Infinite Terror: This Middle Continent is Rebellious

Chapter 373 Death
"how should I do?"

Zheng Zha was in a dilemma.

The current situation is desperate. Either he dies first, or Zhan Lan completely devours his mental power and becomes a monster that is neither him nor his own inner demon.

Either Zhan Lan dies or he lives. This way, he will not be able to get over his inner demons.

Yes, Zheng Zha has already understood what he can't let go of.

What he can't let go of are these teammates.

What he was most afraid of, what he least wanted to happen, and what he feared the most was the outbreak of his inner demon in the world of The Return of the Condor Heroes, which almost killed Zhan Lan.

Especially since half of his teammates have already returned to the real world, the teammates who remain in the Zhongzhou team are all close friends who are willing to risk their lives for each other. He has sworn in his heart that he will return to the real world safely with everyone.

If he chooses to kill Zhan Lan in order to survive, he will never be able to untie this knot in his heart.

"Kill me, or become one with me."

Zhan Lan's cheeks flushed, and she felt Zheng Zha's warmth with her skin, smiling foolishly.

"Only two options?"

Zheng Zha clenched his teeth, his brain worked rapidly, and a crazy idea arose in his heart.

"I choose neither! Zhan Lan! I won't kill you, nor will I let you sink into your inner demons! There is a third choice, and that is... I die!"

The spiritual light that protected the body disappeared, and the positive and negative true energy collided in Zheng Zha's heart. Without any protective measures, the surging top energy spread fiercely throughout Zheng Zha's body, causing devastating damage.

In an instant, Zheng Zha's body turned into ashes in Zhan Lan's arms.

Zhan Lan's cheeks became wet, and a thick blood mist came towards him, entering his sight from a close distance.

Zhan Lan's pupils gradually dilated, and blood flowed into her eyes, like a drop of ink falling on white rice paper, staining her black pupils with a layer of blood.

She subconsciously closed her arms, wanting to hug the person she loved, but she held nothing. She used her mental power to sense, but could not find Zheng Zha's consciousness. The arms around her were empty, with only the blood mist, torn pieces of clothes, and ashes of bones floating in the sky, telling of the remnants of that person.

Zheng Zha is dead.

The reality before his eyes turned into an impact more powerful than any other force, crashing into Zhan Lan's heart.

In order to keep her alive, Zheng Zha chose to commit suicide.

The cruel yet warm, ruthless yet passionate facts enveloped Zhan Lan's body and mind.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Zhan Lan screamed madly, like the wail of a dying baby, but her blurred eyes were so clear.

Reality is always cruel. The reality, as cold as a knife, cuts open the dark side of Zhan Lan and exposes his timid self.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The pain was a hundred times more intense than when she was trapped in her inner demons! A thousand times more pain filled Zhan Lan's heart. She waved her hands vigorously, trying to catch the man who disappeared from in front of her, but apart from the wet and sticky touch, she could not touch anything.

The touch of the blood mist made Zhan Lan's body twitch. She shuddered and retracted her hands. She had never been so resistant to blood in a day. The extremely strong feeling of nausea turned into a hard fist, pounding her stomach hard.

Zhan Lan knelt on the ground and vomited heart-wrenchingly.

However, as a practitioner, the food she ate had already been digested into energy. No matter how nauseous she felt, she couldn't vomit anything out. The only thing she could vomit out was gastric juice.

"Aaaaaaaaaaa!"

Zhan Lan lay on the ground, screaming wildly, crying in grief, pounding the ground with both hands, venting the pain in his heart frantically.

However, no matter how painful it was, she did not fall into her inner demons again.

Dirty desires and extreme emotions are so insignificant in the face of reality. Even the inner demons can only retreat in the face of the pain of reality.

At this moment, Zhan Lan was so clear-headed. She was clearly aware of everything she had done, and she was even more clearly aware that Zheng Zha chose to die because of her ugly side.

That was true death. For a fourth-level strongman, his soul and body were united. Zheng Zha's physical body was dead, which was true death. He could not be resurrected using the spells of the Black Sutra of the Undead.

Zhan Lan's heart was in great pain, so much so that she wanted to die, to end her life and her pain.

In the central area of ​​Delhi Town, Cheng Xiao, Chu Xuan, Lingdian, Zhao Yingkong and others have left their guest rooms.

The room was reduced to ruins by Zhan Lan's sword energy and is now uninhabitable.

