In the quiet living room, the atmosphere was as solid and cold as winter ice.
Caroline supported the unconscious Xu Cheng and kept looking at Susan with her hostile gaze, never leaving her for a moment to prevent her from doing anything that would endanger everyone.
Susan looked calm and stood motionless, but the emotion in her heart was slightly bitter.
According to the original plan, she was supposed to die when Xu Cheng went berserk and turned into a demon. She didn't expect that the plan would fail, and now she was faced with such an embarrassing situation.
She still couldn't figure out why Xu Cheng saw through her performance when it was so flawless?
Even if Caroline saw herself meeting these tools in private, she should not be so suspicious based on the good character she has shown over the years.
Susan couldn't figure it out. There was something called - this game doesn't count, come again!
I don't know how much time passed before Xu Cheng suddenly woke up.
He covered his chest with his hand and coughed several times. A black gem emerged from his chest. With a crisp sound, the gem fell apart and turned into pieces on the ground.
And the many shadows that restrained Xu Cheng's limbs and torso suddenly collapsed.
Seeing this scene, both Omar and Caroline's hearts suddenly lifted.
This black gem is a treasure given by the Shadow Goddess, and it is also the key item to seal the devil. Now that the gem is broken, it means that the seal has been released.
Caroline supported Xu Cheng and asked nervously: "Are you okay?"
Xu Cheng waved his hand and replied: "I'm fine."
"That's good!"
Caroline breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second, she looked at Xu Cheng with shocked eyes.
Not only her, but also Omar and Susan looked shocked.
A mute who has been mute for more than 20 years actually speaks? !
"It's the first time in my life that I'm talking, so I feel a little bit uncomfortable."
Xu Cheng touched his throat with his hand and said something emotional in a jerky tone.
The devil kept his promise and healed his damaged vocal cords, regained his ability to speak, and finally no longer had to be a mute.
That's right, the two parties have reached an agreement to cooperate - Xu Cheng will help the devil do things, and the devil will also give him great power and get rid of his status as a weakling.
Caroline was surprised and delighted: "Why is your throat healed?"
"We'll talk about this later."
Xu Cheng looked at Susan and walked slowly to her.
The devil has revealed the truth to him. Susan's true identity is a succubus. Along with the devil, she was summoned to this world by Xu Cheng's parents.
The succubus has ever-changing abilities and can perfectly imitate humans, and Xu Cheng and the others have never doubted her, so they have not seen through her true face for more than ten years.
Susan followed Xu Cheng to protect his physical safety, but her real purpose was to assist the devil and control Xu Cheng.
After waiting for more than twenty years, when Xu Cheng's soul finally grew up to be able to fully withstand the power of the devil, Susan secretly directed tonight's tragedy.
She used the power of the succubus to charm these tool men and made them come to attack Xu Cheng in the middle of the night. She also secretly notified Carolin to come over. The purpose was to make Xu Cheng take the initiative to accept the devil's influence in an extremely helpless situation. strength.
In the end, the three people closest to Xu Cheng will die in front of him, causing him to fall into intense pain of his own weakness and self-blame.
Finally, under the temptation of the devil, Xu Cheng will embark on a path to find gods and resurrect his relatives.
This is the life of God Killer Locke, who has been living in misery and deception.
If Xu Cheng hadn't relied on the advantage of reopening to break the situation, I'm afraid he himself would have followed the same path of the God Killer and repeat the tragedy.
Susan raised her head slightly, looked at Xu Cheng, and smiled miserably: "It seems you already know everything."
"You are a devoted wife."
Xu Cheng's tone was calm, and there was no fluctuation in his eyes: "But it all stems from deception, so I can't forgive you."
As soon as he finished speaking, his right arm had penetrated Susan's abdomen.
"cough……"
Susan coughed, and a lot of blood flowed from her mouth. She didn't make any resistance, but slowly pressed her face against Xu Cheng's chest.
"We... are all chess pieces involuntarily."
She murmured in a low voice: "I hope you...can escape your predetermined fate...and gain true freedom..."
Her body fell slowly and decomposed rapidly during the fall. When it fell to the ground, it had turned into burning ash all over the ground and disappeared completely, not even leaving a body behind.
