Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 204 54. Let the Wheel of Fortune Start Turning
Zhou Ke flicked the coin into the air, and when it flew to the top and was about to fall, the evil earth male succubus killed it without any moral principles.

Ever since using Old Wu's Red Flame Tiger Mask, Zhou Ke found that he had truly fallen in love with close combat.

He sadly discovered that the reason he always claimed to be a hero who fought with his brain was not because he had really resisted the temptation of violence, but simply because he was too incompetent.

No matter whether he was wearing Ajie's madman's ghost mask or Qiao Shan's black beast mask, the melee bonus provided was not enough for Zhou Ke, a guy who didn't like training very much, to gain enough advantage in close combat. What's more, he was indeed a coward and was always reluctant to bet his life on a close combat between brave men.

He called it caution.

But the fact is, which normal man can resist the second stage transformation on the battlefield, the shaggy-sounding fighting style of destroying the enemy with heavy punches on the spot?

Absolutely not!
Especially when his current enhancement is enough to give him a close combat advantage.

The gift that Wu Qinhu, a man standing at the top of the food chain in the evil land, left for Zhou Ke was enough for the male succubus to discover his own "violent gene".

Of course, Zhou Ke is still a very capable person. He will not use this power that he has not yet mastered to challenge a strong enemy like the Awakening Fire.

After all, the same power can be strengthened five times in a row in Wu Qinhu's hands, allowing him to reach the level of "True Super Saiyan - kill anyone who stands in his way, kill Buddha who stands in his way" to sweep and crush. In Zhou Ke's hands, the time is still short, so he can only strengthen it twice, and can barely tie with D-85 at 4% power.

With such close combat skills, not to mention fighting with Snake Man, even Amanda can fight him on equal terms. However, it is definitely enough to bully Roger who has "control + turret".

But to be honest, it's not that Zhou Ke doesn't want to try something new. The real reason is that all the masks in his hand were used up in the last battle with Lao Wu. Now the only mask he can use is the "Three-eyed Evil Vulture" mask, but that thing has subspace pollution and is a trump card that must not be used unless it is a critical moment.

He is not a professional psychic. If he manipulates this kind of corruption rashly, he may end up burying everyone in the venue with him.

"boom"

Roger was quick to apply time acceleration to himself, raised his hand and shot several bullets at Zhou Ke, but they were all cut off by Zhou Ke's shear blade while he was dodging rapidly. This unique skill of "cutting bullets with a knife" had full visual effects, but it was just a basic operation for Zhou Ke who inherited Wu Qinhu's skills.

After all, the Tiger King had said a long time ago that bullets, such stupid things that cannot change direction once they leave the barrel, cannot hurt him at all.

Since he can't be hurt, then rounding it off basically means Zhou Ke can't be hurt either. As for the "time delay" effect that comes with Roger's bullets exploding on the spot after being destroyed, it is meaningless in front of Zhou Ke's hat.

The hat given by the time-magician can make one immune to all time-alienation effects. Roger himself said that when Zhou Ke wore the hat, he couldn't even exert positive effects like "time acceleration" on him. In other words, when Zhou Ke didn't take off his hat, Roger, who specialized in time psychic powers, basically had 70% of his means wasted.

If he still can't win, Zhou Ke will perform a sword-swallowing show for everyone right on the spot.

The red flame made Zhou Ke move very fast. After dodging several times, he got close to Roger and punched him in the abdomen with an afterimage. The attack force was absorbed by a device on his body, but the danger made Roger flash into time, intending to turn back time to a few seconds ago and let himself, who was at a disadvantage in this battle, "start over" again.

This is the battle rhythm of the time psychic.

They can make countless mistakes, but as long as they are caught with a slight possibility of a counterattack, these guys can push the probability of victory to 100% by constantly rewinding time.

"Where are you running to?!"

But as soon as Roger's figure became blurred, Zhou Ke stabbed the fluctuating time ripples with a slashing blade. The slash was as tricky as a dragonfly touching the water, but Roger's face changed drastically as he jumped back and watched his time rewinding ring being completely shattered.

