bacchusnovels Chapter 187 I Choose to Believe in You
Chapter 187 I Choose to Believe in You
Xu Sheng lay by the wall, completely unaware that the cursed spider above him, which had been on guard, had fallen silent. It wasn't dead; it had been retracted. Only one person could have done that: Xu Sheng himself.
"You seem quite relaxed."
A voice rang out, and Xu Sheng immediately stood up alertly, wondering why the cursed spider hadn't warned him.
After he sensed it, he discovered that the cursed spider had vanished!
Moreover, the voice was very familiar, but it was so sudden that he couldn't immediately place it.
"Your task is complete; now I'll take over."
"Who are you?" Xu Sheng asked sharply. He had never heard of any mission.
"Me?" The person in the darkness stepped out upon hearing this, and Xu Sheng's face was filled with disbelief when he saw it.
She was so startled that she took two steps back, even more surprised and incredulous than when she had seen Salam before.
"you·
"What's wrong with me?" Fu Dao chuckled.
Xu Sheng's mind raced, and he quickly understood.
He let out a long sigh of relief and relaxed a little: "How did you get out?"
"Just come out like that. Of course I have my own plans. This ancient tomb is only of so much use. Once you understand the principles, it's very easy to leave." The other person smiled.
"My reason for being here is simple: your mission is complete, it's time for you to leave. With you here, I can't really unleash my full potential."
Xu Sheng squinted and remained silent for a moment before asking, "What—what is my plan?"
"Kill the Nine-Headed Serpent."
"Kill Jiuying," Xu Sheng murmured, not understanding why his goal was to kill Jiuying.
The other party was not anyone else, but Xu Sheng, or perhaps the Xu Sheng here was a fake, and the one on the other side was the real Xu Sheng. His original body, which should have been dormant, had been revived, but no one knew how.
Moreover, the memories of his true self and his fake self are different. The fake Xu Sheng may hate Jiu Ying, but at most he just can't stand it. The real Xu Sheng, on the other hand, wants to kill Jiu Ying.
The murderous aura was still very strong, which left Xu Sheng somewhat confused.
"My memories—haven't they all returned?"
Or is the memory false?
His association with the forgetful insect suggests that perhaps there was a mistake there.
"Don't understand? Anyway, you're going to disappear soon, so there's no problem telling you. I've been holding this in for a long time." Xu Sheng chuckled and then began to speak.
"Your memory is that Jiuying led you to join the Black Vatican, but what about your memories before joining the Black Vatican?"
The fake Xu Sheng was taken aback. He seemed to have no memory of that time. His earliest memory was of meeting Jiu Ying, while the memory of the dead insect before it recovered was of having a happy family.
"You don't remember, that's normal, because I have two forgetfulness worms in my head, while you've at least removed the memory of one of the dead worms."
After hearing what the other party said, Xu Sheng felt somewhat incredulous. Jiu Ying killed his family, and he didn't know why. But Jiu Ying later chose to bring Xu Sheng to join the Black Church. Xu Sheng didn't know this before, but after gaining his memories, he used the Forgetfulness Worm to seal his memories.
He investigated and sealed off section by section, and then, with the help of others, he regained all his memories. Because Jiuying killed his family, he decided to kill Jiuying.
However, there is still a question before that: why did Jiuying kill his family but not him, and why did he bring him to join the Black Church afterward?
"So—have you figured it out?" Xu Sheng asked.
The other person smiled and replied, "No."
"Then—"—"How will you prove you're the original?" Xu Sheng took a breath and jumped back a step.
At this moment, he had already prepared the magic.
Is this the real Xu Sheng or the fake Xu Sheng?
No one could say for sure, but Xu Sheng didn't think he was the fake one. On the contrary, he thought the person who had talked so much was the fake one. Therefore, he wasn't going to sit idly by and wait for his doom.
"You really are—"—you can't even tell the difference between truth and falsehood anymore. The other person sighed, then slowly walked towards Xu Sheng.
Ten minutes later, a charred body lay on the ground.
"It's just a fake, an illusion. Why make it so complicated when you can just die peacefully?" Xu Sheng said, somewhat speechless.
He defeated his opponent; the real demon is always more powerful than the fake one. He accepted Xu Sheng's memories here, his consciousness becoming somewhat hazy.
This Xu Sheng is very different from his memory; they are like two completely different people.
"Is it Jiuying's doing again?" Xu Sheng murmured, looking at the center of these treasures.
It was a pure black bell—a pylon.
"This thing is useless now," Xu Sheng laughed, then turned and left. He had already struck it once; the Nether Bell had moved here after being struck, and he had no intention of striking it again.
Moreover—Xu Sheng can't crack this thing now, and he's more likely to get himself involved.
After retracting his false identity, Xu Sheng felt incredibly powerful.
Without exaggeration, Xu Sheng is now more powerful than most top-tier mages.
He was already quite powerful before he took it back, but he will only become stronger after taking it back; this is his strongest form.
Only by going to find Jiuying in his current state can Xu Sheng be confident of killing him, but he is not prepared to do it alone.
The white-robed general is an ally.
The help of a powerful monarch is very important.
Human mages and demons cannot be equated. Even though Xu Shengqiang is now almost invincible among human mages except for forbidden spells, he still doesn't know who is stronger when facing the white-robed general. Against Wu Anjun, he would most likely be defeated.
This is why he wanted to unite with the Hundred-Robed Generals.
"Have you found the Nine-Headed Serpent?" Xu Sheng asked the white-robed corpse general.
He remained in the deep pit that Garuda had previously created.
"No, Jiuying has disappeared."
Xu Sheng frowned at the white-robed general's words. Missing? What the hell? Did Jiuying discover him?
No, that's impossible. Jiuying couldn't possibly have discovered it.
"Don't worry, it's normal that we can't find the Nine-Headed Serpent. Do you really expect a cardinal to die so easily?" the white-robed corpse general reminded him.
"Indeed, I was too hasty." Cardinals are indeed difficult to kill, and this Nine-Headed Serpent is even more so.
Only Jiuying could be so lively and energetic after living for four or five decades.
"The Nether Bell caused a spatial collapse, and many creatures from the dark dimension rushed in. We haven't seen them yet..."
"There are quite a few henchmen; you can go and ask if they've seen those things." The white-robed corpse general gave him a suggestion that wasn't really a suggestion.
"Can you make it in time?" Xu Sheng asked, not wanting anything to go wrong at this crucial moment.
"It's all covered." The white-robed corpse general was very confident. He had been here for a thousand years. If he couldn't even travel quickly, he might as well die while the drought was still alive.
"I choose to believe you."