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

Huo Yao is thirty-seven years old this year.

He almost forgot his original name. Most people in the circle called him by a code name. His abilities were somewhat related to the monsters in myths and legends. The folk organization he joined was called the Star of Misfortune, so he gave himself this nickname.

Huoxing is a resistance organization that is dissatisfied with the disciplines and rules of the alliance. It has been entrenched in S City together with several other resistance organizations. Huoyao's purpose of joining Huoxing is very simple. Sometimes he cannot control his abilities, and the monsters condensed by energy will affect his mind. He has committed murders when his abilities were out of control and was wanted by the alliance. He joined Huoxing out of desperation. As long as he does not leave S City, or leaves S City for too long or too ostentatiously, there will be basically no risks.

Compared to those people in the Huoxing organization who justify the organization's reputation for beliefs, ideals and various high-sounding excuses, Huoyao's thoughts have always been simple. He just wants to live a peaceful and enjoyable life. Huoxing is also one of the two major organizations in S City. With his ability, he became the third in command in Huoxing. He has no shortage of luxury cars, fine wine, and beautiful girls. Except that he cannot leave S City for too long, life in S City is simply a paradise on earth for him.

This time, the task assigned to him by the Lord of Disaster was to bring back the Pluto that was predicted to come. Logically speaking, the Pluto should have come in ten years, but no one knew why it came earlier than expected. The Lord of Disaster didn't particularly care about these things. All he had to do was to find the Pluto, knock him out and bring him back.

He is indeed the most suitable candidate for this mission. After all, only the core leaders of the organization know about the mission. Once the news spreads about a person with special abilities like Mingxing, the whole S city will go crazy for him. He always spends his days in S city drinking and partying, and rarely shows up at gatherings in his circle. Not many people would notice if he suddenly disappears for a few days.

And there is another important reason for assigning him here.

He is strong.

He was able to become the third in command in the Trouble Star organization not because he was so popular or had a superior IQ, but because he was too strong and the Trouble Star had to assign him a position. He didn't ask for much, he just wanted beautiful women, endless money, and for the organization to help him deal with the mess he made when he was in a bad mood occasionally, such as accidentally killing a woman he brought to the hotel when he was drunk, accidentally hitting a homeless man while racing... and so on.

There is no doubt that Huo Yao is particularly lucky. He has enjoyed such a life for more than ten years, although he is a little bored at the moment. No matter how beautiful the woman is or how fragrant the wine is, people will get tired of it eventually. If he wants to pursue excitement, he can only resort to more perverted ways of playing or take some illegal drugs. Therefore, his whole body exudes a sense of laziness after desires are satisfied.

His abilities would naturally improve without any special training. Now at the age of 19, his energy points had reached 20, and he was only one step away from . For someone like him, assuming he was really willing to surrender to the Alliance, the Alliance might not be able to forgive his sins... But the Alliance still had too many restrictions after all, and it was no fun at all.

Now on this long journey, it is a rare opportunity for me to find some fun.

The ability of the evil demon is to summon monsters. To be precise, it is not summoning, but using energy to condense a monster whose name he does not even know. The size and strength of this monster change with his energy, and it can use many magical powers, such as roar, flames, and extreme speed. Of course, the most convenient is the monster's claws. Its claws have a hardness similar to that of dark alloy. Nothing in this world can withstand such a claw.

So he sat down with his eyes squinted and yawned, waiting for the monster to eat the guy in front of him with only 100,000 energy points, and then take the little girl behind him back... The girl was quite cute, delicate and pure. Even though he had seen many beautiful girls, the eyes of the evil monster still lit up. He wondered if he could let him play with her for two days after being brainwashed by Yinghuo.

But within a few seconds, the demon's originally lazy look...changed.

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The monster in front of him had already pounced towards Lin Cheng, but Lin Cheng did not dodge. In an instant, black and red blood vessels appeared on his skin, and the blood vessels underwent cell division at an extremely fast speed, wrapping his body, so his body began to expand, and in that instant he turned into a twenty-meter-tall red giant. The giant grabbed Xu Linglan from the ground, and the blood vessels on his chest opened a transparent hole, and Xu Linglan was thrown into the small hole by him.

