Xu Cheng's reaction speed was extremely fast. The moment he was sneak attacked, he had already swung his weapon and slashed back with his sword.
However, the counterattack failed immediately. The attacker was very agile and dodged Xu Cheng's counterattack in advance.
Xu Cheng covered the wound on his stomach with his hand, resisting the pain that shot through his body, and calmly searched for the enemy in the darkness.
A strong wind suddenly hit from the side, and he relied on instinct to quickly raise his weapon to parry.
clang!
The two were raised up and bumped together, causing a lot of sparks to rub against the metal.
Clang, clang, clang!
Accompanied by a series of sounds of gold and iron, Xu Cheng and the enemy attacked and defended for dozens of rounds in an instant.
Suddenly, he felt a pain in his back, and was attacked from behind and slashed hard.
There is more than one enemy!
Xu Cheng, who was seriously injured, fell to the ground with a plop, and the tendons of his hands and hamstrings were cut off at once.
"who?"
At this moment, Omar's screams came from the room inside. He, who was sleeping, finally heard the fighting in the living room and hurried out.
Run!
Xu Cheng opened his mouth to remind Omar, but as a mute, he couldn't make a sound at all.
A muffled groan came from the darkness, and Xu Cheng heard the sound of a sharp weapon cutting flesh and blood, followed by a plop and a man fell in front of him.
Xu Cheng's eyes had adapted to the darkness, and he saw blood pouring out of Omar's neck, and an expression of shock and anger on his old face.
At this moment, Xu Cheng's mind went blank.
His heart beat violently, accompanied by bouts of severe angina-like pain.
"see it?"
"The death of your loved ones is all because of your weakness."
"Do you crave power?"
"Then surrender to me."
A strange voice sounded in my ears, it was the whisper of a devil.
Xu Cheng's sanity was completely disrupted by Omar's death, and he couldn't think for a moment. The devil's will broke through the seal and began to invade his brain.
But his instinct is still resisting, building a river embankment to resist the demon's invasion.
Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, a scream was like thunder, shattering Xu Cheng's last resistance.
That was Susan's cry.
He completely gave up his rejection, and his heart beat to the limit, as if it would explode in the next second.
Amidst the pounding heartbeat, a black gem suddenly appeared from Xu Cheng's chest. The gem fell apart and turned into fragments on the ground.
The shadows that originally restrained Xu Cheng's body all collapsed in an instant.
Endless power surged out of his body and quickly spread throughout his body.
The originally thin body suddenly swelled up, bursting the loose clothes on his body, and the two thin sharp horns on his forehead also grew rapidly, turning into two thick horns in the blink of an eye.
The dark eyes also turned into erect eyes, and the skin all over his body was quickly covered with a thick layer of black scales.
boom!
With a loud noise, Xu Cheng jumped up from the ground, flew to the second floor in an instant, broke through the wall and entered the bedroom on the second floor.
Several men with weapons blocked Susan in a corner. When they heard the movement, they immediately turned around.
Xu Cheng's speed was countless times faster than before, and he appeared next to the nearest man like a teleport, slapped the man on the head, and beat the whole man into a pulp.
The remaining enemies were indifferent and rushed towards Xu Cheng.
boom!
The closed door was violently pushed open, and Caroline rushed in from the door with an eager look on her face.
She originally wanted to spend the night outside tonight, but someone threw a note next to her in the middle of the night, saying that someone wanted to do harm to Xu Cheng tonight, so she hurried over.
As soon as she rushed into the living room, Caroline saw Omar lying in a pool of blood. Her whole body was stunned as if she had been struck by lightning.
Adopted since childhood, Omar was her teacher in name but actually her father.
Suddenly, a corpse made of flesh and blood fell from the second floor and fell heavily in front of Caroline. It was impossible to tell what it looked like.
Caroline suddenly came back to her senses. She endured the grief of her adoptive father's death and hurriedly rushed to the second floor with a weapon.
The bedroom on the second floor had completely turned into a slaughterhouse, with blood and minced meat everywhere.
Xu Cheng, completely demonized, stood motionless in the middle of the bedroom.
When Caroline who rushed in saw this scene, her face changed drastically, and her heart sank suddenly.
"Locke..."
Susan was covered in blood. She softly called Xu Cheng's name and tried to get closer to him.
"Don't go there!"
