Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 157 - : Thirty-nine, your parts are installed backwards.
Chapter 157: Thirty-nine, your parts are installed backwards.
Rolling back time a bit, when Gerard stood in front of that rundown warehouse, Bai Wei’s voice slowly echoed in his mind, “I say, you really are a cunning creature with multiple hideouts. What is this, another secret base?”
Gerard didn’t know why Bai Wei could always come up with strange, yet surprisingly apt and vivid metaphors.
“This warehouse isn’t mine.” After circling the warehouse for an inspection, Gerard finally said to Bai Wei, “It belongs to one of my teammates.”
“That Helmo fellow?”
“No, another one… his name is Eric,” Gerard replied. “He was the mechanician in our team, the finest of them all.”
“Ah, another new character. How many of you actually died in there?”
Gerard remained silent for a while before answering, “Twenty-six.”
Having said that, he no longer paid attention to Bai Wei and began to meticulously inspect the warehouse.
The distance from Rim Station to here was only one or two kilometers, not very far, but they encountered several checkpoints along the way. However, they managed to bypass them thanks to Bai Wei’s keen eyes. Of course, this was based on the fact that Gerard’s Wanted Notice hadn’t escalated to the highest level. If it were any higher, with Gerard’s current physical condition, even with Bai Wei’s alerts, it would be tough to avoid them.
After checking around the warehouse, Gerard murmured with some confusion, “Strange.”
“What?”
“This warehouse seems to be in use.” Gerard stood in front of the main door, looking at the lock that wasn’t very dusty, his eyebrows tightly knitted. “This lock is frequently used.”
“Could it be that your mechanician comrade has also returned?” Bai Wei raised his eyebrows again. “Just sitting here waiting for you, and as soon as you open the door, he says to you, ‘Ah, brother, surprise, right? I’m not dead. Let’s do something big’?”
This joke was somewhat morbid, but Gerard took it seriously. He stood there and remembered earnestly for a moment before shaking his head.
“No, impossible. I indeed lost a lot of memories from ten years ago, but the ones about him are still there… It’s absolutely impossible for him to still be alive.”
Well, it seemed he didn’t die very peacefully.
“Did he have any relatives?” Bai Wei asked.
“He had a wife,” Gerard replied in a low voice, “but she’s also deceased.”
“Did he have any children then? Maybe a little girl?”
“No, I don’t remember him having children…” Gerard instinctively shook his head, but he quickly realized Bai Wei’s focus on “little girl” and understood something. “Did you see something?”
There Bai Wei didn’t hide the truth, “Yes, there are obvious signs of life in the warehouse, and it looks like it might be a little girl’s.”
“Signs of life?” Gerard was slightly startled. “But this is just a warehouse. How could someone be living here?”
“Who knows?” Bai Wei said. “But the fact is that someone is.”
After hearing this, Gerard hesitated briefly before turning around to leave.
“Hey, aren’t you going in?” Bai Wei said. “I saw that the metal parts inside are quite complete.”
“I don’t know who the child living inside is, Eric’s or not, my arrival would only bring her trouble,” Gerard replied.
“You have a point,” Gerard’s middle finger slowly bobbed his head in agreement. “You are quite considerate; you should indeed leave now. Then, because your body reaches its limit and you can’t walk any further, you’ll be captured by those guys, executed, waiting for the new god to devour your Old Gods and then kill all the people of Lyra. When that child arrives in Hell, you can joyfully tell her, ‘You know, your uncle here didn’t want to cause you any trouble back then.'”
Gerard’s body stiffened.
“Haha, just kidding, don’t mind me,” Bai Wei said lightly. “Don’t worry. The birth of a new god won’t kill everyone; they also need believers, so at most… maybe a third will die, who knows, maybe that girl will be among the two-thirds who survive?”
There Bai Wei wasn’t bluffing.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fгeewebnovёl.co𝙢.
In the original plot, the disaster caused by the new god upon taking down the weak Lyra did result in the loss of many Lyrian lives, whether it was a third or not, it was definitely a massive number.
After hearing Bai Wei say this, Gerard indeed couldn’t persuade himself to leave anymore. He looked down at his body, flesh and metal intertwined, wounds already infected, and it was absolutely impossible to drag himself until he found another refuge.
Thus, he silently turned back, but he didn’t break into the warehouse directly. Instead, he went to the window, broke off the window latch, and squeezed through the not-so-spacious window.
It was clear he intended to replace the parts and leave, hopefully without alerting the little girl at all.
