Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 116 - : Twenty names engraved on the pocket watch

Chapter 116: Twenty names engraved on the pocket watch

“Phew… Phew…”

As the tower in the Fourth District fell into chaos, Gerard went against the crowd and walked out.

He breathed heavily, his body trembling slightly, and his vision blurred, barely able to see the road beneath his feet. If it weren’t for Bai Wei constantly instructing him “left and right” in his mind, he might have fallen over several times already.

He forced himself onward into an alley. After confirming that no one was around, he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

By then, his right eye was nearly blind, accompanied by a pain sharp as needles, even more unbearable than when he had gouged out his left eye with a dagger back in Somo City.

“Am I going blind?” Gerard asked Bai Wei.

“Not yet,” Bai Wei replied calmly. “That guy is just an ordinary person. Dealing with him shouldn’t exact too high a price; you should soon recover.”

Hearing Bai Wei’s words, Gerard nodded without speaking further.

Still careless.

Bai Wei sighed inwardly.

They had almost been discovered. Dealing with such a person and having to employ the Rule’s left eye seemed like using a guillotine to kill a chicken… no, more like using an executioner’s blade.

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Of course, this was also because the situation in Lyra was far more complicated than he had imagined. In the original story, players would not enter this map formally until a month later, by which time Gerard would have already been long dead, and the power struggle among all parties in Lyra nearly concluded. The whole of Lyra would be like a powder keg about to explode, and the fuse was already lit, heading irreversibly toward an outcome.

Though the protagonist ultimately resolved the issue, it came at a huge cost, losing that piece of Corpse Blocks forever.

Now, before everything became irreversible, Bai Wei intended to enter the game early and grab the Corpse Blocks, facing even greater and unknown risks.

If this happened a couple more times, Gerard’s body would give out before retrieving the Corpse Blocks, and it would be difficult to say whether he could find the next Host to escape this troubling situation immediately.

Is this the consequence of greed?

Bai Wei thought jokingly to himself. Then, noticing that Gerard had been silent for a long while, he spoke lightly, “You’ve somewhat surprised me.”

“What?”

“I thought you would nag me more,” Bai Wei said. “Like asking why kill him, since he’s just an ordinary person. Or saying that we shouldn’t lay hands on him without witnessing his outrageous actions firsthand, that it goes against the rules… Honestly, you not bringing up the rules surprises me.”

Previously, Gerard would definitely not have answered this question from Bai Wei. But now, having engaged in “the new deal,” he could not hide it and slowly said, “I gave him a chance.”

“Hmm?”

“I said, I already gave him a chance,” Gerard repeated. “He had no corruption, but I’m certain he knew something, and he was involved… Of course, the main reason was still our first deal.”

“Oh?”

“You had me use this eye.” Gerard’s finger gently caressed the bandage over his left eye. “And I, in return, must ensure your safety, find the next Host for you. That is our deal, so no matter from which perspective…”

Gerard paused.

“He could not be allowed to live.”

Listening to Gerard’s explanation, Bai Wei felt very satisfied.

Although Gerard proved more troublesome than Ulu, after two days, this stubborn stone, who had held fast to rules to the extent of readily accepting a suicidal mission, also began crossing lines.

And not just by a small margin, but by a significant step.

Of course, in Bai Wei’s view, Gerard was merely catching up with the ten years of halted progress.

“Of course.” Soon after, Bai Wei heard Gerard speak calmly, “Once all the dust settles, the truth is revealed, and the rules are reestablished, I will pay the price for everything I have done.”

“That does sound like something you would say,” Bai Wei responded with a light smile. “If such a day of dust settling really comes, what you do then is none of my concern.”

This time, Gerard was silent for a long time, unsure what he was thinking, and Bai Wei didn’t ask.

Not until his right eye had gradually recovered. Just when Bai Wei thought he was about to leave, Gerard suddenly asked, “The power just now, if it happens a few more times, what will become of me?”

“Permanent blindness, at the very least,” Bai Wei did not hide it from him, as Gerard would have guessed after experiencing it once. “This also depends on the opponent, which is why I always suggest that you take my finger; its price is at least less than that of the eye.”

“But they’re both irreversible consequences, right?” Gerard said. “In the end, will I end up like… when I first met you?”

Bai Wei knew Gerard was referring to Ulu, so he answered, “You can avoid ending up like that.”

“Is there a choice?”

“Of course.”

“And what about him?” Gerard asked, “Does he also have a choice?”

“If I told you that until the very last night, he still had the opportunity and could choose to live, would you believe me?”

Gerard remained silent for a long while before he softly said, “Before today, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

Bai Wei remained silent.

“Visas, I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of you,” Gerard said. “If it were just death, even if I became like the person before me, I wouldn’t mind. I only want to find the truth and clear the corruption threatening Lyra, but I myself… I don’t want to become a greater corruption.”

Gerard didn’t finish his sentence, but Bai Wei had already understood… once again, he had refused to connect his own fingers.

Especially after witnessing the true power of this eye today.

As he always said, he wasn’t afraid of death, even if he died like Ulu, but he was more afraid of being controlled by Bai Wei, thereby causing Lyra to slide into an inevitable abyss.

What a troublesome guy.

But Bai Wei wasn’t in a hurry, “If you can really solve everything with your own power, then I’d be happy to relax…”

As he spoke, Bai Wei didn’t want to linger on this topic anymore and said,

“Now that guy is also dead, even without clear evidence, not knowing the specifics, but the one behind him will definitely pay more attention to you now, what comes next will be even more troublesome.”

That was also why Bai Wei didn’t care whether Gerard was willing to connect his fingers immediately.

Today’s incident was an accident, nearly causing him to expose himself.

But from another perspective, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

With Terrell dead, his superior wouldn’t continue to observe slowly anymore, because Gerard must have seemed uncontrollable to him.

And Gerard seemed to realize this too, and he nodded slightly, “Good, I also need to find him.”

“Find who?”

“The Bishop of Fourth District, Hallman,” Gerard said as he put his hands in his pockets and slowly continued, “One assistant having a problem could be explained away, but if two of them did, then that can only mean, he has a problem too, just don’t know why… hmm?”

Gerard suddenly felt something in his pocket.

He took it out and found several blood-stained parts.

These were the fragments of the Desolate Time Clock that Terrell had used earlier.

Gerard stared at these fragments in a daze.

Bai Wei asked, “What’s wrong?”

Gerard’s brows furrowed slightly, “The Desolate Time Clock was the standard equipment of the Pioneer Force ten years ago, and after the second generation of the ‘Devil’ Pioneer Force was established, they changed to new standard equipment, so why was he still using this one?”

Hearing Gerard’s words, Bai Wei also directed his gaze at these scattered fragments, and then his pupils flickered, soon realizing something, “Oh?”

But before he could speak, Gerard had already taken out his own Desolate Time Clock for comparison.

From the degree of wear on the exterior, these two Desolate Time Clocks seemed to be from the same era.

Then, Gerard noticed that these fragments of the Desolate Time Clock had some engravings, which seemed deliberately carved and not just ordinary scratches.

He suddenly guessed something.

Because the complete Desolate Time Clock also had such engravings, engraved with a name – Helmo.

So, Gerard bent down and began to piece them together on the ground.

The parts he had were not many, only enough to sketch out a rough outline, and thus, those carvings didn’t reveal anything specific. However, when Gerard used his dagger to scrape away the dust on the ground, connecting these engravings, a complete name finally emerged vaguely.

Gerard just glanced at it and fell into a prolonged silence.

Because the name was,

“Gerard.”