Zhou Lin

Olivia cautiously moved forward in the mansion, but the further she went, the more frightened she felt.

Although she didn't find many corpses, judging from the various traces at the scene, the murderer... looked very much like someone who should no longer exist in this world.

Finally, after searching for about ten minutes, she decided to leave here first.

Because at this moment, she realized belatedly that there was no breath of living people around her.

However……

"Do you think there is still a place where you can go back?"

Jack's voice sounded like a whisper from hell, suddenly coming from behind Olivia.

When she heard the sound, Olivia's whole body stiffened, her pupils shrank, and she turned around suddenly.

"You..." After she confirmed with her naked eyes that the other person was really Jack, her fear burst out uncontrollably, "How could you..."

"Still alive?" Jack grabbed her words, paused, and then continued, "The answer is engraved on my face." He said, pointing to the scar on his face.

"What do you mean?" Olivia didn't understand what Jack said.

"You think my ability is 'time stopping'; broadly speaking, this is correct." Jack said, "But...'time' is a very complicated thing...If you want to be more detailed, the part in your cognition is 'Time stop' actually just stops the 'relative time' that you can perceive in the physical world." He paused for half a second and then said, "But when I am infinitely close to death, my survival instinct will Make my brain do things that even I can't understand..."

"You...stopped 'Absolute Time'?" When Olivia heard this, she probably understood, and her expression became more solemn.

"The moment the first shrapnel from the bomb scratched my face, I saw some... scenes that perhaps should never be seen by humans." Jack continued, "Then I briefly lost consciousness. …When I woke up, I found that my body had only suffered minor injuries, and the wounds had basically healed. Only the scar on my face had become a necrotic, old wound that could not be eliminated.”

"Hmph..." Olivia snorted coldly, "Actually, you just want to tell me that you are not injured now, and it will be easy to deal with me, right?" At this point, red and blue signs appeared on her left and right hands respectively. The two-color light said, "But in my opinion, you are just bluffing... How could you survive that kind of explosion with only minor injuries?"

"Who is bluffing, the person involved knows best." Jack said as he took steps towards the other party.

Chi Chi——

At this moment, Olivia stretched out her hands, and two arcs of light tore through the air, attacking Jack at two tricky angles.

The next second, two bloody hands suddenly fell to the ground.

Jack's figure seemed to teleport and stood in front of Olivia.

"Ah! Ah -" Olivia screamed out due to the severe pain that suddenly erupted in her wrists.

At the same second, two streaks of blood burst out at her knees, causing her to lose the ability to stand.

At this moment, Jack, who was looking at her with a condescending look, saw two bloody sharp blades clearly appearing on the wrists of his hands.

"I found a few old antiques among the things Gallo left behind. They look like relics left by the leaders of Qian Ming a long time ago." Jack glanced down at the hidden sword in his hand and said coldly, " I think it is most appropriate to use them on you, the current leader.”

"What do you know!" Olivia endured the severe pain, pressed the two amputated wrists against her body to stop the bleeding, and crawled staggeringly on the ground, away from Jack, "You know what my father did in order to protect himself? How much Qian Ming has paid! How much has he sacrificed!"

"I don't know, and I'm not interested." Jack stepped closer, "Because the thing your father wants to protect is not Qian Ming, but you..."

Olivia was obviously startled when she heard this, but didn't say anything.

"He may be a well-intentioned father, but this does not mean that he is a qualified Qian Ming leader, nor does it mean that he is a respectable person." Jack continued, "You and your father, in essence, are There is no difference from Gallo...

"All killers know that the real Qian Ming will not succumb to money, power or power, because it is a shadow that guards all living beings and the justice of the world in the dark.

"Qian Ming has never been an inheritance...it is a spirit, and it should be passed on, not inherited.

"But you, your father, and Gallo, you regard it as an entity carrying power and reputation, as your own property... With motives that are completely opposite to Qian Ming's spirit, you use it to Personal will drives it.

“You are supposed to keep people like Bruno awake at night, but now you have become a weapon in his hands.

"Such a Qian Ming, at least in my opinion...has long existed in name only."

Listening to these words, Olivia's face, which became pale due to blood loss, became increasingly angry.

When a person's values ​​are completely denied but cannot be refuted, the anger that bursts out of despair is indescribable.

"What you said is so beautiful..." She was still crawling and sneered, "Huh... you are an outsider, but you are talking to me about the 'spirit of Qianming'?" She roared hysterically, " You know nothing! A belief without strength is a joke! What has Qian Ming experienced over the years...how much do you know? How can an organization that cannot protect itself talk about justice?" She spat, "You yourself So what? Hehe... Didn't you just watch that bitch die in your arms? Did your lofty talk save her? The ideal is that only the strong and the victor are qualified to talk about things! Do you count? "

When Jack heard this, he was silent for a few seconds.

"You're right." He thought for a moment and then said, "I don't count." He paused again, "I'm just a weak loser...

“I mustered up the courage to return to this place that I had been far away from, trying to find a redemption for my heart.

“This idea itself is selfish, despicable and weak.

"Sinners always try to use opportunistic ways to eliminate their guilt, and use self-deceptive logic to make themselves feel forgiven...

"But the fact is that what happened will not change; the sins that have been committed cannot be eliminated.

"So, I will no longer be entangled with the 'past'. If there is a way for me to be saved, it will be in the future..."

Olivia didn't talk to him anymore, she just crawled on the ground silently; because she had lost too much blood, even though as a person with abilities, her physique was much stronger than ordinary people, she was almost reaching her limit.

"Although I have asked you once, I think you didn't understand..." Jack looked at her for a few seconds and repeated the first words he said when he saw her, "Do you think... it's okay?" A place for you to go back to?"

This time, Olivia understood.

So she stopped moving and froze in place.

In fact, this was something she should have thought of the moment she confirmed that Jack was still alive - why would the other party know her whereabouts? Only her subordinates should know that she came to visit Bruno, so obviously... Jack had already visited her assassins before coming here. In other words...most of those people are no longer in this world.

"You...you..." Olivia was almost speechless, but she still turned over in grief, crawled towards Jack, and murmured with her bloodless lips He said, "...This is unreasonable... Do you know what you are doing? I want to kill you... I want..."

Her life is coming to an end, but her obsession is still tormenting her.

Jack knelt on one knee, supported Olivia, who was basically defenseless, with one hand, and allowed the other party to hit his shoulder with a bloody wrist with bones exposed.

"Of course I know what I am doing. I have never known so clearly who I am and the meaning of what I am doing." Jack said, "The person who still doesn't understand... is you."

"Cough...cough..." At this moment, Olivia's hand finally dropped to the ground weakly and could no longer be lifted up.

Tears of despair flowed from her eyes, and her pupils gradually became hollow.

"Those who are not bound by the rules will naturally not be protected by the rules..." Jack said, holding the other person in his arms with one hand, and slowly raising the other hand, "Those who serve the light must have The consciousness of committing oneself to darkness..." He put his hidden sword to the side of Olivia's neck, "I will eliminate your sins and bear them..."

The next second, the hidden sword pierced Olivia's throat, ending her short life.

The death of the girl did not change Jack's firm and cold eyes. He just put away his hidden blade and silently walked towards the empty corridor ahead.

"Under the killing god's blade, everything becomes useless."

“My sins pass away with me, but my creed endures forever.”