Caroline yelled when she saw this, but it was too late. Xu Cheng, who had completely lost his mind, stabbed Susan with his backhand.
clang!
At the critical moment, Caroline rushed over in time and blocked Xu Cheng's attack with her two-handed sword.
The huge force almost made Caroline unable to hold the hilt of the sword. Xu Cheng twisted slightly and swung the long tail from behind, hitting Caroline in the abdomen, knocking her away and hitting the wall hard.
The severe pain caused Caroline to vomit a mouthful of blood, and her eyes blurred. Xu Cheng had already arrived in front of her, and his sharp claws pierced her abdomen and pierced her back.
The fighting instinct made Caroline subconsciously fight back, slashing Xu Cheng's neck with the sword in her hand.
Only when it was only a few centimeters away from Xu Cheng's neck, the two-handed sword stopped.
Bang!
The two-handed sword fell to the floor, and Caroline slowly raised her hand and gently touched Xu Cheng's face.
She seemed to want to say a thousand words, her lips wriggled, and finally she uttered only one sentence.
"Have a good time...live..."
I don't know how much time passed, but Xu Cheng recovered from the state of losing his mind, and the blood on his body had solidified.
He saw Caroline dead in his own hands, subconsciously took a step back, and saw Susan's body. There was a huge wound on her body - when Xu Cheng killed those enemies just now, he accidentally killed her. Accidental injury.
Standing in this bloody bedroom, with the bodies of the two closest people on his left and right, Xu Cheng remained motionless.
He watched the teacher who was as close to his father die in front of his eyes, and then accidentally killed his wife and the senior sister who loved him deeply.
Is this...all that Godkiller Locke has ever experienced? !
How cruel this is!
"Look what you protected."
The devil's voice sounded in Xu Cheng's mind: "You can't protect anyone, you are so weak!"
wrong!
Xu Cheng raised his hands to cover his head, feeling something was wrong.
"Do you want to undo this? Do you want your relatives to come back to life?"
"Then accept me completely, let me be you and you become me. I will show you a clear path and resurrect your relatives."
The devil's voice, full of temptation, kept ringing in Xu Cheng's mind, confusing him and making him unable to think.
"Shut up."
he shouted.
But the demon did not stop. Instead, it continued to chatter. Its power gradually covered Xu Cheng's brain and affected his thinking.
Xu Cheng endured the severe pain that felt like his brain was being torn apart, raised his hand to grab Caroline's two-handed sword that fell on the ground, and wiped it hard on his neck on the ground without hesitation.
The devil didn't expect Xu Cheng to choose suicide so simply, and it was too late to stop him.
【mission failed】
The world has been pressed on the pause button, and time has stopped flowing.
The chattering demon finally stopped talking, and Xu Cheng was finally able to think without interruption.
Years of pain have tempered his spirit and soul to be strong and tough enough. He can suppress the pain of the murder of his loved ones without resorting to the talent of ability cards, and think in a cold to rational state.
He felt something was wrong, that it was all too deliberate.
Three enemies came from nowhere, Caroline, who suddenly came back when she shouldn't have gone home, and the demon who had been peacefully together for more than 20 years, suddenly broke free from the seal.
Viewed from a third-person perspective, it all looks like some kind of deliberately arranged script.
Xu Cheng started watching the replay, and after he turned into a demon and broke into the bedroom on the second floor, several enemies turned to look at him.
Xu Cheng recognized them at once. These people were all members of the Demon Hunting Association. They had had many interactions with him and had a very good relationship with Omar.
There is no grievance, no hatred, why would a group of people come to attack me in the middle of the night?
Several people blocked Susan in a corner. Each of them was much stronger than Xu Cheng, and Susan was an ordinary person with no power. Why did she need several people to come to deal with her at the same time and delay until she changed? Become a devil?
Xu Cheng's eyes fell on Susan, and there was no trace of panic on her face.
He continued to watch the replay, and it wasn't until he turned into a demon and caught up from downstairs that a look of panic appeared on Susan's face.
Although it is unbelievable, there is only one truth.
Xu Cheng stared at the face of his wife, whom he had known for more than 20 years, and after a long time, he chose to reopen the relationship.
Time began to flow backwards, like an hourglass turning around, going back to a dozen days ago in one breath.
Xu Cheng opened his eyes and saw the deep night sky above the grove, with many hazy stars twinkling slightly.
