Who says those who retire at the speed of light are not heroes?

Lin Cheng has to go to the alliance again, because the results of the four teams in the simulation training are not optimistic. Lin Cheng really wants to slow down the flow of time twenty times and lock them all in for three days, but he is afraid that they will have a mental breakdown. Several of these SS-level players are new, and several of them are even worse than Lu Xiaoxiao in psychological quality.

It is an instinct in people's genes that they will collapse after dying too many times. The reason why Lu Xiaoxiao was able to hold on was also to a certain extent because there was still the crystal core of the abyss beast in her body, which suppressed this instinct to a certain extent.

Therefore, Lin Cheng needed to distract himself to pay attention to everything about these forty judges, and he also had to manipulate the disaster to fight against them and kill them again and again in the illusion. It was also very tormenting for him. The only good news was that the feedback he got today was somewhat effective. At least the death rate of these judges was reduced to 20%.

But life should not be measured by numbers. If given a choice, Lin Cheng would certainly hope that number is absolutely zero percent.

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late at night.

Lin Cheng and Lu Xiaoxiao went home together, but he was so tired tonight that he just wanted to hug Xiaoxiao and have a good sleep. Fortunately, Xiaoxiao was very well behaved and acted as a soft and cute pillow. No matter where Lin Cheng's hands touched, it was soft and smooth.

He will go to the alliance again tomorrow for another day of simulation training. He has already contacted Lu Lingling to ask for a batch of the alliance's most core technology - spiritual gold.

Everything was running in an orderly manner, which made Lin Cheng feel a little relieved. He buried his cheek in Lu Xiaoxiao's chest, smelling the light fragrance on her body, and slept soundly.

The next day, Lin Cheng went to the alliance to continue the simulated training for those judges. This time the casualty rate dropped to 5%, but their spirits seemed to be too tense. Lin Cheng asked them to train and cooperate for a few more days, and he would come again in a few days.

At the same time, Lu Lingling also obtained the batch of spiritual gold that Lin Cheng wanted from the Alliance's Parliament. This is a metal with extremely high hardness that can be engraved with alchemical runes. It is particularly difficult to refine. Lu Lingling put those metals into a space ring and brought it to Lin Cheng. It is expected that these metals can be used to make ten standard weapons of the Alliance, and the drawings of the weapon styles they requested have also been drawn and sent.

The value of this batch of spiritual gold can no longer be measured by money. Lin Cheng wants to use these ten spiritual golds and ask Lemon to make alchemical weapons. The alliance's standard weapons and alchemical technology are still too backward and cannot meet the ideal standards. Lin Cheng also asked for corresponding remuneration, an SS-level abyss beast crystal core with an energy level of 10w, and he wants to keep one of the finished weapons for himself.

The crystal core of the delusional beast should have originally belonged to him, because he was the one who killed the delusional beast with his own hands.

Lin Cheng gave all the spiritual gold to Lemon. The ability awakened by Lemon was the alchemical formula. Her mind almost mastered all the secrets of alchemy from the beginner to the ultimate. The complicated information made her develop an almost morbid obsession with alchemy. Only when she sorted out all the information in her head could her anxiety be completely relieved.

So it's both a blessing and a curse.

167 Madman

　Lin Cheng walked out of Lemon's laboratory and just arrived in the living room. He had not taken a few steps when he was gently stopped by the girl sitting on the sofa.

"Where are you going?" Lizhi turned his eyes.

"It's okay now. Let's go back and rest for a while." Lin Cheng scratched his head and looked at Lizhi.

Lizhi was wearing a loose black vest and shorts, with soft, fluffy hair hanging down her shoulders. She turned her head and glanced at Lin Cheng, "I thought you were going to the alliance."

"The simulation training over there has to be put on hold, otherwise I'm afraid their spirits will collapse due to the tension. Let's go back in a few days."

Lizhi said "oh", but her expression was slightly awkward. Lin Cheng came to her side and gently hugged her, "Helping them is also helping ourselves. If the strength of the alliance is constantly weakened, new forces will rise up. Even if a new order is established, it will inevitably be another chaotic purge. What's more, the alliance is actually doing well now."

"If you have to intervene every time the alliance encounters a crisis, then what was the point of your retirement in the first place?" Lizhi turned her head and looked into Lin Cheng's eyes seriously.

Lin Cheng was too guilty to answer, and after a while he said, "It's just a piece of cake anyway, it's not like the life and death struggles we had before."

