You're my wife, don't doubt it!

“We have no choice. With my dad like this, we can’t possibly walk down the stairs ourselves,” Yu Baolu said.

Xiao Yao: "...Wait a minute, the big sheep is still at the other end of the corridor."

"Take them down first, I'll go meet up with Da Yang," Yu Bo instructed via communicator.

Xiao Yao: "Are you even capable? You don't have anyone from the fortress..."

Yu Bo: "I just awakened."

“…6.” Xiao Yao said, “Be careful, there are tons of monsters.”

As if to prove what Xiao Yao said, the elevator doors opened with a "ding," revealing a whole elevator full of Shadows, who stared at Xiao Yao and the other two.

"Hi," Xiao Yao said politely to them.

The boy slashed and cleared the elevator, then helped Yu Baolu and Yu Texuan into the elevator.

The elevator doors closed and it slowly descended, without the power outage or Shadow's claws piercing through the adjacent wall that Xiao Yao had feared.

“Thank God, Amitabha… Alleluia,” Xiao Yao said.

Upon arriving at the first floor of the hotel, Xiao Yao rushed out first.

"Uncle, are you alright?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Go on your way," Yu Baolu said.

The three of them made their way through a maze of twists and turns, with Xiao Yao advancing as he fought. The further they went, the fewer shadows they encountered, until they disappeared completely.

Yu Baolu pushed open the door to the Communion and, carrying the old man on his back, barged in.

"Hey, this is the Communion I come to every day," Xiao Yao thought.

In order to be a devout and good child (to show Grandpa Yu), Xiao Yao would sit in the Sacred Heart Chamber with Yu Luying and Shen Jie for an hour every evening throughout the summer camp, so this place had become very familiar to him.

It feels just like coming home.

A girl knelt on the soft carpet of the Sacramento, wearing a lace shawl on her head, praying while trembling.

"You fierce old woman! Is that you?" Xiao Yao exclaimed in surprise.

"Please refrain from making noise inside the Eucharist." Yu Baolu gently set Yu Texuan down: "Aren't you going to lend a hand?"

Chapter 314 Shelter

2023-08-30

"You fierce old woman! Is that you?" Xiao Yao exclaimed in surprise.

"Please refrain from making noise inside the Eucharist." Yu Baolu gently set Yu Texuan down: "Aren't you going to lend a hand?"

Xiao Yao put down the flashlight and went to help, thinking to himself how annoying this person could be, so annoying that he was everywhere.

Once the old man was settled and comfortably seated, Yu Baolu immediately made a vertical and horizontal gesture across his chest and bowed deeply to the Holy Body. Xiao Yao realized he had almost forgotten and quickly returned the bow, then asked Lu Jia what had happened and why she was there.

“I don’t know,” the girl replied, her voice trembling with tears. “I had just finished using the toilet and flushed the toilet when the power went out throughout the entire hotel.”

Xiao Yao: "..."

Hold it in, don't laugh.

Lucia continued her description: "Then I saw green everywhere, and a lot of people were yelling outside the toilet. I rushed out and said, 'What are you doing? You're trying to rebel because of a power outage? ...What's so funny?'"

Xiao Yao said with a straight face, "No, I didn't laugh."

"Then they surrounded me and tried to hit me, which terrified me. I ran and screamed as I ran, and then I saw Father Yu holding a gun and fighting with them."

Lucia described it vividly, as if she were there herself. She recounted how she was captured by the Shadow, almost disemboweled, and how Father Yu suddenly grew armor from his body, long hair from his head, and two curved swords in his hands, saving her and bringing her to the Communion.

"I still doubt I'm dreaming. Am I dreaming? Everyone else is frozen in place, only we can still move..." Lucia squatted on the ground, pulling at her face, her words somewhat incoherent.

"Calm down," Xiao Yao said, squatting down and placing his hands on the girl's arms. "This isn't a dream, I promise you."

“Father Yu was like that too, holding his head in his hands, half-squatting on the ground,” Lucia subconsciously shook Xiao Yao’s hands off him: “He seemed to be muttering something to the air, and then he turned into that, armor grew on his body, long hair grew on his head, and two curved swords appeared in his hands…”

"Okay, okay, I got it," Xiao Yao said.

Xiao Yao thought, "This fierce old woman has been traumatized and has turned into Xianglin's Wife."

The lights in the communal room were also turned off, but the red eternal lamp hanging in the front left, proclaiming the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, was still lit, providing a tiny bit of illumination to this small "humble room" and even dispelling the green light in the air.

“These shadows really don’t dare to approach the Holy Body Chamber.” Xiao Yao peeked outside the Holy Body Chamber and found that the shadows were all gathered outside the door of the Holy Body Chamber, outside an invisible boundary, and none of them dared to cross the line.

Lucia, gazing at the light of the Eucharist, murmured, "The light shines in the darkness, and darkness can never overcome Him..."

"Alright, it works." Xiao Yao said, "Then you guys stay here and don't move around. I'll go buy a few... I need to go find Da Yang. I'm very worried about her."

