Who hid my body?

Chapter 345 It's Time for Honest Cooperation
Upon hearing this, Taoyuan Township immediately fell into a deathly silence.

Bai Wei's gaze lingered on Diana and Rocky, while Diana and Rocky's eyes were fixed directly on Bai Wei. However, since they were both phantoms, they couldn't see each other's expressions and naturally couldn't guess what the other was thinking... Oh, Rocky was an exception.

Even though they couldn't see his face clearly, Bai Wei and Diana could sense his shock from his subtle movements. This puzzled Diana greatly, because in her view, Rocky should also be one of the witnesses tonight, so why was he reacting like this?
Is he trying to hide his true abilities? But his attempt is far too clumsy.

However, Rocky wasn't faking it; there were two things that surprised him.

The first thing is that the murder of Tongue happened only tonight, less than two hours ago. It's understandable that he, as a witness at the scene, knew about it immediately, but how did that old bastard Uru know about it?
Rocky had originally been thinking of using this firsthand information to get something back from Uru, but it turns out this guy already knows. Could he be at the scene too?
However, given that he has that eye, it's not particularly surprising that he could know even if he wasn't there.

But how did the right eye kill the tongue? Wasn't it Isaiah who killed the tongue?

What did he miss?
Rocky glanced at Bai Wei several times before managing to refrain from saying, "Why don't you just put it more clearly?"

"Neither of you questioned the veracity of this news." Bai Wei smiled and nodded, seemingly oblivious to Rocky's odd behavior. "This also demonstrates your abilities. If either of you were to say, 'Why don't you explain yourself more clearly?' I would simply try to stay away from him... because I've heard that intellectual disability is contagious."

Rocky's lips twitched.

"Mr. Hand and Eye, you don't seem worried at all." Normally, Ring Finger would be happy to see Rocky's reaction, but right now she really had no time to waste on the mentally challenged. Right Eye, having killed Tongue and possessing four pieces of his body, had clearly become the most troublesome enemy. At this point, the rest of the people in Paradise would naturally form an alliance, and between Hand and Eye and Thumb, Hand and Eye were clearly the more suitable ally. "Can I take this to mean that all of this was within your expectations?"

“Miss Ring Finger is overestimating me,” Bai Wei said. “If I really had the ability to control everything, then the piece of the tongue wouldn’t have fallen into the hands of Right Eye. You should know which piece of the corpse Right Eye wants most in this paradise, right?”

It's naturally the left eye; even Rocky knows that.

Rocky wasn't stupid, at least not completely stupid, and he had already realized what was happening by now.

Holy crap, his right eye is Isaiah's!

No wonder he could kill the tongue, no wonder he could exert such power in the not-so-bright night sky, and no wonder he hid the three pieces of the body.

Because it's his right eye!

That makes sense.

In an instant, Rocky felt a sense of relief, as if he had been constipated for a long time and then had his bowels cleared. But after the relief came a lingering fear.

Damn, that guy already has four pieces of his body!?
Tonight I was so close to him?! If Isaiah knew I was the Thumb, wouldn't I be his next piece of flesh?

Although one cannot sweat in Peach Blossom Village, Rocky still felt a chill all over his body, as if he had accidentally strained too much during a massage.

“What the right eye desires most is indeed another eye.” Diana nodded slightly. “But since you possess two pieces of the body, you can refuse the call of Paradise, so there’s no need to worry too much about the right eye immediately coming after you.”

“If someone else had gotten those three body parts, I might have had a chance to intervene,” Bai Wei shrugged. “But the one who got them was the right eye, so I can only say that I’m not far from death myself.”

Diana frowned, recalling their "deal" in Peach Blossom Village two weeks prior, and immediately pressed, "What did you give him?!"

"My current location," Bai Wei said, "is one of the promises made to Peach Blossom Village that I cannot leave this place within a month."

Even the composed Diana's expression turned grim at that moment.

The fact that his right eye had eaten three pieces of the tongue was already unmatched, and he also knew the location of his hands and eyes.

In other words, he could take advantage of anyone at any time if he wanted to!
Four pieces of corpse against two pieces of corpse, and the side with four pieces of corpse is Isaiah, the number one man under God. Diana had no idea how she could possibly fight back.

