My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 193 The Truth About the Traffic Lights, Clues to the Salvation Society (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The train demon races through the time tunnel.

A figure wearing a swallowtail trench coat and a dark red mask was lying on its side on the roof of one of the carriages.

Black Chrysalis did not rush into the carriage, but silently appreciated the bizarre and chaotic flow of time and space.

At this moment, the landscapes of the world appear like stacked mirror images, dazzlingly presented in this space.

He used his restraints to observe the two remaining carriages of the train and was certain that there was no one else besides the Ghost Train Group.

But to be on the safe side, he decided to wait a little longer.

He thought to himself, "What if the Salvation Society suddenly shows up and steals the traffic lights and Genius diapers? Then my sister and I will only be able to meet at the Salvation Society's base."

Black Chrysalis yawned, opened the character panel, and glanced at the points she had.

[Current number of "Skill Points" held by Unit 1: 1]

[Current number of attribute points held by Unit 1: 1]

He raised his hand and scratched his metal jaw, quickly allocating the little attribute he had left.

[Your primary unit, "Black Chrysalis," has undergone a change in its "Strength" attribute: B++ to A (the strength of your "Restraint Belt" will also increase accordingly)]

[Current Attributes of Unit 1: Strength (determines physical fitness): A-level; Speed ​​(determines neural reaction): A-level; Mental (determines mental strength): C+-level]

"For now, we have two A-level attributes. For the Cataclysmic level, every attribute should be S-level or A++?"

Then, he opened the skill tree panel and glanced at it.

The three branches all require at least two skill points to unlock: [Avatar Enhancement], [Binding Chainsaw], and [Superpower Overload]. He only had one skill point, so he had to put them aside for the time being.

So Black Chrysalis switched back to the system panel, flipped to the last page, and pressed the option "Create New Game Character." This option's text color was different from the others; it was written in pure blood red.

I raised my finger and tapped it, and a series of text prompts popped up.

[The split progress has not yet been completed, and a new game character cannot be created. ]

[Note: 16 Split Points are required to create a new game character (you currently have 7 Split Points. Once you have a total of 16 Split Points, you can create another "game character" in the real world)]

"It seems like the next mech will be a long time coming," Black Chrysalis thought. "Currently, the initial strength of my three mechs is gradually increasing. Agubaru is clearly stronger than Chess Player and Black Chrysalis in their initial state. So it seems... the initial strength of the next mech might directly reach the 'Cataclysmic' level."

He couldn't even imagine that such results could be achieved in less than a month. If he were given a year, how far could these organisms develop?

The problem is, he doesn't have that much time.

By September at the latest, he must take down the Salvation Society. Currently, the Salvation Society appears to be the most powerful and mysterious organization in the world, and defeating them will be extremely difficult. However, Ji Minghuan is confident, and must be confident, that he can accomplish this.

“I’ve been hiding for so long, there shouldn’t be any problems. If there really is someone hiding in the carriage, then I’ll die in front of the Salvation Society.”

Black Pupa muttered something, peeled off the transparent restraints covering her entire body, then shifted her buttocks, sat on the edge of the carriage roof, and used a restraint to open the carriage door.

He grabbed the ceiling of the carriage and fell down into the brightly lit carriage.

"Hey everyone, it's been one night, have you already started missing me?"

Black Chrysalis put her hands on her hips, slowly raised her head, and looked at the four people in the carriage.

He was met with a scornful look.

Su Zimai said, "I thought you'd disappeared somewhere, so you've been hiding on the roof all this time?"

Black Chrysalis shook her head: "There's no other way, the situation is special, I have to be careful."

"So, Mr. Black Chrysalis, have you observed the situation at the scene?" Ke Qirui asked.

"Of course, you must be very shocked, right?"

Ke Qirui nodded and said irritably, "The little boy with the handheld console is a monster, and the little girl riding the somersault cloud is a monster among monsters... As for the remaining three children, we haven't seen their strength yet."

She paused for a moment: "But the fact that they're together means they're definitely not ordinary either."

"That's natural."

