Chapter 26 – Did you steal my money?

Karun got out of bed and walked to the door of the hospital room.

Then he stopped, lowered his head, and looked at Puerh, who was pulling at his pants leg.

Puerh spoke, "Are you sure you want to go check on the situation?"

"Hmm?"

"I mean, Dis isn't here. You don't have to rush to show your kindness."

"Me?"

"Yes, also, Dis isn't a very kind person. He's only kind to his family. Just a friendly reminder."

"I remember."

"Good boy."

"But I didn't say I was going to go down and check on the situation."

With that, Karun closed the door to the hospital room and then dragged a nearby cabinet over to lean against the door.

"I'm just afraid that thing will go crazy and come rushing in after killing someone."

Puerh stepped back a few steps and said, "No wonder you're a cold-blooded demon."

"If I remember correctly, the stairs leading to the basement are just next door. It's too close."

"Yes."

Karun walked back to the bed and sat down.

"Puerh."

"I don't really like the name you gave me. The strange pronunciation."

"I think it's a poetic name."

"Artistic, huh?" Puerh jumped back onto the bed. "By the way, there's something I've always been curious about, and that's your language."

"Language?"

"Yes, for example, what does 'Malagobi' mean?"

"It's similar to locking you and a male feral cat in a bathroom together."

"I see."

Puerh lay on her side and began to tidy her fur.

"I have something I'm curious about too," Karun asked.

"What is it?"

"Can you fight?"

"Fight?" Puerh was a bit helpless. "I used to be able to fight."

"How long ago was that?"

"Over a hundred years ago."

"You've lived that long?"

"If you turned into a cat and lived for two hundred years, you wouldn't be envious. When I first came to the Inmoleis family, Dis was still a child. Now, Dis's granddaughter Mina is starting to use sanitary napkins. Oh, time."

"Can you not use Mina as an example?"

"Okay, I'll change it. Last month, Lunt learned to use his hand."

"Why is it still so calm outside?" Karun wondered.

"It seems she didn't go crazy and rush up here?" Puerh wondered. "Or maybe you misheard?"

"It's too clear. I even heard their conversation."

"Heh, it's really amazing. Even the purified servants of the church probably don't have your exaggerated perception."

"Are purified servants a profession?"

"From the perspective of the Order Church, yes. It's the lowest level of the church. Of course, it's not the same as the priests in ordinary churches who like to eavesdrop on women's affairs."

"What kind of level does Dis belong to? What level is a judge?"

Karun remembered Alfred calling Dis "Judge Lord."

"Purifiers - Servants of God;

Questioners - Revelation of God;

Reflectors - Shepherds of God."The fourth level is the judge, who is the judge of the Order of the Gods in Roja City. All demons who violate the Order of the Gods are his targets for elimination.

And Dis is not an ordinary judge. I grew up watching him, and his talent made me amazed. Of course, he has some shortcomings, such as respecting the elderly.

"Are the titles of God's servant, God's messenger, and God's shepherd official positions or corresponding to levels?"

"They correspond to levels."

"Levels?"

"Yes, three different stages, corresponding to the degree of mastery of the divine aura."

"Divine aura?"

"In fact, there is nothing special about the divine aura. It is just another way of expressing it. The essence of the aura on Alfred, the aura on Mrs. Xius when possessed, and the aura on Dis are actually the same."

"So..."

"So, all those who shout to kill demons in the orthodox church are the same, all damned demons, the difference is that they stand in the light and have the right to speak.

In addition, some demons are easy to be brainless, you know what I mean?"

"Brainless?"

"Smart demons, if their fists are hard enough, can gain a certain status and even go to the church as guests, like me a long time ago.

And if some members of the orthodox church get lost, they will go from the light to the darkness, from respected priests to demons shouted by everyone."

"I understand a little bit now," Karun said.

"You really didn't know any of this?" Puerh asked curiously.

Karun shook his head. In his past life, he only visited the temple as a tourist and never paid any respects, except at the Martyrs' Cemetery.

"It's really amazing," Puerh licked the fur on her paw. "But I have seen you before and made Mr. Mosang 'awaken'."

"I don't know how I did it."

"Do you know what kind of existence the Order of the Gods is?"

"To maintain the order of the world and guard the light of order."

"No, no, no, these are just external slogans. In fact, the God of Order himself may not be a living person."

"Not a living person?"

"In the story of the doctrine of the Order of the Gods, the God of Order is described as awakening from the underworld, and there is also a saying that the Lord of Light awakened the God of Order.

Do you know what kind of organization the bottom layer of the Order of the Gods is and what kind of face it presents to the world?"

"Isn't it a church?"

"It's the funeral society."

Hearing this, Karun suddenly realized: "I thought the funeral society was the industry of the Inmolei family, but it turned out to be the industry of the church."

"Because a large part of the ability of the Order of the Gods is related to corpses, or in other words, cannot be separated from corpses.

In the eyes of ordinary people, when a person dies and becomes a corpse, they become a completely dead object. But in fact, it is not the case. Even corpses, not just human corpses, but also the corpses of pigs, dogs, chickens, and ducks..."

Puerh didn't mention cats.