Then the blood in the giant's hand multiplied again, turning into a scarlet long stick, which hit the monster's head.

The monster beast did not require precise control from the evil demon, it only needed the evil demon to give orders. So when the evil demon saw the monster beast being stunned by a stick, he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

But the long stick fell down in the next second and hit the monster's waist. The monster roared angrily. The evil monster heard the red giant also roared, "Shut up!"

The long stick stabbed into the monster's throat, almost piercing its body. The giant kicked the monster without hesitation. The monster was kicked dozens of meters away, but rushed back like lightning. It was completely enraged, and its mind was full of thoughts of tearing the giant in front of it into pieces of meat. The giant held the long stick, and his body was occasionally pierced directly by the monster's claws, but it only pierced a pile of blood. After the claws left, the blood would merge again, as if it had not suffered any harm at all.

But the sharp claws of the monster never had the chance to touch the giant's chest. Xu Linglan was well protected on the chest. She looked at the scene in front of her through the red transparent barrier on her chest. Her body was trembling, and she seemed to vaguely hear Lin Cheng's voice, "It's okay, it can be done in a few minutes."

"By the way, let me teach you a second lesson. The biggest problem with the alliance's grading system is that sometimes the amount of energy doesn't prove one's strength. For example, the giant I'm incarnating now actually only has 100,000 energy points, while this monster has 200,000. But its claws can't hurt me at all, because I'm now similar to liquid life, and it's just a life entity condensed from special energy. It will feel pain, bleed, and die, but I... can't. Unless its ability points are 300,000 and it can swing its claws 10,000 times in an instant, tearing all the blood in my body into pieces that can't be healed, otherwise it's just a cute dog toy."

As Lin Cheng spoke, the long stick in his hand suddenly turned into the shape of a Sun-Breaking Blade, and red flames burned on the blade. He chopped down with the long sword in his hand, and hit the monster's waist. The wolf-like monster had a weak spot at the waist. The Sun-Breaking Blade, which was condensed by black blood, used all its energy to increase its sharpness. As a result, the monster was cut into two pieces, and the evil demon sitting in front of him suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

The long knife in the giant's hand disappeared, but black and red tentacles grew on his body, tightly clinging to the monster's body like a suction cup. The evil demon widened his eyes. He could sense the monster's power, which seemed to be slowly being sucked away by the black and red tentacles, but he... was helpless.

After all, his ability is summoning, and the most vulnerable is the summoner himself. He can sit here with peace of mind because of the extremely fast speed of the monster. After all, as long as someone wants to hurt him, the monster will stand by his side in an instant. But at this moment, the monster has been cut in half, and when he wants to escape, it is too late.

The giant's body began to dissolve. Lin Cheng used the last blood-threaded tentacles to wrap up the evil demon's body and used the power of the delusional beast to send the evil demon into an illusion. The flow of time was slowed down by twenty times, and ten abyss blood leeches were released into the illusion. Being bitten by the blood leeches would cause great mental pain... Torture the demon for a while and extract information from it first.

Xu Linglan was held in Lin Cheng's arms. He looked down at the pale girl and poked her face with his hand. "Do you still think it's fun now?"

"So cool!" Xu Linglan was still holding on.

"...Don't you think these sticky bloodstains are disgusting?"

"I can also draw tentacles, hehe."

"..." Lin Cheng's hands were around her knees. The girl's skin was soft and smooth. He had no choice but to put Xu Linglan down. "Be good and consolidate your basic control training of 2,000 energy points. I will interrogate this guy."

"Torture?" Xu Linglan was like a curious baby at this moment. Although her face was slightly pale, perhaps curiosity and excitement overcame her fear.

"We need to know how he knew you were here, which prophet figured it out, and how many people know about this... Everyone who knows about this needs to be dealt with."

Xu Linglan's body suddenly became stiff, and her throat tightened. "Dispose of...does that mean kill him?"

"Yes." Lin Cheng nodded, "Otherwise it would be very troublesome if the news leaked to more people."