Zhang Jie went to negotiate with the hotel's front desk manager and paid a large sum of money before he finally convinced the manager and got a new room.

"I really don't understand why Zhan Lan suddenly wants to kill Zheng Zha. Is she going to kill him if she can't get him? She's not that kind of person, is she?"

Cheng Xiao fell back on the sofa, staring at the ceiling, feeling confused.

"Maybe it's because my emotions have become extreme, caused by my inner demons."

Zhang Jie couldn't understand the principle either, and could only roughly classify it as one of the characteristics of the inner demon.

Zhao Yingkong sat by the window, looking at the ever-changing sky, and said calmly, "After falling into the inner demon, anything that happens is normal. Ruikong was like that before. After the inner demon erupted, she would kill those close to her with a smile. She controlled the former Zhao Yingkong and killed her own brothers and sisters. Someone who falls into the inner demon is no longer the same person."

"It sounds so dangerous and weird. It seems I was overthinking it. I thought the inner demon was just rampaging and killing people, like Zheng Zha in the world of The Return of the Condor Heroes, who went on a killing spree on the battlefield and even ignored his teammates."

Cheng Xiao was filled with emotion, and his nonchalant expression gradually turned serious.

Zhan Lan's inner demonic state made him dare not underestimate it as he did before. If it was just a rampage, he believed that he had the ability to control his inner self.

However, for someone like Zhan Lan whose mind is twisted and whose cognition changes into another form without him realizing it, he doesn't know how to crack it.

Cheng Xiao looked towards Chu Xuan and asked seriously, "Chu Xuan, you mentioned my weakness before. What exactly is it?"

Chu Xuan held a half-eaten apple in his left hand, still chewing it slowly. His right hand had already let go of the Donghuang Bell and reached into his pocket, his fingers seemingly rubbing something. "The thing you didn't think would be your weakness, turned out to be your weakness."

Hearing Cheng Xiao's question, Chu Xuan inexplicably became a riddler.

Cheng Xiao's mouth twitched, he took a deep breath, and asked Chu Xuan, "Can you explain it more clearly? I don't understand what you are saying at all."

Chu Xuan said calmly, "Buddha said, it cannot be spoken. Although I don't believe in Buddhism, this is the same principle. I can only remind you not to make it clear. Once you make it clear, it will only widen the loopholes in your mind, making it even more difficult for you to break through your inner demons."

Cheng Xiao was speechless and scratched his scalp anxiously.

At this moment, Cheng Xiao was not the only one feeling anxious.

Zhan Lan fell into his inner demons almost right under their noses, which made everyone nervous and gave them a strong sense of urgency and crisis. Both Cheng Xiao and Zhao Yingkong felt confused about their future.

Only Chu Xuan, no one could understand what he was thinking.

Ming Yanwei leaned against the wall, bathing in the cool breeze blowing in from the balcony. Her eyes swept across Chu Xuan's pocket and caught a glimpse of a smooth, shiny thing that seemed to be some kind of porcelain.

Zhang Heng, Zhang Jie, Lingdian, everyone fell silent and stayed where they were, waiting for Zheng Zha to bring back the news.

Whether it's good news or bad news.

However, until the next day, when the sun rose from the horizon, covering Delhi Town and shining through the floor-to-ceiling windows onto the members of the Zhongzhou team, they still did not wait for Zheng Zha, nor did they wait for Zhan Lan.

"Damn it! What the hell is going on? Why hasn't Zheng Zha come back yet? With his strength, wouldn't it be easy for him to defeat Zhan Lan? Even if he can't help Zhan Lan break his inner demons, he can at least suppress Zhan Lan first and then report to us that he's safe."

Zhang Jie walked back and forth in the living room, his heavy footsteps almost cracking the ground. If he hadn't booked the entire hotel in advance, someone would have come up and reminded him to keep his voice down.

Ming Yanwei was still near the balcony wall, Zhao Yingkong was still sitting by the window, Lingdian was sitting on the sofa holding a Gauss sniper rifle, Cheng Xiao was tossing and turning on another sofa, and Chu Xuan had no idea how many apples he had eaten.

They didn't sleep all night, and most of them didn't change their positions at all.

Cheng Xiao flipped over and sat up from the sofa, his hands on his thighs. He said solemnly, "The situation is worse than we imagined! We shouldn't have let Zheng Zha take Zhan Lan away yesterday. The first rule of horror movies is that they can't act separately. How could we forget that!"

