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At this time, outside the house, there were several people wearing long robes, both men and women. The boy and Kougamaru knew two of them.
They are the Muraki couple, the parents of the deceased classmate Anzi.
They seemed to have discussed something long ago. When they saw the gravekeeper carrying Xiao Wuhuan up, none of them looked surprised. Mr. Muraki even stepped forward to take a closer look before nodding and saying:
"That's her, the girl following the young policeman..."
"You are truly worthy of me. We have just discussed the specific plan, and you have already captured this girl..."
Another believer in a long robe next to him exclaimed:
"It was thanks to you that I was able to deal with the matter with Xingzi before..."
"Woo!"
The believer had just said the name "Apricot" when Mrs. Muraki beside her couldn't help but burst into tears again, covering her face with her hands, with a look of grief.
Seeing this, Mr. Muraki beside her immediately hugged her shoulders and whispered to comfort her:
"Don't be sad anymore, my dear, it is Xingzi's misfortune that she cannot bathe in the glory of the Lord. Helping Xingzi return to the embrace of the Lord is the best we can do for her..."
Hearing what Mr. Muraki said, the gravekeeper, who had been silent until then, subconsciously clenched his fists.
He was the one who actually killed Xingzi.
The reason was just as the boy had guessed before, the Muraki couple tried to pull their daughter Anzi into their sect to bathe in the glory of the "Lord".
The Muraki couple certainly know their daughter's character and what she does in school, and they hope that this move can help their daughter change these bad qualities.
However, Anzi rejected them harshly. Not only that, she also mocked and cursed their "master" viciously, and even threatened the Muraki couple to quickly cut off their relationship with the cult, otherwise she would call the police and have them all sent to jail.
Their daughter's reaction undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the Muraki couple.
They were shocked, saddened, and in disbelief, so much so that they decided to take action themselves to help their "rebellious" daughter return to the "Lord's" arms and convert to the "true faith."
They spent several days working out all the details and started working the night before.
That night, Xingzi was caught off guard when she returned home from school. Her parents drugged her and knocked her unconscious. After they carefully cleaned her body, they moved her to a cemetery at the foot of the mountain behind.
According to their plan, they would let Anzi die... no, or rather, let Anzi "ascend into eternity" in front of the tombstone of Hanada, a classmate who died because of her, and return to the arms of the "Lord".
In this way, her soul went to the "Lord" and her body remained here to confuse the eyes of those "vulgar people".
According to the original plan, the step of allowing Anzi to "emerge" was to be carried out by the Muraki couple themselves.
However, when the time came, they suddenly hesitated. They seemed to have finally realized that the sleeping girl in front of them was their daughter, and they just couldn't bring themselves to do it.
They hesitated in the cemetery for a long time, but finally did not stop. Instead, they asked the gravekeeper to complete this step for them.
In the cult, gravekeepers have always played a role similar to "executioners", responsible for clearing out all "guilty people" who are disloyal to the cult.
Before being accepted into this cult, the gravekeeper was a soldier in the Southeast Asian battlefield. During the war, due to severe psychological trauma, he did not survive until the end of the war and was sent back to his country early. He became the gravekeeper of this cemetery.
However, what he had experienced in the war did not disappear with his departure. Even after returning home, the crimes he had committed continued to torment his heart.
It was at this time that he accidentally came into contact with this cult, was absorbed into it, and became a believer of the cult.
To the gravekeeper, the existence of the cult is bright and means salvation for him, because those he had killed before were all "guilty people" who were burdened with crimes. By killing them, he can also alleviate the crimes he had committed on the battlefield.
Until the night before yesterday, the Muraki couple brought their daughter Anzi and asked him to kill her.
The gravekeeper asked them what crime the girl had committed?
They told him that the girl did not believe in "the Lord", did not acknowledge the existence of "the Lord", and even tried to expose the existence of "the Lord" in front of the vulgar people.
The crime is unforgivable.
Therefore, they had no choice but to send the girl to the "Lord's" world in person and let the girl pray for the "Lord's" forgiveness in person.
Ah, if that's true, then the girl is indeed guilty...
But if that is the case, why don't you send the girl to the Lord yourself? Shouldn't this be a matter of redemption?
Why did you hesitate? Why did you push everything to me in the end?
The gravekeeper didn't dare to think about it any further, because he was afraid. He joined the cult to atone for his sins, and he didn't dare to bear more sins...
So, that night, after killing Anzi with his own hands, he, under the guidance of the Muraki couple, sneaked into Mr. Hanada's house and killed him, and buried the body on the back mountain overnight.
Now, they are going to kill the innocent girl on his back...
Chapter 637 Is this really the right thing to do?
Ever since killing Kyoko-san and Hanada-san, the gravekeeper has been suffering in his heart.
The Muraki couple and other believers in the cult said that this was to save Anzi and to allow her to atone for her sins.
But when it really came to the time to let Anzi "transcend", none of them were willing to do it, especially the Muraki couple. It was obviously they who came up with the plan, and they all said that they would complete this "glorious" task personally, so why did they push everything onto him in the end?
Is it really glorious to let Xingzi "come to the world"?
If that's the case, why didn't any of you take action? And why did you even ask me to deal with Mr. Hanada?
