Shen Run is an office drone.
Fresh out of college, she joined an outsourcing company, working like a beast of burden: two days off a month, phone on 24/7, delayed wages a common occurrence, a...
Chapter 8 Chapter 8 The Leader's Past
The schedule stated that Chi Shuangliu had to go to bed on time at 8 o'clock - in fact, it didn't matter what time he went to bed, but it was the same as training a dog. Lu Kuo believed that his obedience had to be enhanced through training.
So Shen Run dutifully waited until he got into bed, fluffed his pillow, and covered him with the quilt before clocking out.
According to Chi Shuangliu's instructions, Bai Miao was on night shift today. Under her shocked gaze, Chi Shuangliu lifted the quilt and stood up, turning on the computer in the living room - the computer was originally prepared for Chen Run so that she could record Chi Shuangliu's physical data in a timely manner.
He pressed the power button on the host computer, slowly moved the mouse to open the browser, and like the old man, he typed text one finger at a time.
Bai Miao: “…”
No, the evil god can use a computer?? He can even type in Pinyin??
She felt as shocked as if her great-grandfather had opened his coffin and was surfing the Internet.
What shocked her even more was yet to come. Chi Shuangliu quickly became familiar with the use of the computer. His fingertips tapped lightly on the mechanical keyboard, and he quickly entered key terms such as "six insurances and one fund", "housing provident fund", "company salary and benefits", "establishment", "party activist", etc., and searched for them one by one.
He scrolled the mouse and carefully browsed the searched information.
Humans and evil gods do not share the same joys and sorrows. Bai Miao only felt fear, and her cold and world-weary face was stunned by the shock.
What's going on? Are you thinking your job as a parasol is unstable and you're planning to take the civil service exam to harm the government? At your age, you're still thinking about joining the system. Is this the most beautiful sunset of your life?
What is this? A re-employment campaign for the old man? Does the evil god actually have a shining red heart?
Bai Miao thought he was hallucinating because he stayed up too late, and was about to enlarge the screen for a closer look when Chi Shuangliu seemed to sense something, raised his eyes slightly, and glanced at the surveillance camera.
The gaze from the higher-dimensional creature made Bai Miao's heart tighten. She quickly suppressed her curiosity, turned off the screen and dared not look around.
The competitive evil god could not accept the fact that he was stumped by a human. After getting the information he wanted, Chi Shuangliu turned off the computer thoughtfully.
The reason why he paid special attention to Shen Run was because he smelled a trace of pure Chi clan bloodline from Shen Run.
His dispute with the Chi clan began thousands of years ago.
He is a god sleeping in the higher-dimensional universe. He himself cannot tell whether he created the universe or the universe created him. After almost eternity, the higher-dimensional universe also came to an end and began to collapse and destroy. In this cosmic explosion, he was severely damaged and his remaining strength was reduced to a hundredth.
He needed a quiet place to heal his wounds, and after traveling through one timeline after another, he came to the Earth in a lower dimension. At that time, his condition was so bad that he could not control his own power. His arrival was a disaster for the natives of this planet. Many people would suffer inexplicable disasters just by looking at him or even indirectly knowing of his existence.
It cannot be described, cannot be looked at directly, and cannot be defined.
Fortunately, this planet also has patronizing gods. This is an era where gods and humans coexist, and those gods joined forces to seal him - he didn't feel anything about this. At that time, he was still absolutely rational, and the Earth gods had good reasons to seal him.
Soon, accidents began to happen - human civilization evolved from a matriarchal civilization of picking, farming and weaving to a feudal, autocratic, patriarchal society. The process of men stealing power was brutal and bloody. Soon, blood covered the land. The gods tried to save it, but they could not fight against the will of heaven. In the end, they abandoned humans and ascended to a higher dimension.
Humans lost the protection of gods, so they tried to recreate gods through cultivation. However, no matter how hard humans tried, they could not compare with the true gods born from chaos.
At this time, Chi Shi found him through clues left by the gods. He called himself the Great Wizard and asked Chi Shuangliu to give him power. In exchange, after he achieved the great way, he would find a way to release Chi Shuangliu from the seal and set him free.
Chi Shuangliu agreed to his request and gave him powers far beyond those of ordinary people, or in modern terms, "superpowers."
Facts have proved that Chi Shuangliu did not know what human nature was at that time.
