I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

A voice filled with malice and pleasure echoed in his ears.

The road ahead seemed to be twisting and deforming, turning into an endless spiral, and at the bottom of this spiral was darkness from which nothing could be seen, as if it wanted to completely devour everything.

"Fall into the abyss, plunge into the abyss."

"Your hope is long gone; all that's left is despair."

"The one you love is dead, the one you care about is gone, your family, your relatives, all the good things in this world have been destroyed."

"That's right, you don't deserve happiness. You're all alone now, all alone..."

That sound, that sound...

Struggling against the extreme exhaustion and pain in his body, Li Cheng almost ground his teeth to powder, squeezing out two words, one by one, in an extremely angry tone:

"Yes! It's you!"

A suppressed laugh seemed to come from the darkness.

The next moment, Li Cheng, finally unable to withstand the impact of exhaustion and chaos, collapsed to the ground. After struggling in vain, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

……

Where is this place?

When I opened my eyes, it was still pitch black.

Li Cheng was stunned for a second or two before finally recovering from his previous strange state.

A distinct smell of rust filled his nostrils. Instinctively, Li Cheng took a step forward, only to find that the smell had become even stronger, almost suffocating, as if it were stuck in his throat.

Ah, so this is the place.

After his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, under the faint moonlight outside the window, Li Cheng was finally able to see his surroundings.

The old-fashioned wardrobe, so familiar it couldn't be more so, its stickers already yellowed; the balcony, so familiar it couldn't be more so, with its scattered flowerpots; the hardboard bed, so familiar it couldn't be more so, and the person lying on it, staining the entire bed blood red.

"Mom, you're still here..."

With a slight sigh in his voice, yet clearly tinged with nostalgia, Li Cheng calmly walked forward, sat down on the edge of the bed, and gently placed his hand on the forehead of the woman lying quietly on the bed.

The room was in disarray, the bedside table was overturned, and blood had stained the originally light blue sheets a deep red. In the very center of the bed lay a woman with a dagger piercing her chest and two or three bloody gashes on her stomach, lying quietly with her eyes closed as if she were asleep.

Just like what he saw years ago when he emerged from the wardrobe where the criminals had escaped.

The thick blood emitted a foul, rusty smell, and the corpse on the bed, like a melted wax figure, along with the entire bed and the room, slowly turned into a chaotic, twisted mess.

Low, muffled laughter murmured in this distorted world of interwoven light and shadow.

"Oh, have you heard? He's an orphan. His mother was murdered. I heard that before she died, she was... well, you know what I mean?"

"Oh really? I heard that they were... you know... done after they died?"

"It's really pitiful that such a young person has experienced something like this."

"Yes, that's really pitiful."

"Speaking of which, why did they specifically target his mother instead of killing anyone else? It's quite possible that his mother herself had some kind of problem, right?"

"That's true, wasn't she supposed to be a widow? Haha, could it be..."

Countless eyes emerged from the distorted surroundings of Li Cheng, secretly watching him with pity or curiosity, whispering among themselves, recounting their malicious words that they thought would go unnoticed, etching them into Li Cheng's heart again and again.

What...?

"Do you think that by replaying all my past experiences in my life, you can break me down?"

Without anger or sadness, Li Cheng's expression remained calm throughout.

"Your ideals originated from fear, which then transformed into grief and anger. You suffered from the fear and cowardice you felt at the moment your mother died, and thus you wanted to become stronger. The root of this motivation to become stronger is that you don't want to be as powerless as you were at the beginning when you encounter similar situations again."

The voice rang out slowly and deliberately, seemingly without any emotional fluctuation.

"But in the end, you didn't protect any of the people you wanted to protect. You lost everyone you cared about, and in the end, you were all alone."

Li Cheng did not respond to the other party, but simply reached out and struck the distorted world before him. After a sound like shattering glass, all the distortion suddenly disappeared, and the world returned to darkness.

A collapsed ruin appeared before Li Cheng's eyes.

The piercing sound of police sirens filled the air, and I could almost see people running back and forth. Cries and screams echoed in the air, and an extremely pungent smell of smoke continued to spread.

"You thought you could protect your lover, but she ended up dying in an accident."

As the ruins dissipated, his uncle's house, where he had lived for many years, appeared in the darkness. Now it was covered in dust, the furniture was rotten, and the pots and pans were rusty, as if it had been abandoned for many years.

"You thought you could protect your family, but in the end they all disappeared, and not one of them survived."

Finally, the scene changes to a square under a snowy night, where a young girl is groaning in pain, dragging her bloodied legs as she crawls slowly across the snow, leaving a trail of crimson blood behind her.

Li Cheng stared blankly at the girl who was sobbing and crawling forward, his expression unchanged, but his own hand trembled slightly at his side.

"tide..."

His mouth, almost completely frozen, managed to squeeze out her name, but it took almost all of his strength.

He once wanted to live a good life with her, and he once wanted to give her everything he could, but in the end, all he saw was her frozen body in the morgue.