It was like a delicate building block had its core structure shattered, causing the entire backtracking loop to "collapse at the slightest touch."

The collapsed time stream "exploded" on the spot, sucking in everything within ten yards. The surrounding rubble and mechanical fragments weathered into gray as if they had experienced hundreds of years of grinding in an instant.

“This hat.”

Zhou Ke performed a knife trick in the safe area, flicked his old cowboy hat, and said to Roger:
"Not only can it make me immune to time alienation, but it can also let me see the most vulnerable parts of the alienated time structure. Do you understand? The Time Loser copied the power he got from Eternity. Although the absolute level is less than 1‰ of his own, these two precious characteristics are enough for me to slaughter you guys who play with time like pigs!
So, Roger, do you understand the second rule of this battle?"

"Can't use battlefield time to go back?"

Roger twitched his lips and changed the magazine of his old pistol. He stared at Zhou Ke, took out a syringe from his belt and stabbed it towards his neck while sighing.

When the injection entered his body, this guy's eyes were instantly bloodshot, and his tall and slender body swelled up as if inflated. As he pulled out and swung the armed belt, the thing turned into a fighting stick with an electric surge.

Without any rebuttal or further words, after completing his self-strengthening, Roger took the initiative to attack Zhou Ke.

He knew that his chances of winning would only decrease rapidly as time passed. His only chance was to entangle Zhou Ke as much as possible, so as to create an opportunity for Ikaros, the guard robot he had modified himself, to enter the secret room.
"boom"

Before he could finish his thought, something hit Roger next to him. He couldn't help but glance over and saw Ikaros' mechanical left arm smashing to the ground with a twisted feeling, and its five fingers were twitching with sparks jumping.

not good!

His heart sank, and then he felt a pain in his chest. He looked down and saw that the blade had pierced his heart directly.

Blanch!
After cursing in his heart, at the moment when the sharp blade crushed his heart and pulled it out, time went back to himself and Roger's body returned to the healthy state it was two seconds ago.

He continued his fierce attack and tried to suppress Zhou Ke, but the opponent did not give Roger any chance to fight back. He would rather endure the bullets hitting his body than to create as much damage to Roger as possible. The aging effects of the bullets were stripped away by the hat, and hitting Zhou Ke's strengthened body made him feel pain at most, but every hit of the blade was a "critical hit".

The worst thing is that this knife has undergone an unfinished transformation along with Takahashi Santao, causing it to have its own attack effects of time disruption and aging. When the blade cut into Roger's abdomen for the fourth time, the Time Master noticed that there was an unignorable delay in his manipulation of time, and he also experienced the "suffering of aging" that his enemies had suffered in the past.

Two of the four blows were fatal. After the blade was peeled off, Roger quickly distanced himself. He glanced at his left hand and saw that his fingers had already shown signs of crystallization.
"Is the personal benchmark already beginning to become unbalanced?"

Zhou Ke's fingers brushed across the gray blade, and he said coldly:

"I've dealt with you guys a lot, and I know very well that those psionicists will turn into crystal monsters due to the imbalance of their personal base after dying six times at most. But you are a master of time psionics, so I assume that you have a stronger tolerance. I will count on you to die twelve times before your personal base is completely destroyed and you are eaten away by time.

Twice now, Roger!

The hourglass begins to turn back, and there are only ten deaths left before your doom."

"whispering sound"

Roger curled his lips and did not respond to the sarcasm. He applied faster time acceleration to himself, making his speed faster and faster. The speed of swinging the fighting stick made the collision of the two weapons cause sparks to flash everywhere in the air. After Zhou Ke was hit seven times, he realized that he also needed to "upgrade".

Then the red flames wrapped around his body erupted again, pushing him into the "second gear", catching up with the speed of Roger's weapon swinging, and when the opponent smashed the surge weapon at his head and tried to lift his hat off, he slashed forward with a blade, and blood splattered with a "puff", and Roger's entire arm was cut off by this blow.