"Now can you tell us who they are?" Ke Qirui asked. "I noticed the collars around their necks and the codes on their hospital gowns. There should be a larger organization behind them."

“No, I still can’t tell you,” Black Chrysalis said.

Before what happened that morning, Xu Sanyan might have been impatient with this man who kept spouting riddles. But after witnessing the power of those monster children, he didn't want to hear the name of this organization at all, lest he get involved in trouble.

Ke Qirui was silent for a moment: "For our safety, right?"

"Correct."

"Well, you're quite considerate," Su Zimai scoffed.

Black Chrysalis said calmly, "After all, I promised your brother that I would protect you."

Su Zimai was stunned.

"His brother?" Ke Qirui raised an eyebrow and asked curiously.

She turned to look at Su Zimai, but Su Zimai avoided her gaze.

"It's nothing, don't listen to his nonsense," Su Zimai said softly. "This guy just loves to stir up trouble."

Deep down, she didn't want the leader to know yet that her older brother's true identity was actually Blue Arc, because even she herself wasn't quite sure how to face this fact.

In this situation, if others find out, she will only feel more helpless.

She hoped to have some time to process this secret before telling the people around her.

Ke Qirui shook her head, pulling herself out of her jumbled thoughts: "Never mind, let's get down to business."

“Yes, where are the traffic lights?” Black Chrysalis asked.

“I hid him in the movie world, and now I’m releasing him.” As she spoke, Ke Qirui raised the one-way mirror.

As the movie screen appeared, Lin Zhengquan, the most robust member of the team, silently stepped inside, picked up the unconscious Hongludeng, and placed it on the bumpy floor.

The curtain slowly fell away, and a brief silence enveloped the carriage.

The four members of the Ghost Train Troupe stared at the red streetlight on the floor, waiting for the person in question to speak.

"Well... I'm going to use my abilities to ask a few questions at the traffic lights. If any of you want to avoid this, I suggest you leave now."

After a pause, the black chrysanthemum said softly, "Otherwise, it could be very dangerous to hear something you shouldn't hear." Ke Qirui lowered the brim of her hat. She harbored a great and intense curiosity about this world, and the opportunity to glimpse the truth was right in front of her; she couldn't possibly miss it.

Su Zimai and Lin Zhengquan exchanged a glance. They decided to stay.

Xu Sanyan took a drag of his cigarette, silently got up and left, opening the sliding door and stepping into the next carriage. He was already semi-retired and didn't want to be drawn into any further conspiracies.

"Xiaomai, Zhengquan, you two can go out," Ke Qirui suddenly said.

"But……"

Ke Qirui interrupted her: "This is an order."

Su Zimai was stunned.

Lin Zhengquan raised his hand and placed it on her shoulder. After a moment of silence, Su Zimai lowered her head. The two turned around and stepped into the next carriage together, closing the sliding door behind them.

"I'll say it one last time, this is dangerous." Black Chrysalis turned to look at Ke Qirui. "After hearing what I'm about to say, I can't guarantee you won't die."

"Let's begin," Ke Qirui said calmly.

“Furthermore, there must be a mole within the Exorcist Association,” Black Chrysalis said. “After this incident, you’ve been targeted by them. From now on, you can’t trust anyone, not even your closest family members.”

"What you're saying is starting to scare me, Mr. Black Chrysalis." Ke Qirui said this with a blank expression.

"You really aren't afraid of death... I admire your courage."

At this point, Black Chrysalis stopped trying to persuade the other party, and instead raised her hand and stretched out the restraint belt, wrapping it around the entire body of Red Light, activating the No. 1 unit's skill "Restraint Belt Mantra".

[Truth of the Binding Belt: Force a character bound by your binding belt to speak the truth.]

The next moment, the traffic light's eyelids twitched, and it suddenly opened its empty eyes, staring intently at the ceiling like a machine.

The black chrysalis did not make itself into his field of vision, but kept a certain distance from his gaze.

"And then?" Ke Qirui asked.

Black Chrysalis took out a small notebook and a pencil from her trench coat pocket. She drew a six-pointed star surrounded by a circle on the notebook with the pencil, and then wrote a line of text next to it: "Miss Ke, please hand this notebook to Mr. Red Light and ask him, 'Why do you know this pattern?'"

