Infinite Terror: This Middle Continent is Rebellious

Chapter 374 Split?

Zero said nothing, and the atmosphere in the room became depressing. Everyone looked at each other, speechless.

"You guys can fight among yourselves if you want. I'm leaving now."

Zhao Yingkong suddenly walked towards the gate.

Ming Yanwei quickly asked, "Yingkong, where are you going?"

"Let's go meet the characters. Since we've lost the basis for trust..." Zhao Yingkong paused before continuing, "It has nothing to do with whether we trust each other or not. In this horror movie, our enemy is ourselves. There's no point in sticking together. Staying here is just a waste of time. We might as well continue the story as normal."

"I'm with you. Yesterday's storm was sure to cause panic in Derry. Pennywise wants to attack those children. Today is a good opportunity."

Hearing this, Ming Yanwei walked to Zhao Yingkong's side.

Zhao Yingkong nodded and walked out of the room with Ming Yanwei.

"Well, I'm going out for a while too."

Seeing Zhao Yingkong and Ming Yanwei leave, Zhang Heng hesitated for a moment and said to Chu Xuan.

Without waiting for Chu Xuan's response, Zhang Heng left quickly.

"I'm going to find Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan. I don't believe they would die so quietly."

Zero put the Gauss sniper rifle into the gun case, put it on his back, and left the hotel.

"all gone?"

Zhang Jie watched helplessly as the Zhongzhou team fell apart.

He wanted to stop them, but except for Zhang Heng who simply followed Ming Yanwei, everyone else had undeniable reasons for leaving. He couldn't stop any of them, so he could only choose between looking for Zheng Zha and continuing the mission.

Zhang Jie took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. After lighting it, he took a puff and exhaled white smoke rings.

"Forget it, I'll go check on those plot characters. We can't let Pennywise take advantage of the opportunity and eat all the plot characters. It's very likely that Pennywise is holding back Wen Lie, Zheng Zha, and Zhan Lan just to see us torn apart and have no energy left to protect the plot characters."

The taste of nicotine cleared his mind a little, and he thought and made a choice.

After saying that, Zhang Jie turned his gaze to Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan nodded noncommittally: "Perhaps that is possible."

Zhang Jie pressed on: "How likely is it?"

Chu Xuan replied calmly: "There are too many variables to calculate."

"Ugh!"

Hearing this completely meaningless answer, Zhang Jie sighed deeply and walked out the door.

In just a few minutes, only Cheng Xiao and Chu Xuan were left.

Cheng Xiao lay on the sofa with his eyes closed.

Chu Xuan sat on a chair and took out a laptop to read knowledge about cultivation.

The two of them were doing their own things, and the room seemed to be divided into two worlds, and no one disturbed the other.

"Chu Xuan, in the last horror movie, you suppressed your inner demon. If you hadn't been tempted by Pennywise, your inner demon wouldn't have erupted, right?"

Suddenly, Cheng Xiao asked.

He put his hands behind his head, closed his eyes, and spoke in a calm tone.

Chu Xuan stared at the computer screen without looking back, and said calmly: "Unless there is a special situation, the inner demon will not erupt for a long time."

Cheng Xiao asked: "Then what is a special situation?"

Chu Xuan replied: "When I am forced into a desperate situation."

"That means you've already mastered your inner demons... In that case, I understand."

Cheng Xiao opened his eyes, sat up, and looked towards Chu Xuan with undisguised suspicion on his face.

"You are indeed Chu Xuan. You didn't make Pennywise change."

The residential area of ​​Delhi Town is bustling like never before. Residents have come out of their homes, holding tools for repairing their houses and hammering on the roofs and walls.

The storm had subsided when Zheng Zha left yesterday, but the moving storm still caused damage to the buildings in Delhi Town, so that after the storm disappeared, the residents had to repair their houses as soon as possible.

The sidewalk was covered with fallen leaves and branches. Zhao Yingkong and Ming Yanwei walked on them, making a creaking sound. The two of them walked towards Bev's residence with a clear purpose.

Ming Yanwei suddenly said: "My inner demon is actually very clear."

Zhao Yingkong glanced at Ming Yanwei.

