I became Superman

What a pitiful fellow.

She kept saying she didn't care whether it was worth it, but she still rushed towards him like a madwoman, knowing full well that she would die if she did.

He's here to die, isn't he?

Unable to face her own breakdown, she had given her soul, yet failed to achieve her dream of becoming stronger, and instead lost her life as a result.

Good people don't necessarily get good rewards, but bad people don't necessarily get good rewards either.

Fantasizing that you can succeed by becoming worse, and fantasizing that you can succeed by becoming better, are both equally foolish, and the result is mostly just a more complete failure.

Zhou Ming shook his head, deciding to stop thinking about such meaningless questions.

Becoming better or worse doesn't guarantee success, but becoming stronger certainly does.

So this is a meaningless question for him.

Zhou Ming lightly lifted his leg and jumped onto the roof of the building next to him.

While he could feel some sympathy for the young vampire, he utterly loathed the old one.

The outcasts in this world often go inexplicably crazy, spouting things like "outcasts are noble" and "humans are lowly," which he can't understand.

He didn't feel there was much difference between the two; since neither could withstand a punch from him, who could look down on whom?

If he had to say, he felt that Old Zhang downstairs was more noble than these self-important oddballs. After all, Old Zhang could use his meager strength to create things of value, while those oddballs, who possessed stronger abilities, could only destroy.

Zhou Ming looked in the direction the old vampire had fled.

He switched his perspective to X-ray mode.

In his eyes, the world gradually loses its specific colors, becoming transparent, retaining only its essential material structure.

Humans have become walking skeletons, with transparent flesh and blood attached to them.

He discovered that a small percentage of humans have mutated body structures compared to others, and their bodies appear thicker and more obstructive to his vision.

Zhou Ming guessed that this must be an anomaly among humans.

He stretched his gaze forward and finally saw a dark, misty shadow rapidly moving away to the east.

Got you!

Zhou Ming flashed away, leaping in the direction the shadows had fled.

He leaped between buildings in Chengdu, dozens of stories high, as if walking on flat ground.

The night wind whistled past his ears and gently caressed his face.

Zhou Ming felt an indescribable sense of comfort.

This was the first time he had ever been able to roam freely in Chengdu like this.

It turns out that he was always worried about revealing his identity, so he didn't dare to use his abilities recklessly.

Things are different now.

He could easily spot surveillance cameras that might be tracking him, and then a single microwave could disable them.

On the other hand, as his abilities grew stronger, he became less worried about his strength being discovered.

……

Duke transformed into a shadow and sped away to the east, only emerging from the shadows after escaping dozens of miles away.

He looked back in the direction he had come from and, seeing that the guy wasn't chasing him, breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It seems that guy went after Fang Tong.

I hope Fang Tong has good luck; he's definitely not going back to save him anyway.

That guy instilled a chilling sense of threat in him, a gut feeling unique to vampires.

That's why he chose to run away without putting up any resistance.

Duke was quite puzzled.

Who exactly is that guy?

Among the outcasts, the one who could pose such a strong threat to him could not be an unknown figure, and he had never heard of any expert of this caliber in Shu.

In any case, he has no intention of staying in Chengdu any longer.

Anyway, he had planned to leave as soon as possible.

He has already clashed with the people at the Center of the Heretics, and an inspector will be arriving soon. He must leave before the inspector arrives.

Those imperial inspectors were nothing like that hotheaded swordsman.

Duke took a slight breath and continued running eastward.

Half an hour later, he jumped into a park, intending to cross it to continue his journey, when suddenly he felt a chill and abruptly stopped.

A figure blocked his way.

Zhou Ming said, "You've finally arrived. I've been waiting for you for ages."

If he hadn't wanted to avoid making a move in the middle of the city and causing unnecessary casualties, he would have stopped this guy long ago.

Zhou Ming scrutinized Duke's pale, gaunt face and asked curiously, "You must be the legendary vampires, right? Do you really only feed on human blood, or can you also consume the blood of other animals?"

Duke was secretly furious.

He saw only pure curiosity in Zhou Ming's eyes, without the slightest tension or fear of facing a powerful enemy.

It was as if he wasn't facing a powerful and terrifying vampire at all, but a lost child asking where the child's parents were.

This guy clearly doesn't take him seriously at all!

Who does he think he is, some high and mighty alien god?

Unless they are gods, even king-level beings will pay a heavy price if they dare to underestimate him.

Duke was inwardly furious, but on the surface he put on an elegant smile and said, "It's a matter of taste. Other blood can also be consumed, but human blood is more palatable."

As he spoke, he secretly activated his ability.

Around his shadow was a ring of half-light and half-dark shadows, located between light and darkness.

The formal term is penumbra, while the Daoists in the traditional culture of the New Han Empire called it "Wangliang".

Duke's innate ability as a vampire is to become a shadow, and the penumbra, or shaman, surrounding the shadow is trained by him to be a clone.

Today, he left his shadow there, toying with the swordsman.

With just a penumbra, the Sichuan Provincial Center for Extraordinary Beings suffered a humiliating defeat and heavy losses.

At this moment, the semi-circle quietly broke away from Duke's shadow and, under the cover of night, moved towards Zhou Ming's feet.

His penumbra could open his Shadow Purgatory there and drag this reckless fellow into it.

All living things that fall into the shadowy purgatory will have their vitality devoured by the boundless darkness.

This reckless guy will be weakened, while he will be strengthened several times over.

Unless one is a god among outcasts, once one falls into the Shadow Purgatory, there is no way one can leave safely.

He's going to make this guy pay for underestimating him!

"I thought you were forced to drink human blood to survive, but it turns out it's just a matter of taste."

Zhou Ming shook his head and said, "We could have lived in harmony with humans, but instead we deliberately created conflict. Why bother?"

"Do you only find pleasure in conflict and destruction? You are truly a speechless species."

"By the way, what were you doing at Old Zhang's house just now? It was like two worlds were overlapping. Was that your ability?"

Duke was secretly pleased to see that Zhou Ming hadn't noticed his half-shadow and was still asking him all sorts of questions out of curiosity.

He was happy to attract Zhou Ming's attention, which allowed Penumbra to successfully open the Shadow Purgatory.

He laughed and said, "That's not my ability, but the shared ability of all pure-blooded and powerful vampires. This ability comes from the Shadowlands, our common home."

"We can summon the power of the Shadowlands to create a small, temporary Shadowlands. This temporary Shadowlands is like a shadow of the real world, containing everything from the real world. We can control everything in the Shadowlands, while the real world remains completely unaware."