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

"Ribbonfish, ribbonfish, this is Xiao Yao." Xiao Yao's voice came through the communicator.

……

"Be careful with the ribbonfish," Yu Bo said.

"Yes, sir! Yahoo!"

Yu Bo put down the communicator, looked up, and saw...

The priest was greatly surprised.

--split line--

"Can't you sense Yu Luying's location?" Shen Jie's red cloak almost slipped off, so she quickly wrapped it back up and caught up with her in a few strides.

"Ribbonfish, ribbonfish, this is Xiao Yao." Xiao Yao ignored Shen Jie's question and simply spoke into the communicator.

"Brother Xiao Yao, your captain is ready to go at any time!" came the nonchalant voice of Daiyu from the communicator.

"Did you see anyone run out of the hotel?" Xiao Yao asked.

"The last person to run out of the hotel was Father Yu, who rescued my sister-in-law. We haven't seen anyone come out since," Daiyu reported.

"Sister-in-law?" Yu Bo interrupted in the chat, "Xiao Yao, you haven't broken up with Xiao Shen?"

"We've broken up, we've broken up," Xiao Yao said impatiently.

Shen Jie glanced at him.

“Listen up, Ribbonfish,” Xiao Yao continued, “Fire first on any suspicious target, then ask questions, especially Yu Luying, kill her without mercy.”

Shen Jie glanced at him again.

"What the hell?!" Ribbonfish questioned the order.

“Yu Luying has either betrayed us or is an enemy impersonating her. She just stole two important sacred artifacts from us,” Xiao Yao explained to Daiyu.

“But we can’t just kill them all,” Yu Bo interjected again. “What if it’s a real giant sheep?”

"A big sheep?" Xiao Yao said, "Would a real big sheep rush out of the hotel?"

“Ribbonfish,” Yu Bo continued to interfere with Xiao Yao’s command, “Be careful.”

"Understood!" the ribbonfish cried out in a ghostly voice, "Yahoo~~~~"

"Ah." Shen Jie staggered, using the small flame at her fingertips to illuminate the spot. Looking down, she saw blood gushing out from between her toes.

Seeing that Xiao Yao remained unmoved and continued searching with a flashlight, Shen Jie finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Xiao Yao," Shen Jie stopped in her tracks, "I almost died just now, do you know that?"

“I know,” Xiao Yao replied succinctly.

“I hoped you would come to save me countless times back then, but in the end, it was someone else who saved my life, and someone else too. Do you have anything to explain? What exactly are you doing?” Shen Jie’s voice trembled slightly.

At this moment, "Xiao Yao" was facing away from Shen Jie. Her eyes darted around, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

“If you’re going to argue or fight,” Xiao Yao said impatiently, “can’t we wait until we’ve finished our business? Look around you, our world is in imminent danger. I’ve always thought you were a sensible person, and now is not the time for sentimentality—hurry up and catch up.”

Xiao Yao pushed open the kitchen door and saw that Shen Jie was still standing there, refusing to leave. He stopped, sighed, and said, "I was protecting Yu Luying and her family. I regret it now. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Shen Jie remained standing in the same spot, head slightly bowed, motionless and silent.

In the lush green darkness, Xiao Yao couldn't quite make out the girl's expression.

"It's really just a question of who I would save first if you and Yu Luying both fell into the water at the same time," Xiao Yao explained. "I wouldn't save you first, nor would I save her first. I would only save the person closest to me. It's a rational choice, do you understand?"

“Xiao Yao,” the girl took a deep breath and looked up, “I want to go home after all this is over today.”

"Does that mean we should break up?" Xiao Yao's tone was very calm, without any surprise or emotion, as if he were talking about something insignificant.

Little did Shen Jie know that Xiao Yao was secretly delighted.

“I will not break up with you,” Shen Jie shook her head, desperately holding back her tears, “but, I can’t…”

Before she could finish speaking, a loud bang suddenly came from the kitchen.

It looked like some iron gate had collapsed, Shen Jie thought.

"Who?!" Xiao Yao shouted, raising a flashlight in his left hand and a sword in his right.

A flame ignited in Shen Jie's hand, and through the flame, she saw Yu Luying standing in the kitchen, covered in ice shards, holding an axe in her right hand, trembling.

You know what, it actually looks like a scene from a horror movie.

Xiao Yao drew his sword and shouted sternly, "Hand over the Holy Body and Holy Armor! What exactly do you want? Confess!"

"What do I want? I'm the one who should be asking you what you want! Why did you lie to me?!" The girl in the tracksuit, covered in ice shards, conjured ice in one hand and held an ice axe in the other, pointing it directly at Xiao Yao.

Shen Jie looked at this and then at that, and the flames in her palms burned even more fiercely.

--split line--

Right now, on the other side.

Inside the mortuary, Yu Bo was pointing a double-barreled shotgun at Xiao Yao: "Say it! Are you an imposter?"

