NFBE Chapter 345 I am guilty
Chapter 345 I am guilty
The man looked at Ellie again, "Do you need my help to carry him to the sofa outside?"
Yan Xun immediately showed a grateful expression, and he and the man led Ellie to the sofa outside.
Upon seeing that the sofa was soaked by the water from Ellie's clothes, Yan Xun began to apologize again.
The man shrugged nonchalantly, indicating that the water stains would dry on their own.
He seemed very curious about Yan Xun. "You look very young," he said to Yan Xun. "I thought there was a huge age difference between you."
Yan Xun seemed a little embarrassed to speak, and he nervously rubbed his fingers together. "I didn't mean to lie to you."
"But we encountered a lot of bad things along the way."
“Because I look very young…” he told the man, “my brother and I are often bullied.”
The man showed a sympathetic expression at the right moment, and he put his hand on Yan Xun's shoulder, "You can stay here for the time being, don't worry about anything else."
“You look a little too thin,” he said, squeezing Yan Xun’s shoulder. “There’s plenty of food here; you don’t need to give it all to your brother.”
Yan Xun showed a grateful expression again.
"Your room is on the second floor," the man said to Yan Xun. "Do you need me to help you take him up?"
“That would be best,” Yan Xun said.
The two of them carried Ellie up to the second floor. After placing Ellie on the narrow single bed, the man suddenly said, "He looks as heavy as if he were dead."
Yan Xun looked puzzled. "Are dead people heavy?"
He seemed to think the man was joking and didn't feel any sense of crisis.
“Of course, it’s very, very heavy,” the man said.
"Just like your brother."
“He looks like he’s sleeping very well,” he told Yan Xun.
Yan Xun carefully placed Ai Li's fake plaster cast back in place. "Maybe he's just too tired."
Because the two of them carried Ellie into the room together, neither of them had a free hand to turn on the room's lights.
The room was dimly lit and the curtains were closed, giving it a feeling of a confined space.
The man stood on the edge of the bed. Because he was facing away from the light from the second-floor corridor, Yan Xun couldn't see his expression. She could only see his head bowed and his probing words, "Don't you doubt me?"
"Maybe I'm a bad person."
"Heh, now the bad guys want to dissect their inner thoughts," Yan Xun thought.
But he still pretended to be "naive" and shook his head to indicate that the other person was the best person he had met since he started wandering.
Moreover, he remembered the other party's plan to help 200 people, and believed that the other party was definitely not a bad person.
The man quickly laughed.
Yan Xun then stated that he would not stay there for free, but would help the other party with some housework.
The man stood there without moving. "If I need to."
He gestured for Yan Xun to change his younger brother into clean clothes first, and he had prepared a fresh meal for him at the dining table downstairs.
“The same goes for the clothes you’re wearing,” he said to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun looked down at his damp clothes and nodded.
The man left quickly... Once the bedroom door was closed, Yan Xun took off her damp clothes, dried herself off, and changed into the clean clothes he had prepared.
As for Ellie...
He simply took off the other person's clothes and covered them with the bed sheet.
……
When Yan Xun came downstairs, he saw the food that had been prepared again on the table.
The man had vanished, but the sound of running water could be heard from the bathroom, leading him to guess that the other man was in the bathroom.
Immediately afterward, Yan Xun heard a sound like someone had fallen from the bathroom, followed by a cry of pain. He immediately went to the half-closed bathroom door and asked, "Are you alright?"
Because of the sound of water, the other person's voice was somewhat difficult to hear.
But Yan Xun still heard a faint "Help me," so he pushed the door open and saw a man wrapped in a bath towel fall to the ground.
He looked to be in a lot of pain and was having trouble getting up.
Yan Xun went over and helped the man up... He was about to help the man out of the bathroom when the man shook his head and asked him to help him to the sink.
The bathroom in the other person's house was very large, with a mirror on the sink taking up most of the wall, and the surrounding area was decorated with brass.
He let the man lean against the sink.
"There's a first-aid kit under my cabinet." He gestured for Yan Xun to look at the cabinet under the sink. "Could you get it for me?"
