Volume 2: The Church of Light Chapter 225: Cardinal
The cold wind blew up and the afterglow was obscured by the night.
As the last ray of light faded between heaven and earth, a bleak chill came over us.
Like winter.
Xilan Town, in front of the tavern.
Warm yellow light shone through the tavern's windows. The burly owner was rummaging under the counter. He scratched his head and said to himself in confusion, "Strange, there is no white olive (wine name) here?"
He opened a drawer and fiddled around inside, then opened a drawer next to it and pulled out a flashlight.
Just as I was about to squat down to look for it, my ears suddenly moved slightly.
He stood up and looked toward the front door of the tavern.
With a creak, the door was pushed open and the cold wind rushed into the tavern.
The flames on the fireplace on the other side seemed to be suppressed, as if they were about to go out.
After seeing the face of the young man in front of him clearly, the tavern owner was slightly stunned, his expression a little stagnant. He couldn't help but look behind the young man, and saw three other familiar figures following closely like ghosts.
but……
"boss."
Xu Shen smiled at the stunned tavern owner and sat down at the bar: "Give me a drink."
The tavern owner's eyes were filled with doubt and uncertainty. Feeling Xu Shen sitting nearby, his throat seemed to roll subconsciously, and he forced a smile and said, "Aren't you drinking plain water?"
"Now I like drinking." Xu Shen said softly.
The tavern owner's eyes scanned the faces of the three people behind Xu Shen, but he saw a signal that made his heart sink. He forced a smile and said, "Where's Lao Liu?"
"He's gone."
The tavern owner's expression became even more unnatural, but he still tried to restrain himself: "Is there something urgent? Why didn't you come and say hello?"
While greeting, he turned and walked towards the counter.
With a clang.
A bottle of wine was knocked over and broken.
The tavern owner's eyelids twitched violently, and he slapped his head and said, "Look how careless I am." He grabbed two bottles of wine from the side and took them down.
"You haven't asked me what kind of wine I want to drink." Xu Shen said softly with calm eyes.
The tavern owner seemed to be reminded and quickly said, "I can make whatever you want to drink."
"Same as Lao Liu." Xu Shen said.
The tavern owner smiled reluctantly: "Are your tastes so similar? Okay, I'll mix it right away."
He popped the cork off the bottle and took out the cocktail glass. His eyes fell on the three people standing behind Xu Shen and asked, "What do these three friends want to drink?"
The three of them just looked at him silently, without saying anything or taking any action.
Standing behind Xu Shen like a puppet ghost.
The cold sweat on the tavern owner's face slid down. Soon, a cocktail was prepared and he handed it to the young man sitting in deep thought at the bar: "Enjoy your meal."
The drinks squeezed into view, seeming to bring the young man's absent-minded gaze back to reality.
"You are still young. Drinking too much is bad for your health. It's better to drink plain water." The tavern owner advised.
Xu Shen picked up the wine glass and said softly, "Water will only get colder the more you drink it, but wine will get hotter the more you drink it."
After saying that, he tilted his head back and drank it.
Suddenly, a cold light flashed, and a dagger suddenly flipped out from under the bar. Under the ferocious gaze of the tavern owner, it stabbed towards Xu Shen.
puff!
The dagger was like silver light, instantly piercing the wine glass and going straight into Xu Shen's throat!
Blood spurted out, splashing into the broken cup wall and onto the bar counter.
When the boss saw Xu Shen’s incredulous look, a sneer appeared on his lips.
He pulled back the dagger, and to prevent Xu Shen from being a user of reconstruction ability, he swung it out again. With a few "pu pu pu" cuts, the dagger pierced Xu Shen's throat, forehead, and eye sockets.
With a "puff", he grabbed Xu Shen's hair with one hand, raised his knife and cut off the head.
"Is this the kind of stuff?"
The tavern owner frowned as he looked at the headless corpse gushing blood in front of him.
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his arm.
He raised his arm and saw that purple meridians had appeared on his arm, coiled like earthworms. His arm became stiff, and in addition to the tearing pain, he was gradually losing consciousness.
The boss was horrified and looked at the old man behind Xu Shen: "Old Du, what are you doing?!"
But he saw Lao Du's pitying eyes: "Look at what you are doing."
Me myself… ?
The boss looked down and saw Xu Shen sitting in front of him unharmed. The bar counter also looked clean as it had been cleaned earlier. How could there be any blood splattered?
The head in his hand... he looked down and saw that it was actually a bottle of wine.
thump.
He loosened his grip in shock and the bottle broke.
