"Pfft!"
The sound of a sharp weapon sinking into flesh was unmistakable in the quiet, broken only by raindrops falling outside!
Li Wei had him by the hair, forcing his aged face to tilt up as he stared at Li Wei's expressionless face in disbelief. Blood gushed from the spot where the dagger had pierced his chest!
Everyone else in the Prayer Hall was so shocked that they forgot to breathe. Even Feng Zi was no exception!
The three children were the first to react. Terrified, their whole bodies trembling, they backed away helplessly until they huddled in a corner.
Next came Li Ming, the labor union chairman. His face was filled with terror. His body went limp as mud, and he collapsed to the floor.
The priests and nuns gathered around the Bishop, closest to him, screamed and rushed forward, trying to pull Li Wei away and pin him to the ground.
The last to react was the deputy police chief, the only person present carrying a lethal weapon.
When Li Wei suddenly sprang up and killed someone, he'd fallen into a daze, thinking, "What is happening to this world?"
It took him two or three seconds to snap out of it. Then he immediately reached for the holster at his waist!
But in the very second he came to his senses, Feng Zi reacted even faster!
She dashed to the deputy police chief and without hesitation raised her leg high and kicked him in the back!
As the deputy police chief was sent sprawling to the floor, bewildered, Feng Zi had already taken his pistol and aimed it at the back of his head!
Feng Zi was just as bewildered by what was happening.
She had no idea what Li Wei was doing or why he'd suddenly attacked and killed someone—especially a kind, responsible old man.
But she trusted Li Wei unconditionally. Faced with this situation, she didn't hesitate for a moment, first taking down the only person who could cause trouble.
Tian Yuan had left behind only twelve officers, split into four teams. They needed people at the crime scene, at Nanny Cheng's lair, and at the church to investigate, so only the deputy police chief had a firearm.
Once Feng Zi had restrained him and taken his gun, she had complete control of the situation!
The priests who rushed over to grab Li Wei and pin him down couldn't affect him in the slightest!
Li Wei stared straight into the Bishop's horrified eyes, still pressing down hard on the dagger. The hand gripping his hair tightened its hold, as if he meant to tear the old man's face right off!
"Weren't you looking for that child's eyes? Here they are!"
Li Wei's emotionless voice rang out amid the chaos in the Prayer Hall. Then he really did tear the Bishop's face off!
The priests and nuns who had been pulling at Li Wei, desperately trying to protect the Bishop, stopped moving.
Their hands trembled, their bodies shook, and some of them even fell heavily onto the floor!
Li Ming had been so terrified that he'd turned away, yet he couldn't stop himself from looking again at the thing that could no longer be called human!
The three children huddled in the corner had all hidden beneath a pew. They didn't dare look at anything or listen to anything.
The deputy police chief lay on the floor with a gun pointed at his head, not daring to move. His face was slick with sweat. He had seen the torn-off face and the horrifying scene beneath it.
Feng Zi was utterly dumbfounded. It was as if she'd just witnessed a ghastly experiment. Disgust and revulsion showed on her face, along with an intense scrutiny, as if asking, "How could this happen?"
Li Wei was closest to the head that could no longer be called human.
Beneath the old man's skin was a smooth, round, completely bald head. Its every inch was as rosy and delicate as a baby's skin.
Where the scalp should have been covered in hair follicles, dozens of eyes now blinked incessantly!
The eyes were packed tightly together, stretching all the way to the back of his head. On the Bishop's face, besides his original pair of eyes, another pair of brand-new trophies was arranged along his cheeks!
They belonged to Wang Xiaole.
Pure, clear, and childlike.
Yet on that horrific face, they looked so ugly!
"How did you figure it out?"
The organ that opened and closed as it spoke was better described as a mouthpart than a mouth. Countless eyes stared fixedly at Li Wei.
Li Wei twisted the dagger in his hand, trying to crush the monster's heart, and spoke coldly.
"I guessed."
"Guessed?"
"You praised Wang Xiaole's eyes."
"...That's all?"
Confusion and doubt filled the countless eyes.
"Tens of thousands of bodies were stolen from the cemetery. Apart from you, the person who oversaw its construction, I can't think of anyone else who could have done it. Other people could have guessed, too, but they probably wouldn't have dared."
"Anything else?"
"Nanny Cheng is your trusted aide. There's no way she could have kept what she did from you. She's just a knife in your hand."
Li Wei pulled out the dagger. Blood gushed like a fountain!
"You're also a biological scientist. The missing corpses and the organs that were cut off could only have been used for biological experiments. And you're already so old, so I guessed you were trying to prolong your life."
Blood continued to gush from the Bishop's chest, spreading across the floor of the Prayer Hall!
Li Wei was certain he'd crushed the heart that kept the Bishop alive.
Yet the monster before him continued blinking the countless eyes on his head. Apart from the blood flowing from his mouthpart and his broken, halting voice, he showed no sign of dying!
"Th-that's all? You have no concrete evidence. It's all just your speculation and suspicions. You still dared to attack me? What if you were wrong?"
"Then I was wrong. Even if everything's true but you weren't the one who did it, so what? Besides, if you hadn't set your sights on me, I wouldn't have cared what you were doing."
Li Wei frowned. As he spoke, he gripped the blood-dripping dagger again, this time aiming at the monster's hideous head!
"That blessing ceremony that day—you wanted to see for yourself whether Nanny Cheng had picked suitable new organs for you, didn't you? It looked like you were quite pleased with all five of us."
"Actually, I was only pleased with you and that young girl. Your bodies are excellent!"
The moment Li Wei's sword plunged into the center of the Bishop's skull, his voice suddenly became clear!
The weapon had pierced his brain, yet it still couldn't kill him!
He had been lying in a wheelchair, but his withered body now swelled. Countless bone spurs pierced through his aged skin, and six brand-new arms sprang to life like a spider's severed limbs!
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