Yan Xun looked down and quickly saw the cabinet under the sink. He half-squatted down, opened the cabinet door, and looked down. "First aid kit...?"
Are you sure this is the place?
He turned to look at the man leaning against the sink. "I don't think I saw him."
"Perhaps I placed it further inside," the man said weakly. "Take another look."
Upon hearing this, Yan Xun could only lower his head and try to find the first-aid kit in the sink cabinet.
The man watched his retreating figure, then placed his previously unsteady foot on the floor tile. He took a step behind Yan Xun, a nylon rope appearing in his hand, seemingly intending to strangle him when he was off guard.
Yan Xun immediately snapped out of his daze, pulled out a fork hidden in his sleeve, and pierced the man's instep.
The unexpected, intense pain caused him to scream instinctively, then he staggered back a few steps.
As he backed away, the fork on the back of his foot was still wobbling comically.
Yan Xun stood up and took out his axe from his backpack—
"How about we play a game now?" Yan Xun said.
He smiled at the man and said, "Let's play a game where no matter how much you beg for help, no one will come to your rescue."
"Just like you did to other people before."
……
Yan Xun took off his clothes and stood under the brass-colored shower head.
Some of the blood that had been washed off his body accumulated in the bathtub. Only when the water at the bottom of the bathtub became clear again did Yan Xun turn off the shower and get out of the bathtub.
He came to the room on the second floor wearing a bath towel.
After changing into his new clothes, he looked at Ellie, who was still fast asleep, picked him up, and shook him a few times.
"Wake up."
Ellie slowly woke up, blinking blankly at Yan Xun.
"Let's go," Yan Xun said.
Airi looked at his bald chin, seemingly finding it strange, and reached out to touch it a few times. "Where's your beard?"
When Yan Xun tore off the fake beard, Ellie was already fast asleep in the bathtub and did not see this scene.
“I threw it away while you were asleep,” Yan Xun said.
Seeing Ellie's slow movements, he couldn't help but pull back the sheet covering him. "Hurry up."
Airi let out a short scream, seemingly not understanding why Yan Xun was being so rude.
He grabbed the bed sheet and searched the room for a while before finally spotting the clothes on the side.
He then stood up, lifted the bed sheet, and changed into the change of clothes that the room owner had prepared for them in front of Yan Xun.
"Where is he?" Ellie asked after buttoning up her clothes.
“He’s dead,” Yan Xun said.
He looked at Yan Xun, as if pondering the other's meaning, and then, as if remembering something, said, "That's why you took off your beard."
"Ah."
When he threw away the fake beard, he had no intention of letting the other man live to see tomorrow.
The cast on Airi's leg was also for disguise; Yan Xun used some methods to remove it.
“I have a feeling there’s something in his basement,” Ellie suddenly said.
"what?"
"A very familiar taste."
Yan Xun couldn't smell anything, but since Ellie said so, he still found the hidden basement that Ellie had hidden under the living room carpet with the help of Ellie.
They climbed the wooden ladder to the place that looked like a cellar. As soon as Yan Xun entered, he smelled an unpleasant odor.
It smelled of decay and preservatives.
In a cellar-like place, an "angel" hangs.
The other person's eyes were closed, and his wings were secured with countless nylon ropes, allowing him to assume a posture of prayer in the air.
Below the angel are some "components".
Some of them looked newly replaced, while others were already half-rotten.
There was also a freezer in the basement. Yan Xun opened it, glanced at it, and then immediately closed it again.
He chopped the securing nylon ropes with an axe, and the angel fell onto the pile of half-rotten "parts." Yan Xun lifted the angel's clothes and discovered that the wings had grown out of his body.
Yan Xun turned to look at Ellie's expression and found that there was no fear on his face. On the contrary, he made a prayer gesture towards the angel.
"What are you doing?" Yan Xun asked.
"..." Ellie looked at him, "Pray."
He looked down at his hands, seemingly not quite understanding why he was doing it.
Yan Xun knew that people carrying a sacred child in their wombs had all dreamed similar things to some extent. "Is this also what the revelation in your dream told you?"
“No…” Ellie looked at her hands, “I don’t know.”
"I just……"
"I felt I should do it."
