The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Chapter 310 1 Story

"What's wrong? You seem very disturbed."

The carriage rolled forward, and the girl's gentle voice fell into his ears.

Jiang Liujing shook his head and replied, "It's okay."

He touched his chest. For some reason, his heartbeat quickened for a moment, but it quickly calmed down.

The sudden change seemed as if someone else was influencing him.

"Is this kind of outing also a routine job?"

"Yes." Yao Xi nodded, pulled open the car curtain and looked out.

The roads on both sides were filled with cheering residents, holding bright flowers in their hands, and everyone had a happy smile on their face.

It looks beautiful and peaceful.

Yao Xi retracted her gaze and said, "But today is indeed a bit strange. The Pope actually followed us out as well."

The young man beside him fell silent in an instant.

"Maybe he's afraid that you'll run away." Yao Xi suddenly laughed at his reaction.

This was the first time in the entire Divine Religion that she had seen someone like Jiang Liujing who openly disliked the Pope. Yet, he became the Son of God, and Cyrus himself seemed to have no complaints about it.

Weird, weird, so weird.

Yao Xi couldn't understand how they got along.

"Is he going to follow us all the time?" Jiang Liujing asked.

Yao Xi shook her head and raised her hand.

"No, he's already gotten off the bus."

In the direction her finger pointed, several city lords and high-ranking officials surrounded the figure who got off the carriage at the back, with eager smiles on their faces, and chatted enthusiastically with Cyrus.

However, the carriage carrying Jiang Liujing and Yaoxi did not stop and continued to move forward.

They will tour the city and "listen to the voices of the living."

Jiang Liujing had observed that this was indeed a real city, and he could even see outsiders whose clothing and accents differed from those of the locals. The local residents were no strangers to the presence of the Divine Cult, indicating that they had been here quite often.

If Cyrus hadn't come along, this cruise would have been the perfect opportunity to escape.

"Tell me about the person who escaped before. How did she get out?" Jiang Liujing turned around and chose to make good use of the time to make up for the missed lessons.

Yao Xi felt helpless at his studious gaze: "You really are... If the Pope knew about this, I would be scolded to death."

"It was my request that you let him come and scold me directly," Jiang Liujing said.

Yao Xi was silent for a second, then turned her head and muttered quietly, "He won't say anything about you."

But looking at the stubborn boy, Yao Xi finally couldn't refuse.

They had always been taught to believe in and follow God, so when faced with this young man favored by God, they inevitably favored him.

Yao Xi said, "I've never actually met her in person. I've only seen her portrait. She's a black-haired woman. It's said that she stole a treasure from the Divine Religion while the Pope was visiting another country. When the Pope returned, he was furious and sent many people to capture her. However, he canceled the arrest order shortly after, and since then, the Divine Religion has stepped up its efforts to prevent escape attempts."

As she spoke, she coughed and glanced cautiously at the boy in front of her, "And then it became like this."

Those who dig holes in the past will bring misfortune to those who come after them.

Jiang Liujing has nowhere to run now, which is closely related to the lingering influence from that time.

black hair.

Jiang Liujing turned his head and his gaze fell on the crowd flowing outside. People with different appearances and figures were passing by like flowing water.

He suddenly saw someone with a special hair color and asked, "Is this what it looks like?"

Yao Xi took a look and said, "Yes, it's this black color... Wait?"

Her eyes widened in surprise.

Yao Xi almost lost her voice, "Isn't this her?"

After escaping with so much difficulty, why are you back now?

ten minutes later.

The three of them sat in a private room of a roadside teahouse.

The beautiful black-haired woman held the teacup, lowered her eyes and drank tea quietly. She didn't seem nervous at all about being suddenly stopped by the Holy Son and Holy Daughter of the Divine Religion.

If Yao Xi had not been certain that she looked exactly like the portrait, she would have suspected that she had recognized the wrong person.

