Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 186 36. Revenge is only the aftermath of sadness (Part )
The moment Wu Qinhu's secondary heart was activated, Zhou Ke felt a huge crisis.

Abin had told him when they first met that the activation of Lao Wu's secondary heart would be accompanied by an uncontrollable and deadly fury, which would suppress the Tiger King's humanity and expose his wildest animal nature.

This arrangement is very reasonable, because in 99.9% of cases, facing a guy who can blow up Wu Qinhu's first heart means that the Tiger King under normal circumstances cannot win at all. So when the second life is given, he must put away all meaningless emotions and focus everything on fighting.

Zhou Ke is not a warrior, and he has no interest in pursuing glory. Therefore, after Wu Qinhu admitted defeat, he planned to call on Snake Man to come up and help him win the final victory.

However, as the distance widened after several dodgments, Zhou Ke noticed something strange.

The furious Wu Qinhu in front of him was undoubtedly very powerful. The surging power infused into his secondary heart even allowed him to temporarily overcome the negative state brought about by the previous eternal cutting. He started with the third gear enhanced sword-slashing skill like the wind. The red energy could even bring out a physical sword light when the blade was swung.

In this state, if Zhou Ke, who is of small stature, was hit once, he would probably die instantly.

but.
"What is he doing with his hand raised?"

Amanda, who was warming up at the edge of the sandstorm, looked at Zhou Ke in front of her with confusion, seeing him waving his fingers. It didn't look like he was casting a spell, nor did it look like he was preparing any special skills. It was more like a simple transmission of information.

But what does Amanda care about you?

The opportunity to beat Wu Qinhu was still very precious in the evil land. Regardless of her serious injuries, she was about to go up and fight excitedly, but was stopped by Li Wei.

"Zhou Ke doesn't intend for us to get involved in the battle."

Levi said seriously:

"He has to deal with the rampaging second-stage Tiger King himself."

"Is he crazy?"

Amanda, Qiao Ya and Afu asked this question at the same time.

Obviously, in their opinion, the rational Wu Qinhu in the first stage was so difficult to deal with, and Zhou Ke almost used up all his cards to barely defeat the man who was not in full state. Now the violent second stage is even more dangerous. In Zhou Ke's current state, he has no chance of winning at all.

"He's not crazy, he's sane."

After a few seconds, Snake Man shook his head and explained:
"Old Wu used to be a warrior with a firm mind and faith, but now he is just a beast trying to survive. For a warrior, anger is the foundation of strength. Anger can transcend the norm and achieve miracles.

However, anger alone is not enough.

If an outstanding warrior cannot use reason and faith to restrain this anger and temper himself, turning anger into a sword of faith to be controlled by himself, he will only become a killing machine.

Although there is nothing wrong with that, after all, people with an empty mind are more likely to enjoy life.

However, the level of killing weapons alone is not enough to defeat a guy like Zhou Ke.

He has seen through the bluff, he has completed the most difficult part of the duel, and the next part is just a 'bonus level' for him."

"But Wu Qinhu, who doesn't recognize any relatives, is obviously more dangerous!"

Qiao Ya retorted, but only received a disdainful snort from her "aunt".

Sasha crossed his arms, maintaining his "master demeanor", and casually commented:
"A typical layman's view is that those who are desperate will win! The so-called 'invincible person' is even more of a joke among idiots.

'Faith' is something that is never meant to be performed for others. The moment his faith was shattered, Wu Qinhu had already lost the reason to fight. At this moment, he was more like speaking his last words in the manner of a warrior.

Belief is the foundation of the sublimator. For us, restraint is always more powerful than industriousness.

So here comes the problem. "

For the first time in this trip, Sasha put her hand on Qiao Ya's shoulder. She was no longer cold and hostile as before, and asked in a calm tone:

"Do you have faith, Xiaoya?"

"If this is your way of trying to bring us closer, I can only say that your language skills are too poor."

