Only Player

Chapter 86 The Essence of Players

After a brief moment of surprise, countless questions arose in Zhou Yuan's mind.

Why don't I remember killing them? Do I really have a second personality?
That can't be possible. When I joined the Control Bureau, I underwent a detailed physical examination, including a psychological examination. If I had a hidden personality, it would have been discovered... Could it be that I was sick before and recovered later?

If it was the alternate personality who did it, why didn't the police investigate it back then? It shouldn't be possible with today's criminal investigation technology... It's ridiculous that the alternate personality secretly learned to become a criminal master and committed a perfect crime, right?

And since I became a player, I can count the number of people I have killed with my hands. What about the 40 or 50 people here? When did I kill so many people?

"Zhou Yuan... Zhou Yuan! Zhou Yuan!! Zhou Yuan!!!"

Two ghosts, a man and a woman, screamed like mad, their faces twisted and full of resentment.

"So your name is Zhou Yuan... these two people look a bit like you."

Yan Sheng seemed to have discovered something interesting. A sinister smile appeared on his wolf-like face. "It seems that you and I are both people who killed our father and mother. Hey... then let your parents love you well."

"Zhou Yuan! Zhou Yuan! Zhou Yuan!"

The evil spirits roared and rushed towards Zhou Yuan like crazy.

Yan Sheng did not make a move. His eyes were fixed on Zhou Yuan, waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

boom!
Suddenly, a ball of dark matter exploded on the ground, and the mud shadow turned into a huge black wave and hit the vengeful spirits. Six ferocious shadow beasts roared out and started fighting with the vengeful spirits.

A van sped out from the void, smashing countless vengeful spirits one after another. The door opened and the bread men came back again.

The shadow beasts and the breadmen fought with the vengeful spirits and blocked their progress, but they missed the man and the woman.

Zhou Yuan's face was covered in blood, but his expression was extremely calm and indifferent. Dark matter surged in his hands and turned into a sharp shadow ink knife.

He took a deep breath, and clear scenes of memory flashed through his mind. He exhaled, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and he swung his sword forward.

With the sudden outburst, Zhou Yuan felt that the blood in his body was boiling and his whole body seemed to be burning.

The anger and murderous intent that had been accumulated for many years were released from his chest like a volcanic eruption, and something like flames was faintly burning on the shadow ink knife.

Swish.

A dark blade light flashed through the air, beheading the two vengeful spirits cleanly and efficiently, reducing them to ashes.

Zhou Yuan felt an irrepressible sense of happiness in his heart, and in this joy, his spirituality actually increased to a certain extent. However, before he could feel this joy, bloody claws appeared in front of him, accompanied by a fishy wind, and slashed towards his face.

The shadow ink knife instantly switched into a super alloy wrench, the steel collided, making a sound, and a series of sparks flew.

At the moment of collision, a strange force, like a poisonous snake, rushed into Zhou Yuan's arm along the super alloy wrench. With a bang, the entire right arm exploded, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Zhou Yuan entered the shadow and ghost state, offsetting the subsequent force while changing shape and shadow.

The demon shadow that replaced him held the shadow ink knife in both hands and slashed wildly, crisscrossing in the air, leaving tragic marks on Yan Sheng's body, with wolf hair flying and blood splattering.

Yan Sheng chopped the demon shadow into pieces with one claw, and turned around and fell to the ground like dancing under the force. At this time, he had completely turned into a blood-marked demon wolf, with a fierce look in his eyes and full of demonic nature.

In the distance, Zhou Yuan took out a bottle of medicine provided by the Control Bureau from his backpack. The medicine was filled with silver-red liquid and sprinkled it on his broken arm. The muscles immediately began to wriggle and regenerate.

The stuff from the Bureau is awesome.

[Attention, Yan Sheng is about to use a killing move, in which he will use the power granted by the gods.

You will surely die. 】

Zhou Yuan's heart sank.

"Ouch!!!"

Yan Sheng let out a long roar, and suddenly a bloody light burst out from his body, scarlet and dazzling, like a blazing fire.

The terrifying air waves roared in all directions, causing strong wind pressure, and a dangerous aura far beyond usual emanated from him.

Bang bang bang!
The vengeful spirits, shadow beasts, and breadmen simply could not withstand the murderous intent and violent savagery, and exploded one after another.

Zhou Yuan’s powerful perception frantically issued a death warning, but then suddenly disappeared.