"Why... kill him?"

"Think of it this way. Because of the special nature of your ability, you only need to find a psychic to brainwash you when you are vulnerable. Brainwashing is a very simple thing for a psychic. They can make you serve a person wholeheartedly, train you day and night to improve your ability, and then fulfill his wishes. Then he can become an almost omnipotent god. When your energy points reach hundreds of thousands, all you can do are terrifying things. Who doesn't want to get an omnipotent wish-making machine?"

"The last person with abilities like you has been recorded in the history of the Alliance. When his energy points reached 100,000, his true abilities were discovered by others, so he was controlled and kept by an extremist organization. He couldn't even commit suicide, and could only complete tasks for that organization day and night, making various potions, alchemy, treating people's injuries, deducing past events, and conducting various experiments on the limits of his abilities. Until the abyss came, the person who had brainwashed him by the extremist organization died, and his mental control was lifted, but he had already gone crazy. He destroyed an entire small country nearby and killed tens of millions of people at once. This matter is a top-secret file of the Alliance. In the end, no one knows where that person went."

"Oh, yes. If you want to join the alliance, the alliance may not be confident that it can completely control you with the guise of justice, so they may even use some necessary means on you... So, do you still want to be the judge?"

Xu Linglan's face was as pale as paper. Only then did she suddenly realize what kind of situation she was in. She suddenly thought, if Lin Cheng was not around, and if Xu Wanyue had not met Lin Cheng by her side, then after her abilities awakened and were discovered by someone... what kind of hell would she face?

Lin Cheng seemed to see her fear at the moment, and reached out his hand to gently pinch her face, "Don't worry, as long as you are obedient, no one can hurt you."

At this moment, his smile was really gentle, making people feel inexplicably at ease.

198 It's unnecessary

The endless snow and wind soon turned the demon's hair white.

Lin Cheng came to the evil demon and entered the illusion where the evil demon was at the moment. Of course, he could not see Lin Cheng's existence. At this moment, he was experiencing a particularly terrifying nightmare. In the dream, those people who had been killed by him accidentally were asking for his life with terrifying faces. Even if he confessed and cried, it was of no avail.

This was a world constructed from his memory fragments, and Lin Cheng did not need to take the initiative to guide it. Lin Cheng just imposed a rule that he would be backfired by his sins... As for sins? Sin was something that he felt was "guilty" deep in his heart and unconsciously.

The student he accidentally killed, the homeless man on the street, the woman in the bar, and the white-collar worker who accidentally bumped into him after drinking too much after a dinner with colleagues, all turned into leeches and stuck to his body, bringing him pain as if he was burned by flames and frozen by ice.

So when Lin Cheng came here, his spirit was close to collapse. Lin Cheng's figure deliberately appeared. Seeing him kneeling on the ground, he began to confess to Lin Cheng, just asking to leave this nightmarish world.

But Lin Cheng just looked at him silently, and at this moment his gaze inevitably seemed condescending.

"Why do you want to confess to me?"

His rhetorical question sounded more like a statement.

He did not need the demon's confession. The people he really needed to confess to had already died at his hands, and there was no so-called god in this world who could accept his confession. If one could be saved just by repenting after doing something wrong, that would be too ridiculous.

The so-called torture only requires sending the evil demon here. When he collapses from self-torture, Lin Cheng will be able to read his memory fragments more easily.

Lin Cheng's sight saw the five faces on the beach before the evil demon left.

Lin Cheng memorized these five faces deeply and then left this fantasy world. He came to Xu Linglan, who was still training seriously. Lin Cheng slowly reached out his hand and covered her eyes.

Rootless flames ignited from the evil demon's body, and soon his body turned into a pile of bones. Lin Cheng whispered in her ear, "Let's go, it's time for us to set off."

"Where?"

“Delay leads to change, and being on the road can also be part of the practice.”

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Lin Cheng bought two tickets to City S.

This was Xu Linglan's first time on a plane, so she seemed particularly excited. She even exchanged her window seat with Lin Cheng. Although her face was filled with excitement, her voice was still very low, probably because she was afraid of disturbing other passengers who were still resting on the plane.