Qiao Ya rolled her eyes and said:
"I think I do."

"You better really have!"

Levi added a sentence beside him.

He glanced at the snake man calmly, but the old man's attention was now completely on the battlefield ahead.

He seemed to want to remember every detail of the battle in order to remember his former colleague, with whom he had neither a good nor a bad relationship, nor one he liked nor hated. Old Wu was leaving, and for Snake Man's past, another familiar symbol was about to disappear.

He became even less connected to the world.

On the other side of the battlefield, the lonely Franny clenched her fists. She hoped very much that the furious Tiger King would strangle the jumping monkey to death in one fell swoop, declaring with absolute victory that the legend of the Tiger King would continue.

However, in Franny's heart, she actually had a premonition of the outcome of this battle.

She has very good hearing.

She heard the conversation between the man she regarded as her father and mentor and Zhou Ke. It was their final farewell.

Her only remaining eye felt sour and weak, and was about to fall from her eye socket. In the Tiger Nation tradition that advocates absolute strength, only the weak would shed meaningless tears. However, at this moment, Franny seemed to have a new understanding of the meaning of tears to human beings.

It's not just the emotions of fear, joy and excitement.

More often than not, it represents sadness, loss and nostalgia.

Of course, Zhou Ke, who was still fighting, didn't have so many thoughts. The violent Wu Qinhu's wave after wave of crazy attacks made it difficult for him to have any extra energy to think about other things at this time.

The battle prompts from Wuneng kept ringing in his ears, and combined with the forced calmness brought by the metal hunter mask, Zhou Ke, holding a sword in one hand and a gun in the other, continuously executed various tactical responses like a perfectly functioning machine.

His absolute strength is not enough to confront the violent Tiger King head-on. His only advantage is that he has Old Merck strengthened by the Thunder Mask to help him.

Of course, the broken shadow warrior can still be summoned. After Zhou Ke became an ascender, this thing no longer has a cooling time. However, when facing Wu Qinhu, the shadow warrior without the blessing of the mask can only buy Zhou Ke time to dodge and pull.

It's like his "passive skill".

Every shadow that shattered meant that he had dodged a fatal blow. If he wanted to end this battle, it meant that he had to seize every opportunity that Old Merck gave him.

The enraged Wu Qinhu possessed the fighting instincts of a wild beast. After his left hand was cut off by Zhou Ke due to thunder paralysis and restraint, he had realized the threat of Old Merck and planned to get rid of that guy first. Therefore, at the moment when he tore the shadow apart to repel Zhou Ke again, Old Wu shouted and flashed over to tear apart Old Merck and the damn mask together.

And this is the opportunity Zhou Ke has been waiting for.

"Only this time!"

Wu Neng screamed in his ear:
“Don’t worry about anything else. The moment old Merck is torn apart, stab your sword into the second heart of this beast. This is our only chance to win!
I really don't know what's wrong with you!

Obviously, if we just let Snake Man join us, we will all be sharing the equipment! Wu Qinhu doesn't care, why are you being so pretentious?"

"I just want to get a perfect achievement trophy. Am I wrong?"

Zhou Ke followed Wu Qinhu to the old Merck's position and complained loudly:

"When you have the chance to achieve a no-damage achievement, would you really choose to give up? Besides, it's not like I can't win! What are you afraid of? When I'm about to be beaten to death, the snake man will come to the rescue!

Do you know how much it costs to hire a top-notch sparring partner like Wu Qinhu, you bastard?"

"Fuck, you make a lot of sense. I can't refute it."

As these two funny guys were bickering with each other, Wu Qinhu finally grabbed old Merck's body under the paralysis of thunder flying all over the sky.

Although the shadow warrior had tried his best to transform into lightning and flash around in a small area, facing the beast-like fighting instinct, it was caught by the violent Old Wu when it dodged for the fifth time.

Facts have proved that there really is a way to deal with the elementalization of the Snake Knights. This thing has a very difficult to capture but real "casting afterswing", which is enough to prove that it is not invincible.