Ten years later, what he waited for was not freedom, but a massacre.
Chi Shi cultivated himself through human sacrifice and blood feeding, and his power grew stronger and stronger. He brought the strong men of the tribe to the sealed place of Chi Shuangliu, but had no intention of fulfilling his promise.
——They found a better place for Chi Shuangliu, their intestines.
To gain greater power, they devoured him.
They managed to extract his spiritual body, but since the spiritual body of a higher-dimensional god could not be destroyed, they could only set up restrictions, build witch temples, and use the power of faith to suppress and weaken him from generation to generation.
At that time, Chi Shuangliu still had a trace of consciousness left. He just watched his body being skinned, dismembered and eaten.
——Hatred, anger, pain, rage, these were the emotions he felt for the first time.
Cruelty, bloodiness, greed, deception, and betrayal are his basic impressions of human beings.
In the thousands of years that followed, this basic understanding was not broken, but instead continued to be reinforced.
Because of the bloody methods of ruling, the Chi clan was finally eliminated by other tribes a hundred years later. However, this witch temple was preserved and became a secret known only to emperors, generals and some specific people. This secret was passed down from generation to generation.
No one knows when it started, but these people would come to the witch temple to make wishes, making countless dirty, dark, and shameful wishes.
He had seen his father, in pursuit of huge profits, push his children into a cauldron of boiling water and have everyone share the food, performing a human sacrifice.
He had seen a husband who, in order to marry a rich man, slandered his wife for having an affair with her lover in a temple. He then caught his unconscious wife, spread hay on her, and set her on fire, burning her to death.
He had seen rulers, in order to stabilize their regime, expend manpower and material resources to forge the supreme bronze tripod, and push dozens of slaves into the forging pool, euphemistically calling it the artifact forged with human blood.
The sun and the moon rotate as usual, the seasons change as usual, but humans always have new ways to torment their own kind. In this protracted drama, they finally become corrupt and decadent. They learn to cheat, to pretend, to hurt, to kill and... to take revenge.
Initially, he did not have the ability to arouse human desires, but as humans poured blood day after day, he gained this ability. However, due to the prohibitions set by the Chi clan, he could not attack humans directly.
——But the restriction is not completely without loopholes. He can only fight back when humans have evil thoughts towards him, so he uses the power of desire to arouse the malice in people's hearts. In such hunting, his strength is finally able to slowly recover, but it is still not enough to break through the restriction.
More than ten years ago, the earth was hit by a huge meteorite shower. The temple that sealed him was loosened by the meteorite. He seized the opportunity to leave, and used the accumulated power to forge a body for himself that completely conforms to human aesthetics. Then he leveraged the cause and effect, attracted the Parasol Company, and finished the last thing. Then he fell asleep with peace of mind.
After waking up, he realized that humans had entered a civilized society. He had thought there would be some new things - but in fact, the opposite was true. Humans were still the same as they had been for thousands of years.
As Lu Kuo's father grew older, he saw hope for eternal life in Chi Shuangliu, but was later frightened by his power and tried every means to destroy him.
Lu Kuo is an ambitious capitalist who has been trying to participate in politics and seize power. He has used capital to manipulate the internal affairs of many small countries, making the people of many countries live in dire straits, and thus has caused countless enemies. In order to save his life and to manipulate the political arena, he has always longed to master a power similar to nuclear deterrence. Although he knows that Chi Shuangliu is extremely dangerous, he still tries every means to tame him.
In order to cure her genetic disease, Bai Miao did not hesitate to use some low-level psychics and ordinary people as drug testing tools. Because of her arrogance and indifference, she eventually became a cursed slave.
The fifth A-class warrior died of lust, and the seventh S-class warrior wanted to break through the level, so he used his supernatural powers to try to devour him.
Desire breeds malice, and these people are either killed by him or become his slaves.
Everyone is like this, so why should Shen Run be an exception?
——Not to mention that she is a descendant of the Chi clan, the descendant of the Chi clan who is insidious and vicious and will do anything to gain power.
He needs to control Shen Run, find a way to unlock the ban, and then... wipe out the human race and turn the earth into a nest suitable for him to recuperate.
The only question is... what are Shen Run's desires? What kind of malice could she harbor?
He'll get his answer soon.
Chi Shuangliu laughed grimly.
With a snap, he snapped his fingers and everything returned to normal.
——As if nothing had happened.