Devil's Bible

Chapter 33 Old but Not Dead (Bonus Chapter)

Jacques made this decision with great determination.

When operating in the wild, the journey is also unknown because the risks encountered are unknown.

Currently, there is a road between Beiqi Village and Baiwei Town for caravans to travel on, and the journey takes about three days.

If you stray off the path, you're very likely to get lost, which could take a long time.

Therefore, the church branch in Baiwei Town gave him a relatively ample time to return.

Even if he did exceed the time limit, he would at most be punished. As a nobleman, he still had certain privileges.

He was unwilling to slink back like that, and planned to take advantage of this opportunity to secretly monitor the operation of the entire Backfin Village.

He believed that his departure would make those people think they had won, and in their smugness, they would naturally become careless and might make mistakes.

On the other side, Opp did indeed breathe a slight sigh of relief.

He stood up, and beneath his obese body, some black things were wriggling.

After a change, the black things completely disappeared and stopped moving.

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Op quickly called for his newly hired servants to prepare the goods.

"We will not restart whale skin mining for the time being, but will rely on our existing stock to sustain the operation."

"The special medication over there cannot be stopped."

"We don't have much stock left, so we still need to find a way to get that thing out ourselves." Op sighed and adjusted his mindset.

He had once thought he could tame the nest beasts and turn them into his animal companions.

However, they underestimated the wildness of the dangerous creature.

He's been raising this thing for seven years, and he still can't tame it.

We must purchase specially made medicine from the Calamity Cult at a high price to suppress the ferocity of the Nest Beast.

The Calamity Cult is a group of cults that study calamities on Earth and seek to gain power from them.

According to them, the calamity itself is not a calamity, but a righteous god. It only became a calamity because of the evil conspiracy of the gods.

However, such statements should be taken with a grain of salt; various cults like to boast that they are orthodox and the true gods.

Oppe didn't want to deal with these people, but given his current situation, not doing so meant certain death.

"This damn world, this damn cult, this damn church... this damn old pastor!!" Op's mental state fluctuated, but eventually returned to stability.

The miners have been silenced, and the mine has been destroyed.

He wants to break through again and recruit enough miners, both of which are troublesome matters.

Every day you delay means a day less money.

For the past ten days or so, the newly arrived paladin has been running all over the village under the guise of exercising, and even in the surrounding mountains and gullies. He will investigate any corner or nook he sees that shows even the slightest trace of human activity.

Isn't the goal to find the mines they're mining in?
On the contrary, the trainee pastor was always around the church, and at most he would walk around the village.

Op has tried more than once to gather manpower to resume mining.

But at this moment, he could only endure it.

Because he is still waiting for a signal.
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Meanwhile, Nemes suddenly sensed something and went into his basement.

At this moment, Leah was struggling, her whole body covered with marks from the ropes of the oath.

"Is the Whale unable to hold on?" Nemus looked at the other party's condition and couldn't help but strengthen the sealing effect of the Oath Rope once again, but the effect was not ideal.

When the village guardians caused those incidents, Lydia had already entered the critical stage of whale transformation. It was Nemus who suppressed it with the Oath Rope, and at the same time, in the process of researching whale transformation disease and granting Poole whale transformation power, he also made slight adjustments to it.

However, to everyone's surprise, Lia's changes were becoming uncontrollable, and her urge to transform into a whale grew stronger and stronger.

"As expected, anything related to the floating whale is not so simple." Nemus looked at the pained Lydia, but at this moment he was thinking about where to get some internal organs.

The villagers' homemade dried offal has already been eaten up. If Leah doesn't get to eat this during the whale transformation process, she will most likely die from whale transformation disease.

He could only hold onto his own oath for a day or two at most.

“We can’t let her die yet. Once the contract is broken, the village guardians probably won’t feel at ease.” Nemus frowned.

"It's not the right time yet."

“Wait a minute…” Nemus suddenly frowned, realizing a problem he had previously overlooked.

So where did the village guards' internal organs come from?

Nems discovered from Nair's memories that although people occasionally died in the village, in general, not many bodies went missing.

Most of the corpses would be...

"Bury him in the cemetery behind the church!" Nems's mind raced instantly, a series of guesses popping into his head.

This is a major problem that he has overlooked.

"Old pastors often preside over funerals."

"Given his spiritual cultivation, it doesn't matter whether the village guards stole the internal organs before the burial or after the burial."

"It's highly likely that it won't escape the old pastor's perception."

“My attention was completely focused on the whale disease before, and I naturally overlooked the need for internal organs because of the seal that suppressed it.”

"Now that I think about it, it was a fatal mistake."

"This mistake made me misjudge the old pastor's character!" Nemus's impression of the old pastor was probably that he was an old man who had become soft-hearted and hesitant.

At most, they would be preoccupied with the other party's hidden secrets, such as why the other party came to this village and why they had a sacred sword with sacred writing in their hands.

But at this moment, Nemus could clearly sense the evil that the old priest had hidden.

"He will most likely discover the village guardian's secret."

"And the fact that they specifically steal internal organs further exposes the whale-like disease."

“A pastor of this age, who lived through the whale disease riots decades ago, could not possibly be unaware of it.”

"But he discovered this and did nothing to stop it."

"All his kindness was basically a product of pretense."

"So his earlier reminder of Op's problem was probably not an unintentional revelation, or it was out of his consistent indulgence and tolerance towards 'Nair'."

"It is a very clear arrangement."

At this moment, Nemus couldn't help but feel how troublesome this old guy was.

"He most likely observes the various events, big and small, that happen in the village with a cold eye. He usually appears kind, but in reality, he is condoning these things."

"He knew to some extent about everything, from the village guard's daughter with whale disease to Op's illegal mining of whale skins, and even the fact that Nair colluded with me, this devil."

"But that raises a huge question: what does he want to do?!"

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(End of this chapter)