Because I Am a Law-Abiding Good Person

The snapped metal lines still remained within his body. Although soft tentacles were convenient, pulling out those long, thin lines proved somewhat difficult.

Advancing a few hundred meters, a massive, open space appeared before He Ao.

The decoration of this space was extremely simple, featuring only two rows of gigantic bookshelves densely stocked with paper books.

In the corner, meanwhile, were piled some skulls and finger bones, alongside some stationery.

He Ao had felt somewhat puzzled earlier about where Job and the others had gotten their sacrificial offerings. It turned out they had stolen this priest's home.

Yet this really looked quite like the place where a God of Knowledge priest ought to live.

He Ao's gaze swept across the rows of books on the shelves. He cast aside those profound philosophical books, specifically searching for history and news books to flip through, as this would help him quickly understand this world.

According to the system's previous statement, it seemed he would have to come back to this world in the future, making an understanding of this world essential.

At the same time, he was also searching for books related to the summoning ritual. Although the method for holding the summoning ritual vaguely existed within his mind, he worried that such hazy memories might have omissions; finding some written records would still be somewhat more reliable.

History and news books were not numerous among these volumes. He finally managed to find two in the corner, and he extended his tentacles to pull these two books out, but the moment he opened them, he froze.

There was simply no content in these two books; they were purely blank paper.

He quickly and randomly selected a few more books to open—they were all blank paper, with only one or two primary school textbooks retaining their contents.

This made He Ao think of those coffee shops that placed fake books on bookshelves to elevate their own pretentiousness.

So this God of Knowledge priest put out so many books without reading them, and didn't even have a few real ones, purely to make them look good on display?

What about your professional integrity as a God of Knowledge priest?!

Damn it, this fake priest!

Yet at this very moment, a trace of a dangerous feeling suddenly rose once more in the depths of He Ao's heart.

He turned his head to look at Selina, whom he had hung up in the air.

"Yezuola, you still have your sanity, right? You were saving me just now? Why did you save me?"

Stared at by that skull-like head, Selina forcefully suppressed her fear and began changing the subject, attempting to stall for time.

She had only just cleared all data and started reloading the operating system.

During this period of loading the system, she did not possess any combat capability, and her backup underlying action system would also temporarily lose most of its functions due to data occupation. Right now, only her mouth and head could move slightly.

She stared wide-eyed at He Ao, seemingly waiting for his answer.

He Ao glanced at her and slowly brought his head closer, bit by bit. That skull-like head carried a massive sense of oppression, resembling a demon from hell, chipping away at her psychological defense line little by little.

The degree of danger posed by a sane Evil God Priest and a mad, chaotic Evil God Priest was completely different.

The latter only required an ordinary investigation team, or even a well-equipped senior investigator, to easily resolve, whereas the former required an entire investigation team led by an inspector, or even the deployment of the City Defense Army.

Just as weak humans possessing intelligence could set traps to hunt ferocious beasts, sane Evil God Priests were cunning and mad. Hunting them often caused one to transform from hunter to prey if one wasn't careful.

Take Selina herself, for instance; she had personally experienced this kind of transformation firsthand, changing from a hunter who held life and death in her hands into prey entangled by tentacles, and one who might even be toyed with.

Although Job's sneak attack from behind was a factor, the endurance and cunning displayed by the Evil God Priest before her far exceeded her expectations.

He had even unimaginably snapped the confinement device. Selina felt this already somewhat exceeded her world cognition; she could vaguely see the metal lines left in He Ao's body after the confinement device snapped amidst He Ao's tentacles.

She even wanted to ask He Ao: Doesn't it hurt?

Had she known this Evil God Priest was so terrifying, she wouldn't have so easily left the city to hunt him down.

She already somewhat suspected that the consortium had bribed her superior, purposely assigning her a suicide mission, but after pondering it, she shook that thought out of her mind.

This should truly be an accident; although her superior was somewhat unreliable, his character was still trustworthy.

He Ao did not know how much information had flashed through Selina's mind in this short span of time. While bringing his head closer to Selina, he waved his other tentacles to rapidly flip open sets of books.

Truth be told, using over a hundred tentacles was more efficient than using two hands.

Amidst this movement, he had already brought his head right in front of Selina, revealing a smile.

"Because I am a law-abiding good person."

This was answering Selina's question just now about "why he saved her."

Selina watched the skull-like head draw close, its mouth splitting open to reveal pearly white teeth, with strands of bright red meat even entwined between those teeth.

She felt her sanity impacted once again.

Such a terrifying and grotesque scene would probably frighten all the children in a school to tears.

He Ao was not aware of how terrifying he currently looked, and there were no mirrors here. To make Selina relax a bit, he had even specially put on a "kind and amiable" smile.

The effect seemed pretty good; Selina wasn't making as much of a fuss, and the whole person had quieted down quite a bit in a short time.

She must have felt his goodwill.

As for Selina opposite him, she gradually recovered from her fear. She admitted that for a split second just then, she had been scared dumb, and even now she was still a bit afraid.

For a moment, she even thought He Ao was going to eat her directly.

Yet after being frightened so many times, she felt she had also adapted a bit.

She looked at He Ao. Generally speaking, although a sane Evil God Priest still carried intense madness and a mindset different from ordinary people, she began trying to see whether she could find the weak point in He Ao's mindset through words.

"Is your law-abiding nature attacking us the moment we enter?"

He Ao hadn't attacked them, but presumably it was what the Evil God Priest Yezuola had done before his descent.

However, the game rules required He Ao to play Yezuola well and not have his identity exposed, so he grinned broadly. "You broke into my house, and I have the right to protect my own life and property. This is justifiable defense."

Selina: "?"

It felt somewhat reasonable, yet it also seemed wrong somewhere.

Thus, she pursued the matter further. "Your justifiable defense is killing seven people and then controlling me here?"