"You've fought for the alliance and risked your life, and this is the result you get?" Lizhi made a pistol shape with his fingers and boomed it at Lin Cheng's head.

Lin Cheng held Lizhi's right hand and played with her dark hair, which was soft and smooth. He smiled helplessly, "I didn't risk my life for the alliance, I just did it for myself. If the world is really destroyed one day, even if I can survive alone, what's the point of living alone in this world?"

The so-called heroism is just to save yourself.

"You deserve to be busy all your life." Lizhi said lightly. Lin Cheng put his hand on her back and gently squeezed her shoulders. "Don't be angry, don't be angry."

Lizhi didn't say anything else, narrowed her eyes slightly, and let him pinch her shoulders and neck for a long time.

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Now it seems that time is not as tight as Lin Cheng imagined.

Lemon spent six days to make that batch of alchemical weapons. Lin Cheng brought them to the alliance and conducted a whole day of training in the alliance. Although some of those SS-level judges had sad expressions before entering the training, they had no complaints. The mortality rate of the training was finally reduced to zero%. Lin Cheng was barely relieved. Those alchemical weapons could greatly increase the damage to the disaster, and the alchemical runes on them could shake the energy core of the disaster and dissipate its power.

As for the long sword left by Lin Cheng, he deliberately had Lemon forge it into the shape of a Sun-Breaking Sword. When he saw Lu Xiaoxiao, Lu Xiaoxiao was in the badminton court in her home, practicing with Lu Lingling, who was also wearing yoga clothes.

Lu Xiaoxiao was wearing a sports jacket and shorts. Lin Cheng always had the illusion that she was a high school girl taking a physical education class. As for Lu Lingling... Lin Cheng always wondered if he should turn his head away if he wanted to avoid suspicion. Because Lu Lingling was sweating a lot, her neck and collarbone were covered with sweat, and her chest, which was tightly bound by a small vest, was trembling slightly. They were both very tall, and at first glance they looked like they were cast in the same mold, but one came earlier and the other later.

All of Lu Xiaoxiao's fighting skills came from Lu Lingling, and the two of them also practiced fighting skills. Compared to the previous times when Lu Xiaoxiao was defeated miserably by Lu Lingling, the situation seemed to be reversed at this moment. Lu Lingling, whose energy level was forcibly blocked to the same level as Lu Xiaoxiao, was unable to withstand Lu Xiaoxiao's attack. She was inadvertently strangled to the ground with her hands tightly held. There were beads of sweat on her forehead and a strand of hair stuck to her cheek. Lin Cheng watched happily from the side.

"Why are you here?" Lu Xiaoxiao let go of her hand and looked at Lin Cheng, with a little pride hidden deep in her eyes.

"I'm going to prepare to perform surgery on you, and I'll give you a small gift." Lin Cheng took out the long sword made of spiritual gold and handed it to Lu Xiaoxiao in front of him. "It has frost runes engraved on it, which just matches your ability."

Lu Xiaoxiao took the long knife handed over by Lin Cheng and could not help but gesture with it in her hand for a long time. The excitement in her eyes could not be concealed. She looked at Lin Cheng, but could not say thank you. It was as if the relationship between the two of them suddenly became so close that there was no need to be polite and polite to say thank you. She tilted her head slightly and asked curiously, "What is the operation?"

"Surgery... is the way to get you to SS level now."

The moment Lin Cheng said this, Lu Xiaoxiao and Lu Lingling were stunned for a moment.

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Lu Xiaoxiao was lying flat on the ground at this moment. Lin Cheng gently stroked her forehead and said, "Go to sleep well. The operation will be done when you wake up."

Dark red blood flowed out from his fingertips and slowly penetrated into Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes, nostrils, and ears. The scene was a little creepy. Lu Xiaoxiao was subconsciously a little scared, but her instinctive trust in Lin Cheng made her obey. Soon Lin Cheng cut off her perception and made her fall into a deep sleep.

Lu Lingling sat cross-legged on the side, wiping the sweat from her collarbone with a towel, "What are you going to do?"

"Take out the fragment of the Delusion Beast Crystal Core that was originally placed in her body, and put the new Delusion Beast Crystal Core in."

Lu Lingling was startled. "Are you sure? You have to know that the crystal core of the delusion beast is not compatible with humans. In that experiment, Xiaoxiao was the only successful experimental subject. All this is due to an extremely small probability."

