Online Fortune Telling: Your Son Has Another Dad
Chapter 639 - 637: Suspicion
"Wait a minute..."
Just as "Diego" was recounting the process of borrowing life, Yang Qingshu suddenly interrupted.
Furrowing his brow, he asked in a deep voice, "If you’ve borrowed a life and reached the time limit, but can’t find a new target, what would happen then?"
"Of course, we have to go back to lying inside the coffin!"
"Diego" replied with a helpless bitter smile.
"So, what you’re saying is, the villagers we encountered lying inside coffins on the mountainside were those who couldn’t find new targets and thus had to stay in the coffins?"
Yang Qingshu continued to ask.
"Yes!"
"Diego" nodded and said, "They also had once borrowed someone else’s life."
"But because Stone Temple Village was cursed by the Blood God, it gradually became isolated from the world."
"No strangers came by afterward, so we had no choice but to return to the coffins and endure the temple priest’s hunt."
Kaine followed up with a question: "Did you light the fires in the wooden house to ward off the temple priest?"
"Yes!"
"Diego" nodded again, "Although the temple priest was resurrected by the Blood God, he cannot see light."
"Thus, during the daytime, he cannot leave the stone temple and only comes out to hunt at night."
"To prevent being devoured by the temple priest, we had no choice but to light bonfires in our own houses to keep him away."
Kaine asked again: "So after completing the life-borrowing, you no longer fear the temple priest’s hunt?"
"You’re correct!"
"Diego" chuckled and said, "After completing the life-borrowing ritual, we’ve completely changed our fate and become different people."
"The temple priest only hunts villagers and doesn’t bother with strangers..."
"That’s not right!"
Yang Qingshu suddenly interrupted "Diego" again.
He questioned aloud, "If the temple priest only hunts ordinary villagers, then why did our companions die in the stone temple?"
"They weren’t killed by the temple priest!"
"Diego" shook his head in denial.
"Then how did they die?"
Marco asked curiously.
"Diego" smiled slightly, saying, "They were caught in the temple priest’s illusions, and in those illusions, they killed themselves!"
"Hiss..."
Upon hearing this, Marco and the others couldn’t help but inhale sharply.
They never imagined that Fiona and the others died by their own hands!
If not for Xiao Yan’s help, they might have unknowingly died at their own hands like Fiona.
"That doesn’t seem right!"
Yang Qingshu shook his head, frowning as he said, "When I was in the Illusion Realm, the black-robed temple priest still wanted to eat me!"
Nearby, Tie Xiong, though silent, slightly nodded in agreement.
"You’re different!"
"Diego" chuckled, saying, "You’re the Divine Envoys!"
"In the past, the Blood God Sect’s Divine Envoy had an agreement with the temple priest, that killing a hundred villagers would make the temple priest leave."
"Unfortunately, the Divine Envoy never appeared again, so the agreement was left unfinished."
"The temple priest, feeling deceived, naturally resented you Divine Envoys and wanted to kill you without hesitation..."
"So that’s how it is!"
Yang Qingshu nodded thoughtfully.
He finally understood why the black-robed temple priest reacted with such anger and acted so aggressively when he revealed his identity as a Divine Envoy.
"Lord Divine Envoy, I’ve done my best to cooperate with you."
"I wonder if you could take me away from here?"
"Diego" glanced at Tie Xiong, pleading.
Tie Xiong remained expressionless as before.
How could he take away a creature like "Diego"?
This creature needed to find targets for life-borrowing periodically.
Who knows how many people "Diego" would kill if he got out...
Wait!
At that thought, Tie Xiong suddenly remembered something, and a chill ran down his spine to the top of his head.
Impossible! Impossible!
How could it be possible?
He repeatedly denied in his mind, but the more he thought, the more uneasy he felt!
"I have another question..."
Tie Xiong suppressed his horror and asked: "When performing the life-borrowing ritual, must the chosen target be a living person?"
"Of course!"
"We need to borrow the fate of a living being, but once the living becomes dead, they no longer have a fate."
"In such a case, the life-borrowing ritual fails entirely..."
"Diego" had said almost everything he could without reservation.
"I remember your original appearance as Zhang Songkang."
"Does that mean Zhang Songkang was alive when he came here?"
Tie Xiong continued to ask.
"Indeed, he was alive!"
"Diego" gently nodded.
"Besides Zhang Songkang, were there any other living people?"
Tie Xiong further inquired.
"Yes, there were some called Lars and Thomas."
"Their names were strange, and they looked completely different, not like Central Earth people at all."
"Only after completing the life-borrowing ritual did I learn through Zhang Songkang’s memory..."
"Diego" answered truthfully.
Yang Qingshu listened in confusion to their questioning and answering: "Brother Tie, is there a deeper meaning to these questions?"
"I suspect someone has a problem!"
Tie Xiong replied in a deep voice without hiding anything.
"Who?"
Yang Qingshu opened his eyes wide, filled with curiosity.
"I’m not sure yet; I need to ask more questions."
With that, Tie Xiong’s gaze returned to "Diego."
He continued to ask: "Before Zhang Songkang and the others came here, was there a woman?"
"A woman?"
Hearing this, "Diego" immediately fell into deep thought.
After thinking for a while, he hesitantly said, "At the very beginning, there seemed to be a woman, but she disappeared quickly."
"A woman? Brother Tie, the more I hear, the more confused I get!"
Yang Qingshu wore a face full of perplexity and confusion.
At that moment, Tongtai spoke up: "Brother Tie, are you suspecting that Yan Tong?"
"What? Yan Tong?"
Hearing this name, Yang Qingshu reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, bristling in shock.
"That’s right, I suspect Yan Tong has a problem!"
Tie Xiong didn’t hold back, confirming directly.
"But... how is that possible?"
Yang Qingshu felt utterly... utterly... utterly ridiculous.
"Why not?"
Tie Xiong said with a faint smile, "Those who entered the Blood-colored Divine Temple, be it Zhang Songkang, Lars, or later Diego, Marcus — none made it out alive..."