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

Their trading partner didn't seem to be here yet, so Lin Cheng lazily leaned back in his chair and continued to wait. Lu Xiaoxiao watched as one of the three people suddenly disappeared from her sight. She lowered her voice and asked, "Where is that person?"

"Checking to see if there's anyone around. It just circled around us three times."

"Then why didn't they find us?"

"They used an ability similar to Jiang Lingxue's to reduce our presence. Even if we opened the car door and walked in front of them, they would subconsciously ignore us."

Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that the task, which she originally thought was somewhat thrilling, had become a child's play after Lin Cheng arrived.

The five people sat in the car and waited quietly until the three Prajna masks' contact persons arrived. Their contact person was a man in black. The man was wearing a black suit, with long golden curly hair and green eyes. Lin Cheng tapped Lu Xiaoxiao's legs with his fingertips, "It's a bit interesting."

"Ok?"

"I've seen that man's aura before, but he didn't look like this before." Lin Cheng suddenly said softly.

"have you seen?"

"Yes, I had a fight with him four years ago."

"Who won?" Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned.

Lin Cheng laughed, "Of course it was me, but because I didn't kill people at that time, and his ability was quite difficult to deal with, I accidentally let him go. Now it seems... he has eaten a lot of people."

"Attacked a lot of...people?"

"Yes." Lin Cheng nodded slightly, and then said, "We don't need to deal with those people with Prajna masks."

"why?"

"They're going to die soon."

284 Instinct

Lu Xiaoxiao didn’t understand.

She looked at the vision shared by the black bug in front of her, and Lin Cheng also shared his hearing.

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"Where's what I want?" the blond man asked.

Qing Prajna quickly presented the black box. After the box was opened, Qing Prajna introduced it, "These potions can increase the energy value by 6,000 points in total, but you can only use one every seven days, a total of ten. Do not overdose, otherwise there will be a risk of losing control and going berserk."

"Tell me, what reward do you want?"

"I want three hearts of SS-level ability users." Qing Prajna replied quickly.

"Oh? What do you want this for?" The blond man asked curiously, and he opened a potion in the box and drank it in one gulp. After a moment, his green eyes were bloodshot, and he suddenly started laughing crazily. After a long while, he licked his lips and said, "It is indeed a good potion."

Qing Prajna answered at this moment, "These potions are made with my ability. Using the heart of a person with the ability will have a better effect, but we dare not provoke those forces. Only someone like you can be completely worry-free. And I hope you can keep this transaction confidential for us. After the transaction is completed, I will make a new potion and give you one as a gift."

The eyes under Qing Hannya's mask were full of respect, and the blond man smiled at this moment, "Okay, okay, of course I will keep it a secret for you."

Qing Prajna nodded gently, "Then we will leave first."

But before he could move, the blond man in front of him suddenly laughed, "Don't go, isn't there a ready-made heart here?"

Qing Prajna was stunned, but only for a moment.

The blond man already had two hearts in his hands.

He turned his head stiffly. The two people beside him, Red Prajna and Orange Prajna, who were originally protecting him, both had a bloody hole in their chests. Blood gushed out and splashed on his arms. Their bodies slowly fell to the ground with a heavy sound.

The blond man was looking at him with a smile.

"You...you..." Qing Prajna became incoherent, but the blond man just handed the two hearts to him and said, "Now, make a potion for me."

As he spoke, he threw out the two hearts and opened the test tubes in the black box one by one and poured them into his mouth. Soon he had drunk all ten tubes of potion. His eyes were bloodshot, but he looked calm and was not affected too much by the potion.

"Is my words difficult to understand?" The blond man asked gently, but at this moment Qing Prajna was trembling all over and had completely lost the ability to think. After a while, he stammered, "I, I am still useful... Don't... kill me..."

"So, what are you waiting for?"

"It will take some time to refine the potion... I will come and deliver it to you tomorrow."

"What a hassle." The blond man grumbled in dissatisfaction and said, "Just leave."

Qing Prajna held the two hearts in his hands, turned around and took a step forward. The next second, he lowered his head and looked at his chest.

A hand had already passed through his chest from behind, grabbed his heart and pulled it out.

The three hearts now fell into the hands of the blond man. He sighed and said, "I'll study it myself."

As he spoke, he put the heart to his mouth, his teeth became sharp, and he began to chew it in big bites as if he was biting an apple.

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Lu Xiaoxiao's face turned pale.