“Hello, hello,” Yu Bo’s voice came through the communicator: “Dad, are you in the Holy Sepulchre? Give the communicator to Xiao Yao.”

"I've arrived, I'm fine, hey, okay." Yu Texuan handed the communicator to Xiao Yao, but couldn't reach it. Xiao Yao was lost in thought and didn't react in time to take it. So Yu Baolu stood up, stepped forward, took the communicator from the old man's hand, and handed it to Xiao Yao, his eyes full of "You're such a clueless child."

“Hey, Xiao Yao,” Yu Bo said.

“Father Yu, I’m here.”

"Where did you say the big sheep was? Was it on the 27th floor?"

"It's on the 27th floor. She's maintaining the ice barrier in the corridor. Didn't you find her?"

“I just came over from over there, but I didn’t see her, and there weren’t many shadows either,” Yu Bo told Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao's heart sank: "How could that be? Why don't you look again? Could it be on the other side?"

Yu Bo: "I've already gone downstairs—I'll look for it elsewhere. Don't worry too much. Since you're alright, it means Da Yang is definitely alright."

Xiao Yao: "That's right."

Yu Texuan, Yu Baolu, and Lu Ziya couldn't understand the logic behind this, but no one bothered to investigate further.

"By the way, where's Shen Jie? Have you seen her? I think I heard an explosion outside just now. Could Shen Jie have been caught in it too?" Xiao Yao asked into the walkie-talkie.

Yu Texuan, Yu Baolu, and Lu Ziya all turned to look at Xiao Yao, their expressions varied but all complex.

There was a lot of static coming from the communicator, and I couldn't understand what Yu Bo was saying. Finally, I could hear the words "I didn't see her".

"They're all such a handful..." Xiao Yao said anxiously, gripping his sword hilt as he prepared to leave.

Then another burst of static came through the communicator, and another voice joined the channel: "Hello? Can anyone hear me?"

“I can hear you,” Yu Bo said. “Who are you?”

"Damn, this thing is finally healed!" the man said. "I'm Ribbonfish! Shen Jie might be seriously injured. Can any of you go check on her? I can't get ashore; I won't have the strength..."

"What?!" Xiao Yao and Lu Ziya were both taken aback, their anxiety growing. "Where is she?"

Once Daiyu had explained Shen Jie's approximate location, Xiao Yao jumped up to run, but Yu Bo stopped him: "Xiao Yao, I'll go! I'm already downstairs. I'll go check on Shen Jie. You go find Da Yang!"

"No, I—" Xiao Yao was so anxious that tears were about to fall.

"My fortress can heal, can yours?" Yu Bo insisted, "Don't forget that you and the Great Sheep have that kind of bond. Enough nonsense, go find the Great Sheep and bring her safely back to the Holy Body Chamber, or you'll be held responsible! Do you understand?"

Xiao Yao glanced at the way Yu Texuan and Yu Baolu were looking at him and said, "I understand."

"Alright, be careful and don't be too reckless," Yu Bo advised.

“Bobo, he’s already gone,” Yu Texuan said. “You should hurry and save Shen Hongsheng’s daughter.”

Yu Bo didn't dare take the elevator, so he ran down 27 floors in one go until his legs were about to give way.

This armor wasn't too light, but fortunately we didn't encounter many enemies along the way.

Where did all those massive Shadow armies go in the blink of an eye?

As Yu Bo ran, he harvested the few shadows blocking his way, emitting war cries and strange moans.

I never imagined that my fortress would be... him.

Not bad, Yu Bo thought.

Yu Bo rushed out of the main entrance of the Sheng'ai Hotel like a whirlwind, almost getting hit in the face by a cannonball fired by a ribbonfish.

"Damn it, ribbonfish!" Yu Bo yelled into the communicator, staring at the dark shell crater about twenty meters ahead. "Was that you firing the cannon?"

"Yeah, isn't he handsome?" Daiyu's voice came through the communicator.

"Handsome my foot!" Yu Bo roared, "I'm out of the hotel, you fucking keep an eye on things, don't blow things up!"

The gunboats at sea immediately ceased fire.

“You’re priests now,” Yu Texuan’s voice came through the communicator, “You speak so rudely, how can you set a good example for your parishioners?”

"No way," Yu Bo muttered to himself.

Actually, the location of Shen Jie described by the ribbonfish is still vague. It is only known that she is on the beach, but it seems that as long as you follow the swarming shadows, you can find her.

Yu Bo was puzzled—he could completely understand why the Shadow Group targeted the old man, since the old man was a member of the "organization," but now that his father had hidden in the Holy Body Chamber, they had turned their attention to Shen Jie, as if they were determined to kill her. Why was that?

However, it's not surprising. After all, she is one of the fortress messengers and is outside the protection range of the Holy Body. It's understandable that Shadow would want to eliminate one by one.

Yu Bo's heart leaped into his throat. He ran faster than the shadows, wielding a katana in his right hand and a wakizashi in his left, whirling through the shadows like a whirlwind. Black mist, left behind as the shadows dissipated, dripped from the blades of both swords.

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