She could almost see the two pieces of flesh from the hand and eye added to Isaiah's body.

At this moment, Rocky caught up with the two's train of thought and suddenly widened his eyes: "Then why the hell aren't you running?!"

"With Peach Blossom Spring as my constraint, how am I supposed to escape?" Bai Wei said. "Do you think I'm Vesas?"

"But what are you going to do if you don't run?!"

"That depends on what you do."

"us?"

“Yes.” Bai Wei shrugged. “What I expected was that the three of you would fight over the loot when you killed Tongue, and I would get the leftovers. I never thought that Right Eye could kill Tongue all by himself. But now it’s the worst situation for me. As long as he comes to me, I will have no chance to fight back.”

"Then how come you're still so relaxed?"

“Because if I die, you won’t be able to escape either,” Bai Wei said with a smile. “Even if I go to hell first, I’ll soon see you all come to join me. Since I can’t change my fate, seeing you fail like me will make me feel better.”

Rocky was stunned for a moment, then slammed his fist on the table and stood up: "You fucking..."

"Alright." Diana stopped Rocky's outburst, then looked at Bai Wei. "Mr. Hand and Eye, now that things have come to this, there's no need to test each other anymore. The combined number of our three body parts is only enough to match the right eye. If we don't cooperate more sincerely now, we're all doomed. So let's not say anything more pointless."

"Tsk, isn't this because I'm afraid of being stabbed in the back?" Bai Wei said with a smile. "If everyone here were as reasonable as Miss Ring Finger, I wouldn't need to give such roundabout reminders."

Who the hell are you secretly talking about?!

Rocky really wanted to explode, but he held back.

Having said that, Rocky understood why Hand-Eye had convened the Peach Blossom Village Corpse Friends Meeting so quickly; after all, he would have become a corpse any later.

Although Rocky really wanted to see Uru suffer, at this moment, even he had to hold his nose and pray that Uru wouldn't die.

“Right now, the most important thing is to save your life, Mr. Hand and Eye.” Diana asked thoughtfully, “What level of restrictions does Peach Blossom Spring have? Are you really unable to leave that agreed-upon place? Is it based primarily on subjective will or actual actions?”

“Subjective will,” Bai Wei replied. “As long as I have the thought that ‘I have broken the agreement with Peach Blossom Village,’ then I have broken the agreement, and the punishment from Peach Blossom Village will come in response.”

Diana frowned slightly.

From this perspective, the constraints of Peach Blossom Spring are very similar to those of the Land of Contracts, and the latter is very likely derived from the former.

Rocky asked, "What if someone knocks you out and carries you away? Is there any legal basis for that? In that case, you wouldn't be considered to have left intentionally, right?"

"Mr. Thumb always comes up with these kinds of suggestions that make you feel like you're going to faint."

"Stop being sarcastic! If you can do it, then do it; if you can't, just say so!" Rocky also lost his temper.

“No, that won’t do.” Before Bai Wei could answer, Diana shook her head and said, “As long as he believes in his heart that this is a breach of contract, he can’t escape it.”

Rocky instinctively said, "Then wouldn't it be fine if he didn't think that way?"

Diana began to regret talking to Rocky.

“In short, I can’t leave this place,” Bai Wei said. “I don’t want to experience what the punishment in Peach Blossom Spring is like, so let’s think of another way.”

"Then I'll send someone to protect you?" Rocky asked again, then he saw the two of them looking at him and immediately realized that his words were a bit inappropriate, so he quickly tried to salvage the situation, "I have a friend who has some influence, not me, I don't have any influence..." Was that the point?

Diana couldn't help but sigh, feeling a headache coming on from having such an ally.

"Thank you so much for your kindness, Mr. Thumb," Bai Wei said with a smile. "But I don't want to reveal my location yet. After all, it doesn't matter to me whether the person who comes to see me is Right Eye or someone else, does it?"

"You actually think I'm trying to take advantage of this situation and steal your body parts?!"

"We should always take precautions."

Damn it, I've been seen through.

Rocky said calmly, "Since you are so narrow-minded, there's nothing I can do about it."

"If there's nothing we can do, then so be it," Bai Wei said slowly. "Anyway, if I get killed, you won't escape either."