After finishing writing, he let the pencil slip into the sleeve of his trench coat, and then handed the notebook to Ke Qirui.

In the dead silence, Ke Qirui reached out and took the notebook from the black cocoon, glanced at the contents, and then wiped away the words with her hand.

She moved the notebook in front of the traffic light and asked softly, "How did you know about this pattern?"

Black Chrysalis crossed her arms and leaned against the carriage door, quietly observing the scene.

The moment the traffic light saw the "six-pointed star pattern," its pupils suddenly contracted, and its whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Fortunately, the black pupa had tightly bound every joint of his body with restraints beforehand. At this moment, the red light was like an insect trapped in a pupa, unable to move, its body twitching slightly as if in a spasm.

A moment later, the red light's lips twitched slightly, and it spoke in a hoarse voice.

He said, “There was a man… a man wearing glasses, who smelled of disinfectant. He found me and said he could help me with my insomnia, and then… he entered my heart, he tore my heart in two, and I couldn’t resist him. He had that pattern on his clothes, that six-pointed star pattern.”

The black pupa was slightly taken aback.

The smell of disinfectant, the glasses—combined these two features, the first name that naturally came to his mind was:

--"tutor".

"Mentor?" Black Chrysalis scratched her chin, thinking, "Did the mentor actively seek out the red light in the outside world?"

After a long silence, the red light swallowed hard and continued, "He told my 'heart,' 'From today onwards, you must keep killing those exorcists and leave this pattern and a line of Latin text at the scene.'"

He paused for a moment: "I can't resist him... I can't resist my 'heart'. He keeps talking in my ear, and he hasn't stopped once in the past few years."

At this point, a struggle appeared on the red light's face, and its pupils dilated and contracted like those of a wild beast.

The carriage was once again shrouded in deathly silence. Black Chrysalis slowly stood frozen in place, her hair standing on end.

In just a few seconds, a chilling conclusion slowly appeared in his mind.

That's right. It was the mentor who approached Red Light a few years ago, using his psychic abilities to enter Red Light's mind and give him an order to his 'id' to kill those exorcists and leave clues about the Salvation Society to the outside world.

Two years later, the mentor returned to the Salvation Society's base and, in front of the children, claimed that this evil exorcist was tarnishing the Salvation Society's name.

In order to maintain the secrecy of the Salvation Society, they sent out Salvation Squads to arrest Red Lights.

With these thoughts lingering, Black Chrysalis couldn't help but let out a deep breath.

The stifling air inside the carriage pierced his lungs like a sharp sword.

"But...why?" he wondered. "What was the mentor's reason for doing this?"

"Is it to use the traffic lights to lure the machine I created there, and then set a trap? No... no, the timing doesn't match up. The traffic lights went berserk two years ago, not recently."

"At that time, the prophet had not yet revealed my existence, and the Salvation Society could not have laid this trap in advance."

"Why does the mentor want to promote the name 'Salvation Society' to the outside world? What is his purpose?" Thinking of this, Black Chrysalis took a few steps back and slowly withdrew the restraints binding Red Light's entire body.

The effects of the "binding mantra" faded, and the traffic light fell asleep once more, slowly closing its eyelids as if relieved of a heavy burden.

Ke Qirui shook her head: "It's a pity, I can't understand anything from those words."

She looked up at the black chrysalis. "And you, Mr. Black Chrysalis?"

The black pupa remained silent.

A moment later, Ke Qirui suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no!"

The black pupa snapped out of its daze, squinted, and observed the traffic lights through its senses via the restraints.

Suddenly, the red light's body twitched again, but the black pupa did not make any move. Instead, it silently took a few steps back, creating an even greater distance between itself and the red light.

Ke Qirui frowned, bent down, and checked the traffic lights through the retro one-way mirror. The traffic lights had now calmed down.

After a while, she slowly raised her head and met the gaze of the black pupa.

“He still has vital signs,” she said, “but he… is brain dead.”

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)