My father has the appearance of an emperor

Chapter 269 Curse of Doom
In the wilderness outside the city, Jiang Chen sat there silently, while Dicket, next to him, was gnawing on the food he brought with him, looking aggrieved and bored.

The heavy riding boots made a rustling sound as they stepped on the green grass, and the big sword hit the tree trunk, causing a vibration.

Still the silver breastplate and rose-red battle skirt, that dazzling and eye-catching image.

Tilda walked with confidence and her eyes were filled with anger.

She came to stand beside Jiang Chen and said, "A woman and a police officer, despite being tested positive, became out of control and mutated, and both were by your side. Aren't you going to give me an explanation?"

Jiang Chen smoked a cigarette and lay on the grass: "My behavior is the best explanation. In the next three days, I will not enter the city and will not be with others. If you also have the Chaos Demon in your body, you'd better stay away from me."

Tilda's tone was as hard and heavy as steel: "I do! But I can suppress it!"

"That's not a matter of suppression. As long as something is possible to happen, it will definitely happen." Jiang Chen said seriously.

He already figured it out.

It's bad luck!
Perhaps it was because they were all believers of Chaos, and in some sense they were connected by faith, so when Jiang Chen's misfortune befell, all believers would be affected.

The result is chaos out of control!

However, this statement cannot explain one problem: almost all humans on this continent believe in the Lord of Chaos, and the connection of faith is actually infinite, but only two people around him are out of control.

Does this mean that, with widespread connectivity, bad luck is no longer evenly distributed, but has a regional effect?

As for Jiang Chen and Dicket, there is no demon symbiosis in their bodies, so of course this kind of thing is impossible to happen.

But interestingly, he didn't encounter any other bad luck either.

This made Jiang Chen unable to understand.

At this moment, he looked at Tilda and said, "I sincerely advise you to stay away from me within three days! Go quickly, otherwise you will not be able to bear the consequences."

"Then at least you have admitted that it was related to you!" Tilda glared at Jiang Chen: "Tell me, what did you do?"

Jiang Chen was speechless. "Yes, maybe it has something to do with me, but I didn't do it! I didn't think of it before, and I'm sorry that it happened, so I made amends and stayed away from the crowd. Why did you come here? What do you want to do? Take me back to question me, and then kill more people?"

Tilda took a long breath.

She took a few steps back, not because of fear, but because she felt that this was the only way to see the man more clearly.

Tears dripped from her eyes, and she murmured: "We endure endless suffering, but in order to survive, we have no hesitation! If you don't want to kill more people and don't want to destroy the world, tell me the reason."

Jiang Chen looked at her in surprise.

Is it that serious?

He stood up and walked away, trying to stay as far away from Tilda as possible, and shouted, "Hourglass of Doom. I used the Hourglass of Doom in the last mission, and now I am entangled by doom. All targets that have a faith connection with me may encounter doom, but I didn't expect that the consequences for them would be so serious."

Dekter screamed: "Fuck! Why didn't you tell me this? I was wondering why the two of them were in such a hurry to run away? Are you asking me to share your bad luck?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Well, you also got good luck, isn't it right to share some of the bad luck?"

Dexter roared, "Is that why I fucked a demon?"

Jiang Chen spread his hands: "Before you slept with her, she was still a human being."

Tilda was shocked: "Hourglass of Doom? Oh my God! How did that thing end up in your hand?"

Jiang Chen smiled bitterly: "The person who received the precepts took away a lot of things, you shouldn't feel strange about it."

Tilda screamed madly: "The question is why do you want to use it? It will bring bad luck to everyone! You are simply a lunatic. For a little good luck, you want to make the whole world suffer!"

Jiang Chen frowned: "I am definitely not the madman you said. The fact is that I didn't know it would have such consequences. If I had known that my bad luck would make the people around me chaotic and out of control, I would never use it."

"No!" Tilda cried, "It doesn't matter whether you use it or not."

"What did you say?" Jiang Chen was puzzled.

Tilda glared at him angrily, "You think you can control good luck and disperse bad luck? But don't you know that good luck and bad luck are never balanced?"

"I know, but I think I can still bear it."

"We can't!"

Jiang Chen helplessly spread his hands: "I don't know about this. Tell me, Tilda, what's going on?"

Tilda knelt helplessly on the ground, her hands in front of her face: "Is this fate? We finally got rid of it, but it came back again... and it's all because of you. Fate, why does it torture us like this..."

Listening to her desperate moans, Jiang Chen understood a little: "It seems that my predecessors underestimated it and put it in the wrong place?"

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Tilda is gone.

Faced with the curse of bad luck, Tilda's self-confidence collapsed in an instant.

She didn't even dare to stay for a moment and left in a hurry. Even Dicket was scared and ran away.

For the following time, Jiang Chen stayed alone in the jungle.

He walked through the wilderness, through the woods, through the grass, and among the flowers.

No misfortune befell him. Wherever he passed, flowers and leaves withered, tree trunks turned yellow, grass died, and birds and animals fell to their deaths...

This was not an instantaneous event, but it was bound to occur whenever he stayed in an area for a period of time, and would become increasingly horrific as he stayed there longer.

When he woke up, he could even see that everything around him began to wither, as if it were a drought demon, leaving no grass wherever it passed.

This made Jiang Chen a little confused.

What exactly caused all this?
Why did the misfortune that should have befallen me suddenly happen to me?

Is it because of the connection of faith?

But plants and trees have no faith.

