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Chapter 52 Chen Cheng, who can't laugh, and his cognitive rewriting

Chen Cheng sat in his seat, trying to clear his mind to recover from the mental burden brought about by using his second talent [Cognitive Rewriting].

At this moment, the "fuel" used to activate [Cognitive Rewrite] to produce a significant cognitive change effect on the target is almost gone.

However, we are only one step away from the last mission of the main god space [Destroy King Kong Guo]. After completing it, joining the main god space is like a dragon entering the sea. We should just hold on a little longer.

Chen Cheng closed his eyes and tried to recover his somewhat irritable mood and agitated body through meditation, but failed.

As Juncheng gradually approached Kongōkaku, where the Shogun was stationed, the rain became heavier.

A sound like drum beats came from the roof of the car. It seemed to have some kind of pattern but was also chaotic, making it impossible to ignore its existence.

The time in the closed carriage passed extremely slowly, and every second was stretched by the sound of rain, making Chen Cheng feel even more anxious.

After trying several times and still being unable to enter meditation, Chen Cheng had no choice but to stand up, take out the knife in his personal space, and practice sword skills as he had done in the past fourteen years, trying to clear his mind and reduce the mental burden through practice.

Every time he swung his knife, Chen Cheng couldn't help but let out a stiff and twisted smile. This smile seemed to well up from the deepest part of his heart, climbing up his face uncontrollably.

The distorted expression moved every muscle on his face, bringing up scenes deeply buried in his memory, making him feel extraordinarily satisfied and at ease, and all his mental burden and fatigue were swept away.

This is his unique secret to relaxation. As for the origin of this strange smile, it can be traced back to some distant memories in Chen Cheng's mind.
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Chen Cheng used to be a person who couldn't smile. Since he could remember, his brain was missing the elements that constitute a smile.

Smiling, the most basic expression of friendliness, is elusive for him. His face always maintains a cold or empty expression, which makes people around him feel elusive and difficult to approach.

Among the children born to his father who was a reincarnation, Chen Cheng always seemed out of place. Over time, he became an outlier, ignored and alienated.

For Chen Cheng, he could not understand why he could not smile as freely as others, nor could he change his innate characteristics. He also did not understand why other brothers would exclude him and resort to violence against him because of this.

Deep down in his heart, he may have longed to fit in and be accepted, but whenever he tried to smile, the muscles on his face seemed to be imprisoned, unable to form that natural arc.

It wasn't until he sparred with a real sword and killed the brother who thought he was a 'strong man' with a knife that he first revealed this somewhat strange smile.

From then on, that feeling was engraved in his heart and could never be forgotten.

Whenever he swung his sword, or felt the blade cutting through flesh and blood, killed someone, or declared himself the winner, that long-lost pleasure would surge in his heart.

The muscles on his face would be pulled by some invisible force, spontaneously forming that terrifying smile.

This smile is not only an expression of his inner joy, but also a silent declaration - he is the winner, the powerful one who holds the power of life and death.

Although Chen Cheng never knew whether this kind of "smile" could be considered a normal smile, but now as long as he maintains his identity as a "strong man", no one should disagree that this kind of "smile" is a smile.

From the day of the murder, Chen Cheng remembered that feeling and learned to "smile".
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As Juncheng docked at Jingang Guo, Chen Cheng, who had finished practicing swordsmanship, had calmed down. If nothing unexpected happened, he would become a reincarnation in the main god space in a few minutes.

His plan has reached the final stage.

After letting the Shogun's confidant take away Amatori Mima, he only had to wait for Amatori Mima, whose memory had been rewritten, to cooperate with the Shogun's confidant to kill the Shogun, and stir up civil unrest in the central government to destroy the Shogunate's command and mobilization capabilities.

At the same time, he injected [Black Plasma] into the female Kabaneri to absorb the Kabane in Juncheng to form a [Fusion Group]. With the help of both inside and outside forces, the large-scale task of destroying Kongo Guo was naturally accomplished.

Chen Cheng felt that everything was under control at this moment.

In this mission, all my plans were executed perfectly.

Before entering the reincarnation space, I received an invitation letter from the main god space.

After experiencing a mission in the main god space, Chen Cheng was unwilling to stay in the reincarnation space according to his father's plan.

During the mission in the main god space, he relied on his sword attack talent and the extremely high-level [Basic Sword Skills] to kill several reincarnations, successfully collected a lot of "fuel" for using the second talent, and tentatively activated the second talent [Cognitive Rewriting].