Everything is like waking up from a dream.
The boss suddenly looked at the young man behind Xu Shen, whose abilities he had heard of.
Nightmare!
The boss looked grim. Damn, when was it?
"It seems that we can't drink this wine." Xu Shen looked at the boss regretfully.
The boss looked at Xu Shen in shock and anger: "Where's Lao Liu?!"
He then looked at Lao Du and the other three: "You actually betrayed the Pope?! Do you think this young man is more far-sighted than the Pope? Following such a person, you..."
"snort!"
Lao Du snorted coldly and interrupted him: "Emperor Liu is dead. Now we are all sworn to be loyal to the new king until death. Don't be stubborn."
"Emperor Liu died at the hands of the new king, not because we betrayed the Pope."
The young man behind Xu Shen said indifferently.
The boss was about to yell when his vision suddenly distorted. The tables and chairs in the tavern were torn apart, and a church scene emerged in the dark.
The strange and terrifying giant beast, and the young man connected to the beast.
Two forms of four ambushes and assassinations.
And Yanagi Sumikawa who is confronting in front.
But then...something terrible happened.
Everything that had happened in the church before was replayed before the boss's eyes and ended quickly as if on fast forward.
When his sight returned to the tavern again, the boss's face had turned pale, as if he had fainted, and he looked at the young man in horror.
His eyes subconsciously looked at Xu Shen's shoulder, where a strand of black hair was entangled.
This made the boss' pupils shrink.
The young man looked at the boss meaningfully and said nothing.
"Of the six cardinals, there is only one left, and that must be Ah Mei."
Xu Shen said softly: "Or, we should call him Xue Mei."
Xue was the surname that Amei got later, and it was also given to him by Liu Jichuan himself.
The boss looked unhappy and sweated profusely. Finally, he lowered his head and said, "Please forgive my rudeness. I am willing to swear allegiance to the new king until death!"
He knelt on one knee. Although he couldn't move freely inside the bar, his body disappeared into the world of ruins. He knelt in front of Xu Shen across the bar.
Xu Shen nodded slightly: "Get up."
The boss stood up slowly.
At this time, the purple meridians on his arms were gradually fading away.
Obviously, it would be easy for Xu Shen, who controlled the three cardinals, to kill him.
What's more, Xu Shen was accompanied by the A-level ruins beast that he saw from his nightmare ability.
No wonder Emperor Liu fell at the feet of this young man… He thought that the ones waiting to greet him upon his return would be Liu Jichuan, Lao Du and others, but the leader had been replaced.
"In order to kill me, six cardinals were transferred to this town. Director Liu is indeed very optimistic about me..." Xu Shen smiled lightly. The tavern owner in front of him did not participate in the assassination in the church because his ability was not suitable for assassination and belonged to the strong attack type.
The same is true for Xue Mei.
The boss felt bitter. When Liu Jichuan summoned them all before, they thought it was an exaggeration, but they didn't expect things to turn out like this now.
Xu Shen stood up and said, "Let's go, let me go meet the last cardinal."
The boss glanced at Lao Du and others and knew that the situation had changed.
He tore off his bartending apron and stopped disguising himself, revealing his previously suppressed and contracted sturdy figure and muscles. His height was 1.9 meters, almost two meters.
Like a humanoid brown bear, under the bartender's uniform is an elite tan combat uniform.
He followed Xu Shen silently, and the group walked out of the tavern.
A cold wind blows.
Suddenly, Xu Shen felt the back of his hand was slightly cold. He raised it and saw that it was melted snow.
He looked up and saw that besides the cold wind and fog, there were also sparse snowflakes falling under the night sky.
It's already early spring, but it's still snowing.
Xu Shen stared at the falling snowflakes in a daze for a moment, then lowered his head, tightened his coat, and walked forward.
The five people walked silently, even the huge body of the tavern owner who was following at the back made no sound when he walked on the ground.
Not long.
The five people passed by the school that Xu Shen passed by during the day.
At this moment, the school is empty, like a ghost in the dark, and the windows are like huge eyeballs, staring at the passers-by outside.
The night in the town was exceptionally quiet.
Xu Shen soon arrived in front of the previous cabin.
Warm yellow lights shine inside the wooden house that was converted from a former dog kennel.
Looking from the market town, the wooden house seemed illusory. There was only Xue Mei inside, but no sign of his daughter Xiaoqiu.
At the same time Xu Shen saw Xue Mei, Xue Mei's sight also penetrated the wooden house and saw Xu Shen.
