noffsinger Chapter 351 The White Bone Angel
Chapter 351 The White Bone Angel
He seemed unwilling to discuss this topic further and quickly changed the subject, "When will you be able to complete your third task?"
"The Holy Embryo has already arrived at the Church of Angels."
“I guess the embryo might be a bit larger,” Yan Xun said.
He had obtained enough information from Vincent, and he showed some concern about "your classmates..."
"them?"
“They’re fine,” Vincent said. “You know, they’ll just have a headache for a while.”
"Because of the punishment for sudden death."
Vincent looked at Yan Xun with a hint of suspicion, "You didn't know these things?"
He began to doubt the veracity of Yan Xun's previous words.
Yan Xun, seemingly oblivious to Vincent's suspicion, said enviously, "That's wonderful."
"Really good?" Vincent didn't understand what was so good about dying inside a dungeon.
“If I die in a dungeon, I will really die,” Yan Xun told Vincent, making a throat-slitting gesture. “Some people I know died in dungeons and never came back.”
Vincent's eyes widened slightly. "Are you serious?"
“Of course.” Yan Xun pondered. “Could this be why my task is simpler?”
Now Wensen no longer envied Yan Xun's task being so simple... He even suspected that Yan Xun had entered some pirated game, otherwise how could he have encountered such an unreasonable punishment?
Having obtained enough clues, Yan Xun made an excuse and left the room.
When Yan Xun was found again, the angel was lying on the table, carefully writing special characters. Upon seeing Yan Xun return, the angel immediately put down the paper and pen, and came to Yan Xun's side with the letter in his hand.
He handed the letter in his hand to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun recognized the text at a glance... it was the kind that circulated within the Angel Guild.
He looked at the angel with an innocent face, who seemed to be hoping for his praise, and suddenly felt a trace of malice from the world.
"...Do you remember the past?" Yan Xun asked.
The angel looked at Yan Xun, "Go?"
"Things from before your reincarnation," Yan Xun said.
The angel pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head.
“But you recognize these characters,” Yan Xun said.
“This is something that was always in my head,” the angel said to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun bit his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood... The blood droplet hung on his fingertip, looking like it was about to fall to the ground. The angel was a little anxious and opened his mouth wide, indicating that Yan Xun should feed it to him.
“You’ve already eaten,” Yan Xun said.
The angel shook his head, but simply tugged at Yan Xun's sleeve, making him feed him the blood beads.
Yan Xun looked at the angel standing in front of him, and finally, before the blood droplet fell to the ground, he handed his finger to the angel.
The angel immediately grabbed Yan Xun's fingers... His lapis lazuli eyes peered into the emotions buried deep in Yan Xun's heart, and then he carefully used his tongue to wipe away the drop of blood.
Seeing that Yan Xun didn't seem angry or reprimand him, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then, he furtively squeezed Yan Xun's fingertips a few more times, trying to see if he could squeeze out more blood.
Yan Xun flicked the angel's forehead with his other hand, "Don't go too far."
Knowing he was in the wrong, the angel could only reluctantly put Yan Xun's finger down, as if Yan Xun were the big bad guy who had stolen his lollipop.
Yan Xun glanced at the drool on his fingertip, then wiped it on the angel's clothes. "Why can't you remember things from before?"
“You clearly still recognize these characters,” Yan Xun said.
The angel frowned, pondered for a while, and said, "Perhaps it's because I'm injured."
After he grew another wing, he spoke much more fluently than before, "Aren't you angry with me?"
"What's it to blame you for?" Yan Xun asked.
“I ate those…people in white robes,” the angel said.
He still remembered that when he was just born, Yan Xun showed great disgust at his desire to eat Ai Li's corpse.
Yan Xun looked at the angel, and even though he knew that this might be the one in the Garden of Bones, he still felt that the angel's thoughts at this moment were a bit naive to the point of being laughable.
He is not the angel's true "mother," and the angel's current dependence on him is merely an illusion created by this copy.
Once he leaves the instance and the angel's consciousness returns, he will most likely unleash his fury in the Garden of Bones again.
"No," Yan Xun said to the angel at last.
He guessed that this angel must have separated a part of himself and come to this world, wanting to restore himself through the power of faith and by absorbing other "gods".
However, due to the limitations of the instance rules, the other party will lose all past memories when they are born in this instance.