"The spirit of the corpse itself exists and is stored in the body, but it is not active when no one is alive. By awakening these spirits, the corpse can be 'resurrected' to a certain extent.""只不过 'resurrection' is closely related to the degree of preservation of the body, the strength of the body before death, and the obsession of the body.

Therefore, even if the body of an ordinary person can be resurrected, it is difficult to maintain clarity for too long. Either they will collapse or become a living corpse with only animal instincts left."

"So, is the resurrected body the same as before death?"

"Of course not. It's just a shell that retains some of your memories. In fact, it's not you anymore, but he himself may still feel like it's you."

Karun tried to translate and understand Puerh's words.

In conventional understanding, humans are a combination of soul and body, but in reality, the body also stores a part of the soul, like the feeling of cellular memory.

After death, people can be "revived" by awakening cellular memory.

"Karun, do you know that only judges have the ability to 'resurrect' the dead body? Without this ability, you wouldn't even be qualified to be a judge."

"Me?"

"So, you still say you're not a demon?" Puerh stood up and approached Karun. "I suspect that when you were summoned, your soul memory was missing, causing you to forget some things, but your instincts are strong and may show up accidentally."

"You are overthinking. I remember everything well."

"True, you even remember a set of unfamiliar languages. There's no reason for memory loss, so there's only one other possibility."

"What possibility?"

"Are you like the legendary God of Order, also a...resurrected person?"

"I..."

Before Karun could answer, Puerh laughed like a cat.

"Because the ability of the Order Church is half related to the body. Although there have been other branches developed over the years, the most orthodox system has always dealt with the body.

If the God of Order is a resurrected being, then the system he inherited is also most suitable for resurrected people.

For example, the perception of the spirituality of the body, because a resurrected person can even resonate with spirituality without purification, because he is both a living person and a dead person.

Hahaha, I'm thinking of something ridiculous. How could there be such a person in this world? If you are such a person, does that mean you are the reincarnation of the God of Order?

So,

Are you,

The great and supreme Karun?"

"I... am not."

I'm just a psychological doctor with a decent income from my private clinic.

"Tsk tsk, how can you explain your damn ability, which is a necessary ability for a judge, although you don't know how to control it yet, but the fact proves that you have it.

It's like how Lunte is a virgin, but he does have the ability of **."

"Your analogy is too..."

"After living for so long, what is there to be shy about?"

"You were pretty shy just now."

"I just wasn't used to that position. Damn it!"

After a period of silence, Karun asked:

"Puerh.""Hmm?"

"Do you think Dis will let me join the church too?"

If I really have this kind of talent, joining the Order of the Gods and becoming a member of the Order Church, having this system of upward cultivation, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?

"You finally reveal your ambition and plan?" Puerh laughed, "But I advise you to give up on this idea. Dis will never allow his descendants to join the church again because your parents' death had a great impact on him.

In addition, Dis is tired of the Order Church branch of the Inmoleis family. He plans to end it in his generation."

"I see."

"So, forget about joining the church. It's impossible because even as I'm talking to you now, I don't even know if I'm chatting with an evil god.

Maybe in your eyes, I'm just a cute and innocent little kitten."

"That's true."

Karun stood up and looked outside the ward. Everything was normal.

He walked to the door of the ward and looked outside through the glass. He found that the doctors, nurses, and patients were also normal.

"Did I mishear? Or was it just my imagination?"

"Is there still a sound now?" Puerh asked.

"No."

"Then maybe you misheard?"

Karun looked at Puerh and suggested, "Why don't you go to the basement and take a look?"

Puerh's ears perked up, then closed, perked up again, and closed again before saying, "Are you joking?"

"You dare not?"

"I'm very weak now, oh no, I have been weak for hundreds of years."

"Then why did Dis send you to protect me?" Karun couldn't understand, "Are you saying that you can't fight?"

"I can see the demons. If you had taken me to eat barbecue that night, I could have seen her abnormality in advance. Dis's intention was to let me warn you in advance to escape, not to stay and fight. Compared to me, Alfred and Lady Molly are more suitable for this kind of thing.

Of course, if those harmless demon breaths, I can just ignore them."

"You're really useless."

"Although I don't understand this word, I know that it should be similar to waste?"

"Sounds better."

Karun pushed the cabinet back and walked to the bedside, pressing the bell.

Soon, Mina walked in and asked, "What's wrong, Karun? Do you want to order lunch?"

"I just heard a sound downstairs." Karun pointed to his feet.

Mina looked at the floor tiles and immediately realized what was underneath, and said with a smile, "That's impossible."

"It's true, and I heard a scream. It should be the scream of a female doctor or nurse. I hope you can send someone to check the basement."

Mina nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and check."

Karun reached out and held Mina's hand, instructing her, "There may be danger downstairs. It's best to ask security or male doctors to check. Don't go yourself. I'm afraid you'll be in danger."

If someone else had an accident, Karun didn't care;

If Mina had an accident, Karun would care;

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It's not because he has any special feelings for Mina. He wouldn't have offered to help clean up the corpse before he had any feelings. But at least Mina has had some interaction with him. As for those people whose names he doesn't even know...if something happens, it happens.Although Meina thought that Karun in front of her was a bit "crazy", she was still moved when she saw him caring about her. She nodded and said, "Okay, I'll call the on-duty security guard to check it out."

