From the end of the world

Chapter 349 VS Time Stop 1
"Maybe?" I said. "So, maybe he's not here?"

"After all, I am only inferring based on past experience that he is probably in this research institute now. There is no guarantee that he might encounter any accidents and happen to be outside at this moment." Lu Chan said.

Although he said this was a research institute, it was impossible to tell from the outside. The sun had already set, and under the night, this huge building looked like an elegant museum, with two demon hunters dressed as guards standing at the door.

Since it is a facility under Mingzhu's command, maybe there is some secret research going on inside. I tried to use my perception to probe it, but encountered considerable resistance. Just like the secret base of the Humanitarian Department in the past, there are many anti-detection barriers here, and there is a smell of Mingzhu's magic power, which is likely to be set up by Mingzhu himself.

"Remember what I told you before? Mingzhuo once captured a large number of people with strong spirituality and killed them, trying to knock on the door to Naraku... This is where he did that kind of experiment." Lu Chan said in a complicated tone, "He would lock himself in the laboratory most of the time, eliminating all disturbances from the outside world, and forbidding his men to influence him unless necessary.

"And the demon hunters at the institute are also conducting sinful experiments that are forbidden on the surface, in order to study how to enter Naraku and how to extinguish the flame of enlightenment in Mingzhu's body. As far as I know, none of these people, from cadres to guards, have never had innocent blood on their hands, so there is no need for you to show mercy to them in the future.

"I am also responsible for the sins in there. Zhuang Cheng, if you think I deserve to die after seeing what's in there, then you can kill me too."

On the one hand, he may feel that he has the responsibility and conditions to pay for his sins while alive, but on the other hand, he is in self-doubt and wonders if he can only atone for his sins by death, so he wants to seek my judgment.

"You can go back now, Lu Chan," I said, "Leave the rest to me."

"I..." Lu Chan stopped moving forward.

"You don't want me to judge you by good or evil, do you? The people in there are all Mingzhu's men, so I'm going to kill them; but you are mine, so I'm going to protect you. I don't care whether you are a good person or a bad person. If you want to take all of Lu Youxun's sins on yourself and indulge in self-blame, that's your own business, so don't involve me in your mental exhaustion." I said mercilessly.

"...That's right." He sighed, "You are that kind of person."

He turned and left.

I stood there and waited for a while, waiting for him to walk far enough away, and then I looked back at the institute. The two guards at the entrance of the institute seemed to have some suspicion when they saw me standing opposite them. One of them walked up to me and asked, "Hey, who are you..."

"Death," I said.

The power of Da Wuchang's words is even enough to decide the life and death of mortals with a single word, and the two guards in front of him are at most demon hunters of the master level. To Da Wuchang, they are still mortals.

As soon as the word "death" fell, the guard who came to question him fell to the ground without any warning and turned into a corpse and died on the spot; and the guard behind him suddenly showed a look of shock, and then his eyes rolled back, and he lost his breath and heartbeat, and fell to the ground and died. I stepped over their bodies, walked into the institute, and then unfolded my own flame in one breath.

A large amount of flames directly broke through all the anti-detection barriers encountered along the way, and the entire research institute was engulfed in flames.

Taking into account the possibility of some victims and experimental subjects in the research institute, I did not add much lethality and destructive power this time. It was more of a "knock on the door" effect, calling out the life turbidity that was probably in the deepest part of the research institute.

But the Fate Turbidity did not appear immediately. Instead, a large number of spells that looked like traps appeared. Flames, lightning, freezing air, ground spikes... and invisible telekinesis and mysterious attacks like curses swept towards me from all directions. They seemed to be trigger traps for intruders. Just like the demon hunter who cast spells in front of me not long ago, these attacks could not even touch my body and automatically disintegrated and disappeared in the air.

Alarms rang throughout the facility, and I could hear the sounds of a large number of people fleeing in panic from deep inside. Some demon hunters dressed as guards also rushed towards me, shouting and yelling.

Since Lu Chan said that Mingzhu would prevent any disturbance from the outside world during the research process, it means that a barrier with excellent "soundproof" effect was set up around the laboratory, or some other magic. Or was Mingzhu not here from the beginning? If so, I will go back and complain to Lu Chan, and curse him to only drink hot drinks when he eats spicy food in the future.

I was just planning to get rid of these guards who came over first, and at this moment, a low groan came from behind the guards.

"——Time, please stop."

As the voice sounded, everything in my field of vision was like a strange filter, turning into different shades of gray. All the guards rushing towards me, as well as the triggered trap spells attacking me from all directions, the flames, lightning, frost, spikes... all stopped in mid-air as if the pause button had been pressed.

At the same time, I found that my body had become unable to move. But in this static world, there was something that could move. A figure walked out from behind the guards. It was a man wearing a black impermanence uniform.

——Time has stopped?
I have heard from Lu Chan that in Luoshan, there is indeed a person who can stop time at will. Could this man be the rumored time master? So he is Mingzhu's subordinate?

Although time has stopped, for some reason, my thoughts can still function normally. I tried to break free from the power of time that bound me, but found that I couldn't. Or rather, there was no power binding me at all, only the fact that I couldn't move.

It is natural that you cannot move in stopped time, but the phenomenon of time being stopped is not natural. The person with time ability should be using magic power to control time. And I only need to use my own power to destroy this magic power, at least I can make my own time run again. But if the object that should be destroyed does not exist from the beginning, then it naturally cannot be the key to solving the problem.

I tried to sense the outside world. Even a master of time ability couldn't stop time in a large area. However, the reality was different from what I imagined. My perception covered the entire Luoshan headquarters in an instant, but I saw that the time of the entire Luoshan headquarters had stopped. I continued to explore outside, and all material movement in the vast primeval forest surrounding the Luoshan headquarters had also stopped.

Even the moon and stars in the night sky seemed to have stopped, and some stars that were supposed to be twinkling were solidified.

Could it be that this person with the ability to time has stopped the time of the entire universe? How is such a thing possible?

"You are the rumored new master of fire ability, the ignorant Zhuang Cheng who challenged Mingzhu...right?"

The time ability user stood in front of me and said expressionlessly, "What are you doing here? Are you here to challenge the fate turbidity? If so, I really admire you. I originally thought you were just talking.

"I heard from Ming Zhuo that he had contacted you in a dream some time ago, and you took advantage of his distraction and luckily escaped... After that incident, you should have known the gap between you and the Great Impermanence. Even so, you actually dared to come to Luoshan Headquarters... I guess you are not really ignorant of the world, but you came here with the determination to die.

"You don't need Ming Zhuo to do it yourself. Since you want to die, I will grant your wish. It won't be considered an injustice for you to die at my hands.

"...But even if I said these words, I'm sure you wouldn't be able to hear them."

As he spoke, I carefully perceived the time and space around me.

With a perception that can intuitively explore even cause and effect and concepts, I quickly figured out the secret contained therein.

Then, I spoke.

"Is Mingzhu here?"

When he saw me suddenly speak, he looked frightened, as if he saw a big cockroach in the bed where he usually slept peacefully, and he retreated a long distance as if he had been electrocuted.

"You moved?" he said in shock, "Why ..."

"It's just that I can move around in stopped time. Mingzhu can do the same thing, so why can't I do it?" I said.

"What nonsense are you talking about? If Mingzhu can do it, can you do it? You are not the Great Impermanence, so what qualifications do you have to..."

As he spoke, he seemed to realize an impossible possibility, and his expression became more and more unbelievable.

I stretched my body a little after freeing myself from the stopped time, and then said to him, "This really opened my eyes. I didn't expect there is a way to stop the time of the universe."

(End of this chapter)