The game settings that Vincent mentioned also caught Yan Xun's attention.
The world the other person mentioned was far more advanced in civilization than the world he lived in.
Is it because these game instances are merely games to humans of advanced civilizations, or is it simply because the game hasn't progressed to that stage yet?
The memory fragments obtained from Blue Gold, and the furry diary in the Book of Corruption, both reveal one thing—
The world Yan Xun once lived in was also a place where the game of "raising gods" was popular for a time.
The breeding guide also mentions that you should raise your own god to fight against other gods.
This is basically the same as the keywords Vincent mentioned.
Yan Xun thought and thought, but still couldn't be sure... Was it that the rules used in their world were different from Vincent's, or was it that Vincent's world had only reached the initial stage of playing the game?
But one thing is certain.
The people of Yan Xun's world have probably lost.
Just like the ending of the dungeon that Vincent mentioned, in the end their god failed to defeat the outsiders, so they fell into the apocalypse, which may be why they came to these dungeons.
The angel looked at Yan Xun, who was deep in thought, and nervously tugged at his finger, then blew on it forcefully, as if he thought this action would prevent Yan Xun from getting angry.
Looking at the puppy-like angel, Yan Xun thought of the one in the Garden of Bones... and finally understood why the main system said that the live stream could not be opened in this instance.
If the other mysterious beings in the live stream saw the Bone Angel "recognizing a thief as its father," they would probably laugh at it for 300 years to come.
He pulled his finger from the angel's hand, then took out the exorcism pistol that Lou Yanchuan had given him from behind his back.
He pressed the pistol against the angel's head.
The angel looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Will the exorcism pistol work on angels?" he suddenly asked the main system in his mind.
"He is God," the main system says.
Yan Xun understood what the main system meant—the other party was a god with faith (regardless of whether the faith was legitimate or not), and the exorcism pistol was only an A-grade item, so it was impossible to harm the god.
Yan Xun thought for a moment, then put the exorcism pistol back into his backpack and found a comfortable spot to sit down.
The angel didn't understand why Yan Xun did this, but he still slowly moved over and sat down next to Yan Xun.
He picked up a book and carefully read the text, seemingly wanting to seriously learn human language.
Yan Xun rested his head on the sofa, staring up at the ceiling. An angel sat obediently beside him—its wings were a bit of a nuisance, though not fully open, they still touched Yan Xun's shoulder. Yan Xun stared at the ceiling for a while, then said, "Your wings are quite a nuisance."
The angel turned his head, pondering Yan Xun's words, then reached for his wings on his back... Just as the angel was about to tear his wings off, Yan Xun quickly grabbed the angel's wrist—
"?" The angel looked at him in confusion.
Yan Xun: "..."
“Never mind what I just said.” Yan Xun made a gesture of surrender. “Your wings are no problem at all.”
The angel looked at Yan Xun, seemingly pondering the meaning of his words. "You don't want to see me... tear off my wings?" he asked Yan Xun.
“Nobody wants to see this kind of scene,” Yan Xun said.
The angel nodded, seemingly understanding, "That's why you stopped me."
"Yes."
He seemed to understand something. "I get it."
He glanced thoughtfully at the wings on his back, then obediently sat down next to Yan Xun to read his book.
Yan Xun sighed and looked up, then asked the main system in his heart when he would be able to leave the instance.
Wait a little longer.
Once the angel's wings have grown, you will be able to leave.
Yan Xun felt that the main system was just making empty promises to him.
But he didn't expect that someone was even more anxious than him—Vincent seemed eager to get results, and he fed the angels even faster.
The angel also transformed into the appearance of a 15 or 6-year-old in a short period of time, and at this time he already had two pairs of wings on his back.
Now he is almost as tall as Yan Xun, and his hair has grown longer. Compared to his disheveled state when eating before, the angel now always keeps himself clean and tidy.
He spent more time in silence, and occasionally when he looked at Yan Xun, he would mutter in a language that Yan Xun couldn't understand.
It was probably Yan Xun's player identity that dispelled Vincent's suspicions.
After Yan Xun expressed her desire to go out for a walk, Vincent said he understood, but hoped that Yan Xun could return before dark.
He asked tentatively, "You won't suddenly leave, will you?"