He went back to the night he had just defeated the Death Crow with Caroline.
"Um?"
Caroline lay on Xu Cheng's chest and suddenly noticed that his heartbeat was speeding up. She raised her head and looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"
Looking at this face, Xu Cheng suddenly used both hands to hug her tightly.
Caroline's body stiffened, and then slowly relaxed, but her heartbeat was getting faster and faster.
What to do next?
Kissing, or...
Is it too casual to be in the woods for the first time?
Just when Caroline's mind was filled with random thoughts, Xu Cheng let go of his hands and gently pushed her away to stand up.
"Hello?"
Before Caroline could figure out what was going on, Xu Cheng grabbed her from the ground and dragged her out of the woods.
The two of them worked hard, and the journey that originally took more than ten days was shortened to half, and they returned to Sauron's capital seven days in advance.
"Are you really sure?"
In a small room that Caroline usually used as a secret base, she looked at Xu Cheng with a serious face: "This is no joke!"
On the way back, Xu Cheng told her that there might be a problem with Susan's identity.
Caroline didn't believe it at first. Although she had complicated feelings for this younger sibling, she had to admit that Susan was definitely a qualified wife and no one could find fault with her.
Xu Cheng replied in sign language: "Do you think I am someone who would joke about this kind of thing?"
In the past twenty years, Xu Cheng has suppressed his nature and played a calm and honest character, and would never joke about such things.
Caroline was silent for a long time, and finally her trust in Xu Cheng took over.
"Then what are we going to do next?"
Xu Cheng wrote a few names on the table with his hands. They were all the enemies who formed a group to attack him for no reason.
"Start by keeping an eye on these people and see if they do anything unusual."
Caroline wrote down the names of these people, and then she and Xu Cheng split up, leaving her to keep an eye on these people secretly, while Xu Cheng went back to observe Susan's every move.
There was no harvest for several days. Although the people who attacked Xu Cheng knew each other, they were not close friends and rarely interacted with each other.
The same goes for Susan, who lives a simple and disciplined life every day. She takes care of Omar, goes shopping, cleans, and does some manual work to make money.
If Caroline didn't have absolute trust in Xu Cheng, she would probably wonder if his brain was caught in the door, so he would doubt such a virtuous wife.
Until the day when Xu Cheng and Caroline were "about to return", Susan's monotonous life day after day finally changed.
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That night, after taking care of Omar and eating, she went out for shopping.
After leaving home, she took a detour to the headquarters of the Demon Hunting Association and met privately with the enemies who attacked Xu Cheng.
The meeting was very brief, and no one knew what they talked about, but Xu Cheng, who had reopened the business once, had already guessed that he had made an agreement with a few people to go to his house in the middle of the night.
But why would Susan do this?
In the past ten days since reopening, Xu Cheng has been thinking about this question, but has never found an answer. The only thing that can be determined is that it has something to do with the demon sealed in his body.
"How could she do this?!"
Angry, Caroline cut the table in the room in half with a sword.
If I had known there was something wrong with Susan, I should have stopped her from marrying Xu Cheng five years ago. No, I shouldn't have taken her away from the nursing home more than ten years ago.
Caroline, who had been deceived for so many years, was filled with anger. She subconsciously turned around to question Susan, but Xu Cheng grabbed her arm.
Caroline looked back at Xu Cheng: "Are you going to forgive her?!"
Xu Cheng shook his head, with only one meaning in his eyes - listen to me.
Caroline looked at him for a few seconds, and finally both said, "Then I'll listen to you."
It wasn't until midnight that Xu Cheng returned home just like before the reopening.
"Just come back."
Omar, who was dozing in the living room, breathed a sigh of relief, and Susan came back just at this time.
There was no strange expression on Xu Cheng's face, and he opened his hands to hug Susan.
"You two have not seen each other for more than ten days, so let's get together."
Omar thumped his waist and stood up: "Don't worry too late, old man, my sleep quality is not good."
Susan's face blushed slightly, and after Xu Cheng sent Omar back to the room, she said to him: "You go take a bath first, and I will boil the medicine for you."
After Xu Cheng came out of the shower, Susan had already placed a bowl of steaming medicine in front of her.
"Locke, drink the medicine."
Xu Cheng smiled, raised his head and drank the bowl of medicine.
Unexpectedly, he would be able to enjoy Wu Dalang's treatment one day.