It's not like she had never seen a bloody scene before, but this was the first time. She looked at Lin Cheng in panic, but Lin Cheng was very calm. He explained to Lu Xiaoxiao, "His ability is particularly rare. It is devouring. As long as he eats a person's heart, he can increase his strength. And after eating the heart of a person with special abilities, he can gain the other person's ability."

"This is a very abnormal ability, because some people with special abilities have very powerful abilities, such as Xia Ning's molecular influence. Although it is powerful, the energy increase is very slow. However, he only needs to eat the opponent's heart to obtain it, but the amount of energy is based on his own energy. When I fought him four years ago, he only had 230,000 points, and now it has reached 500,000 points."

When Lu Xiaoxiao heard the number five hundred thousand, her eyes widened.

"Then why did these people wearing Prajna masks trade with him?"

Lin Cheng smiled helplessly, "Because they don't know that his ability is devouring, they only know that he is very powerful, and they think they can cooperate with him for mutual benefit, but he only needs to devour Qing Prajna, and then he can make potions himself, and he can do better than him."

"There's one more thing." Lin Cheng added, "He has discovered us."

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The blond man was still chewing the heart in his hand, blood from the corner of his mouth dripping onto his neck. He walked towards the car where Lu Xiaoxiao had parked, step by step. The light was very dim, so he snapped his fingers, and the space instantly became as bright as day.

"Oh?" The blonde's nose twitched slightly, "You look delicious."

He was looking at Lu Xiaoxiao.

Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Cheng beside her. Lin Cheng looked at the man in front of him and rolled down the window. "Why did you become like this?"

"Who are you?" The blond man was stunned, looking into Lin Cheng's eyes and thinking hard, but after a moment he jumped ten meters away, "It's you!"

"It's me." Lin Cheng opened the car door and walked out, and told Lu Xiaoxiao and Xia Ning not to get out of the car.

Every time Lin Cheng took a step forward, the blond man took a step back.

The blond man didn't stop until he had no more room to retreat. He swallowed the last bite of flesh and blood in his mouth and looked at Lin Cheng with greed in his eyes. "You look super delicious now."

"Would you like to try it?" Lin Cheng asked softly.

"You want to kill me?" the blond man demanded.

"I haven't thought about it yet." Lin Cheng shook his head.

The blond man spoke quickly, "I'm not going to kill you. How about you let me go?"

"I'm a bit conflicted. I feel like it's not a good idea to let you go... You'll eat more and more until one day you want to eat everything. It will be very troublesome to kill you then."

"Then it seems that one of us must die today?" The blond man restrained his previous gentleness and his eyes became cold.

"Yes, but the only one who could die is you."

"I don't even have a chance to run?"

"Well, no."

"You are really too much." The blond man lowered his head in frustration, "You are too bullying."

"You were at fault first."

"I can't help it... I can't help it... Why don't you let me eat? I'm just trying to protect more people... Why?" The blond man's body began to tremble.

Only then did Lin Cheng remember his name: Liu Sen.

He is an orphan, and his current appearance is not his previous face. He must have used some ability to replace his face.

Lin Cheng remembered him because he was once a member of the alliance. At that time, the ability he reported to the alliance was strength. Everyone thought he really was a strength type, and that he could increase his strength by devouring the abyss crystal core. At that time, many spoils of war from fighting the abyss were given to him.

At that time, everyone thought that he would become the pillar of the future alliance and become half of the sky that resists the abyss, until the alliance suddenly discovered that many members who died in the alliance had their hearts inexplicably disappeared after being buried.

In the end, Liu Sen became the target of public criticism because he was seen in a battle digging out the heart of his injured companion and eating it, and then bursting with power to kill the Abyss Lord who had descended at that time.

After that, there was a lot of talk about him in the alliance, but the matter was soon suppressed and became a secret. Until one day, after Lin Cheng had dealt with the Abyss Advent on his own side, when he was reinforcing Liu Sen, he saw with his own eyes that he dug out the heart of his living teammate, ignored his teammate's pleas for mercy, swallowed it, and continued to fight the abyss monster.

When Lin Cheng arrived, it was too late. He fought with Liu Sen, but was eventually able to escape by Liu Sen using the space transfer power he had just absorbed.

"You all deserve to die!" Liu Sen suddenly growled.

"What's wrong?" Lin Cheng looked into his eyes quietly.

"The Abyss Crystal Core is delicious... The human heart... is so disgusting... She knew she was going to die, so she asked me to eat her to avenge her. I joined her team because I had a crush on her... I had no choice... I had no choice! But after that... You all looked at me like that... You were all afraid of me... You kept your distance from me... You looked down on me..."