Old Merck, who was no longer able to dodge, faithfully fulfilled his duty as a shadow warrior. At the moment he was torn to pieces, all the energy from the Thunder Mask was applied to Wu Qinhu in the form of "self-destruction".

This scene was like a replay of the night when old Merck died in Castle End. The blinding thunderstorm roared like a blockbuster bomb exploding in front of him.

But Zhou Ke had no time to marvel at the grandeur of this scene. He rushed in, swung his blade while Old Wu was paralyzed by electric arcs all over his body. The first blow was blocked, and the second blow slashed into his shoulder. The energy of the plasma pistol was shot into the sky by the Tiger King's broken wrist. The moment the weapon slipped out of his hand, Zhou Ke held the sword with both hands and moved forward again.

"puff"

The blade pierced through the chest, encountering insignificant resistance at the second wildly beating heart but continuing to pierce.

bingo!

"boom"

Before he could even feel happy, he was kicked away by Wu Qinhu.

This scene definitely "pays tribute" to that night at the End Castle again.

The metal hunter mask on his face blocked some of the damage for him. When he rolled to the ground, the broken pieces of the mask on his face turned into light spots and merged into his body to strengthen his healing again. When he looked up, he saw Wu Qinhu, with blood spurting out of his chest, howling and slashing at him with one hand holding the blade.

This is the final blow.

All of Zhou Ke’s masks have been broken.

He is now in the purest state of a blank slate ascender, and the violent tiger king in front of him is only breathing his last breath.

After this blow, whoever stood up would become famous in the evil land.

In that case, let's end it all in the coolest way possible. Zhou Ke took a deep breath, exerted his strength in a crouching posture, stood up with the sword in both hands, and swung it from bottom to top.

He witnessed the shattering of Wu Qinhu's faith, and also understood the man's determination to contribute to the civilization that was stuck in the quagmire.

Snake Man was right, the hostility between the two was not a personal grudge from the beginning.

Old Wu hopes Zhou Ke has faith.

Although he didn't say it out loud, in the brief conversation before, he had done his best to pray for him to fulfill the use of the eternal singularity.

save
Do not!
What he hoped for was not what he believed in.

"clang"

The two identical weapons collided with each other at this moment. The sound of the sharp sword echoed through the wind and sand, and then with the light shattering, a piece of the broken blade flew out in a spin.

It finally pierced into the ground, reflecting the desperate cries of Franny as she knelt before her.

Zhou Ke stood up, shaking his almost broken hands. Beside him, Wu Qinhu had a deep scratch on his chest that could be seen to the bone, and he fell to the ground in a spurt of blood.

Until his death, he held the knife tightly in his hand.

He was like a warrior holding on to his faith. Even though his faith had been shattered and his path forward had been cut off, he still ended his life in a warrior's way.

There was no pathetic plea for mercy, no more last words, and he was even so cold that he didn't even want to say a soft word to his "daughter".

Like
A true Badlands man died like that.

"You fought well, but I'm better."

Zhou Ke turned around and said something, then bent down and picked up the dark green crystal-shaped "practical sample" that had fallen from Wu Qinhu's body, as if bowing, as well as the red flame tiger mask that only he could see.

It feels heavy in the hand and is made of exquisite material. It is obviously a top-quality mask at first glance.

This was the second permanent mask he got after the "Self" mask, and also the first permanent trophy he obtained. Zhou Ke raised his hand to admire this tiger mask that was like a work of art, and then covered his face with it with a chuckle.

No guilt, no hesitation.

He defeated Wu Qinhu personally. Twice!

He took this trophy with a clear conscience.

"God of War."

Feeling the Red Flame Tiger Mask "melting" on his face, Zhou Ke couldn't help but complain:

"This permanent mask is good, but every time I put it on, it's like wearing someone else's face on my own. If I keep putting on layer after layer like this, won't my face be as thick as the corner of a city wall?"

