Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 189 - : Fifty-four, you can call me Yong Xin.

Chapter 189: Fifty-four, you can call me Yong Xin.

Gerard placed the blood-stained money bag on the table, and then watched Ju as she searched through a pile of components. Her tiny silhouette made her look like a little mouse scrabbling through a grain heap for food.

Yes, Gerard had returned to this warehouse.

He hadn’t planned on coming back, let alone showing up—he had just intended to leave the bag of money in the warehouse and then make a swift departure.

However, on the way, he encountered a situation. Naturally, Gerard didn’t just stand by and watch; he stepped in to solve the little encirclement, cracking open the heads of those few punks.

But this also made the money bag in his hand appear even more vivid, resembling a tool of a crime scene, which admittedly wasn’t a nice thing to hand over to Ju.

Moreover, Ju had noticed something was wrong with him.

To be precise, there was a problem with the metal parts of his body.

During the fight with Dark, these parts had come under attack and had been somewhat damaged.

Ju, however, had managed to detect an issue merely from the sound of Gerard’s footsteps and offered to sort it out, considering it after-sales service.

Although Gerard didn’t want to bring more trouble to Ju, he also knew this was not the time for false bravado. The consequences of the damaged prosthetics causing further unmeasurable harm was truly troublesome behavior. So, after hesitating for a moment, he still agreed, and followed Ju back to the small warehouse.

Seeing Ju diligently searching for spare parts, Gerard couldn’t help feeling somewhat dazed.

That tiny figure brought back visions of over a decade ago, when he returned home from the Polluted Land. He, too, had such a small figure darting around him, asking if he was hurt, and if he was, insisting on treating his wounds.

“How about it, missing your daughter again?” Bai Wei’s languid voice interrupted Gerard’s reverie, “Do you feel it’s a pity? You could’ve seen your own daughter today, so why bother watching someone else’s… Oh, I almost forgot, she’s not your biological daughter either, you don’t even have a wife.”

Gerard ignored Bai Wei’s banter, only replying mentally to Bai Wei, “You still haven’t told me, what do you want to get from Ina?”

“Why must it be about getting something?” Bai Wei said, laughing, “Can’t it simply be for my amusement? Do you really see me as such a scheming person?”

“It’s not about scheming,” Gerard said calmly, “but I’m very certain you wouldn’t do things without purpose… no, perhaps not always. But doing this could potentially expose your identity, which isn’t good for you. Yet you still proceed, so you must have another plan, and I want to know what it is.”

“Is it because you want to know my plan, or because you’re worried about your daughter?”

“To me, there’s no conflict between the two.”

“Heh, you’re quite straightforward.” Bai Wei cocked an eyebrow at Gerard and said, “You never asked before, which made me think you no longer cared so much about your daughter. But your reaction now is quite surprising to me. I thought you’d be more vehement, after all, this is about your daughter. From your perspective, don’t you think I’ve pushed your daughter into a fire pit?”

Previously, Bai Wei had thought that upon learning he had involved his daughter, Gerard would become angry, even furious, possibly shouting, “How dare you drag my daughter into this” while arguing with Bai Wei, for whom various excuses had been readied.

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It was like a Bullfighter ready and waiting, flashing the red cape at the Berserker, just waiting for the berserk rush.

But there was no reaction from the Berserker, who merely glanced at the Bullfighter’s red cape, then leisurely kept on grazing, leaving the Bullfighter feeling powerless as if punching cotton.

Of course, this was an exaggeration. In reality, Bai Wei wasn’t that regretful, and Gerard wasn’t completely indifferent.

Upon learning about Ina, Gerard didn’t react hysterically. He simply fell silent for a while, then softly replied, “I know,” and then ceased to speak, swiftly leaving the scene without uttering another word.

But Bai Wei knew Gerard was far from as calm as he appeared. When he heard Ina’s name, Bai Wei could clearly sense the tremendous emotional turmoil in the depths of Gerard’s heart, like raging waves.

Yet he had held it in, all the way up to now.

“It’s not you who threw her into the fire pit,” Gerard said softly. “From the moment she joined the Devil’s Army… no, from that accident ten years ago, she has been in the fire pit. This is my failure, not yours, and besides…”

He looked up, gazing out at the sky through the narrow window.

The sunset was descending, and the entire sky was dyed a crimson red by the twilight, like a raging inferno.

“The Polluted Land nowadays, isn’t it a giant fire pit?”

“Jeesh, you’re quite rational,” Bai Wei commented. “I thought all fathers were the sort of creatures that would transform into Berserkers the moment their daughters were threatened.”

“The most important thing for a warrior is rationality, not madness,” Gerard replied. “In the Polluted Land, madness means contamination. Once you’re infected with madness, you can no longer be called a warrior.”

“You’re interpreting it differently from what I mean… never mind.” Bai Wei eventually gave up trying to explain the meaning of “Berserker” to Gerard, saying dismissively, “Let’s stick to the matter at hand. In fact, your judgment isn’t wrong. I didn’t treat your daughter that way just for the fun of it, hmm… at least not entirely.”