Ming Yanwei stared straight ahead, her tone calm, "Those criminals who insulted me, and Zhang Heng who abandoned me, are all things in my past that I can't let go of. It's too painful to look back on... No, I don't really care about those criminals who insulted me anymore. The only thing that sticks in my heart is Zhang Heng. But I've gradually stopped caring about him. The inner demon will naturally disappear."

Zhao Yingkong said calmly, "You're clear-headed, which is a good thing. My main personality has already left with Zhao Zhuikong. My only real memory is from the year I entered the main god space. Zhao Zhuikong, who has been tormenting me, will not let me waver."

Ming Yanwei nodded gently: "Pennywise can't scare me. No one else can be relied upon. The task of protecting the plot characters is only ours."

Zhao Yingkong and Ming Yanwei looked at each other, their lips slightly raised, their firm belief made them fearless.

A tall and thin adult man climbed up to the roof of a two-story detached building with a ladder, holding a hammer and nails, and added a layer of wooden boards to the damaged roof.

"Dad, breakfast is ready."

The girl with blonde twintails walked out of the room and called out to the man on the higher ground.

The man left the nails on the roof, climbed down with a hammer, and walked into the house.

The blonde girl turned and went into the house, closing the door.

Just opposite this two-story building, chubby Ben was hiding behind the flowers. When he saw the girl and the man enter the house, he looked around and sneakily ran towards the building opposite.

He held a postcard in his right hand, and because he was too nervous, the sweat on his palm soaked the edge of the postcard.

"—!"

Running out the door, Ben rang the doorbell, threw the postcard on the ground, and quickly ran back, covering his body with flowers.

After a while, Bev opened the door and looked at the street in confusion. Except for a few adults who were still building houses not far away, there was no one else in front of her house, and those adults would not be so naive as to run away after ringing the doorbell.

Soon, Bev found the postcard on the ground. She picked it up and turned back into the house.

"Your hair is like a winter flame, like the embers of a January fire, and my heart is ablaze too."

Bev read the contents of the postcard as she walked into the living room.

The love letter-like content made Bev shy and surprised, and she subconsciously looked back at the door.

At this moment, her father walked into the living room and called out to Bev, "Who was that ringing the bell just now, Bev?"

Bev subconsciously hid the postcard behind her, but she couldn't hide it from her father.

"What is that?" Father frowned and walked towards Bev.

"nothing."

Bev said instinctively.

"show me."

The father simply stretched out his right hand and asked Bev for it.

Bev, who didn't dare to disobey her father, had no choice but to hand over the postcard.

The father took the postcard, glanced at the contents, and asked coldly, "Did you do something you shouldn't have done?"

Bev immediately shook her head.

"Are you fooling around with boys? This is a love letter from a boy."

My father's voice gradually became angry, and he tore up the postcard and threw the scraps on the ground.

"I worry about you, Bev. Sometimes I really do."

Bev panicked, angry, and frightened at the same time, afraid of her father's appearance.

She hurriedly picked up the scraps of paper on the ground and pleaded pitifully, "Dad, please."

Before she could finish her words, her father slapped her across the face. His palm made a dull thud as he roared angrily, "You're not even twelve yet and you're fooling around with boys!"

After being slapped, wronged and abused, Bev angrily shouted to her father, "Stay away from me..."

She turned around and wanted to leave.

"come over!"

Her father roared, shaking Bev all over. The intense fear made her feet feel like they were chained.

The father said coldly, "Don't force me to come over and catch you. Come here."

Bev refused without hesitation: "No!"

"What did you say?"

It seemed that he could not have expected Bev to reject him. His authority was challenged, and his father's eyes slowly widened. Scarlet bloodshot spread in his eye sockets, and his whole body exuded an aura of tyranny.

"do not want!"

Bev's body began to tremble, but she still said NO bravely, turned around and ran.

Her father strode after her. Bev opened the door and half of her body had already escaped. A big hand grabbed her ponytail and pulled her in hard.

"boom!"

The father kicked the door and closed it again, throwing Bev to the ground. He then pulled out a belt from his waist and stared at Bev with bloodshot eyes.