Next to her husband's corpse, his wife, who should have been raging with rage against him, instead, under the influence of [Cognitive Rewrite], became completely accommodating. After the [Cognitive Rewrite] wore off, she, overcome with shame and anger, chose to commit suicide. After this novel experience, Chen Cheng became obsessed with this gift of controlling others.

There is no need to cater to others, no need to be the same as others. As long as you have enough 'fuel', you can rewrite other people's memories at will, and convert them into different durations according to the amount of 'fuel' used.

He possesses a second talent, [Cognitive Rewriting], which requires killing reincarnators to reserve 'fuel' in order to be most effective.

Only the atmosphere of the main god space that advocates hunting each other is most suitable for him, while the atmosphere of the reincarnation space that advocates unity, cooperation, and win-win makes it difficult for him to show the advantages of his talents.

After the main god space advanced him a somewhat strange price but was rewarded with a one-time resurrection item, Chen Cheng resolutely took this opportunity to defect to the main god space.
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Therefore, when he asked about everyone's talents at the beginning of the mission, he was planning how to have the best of both worlds and maximize the benefits of this mission, which was his first and last time in the reincarnation space.

As for rewriting the memory of the steam smelter named Ikoma and creating some obstacles for Fang Renyi who dared to deceive himself, it was just a simple act like stepping on an ant.

After successfully joining the Karifan Clan, he modified the memory of the leader's personal female bodyguard, Huo-Huo, turning her into someone loyal to him.

He also took the opportunity to modify the memory of the leader of the hunting faction, Amatori Mima, and obtained items related to the [Kabaneri] bloodline as well as supporting items such as [Black Plasma] and [White Plasma] that enhance and control talents.

At the same time, we also learned about the strange relationship between this leader and the Shogun, as well as the method of creating a [fusion group].

The only regret in the whole plan is that Chen Cheng has not yet found a second body like that strange elite Kabane - 'Gitōri', which can withstand the writing of a large amount of his own sword skills memory.

But, it doesn't matter to him anymore.

After learning the route to the Iron Fortress through the connection with Zhuang Zhengyan, he decisively sent out the "Technique" to harvest a large number of points and collected a large number of talents as "fuel" after the battle rewards were unlocked.

With sufficient 'fuel', he immediately modified the cognition of the two imposters and planted the order for them to kill each other.

While performing his mission at Iwago Station, he ran out of "fuel" and ended up rewriting the Shogun's confidant's cognition to facilitate the execution of his final mission.

When he learned that the 'Scavenger' and Fang Renyi were still alive, he chose to use the excuse of negotiation to use the fighting between the Karifans and their warriors to delay the 'Scavenger', and went to King Kong Castle to carry out the mission himself.

As for killing the 'Scavenger', Chen Cheng had thought about it, but seeing that the duration of [Cognitive Rewrite] on Amano Mima was running low, he had no choice but to quickly go to King Kong Guo to carry out the destruction mission.

This talent is very poor. It cannot replenish the "fuel" for one's [Cognitive Rewrite] and does not bring any benefits. The powerful "Scavenger" can be trapped in that battle.

Deceiving Zhuang Zhengyan and controlling her instead of killing her immediately to gain points and replenish the "fuel" for his own talent is certainly not a show of mercy.

This very deceptive temporary teammate was of great use in his plan.

The reincarnated people have plenty of vitality, and Zhuang Zhengyan, a woman who seems to have an extraordinary background, has an absurdly strong vitality.

If the female Kabaneri, Extinguishing, has insufficient vitality as the core of the [Fusion Group] to destroy Kongo Kabaneri.

Then he would inject the [black plasma] into Zhuang Zhengyan, who had been injected with the Kabane virus and had now become a female Kabaneri, to create a [fusion group] that would definitely be able to destroy Kongo Guo.
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While waiting to return from putting out the fire, Chen Cheng used the last bit of 'fuel' to use [Cognitive Rewrite] on Zhuang Zhengyan.

Chen Cheng hoped that this person who had turned into Kabaneri and was still roaring with his mouth sealed would quiet down, but he unexpectedly failed.

Chen Cheng was still thinking about the reason why [Cognitive Rewriting] failed to activate, but footsteps were heard in the carriage.

He turned his head, but found that the person who came was not the core of the [Fusion Group] who was supposed to put out the fire, but Fang Yi who was supposed to fight at the Panhu Post.

[Have you seen through my flawless plan? It's a pity it's a little too late.]

This chess game has come to an end. I'm already in check.

After Chen Cheng subconsciously touched the knife, this thought emerged in his mind.

(End of this chapter)