Who hid my body?

Chapter 346 The Blame-Shifting Plan
At this moment, Rocky and Diana were in a very complicated state of mind.

Since entering Peach Blossom Village, the news that Bai Wei has told them has been more and more astonishing, to the point that they have become somewhat numb to it.

“I don’t know what to say anymore.” Diana sighed softly. “According to you, I won’t be too surprised if I open my eyes and see my right eye already beside me.”

“It’s not that bad,” Bai Wei said with a smile. “No matter how powerful his right eye is, it can’t teleport. As long as you keep a certain distance from him, at least not in the same place as him right now, you’ll be fine.”

Upon hearing this, Rocky couldn't sit still.

"I have something to do, I'll be leaving now." He subconsciously got up as if his butt was on fire, wanting to leave his seat, but then belatedly realized that he couldn't leave on his own, so he could only look at Bai Wei and say, "How about we call it a day tonight?"

"What's the rush?" Bai Wei said, feigning ignorance and surprise. "The matter isn't over yet."

"I really have something to do... I'm laying my cards on the table, and I'm the closest person to him right now!" Rocky finally snapped. "If you guys don't come up with something soon, once he kills me, you're all finished!"

In that instant, Rocky also understood.

Leaving like this wouldn't improve his situation at all. If Isaiah really found him, he'd be finished. So Rocky decisively used the "learn from the barbarians to subdue them" strategy, employing the same tactics he'd just used to protect himself and threaten the two guys that they couldn't just stand by and watch.

Although this method would increase the probability of him being exposed, Rocky couldn't care less, after all, Isaiah was just too terrifying.

"Oh?" Bai Wei continued to feign surprise. "Mr. Thumb is actually in Nameless Town?"

Rocky remained silent, his face dark.

Diana rubbed her temples, looking rather troubled.

What's more terrifying than a god-like opponent is a teammate like Rocky.

The thought of such a guy sitting next to her right eye, where her tongue had been cut off, made Diana feel as if half of his thumb was already attached to her right eye's hand.

Since that's the case, rather than leaving it in my right eye, I might as well...

Diana couldn't help but look at Rocky, but in the end she managed to suppress this extremely tempting thought. After all, it was too risky to make a move against a bishop, especially right under his right eyelid.

Yes, Diana already knew Rocky's identity. After the last gathering, Diana immediately sent people to investigate who was injured in the battle. She easily got the answer because only Rocky was injured, and his features were very obvious—all the fingers on his right hand except for his thumb were broken, as if the words "I am the thumb" were engraved on his forehead.

If that's the case, then if she knows Rocky's identity, then Isaiah must know it too, and Rocky is currently in the same place as Isaiah.

...He's a fucking idiot.

Diana was truly on edge.

"Don't worry, Mr. Thumb." Fortunately, Bai Wei comforted him, "Right Eye definitely won't dare to lay a hand on you, as long as you're in a crowded place."

"why?"

“Because he didn’t dare expose his own body parts.” Bai Wei shrugged. “Otherwise, why didn’t he leave a single survivor in his battle with Tongue? And he wanted to kill Tongue because he had to have the ‘righteous’ reason. On the surface, it was the Land of Contracts and the other churches that ordered him to take action. If he didn’t have such an order, how could he dare to attack you rashly?”

Rocky thought about it and felt that what Bai Wei said made sense. As a bishop of a region, his status was only slightly lower than Isaiah's. Why would he dare to take action directly?

Once Rocky understood this, he wasn't so panicked anymore and sat back down.

"So the next question is how we should deal with him." Bai Wei steered the conversation back on track. "Before that, we should all agree that in a head-on fight, none of us are a match for Right Eye... Is there a problem with that?"

Neither Diana nor Rocky responded, which was clearly an admission.

“Then we’ll need some additional methods.” Bai Wei looked at Diana. “What do you think, Miss Ring Finger?”

Diana was silent for a moment, then said, "Do you know about the obedience of the Heavenly Voice?"

In Diana's view, she only told the tongue about the obedience of the voice, but the hands and eyes knew it.

"So it's called the Obedience of Heaven's Voice?" Bai Wei chuckled and shrugged. "I don't know its name or what it does, but I know this gathering is to deal with me. In the eyes of the Church, I have four pieces of my body. So, to deal with someone like me, I don't think they should just have a simple meeting."

That reason does make sense.

Even without this reason, Diana wouldn't be too surprised. After all, Bai Wei isn't Rocky. If he hasn't found out any information by now, it just means that his abilities have reached their limit.

Bai Wei continued, "Since that Heavenly Voice's obedience could kill me, who possessed four body parts, then it could also kill Right Eye, who also possessed four body parts, right?"

Do you want to use the obedience of the heavens to resolve the issue of Isaiah?
This is indeed the most direct and reliable method, but...

“It’s not that simple.” Diana shook her head. “Right Eye’s status in the Star Remnant Cult is no less than that of their Pope. Even the Land of Contracts cannot execute him without evidence.”

"More than that, right? Even with clear evidence, it would be difficult for you to execute him, wouldn't it?" Bai Wei said with a smile. "People of this level are really hard to restrain with rules. Even if it's proven that he really has four body parts, the Contract Land and the other churches will just force him to hand them over, right?"

Diana did not speak, but she clearly acquiesced to it.

“In that case, why can’t we help him find a reason that will force you to take action?” Bai Wei said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, a strong sense of unease welled up in Diana's heart. She raised her head and looked directly at Bai Wei: "What are you referring to?"