"Obviously, I had to eat it in order to save you! But you doubted me... suspected that I was only doing it for myself... Now you are all satisfied... satisfied, right? I really have become a monster in your eyes... Are you happy?!"

Liu Sen in front of Lin Cheng was trembling and roaring.

"Obviously, I should be a hero too! You have no idea how disgusting the human heart is... It's disgusting... You don't understand at all... You just want to stand on your high ground and laugh at me, talk about me... Drive me crazy... Because you envy me, you are jealous of me, you hate that I have this ability, and you hate why it's not you who has this ability!!"

"I hate you too... Siming... Why am I the one who got this ability? Why didn't I get your ability? I can easily become a hero admired and worshipped by everyone... Why won't you let me go... Why...!"

"Because you've gone crazy." Lin Cheng looked at him quietly, "From the day I saw you, when you no longer paid attention to your teammates' pleas for mercy, you've gone crazy."

"That day... If I didn't eat him that day... I would die, and the rest would die, and all the ordinary people in that area would die! I was trying to save them!! I was trying to save them!! Of course you, a hypocritical guy, won't understand!! You will never understand!!"

"You are no longer a human being. You smell like the abyss all over your body... I just lied to you. I won't let you go! Siming! I won't let you go!! It's you who made me like this!! I want to eat you!!"

Lin Cheng was silent for a moment, then said, "Are you already lying to yourself? When I arrived that day, I advised you to stop. If I had arrived, you wouldn't have to die. I would have saved you, but you turned a deaf ear to me."

"That's not true at all! You lied to me! You lied to me! You came here after I dug out his heart... Don't try to lie to me! You came too late!"

Lin Cheng sighed softly.

People's memories can be distorted according to their own subjective wishes. Lies and deception are human instincts.

285 Believe

"Just consider it that I'm late."

Lin Cheng took another step forward.

Suddenly, lightning and thunder flashed in the dark night sky, and strong winds blew.

"You are late... You must be late... I don't need your pity! No need!"

Liu Sen's body in front of him began to twist, his facial features disappeared, and his skin turned into steel.

Lin Cheng could use his ability to analyze fate to see clearly his current condition. He had reorganized his body, and at this moment his heart and brain were no longer his weaknesses. Only by destroying all of his body tissues could he completely disappear from the world.

"Your aura is so weak right now, but as long as I eat you... as long as I eat you... from now on I will be the only god! No one will ever dare to laugh at me again!"

“Why do you always worry that others will laugh at you?”

The moment Lin Cheng finished speaking, the thunder in the sky struck down towards Liu Sen's body. The dazzling flames ignited Liu Sen's body almost instantly. He stood in the rain, burning fiercely. The flames were extinguished by the rain, and he seemed unharmed.

"You've never experienced my pain, so what qualifications do you have to use such a condescending tone? What qualifications do you have!"

"Yes." The thunder in the sky gathered again, and he continued, "I am indeed not qualified. I am not even qualified to judge you. Everything I do now is just because I want to. As for what other people think, it doesn't matter."

Dozens of thunderbolts rolled down one after another at this moment. From a distance, they looked like bright flowers that suddenly blossomed in the night sky, lighting up the night. However, Liu Sen's body suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared, his voice had already appeared in Lin Cheng's ears, "Do you think you can kill me like this?"

His hand had already reached into Lin Cheng's chest, trying to touch the heart from his chest, but unfortunately, his hand was like reaching deep into an icy river, and he felt nothing but cold.

Lin Cheng lowered his head and said softly, "I don't have a heart."

He gently grabbed Liu Sen's arm, and Lin Cheng's breath changed in an instant. The breath of the abyss instantly filled the entire dock. He turned into distorted light and shadow, and the distorted light and shadow completely covered Liu Sen at this moment. Liu Sen stood motionless like a sculpture, his eyes became empty, as if he had entered some memory.

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When Liu Sen regained consciousness, there was a vast expanse of snow in front of him.

He was stunned for a moment, wanting to move for a moment, but he couldn't stretch. He saw a strange yet familiar face slowly approaching, picking him up, muttering, "Who is so heartless to leave the child here in such a heavy snow..."

The forgotten memory flashed back in his mind, which was the memory of his childhood in the orphanage.

The orphanage was just a poor little orphanage where a dozen children lived together, and they went their separate ways when they grew up.

He is both the lucky one and the unlucky one. When he was fourteen years old, his ability was awakened and he was discovered by members of the alliance and joined the alliance.

"You will be my team member from now on. Tell me if you need any help."