Zhao Yingkong said calmly, "Pennywise's power doesn't lie in brute force. No one could have imagined that Zheng Zha would disappear without a sound. If Zheng Zha encountered Pennywise, or if he also fell into his inner demons, the power he unleashed would be enough to spread over a thousand miles, even covering most of the United States."

"It's time for us to take action and go find Zheng Zha."

Zero picked up the Gauss sniper rifle and stood up from the sofa.

Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and asked calmly, "Go find it? Where?"

Lingdian said calmly: "The direction Zheng Zha left yesterday, or perhaps, to the underground."

Chu Xuan shook his head. "I've already sent out detection robots to search the direction Zheng Zha left, but there's no sign of Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan. As for the underground of Delhi Town, that's Pennywise's lair, and Wen Lie is also there. If Zheng Zha really let Pennywise take him down there, Wen Lie wouldn't be so calm."

Both proposals were rejected. Lingdian couldn't help but frown and asked Chu Xuan, "This won't work, and that won't work either. What do you think we should do? Just because there are no clues, we won't look for it?"

Lingdian's emotions were rarely out of control. Zhang Jie, Zhang Heng, Ming Yanwei, Cheng Xiao, and Zhao Yingkong all looked at Lingdian and Chu Xuan, but no one tried to stop the argument between the two... Perhaps it was a one-sided argument between Lingdian.

"With your mentality, going to Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan like a headless fly will only provide Pennywise with loopholes."

Facing Lingdian's questioning, Chu Xuan's expression remained calm, and his dull expression made people irritated just by looking at him.

"...Are you really Chu Xuan? Is the person talking to me really Chu Xuan?"

Lingdian suddenly raised the Gauss sniper rifle and pointed the muzzle at Chu Xuan.

Along with the cold questioning, Lingdian pulled the trigger without hesitation and fired a magic bullet at Chu Xuan.

This magic bullet is not a planetary bombardment, nor is it empowered by telekinesis, but what drives the bullet is not the force of the gun itself, but the mutual force inside the planet.

Although it was a sudden shot, the effect was less than one tenth, but it was still powerful enough to penetrate a mountain range.

Chu Xuan's expression remained unchanged. He held the Donghuang Bell in his right hand and shook it gently. The bell rang out and the magic bullet stopped in front of Chu Xuan, suspended in the air and unable to move forward. The force that pushed the magic bullet to rush was suppressed by the power of the Donghuang Bell the moment the bell rang out.

"clatter!"

The next second, the bullet fell to the ground, and in contrast, the other members of the Nakasu team stood up suddenly.

"Zero o'clock!"

"what are you doing?"

"Are you crazy too?"

"calm down!"

Cries of surprise rang out, and everyone looked at Zero nervously. They all tensed their nerves at the same time, and their bodies naturally entered a combat state.

However, Zero put down the Gauss sniper rifle.

He sat down wearily, his expression dazed. "You are indeed Chu Xuan... No, sorry, I'm still not sure. Can Pennywise also simulate the power of the Donghuang Bell? I can't help but think about it. Even if I test you with a gun, the result won't convince me."

"So you suspect Chu Xuan is an illusion created by Pennywise?"

Seeing Lingdian put down the Gauss sniper rifle, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Jie looked at Chu Xuan and asked Lingdian.

Zero nodded silently.

"Chu Xuan has said a lot these past two days, but most of it is unclear and instructs us to proactively face our inner demons. Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan have disappeared again... Sorry, I really can't tell which of my words are true and which are false. Did Chu Xuan ever ask Pennywise to replace him?"

Hearing Lingdian's doubts, Cheng Xiao touched his chin, walked in front of Chu Xuan, and stared into his eyes.

The two looked at each other, Chu Xuan didn't blink, and looked at Cheng Xiao calmly.

After a moment, Cheng Xiao turned his head and earnestly assured Lingdian, "Chu Xuan has always been Chu Xuan. Unlike Zhan Lan, he has never been alone. From yesterday to today, Chu Xuan has never left us. Unless Pennywise can hide from my divine sense at such a close distance, but if Pennywise is that powerful, we can give up the resistance... Besides, I don't think Chu Xuan will be replaced so easily. The Jade Disc of Creation, the East Emperor Bell, the Philosopher's Stone, some of the most powerful magic weapons of our Zhongzhou team are in his possession. I also helped him decipher a large number of cultivation classics. It is hard for me to imagine that Chu Xuan will be replaced without any resistance."

(End of this chapter)