Chapter 1015: Replication

The Silver King frowned slightly. He stared at Chen Ling's calm eyes and found that he 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 had better keep this mindset until the end." The Silver King turned and left.

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

Bang—

As the door of the confessional was closed.

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

……

The Silver King left the confessional and went straight into another room.

On a dim bench, a figure wearing a messy black robe sat powerlessly. He clutched his head in pain, his hair looking like a bird's nest he had messed up himself, sloppy and disheveled.

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

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

The Silver King glanced at him, sat down beside him casually, and sighed as he watched his struggling and painful appearance...

"So, you haven't even slept in the few days I've been gone?"

"I can't sleep..." Lou Yu's voice trembled. "Every time I close my eyes, the souls imprisoned in the Philosopher's Stone appear in my dreams... I can see how each of them died, feel the way they look at me...

I don't know why this is happening... I didn't want to kill them...

I'm just a researcher who locks himself in the lab 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 malice, really... I don't know why things turned out like this...

The sins on me are too heavy; I feel like I... don't recognize myself anymore...

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

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

Watching the nearly insane Lou Yu in front of him, the Silver King smiled gently, and a white light flashed before him.

The next moment,

The "rationality" and "courage" he had stolen returned to Lou Yu's mind.

Before leaving the Wuji Domain, the Silver King had specifically stolen Lou Yu's "rationality" and "courage." He knew that Lou Yu in a state of absolute calmness wasn't that easy to control, and if he didn't prepare in advance, no one knew what Lou Yu would do during that time.

But Lou Yu, having lost his "rationality" and "courage," was just a coward with no threat.

As the two returned to his mind, Lou Yu's hideous and painful expression gradually returned to calmness, as if he were a different person, and he slowly brushed his messy hair back into place...

He sat down beside the Silver King with an expressionless face.

He rested one elbow on the back of the bench and wiped the armrest with his other hand. A cigarette appeared out of thin air at his fingertips, which he held in the corner of his mouth and lit automatically.

As he took a deep breath, the orange fire ignited at the tip of the cigarette, and the hazy smoke drifted in the dimness. A faint weariness and fatigue radiated from Lou Yu's brow;

"You didn't have to do that if you wanted to control me." He spoke slowly. "You could have stolen my abilities or made me fall into a deep sleep or something... Stealing 'rationality' and 'courage' is a bit too twisted."

"The Nine Lords' abilities aren't the God Path, so I can't steal them, and I don't have a way to make a demigod fall into an absolute deep sleep." The Silver King glanced at him from the corner of his eye, a strange smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "Besides, I really wanted to see... what the real you would look like without the support of absolute rationality."

Lou Yu didn't answer. He took a deep drag of the smoke. Even though nicotine could no longer affect his body, his expression did relax slightly.

"How far has the matter progressed?"

"The final step."

"What do you need me to do?"

The Silver King touched his pocket, and a black USB flash drive appeared at his fingertips out of thin air.

He tossed the flash drive to Lou Yu, who caught it and examined it carefully, his brows furrowing slightly...

"What is this?"

"The Twilight Society's era archive. This is the one in the Gray King's hands, codenamed [Morality]."

"The Gray King?" Lou Yu raised an eyebrow. "You went out on this trip just to get this? Since this thing is in your hands, then the Gray King..."

The Silver King smiled faintly.

He waved his hand, and a head rolled out from the void behind him, stopping on the ground with a thud.

It was a woman's head, her ink-black hair like a waterfall spread out on the ground. Her pale face had her eyes closed, as if she were in a deep sleep, but she had lost all signs of life.

"Back then, I was hunted by this woman across several domains. She thought she had the upper hand, but she didn't expect that everything was a trap I had laid." A hint of reminiscence appeared in the Silver King's eyes.

"She had her 'Dao Fruit' for God Path self-verification stolen by me. I ascended to the position of demigod in one step, seizing all the secrets of heaven, and she was severely injured. If it weren't for the Red King saving her back then, the Gray King of the Twilight Society might have been replaced...

She has been recuperating well in the Ancient Prostitution Treasury all these years and almost threatened my life, but it's a pity... she will never become a demigod in this lifetime, so naturally, she won't be my opponent."

Lou Yu wasn't interested in the Silver King's past; he just glanced at the Gray King's head and withdrew his gaze.

Lou Yu held the USB drive up to his eyes seriously, his pupils like a changing spectrum, radiating a mysterious glimmer, as if analyzing the composition of the object... Then, as if discovering something, surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Could this thing be..."

"Mm." The Silver King said leisurely. "The Twilight Society only has three of these in total... If nothing goes wrong, [Origin] should be in the Red King's hands, [Lingbao] is still missing, and the only one I could get is this [Morality].

But you should know the function of this thing. If we could have more in our hands, we would be able to gain a greater advantage... I gave this to you to see if it's possible to replicate it?"

"...It's difficult, very difficult." Lou Yu paused for a moment. "But I can try."

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

"Very good."

He stood up slowly and was about to walk out.

"Where are you going again?" Lou Yu asked, squinting.

The Silver King looked back at him,

"To the vicinity of the Red Dust Domain; there is still a 'big gift' hidden there... isn't there?"