Yes, and Mr. Hanada...
When the gravekeeper sneaked into Hanada's house that night, the man had drunk a lot of alcohol and was drunk at the dining table, repeating the name "Mayuko", which was the name of his daughter.
I heard that his daughter committed suicide by jumping off a building a few months ago. Although the police investigation has not made any progress, the neighbors in the surrounding blocks are saying that Mayuko committed suicide because she couldn't stand the bullying from Kyoko...
Perhaps if that were the case, Kyoko was indeed guilty.
But what crime did Mr. Hanada commit?
He lost his daughter and couldn't even get a fair verdict. When the gravekeeper broke into his house, the poor man was still numbing himself with alcohol, like a walking corpse.
The reason why he was killed was because the Muraki couple needed him to cover up the truth about Anzi's "transmigration". Since the "Master" cannot appear in front of the world at will, the fact that Anzi returned to the "Master's" arms cannot be observed by those vulgar people at will.
Mr. Hanada, who has the motive to kill Anzi, is the best cover for Anzi, so they have to kill him.
In other words, Mr. Hanada... is innocent?
He hadn't committed any crime, but was he killed at random just because he wanted to cover up the matter of Xingzi's "transmigration"?
No, it was not random. Mr. Hanada died for Kyoko and for the "Lord". Although he was not guilty, at least it was not meaningless...
He did it for the Lord, and he did it to obtain the Lord’s salvation. This was not a sin…
The gravekeeper no longer dared to think about it. Since that night, the memories on the battlefield once again surfaced in his mind, constantly tormenting his heart.
He had no choice but to pray more devoutly and let the "holy water" pour all over his body to ask for the "Lord's" forgiveness.
Last night, before meeting the young Baihe police officer at the cemetery, the gravekeeper had just finished praying and came down from the back hill.
The church has a rule that every believer must wash their entire body and then drench themselves with "holy water" before praying.
"Holy water" is a special liquid with a pungent smell. The gravekeeper does not know what it is specifically, but other male believers will feel hot all over soon after being poured with the "holy water" and will have sex with the female believers in the cult at will.
They say that this is to release one's nature and return to basics, so as to get closer to the Lord and understand the Lord's true words.
But perhaps because the gravekeeper had been injured in the genitals on the battlefield, he had never had similar emotions and was very annoyed by such behavior of other believers.
As time went by, he stopped praying with other believers...
The young Baihe police officer is quite smart and very capable.
The gravekeeper always felt that the young police officer must have noticed something last night. Maybe the young police officer even smelled the scent of "holy water" on him and sensed the existence of the cult.
So the gravekeeper told the Muraki couple his guess that night.
To his surprise, the Muraki couple had similar ideas.
It seemed that the young police officer also went to Muraki's house at noon yesterday, and Mr. Muraki was praying in his room at that time.
After hearing the noise downstairs, they just hurriedly changed their clothes and came out. Their actions seemed to make the young police officer notice something unusual.
This made the Muraki couple very uneasy. When they were stared at by the calm and deep eyes of the young police officer, they felt an almost instinctive fear in their hearts.
Mr. Muraki, who was facing this gaze, was unable to remain calm throughout the conversation with the young police officer.
Has he discovered it? Does he know? What will he do to us next?
It was in this fear that the Muraki couple waited for the gravekeeper to come and tell them what happened at the cemetery that night.
After both parties exchanged their ideas, they felt more and more that the young police officer must have found out something.
He... is about to discover the existence of "the Lord"!
But the "Lord" cannot be exposed to the eyes of these vulgar people!
So, the Muraki couple made another decision: they wanted to kill the young police officer.
That’s right, it’s killing, not “emerging”.
Because he is different from Xingzi, he will threaten the existence of the "Master". He can only be killed to apologize to the "Master" and is not worthy of "transcendence"!
The gravekeeper remained silent.
Because he didn't think the young police officer was guilty.
On the contrary, this young police officer was talented and had captured many criminals at a young age. With such outstanding abilities and great good deeds, how could he be killed like this?
And, and...
What the gravekeeper didn't tell the Murakis was that he suspected that the young police officer might have figured out the whole story when he was at the cemetery last night.
This was an intuition, an intuition formed by the gravekeeper on the battlefield. Under the circumstances last night, he felt that the young police officer probably knew everything.
But the young police officer said nothing. He did not arrest him on the spot, and he even said something like that to him...
The police officer wanted him to turn himself in... So, is he still a guilty person?
However, the gravekeeper was finally asked by the Muraki couple to kidnap the little girl, the high school student who was following the young police officer.
They seemed to have seen the special relationship between the little girl and the young police officer. They wanted to use the little girl to lure the young police officer out alone and then kill him...
The Muraki couple said that this was also the request of the "Lord" and they did all this to protect the existence of the "Lord".
Protect... the existence of "the Lord"?
Is it the "Lord" who wants them to kill innocent people?
Just when the gravekeeper was confused, he saw Xiao Wuhuan standing outside the cemetery in deep thought.
This little girl has been helping the young police officer with his investigation...
By the time the gravekeeper came to his senses, he had already knocked Xiao Wuhuan unconscious, and according to the previous plan, he carried her to the cult's base in the back mountain.