The overwhelming murderous intent that seemed to strangle him into millions of pieces disappeared inexplicably, as if it had never appeared.

In the dead silence, a chill rose from Zhou Yuan's back. He reacted almost instinctively, madly burning his spirituality and even his vitality to promote his arcane power.

At that moment, time seemed to stop.

The burning flames, the sweeping hurricane, the flying earth and rocks, the shattered summons... everything came to a momentary standstill in the sudden speed.

And in that almost static time, even with Zhou Yuan's current dynamic vision and reaction speed, he could only see a series of flashing blood-red afterimages in an instant.

The next second, Zhou Yuan felt a pain in his chest. He looked down and found that a bloody hole had appeared on his chest and his heart had disappeared!

shhhhh!

Almost at the same time, two dark high-pressure water knives shot out one above and one below, sweeping across and hitting the ghostly scarlet shadow.

puff!

Yan Sheng was cut into three pieces, his eyes full of shock. He did not expect that Zhou Yuan could react in such a short time and use a deadly killing move.

However, it's all over.

boom!
Zhou Yuan's body exploded with a loud bang under the powerful force, and his bones flew all over the ground, as if it was a bloody rain.

His vision fell into complete darkness and he lost all consciousness.

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In the ruins of the mental hospital, an old man witnessed everything that happened.

Suddenly, he looked up.

His perception was not strong, so it was only now that he saw the terrifying shadow descending from outside the world.

"Ah...ah..."

The old man was foaming at the mouth, tearing his face madly, leaving bloody marks with his nails, and fell to the ground after a while, without a sound.

Just like that, he died from looking directly at the projection of the evil god.

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"it's over……"

On the ground, Yan Sheng's three body sections lay there, blood flowing everywhere.

It has been a long time since he had fought such a brutal battle. If he had not activated the power of God's Chosen, he would probably have died in Zhou Yuan's dying counterattack.

Almost killed a chosen one...

What a formidable opponent.

Countless flesh whiskers extended from the three sections of Yan Sheng's body, tightly connecting them together and bringing the scattered body together again.

The blood-red hair on his body gradually turned back to gray, then slowly disappeared, and he exited his beastly state.

Yan Sheng's face was as pale as paper, completely bloodless, and his breath was even weaker, as if he might die at any time.

He had overdrawn a lot of his vitality in this battle, and the side effects of the injected medicine also showed up at this moment. Now he was completely out of strength and so weak that he couldn't even lift a finger.

He lay on the ground, gasping for breath, quietly looking at the golden dragon in the distant sky that was fighting with an army of evil beasts.

As if sensing the disappearance of Zhou Yuan's aura, the golden dragon became violent. Every strike was packed with power that shook heaven and earth, and was extremely terrifying.

"dragon……"

Yan Sheng muttered to himself, his entire eyes already occupied by the beautiful and majestic creature. If he could kill this mythical creature and make it a trophy...

"That guy is only at level 1, but after fighting him, my understanding of combat has improved a lot, and I'm not far from level 5. When I reach level 5, I wonder if I'll be qualified to hunt this dragon..."

Yan Sheng fantasized.

Without noticing at all, a pitch-black crow with red eyes landed in front of Zhou Yuan's corpse.

The red-eyed crow spread its jet-black wings, but then its body trembled, as if it had discovered something, and a human-like look of surprise appeared on its face.

After tilting its head to look at it for a few seconds, it used its wings to embrace Zhou Yuan's broken head and turned into a dark light and merged into it.

……

After a while, Yan Sheng tried to get up from the ground, but failed. Even his bones were groaning and his body was shaking, as if he was on the verge of collapse.

He took out a tube of potion from the storage item, trembling, and took more than ten seconds to bring it to his mouth and drink it.

After drinking the potion, Yan Sheng began to regulate his breathing, and at the same time noticed that in the night, the deep shadow approaching the world had become much dimmer and the distance had become farther.

"Has the Bureau already started the eradication ritual..."

The death order ceremony of Qin Youwen was initiated, which certainly caught the Control Bureau off guard, but it also caught the Land of Truth and the Supreme Mother Goddess off guard.

The Supreme Mother Goddess is sealed in the realm of nothingness, and the power she can project is extremely limited. Preparations must be made in advance so that she can send down as much power as possible to facilitate her actions.

And because of the Qunxing Network Company incident some time ago, the high-end combat forces of the Land of Truth were driven out of Xinhu, and two or three of the kittens and puppies below either escaped, died, or were caught.

