Chapter 145 Buffet of the Condemned

Hao Ren found the unoccupied Becky in an officers’ lounge in the aerial city of Holltus. Because she lacked the rank, she wasn’t invited to the high-level meetings. For half the day, she had been wandering the base. Relying on her reputation as a legendary mercenary and her noble status, she was having a pretty good time bumming food and drinks in the lounge. When they found her, Becky was happily stuffing herself in the cafeteria, having laid out a table full of high-end drinks and snacks for herself.

If anyone else were left alone like this, they might feel lost for a while, but for this careless mercenary girl, it seemed that the word “unhappy” didn’t exist in her dictionary. Hao Ren even suspected that as long as she was well-fed and clothed, she would be happy even if she was sold off by others.

The prerequisite was that she had to be in charge of counting the money: she liked counting money.

As soon as Becky saw everyone show up, she greeted them happily. Hao Ren looked at the scale of the feast on the table: "You're really living it up, huh? Eating this much, are you trying to stuff yourself to death?"

"Isn't this to prepare for you guys when you came back?" Becky clapped her hands with a grin. "I just couldn't resist trying a couple of chicken legs, half a pound of biscuits, four cakes, and two bottles of wine first. Welcome, saviors, did you save the world again?"

Lily stared blankly at Becky, suddenly showing a look of admiration: "Your appetite has almost caught up with mine, that's a big improvement."

"Enjoy life to the fullest when you're happy, never attend court again... I had a good fight today, and my mercenary habits came back out after smelling blood," Becky waved her hand. "When there's food and drink, enjoy it to the fullest. What if there's no next meal?"

Elizabeth gently tugged at Hao Ren's sleeve: "Uncle Ren, is that the line after 'Enjoy life to the fullest'?"

Hao Ren put on a stern face: "Don't learn from her, she's uneducated."

But apart from the uneducated part, Becky's attitude towards life was really enviable. Hao Ren couldn't help but think that if the end of the world really happened today, Becky might really become the only person in Holltus to die of fullness – or maybe of stuffing herself to death.

"What do you mean uneducated?" Becky's ears were sharp. "Little girl, I'll teach you to smash a rock on your chest in a couple of days, I have skills too... Okay, okay, I won't talk nonsense, sit down and eat something, you look like... you're still busy, and you'll be leaving soon?"

Hao Ren then felt that his stomach was empty. He thought about how he had been doing high-intensity physical exertion for most of the day, and hadn't eaten anything yet. Lily next to him was even worse. The husky girl was already dizzy from the smell of food. At this time, she was lying on the table, gobbling up food like a ravenous dog, a whole chicken leg could go down in the blink of an eye – and she didn't even spit out the bones!

"We'll be leaving in a while," Hao Ren sat down opposite Becky, and without being polite, he started to solve his stomach problem first. "A lot of things happened, I have to go back and report. Lily, slow down, no one's fighting with you... at least spit out the bones, okay?"

"Woo?" Lily raised her head with half a bone in her mouth, her face full of grease. She crunched the bone a couple of times and swallowed it. "Huh?"

"...Never mind, do whatever you want." Hao Ren shook his head with a dry smile, put Doudou on the table, gave the little guy a few pieces of wood for her to chew on, and then chatted with Becky about life in Holleta while eating. This careless mercenary girl was still the same as before. Whenever it wasn't related to money, she seemed exceptionally slow. She didn't even feel the change in the atmosphere of the aerial city. Even when the Pope's death was mentioned, she just muttered in a daze: "Woo... I can't believe it..."

Any insight or analysis of the situation beyond that was beyond her brain's ability to handle.

In between chatting, Hao Ren seemed to have returned to the feeling of living with Becky. This magical guy really wouldn't change much no matter where she went. Before, he simply thought that she had strong adaptability, but now it seemed that it was just that her nerves were too tough. Nangong Wuyue couldn't help but sigh: "Sometimes I really envy you. If anyone had your attitude towards life, their life would probably be a lot easier, and the landlord wouldn't have so many worries every day."