The next second, the self-healing effect of time reversal took effect again.

The third death!
He realized that it was impossible for him to defeat Zhou Ke. After most of his means were wasted, his best response now was to temporarily leave the battlefield.

So, Roger tried to break out. Relying on the super speed granted by time acceleration, he rushed out of Zhou Ke's blockade despite being slashed twice, and rushed out of the Flame Library. But when he stepped out of the door, a dark-looking "Old Six" suddenly appeared from the side, and with Qiao Shan's groaning, he kicked Roger in the chest with a standard Leo flying kick, kicking him directly back to Zhou Ke who was chasing him.

The blade only needed to stab forward, and the sharp blade pierced into Roger's back smoothly, and then crushed his heart for the fourth time with the rotation of his wrist.

Roger was almost mad with rage!

But Qiao Shan did not think he was unethical. He stood at the entrance of the library with his hands on his hips in the posture of "black beast protecting himself" like a door god, with a silly time beast sitting on his shoulder and stuffing leaves into his mouth.

Now there is really no way to go up to heaven and no way to go down to earth.

What's even worse is that because of the aging cumulative effect of the Slashing Blade, the effect of the enhancement that Roger had just injected was also reduced, and his physical condition was regressing to that of a weak spellcaster.

If this continues, I will really become A Kun who is waiting to be slaughtered.

"Perhaps the two sides should switch opponents?"

This thought came to Roger's mind.

His guard Ikaros was at a disadvantage in the battle with D-4, and he and Zhou Ke were also suppressed. But if they switched opponents, the disadvantages of the two could be reversed in an instant. D-4 could not ignore the interference of time. He had countless ways to capture the robot girl alive and use coercion at that time.
He thought so and did so.

Under Zhou Ke's relentless pursuit, Roger rushed to the mechanical battlefield on the other side of the library ruins in a rather embarrassing manner, relying on the flash of time. As a result, as soon as he rushed over, he saw Ikaros being pinned to the ground by D-4, his spine was shattered and his head was torn off.

Although tearing off a head does not mean death for an intelligent machine, the brutal scene conveyed a cold fact to Roger. He seemed to have underestimated the outrageous combat power of D-4, the mysterious mechanical girl.

But the only breaking point is here!

He had to hold D-4 hostage to reverse the situation, so in the next second Roger threw a time reversal on Ikaros. While the latter was restored to full state, he and Roger clamped D-4 on the left and right, causing the robot girl to be pulled into a time freeze.

Become!

Roger was delighted and was about to turn around to make negotiation requests to Zhou Ke, but he saw that Zhou Ke was retreating instead of advancing, and an indescribable destructive force was erupting behind him.

What the hell!

Individual nuclear warhead! ?

At this moment, Roger felt like he was trampled by countless beasts. He could only activate the large-scale time rewind again when he was dragged into the nuclear explosion, and bring the time back to the moment he released the time freeze on D-4 three seconds ago.

"I forgot to tell you that before we entered here, D-4 set the detonation conditions of the nuclear warhead in her weapons bay so that it would detonate without delay as long as there was any lag between her internal timestamp and the external time flow."

Zhou Ke's sarcastic and mocking voice sounded behind Roger, who had returned to the position three seconds ago. As the blade pierced Roger's heart for the fifth time, he reached out and grabbed the Time Master's shoulder and said:

"There is no difference in emotional intelligence between you and me. You are even worse than me in planning and execution. Therefore, I have already taken into account all the conditions for escaping the predicament that you can think of.
But you can give it a try!
Maybe we will all be destroyed by this nuclear explosion, and you can go back in time and become the final and only winner. "

You know what, at this moment, Roger really had the idea of "living as long as heaven and earth".

However, when he was resurrected for the sixth time, he saw in despair that a hoverbike carrying Snake Man and Vulture leisurely appeared above the ruins of the Flame Library.

It’s over.