During the flight, her eyes remained on the sea of ​​clouds. Lin Cheng looked at the curiosity and joy in her profile and was speechless for a moment.

This is what a child is like, full of curiosity about the world, and not yet assimilated by the so-called rules, even though everything he thinks in his head is always the ideas instilled by others, such as thinking it is cool to be a hero who saves others, and firmly believing in it.

It is a very happy thing to have no doubts about everything, because in this way you only need to live in a relatively simple world. In fact, human beings have never needed the so-called ability to think independently. It is a very happy thing to be able to be a happy fool.

If everyone is a dog, puppies who don't know they are dogs can wag their tails and chew bones every day and be happy. But some dogs just want to know the truth and then realize that they are also dogs. However, realizing this does not change anything, it just makes them smarter than other puppies. Some puppies who think they have seen the truth want to tell other puppies that you are also dogs, but don't just be ordinary puppies, be smart puppies with me... What's the difference?

Those who claim to be able to think independently, or who advise you to think independently, may not necessarily be much smarter than you.

This is by no means condescending contempt, but envy.

So-called growth is to constantly doubt, doubt the world of the past, tear apart bit by bit the worldview that others have taught you over the years, and then rebuild the world in bloody flesh. Rebellion is an unconscious resistance. Although you appear to be mature and can handle everything on your own and no longer need to be controlled by others...but the real thought in your heart is that you don't want to become a disgusting adult and destroy yourself to become a part of the rules.

Xu Linglan took out her cell phone and took pictures secretly.

She did it quietly because it seemed that the other passengers on the plane had long been tired of the scenery outside the window, and her curiosity seemed a little bit embarrassing, so she did it quietly.

Lin Cheng closed his eyes, he just needed to take a short rest.

After a while, Xu Linglan closed the window and looked at Lin Cheng who had his eyes closed. She also closed her eyes like Lin Cheng, but she couldn't fall asleep. After hesitating for a while, she reached out and gently poked Lin Cheng's arm.

Lin Cheng opened his eyes.

"What song are you listening to?" Xu Linglan asked cautiously, looking at the headphones he was wearing.

Lin Cheng took off one of his earphones and gave it to her. He was just listening to some simple and soothing piano music, which made people feel peaceful inside.

Xu Linglan closed her eyes obediently this time. When she opened her eyes again, the plane had landed and the two arrived at S City Airport.

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it's getting dark.

"So you can also change..." Xu Linglan looked at Lin Cheng, who had completely changed in front of her and whose figure and face had turned into the evil monster before, and couldn't help feeling a little curious.

"It's a simple thing."

At this moment, Lin Cheng and Xu Linglan were sitting in the back seat of the taxi. Lin Cheng had already told Xu Linglan about the plan before boarding the plane, so Xu Linglan seemed a little nervous at the moment. She pinched the hem of her skirt carefully and finally asked very softly, "So... the evil demon from before is dead, right?"

"Ah."

When Lin Cheng and she left the snow mountain, he told Xu Linglan not to look back.

"Do we have to... kill him?"

"Ah."

"Why?" Her voice was not a question, but revealed a bit of sadness.

"Because he knows your identity, he must die. If you can't accept this, I can also say that his hands are stained with the blood of many innocent people. And the people that the Star of Misfortune organization that we are about to meet will also have their hands stained with the blood of innocent people. These are all the tokens of their joining the extreme resistance organization."

"And if I kill them, I will be on the side of the vast majority of people. For the safety of the vast majority of people, everything I do is justified. It can even be said that I am...doing justice for the people."

"Why are they doing this... What's wrong with the alliance?" Xu Linglan didn't understand.

The villains in the story seem to have lofty ideals, wanting to destroy the world or create an absolutely perfect utopia, but these are just lies to fool the world. Lin Cheng patiently answered, "People have never stopped pursuing the power of life and death to easily control the fate of others. Power is the best stimulant, so worldly money, sexual desire, etc., all have to stand aside."

Xu Linglan could only nod, not quite understanding.

