The bishop is unfathomable.

Cats are always lazy.

Even those who transform into cats through magic will acquire similar habits.

Just like Felicia, who was planning to run away a few hours ago, after taking a short nap, she forgot all the things she had seen and worried about before going to sleep.

She timed it perfectly, jumping onto Li Wei's shoulder just before he yawned and prepared to leave, then climbing up his neck and onto his head.

After all, it's warm on top of my head, and I can rest my cat belly on it, which is especially comfortable.

She tried it yesterday.

Today, before Li Wei left, a guest visited the place ahead of time.

"Knock knock knock".

"Ding-dong"

The visitor first knocked on the door, then rang the doorbell, and then shouted, "Mr. Li Wei, are you there?"

Felicia became alert, looked around, and then hid behind a cushion on the sofa.

Drawn by the knocking and doorbell, Levi, clearly not having slept well, yawned and pushed open the door. Felicia, who was hiding on the sofa, saw Levi's expression change drastically in an instant.

He initially appeared to be just a tired office worker preparing to leave for work, but upon seeing the customer at the door, his fatigue vanished instantly, replaced by a cold and stern demeanor, as if he had become a completely different person.

"Ma Wei? What do you want from me at this hour?" Li Wei looked at the visitor and stepped aside to let him enter first.

After Ma Wei entered, Li Wei closed the door, then glanced at Ma Wei, waiting for his reply.

"Sir... Mr. Barney has found the area where the Children of Dust are active, but he's trapped! I'd like to ask you..."

"Let me go save him, right?" Li Wei interrupted the other person, then asked, "How strong is the opponent?"

"I don't know, sir..." Mavis lowered his head, clenching his hands together and rubbing them back and forth. "If it weren't for Mr. Barney, my daughter's illness would never have been cured, and that's why I joined the church..."

"He is my benefactor, sir! I cannot... I cannot abandon him."

"But now, apart from Mr. Varg, none of my remaining comrades are superhumans."

"But he's a ritual master, not very capable of direct combat, so I had no choice but to come to you."

Li Wei said coldly, "You know what it means for you to come looking for me like this, right?"

"Are you planning to ruin my entire plan because of this?"

Mawei dared not speak, but even though his legs were trembling, he did not take a single step back.

Li Wei then asked, "Do you have a weapon?"

"...There's an old-fashioned percussion revolver," Mave replied.

"Was your aim accurate?"

"It's...it's alright."

Li Wei nodded, then said, "I won't go with you."

"In order for my status to continue in the long term, I must go to work on time, not accompany you to rescue people."

"But now it seems that Wag didn't go back to relay the message to you in time, otherwise you wouldn't have come looking for me so rashly."

"But... I will help you."

"Don't ask me anything else, I have my own way of doing it."

"What you need to do now is grab your weapons, then drive your wagon to Barney. Leave the rest to me."

"But remember, whether you succeed or not, once you and Barney are in the inspection's field of vision, you know what to do."

Upon hearing this, Ma Wei looked up abruptly, a hint of gratitude in his eyes as he gazed at Li Wei.

He never expected the bishop to help him; he was just trying anything as a last resort...

After all, he was a member of Tantric Buddhism, and he knew about the internal relationships within the sect.

For a high-ranking figure like a bishop, anyone under his command can be discarded.

Suddenly, he remembered what Barney the Deacon and Mr. Wag had said about His Excellency the Bishop that afternoon.

He values ​​his companions more than you think. He just doesn't usually show it.

Barney was right about the choice.

Just as Ma Wei was feeling moved, he saw Li Wei frown: "What are you still standing here for? Don't you want to save people anymore?"

"Yes! I'll set off immediately!"

Mawei turned and went out, jumped into the carriage parked at the door, and sped away.

Li Wei summoned his familiar, shrunk the falcon to the size of a sparrow, and then commanded the falcon to follow Ma Wei.

"Perfect for testing the power of the lightning bolts... Five points of psionic energy for one shot, and with the psionic energy I've stored up, I can fire four shots."

"After sleeping for a few hours, the mana restored by the Blessing of the Dreamland, plus what I had before, I now have 16 points of temporary mana in my body."

"We can still fire three more shots..."

"Let's try hitting them first and see if it works. If not, we'll have to silence them first."

Li Wei muttered to himself as he turned to wash up and change his clothes.

If I don't hurry up, I'll be late for work.