"How did I become the imposter?! That one is the imposter!" Xiao Yao roared in fury. "You actually let the imposter take Shen Jie away?! Wait, how am I supposed to know you're really Father Yu?"

Chapter 316 The first time the three of us were together

2023-09-02

When Yu Bo went upstairs to get the Mass equipment, Xiao Yao was blocking the entrance to the no-longer-safe shelter, playing a tower defense game.

He poured his anger, hatred, regret, and guilt onto the tip of his sword.

I should have realized something was wrong with "Yu Luying" much sooner—even just one minute earlier?

In that case, the situation might be very different.

Putting aside that slut's clumsy acting and flawed words and actions, just the lack of mutual feedback during physical contact should have alerted me long ago.

Although we are in the real world, now that we have entered the Shadow Time, we should view it as the world in the mirror.

It's not surprising that Shadow can transform into any shape at will. She might also be the one who hid in the mirror to drug Shen Jie a while ago and threw Shen Jie's shoes out of the mirror.

But that thing was completely unafraid of the Holy Body. Could it be a human?

A Spirit Fortress can change a human's appearance in the Shadow World, but so far, this change has been fixed.

As for this ability to do whatever one pleases, it's like Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations...

All I can say is that blind spots in thinking can be deadly, Xiao Yao thought.

While he was fighting a bloody battle, he suddenly heard Yu Bo's signature gunshot from afar, and his heart leaped with joy.

Not long after, Yu Bo was seen carrying his broken old hunting rifle in one hand and a heavy leather suitcase in the other—or rather, he was holding it high up, because he was also holding a communicator in the same hand and talking loudly.

How should I put it? If it weren't for the gun, he would look like an office worker who is about to be late for work.

"A big sheep?" a somewhat familiar male voice said. "Would a real big sheep rush out of the hotel?"

“Ribbonfish,” the late commuter instructed, “be careful.”

"Understood!" came a scream from the other end of the communicator: "Yahoo~~~"

“Father, over here!” Xiao Yao called out, sticking his head out.

Unexpectedly, when Yu Bo saw him, his expression was as if he had seen a ghost: "How come you came back so quickly? Did you find the big sheep?"

Xiao Yao: "Didn't find it. What we found was a fake. Come in and we'll talk."

There was no time for idle chatter and jokes. Xiao Yao helped Yu Bo clear a bloody path, and then the two of them closed and locked the small door of the Holy Body Chamber together.

Outside the door, the shadows continued to howl and pound against the small door.

“Father Yu is just like a policeman in a movie,” Xiao Yao said. “He always waits until the bad guys have been dealt with before he appears with his horn blaring.”

Yu Bo glanced around the Holy Body Chamber, then turned to Xiao Yao and demanded sharply, "Where's Shen Jie? You clearly went that way just now, how did you get to the Holy Body Chamber before me?"

Xiao Yao was confused and then became anxious: "Didn't you go to rescue Shen Jie? Where is she? Is she alright?"

Yu Bo threw the suitcase on the ground, raised the shotgun, and pointed the two dark barrels at Xiao Yao: "I was just talking to you on the communicator, and you were clearly still outside with Shen Jie, but when I looked up I saw you—tell me! Are you an imposter!"

"How did I become the imposter?! That one is the imposter!" Xiao Yao roared in fury. "You actually let the imposter take Shen Jie away?! Wait, how am I supposed to know you're really Father Yu?"

"Nonsense!" Yu Texuan shouted, "Shadow is still kicking the door outside, and you two are standing here in front of the Holy Body... cough cough, you two are here...!"

“Brother, he really is Xiao Yao. The three of us can all testify to that,” Yu Baolu said. “This young man has never left here and has been protecting us all along.”

Yu Bo glanced at Yu Texuan, Yu Baolu, and Lu Ziya, and was about to put his shotgun away when Xiao Yao rushed up, twisted the muzzle of his gun toward the ceiling, and slammed him against the wall: "I've been here the whole time, but you came in from the outside. Please prove that you are you."

“If you were really Xiao Yao, you would know this gun is broken. With that kind of understanding, this gun wouldn't fire a bullet,” Yu Bo said. “Then why did you turn the muzzle around?”

“Since I haven’t confirmed your identity, I don’t know if the gun is broken,” Xiao Yao said. “That’s not enough. Let me tell you something that only Brother Bo and I know.”

Yu Bo said helplessly, "I followed Liang Yanan with you in the car, and we got into a fight. I even broke her glasses."

Yu Texuan exclaimed in surprise, "You actually still have dealings with that girl surnamed Liang?!"

Ignoring Yu Texuan, Xiao Yao continued to press, "After you confessed to Liang Yanan in college, how did she reject you?"

"High school, high school classmate!" Yu Bo said in a low voice, "Our elders are here, don't mess around."

"Do you still love her?" Xiao Yao asked.