It can be said that the Land of Truth does not have many manpower in Xinhu, not to mention the situation where a ceremony like this is suddenly launched, and it has no ability to carry out the "Ten Disasters" plan.

But at this point, there's no point saying anything.

The archbishop must be very angry that a plan that had been prepared for several years had been wasted. Unfortunately, Qin Youwen was dead and he had no one to vent his anger on.

"The Bureau is not slow in removing the ritual. We have to go."

Yan Sheng struggled to get up from the ground, ready to pick up Zhou Yuan's storage ring, but before he could stand firm, a chill suddenly surged through his heart.

The fiery red barrier of equality for all beings lit up again.

puff!

Dense dark spikes rose from the shadows beneath his feet and pierced his entire body, turning him into a sieve.

Bang bang bang!
Gunshots rang out, and several explosive bullets hit Yan Sheng's head.

In the instant before his head exploded, Yan Sheng saw an unbelievable scene - Zhou Yuan's body disappeared, and he was standing there intact!
Resurrection from the dead?
how can that be!

Bang!
Yan Sheng's eyes were bloodshot as his head was shattered by a bullet and torn into pieces in an instant, with red and white blood flowing all over the ground.

[You killed the ■■■■God's Chosen One, Yan Sheng.]

[You have obtained a new title: Avenger]

[Obtaining conditions: Kill the enemy who has killed you. ]

[Effect: Critical damage increased by 200%]

At this moment, Zhou Yuan felt a burning sensation on the back of his left hand. He raised his hand and saw a black crow pattern on it.

Gah!
A red-eyed crow flew out and landed next to Yan Sheng's body. It took out a straw for drinking milk tea from somewhere and sucked the milk tea from the corpse.

"Roar!"

A bloody wolf shadow was sucked away from Yan Sheng's body. It let out an unwilling roar, struggled and growled, but it was of no avail. Just like the pearls in milk tea, it gulped down into the crow's stomach.

The crow burped contentedly, put away the straw, flew back to the mark on Zhou Yuan's hand, and disappeared.

"..."

Zhou Yuan was dumbfounded.

What the fuck is this?
After calming down and thinking about what had just happened, he gradually figured out what was going on.

After being killed by Yan Sheng using the power of God's Choice, his consciousness did not disappear, but he watched the scene around the corpse from a third-person perspective.

And the system prompts light up in front of you.

[You are dead and waiting for your teammates to rescue you...]

[Countdown: 300 seconds]

[Do you want to give up waiting and revive immediately? ]

【whether】

[Current number of resurrections: 1 (Note: The number of resurrections you can get every 10 levels*1)]

[Countdown: 298, 297...]

【254, 253, 252...】

Just when Zhou Yuan was about to confirm his resurrection, the mysterious red-eyed crow flew over from somewhere, stared at him for a few seconds, and then hugged his head with its wings.

[Detected...interference from divine power...treatment in progress...]

[The treatment was successful, you have been resurrected]

Then Zhou Yuan was resurrected with full health on the spot, and even the clothes on his body were repaired. The corpse just now disappeared out of thin air, and all traces left were erased.

In fact, Zhou Yuan had suspected long ago that the [Son of the Stars Player System] had the ability to resurrect, because that was how it was in the game, so how could a player not be resurrected?
The essence of a player is to come back again and again, challenge the difficulties that he has not been able to overcome, then overcome them, and then start a new round of challenges.

However, games are games, and reality is reality. Zhou Yuan is not sure whether "resurrection" can be realized in the real world. After all, he has never died...

And now he knows.

It really works.

However, it is not like in the game where you can resurrect at will. Instead, there is a limit and you can only get a resurrection chance once every 10 levels.

But this is also terrifying. I will soon reach level 20, which means I will have two chances to resurrect and have two more lives than others.

Um... two.

The resurrection just now did not use the system's resurrection opportunity.

"Divine power is interfering..."

Zhou Yuan recalled this sentence, combined with the crow that just appeared, everything was self-evident.

There is only one god associated with ravens.

[Anomaly 233: Lady Raven]

It was He who resurrected Himself.

It also "lived" in his left hand.

When I looked at the faintly emerging crow mark on my left hand, the Eye of Identification popped up:

[Congratulations, a great being has chosen you and blessed you. From now on, you are also a chosen one! ]

(End of this chapter)