I don’t know if it’s true death or returning to hell.
There was no fluctuation in Xu Cheng's heart. The pain of the past twenty years had sharpened his will stronger than diamonds.
He looked down at his right hand, where the devil's power resided. It reminded him of the God Killer's right arm. Maybe that was the power that belonged to the Demon King of Hell.
Caroline and Omar were shocked when they saw Susan's body reduced to ashes.
This situation of corpses being destroyed into ashes most often occurs in demons. In other words, Susan, who has lived with them for more than ten years, is actually a demon.
But these members of the Demon Hunting Guild, whose main business is hunting demons, never noticed it.
"Locke."
Caroline couldn't help but ask: "Susan's identity...what exactly is going on?"
Xu Cheng retracted his right hand, turned around and explained: "Susan is a succubus, related to the demon living in my body."
Caroline became nervous: "So how are you now?"
Xu Cheng touched his chest with his hand: "I made an agreement with the devil. It won't hurt me, but I still have to work for it."
Caroline's heart suddenly lifted. Isn't this just like those dark wizards who like to summon demons?
Xu Cheng noticed her expression and comforted her: "Don't worry, I'm just making peace with the devil. When I find the opportunity, I will get rid of it as soon as possible."
Caroline was filled with worries. Many dark wizards also thought they could control the demons they summoned, but in the end their consequences were not very good.
Just seeing Xu Cheng's confident expression, she couldn't say anything depressing.
"What does the devil want you to do?"
"I don't know yet. Let's take a step and see."
Although Xu Cheng knew that the devil's ultimate goal was to deal with a certain god, the devil would never tell him about it.
Otherwise, once it is spoken out, no one will dare to cooperate with it, and they will definitely run away with the bucket.
Xu Cheng was also happy to pretend not to know and use each other with the devil.
"Okay, Caroline."
Omar also stood up to smooth things over: "Believe in Locke, he can handle these things, there is no difficulty that can stump him."
This is not blind trust. In most of Omar's life, he has never seen anyone as tough and smart as Xu Cheng.
Caroline also agrees with this point. Based on Xu Cheng's life experience of more than 20 years, there is ubiquitous malice and discrimination, endless bad luck and danger.
Let alone an ordinary person, even if it were her or Omar, they would have been defeated long ago. However, Xu Cheng was able to live resolutely without growing crooked at all. This has to be said to be a miracle.
"I communicated with the demon in my consciousness and it showed me what happened when I was born."
Xu Cheng looked at Omar and walked towards him: "I met my biological parents and learned the cause of their death."
Caroline and Omar's hearts, which had just been relaxed, suddenly lifted up again, and their expressions froze.
What the two planned to hide until death was actually revealed to Xu Cheng by the devil.
Seeing Xu Cheng walking towards Omar, Caroline subconsciously exclaimed: "Locke, no!!"
But Omar raised his hand the fiercest, interrupting Caroline's words.
He looked at Xu Cheng walking over, countless complicated emotions flashed through his heart, and finally turned into calm.
Forget it, it will always come. Hasn't he rehearsed this scene several times in his mind?
"Locke, I was the one who killed your parents. It's all my fault and has nothing to do with Caroline..."
Omar's tone was extremely dry and painful, but he stopped mid-sentence.
Because Xu Cheng, who came over, opened his hands and hugged him hard.
"Thank you for raising me up, my dear teacher..."
Xu Cheng hugged his thin body tightly: "No, maybe I should call you - dear father."
Omar's mouth opened slightly, and he froze on the spot.
After a while, he gradually came back to his senses. His eyes were already red and his nose was sore.
This tough guy who used to never shed tears no matter how much pain and suffering he suffered, now felt the urge to cry.
"Good boy..."
Omar's voice was choked, and she raised her hand and gently stroked Xu Cheng's hair.
He always regarded Xu Cheng as his biological son, but the murder of his biological parents was like a thorn, always buried in his heart.
Xu Cheng also knew this very well. He could choose not to say it, but he finally decided to say it, just to help Omar pull out this thorn so that he would have no regrets.
Caroline watched this scene from the side, her eyes filled with tears, and her expression was relieved.
There was nothing happier for her than being able to see her two closest relatives reconcile.