“Four pieces of his body were no longer enough for him; he began to covet even greater power,” Bai Wei said, emphasizing each word. “Therefore, he turned his attention to the deepest part of the Land of Contracts, to the most core, most forbidden secret… What do you think of this reason?”

Diana stared intently at Bai Wei.

Bai Wei leaned back, looking completely relaxed.

"Well? Is that reason enough to kill him?"

……

Diana opened her eyes and returned to reality.

"Master, you're awake."

A servant knelt beside the bed and expertly offered a warm towel. Diana took the towel and asked, "Has anyone noticed anything unusual about me?"

“No, Master,” the servant replied respectfully. “As you instructed, I took you back to your room the moment you fell asleep and told outsiders not to disturb you. The warden did not come looking for you either.”

Diana nodded slightly before wiping her face with a damp towel.

Each time she is summoned to Paradise, she falls into a coma, which will inevitably attract the attention of others over time. Not everyone in the Land of Contracts is Diana's servant; the warden is the one in control. Therefore, Diana has to be careful about this to avoid exposing the secret of Paradise.

Fortunately, they had already agreed that the gathering would only take place at night, which greatly reduced the risk of exposure.

After wiping her face, the servant conveniently handed her a basin of water. Diana glanced at the basin instinctively and saw her own face was terribly pale in the reflection.

Diana hesitated for a moment, then closed her eyes. The servant trembled as Diana brought her consciousness into his mind.

Through the servants' eyes, Diana could see herself more clearly—despite having washed her face, she still looked as if she had just woken from a terrible nightmare, her face filled with unease and weakness.

Diana snapped out of her daze, tossed the towel to the servant, and waved him away.

Without a doubt, this gathering in Peach Blossom Village was the most stressful one for Diana in history. Before this, because she was in the Land of Contracts, Diana always had a "let you fight it out, I'll sit back and relax" mentality.

But that's no longer the case. Isaiah killed the tongue and took four pieces of the body, so in terms of sheer strength, he can now overpower the three of them.

Moreover, Diana had no idea what the four pieces of her body could be used for, or whether Isaiah had already seen through her identity.

Diana hated the unknown, just as her mother, the previous owner of this finger, had told her: never let anyone or anything slip out of your control.

After acquiring this finger, she did so most of the time, like a mastermind above all others. But now, the chessboard is showing signs of getting out of control.

Diana got up and left the room.

The moon is bright and the stars are few tonight, and the weather is cool.

Diana had hoped the night breeze would help her clear her head, but when the wind actually hit her face, she felt as if her already tangled brain had been doused with water, making her already chaotic thoughts even more difficult to unravel.

On the surface, Isaiah is the most uncontrollable person and the one who should be eliminated the most. However, what makes Diana uneasy is not only Isaiah, but also Hand and Eye.

Diana had always been extremely wary of Hand and Eye. After all, during their first gathering in Peach Blossom Land, Hand and Eye had tricked her, successfully extracting the greatest secret of the Contract Land from her. Even now, Diana didn't understand how Hand and Eye knew she came from the Contract Land, or why they wanted to uncover its secrets.

Of course, the latter question can be explained by curiosity. After all, it's normal to want to know the significance of the existence of a reclusive place like the Land of Contracts.

But would Hand and Eye really do something meaningless? After all, he was the guy who drove Tongue, who had three pieces of corpse, to the point that he was willing to fight Isaiah to the death, and even then, he couldn't do anything to him.

So this time, when Hand and Eye proposed using the reason of "coveting the deepest seal of the Covenant Land" to force the Covenant Land to activate the Voice of Heaven to execute Isaiah, Diana had to consider whether Hand and Eye had other motives.

Unbeknownst to her, Diana found herself back at the top of the Abyss Prison. Gazing at the seemingly endless vortex, she recalled her conversation with her mother.

"Mother, what's locked down there?"

"Something that is neither understandable nor imaginable."

"why?"

"You'll understand once you have this finger of mine."

Diana gently stroked her ring finger.

Yes, once she had this finger, she understood what her mother meant.

With just this one finger, thousands of people are willing to die for her and serve her as their master. No matter how powerful or high-ranking they were, they cannot defy the rules set by this finger.

And this is just one finger.

So what is the real Vesas like?

If we can't see the real Vesas, then what kind of power does the real corpse in the Abyss Prison possess?

If I could obtain this power...

Diana's eyes widened, and then she took a deep breath, repeatedly repeating her mother's advice, "Unfathomable, unimaginable," to banish this extremely dangerous thought.

At this moment, she couldn't help but recall what Hand and Eye had said in Peach Blossom Village—"Once you have experienced this power, no one can refuse it; we are all the same."

Yes, everyone is the same.

But the prison must never be opened, and that body must never see the light of day again.

This was Diana's bottom line; regardless of whose goal was to open the prison, she would immediately label them as an enemy.

However, Hand-Eye did not say he wanted to open the prison. His idea was to use some means to make it look like someone wanted to open the prison, just by tearing a small opening on the outside, and then shift the blame onto Isaiah.

There's nothing wrong with this plan, because in the Land of Contracts, executing a pope-like figure requires a clear reason, but executing someone who tries to open the prison doesn't.

And coincidentally, Diana, being in the land of the contract and possessing a ring finger, did indeed have the room to maneuver, so the plan was feasible.

However, this involves the Abyss Prison and the seal that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

Is it really okay to make a small change, to tear open a tiny hole?

Diana was unsure of herself, so she didn't agree to Bai Wei's suggestion on the spot, only saying that she would think of a better way.

Yes, she would never damage the prison, not even a little bit, if there was a better way.

(End of this chapter)