"You..." The girl crossed her legs again, twisted her fingers under the table, and hesitated, not knowing how to start.

Jiang Liujing sat quietly beside her, looking at the woman's face.

The dark, elegant hair and eyes were so beautiful that they seemed unreal. He didn't recognize her, yet she felt vaguely familiar. It was as if he had seen this face somewhere before, at some time in the past.

The boy did not hide his observation, and the woman suddenly looked up at him after putting down her teacup.

The moment their eyes met, she said, "It's our first meeting. I came here to see you."

"It'll be about ten minutes before my husband and children come to see me. During this time, I hope you can listen to my story."

Jiang Liujing looked into her eyes and detected no hostility in them.

He nodded: "You say."

The woman smiled faintly.

A gleam of nostalgia gradually appeared in her eyes, and her voice became softer.

"My surname is Jiang, and my full name is Jiang Yueli."

"About sixteen or seventeen years ago. I had a child."

The Divine Religion has countless churches across the continent, but only the one where the Pope is located has never been open to the public. Only the selected core members and a small number of their chosen families of worshippers can enter.

Jiang Yueli was originally just an ordinary member of a branch of the Divine Religion. For unknown reasons, she was suddenly summoned by the highest-level Pope and was taken to the core area of ​​the Divine Religion to stay temporarily.

After the meeting, the Pope did not assign her any tasks, but only praised the beautiful color of her hair and eyes, and then let her stay freely in the palace.

Jiang Yueli was nervous and uneasy at first, but later she found that everyone had an inexplicable respect for her.

When she asked, she found out that those people actually thought she was the woman the Pope fell in love with at first sight.

It was no secret that Cyrus loved black hair and dark eyes, and Jiang Yueli happened to possess all of his favorite qualities. The Divine Religion had no rules against marriage, and everyone assumed that their Pope was about to have a new wife.

Only Jiang Yueli herself knew clearly: "There was no warmth in that man's eyes when he looked at me. He made me feel very uneasy. One day, he gave me a gem and ordered me to swallow it."

Jiang Yueli had no other choice.

She swallowed the gem, and there was no change at first, but after a few months, Jiang Yueli suddenly found that her stomach had become bigger.

She was horrified, but the people around her thought that this was the fruit of her and Cyrus's love, and congratulated her.

Only Jiang Yueli knew very well that there was no love at all. She was just giving birth to an unknown "monster" out of thin air.

As time went on, she felt more and more clearly that there was a power in her body that did not belong to her. Cyrus kept a close eye on her, guarding against any action that might harm the being in her belly.

In order to gain his trust, Jiang Yueli has always behaved calmly and silently.

Her beautiful face and naturally docile personality made it all seem more believable, and Cyrus gradually let down his guard around her.

Finally one day, he went on a foreign trip and only asked others to take care of Jiang Yueli.

However, Jiang Yueli pretended to be irritable during pregnancy and deceived others into going out to relax alone, and then escaped from the cult through a hidden route.

"They have spies in all the big countries, so I hid my identity and went to a small country that had just been born. But there was also unrest there. To hide the fact that I was pregnant out of wedlock and to get protection, I started dating the son of a famous local noble family."

When Jiang Yueli said this, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth involuntarily, and her eyes became genuinely gentle.

"Initially, he and I were just using each other. He created a playboy identity for himself to avoid the suspicion of his powerful elder brother. And as a powerless and helpless outsider, I quickly let down his elder brother's guard after being with him. We each got what we wanted, and unexpectedly, in the process, he actually fell in love with me."

"He said he didn't care who the child in my belly came from, and he believed I wasn't carrying a monster, but just an ordinary child. He was willing to be its father, so I gave birth to it. Just as he said, it wasn't a monster, but a completely normal human child. That day, he and I were both very happy, and we named it together."

Her eyes suddenly fixed on the young man in front of her.

The voice that came out again became light and hazy like water vapor on a rainy day.

"——Jiang Liujing."