A nuclear explosion can kill Zhou Ke and Qiao Shan, but it may not kill Snake Man and Evil Vulture. After all, it is just a single nuclear warhead, and its power is not as terrifying as that of a real earth-shattering explosion.

"Enough!" After the sixth resurrection, Roger gave up resisting.

Facing Zhou Ke's cutting blade, he raised his hands. This action made the cutting blade wrapped in red flames finally stop at Roger's forehead, but the battle between D-4 and Ikaros behind him continued.

The robot girl obviously had no intention of giving up her enemy, and Ikaros was loyal to Roger and shed his last drop of blood.

"Are you giving up now?"

Zhou Ke stared at Roger and said:

"This is too boring, brother. I was counting on you to resist to the end so that I could turn you into a crystal monster with my own hands. Only such a desperate execution would be worthy of what you did to Ajie in the Second Research Institute."

"I am no match for you, especially since you have been targeting me in every way."

Roger shook his head and said:
"But I still have one last trick. I may not be able to defeat you, but I can always make you suffer so much that you may even be unable to be born! Zhou Ke, don't forget how you were born in this evil land!
it's me!

I shaped you.

If I hadn't gone back in time and shot you in desperation, guess what kind of trouble you would have encountered?"

"puff"

He was answered by the fierce slashing of the blade.

At the moment the head flew out of the neck, Roger was surprised to see a strange smile on Zhou Ke's mouth. It seemed that he had been waiting for Roger to use this "method" to threaten him.

He seemed eager to share a wonderful "secret" with Roger.

"buzz"

The sixth time rewind was completed in the next second. After recovering, Roger touched his neck and looked at his left arm. The "crystal disease" caused by the imbalance of his personal baseline had spread to his shoulder, making the entire arm look like a monster claw covered with crystals.

"You didn't shoot that bullet!"

Zhou Ke attacked fiercely with the knife, without any rules, just swinging the knife continuously, causing Roger to stumble back and use his left arm to block. Amid the flying crystals and dirty blood, Zhou Ke whispered:
"I fired the bullet that killed me, Roger! I witnessed it myself at the edge of Labyrinth 11. You miscalculated.

In the process of my 'birth', you are just a bystander and not a necessary factor, so your threats are meaningless to me.

Even without your intrusion, Lan's brain would have exploded due to the imbalance of chaos in his body."

"But he'll die there!"

Roger is indeed a "time management master". He immediately caught the loophole in Zhou Ke's words and counterattacked:
"You had to be involved in your birth. Without your subsequent treatment, he would have died there without any accident, no matter what you are! You can't possess a corpse with an exploded brain!
Haha, of course you can pretend that you have a great advantage, but the fact is that my presence at that moment was necessary, Zhou Ke, time is a magical thing.
A slight mistake can lead to a huge error!"

He took Zhou Ke's sword blow head-on, and then put the pistol in his right hand against his chin as blood gushed out of his body. He said to Zhou Ke provocatively:

"In the name of time, I dare to bet, but do you dare?"

"boom"

The bullet shot out and entered Roger's chin. Even the "Gun of Kindness" in this suicide mode pierced Roger's brain without any surprise, causing him to die for the seventh time.

The resurrection process this time was particularly long, and it seemed that Roger had given Zhou Ke some time to think carefully.

Ten seconds later, when Roger was resurrected and stood in front of him, this guy's crystal disease had covered half of his body. His personal benchmark was really on the verge of disorder. Even if it took twelve deaths to bring him doomsday, it did not mean that Roger could have maintained a perfect state in the previous eleven deaths.

The real world is not a damn numerical game.

He can hardly hold on any longer.

But this time when he was resurrected, Roger did not see Zhou Ke rushing up with a knife like a mad dog to kill him, and a long-lost smile appeared on his pale face.

at last
The advantage is on my side, even if it is not enough to help me turn the situation around.

To be honest, his personal benchmark collapsed to this extent. Unless he could create a benchmark instrument on the spot to help himself recover, with this kind of injury, he would be half-disabled even after recovering.

