PNB Chapter 352 You Owe Me
Chapter 352 You Owe Me
"Yes," Yan Xun said.
“Stop hiding.” He looked across the alley. “I saw Lily’s tail.”
Upon hearing her name, Lily immediately barked.
Levi, holding Lily's hand, appeared on the other side of the alley.
"Long time no see," Levi greeted.
"Greeting someone who just escaped death like that..." Yan Xun pointed to his head. "Your head seems a little off."
“I just wanted to kill Ellie,” Levy said. “I just didn’t expect you to be in that car.”
"Are your eyes filled with glass marbles?" Yan Xun asked curiously. "Do you think this car is driverless?"
"Autonomous?" Levi didn't quite understand what Yan Xun meant.
"Forget it, there's no point in arguing with an old fogey like you." Yan Xun waved his hand. "What do you want to say?"
“My target is not you,” Levi said to Yan Xun, leading Lily closer to him. “In that dream, the Church of Angels raised something extremely terrifying.”
"My dream tells me that what they are raising will one day be born into a person's stomach."
Yan Xun looked Levi up and down a few times. "Didn't you consider that it was just a dream?"
"I've thought about it."
“So I just stayed content being a rancher,” Levy said, “until a face appeared in my dream…”
He looked at Yan Xun and said, "That person is Airi."
"Of course, I didn't know his identity at the time."
“He had been financially supported by Conrad and lived in that separate house. No one knew him except the Conrad family’s servants.”
He and Conrad clearly didn't get along.
Then came the appearance of corpses outside the farm, and the first winged person to appear in the city.
“That night, Airi suddenly appeared outside the farm,” Levy said. “He hoped I could help him.”
That day, Liam also took the opportunity, under the pretext of handling feed, to receive the task of bringing Eli to the city.
But I never expected that so many unexpected things would happen afterward.
“You should know that Elie is already dead,” Levi said to Yan Xun. “We saw his and Liam’s bodies together in the coffin.”
"He is a zombie controlled by a monster inside his body."
Yan Xun gestured for a stop. "What did Conrad say?"
"Isn't he in league with the Church of Angels?"
“He said he had also received a revelation,” Koy interjected. “If he can raise the Holy Embryo, he will become the most powerful person.”
“Everyone who is pregnant with the Holy See receives different revelations in their dreams,” he told Yan Xun. “He said that Neil received a revelation that only by going to the Church of Angels could his illness be cured.”
“Those people in the factory can suddenly become rich by going to the Angel Church,” Koy said.
At this point, he turned and glanced back at the sanctuary. "Did you see those people?"
"Those who say they're going to the Angel Church to find a way to make money."
“He’s dead,” Yan Xun said.
Koy almost thought he had misheard, "...because of those fleshy balls?"
He still remembered Neil's miserable state inside the tent.
“It was eaten,” Yan Xun said succinctly.
"...ate it???" Koy was somewhat incredulous.
"Who ate it?"
Yan Xun looked left at Levi and right at Koy, "Of course it's the Holy Embryo."
Seeing the mixture of fear and disbelief on Koy's face, Yan Xun told him, "Levy and I have something we want to talk about privately."
Koy looked at Levi, who nodded and handed Lily over to Koy.
Once only the two of them were left in the alley, Yan Xun swiftly drew his gun and shot Levi in the thigh.
He knew that Levi had no intention of hiding at all, otherwise the other party would not have let Lily and Koy leave together.
"This is what you owe me."
Yan Xun grabbed Levi by the collar with one hand and pressed the exorcism pistol against his chin with the other. "You should be glad I didn't want to waste my bullets on you, otherwise you'd be..."
He looked Levy up and down. "He should be like that car, riddled with bullet holes."
Levy raised his hands, making a gesture of surrender.
The gunshots clearly alerted Lily, and Yan Xun heard Lily scream, but neither Koy nor Lily appeared at the alley entrance.
Yan Xun released Levi's collar. "Tell them that no matter what happens, they shouldn't come near here?"
Levi braced himself against the wall, his thigh still bleeding. "Yes."
“I’m sorry,” Levy said to Yan Xun. “I just had to do it.”
“I’m relieved to see you’re alright,” he said to Yan Xun. “At least I’m at ease knowing you weren’t in the burned car.”