He touched his stomach as he spoke, "Maybe He told me."
As if in response to his words, the monster inside his belly began to move wildly again, its belly bulging as if someone were punching and kicking it from inside—Yan Xun even suspected that its belly would burst open in the next second, just like Neil had seen in the tent.
However, Ellie's expression was unusually calm, as if he and his stomach had been separated into two different individuals.
He just looked at Yan Xun and said, "He told me."
"He can talk?" Yan Xun looked at Airi.
Airi shook her head. "But I felt it."
This wasn't the place to talk. Yan Xun glanced back at the basement and gestured for Ellie to go up first.
He burned the clothes he and Ellie had changed out of in the yard, then went to the garage and drove the car away.
When Levi's men followed the trail to the city, Levi, with Lily in tow, heard his men's report.
"You're saying they disappeared without a trace after arriving in this city?" Levy asked.
He looked at Koy and said, "Go and look for it."
Koy looked at Levi, his expression still somewhat unnatural—he remembered that he had secretly told Yan Xun a lot of gossip about this farmer, and after learning that the other party was the real leader of his organization, he was still a little apprehensive.
Fortunately, after the fleshy lump in his stomach was gone, he was no longer troubled by being mentally controlled.
Soon Coy brought back news, informing Levy that there had been two homeless men near the square. Witnesses said they appeared to be brothers, one older and the other seemingly injured with a cast on his leg.
Although there was no evidence, Koy felt that this was the detective.
“They’re not in the square, so where are they?” Levi asked.
“I heard that someone saw them being approached by a man who is passionate about charity and has helped many people,” Coy told Levy. “He often helps those people and then helps them leave the city and go somewhere else.”
He told Levy, "Perhaps with this man's help, they went somewhere else."
Levi patted Lily's head. "Go find that person."
The other party's residence was not difficult to find, and Koy quickly led his people to the house located halfway up the mountain.
There were no neighbors around the house, so Koy and his friends had no intention of ringing the doorbell and just barged in—he immediately noticed that one of the cars was missing.
"Not home?" he muttered to himself, then cautiously opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Koy realized something was wrong and rushed in... and saw the man hanging in the bathroom.
The other person had probably been dead for some time, as their body was almost split in two due to being suspended for so long.
He was only wearing a bath towel, but unfortunately, the towel was no longer useful for covering himself.
Several words were carved into his chest with a knife.
I am guilty
The people who entered the house with Koy saw the exposed cellar. Someone climbed down to check it out and then immediately came back up to tell Koy about it.
After taking a look, Koy told them to wait there and quickly returned to their temporary lodgings to report the matter to Levi.
Inside the room, Lily's head was resting on her front legs, and she yawned when Koy came in.
Koy immediately reported this to Levy.
“...It looks like they left two days ago,” Koy said.
“I didn’t expect our detective to be so good at escaping,” Levy said, looking at the map on the table. “It seems their destination is indeed the Church of Angels.”
“Don’t you find it strange?” Levi asked.
“He was so eager to expose the truth about the Holy Embryo before.” Levi looked at the map and marked a few locations on it, “but now he’s taking a monster that has been resurrected from the dead to the Church of Angels without hesitation.”
"Did he also receive a revelation from his dream?"
"Do you think you can get a large sum of money by going to the Angel Church in the South?"
"Or does he have a desire that can only be fulfilled through that revelation?"
“I heard Neil is seriously ill; he was diagnosed six months ago,” Levy muttered to himself.
Although the person involved can no longer tell the truth, judging from the timeline, the reason why the other party quietly left the residence and went to the Angel Church was probably related to illness.
Koy didn't understand what he meant.
“He wants to get to the city where the Church of Angels is located, and he can only go through these few places.” Levi circled a few locations on the map.
Coy looked at the locations marked on Levy's map.
He knew that the terrain was open, and it would be difficult for them to completely stop Yan Xun from driving through.
Even if roadblocks are set up in advance, he can still bypass the road and get through from other places.
He was about to ask Levy how to do it when Levy spoke to him.
"Like before."
Koy opened his mouth instinctively, as if to say something, "...but if we do that, Ryan might die."