Chapter 34: Saint

An old man with a hunched figure crawled out of a room on the first floor, looked at Sun Hang expressionlessly, and asked, “Who are you looking for?”

On this old man, there was the aura of “Tai Sui,” the same as the girl.

“I met a girl on the road, and she asked me to bring these baozi and fried dough sticks here.” Sun Hang raised the bag in his hand and gestured to the other party.

“What about that girl?”

“I don’t know, it seems she had something urgent to do and left after giving me the things.” Sun Hang shook his head, “I don’t know where she went either.”

“Alright, I understand.” The old man nodded and said in a cold tone, “Just put the things on the table by the door, and you can leave.”

“One more thing,” Sun Hang said.

“…” The old man narrowed his eyes, and after two seconds, he asked, “What is it?”

“I heard that there is a ‘Saint’ here who can cure all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases… even incurable diseases?”

“Who told you that?”

“That girl told me.”

“What illness do you have?”

“Malignant brain tumor. The doctor at Tianfu City Central Hospital told me that I have at most a month and a half left… so I wanted to try my luck.” Sun Hang replied.

The old man looked Sun Hang up and down again, then turned around: “Follow me.”

Sun Hang followed the old man up six floors and stopped in front of a room door with the sign “Room 602.”

“You wait here,” the old man said to Sun Hang, then pushed the door open and went in.

After about ten minutes, the old man came out from inside and said to Sun Hang, “Go in, the Saint is waiting for you inside.”

Sun Hang was slightly surprised in his heart. He hadn’t had high hopes for this test. Even if the other party didn’t suspect him, he would only be able to contact some small fries… He never expected that this old man, who looked like a doorman, could let him directly meet the “Saint” himself.

Could it be that the “Saint” is not the highest-ranking existence in this cult organization… or is it that what awaits Sun Hang in the room is a trap set specifically to encircle and kill him?

Sun Hang could feel a lot of “Tai Sui” auras within the room, but although the quantity was not small, their quality was not high… He felt an inexplicable confidence in his heart: with his abilities, he could completely suppress these auras.

Just like before in the abandoned amusement park, Bloody Mary’s thorns dared not approach him at all.

This was a kind of bloodline suppression akin to a “natural enemy,” where the suppressed party had no choice but to be preyed upon.

Sun Hang walked in.

At a glance, the interior of Room 602 had clearly undergone extensive illegal renovations. All walls and partitions that were not load-bearing had been removed, connecting all the rooms together to form an open space of nearly one hundred square meters.

Along the wall base, there was a row of bronze incense burners, and the air was filled with the scent of incense.

More than thirty people, dressed in plain clothes with their eyes bandaged with white bandages, knelt on cushions, seemingly meditating. At the head of the table, a middle-aged man in a long robe, with bare feet, leaned back in a young woman’s embrace, watching Sun Hang enter with a smile.

Everyone sitting here had the aura of “Tai Sui,” and that middle-aged man was no exception.

Sun Hang stood there, making eye contact with the middle-aged man, not speaking. This strange atmosphere lasted for about half a minute before the middle-aged man broke the silence first.

“You say you came to me for medical treatment, but you have already obtained the life-saving item.”

“I don’t understand,” Sun Hang’s reply was very brief.

“Han Ying died at your hands, didn’t she? I smell the aura of the ‘Tai Sui’ that gave it to her on you,” the Saint said.

“Your nose is quite sharp.” Since the other party had directly pierced the veil, Sun Hang no longer intended to play coy with him and said, “Where is Tai Sui… I mean, its true body.”

“Are you from the Investigation Bureau… or a Hunter?” the Saint asked, “But no matter what your identity is, you should have already understood the difference between ‘Tai Sui’ and other strange objects, right?”

After saying this, the Saint stood up directly, opened his arms to Sun Hang, and said in a deep voice, “Not just you, everyone here can feel that it was ‘Tai Sui’ that gave them new life, and ‘Tai Sui’ will also give them a future!”

“Are you… trying to recruit me?” Sun Hang asked.

“No, this is not recruitment.” The Saint shook his head, “You understand strange objects better than ordinary people, so you should also understand the uniqueness of ‘Tai Sui’… The most painful things in the world are birth, old age, sickness, and death, but ‘Tai Sui’ can completely erase them, and all you need to do is offer your piety to ‘Tai Sui’.”

“Don’t I need to pay money?” Sun Hang tilted his head and scratched the back of his head, “I don’t have much money.”

“No… I think there must be some misunderstanding between us,” the Saint continued, “As long as you are willing to join us and worship ‘Tai Sui’ with us, you will receive the blessing of ‘Tai Sui’… We don’t force money. What we value more is the believer’s piety.”

“No wonder…” Sun Hang nodded, “The cult organization that was dismantled before, their cult leader was already living in a villa and driving luxury cars, but you are still hiding in such an unfinished building… This is probably the so-called ‘lesson from the past’… To be honest, it’s better to be low-key, at least you won’t be easily caught by the Investigation Bureau.”

“We are not like them, and ‘Tai Sui’ is not like the strange objects they kept.” The Saint shook his head, “Those people fed strange objects with human flesh and blood, trying to create a terrifying calamity. But we save all living beings with the blessing of ‘Tai Sui’, giving those in desperate situations a glimpse of hope for life…”

“No… you are still feeding strange objects with human flesh and blood, it’s just that before you fed dead people, and now you are feeding living people.” Sun Hang shook his head, “Although none of them are good things, at least you are smarter than your predecessors, changing from ‘fishing in a dried-up pond’ to sustainable development—after all, killing one person can only satisfy the strange object for one meal; but by using parasitism, relying on the host’s vitality to continuously nourish the strange object, one human life can last for several years. In terms of cost-effectiveness, I admit that your method is more brilliant.”

The expression in the Saint’s eyes suddenly changed, and he took a step closer to Sun Hang: “So what… There are many people who would have died long ago if I hadn’t saved them. But after receiving the blessing of ‘Tai Sui’, their lives have been extended for many years. Isn’t that a good thing?”