Yan Xun felt that this statement was 0% credible. He thought that Levi was just having a dramatic moment and was actually putting on a melodramatic show in front of him.
"Heh, really?" Yan Xun said, "I don't believe it."
"I need your help." When Levy realized his act wasn't working, he immediately changed his tune.
“If their skeletal angels were to descend…” Levi said to Yan Xun, “this world would truly be destroyed.”
"That's the only thing that's true."
“But Vincent told me that only by raising angels can we fight against the monsters that will appear on the day the world ends,” Yan Xun said.
Before Levi could say anything, he heard a series of Lily's cries, and then a young man in a white robe with two pairs of wings appeared at the alley entrance.
He glanced at Levy, then turned his gaze to Yan Xun.
Vincent said you're in some trouble.
"That's why I came to find you."
He walked up to Yan Xun and said, "We should go back now."
Levi knew who this person was the moment he saw his wings.
He wanted to say something more, but the next second his two legs were broken out of thin air—it all happened so suddenly that Yan Xun didn't even have time to react.
The angel looked at Levi, who was lying on the ground in extreme pain, and said, "I know you."
“And that one over there.” He pointed in the direction where Koy was hiding, and soon screams came from there as well.
“Vincent said that if it weren’t for you, I would have been born in the church.” He glanced at Levi’s bleeding thigh. “You won’t be so lucky next time.”
He then turned to leave with Yan Xun.
Perhaps the angel finally realized that Yan Xun didn't like the title "Mom." Since he grew his third wing, he rarely called Yan Xun that. Most of the time, he would call him by his name, Ryan.
“Ryan,” he said to Yan Xun, “we should go back to church.”
"That boy, he's looking for you."
The boy he was referring to was the former newsboy.
"Did Vincent send you to spy on me?" Yan Xun asked.
Although he said that, he didn't mean to oppose the angel. Instead, he followed the angel and walked towards the church.
“No,” said the angel, “I have discovered that you are not in the sanctuary.”
"That's why I came to find you."
As Yan Xun passed the alleyway, he glanced at Koy and noticed that Koy was in better condition than Levi—he had only lost an arm.
Recalling the terrifying appearance of those people from the Angel Guild during their prayers, Yan Xun felt that the angels had probably shown mercy.
……
Yan Xun saw the newsboy in the room, who seemed preoccupied. He had a clear fear of the angel, but dared not show it.
Yan Xun remembered that the other party wasn't like this just a few days ago.
"I'd like to speak to him alone..." the newsboy said cautiously, looking at the angel. "Is that alright?"
The angel turned its head to look at Yan Xun, who nodded, and then the angel left.
The newsboy grabbed Yan Xun's arm with one hand while looking in the direction the angel had left. Only when Yan Xun was completely out of sight did he tug at Yan Xun's sleeve and say, "...We've all been fooled."
His voice trembled slightly as he spoke, “We, we were all deceived.”
He spoke these words in a very soft voice, suppressing his fear and anger.
“They’ve all gone mad.”
He whispered to Yan Xun, "Everyone, everyone who attended the service, they're all dead..."
“Everyone was beating each other madly, using everything on their bodies—sticks, whips… and axes,” the newsboy said, still trembling. “They said that only physical pain could make the spirit more devout, and make the angels of bones, their great and loving father, hear their prayers.”
“I hid under the chair… I was so small that no one noticed me.” He looked up at Yan Xun and said, “Everyone has gone mad.”
"The ground, the walls, and even the statue of the skeletal angel were all covered in blood."
"They were laughing before they died, saying that the more they suffered, the more the angels of bones would hear their prayers." The newsboy, at this point, became fearful of the angels again, "He was there too."
"he?"
“…Vincent and the angel,” the newsboy whispered.
He looked terrified; his whole body was trembling, and he clung to Yan Xun's arms, unwilling to leave.
"Their white robes were soaked in blood."
“I want to leave…” he whispered to Yan Xun, “Ryan, I only trust you, and you are the only one I can trust here.”
Yan Xun looked down at the newsboy's terrified face, then reached out and wiped the blood from the newsboy's cheek. "What do you want me to do?"