The taxi soon arrived at the beach. Lin Cheng paid the fare and got off with Xu Linglan. Xu Linglan looked pale and timidly followed the evil demon that Lin Cheng had transformed into. At this moment, there were already five people standing on the beach.

The existence of [Pluto] is the biggest opportunity since the establishment of the Disaster Star Organization, so naturally the less news that leaks out, the better.

The leader among the five was the leader of the Huoxing Organization, Huo Zun. Lin Cheng saw through his ability at the first sight. It was not that he was a prophet, but some kind of ability different from that of a prophet. His ability could allow him to obtain all revelations in the dark. For example, he had previously extended an olive branch to the Huo Yao, whose energy level was only 3000, and saved his life. In just over a decade, the Huo Yao had become an existence with an energy level close to 20w, and was loyal to the Huoxing Organization, clearing many obstacles for Huoxing.

Compared with the [Pluto] in front of it, the evil demon is naturally not worth mentioning at all.

"I've brought the person here, old man. Is this little girl really that beneficial to our organization?"

After transforming into a demon, Lin Cheng's voice also changed randomly. The five people in front of him, who had their backs to him and were looking at the dark deep sea, slowly turned around and their eyes fell on Lin Cheng and Xu Linglan.

But unfortunately, the five people in front of him did not show any excitement in their eyes. Instead, they locked their eyes on Lin Cheng with unfriendly looks.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Lin Cheng smiled helplessly, "It seems that my disguise has failed?"

Xu Linglan clutched the hem of her skirt, feeling uneasy.

The leader, Huo Zun, stared at Lin Cheng in front of him, "After Huo Yao left, Zi Mingxing kept staring at him. I saw everything you did clearly. Even on the plane, you still used your previous face. Even Huo Zun's appearance did not change. I had Huo Xing's spies on the plane, but you complacently transformed into the appearance of Huo Yao and came in front of me. Do you still think your disguise is perfect?"

"Alas." Lin Cheng sighed helplessly.

"Before you came, I looked at the star map at night and made a divination." Huo Zun's voice seemed particularly slow, "But the star map can't show your divination at all. I guess this is because the divination of Mingxing before was also abnormal. It was you who disturbed everything beside Mingxing. Hum, I guess your power also belongs to the unknown category..."

"So?" Lin Cheng tilted his head.

"As early as the moment you stepped into S City, we were ready to fight. To do this... we had to ask for help from an outsider who was paid to do the job."

From the darkness, a figure in a red robe suddenly emerged.

Lin Cheng's expression became a little more serious at this moment. "You can actually invite him?"

"I'll do the job for you for the money." A slightly hoarse male voice came from the red-robed figure, and his energy points appeared in Lin Cheng's eyes in an instant, 28w.

"Isn't it cheap?"

"A 30w abyss crystal core." The red-robed man answered calmly, looking up. There were intricate red patterns in his eyes. His pupils seemed to have some special magic, which was particularly deep, making people unable to help but look directly at them.

The vigilance in the eyes of the Lord of Misfortune finally dissipated a little because of Lin Cheng's solemn expression. He smiled and looked at Lin Cheng in front of him, "In order to set up the perfect spiritual seed for the Dark Star, I took out the Abyss Crystal Core that I had treasured for decades. Now... I can get an extra existence that can kill the Misfortune Monster with 100,000 energy points. It's not too bad."

"With your unknown ability, since it is possible to block my star map, if you are more careful and serious, can't you notice that there is a purple star in the starry sky... that has been watching you all the way?"

"Seeing this kind of smug expression appear on an old man who is about to go into the coffin... there is really a subtle contrast." Lin Cheng couldn't help but complain.

"Once I can use the Pluto Star to regain my youth and even achieve immortality, it is only a matter of time." Huo Zun actually interrupted Lin Cheng's words. It was obvious that he was in a good mood and it didn't hurt to say a few more words.

Lin Cheng stretched himself leisurely, "Actually, with my ability...if I pay more attention, I can really feel the gaze of that purple star."

"I didn't turn into a disaster on the plane because that guy had a scruffy beard and was too sloppy. I always felt uncomfortable looking at him."