Felicia, who had been watching the whole thing from the sofa, couldn't help but widen her eyes in astonishment.

Sure enough, this guy couldn't possibly be a good person.

The Barney deacon and the church that the guy named Mawei mentioned can be ruled out as belonging to any of the major orthodox churches.

After all, if they were members of a legitimate religious sect, they could openly seek help from the supervisory bureau.

He also specifically mentioned that they were trapped by the people of the Sons of Sand.

If you are trapped by cultists, as long as your identity is not questionable, you can report directly to the Overseer or the Church of Radiance and receive maximum assistance.

So, besides the major orthodox churches, what other churches are there?

That leaves only Tantric Buddhism!

And he was even the superior of the assistant priest...

Thinking about what had happened in the Beldor region in the past few days, Felicia couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.

Could it be... that this Li Wei is really the faceless one who was declared dead?!

Although his identity has been verified, this world is full of strange and bizarre spells with unpredictable effects.

Suddenly, she thought of the most likely outcome.

The faceless one was indeed killed, but this might have been a setup for him to fake his death and escape.

The goal is to obtain the position and identity of the real librarian named Li Wei!

If a faceless being possesses soul-detachment magic, they could forcibly possess the body of an ordinary person.

Although that would mean losing all my extraordinary levels, I would still gain a lot of experience! I'm not afraid to start over.

Not to mention he also possessed a large library's collection of banned books, and a completely laundered identity.

Felicia suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

After all, she had just heard Li Wei say that he wanted to silence her.

She was also able to read newspapers, until the remnants of the Faceless Ones are still at large.

Could it be that he's planning to gather all these veteran henchmen together and then wipe them out all at once?!

Moreover, he now has a familiar whose strength is unknown, but considering that the superhumans of the esoteric sect are generally fragile, given the right opportunity, one bullet can take out most of them.

If he truly possessed a spell capable of widespread destruction that could be unleashed through a familiar, he wouldn't even leave much of a trace, let alone the fact that the dead were cultists, for whom no one would care how they died.

Horror!

This person is incredibly cunning. If her guess is correct, she probably would have already revealed her true identity.

But Li Wei truly saw himself as a cat from beginning to end... What exactly did he want to do?

This cat is in grave danger!

We have to run away right now!

As expected, these cultists are all corrupt. I, a student who has always been an academic, am probably no match for these guys who crawled out of piles of dead bodies.

Who knows, it might be taken to the supervisory bureau as a credit sometime later.

He will then use the credit for arresting a major wanted criminal to further solidify his laundered identity.

And myself...

Considering the methods of the Inspectorate, and her own actions this time... oh wait, she wasn't the one who caused the bombing, she was just a scapegoat, but the truth might not matter at this point.

Some people want to die.

Felicia's eyes darkened.

"Sigh, I guess I'll just be content to be a stray cat."

"Let's see if there's a chance to escape the country and live in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests of the neighboring Kingdom of Kaval..."

Just as the black cat started to moan, Li Wei's voice reached her ears.

However, what would normally be a harmless tone sounded like a death sentence to Felicia, who had already imagined dozens of chapters of the plot.

"Hey Xiao Hei, why do you look a little unhappy?"

"Is it the accommodation here that's bad, or the food?"

"Okay, I admit the food hasn't been great these past couple of days, but for a cat, a little dried fish and chicken liver is considered a top-tier diet, right?"

Felicia: "!!!!!!!"

Startled, Felicia instantly activated her Spinosaurus mode. Fortunately, she managed to control herself and didn't exhale, otherwise who knows what might have happened.

Seeing that Xiao Hei didn't jump on him like it did yesterday, Li Wei didn't think much of it.

After all, my office environment wasn't exactly great; it was quite oppressive.

It's normal for cats to be restless.

The house is noticeably more spacious than the library.

"Okay, if you don't want to come with me today, you can just stay home."

"Oh, wait a minute."

I'll prepare some food for you before you leave.

After remembering this, Li Wei took two cans of fish that he had bought along with the ritual materials yesterday, pried them open, rinsed them with water to make sure they weren't too salty, and then poured the fish into a plate. He then took another bowl and filled it with some water.

Then he took a plate and a bowl and walked up to Xiao Hei, placed them in front of it, and said, "Here, this is today's breakfast and lunch, which could also be considered dinner."

"I might be a little late getting off work today, so just make do with this. It should be enough for you. I can eat two cans and I'm already half full."