"Oh, you mean, you think you're not thick-skinned anymore?"

Wu Neng joked:
"You really don't have any self-awareness in this regard."

"what!!!"

A sharp roar with murderous intent came from behind Zhou Ke. Franny, holding a battle axe, roared and wanted to chop her axe into Zhou Ke's neck to release the pain she felt after witnessing the defeat of the Tiger King.

But at the moment before the sharp blade hit him, Zhou Ke turned around and swung the sword.

"boom"

The blade wrapped in red light and like a magic sword swept across Franny's hands, splitting the heavy battle axe into two like origami and smashing it at the feet of the female warrior, while the blade was firmly against Franny's neck.

In front of her eyes, Zhou Keru, like a "young version" of the Tiger King, had a faint red light ignited all over his body, as if he was wearing a red robe.

"I think we all got one thing wrong."

He said to Franny:

"We thought this layer of fiery power was the Tiger King's anger, but it is not. His sublimation foundation has never been anger, little tiger, your father wields it every time he fights.
These are all his beliefs.

The more determined he is, the stronger he becomes.

Collect his body.

Enough people have died in this maze, so there is no need to dig another burial pit today.

The sword is for you."

He pointed at the broken blade in the Tiger King's hand and said:
"Although it was cut off, that's not the problem with the weapon itself. Find a blacksmith to repair it and it can be used again. Also, I wish you, the tigress, good luck on your road to power. If there is a chance in the future, we can cooperate with each other."

"cooperate?"

Franny glared at him as if he were the murderer of her father.

Zhou Ke nodded, retracted his sword, and walked towards Qiao Ya and Amanda who were hugging each other and cheering.

Without even turning his head, he said:
"Yes, cooperation, we will have the opportunity to do great things together in the future! Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of Lao Wu's accumulation over the years? Ah, the appearance of 100,000 psychopathic biochemical warriors who can't control their anger and slashing wildly in heaven.
Tsk, I can’t even imagine how beautiful it would be.”

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The maze is collapsing.

Maybe this place will be restored to its original state in a few days, but Zhou Ke did not forget that he still had an unfinished "date" here.

Although he was really anxious to go somewhere to pick up his sleeping robot girl, he was a man who saw things through to the end. Therefore, after riding his beautiful and cool motorcycle away from the inner circle that was experiencing a chaotic time storm, he temporarily said goodbye to the others and asked them to wait for him in the military camp outside the maze for a few hours.

Zhou Ke didn't know where to find Professor Valsonk, the "time lover", but for a god-like person who could travel everywhere in time, he didn't need to bother looking for him.

So Zhou Ke waited there, playing with the scabbard of the blade he got from the Tiger King, while he and Wu Neng exchanged pleasantries and practiced his sweet-talking skills.

As a result, after finishing a cigarette, I turned my head and saw the mean-looking old man with white beard walking out of the wind and sand with a cane.

Alas, what is revealed is the grace of the "Great Wizard of the Demon World" that is incompatible with the evil land painting style.

“This mask is nice.”

He exclaimed:

"Such a perfect tiger mask is hard to find in this era. This kind of craftsmanship was highly sought after in the old civilization era as a truly high-level culture with connotation. But the face underneath the tiger mask."

"Shhh."

Zhou Ke raised his finger to his lips to keep quiet, and said:

"Don't casually reveal those secrets that shouldn't be made public, unless you can't wait for the power of the end to come to you. In fact, after you guided me to complete the record of the evil eagle, I have been very curious.

Can the seven of you who have received the direct blessing of the Warp Shadow'Eternity' withstand the execution of the End?"

"Of course I can't stand it."

Professor Valsenko waved his hands modestly and said:

"As a historian, what do I know about guns and sticks?

But if you really intend to launch a shameless sneak attack on me at this stage, then I don't mind throwing you into a chaotic space-time place with eighteen seals. I, an old man, will make sure that you won't be able to escape for at least thirty years.