"Okay."

Meina left the room;

Karun closed the door of the ward again, hesitated for a moment, and did not pull the cabinet back.

After about twenty minutes, Meina knocked on the door and came in again.

"Did you find anything?" Karun asked.

"No, everything is normal on the negative first floor."

"Did you find any blood or corpses?" Karun asked.

"There is a corpse because there is a morgue downstairs, but there is no blood. Also, the dean led the team down there and counted the medical staff. No one was missing."

"Then...maybe it was just a nightmare I had."

"Well, your body is recovering, and sometimes you have nightmares, which is normal."

"Okay, I understand."

"What about lunch? What do you want to eat?"

Karun was staying in a VIP ward and could order food from the hospital kitchen. Of course, there would be no special dishes.

"Meow."

"Fried fish fillet."

"Um, okay."

"Meow."

"Pudding."

"Well, okay."

"Meow."

"Sheep milk."

"Okay, anything else?"

"Curry rice, no need for fruit."

"Fruit is a must-eat." Meina said seriously.

"Okay, okay."

"After it's ready, I'll bring it to you."

"Thank you."

After Meina left, Puerh lay comfortably on the bed, wagging her tail and said, "Karun, if you can help me order food every day and not let me continue to eat that damn cat food, I will change my view of you a little bit."

"Don't you know how to speak?"

"You're an exception. If I talk to other people in my family and Dis finds out, he will definitely kill me."

"Heh, just a little food can buy you over?"

"Try eating cat food for a hundred years in a row and see how it feels. Also, as long as you can stop me from eating cat food, even if you are a benevolent god in my eyes, even if you are really an evil god."

Karun rubbed his ears and said, "I really heard the conversation and screams."

"Pray it's just a hallucination. If it's not, it may be the prelude to being lost. Some clergy members' loss begins like this."

"But I'm not a clergy member."

"You are more sensitive than them. Sometimes, there's only a small fish fillet between genius and lunatic."

An hour later, lunch arrived.

Puerh ate very happily, and Karun, at Meina's request, also ate the fruit.

Nothing happened in the afternoon.

Nothing happened at dusk.

It was still safe at night.

"Aren't you going to sleep yet? Adequate sleep will help you recover from your injuries." Puerh said.

"I know."

"Any more sounds?"

"No, there hasn't been any since noon."

"That's good, don't worry about it anymore, go to sleep."Karun got out of bed and walked to the door of the ward.

Through the glass, he could see that there was no other activity outside except for the nurse duty room where the lights were still on.

However, Karun still pulled the cabinet behind the door and placed a mop in the position of the door handle in the bathroom.

After doing all this, Karun lay back on the bed and closed his eyes.

Due to not taking a nap in the afternoon and Puerh's advice that sleep helps with physical recovery, Karun fell asleep soon.

As he slept, he seemed to hear the sound of "rustling" again in his dream.

Was it another hallucination?

The strong drowsiness made Karun reject this sound.

"My money...my money...my money..."

Damn it!

Karun cursed inwardly and continued to sleep.

The voice disappeared.

But what followed was the sound of friction, as if someone was using their fingers to dig something and dust and debris kept falling.

Karun didn't care, as long as it wasn't a voice he could accept it. In his previous life, he rented a high-rise apartment next to an elevated highway and fell asleep every night with the roar of trucks.

"Rustle..."

"Rustle..."

"Rustle..."

The sound seemed to be getting closer and clearer.

Karun opened his eyes helplessly.

He first pushed Puerh, who was crawling with its butt next to his pillow, but the black cat couldn't be woken up no matter how hard he pushed, as if it was not alive, but a sleeping plush cat.

"Puerh, Puerh, listen, what's that sound, it seems to be getting closer."

Puerh still didn't move.

Was the cat sleeping so soundly?

Karun sat up and patted Puerh's back, but found that it still didn't respond.

"Rustle..."

The sound was under the bed.

Karun propped up his arm, bypassed Puerh, and moved his upper body out of the bed, but found nothing unusual.

Then he turned his head and looked at the door of the ward. The cabinet was still behind the door, and the mop was also in place. Everything was safe.

"Rustle..."

But the sound was still getting closer.

At this moment, Karun focused his attention on the floor tiles under the bed. He continued to lean forward to prevent the bed from pressing on his chest wound. He supported the floor tiles with one hand to maintain balance.

It was at this moment that his face was actually very close to the floor tiles, about one centimeter away.

Then, "Crash..."

It sounded like something had come loose, and it sounded like something had finally been dug through.

And in front of Karun, the floor tile suddenly broke open, and steel bars and cement could be seen on both sides of the hole.

Coincidentally, Karun brought his face to the position of the hole, wanting to look down.

He saw stretcher cars below, some with people lying on them, covered in white cloth.

Suddenly, the face of an old woman full of wrinkles and furrows filled the hole, and she asked Karun:

"What are you doing here?""Hey, did you steal my money?"

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