"Her body has been growing with the supply of the Delusion Beast Crystal Core for so many years, so it doesn't matter if she replaces it now. But don't even think about mass production with this method. First, only Xiaoxiao can do it, and second, only I can do the replacement."

As Lin Cheng spoke, his hand turned into a sharp bone knife with black and red blood entangled in it. He cut open Lu Xiaoxiao's chest. Lu Lingling was silent beside him. Lin Cheng soon glimpsed the Abyss Crystal Core hidden in Lu Xiaoxiao's heart. He slowly took out the Abyss Crystal Core, which he had obtained from the Alliance. Lin Cheng had already [purified] it once last night. The crystal core was carefully placed into Lu Xiaoxiao's body. The black and red blood quickly filled the wound. Lin Cheng smoothed her wound with his fingertips, and the wound healed quickly.

Lu Lingling, who was sitting next to her, suddenly trembled.

Because in her perception, Lin Cheng, who was sitting on the ground at this moment, carefully replacing the crystal core for Lu Xiaoxiao, seemed to have suddenly become a different person. His expression and appearance had not changed at all, but his aura was inexplicably violent. She felt all the hairs on her body stand up in an instant, and her body went into alert mode, but it was clearly just aura.

It was as if the person sitting there at this moment was no longer a human being, but a being from a high-level abyss.

Two inexplicable syllables came out of Lin Cheng's mouth. After those two syllables fell, the abyss crystal core in Lu Xiaoxiao's body began to operate. Lin Cheng checked Lu Xiaoxiao's physical condition with black and red blood threads again, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, "She should wake up in two hours."

"Success?"

"After waking up, she will first have about 10 energy, and then it will increase significantly every day until it stops at w. She just needs to adapt slowly."

"How did you do it?" Lu Lingling couldn't help but be curious.

"It's complicated to explain."

"You obviously don't want to tell me." Lu Lingling's eyes were filled with indescribable resentment.

"It's okay if you understand it this way." Lin Cheng looked at Lu Xiaoxiao who was sleeping soundly, reached out his hand and gently pinched her face.

"You're so nice to her." Lu Lingling's tone inexplicably revealed a hint of sourness at this moment.

"Am I not good to you?"

"When have you ever been nice to me?" Lu Lingling's tone became even more sour. "Whenever you see me, you always look impatient."

"You deserve it." Lin Cheng didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed.

"Have I ever done anything to shame you?"

“…Isn’t there?”

"It was me who felt hurt the first time, not you. You are the kind of kid who takes advantage of others and still acts cute." Lu Lingling stretched out her crossed legs. "And you have been in the room with Xiaoxiao every night these past few days... and you haven't restrained your voice at all."

"The soundproofing is very good. It was you who wanted to eavesdrop."

"Are you more comfortable with Xiaoxiao or with me?" Lu Lingling tilted her head.

"Don't you have any sense of shame?"

"Not only do I not have it, but I'm very depressed now." Lu Lingling raised her calf and gently poked his waist, "I want it too."

"I do not."

This time, Lin Cheng refused particularly easily, without any feeling of nostalgia, probably because whenever he wanted to be shy, Lu Xiaoxiao was by his side, and he didn't have to worry that it seemed like he was making a one-sided demand on Lu Xiaoxiao, because Xiaoxiao was also very happy and liked it. As expected, you should do the things you love with the person you love.

"Then when Xiaoxiao wakes up I'll tell her you slept with me."

"You forced me to do this, okay?"

"What about last time?" Lu Lingling tilted her head. "After that night, I stayed in bed all day. When Xiaoxiao asked me about it, I just said I had a fever."

"It was you who seduced me that day."

"Do you think Xiaoxiao cares about the process or the result?"

"You are sick! She is your daughter. What good will it do you to provoke her?"

"I don't care." Lu Lingling stretched, "I just want you to accompany me."

"I do not."

Lu Lingling's eyes were lazy, she looked at Lin Cheng in front of her, "Then can you swim with me for a while?"

Lin Cheng looked at her with a vigilant look, but Lu Lingling's eyes were full of threats. He still followed Lu Lingling obediently and stood up to the swimming pool next door. Lu Lingling took off her vest and yoga pants. It seemed that Lin Cheng's guess was right. She jumped into the pool, her porcelain white body swam in the pool like a beautiful mermaid. After swimming to the other side, her body floated to the surface of the water, looking at Lin Cheng in front of her, "Why don't you come down?"