The End is so powerful that even the shadows of the Warp fear it.

But just because He is great doesn’t mean you are great too.”

"Okay, okay, I'm just talking, don't be nervous."

Zhou Ke made a "please" gesture, put the scabbard in his hand back into the weapon backpack behind him, and said:
"So, where is that thing you want to show me?"

"It's all around us, Zhou Ke."

Professor Valsenko tapped the ground with his cane. At that moment, the world around Zhou Ke immediately performed a "metamorphosis". The barren land covered by wind and sand turned into nothingness in an instant.

"Don't struggle. I'm going to take you deeper into the material world and let you see with your own eyes what I have been 'hiding' for the past thirty years. I had to hide them carefully. The eyes of eternity are watching us. It took me a long, long time to learn how to play tricks under His nose.

You have to control the power of the end, any slightest collision will cause us trouble.

follow me! "

In this void, Professor Valsenko walked forward, and the light rotating like an hourglass formed a bridge under his feet. Zhou Ke followed closely.

He didn't know what would happen if he fell off this "bridge", but he really didn't want to try it or take the risk at the moment.

But as they were walking, Professor Walsenk suddenly stopped, frowned, looked somewhere, and said to Zhou Ke:
"Is that guy in front your companion?"

"what?"

Zhou Ke looked in the direction the professor raised his finger, and a structure like a portal appeared before him.

Through this door, one can clearly see that in another area where wind and sand are surging, Qiao Shan, wearing black biological armor, is fighting a group of howling crystal demons. Judging from the pile of corpses under this guy's feet, he has obviously been fighting for a long time.

"Oh, I was wondering why I couldn't find the unlucky Qiao Shan. I didn't expect that he would accidentally enter your 'treasure house'."

Zhou Ke laughed.

He was still worried about where Qiao Shan had gone, but he didn't expect to meet him here. He turned around and looked at the Time Lost Man and said:
"Is this situation normal? Isn't the maze outside about to collapse? Why is he still fighting in it?"

"Time is a very complicated concept, Zhou Ke. It's hard for me to explain it to you in a few words, but Qiao Shan obviously didn't reach such a deep time hub through normal means."

Professor Valsenko shook his head and said:

"Look in his arms."

"Ok?"

Zhou Ke looked closely and found that, sure enough, underneath the black biological shell that perfectly covered Qiao Shan's body, there was a strange bulge on his waist "rolling" underneath the shell. Judging from its appearance, it should be the time beast that was lost by the evil vulture before.

"It should be that when he sacrificed himself for his teammates to divert the time distortion, he accidentally encountered the injured time beast, and then was led by the little creature to trek deeper into time, and accidentally came to this 'time depth' that ordinary people theoretically could never reach."

The professor smiled, stroked his beard and said:
"This is the fun of time, Zhou Ke. If you keep it long enough, you will always come across these little stories that make you smile. Go ahead and rescue him or say goodbye to him.

He wasn't fighting time aberrations in a time maze.

He is trapped in the broad concept of the 'past', and he is fighting against the aberrations of the past. Theoretically, since he cannot transcend time, it is impossible for him to kill all the monsters around him. "

"Rescuing him is understandable, but what is the operation of saying goodbye?"

Zhou Ke looked at the time-obsessed person in surprise and said:
"Do you think I would abandon my collaborators?"

"No, no, no, this is not called discarding."

Professor Valsenko winked at him mysteriously and said:

"Getting lost in time is a kind of adventure. As the eldest brother, don't you realize what Qiao Shan is thinking and what he desires?
He is actually a talented and lucky child, and the only difference between him and a truly strong person is 'time'. But you see, now even this shortcoming has been made up for by an unexpected 'rescue'.

I don't want to interfere with other people's fate.

I tried it once, and it went badly.

So, I advise you not to do that, go ahead and have a chat with your little brother, and then we'll continue on our way."

(End of this chapter)