteps could be heard.

"Seeing you were so hesitant just now, I thought this place would be a very difficult place to enter." Bai Wei's voice rang in Gerard's mind, "After all this time, there's not even a supervisor here?"

"The crystal just now is already a supervision." Gerald said in a deep voice, "Only the believers of my Lord can enter here. For those who betray my Lord Tianqin in their hearts, the crystal will sound an alarm immediately."

"There is actually such a thing?" Bai Wei asked with interest, "But doesn't it sound a little too unreliable? How did you verify that the crystal really has the ability to verify faith?"

"No need to verify. From the time it was made until now, it has never..." Gerard subconsciously wanted to say "never made a mistake", but the words stopped at his lips. After hesitating for a moment, he changed it to "very rarely made a mistake."

But Bai Wei caught this pause and said with a smile: "It's not that there have never been any mistakes, but there have been very few mistakes. Let me think... the person who made the mistake was you, right? Ten years ago, you caused such a terrible "Xiaoxing" incident, but Tianqin didn't directly execute you. I think... it should be that in their certification, you did not betray Tianqin, right?"

Gerard didn't say anything, but Bai Wei knew from his expression that he was right.

Bai Wei didn't know as much about Jellal as Uru did. After all, Uru was a character that the player had interacted with, but Jellal died before they interacted with him. He died in front of Cory before the player fought against him in the game. After that, the player's understanding of him was only from the fragmentary analysis of the "Evening Star" incident in the Lyra map.

But Bai Wei still chose him as the next host because he is the only broken "gear" in the current Tianqin.

Tianqin is different from Rhine, it is a very special sect. Just like the feeling of the city of Tianqin, it is like a large, sophisticated machine.

Everyone in this city is like a gear in this running machine, and each gear is doing its job by default. As long as there is no problem with the machine, it is assumed that each gear is still running normally in its position.

Until the Vesperia incident ten years ago.

There was no doubt that this was a huge problem for the machine, so they took out the problematic part and checked it carefully, but found that... there was no problem with the gear.

So, what is the problem?

Jellal stopped in front of a small room.

He had already roughly looked through the files outside the archive room, but did not find what he was looking for. It was normal to think about it, as the external archive room itself was semi-public and anyone with permission could access it.

There is no doubt that the files in this small room are not open to the public and are not allowed to be viewed.

Jellal reached out and turned the doorknob.

With a "click", the door opened.

There isn't even a basic lock, which gives people the feeling that it is only for guarding against good guys but not against bad guys.

Gerard walked in.

The area of ​​this small room was only one-tenth of the outside and there was not much information, so Gerard didn't spend too much time to find what he wanted.

"Maintainer information from 230 to 240 (confidential)".

Gerard stared at the file for a while before reaching out his hand, but stopped above the file.

If you stop now, there is still a chance to turn back.

But if you open it, it would be a complete violation.

The Lyrans' violation was equal to betrayal. Even ten years ago, Gerard did not think that he had betrayed the Lyrans. But now, in order to prove that he had not betrayed them, did he have to actually betray them first?

Then Bai Wei's voice rang in his mind: "It's okay, you are still young, you can wait another ten years."

Gerard narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn't think that Bai Wei's ridicule could affect him.

But even so, he took a deep breath and reached for the file.