Lin Cheng took off his clothes and just as he stepped out of the swimming pool, he was grabbed by Lu Lingling and pressed under the water. With his current weak energy of 30,000, he was no match for Lu Lingling. This woman has always been a lunatic. No matter whether she was pretending to be cute or her lazy posture was just a disguise. She went crazy twenty years ago, and only pain could make her sober for a moment.

168 secret

Lu Lingling hugged him tightly underwater.

Lin Cheng tried to open his eyes and looked at her face. Her eyes were very cunning, just like a little girl playing a prank. Lin Cheng struggled in the water for a long time and finally floated to the surface. Lu Lingling looked into his eyes and said, "Let's have a swimming competition?"

"Are you too boring?"

"I'm just bored." Lu Lingling's expression was not at all shameful. "You think you know everything about me, so don't you understand? From the past to now, I have always been a very boring person."

"..." Lin Cheng didn't know what to say, but Lu Lingling seemed to have a lot to say suddenly.

"Do you know how old I am?"

"Forty-one?" Lin Cheng knew this roughly. She joined the alliance very early. The abyss disaster destroyed everything she had. She used to be the judge standing at the forefront. Her current laziness was all a disguise. Lin Cheng had seen a photo of Lu Lingling when she was twenty years old. She and Lu Xiaoxiao looked like they were cast in the same mold, but her eyes were even colder, so indifferent that she was devoid of emotion.

Lu Xiaoxiao’s coldness is just a cocoon for her inner gentleness, and she is afraid of being hurt because of her gentleness, but her coldness is pure indifference to everything.

"When I was eighteen, I provided my genes to participate in the cloning project. Xiaoxiao was born two years later. Apart from my genes, she has no connection with me. I tried hard to treat her as my daughter, as my only connection with this world, but I couldn't do it. I don't want to have any connection with this world. I once swore that I would accompany my friends in the past when the abyss was completely closed. Now the abyss has been closed by you... I have long lost the reason to live in this world."

"Xinjun became the leader of the alliance because he had a great ideal of saving all mankind, and I became the deputy leader of the alliance because I wanted to find a reason for myself to live, but what is the meaning of this? I can no longer find the connection between me and this world. Xiaoxiao said she wanted to become a judge. I once thought of training her to be my successor, so that I could completely let go of everything, but now it seems that having you by her side is not bad."

An inexplicable smile appeared at the corner of Lu Lingling's mouth, and this smile made Lin Cheng feel a little uneasy.

"So what?" He stared into Lu Lingling's eyes.

"Nothing." Lu Lingling shook her head again, "I'm just complaining because I'm tired of living."

"Will you be sad if I die?" Lu Lingling asked suddenly.

"Yes."

"Then I will try to live a little longer." Lu Lingling stretched lazily, the ball under the water trembling, the water flowed over her collarbone, her body was soaked in the water, only her head was exposed, she let her hair down, the black hair looked like seaweed.

"Why don't you want to believe that I love you?" Lu Lingling suddenly smiled.

“It makes no sense.”

"You are Siming. I have watched you grow up step by step, from a young boy to a great Siming. At that time, I always imagined that you were my child. It would be fun if you were my child. I would hold you in my arms every day, feed you, coax you to sleep, and accompany you to do anything you want to do.

"If you hadn't gone crazy, I would have actually considered retiring and living with you."

"So you interpreted what I did to you at that time as madness?"

"Is not it?"

"This is all my mother's love for you."

Lin Cheng felt a little mad, why should he try to understand the logic of a psychopath?

"At that time, I always wondered if you would never come back after going to the abyss." Lu Lingling's voice became gentle, "Because you have no connection with this world, right?"

Lin Cheng was silent for a while and did not answer.

"What did you see in the abyss?"

"A bunch of creatures that are naturally bloodthirsty devour each other and attack each other. Killing and evolution are the laws of interdependence in that world."

"What did you do in there?"

"Just kill your way through. The speed of time in the Abyss is different from that in our world. The Abyss came to this world because the Queen of the Abyss found their coordinates and used her power to open a space rift. Do you know why the Queen of the Abyss did this?"

Lin Cheng rarely told anyone about his experience in the abyss, because he was not willing to recall it in the past.

Lu Lingling shook her head, she couldn't guess the answer.

"Because of instinct."