Rocky gritted his teeth, cursing inwardly how Rhine could produce such a despicable bastard as Uru!
“I can’t leave, and I can’t go to protect him,” Diana said softly. “Then there’s only one way… hold his right eye closed, so he won’t have time to look for you.”

Rocky looked at Diana in confusion: "Who has the ability to hold back the right eye? He already has four pieces of his body."

“We won’t hold them off through fighting,” Diana said calmly. “We’ll use other methods. Right Eye’s identity is clear now, and he doesn’t dare to reveal that he has four body parts. So, we have a lot of room to maneuver.”

Rocky understood what Diana meant.

“Leave this to me,” Diana said to Bai Wei. “I can keep him from coming to you.”

Bai Wei asked, "Is it really possible?"

Diana's brief reply was: "No problem."

This answer made Rocky take another look at Diana, and then he wondered what her real identity was.

Even now, although everyone hasn't fully revealed their identities, they can roughly guess who it is. After all, they all learned about Isaiah killing Tongue immediately, so there's no point in pretending to be an innocent bystander at this point. It's better to show their true role.

Having figured this out, Rocky cleared his throat: "Ahem, I'll try to stop him too."

Diana glanced at Rocky but didn't say anything more.

Bai Wei simply smiled and said, "Then I'll leave it to you two."

“It’s just a necessary alliance.” Diana looked at Bai Wei again. “And it’s not without cost. It’s like a trade. I helped you, so you should help us.”

“Yes, yes.” Rocky quickly followed up, “You can’t just watch and then run away when the time is up, leaving us with only a piece of our bodies.”

"Don't worry, we're all in this together now, none of us can escape," Bai Wei said with a smile. "If we don't work together to take him down, we'll all die."

"Including you?"

“Of course, that includes me,” Bai Wei said. “Of course, you might think that I can refuse Peach Blossom Spring because I have two pieces of body parts, but he has four pieces of body parts. Do you know what four pieces of body parts can do?”

Rocky immediately tensed up: "What can we do?"

"I do not know either."

Rocky paused, then roared again, "You fucking..."

“I don’t have four body parts, how would I know? But people are alive, and we can deduce things we don’t know from patterns.” Bai Wei interrupted Rocky’s impending swear word, “Just use the tongue as an example, the tongue has three body parts.”

"So what?"

"Let me put it more plainly," Bai Wei said, crossing his arms and resting his chin on his hand as he scanned the two of them. "Have you both dealt with Tongue before? Have you ever wondered how he found you?"

The two of them immediately became serious.

Yes, it seems they've been ignoring one thing.

That is, Tongue seems to be the only one present who has had real-world interaction with everyone in Peach Blossom Village.

He fought with his right eye, battled Rocky, and was ultimately killed by his own right eye.

During this period, he also made deals with Diana.

In other words, the tongue knows everyone's identity.

Is this really just a coincidence?

"It seems you understand what I mean," Bai Wei said. "The tongue has interacted with all of us in reality. Could this be interpreted as because it possesses three body parts? Two body parts can unlock Peach Blossom Spring, so can three body parts still only unlock Peach Blossom Spring?"

"You believe that the three body parts gave Tongue some new abilities from Paradise that transcend the rules of body parts?" Diana said. "And that's how he used this ability to reach each of us in the real world?"

Don't you think that's very likely?

"Then why did he still lose to his right eye?"

"Probably because this ability can only be used to find people," Bai Wei shrugged. "Whether you can beat them after finding them is another matter."

Bai Wei's words weighed heavily on Diana and Rocky's hearts.

If the tongue could find the right eye using three pieces of the body, then the right eye could naturally find them using four pieces of the body.

"Is this really possible?"

“Why is it impossible?” Bai Wei said. “Haven’t you noticed that until now, the right eye hasn’t activated Peach Blossom Spring to summon the two of you?”

"Does it matter?"

“It’s just a conjecture, it might not be correct,” Bai Wei said slowly. “His tongue has three body parts, and these three parts make it easier for him to contact or sense other body part holders. But he doesn’t know exactly what those other people have, so he also needs to use Peach Blossom Village to gather intelligence and evade my pursuit. But his right eye is different; the four body parts give him higher authority. So, is there a possibility…”

Bai Wei paused.

"He no longer needs to rely on Peach Blossom Spring to find each and every one of us?"

(End of this chapter)