"Is that a compliment?" Becky patted her stomach with a satisfied burp. "Then thank you. Life is pretty simple, if you can figure something out, why worry about it, if you can't figure something out, why worry about it - that's what the goddess taught me. Oh, your goddess over there."

After saying this, Becky stretched comfortably: "Ugh... it's so much easier to talk like this. It's much more comfortable chatting with you guys. Before, I had to go to banquets every day and be polite to those old fogeys, it made me feel like I was holding something in. If I wanted to find someone to curse at, I had to put on makeup and go out of the city, and I often found out that the person cursing at me was actually the housekeeper in disguise..."

What else could Hao Ren say? He just felt that it must be really hard to work in Becky's mansion...

While Becky was complaining carelessly, they suddenly heard a voice from behind them: "You should probably get used to aristocratic life, at least understand your housekeeper, he can't let you really run to the tavern and fight with those hooligans, that's not how the image of a legendary mercenary should be ruined."

Becky turned her head, and her whole body suddenly stiffened. She jumped up in a huff: "Lady... Lady Ofra! You you you... you're here? Have you eaten? Would you like something to drink? Any instructions? Would you like a glass of mead? Pastries? How about I give you a back massage..."

Ofra waved her hand: "No, I'm still afraid to eat your stuff for the time being, who knows what you'll put in it."

As soon as Marshal Ofra said this, Hao Ren thought of the time when Becky, this whimsical guy, drugged her idol in an attempt to get her to get laid. He looked at Becky with a smile and muttered, "So your drugging incident has been exposed?"

Ofra had demon hunter blood, and her ears were even sharper than Lily's. She heard Hao Ren's muttering and immediately laughed: "With her reckless and careless style, how could it not be exposed? She said she'd make me tea, but you could eat that tea with a spoon, who couldn't tell there was something in it..."

Everyone around them immediately looked at Becky with a look of amusement. Becky was still blushing and explaining: "I wasn't paying attention at the time, I was too excited, and I didn't look at the amount and just poured it all in..."

Lily excitedly asked: "And then? And then?"

"And then?" Marshal Ofra smiled and stroked her chin. "Anyway, I'm immune to most potions, so I just chewed it all up, it was quite chewy."

So Hao Ren was amazed by both Becky and Ofra. Leaving aside the fact that the latter could chew down sleeping pills, the former could make the drugging of tea have chewiness, which was unprecedented...

Lily looked at this combination of idol and brain-dead fan with a serious face and made a serious suggestion: "I think you two should just get laid after all."

Nangong Wuyue poked Hao Ren's lower back with the tip of her tail and muttered, "Is it really okay for us to be discussing this kind of topic so seriously here? It doesn't sound like it's for all ages..."

"Oh right, there's still something important," Ofra seemed to suddenly remember something, interrupting her chat with Becky, she looked up at Hao Ren, "I came here to ask you something."

Hao Ren noticed that the relaxed atmosphere on Ofra's body suddenly faded, and couldn't help but become serious: "What is it?"

"You... or more strictly speaking, you, would you like to try, like the Radiant Church believers, to receive the church's blessing and listen to the voice of the goddess?"

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect the other party to suddenly bring this up. After a few seconds, he subconsciously shook his head: "You're saying let me join the church? That doesn't sound very reliable... I have no objection to your beliefs, but I'm part of an organization."

"Perhaps my statement was problematic," Ofra looked at Hao Ren's eyes seriously. "It's not to let you join the church, but just to let you try the tattoo ceremony."

"Tattoo?" Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that this was a ritual that every new official priest of the Radiant Church had to go through. By injecting source blood into the body and shaping it spiritually in the process, it would resonate with the power of the goddess somewhere in the universe. It was said that after the ritual, the priests would be able to communicate with the goddess, but he didn't know why Ofra suddenly came to say this: "Why are you looking for me? Is it because we helped solve a lot of problems, and the church decided to 'reward' us in this way? If that's the case, then I'm not very interested..."

"Let the master tell you," Ofra said, pointing to the people behind them.

Hao Ren saw the bearded ascetic walking over from there.