How come a good bad luck curse suddenly turned into a poisonous constitution?

The inner confusion still exists, but he can only wait three days to get the answer.

——————Three days later.

Chaos Cathedral in Bloodbath City.

It was still the familiar cottage, in front of the bonfire, Archbishop Nevitt was still drinking leisurely, but his furrowed brow proved that he was not in a good mood.

The door of the hut creaked open.

Jiang Chen, Dicket and Tilda walked in.

Seeing Jiang Chen, a trace of fear flashed across the old face of His Excellency the Archbishop: "It's a pity that we were talking to you here before. The glory of the Lord blesses Tilda."

He did not mention himself because he was born a monk and did not have a symbiotic demon in his body.

Jiang Chen felt an inexplicable sense of shame.

Sitting next to the archbishop, he said: "Although it is a little late to apologize, I still want to say sorry, I really didn't know..."

The archbishop waved his hand: "It's okay, I understand, it has already happened, there is nothing we can do now."

"I can stop using the Hourglass of Doom here in the future." Jiang Chen said.

Nivette shook his head: "No, it's already back, so whether you use it or not, what's going to happen will happen."

"Then tell me what's going on?"

Bishop Nivette thought for a moment and said, "Do you understand the rules?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "In my understanding, the so-called rules are actually the combination and definition of the root runes of this world, which can produce results similar to the law of words."

Nivit smiled: "That's right. The root is a kind of power, the most fundamental power in this world, at least in the last few thousand years. But the question is, who will combine them?"

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes: "Humans? Or intelligent life?"

Bishop Nivette chuckled. "Now the question is, let's assume that humans have mastered the root and used the power of the root to form rules. What results will it produce?"

This question made Jiang Chen think seriously for a while.

After a long pause, he said: "Everyone has the opportunity to grasp the root and form their own rules. Different rules cause chaos, which is the origin of chaos!"

"Very good, continue. You don't have to give me the general direction, give me the details." Nevitt said.

Jiang Chen thought seriously.

His pupils were glowing slightly. "If all the rules were created by intelligent life using the Root, then why would we impose restrictions on ourselves?"

Dicket said: "Maybe it's because the power is not enough and we need to balance it?"

Jiang Chen immediately said: "But power is never balanced. The purpose of most rules is to serve oneself... Oh, damn it!"

Jiang Chen stood up suddenly and shouted, "If all rules are created by intelligent life, then rule objects should also be created by intelligent life?"

He glared at Nivette.

Nivette remained silent.

Jiang Chen shouted, "Rule items are not born, they are created. But if they are created, why are there rules with side effects greater than positive effects?"

Most of the items he saw in Warehouse No. 1 had more side effects than positive effects, so they were put aside.

At that time he thought that these regular objects were natural existences, until now Nivet reminded him.

Rules are created by intelligent life with the help of roots!

Just as he himself used the root to modify the rules!

So why are there regular items with side effects greater than positive effects? Isn't this asking for trouble?

Dicket was also a little confused. He understood what Jiang Chen said, but did not understand the answer.

He wondered, “Yeah, why?”

Nevitt said nothing, and neither did Tilda.

Instead, Jiang Chen understood.

He shook his head repeatedly: "Because the rules are not only mastered by humans, but all intelligent life can master them."

Dicket looked dumbfounded: "I still don't understand."

Jiang Chen shouted, "The needs of life are different! What is a side effect to us may not be a side effect to those lives, but a positive effect! If a person uses a certain rule item that turns himself into the Netherworld, it means extinction for humans, but for the Netherworld family, it means the expansion of the species!"

Dicket was shocked: "Oh my god, you're not going to say..."

Jiang Chen nodded repeatedly: "My previous judgments were all wrong. The creator of the Hourglass of Doom wanted either good luck or bad luck from the beginning. The so-called good luck is just a means of balance! Maybe it was created by a group that needs bad luck!"

Tilda finally spoke: "That race is called the Demons. They can draw power from misfortune, so they created the Hourglass of Misfortune."

Nivit interface: "They are one of the branches of Chaos Demons, a very powerful branch. This item comes from the leader of this group. It has caused huge damage with this rule item. It can absorb bad luck or spread bad luck. When it spreads bad luck, it can make all demon symbiotes wake up as quickly as possible and become part of their forces. In order to fight against them, a once powerful country perished."

Tilda said, "After that, this thing was sealed in the ancient mountains, but we all knew it would always appear again. So we tried our best to take it away through the ordained people. But we didn't expect that you would bring it back again."

Jiang Chen immediately said: "But there is always a way to solve it?"

Nivette replied: "There are only two ways. One, you master more roots and rewrite its rules. Two, use your own power to seal it, but this approach will make you the target of the Doom Demon."

Jiang Chen smiled: "Oh, I'm not worried about that. I don't have to worry about my debts."

On Blue Star, he was hunted by Yuan Qiuye, Luo Dahao and others. Here, he had offended a demon lord and the Lord of Chaos. What was the point of adding a demon of doom?
Then he said, "Tell me, how can I seal it so that it will never be used again?"

Nivette shook his head: "No, you can still use it, but you can no longer disperse the bad luck through the faith link, which will cause the bad luck to spread actively. You must bear all the bad luck independently and not let it leak out at all!"

“But I don’t know how to do that.”

Tilda said: "It's very simple, just let a demon of doom coexist in your body... The person who takes the precepts can also coexist with the demon."

(End of this chapter)