City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 722 - 0723: Dinner is Disturbed [Fourth Update]

Chapter 722: Chapter 0723: Dinner is Disturbed [Fourth Update]

Louise hadn’t spent much time with Ye Qiu, yet for some reason, she felt an inexplicable attraction toward him.

As they followed the rhythm of the waltz, Ye Qiu noticed Louise drawing closer to him.

After what seemed like an eternity, when the music finally stopped, Louise’s cheeks were flushed with embarrassment. But then, she whispered seductively in Ye Qiu’s ear, "Darling, I’ll be waiting for you in my room tonight!"

Ye Qiu, unsure whether Louise was just joking, found that after they parted, and each had taken a seat, Louise no longer seemed as warm as before. Instead, she had transformed into a demure princess.

Zhou Wenting looked at Ye Qiu and asked, "What were you two talking about just now?"

"Nothing much."

"Nothing much, then why do you have a lipstick mark on your face?"

"Do I?"

Ye Qiu was still unaware of the moment when Louise had left a lipstick mark on his face.

When Ye Qiu looked at Louise, she was playing with her long hair and giving him a suggestive look. But the more she did so, the more Ye Qiu felt that this Louise was not someone to be trifled with.

Louise was an untouchable beauty, and though Ye Qiu hadn’t known her for long, he wasn’t eager to provoke such a cunning woman.

The banquet continued, with the guests visibly engaging in conversation here and there.

According to the evening’s schedule, the banquet was set to conclude by 11:30 PM. It was now nearly eleven, with just half an hour left to go.

Yet the guests—both men and women—still seemed very enthusiastic.

Ye Qiu stood up, ready to bid farewell to the guests and end the evening’s events a bit early.

However, just then, Ivan, the butler, suddenly became nervous and hurried over to Count Charley and Earl Augusta, saying to Count Charley, "Count Charley, they’ve arrived!"

As soon as Ivan finished speaking, Count Charley, Earl Augusta, and others knew exactly who he was referring to.

Sure enough, before long, a group of men in white robes riding horses approached the manor.

About thirty men dismounted from their steeds, and behind them, an archbishop dressed in black robes stepped down from a carriage.

Archbishop Otto was one of the archbishops of the Holy Church in southern France. Previously, he had believed that the cult archbishop, Count Charley, who was wounded by the Holy Church’s Holy Artifact, would not survive the month.

To his surprise, the man had lived.

Furthermore, that very evening, Count Charley had even invited many of France’s upper echelons to his banquet.

"Charley, you’re not dead yet?"

Archbishop Otto and Count Charley were sworn enemies. On seeing that the other seemed perfectly unharmed, Archbishop Otto was astonished.

"Why would I be dead? What brings your cult here to my estate?"

From each other’s perspective, the opposite side was the cult and their own was the Holy Church; that was the current situation.

Standing behind Archbishop Otto, besides the white-robed members of the Knights Templar, there were also some priests, pastors, and nuns. They had come in search of two missing nuns and three monks.

The two nuns, together with the other three monks, had disappeared from a church in Toulouse half a month ago. The priest of the church had sought for them, but they were nowhere to be found for a long time.

That evening, however, they suddenly received a tip-off that the missing nuns and monks were in Count Charley’s large castle.

After receiving this report, Archbishop Otto, some members of the Knights Templar, and the priest of that church came over.

Because they knew that if the monks and nuns from the church fell into the hands of the cult, it would certainly be a dead end for them.

When Archbishop Otto and Count Charley confronted each other, the banquet, because of these people’s sudden arrival, and because they barged in, suddenly plummeted from its climax.

Now, the mood of the distinguished guests was not on the banquet but on the standoff between Count Charley and Archbishop Otto.

"Our missing clergy are here with you, because we received a report, and now we need to conduct a search!"

Archbishop Otto said.

"A search? On what grounds? This is private property, no one can come in without my permission, let alone search. You cult members are really too arrogant!"

Count Charley said.

According to French law, personal private property is certainly protected, and outsiders are not allowed to invade at will. If it were in the United States, one might even shoot the intruders dead without the law holding them accountable.

"Heh, I really do suspect now that the missing monks and nuns are here in the castle. Otherwise, why would you be afraid to let us search?"

"Would you like your home to be searched by me?"

Count Charley said.

...

Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, Louise, and other guests stood outside watching, but more and more bodyguards were coming out from Count Charley’s side.

It was clear that this might not be an ordinary affair.

According to the soul consciousness Ye Qiu absorbed, it was not clear who among the hostile parties was the good person.

However, Ye Qiu also didn’t expect these so-called legitimate Holy Church personnel to be so arrogant, coming directly and demanding a search just like the underworld does.

"Ye Qiu, what’s going on with them?"

Zhou Wenting began to feel confused. She originally thought that as an archbishop, Count Charley was a major figure in Christianity, but if he was an archbishop of Christianity, then what was the other faction? Could it be Eastern Orthodox?

Yet, based on her many years of experience studying in France, it seemed to her that Archbishop Otto and his group were the ones from Christianity.

As for which sect Count Charley and his people belonged to?

She really didn’t know, but thinking about those skull heads in Count Charley’s master room, as well as those bat items, and the hordes of white-haired bats around the great castle, she felt that Count Charley and his people seemed less like any Holy Church?

Yet, she did not dare to say it out loud, fearing that she might have to go back to her country to get a clear answer from Ye Qiu.

"It’s none of our business, we don’t need to concern ourselves with it."

Ye Qiu said.

As an archbishop, if Count Charley couldn’t even deal with these people, then he wouldn’t be fit to be called an archbishop. However, that evening, Ye Qiu indeed heard a scream in the middle of the night.

He had already suspected that the scream and the missing people Archbishop Otto mentioned could be connected. But these were affairs Ye Qiu did not want to get involved with.

Moreover, this so-called Holy Church was not as simple as he had imagined.