"I haven't even finished my mission, how can I leave?" Yan Xun said.
Vincent nodded. "That's true."
He gestured for the Angel Church members to follow Yan Xun, but Yan Xun declined, saying it wasn't necessary.
"Are there still so many people in the Angel Church?" Yan Xun asked. "I thought the angels had almost finished feeding them."
Vincent shook his head. "For angels, the most nutritious things are still those fleshy lumps and winged mutants."
“Ordinary believers don’t mean much to him.”
Vincent said, propping his head up with his hand in distress, "That newsboy has been asking me lately when his brother will be released."
Yan Xun remembered the newsboy.
“But he was eaten by an angel two days ago,” Vincent said.
His tone was as calm as if an angel had eaten a chicken.
That's true, Yan Xun thought. For Vincent, these were all just virtual game data. Feeding the angels was simply to improve his combat power.
Whether he's fed food or becomes an NPC, it's all the same to him, since they're all virtual data anyway.
Vincent was still struggling with how to appease the newsboy when he noticed that Yan Xun across from him seemed a little distracted, and he lost interest in talking about it.
“No need to have anyone follow me,” Yan Xun said, standing up. “I will be back.”
"My mission is not yet complete."
Vincent smiled. "I'm just worried about your safety. Levi is still looking for you."
“Didn’t you say that if you die in the instance, you’ll die in reality too?” Vincent looked at him with concern. “I’m worried that Levi might do something to you.”
"You're worried that if I die, the angels won't have enough food, right?" Yan Xun thought.
Clearly, the "food" within the Church of Angels is no longer sufficient for the angels to grow their remaining wings.
Vincent initially kept him in the Angel Church because he was optimistic about Yan Xun's progress in raising angels—he thought that if these NPCs were enough to raise angels, he wouldn't harm Yan Xun.
But now it seems that these NPCs are indeed insufficient to support the Archangel. Thinking of this, Vincent began to curse Levi in his heart again. If the other party had not kept proclaiming the truth about the "Holy Embryo", the Holy Embryo reserves in the Angel Church would not be so few.
Thinking about who it was because of that Levi that he discovered the truth about the Holy Embryo... Vincent couldn't help but glance at Yan Xun a few more times.
Of course he knew what was happening in that city.
He also knew that Levy's discovery of the Holy Embryo and Conrad's secret was mostly due to Yan Xun.
Vincent is now quite certain that the addition of Yan Xun to the instance is to hinder him from completing his task of raising angels.
—If Yan Xun hadn't revealed the truth about the Holy Embryo to Levi, there wouldn't have been so few Holy Embryos in the Angelic Church.
Fortunately, the system also had other remedial measures. Vincent thought that Yan Xun was good material for feeding the angels.
The guilt he had felt earlier vanished completely after he realized that Yan Xun was the biggest obstacle to completing his mission.
This is what Yan Xun owes him, Vincent thought naturally. If the other party hadn't helped Levi find Liam, how could there have been a shortage of food for feeding the angels?
It's all Yan Xun's fault.
Vincent said to himself.
If Yan Xun knew what Vincent was thinking, he would definitely laugh at him in his heart.
Doing bad things and then finding excuses, don't you have any sense of what it means to be a villain?
Vincent hadn't done too many bad things, especially since the other party he was scheming against was actually human. So when he looked at Yan Xun, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He avoided Yan Xun's gaze and said that as long as Yan Xun was safe, he wouldn't let the people from the Angel Church follow him.
Yan Xun thanked Vincent for his kindness and then left the sanctuary.
Shortly after he left the territory of the Church of Angels, he immediately realized that someone was following him.
When he turned around after passing through three alleys, he saw Koy following behind him.
The young man touched his nose somewhat awkwardly, "Hi..."
He greeted Yan Xun.
Yan Xun turned around. "Is there something you need?"
“We’ve been looking for you,” Koy said.
"Weren't you chasing me all along?" Yan Xun asked.
Koy felt even more guilty upon hearing this, but he remembered why he had been staking out the location: "We caught Conrad these past few days."
He said that the people in the Angel Church were all abnormal.
He said to Yan Xun somewhat anxiously, "You'd better leave that church as soon as possible."
"I heard you brought a child with you when you entered the Church of Angels..." He hesitated for a moment before asking Yan Xun, "Is that Ellie's child?"