Omar was a little uncomfortable with such a tender scene. In order to cover up the tears in his eyes, he waved his hand awkwardly.
"You two... get rid of a few corpses. It will be a big trouble if they are discovered."
Although these tool men were bewitched by Susan, there is no evidence that Susan is dead now, and she is a demon. If the demon hunter knows her identity, the trouble may be even greater.
The best way is of course to destroy the corpse and pretend nothing happened.
Under Omar's command, Xu Cheng and Caroline tacitly began to dispose of the corpse.
The three of them are all senior witchers. They are experts in handling corpses. They guarantee that the witchers will send people to investigate and not even a hair will be found.
After cleaning the scene, Xu Cheng and Caroline left the capital overnight with the body, found a beast's den in the suburbs, fed the body to the beasts, and watched as the beasts gnawed away the bones.
"Then what does the devil want you to do?"
On the way back, Caroline asked the question again.
Xu Cheng replied casually: "It wants me to go to Arnold in a while, but it didn't say what to do specifically."
Arnold is a country protected by the God of Life. It is very far away from Sauron. It would take an ordinary person a year and a half to travel by carriage.
Caroline immediately said: "I'll go with you."
Xu Cheng stopped and turned to look at her: "I don't know how long it will take for me to come back now. We both left, who will take care of the teacher?"
He knew that he might have a narrow escape from death, and taking Caroline with him would only harm her, so he could only find a reason to let her stay.
Although Caroline usually complains about her Omar, her filial piety towards Omar is much stronger than Xu Cheng.
Sure enough, as soon as she heard this, Caroline fell silent.
Xu Cheng continued: "Wait for me at home, I will be back."
This sentence cannot be said sincerely, because according to the fate of the Godslayer, this departure may mean farewell forever.
Caroline didn't know, because Xu Cheng had never lied in the past twenty years.
"I'll wait for you to come back."
Caroline hugged Xu Cheng and said in his ear: "Whether it is ten years, fifty years, one hundred years, or five hundred years, I will be waiting for you to come back at home!!"
Xu Cheng's heart as hard as diamond also trembled slightly. He didn't say anything, he just hugged Caroline hard.
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In the following days, Xu Cheng did not accept any more tasks from the Demon Hunting Society and stayed at home to accompany Omar and Caroline.
Omar was no longer confused. He immediately saw the problem and found out the reason after questioning.
"Do you think I'm too old to take care of myself?"
Omar pretended to be angry: "Even if I die, you won't send me to a nursing home?"
This is indeed a way, but neither Xu Cheng nor Caroline did it.
The nursing homes of this era were much worse than the nursing homes of later generations. The elderly were just waiting to die. Omar had stated more than once before that he would rather die than enter a nursing home.
Omar, who once said he was right, could no longer control the two children and could only act like an old man.
Time gradually came to the day when Xu Cheng left. The angry Omar was unwilling to come forward, so only Caroline sent Xu Cheng away from the royal capital.
After the two left, Omar dragged his old body to the top of the building, looking at the direction Xu Cheng left, with tears streaming down his face.
He vaguely guessed that when Xu Cheng left, he might say goodbye forever.
Caroline sent Xu Cheng outside the royal capital, but did not stop and continued to accompany him.
She kept walking like this until the entire majestic royal capital disappeared from the horizon, and then she finally stopped.
I don’t know how many times I have said goodbye. Xu Cheng didn’t waste any more nonsense. He turned around and wanted to leave, but Caroline grabbed his wrist.
He turned around and saw Caroline's red eyes.
"Let's go tomorrow, okay?"
Her voice trembled, her tone pleading.
Xu Cheng looked into her tear-filled eyes, suddenly opened his hands and hugged her sideways.
The two of them ran back to the capital, to a secret stronghold that no one knew about, and vented their emotions to each other without stopping for a moment.
Originally, Susan was a wall, isolating Xu Cheng and Caroline on both sides, but now, there is no obstacle between the two siblings.
"Um……"
Early the next morning, Caroline woke up from her deep sleep and found that the people around her were gone, and there was still a faint warmth left in the bed.
She stretched out her hand to caress the traces left by Xu Cheng, and her tears fell silently.
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