"You can't protect anything, you can't safeguard anything. You were a mistake from the very beginning. No matter how hard you try, your final fate is to lose everything."

Twisted darkness seeped in from all around the body, and the voice was filled with intense malice, like a devil enjoying human tragedy, treating all pain and misery as a pleasurable spectacle.

Every pitiful and miserable person is his perfect entertainment, and he, who enjoys all of this, considers himself a noble savior, constantly creating more tragedies.

However, he now needed a new body, because if he died, he could no longer appreciate or create the beautiful scenery he loved. Although the eerie blonde girl nearly destroyed his consciousness, she didn't seem to be skilled in mental powers, so he managed to escape with some remnants.

Now, with that girl gone, he has recuperated and regained some of his strength, and has finally found an opportunity once again.

Come, you worthless wretch, give me your life. Your existence only proves you are a mistake, for everything you love will be destroyed. Therefore, abandon your flawed life, give me everything, and let me go save (destroy) more people.

"Should I call you crazy, or shameless? You're the one who stole her away, yet you have the audacity to tell me I shouldn't exist and that I'm wrong?"

Li Cheng raised his head, his face full of a mocking smile and suppressed anger.

"No matter how wrong I am, it's not your place to replace me, you bastard."

Moreover, I made a promise with her that I would protect her until everything I own was gone.

"You can't resist. This is my territory."

The other party clearly didn't care about Li Cheng's answer, or rather, for that being, nothing was worth caring about except for its own favorite entertainment. All images vanished without a trace, leaving only an extreme darkness that swept over Li Cheng's body, rolling him deeper and deeper into his consciousness.

He was determined to destroy Li Cheng's entire will.

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Chapter 15, Section 232: Zi once said

Loss, constant loss, and finally despair, until you can no longer believe in any happiness.

To continue living like a walking corpse, to escape the place where they once lived, to pretend that nothing has happened, and to just continue living instinctively.

Such people have long since lost all the color of life; their minds can be easily destroyed and their consciousness replaced. This is because they have long since lost the will to strive for survival.

Therefore, he firmly believed that he would be able to take over the other person's body, because the other person's will had already been severely damaged and could not possibly overcome him, who already possessed special mental abilities.

But the next moment, he let out an incredulous roar.

"No, impossible! How can you still resist me? You should have already collapsed, you should have been completely lost in the illusion!"

Surrounded by a dark vortex, Li Cheng narrowed his eyes, a faint smile playing at the corners of his lips.

"It's quite a surprise to hear you make such an outrageous sound."

A faint light emanated from within him, and Li Cheng stood amidst the raging torrent of deep darkness, yet remained completely unaffected.

"Impossible! Impossible! This shouldn't be happening at all!"

The shadowy figure, completely engulfed in madness, just kept roaring and didn't respond to Li Cheng's words at all, as if it had gone completely insane.

"If it were me a year ago, I would probably have been easily defeated by you..."

Li Cheng muttered to himself, and the faint light emanating from his body began to grow brighter.

But now, I still have obligations and responsibilities to fulfill, and promises to keep. Therefore, I will not die here.

"Why...why you..."

"The reason why the realm of light and darkness exists is because light and darkness cannot be completely separated. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make me submit with absolute darkness."

Like melting wax, the darkness surrounding Li Cheng began to slowly disappear and collapse. And the voice that was already on the verge of collapse began to scream involuntarily.

"Waaaaaahh ...

What? That sound is so awful and grating! So even a completely twisted and deranged serial killer like him makes such ugly noises when he's about to die?

"You're behaving so badly now. It makes me feel ridiculous that I was all so bitter and resentful at the beginning."

Li Cheng sighed, and the light emanating from his body began to intensify.

"Speaking of which, I heard Zi solemnly say the concept of the Light and Darkness in her memories. Ah, speaking of which, considering Zi's status as a sage, shouldn't it be said that 'Zi once said it'? Haha, I feel like I told a really bad joke."

Moreover, this statement makes Zi seem like a learned old lady, although she is indeed quite old from a human age perspective. You know, the memory that belongs to Zi is so long that Li Cheng can't remember exactly how many years have passed.

I feel a bit cold, and it feels like there's a pair of kind eyes watching me from behind. What's going on? Is it just my imagination? Ah, it must be my imagination.

"...Ah, it shouldn't be like this...it shouldn't be like this..."

Under the increasingly intense light, the already fragile consciousness became extremely weak and began to collapse and disintegrate. The once proud voice was now barely audible, and it could hardly utter a complete sentence.

"...No, it shouldn't be like this...it hurts...I was right..."

"Keep going...kill...kill more...ah...it hurts..."

"...Why...who am I...?"

"Mom...it hurts...go home..."

The sounds grew increasingly chaotic and weak, until even Li Cheng could barely hear them. The darkness around him gradually dissipated, and the man who had committed countless horrific atrocities finally disintegrated into a mass of basic spiritual energy. From that moment on, this man ceased to exist; both his body and spirit vanished completely from the world.