"Go ahead."

Zhou Ke leaned on the blade, looked at Roger with a cold look, and said:

"Tell me your conditions, but please think carefully before you speak. Don't make stupid demands that will make everyone here laugh at you."

"I accept the result of my death here and now, and I do not ask you to hand over the fragments of creation hidden in the secret room to Shunguang to send back to the Garden of Eden."

Roger endured the tearing and dulling feeling on the spiritual level, and he spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Actually, I only have one request!"

"Say!"

Zhou Ke stared at him, but in fact, he had already guessed what Roger wanted him to do.

"Take the creation fragment! Together with the two fragments of practice and observation in your hands, find time in the next four months to go to the Garden of Eden and meet Brother Han Bin."

Roger closed his eyes and said word by word:

"You just need to bring the item to him and it will be his business whether or not to give him the fragment. Deal?"

Zhou Ke didn't answer.

He just looked at Roger with a strange look and said:

"At this moment, my impression of you has really changed. Are you really the kind of person who would give up everything for the goal you set or your own beliefs?
Is the Sacred Benchmark Project really that important to you?"

"You want me to leave a last message?"

Roger laughed and said:
"Yes, it is important. It is more important to me than anything else. After we came to this branch of the timeline, I gave it all my energy, talent and will. After that failure, when I saw the two most important people in my life disappear in the backlash of time, this project became more than just a lifelong career for me.

If Senior Brother Han Bin can choose to sacrifice himself to save me, a mortal who has accomplished nothing, then I can also give everything I have for his return.

People like you won’t understand, Zhou Ke. You won’t understand the feeling of unconditionally giving everything for someone.

Well, look at the obscene light in your eyes, do you think that is love?
Don't be stupid!
Takahashi and I took different paths, but I don't know if he told you before he died in your hands that in our hearts, Senior Brother Han Bin was like a father and a brother, even though he was only less than ten years older than us.

I believe that Takahashi made that choice to reverse all this, but with a different method. "

"Ah, it's another strange bond that I don't understand and is very twisted but very touching. I found that although this evil land is small, the various 'heroes' that can be born in it are really beyond common sense."

Zhou Ke snorted, walked forward and looked Roger up and down, stroking his chin and said:
"no!"

"Ok?"

"What I mean is that in my memory, you were in a more miserable state than you are now, so I'm going to stab you, Roger, in the name of Liu Linyu and Ajie.

When you return to this timeline, your life will come to an end.

So, leave a last word.

I pity you."

"Well, thank you. Tell Brother Han Bin that I have repaid everything I owe him! Tell him that I have been a materialist from beginning to end, but if there is really an afterlife, I hope to meet them again.

Just like in this life, my mentor gave me ideals and the meaning of life, and my senior and junior classmates taught me the weight of friendship and family affection.

I'm sorry I couldn't stop Takahashi"

"puff"

The sharp blade entered his body, and as it was cutting through his heart, Roger began to go back in time for the eighth time. At the moment of resurrection, he looked at Zhou Ke, turned around and jumped into the vortex of time and returned the next second.

There was a scar left by a large-caliber bullet on his crystal-covered body. When he appeared, he threw his pistol to Zhou Ke, as if it was a reward for asking him to convey a message.

"farewell!"

In Zhou Ke's announcement, Roger completely gave up the manipulation of his precarious personal benchmark.

He let the blade scratch his neck. At the moment when all the heaviness became light, he opened his eyes. At the end of the land covered by the black sun, the figure of Takahashi Santaifu wearing a windbreaker was standing there alone.

The moment he extended his hand, Takahashi turned around, held his hand, smiled at him and pointed to the sky.

So Roger looked up, and in the pale halo of light in the sky, the familiar figure was looking at them helplessly, waving goodbye to his two junior brothers.

The fate of the three people was completely determined on the dividing line between black and white.

Just like three straight lines after the last intersection, they rush towards a future that will never converge.

(End of this chapter)