"Okay, you really have become a bad person, hanging out with bad kids outside, rebelling against me as your father, and running away from home?!"

Her father breathed heavily and swung his belt into the air. The leather belt hit the air, making a crisp sound of breaking through the air, which made Bev, who fell to the ground, tremble with fear.

"I didn't, Dad. Please, don't do this to me. I really didn't date a boy!"

Bev pressed her hands on the ground and propped herself up. Looking at her father swinging his belt, she felt a strong fear in her heart and begged for mercy tremblingly.

However, no matter how she begged for mercy, it was all just quibbling in her father's eyes. His face flushed red, and he lashed the ground next to Bev with his belt and roared, "Tell me the name of that boy!"

The air flow brushing past her ear made Bev feel a stinging pain like a needle. She collapsed and yelled, "No, no, no! I already said, I didn't!"

"I have to make you tell the truth, and this is the only way to make you tell the truth."

The father's face gradually became hideous and hideous. He raised his belt and swung it towards Bev. The belt's sharp whistling sound echoed through the air. Bev dodged in panic, but failed to dodge in time, and was hit hard by her father's belt.

"what!!!"

The burning pain spread rapidly from her back. Bev was about to get up when the severe pain made her hands lose strength and she fell to the ground in a mess.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The father raised the belt and whipped Bev again and again. The belt fell on Bev's body, through her clothes, leaving marks as hot as flames on her delicate skin.

"Ah! No! It hurts! Father! Please!"

Bev's body curled up in pain, tears streaming down her face. Her strong heart was brutally broken by the belt. Her sharp and shrill screams echoed and flowed through the cracks in the door and window of the room to the street outside.

Seeing Bev taking away his love letter, Ben was embarrassed, with the corners of his mouth raised, trying hard to suppress the joy in his heart. Although Bev only picked up his love letter, in his heart, he had already thought of the name of their first child.

However, the subsequent developments in reality were completely beyond his expectations.

The screams coming from the closed room made Ben freeze.

He couldn't understand why he had put Bev in that situation just by handing over a love letter.

Ben clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the opposite room with great momentum.

In his mind, he was like a knight charging towards the dragon to save the princess.

"Open the door! Open the door!"

Ben pounded on the door and shouted loudly.

However, his voice was not as loud as the sound of the belt hitting Bev or her screams of pain. The father in the house ignored the vibration of the door, showed a twisted smile on his face, and hit Bev with the belt hard.

"Oh no! The plot has changed!"

A few hundred meters away, Zhao Yingkong and Ming Yanwei, who were walking on the sidewalk, changed their expressions drastically. Although they were still a street away from Bev's house, with their sensory abilities, they easily heard Bev's screams and quickly confirmed the situation.

"It's very likely that Pennywise has taken action. I'll go ahead and you provide remote support."

Zhao Yingkong turned his head and said to Ming Yanwei. Ming Yanwei's chin had just been raised and had not yet dropped, when Zhao Yingkong turned into a blue flash and shot out.

Ming Yanwei took out the Sagittarius Gold Cloth from the ring without hesitation. After injecting the microcosm into it, the cloth box split into pieces of golden parts, flew towards Ming Yanwei, and formed a dazzling armor on her body.

Ming Yanwei took off the longbow that came with the holy robe and rushed towards Bev's room. Although her speed was not as fast as Zhao Yingkong, she could cross the distance of a few hundred meters in less than a second.

However, the distance that could be crossed in one second suddenly became extremely long.

Ming Yanwei's body froze in place. She stared at the street ahead. The narrow road in the small town turned into a highway in the blink of an eye. The bright morning sun disappeared, and the surrounding light became dim.

Such environments are not rare. There are dozens or even hundreds of them in any city, but they left an extremely deep impression on Ming Yanwei.

She looked at the road ahead. A car was parked on the side of the road. The dark windows were extremely strange, and even her eyesight could not see through them. Four familiar figures walked out from the shade of the trees on the side of the road and showed lewd expressions to Ming Yanwei.

Ming Yanwei gripped the longbow tightly, her expression indifferent. She looked at the four people as if she was looking at four corpses.

(End of this chapter)