Chapter 1015: Replication

Replication

The Silver King frowned slightly. He gazed at Chen Ling's calm pupils, finding that he actually couldn't guess what the other party was thinking... His calmness and indifference always gave the Silver King a feeling that something was wrong.

"You'd best be able to maintain this state of mind the entire time." The Silver King turned around and left,

"For the next three days, just stay here... and wait for death."

Bang——

As the doors of the Confessional were closed.

On the blood-red cross, Chen Ling's eyes slowly closed.

...

After leaving the Confessional, the Silver King directly entered another room.

"What... have I done..."

Lou Yu's eyes were full of bloodshot veins, as if he hadn't slept for several days and nights, ferociously staring at his own hands.

The Silver King cast a glance at him and casually sat down beside him. Looking at his struggling and painful appearance, he let out a long sigh...

"So, in the past few days that I was gone, you haven't even slept?"

"I can't sleep..." Lou Yu's voice trembled slightly. "As soon as I close my eyes, those souls imprisoned in the Philosopher's Stones surge into my dreams... I can see how every one of them died, and feel the way they looked at me...

I don't know why it turned out like this... I didn't want to kill them...

I'm just a researcher who locks myself in the laboratory every day. I don't like dealing with people... After becoming stronger, I just wanted to save as many people as possible... I have no malicious intent, really... I don't know why things became like this...

The sins on my body are too heavy. It's as if I... no longer recognize myself...

I've tried committing suicide these past few days, but no matter what I do, I won't die... Hanging, slitting my wrists, even self-immolation, flames can't ignite on my body... This body makes me feel terror... My soul is housed in a non-carbon-based biological shell, I don't even know if I can still be considered a human..."

As Lou Yu spoke, he scratched his skin almost frantically, as if wanting to tear open his chest and let his soul break free from inside. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't leave a single trace on his skin.

Looking at the almost maddened Lou Yu before him, the Silver King chuckled lightly, and a white light flashed in front of him.

The next moment,

The "Rationality" and "Courage" that he had stolen returned to Lou Yu's mind.

Before leaving the Wuji Domain, the Silver King had specially stolen Lou Yu's "Rationality" and "Courage". He knew that Lou Yu in a state of absolute calmness wouldn't be that easy to control. If he didn't make preparations beforehand, who knew what Lou Yu would do during this period.

But a Lou Yu who lost "Rationality" and "Courage" was just a threatless coward.

As the two returned to his mind, Lou Yu's ferocious and painful expression gradually recovered its calm. As if he had changed into a different person, he slowly brushed his messy strands of hair back into place...

He sat down expressionlessly beside the Silver King.

He rested one elbow on the back of the bench and swept his other hand over the armrest. A cigarette appeared out of thin air between his fingertips, which he placed in his mouth and automatically lit.

As he took a deep breath, the orange firelight ignited at the tip of the cigarette, and the hazy smoke scattered in the dimness. Between Lou Yu's brows, a faint trace of weariness and exhaustion exuded;

"If you want to control me, there's no need to do it like this." He spoke slowly. "You could have just stolen my abilities, or put me into a deep sleep or something... Stealing 'Rationality' and 'Courage' is a bit too much of an evil hobby."

"The abilities of the Nine Monarchs are not Divine Paths, I cannot steal them. Nor do I have a way to make a Demigod fall into an absolute deep sleep." The Silver King caught sight of him from the corner of his eye, a bizarre smile curving up at the corner of his mouth. "Moreover, I also really wanted to see... what the real you... looks like after losing the support of absolute rationality."

Lou Yu didn't reply. He took a deep drag of smoke. Even though nicotine could no longer have any effect on his body, his expression indeed relaxed slightly.

"Which step has the matter progressed to?"

"The final step."

"What do you need me to do?"

The Silver King reached into his clothes with his fingertips, and a black USB Drive appeared out of thin air.

He casually tossed that USB Drive to Lou Yu. The latter caught it, examined it carefully for a few glances, and frowned slightly...

"What is this?"

"The Dusk Society's Timeline Save File. This is the one in the Grey King's hands, codenamed [Morality]."

"Grey King?" Lou Yu raised his brow. "Your trip out this time was just to get this thing? Since this thing is in your hands, then the Grey King..."

The Silver King smiled faintly.

With a casual wave of his hand, a head tumbled down from the void behind him, rolling and stopping on the ground.

That was a woman's head. Her ink-like black hair fell like a waterfall onto the ground. The pair of closed eyes on her pale face made her look as if she were in a deep slumber, but she already didn't have the slightest trace of vitality.

"Back then, I was hunted by this woman across several Realms. She thought she had the absolute upper hand, but couldn't guess that everything was a trap laid by me." A look of reminiscence surfaced in the Silver King's eyes,

"I seized her 'Dao Fruit' from her Divine Path Certification, taking a step to ascend to the Demigod Position and stealing all her heavenly secrets. Her vitality was severely injured. If the Red King hadn't intervened and rescued her back then, perhaps the Dusk Society's Grey King would have had to be replaced...

Over these years, she had recuperated quite well in the Ancient Vault of the Courtesan Path, almost threatening my life. Unfortunately... she would never become a Demigod in this lifetime, so naturally she wouldn't be my opponent."

Lou Yu wasn't interested in the Silver King's past. He merely glanced at the Grey King's head and withdrew his gaze.

Lou Yu seriously raised the USB Drive before his eyes. His pupils were like a shifting spectrum, emitting a mysterious faint light, as if analyzing the composition of this thing... Then, as if discovering something, astonishment flashed through his eyes.

"Could this thing be..."

"Yes." The Silver King spoke leisurely. "The Dusk Society only has a total of three of these things in their hands... If nothing unexpected happens, [Primal Beginning] should be in the Red King's hands, [Lingbao]'s whereabouts are still unknown, and the only one I could get my hands on is this [Morality].

But you should be clear about the function of this thing. If we could have more in our hands, we would be able to occupy a greater advantage... I'm giving this thing to you because I want you to see if it's possible to replicate it?"

"... Very difficult, extremely difficult." Lou Yu paused for a moment. "But I can try."

A smile curved up at the corner of the Silver King's mouth.

"Very good."

He slowly stood up and was about to walk outside.

"Where are you going again?" Lou Yu narrowed his eyes and asked.

The Silver King glanced back at him,

"Going near the Red Dust Domain. A 'big gift' is still hidden there... isn't it?"