Transformed into a heartthrob's simp, every day is a battleground.

Chapter 326 Discovery Outside the Farm

"It was Lily who first discovered the body."

"Lily?"

“You met him today,” Levy said.

"..." Yan Xun recalled for a moment, "Those kinds of huge dogs?"

“Yes.” Levi nodded. “Lily rarely makes a sound unless someone gets close.”

“That day wasn’t the day Liam and the others were coming. I felt something was wrong, so I grabbed my shotgun and went outside to check.”

“After leaving the house, I found Lily wandering at the edge of the forest. I thought it was a coyote or something else,” Levi said to Yan Xun while looking at the road ahead. “But when I got to where Lily was wandering, I found a corpse there.”

What kind of corpse?

“A man’s body,” Levy said. “He looked to be in his early forties, and his clothes and trousers were covered in mud, so it looked like he had walked a long way to get here.”

"His expression looked desperate."

"I took the shotgun and poked his body with the butt, and that's when I noticed the wound on his stomach."

"Is the wound smooth or torn?"

“Torn apart,” Levy said. “The things inside tore their bellies apart and crawled out.”

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Yan Xun, somewhat anticipating his reaction.

But the result was destined to disappoint him. Yan Xun's expression was the same as before, as if he had just brought up an ordinary topic of having roasted potatoes for dinner.

“…You don’t seem surprised or afraid,” Levi said, echoing Koy’s words. “Is it because Koy has already told you these details?”

“No,” Yan Xun said, “he didn’t say.”

“I’ve just seen too many strange things.” He repeated the same excuse he had given Koy.

Levi then feigned curiosity, "A private investigator?"

"Private investigators also encounter such situations."

“Private investigator is just my first identity,” Yan Xun said seriously. “I also have another identity: a secret exorcist.”

That was what he used to fool Liam, and now he's using it to fool Levy again.

Levi glanced at Yan Xun a few times before turning his gaze back to the front. "That joke is quite original."

Where did you hear that from?

“Koy said the same thing,” Yan Xun said. “He also thought I was joking.”

“There are no devils in the world,” Levy said, “so there are no exorcists.”

"What's with the old man with wings growing out of the room?" Yan Xun asked sarcastically. "Did God want to eat chicken wings, so he created some wings?"

"You believe that humans can grow wings and become angels, but you don't believe that there are really devils... or monsters? Evil spirits?"

Levi opened his mouth, wanting to refute something, but in the end he could only weakly defend himself, "Don't talk about chicken wings like that..."

"I now believe you are an exorcist."

Yan Xun leaned against the car window, wondering what else Levy would say.

“Because only exorcists act like that…” he told Yan Xun. “In the movies I’ve seen, exorcists are always so arrogant and look down on everyone.”

"Disregard for faith and disregard for rules."

Yan Xun felt that this person had many prejudices against exorcists, but since he wasn't a real exorcist himself, he didn't care.

He interrupted Levy's complaint, "Koy said you've seen a lot of people like that."

"Yes."

"In the days that followed, I found more bodies like this."

“They were men and women of different ages, but they had in common the dust on their bodies and their stomachs that had been cut open,” Levy said. “At first, I thought it was a serial killer resurfacing.”

But now it seems that's not the case, and Yan Xun understands his subtext.

"Have you considered searching deeper into the forest?"

“This doesn’t do me any good,” Levy said.

“I live here because I don’t want to get involved in these things.” He squinted. “If it weren’t for Liam being such a good deliveryman…”

He wouldn't agree to Yan Xun coming here to investigate, but Yan Xun understood what he hadn't finished saying.

"I'm going to go and take a look in the forest."

"Are you crazy?" Levi asked.

He stared ahead at the road. "It's dangerous deep in the forest."

Who knows what else might be there?

"I have to go in order to investigate," Yan Xun said.

“I don’t see any connection between this and Liam’s disappearance.”

“Listen,” Yan Xun said, “Liam’s disappearance began after some people in the city suddenly became pregnant and others grew wings.”

“On that stormy day, he encountered the cornfield owner who grew wings and asked him for help… Well, that’s just a guess,” Yan Xun added, “but it’s obviously all related to those two strange things.”

Of course, the most important point was not mentioned by Yan Xun.

The dungeon is called The Holy Embryo. The story begins with someone getting pregnant and growing wings, and he has good reason to suspect that Liam's disappearance is inextricably linked to these two events.

Levy said that the people who appeared around the farm were covered in dust and included both men and women.

According to him and Coy, the farm was very remote and rarely visited.

“If those people were murdered, the killer could have easily hidden them in the forest, and you said you would never go to that forest.”

“If he wanted to attract attention and intimidate others, the murderer could have dumped these bodies in a busy downtown area instead of your remote farm.”

“So what are you trying to say?” Levy asked.

He can now see the forest and his farm through the windshield.

“I think these people may have fled here from the city,” Yan Xun said.

"You said you found the body three weeks ago, back when there weren't so many strange cases of men getting pregnant in the city."

The landlady's daughter, Milo, became pregnant, and the couple's pregnancy was only a week or two old news.

Levy discovered the bodies three weeks ago, suggesting that these women may have become pregnant four weeks prior.

Or perhaps it was around the time when Yan Xun had just arrived in this instance.

Before any strange occurrences of winged creatures appeared in the city, a man's sudden pregnancy was simply attributed to demonic possession.

Levi said that the group consisted of men and women of various ages, and they hid in the forest probably because they were afraid that their physical abnormalities would be discovered... and because they were isolated in the forest, they were unaware that many similar cases had occurred in the city.

"Leaving the depths of the forest may have been in search of food."

"It's also possible that they have some kind of stomach problem and want to see if they can ask you for help," Yan Xun guessed.

"There might still be people alive in the forest, and we can find clues through them."

There was one more thing Yan Xun didn't mention: the newsboy had told him that every woman who suddenly became pregnant would receive a revelation in her dreams—

Send them to the Southern Church; once they get there, they will receive a large sum of money.

He suspected that the gathering of this group was also related to this revelation.

After all, judging from the map, this is the only way to get to the city where the church is located.