"...Hey, what am I even saying to myself? You probably can't understand me, can you?"

Li Wei smiled helplessly, then got up and straightened his bow tie before pushing open the door and leaving.

Felicia watched through the window as Levi jumped into a two-wheeled taxi parked on the street and drove away before turning her gaze back to the fish and water on the floor.

"Did this guy even recognize me?"

"Wait, was my reasoning really correct?"

"If he really is the faceless one... isn't this esoteric bishop a bit too peaceful?"

"Isn't it said that in esoteric Buddhism, the higher the position and the stronger the power, the more mentally unstable they are?"

"Or was that also a disguise?"

Felicia, recalling Levi's smile just now, turned to look at the fish on the plate: "Could they have poisoned my fish?"

"Once he dies, the cat transformation spell will also fail... Could that be their plan?"

Felicia raised her paw and tentatively touched the sardine, then leaned in to smell it, and finally mustered up the courage to take a bite.

Mmm, delicious!

……

……

Inside the carriage, Li Wei's gaze began to align with that of the falcon.

To his surprise, Ma Wei had not yet arrived at the scene of the incident.

Through the shared vision of the falcon high in the sky, Li Wei was also able to determine where he wanted to go.

The west side of the city. Li Wei knew that place all too well.

He went there just last night.

That's the area where Old Thomas's used bookstore is located, and it's also the area where the slums are located.

A place that is dirty, chaotic, and disorderly, a gathering place for all sorts of people.

This is how all the Beltorians described the west side of the city.

"Is it hidden here?"

"It is indeed a good location as a hiding place."

"With so many people around, even the inspectors can't guarantee that everyone here has a clean record."

"After all, you can jump off the boat and swim ashore from the river. Although the embankment is high, it's not impossible to climb up."

"Could it be... that the Children of the Sands have placed the core of the ritual array here as well?"

As Li Wei pondered, he saw Ma Wei's carriage stop.

He arrived at the library entrance at that moment.

After paying and entering the library, and arriving directly at the office, Li Wei finally turned his attention back to Ma Wei's location.

Meanwhile, Mawei, carrying an old-fashioned naval percussion revolver, walked into a small alley.

At the end of the alley is a vacant lot that is believed to have been cleared. Judging from the garbage and building materials piled up on both sides, this vacant lot was originally used to store construction waste.

But at this moment, there were at least a dozen people in the open space.

Eight people stood around a middle-aged man with a mustache, their positions echoing each other, seemingly forming a ritual.

The middle-aged man trapped in the center was kneeling on the ground, trying his best to raise his head and reach out to do something.

Among the remaining people, there was one person whose entire body was shrouded in a tattered gray-white hooded robe. He stood out conspicuously outside the eight-person ritual formation, in front of everyone else.

This must be the leader of this group.

Li Wei's gaze subtly shifted, turning towards Ma Wei.

He had already raised the fire-capped revolver, and no one noticed that he had already aimed at a person thirty meters away who was maintaining a ritual formation.

Despite its slightly lower power and cumbersome loading process, this old-fashioned revolver remains a deadly weapon.

The only problem is that once the pre-loaded bullets in the magazine are fired, there is almost no chance to reload a second time in the heat of battle.

Li Wei saw that the middle-aged man, who was always flustered in everything he did, now had an unparalleled calmness shining in his eyes.

Seeing this, Li Wei also released the body control of the falcon in the air and gave the order.

"If you hear gunshots, use grenades to blow up the people maintaining the formation first."

"Never mind whether that guy's bullet hit anyone or not, just blast him!"

"You have 20 energy points, I have 16 now, that's 36 points, a total of 7 grenades! Fire them all!"

"Goo-ga! (Received, boss!)"

Then, gunshots rang out.

Before the bullets arrived, purplish-black lightning balls, resembling bullets, were also dropped from the sky.

Almost simultaneously, a bullet pierced the back of a son of the Sandstorm.

The lightning bolts that fell from the sky exploded on the ground like small bombs.

The moment the lightning ball fell, it completely engulfed a child of sand.

The subsequent impact instantly raised dust and even blasted the other Sand Children who were maintaining the ritual formation, causing them to stumble.

The ritual array, which was originally maintained by eight people, suddenly became ineffective.

Barney, who had been suppressed by the ritual, was ejected the moment the ritual failed, and chopped the leading hooded man with a chop, knocking him unconscious.