“We can leave in the middle of the night,” the newsboy said.
"I know a place."
“There’s a secret passage that leads outside,” he told Yan Xun.
Yan Xun suspected that Vincent thought he was a fool, but he didn't doubt the veracity of the newsboy's description... How could the newsboy have secretly arrived at the church without Vincent's permission?
Yan Xun looked at the newsboys. "They really are crazy."
He pulled the newsboy from his arms. "Your brother..." he said to the newsboy with deep sorrow, "is probably dead."
“The angel ate your brother.” He looked at the newsboy. “You’re right, everyone here is crazy.”
The newsboys' faces showed only feigned shock, without a trace of pain—which Yan Xun found somewhat perplexing. He wondered how Vincent had brainwashed them into accepting this fact.
But soon, Yan Xun felt that he had found the answer.
Because the newsboy murmured, "Perhaps he has simply gone to God's kingdom."
That's true, Yan Xun thought. For these believers of the Angel Church, being eaten by their "god" would be an immense honor.
"He shouldn't even be thinking about what lunatics are thinking," Yan Xun thought to himself.
He looked at the nervous newsboy and nodded as the boy had expected, "They really are terrifying..."
Where is that secret passage?
"I will go with you."
The newsboy was overjoyed and immediately agreed on a secret code with Yan Xun before leaving with a relaxed look on his face, as if his mission was accomplished.
Meanwhile, after receiving the newsboy's successful signal, Vincent told the angel beside him.
He cautiously observed the angel's expression, trying to discern the angel's thoughts.
He had always been curious about what Yan Xun fed the angel to make him grow up so quickly, but neither Yan Xun nor the angel would tell him the answer. Just as Vincent was pondering the possibility of cutting up Yan Xun and feeding him to the angel, the angel finally revealed the answer.
The food that made him grow so fast was Yan Xun's blood.
But the other party was clearly just an ordinary player, Vincent couldn't help but think, without growing wings or conceiving a holy child.
Why does his blood have this effect?
“His blood contains the power I need,” the angel suddenly spoke, as if he had seen through Vincent’s thoughts.
Vincent immediately looked away.
“But I feel… angry.” The angel’s expression was somewhat confused as she spoke. “When I see him, I always feel angry.”
“I think he’s a thief, a liar,” the angel said. “I’m burning with rage, and I want to crush him to pieces right now.”
"But I always think of..."
The angel didn't know what he would remember, but along with the anger and feelings of being deceived, he also saw Yan Xun when he opened his eyes in the car.
And the scene where the other person took his hand and led him to the entrance of the Angel Guild.
He remembered that when Yan Xun wanted to leave, he was the one who grabbed him and wouldn't let him go.
"...Then I remembered, he was my mother..." the angel finally spoke.
Vincent glanced at the angel, puzzled.
Do mythical creatures also have a rebellious phase?
He couldn't help but speak up, "He is not your real mother." He wanted to remind the angel that the other person's real "mother" was Ellie, who died in the car.
Yan Xun does not acknowledge that the angel is his child.
“He is,” the angel said.
He looked at Vincent, "He fed me."
Vincent: "6".
"So what do we do?" Vincent asked, "Hang him up and drain his blood?"
"Or should we keep them as pets and use them whenever we want?"
The angel shook his head.
Just as Vincent thought the other party had a "change of heart," he heard the angel say seriously, "I will eat him up properly."
"Only in this way will I not be hungry and angry."
……
Yan Xun sneezed.
“Oh no, someone’s talking bad about me,” he said to the main system.
The main system grunted a few times in response.
"Is Vincent plotting with the angels to get rid of me?" Yan Xun asked. "I wonder if he's planning to lock me up and slowly devour me."
"Or just hang me from a tree and drain my blood."
"Neither," the main system suddenly said.
Yan Xun looked at the broccoli suspiciously. "You can't possibly make it into jerky, can you?"
"This is way too extreme!"
"The angel said he's going to devour you whole," broccoli threatened. "He said your skin is so delicate and tender, you look delicious."
“It’s fake,” Yan Xun said.
"You think you know angels so well?" Broccoli sneered.
"No," Yan Xun said, puzzled. "What are you thinking?"
"I mean he can't use such advanced vocabulary."