Black Mist is a mass of chaotic pollution that can control aliens, drive them mad, and greatly increase their power.

It resides in the body of every Abyss leader, affecting their actions, thoughts, and personality.

The selection of the Abyss Leader is to wait for the strongest one to emerge from among so many "snakes". That person will be the most perfect host for the Black Mist.

It was not until Black Mist was exposed before the first reset that Shi Deng learned the truth.

But this thing seems impossible to be completely eliminated.

The first thing he did after choosing to reset was to kill the leader he once feared so much, and used his time power to imprison the black mist in his body.

"Shi Deng, sometimes I have to admit that you are really cruel to yourself." Hei Wu knew how much influence he had on a person's character.

No one can maintain their original heart without wavering under the pollution, let alone lock it into the body.

Only the hour lamp was the first one it had ever seen in thousands of years.

Black Mist: "I heard that you were sick..."

The surrounding scene seemed to stop again, and it was like a chain, wrapping around the boy in circles.

The time light remained silent.

Dark Mist: "I miss you after the first reset. Come on."

The black mist became still with him, and he fell into a deeper dream.

…

"Chief, I heard that you abolished the 'gu system'?"

The left envoy frowned, looking very unhappy.

He was not convinced by this guy who suddenly killed the previous leader and took over the position——

So young.

He is clearly a brat.

The young man standing by the window had a gentle expression on his face. He was wearing a complicated chief's uniform and tending to a pot of sunflowers. He carefully adjusted the angle so that the flowers would face the sunlight outside.

"Left Envoy, any advice?"

The left emissary said, "This is a rule that Yuan Guang established long ago. The elders are now gathered in the meeting hall to protest. You cannot be so arbitrary."

After a long while, Shi Deng smiled and said, "Really? There are a lot of protests?"

He called out softly, "Little Uncle Fu."

Someone opened the door and walked in. It was a handsome and mature man in his twenties. He was holding a pocket watch and wearing a neat tuxedo. "Chief."

"To the Council Chamber."

Young Uncle Fu responded with a "yes", followed him, and prepared a few handkerchiefs under the puzzled gaze of the Left Envoy.

But soon he found out what the handkerchief was used for.

In the spacious meeting hall, there were more than three hundred elders, including some level 10 super-powered people, but only less than fifty were left after being killed.

The council hall of Yuanguang enshrines leaders of all generations.

There are countless Sanskrit prayers engraved on the walls. Before dying, most of the leaders will get rid of the influence of the black fog, look back on their lives, and find that they have committed countless sins.

Therefore, among the scriptures and mantras that fill this hall, some are black, some are golden, some are mysterious, and some are sacred. There are several common types, and what they seek is nothing more than to eliminate the mistakes made in this life.

The incense of the offerings was so thick that it was impossible to see clearly what was enshrined in the niche above.

But now, the scriptures on the wall were stained with blood, and dark red blood was spilled on the floor. The fresh and pungent smell of blood mixed with the fragrance made people feel nauseous.

The deaths of more than 200 people were tragic. This was not only a one-sided massacre, but also revealed a message to everyone in Yuanguang -

The new leader is a lunatic.

The boy's deep blue pupils were faintly tinged with a strange red color. He threw the last person who opposed him to the ground. His pale and thin wrists were pressed down by the complicated black and red clothes.

The light blue silk on the back of his hand has a fragile feeling, but it can easily arouse people's desire to destroy. The boy's feet are like hell, and the overly rich and bright colors make him look like a fallen angel in an oil painting.

He smiled and said, "Left Envoy, no one opposes me now, right?"

moody.

The left envoy's numb brain belatedly sensed the fear.

When we reached the door, Uncle Fu handed us a handkerchief.

Shi Deng wiped the blood from his wound, glanced forward inadvertently, and paused slightly.

There are two transparent figures in front of us——

It is his future and his past.

Without materialization, no one can see it except him.

The boy hid his hands so that the Past wouldn't stare at them.

The 'past' was close and familiar to him, and he named it Xiaodeng.

He was very accommodating to Xiao Deng. When Xiao Deng was stubborn, he would always take the initiative to compromise and go over to coax her, because he knew that he was actually feeling very uncomfortable at that time and wanted someone to coax him.

But Future had never spoken to him, and her eyes were always indifferent, and when she looked at him, she couldn't tell there was any special emotion in them.

He returned to the room and materialized the two of them out of habit.

This was the first time that he had personally killed people on such a large scale. When he was a "guinea pig" in the past, he always pretended to be tolerant, flattering, obedient and calculating towards others, and killed people without shedding blood.

He felt that killing people like that was tiring before, but now it seemed even more tiring.

Uncle Fu fetched some water and placed it on the table. Shi Deng reached his hand in, and the clear water was quickly stained light red by the remaining blood on his hand.

He didn't move.

Just staring at it in a trance.

The cold water quickly absorbed the warmth from his hands, and then the coolness gradually penetrated into his body through his palms.

It seemed that Uncle Fu said a few words to him, but Shi Deng didn't hear them clearly. He didn't know how long he maintained this posture, he only felt that the light in the room became dim.

Until a pair of hands that were a circle larger than his reached into the water, held his hands, and rubbed them gently for a while.

The light belatedly felt the temperature.

He raised his eyes.

The young man, who looked like him but was much more mature than him, lowered his head with a cold look in his eyes, and carefully washed the dirt off his hands. He changed to a basin of warm water, washed his hands again, and wiped them dry with the soft towel handed to him by the small lamp.

His future seemed to sigh, pat his head gently, and spoke the first words to him in a low voice.

"stubborn."

Just like he always compromised with Xiao Deng, from that day on, Shi Ge would also always compromise with him.

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The black mist imprisoned in his body continued to resist his blockade.

Shi Deng waited for a long time and finally heard the news that Yuan Ting, Le Jie and Zhi Ze had come out of City F and appeared again.

It was afternoon and there were not many people around. The three of them were buying ice cream on the sycamore street covered with fallen autumn leaves.

They were making a lot of noise and seemed to have just completed a task and were very happy.

"Hey? Buy one ice cream, get one free. Hurry up and choose. I'll have the blueberry one!" came Yuan Ting's energetic voice.

"It's Zhize's treat anyway, Sister Le, I remember you like peach flavored food," he turned his head and winked at Zhize, "Brother Zhize, thank you very much."

He threw over a watermelon flavored one.

Zhize took it, shook his head and paid, "Noisy."

Cen Le smiled and took a bite: "Let's go."

Shi Deng waited until they left before going upstairs, standing at the door of the display window and saying to the owner, "Hello, I want to buy an ice cream with oranges—"

"Brother!" Shi Deng was stunned when the orange-flavored ice cream was stretched out in front of him.

Yuan Ting came over again without knowing when, his eyes were enthusiastic, and he seemed a little embarrassed, "Well, it's buy one get one free. We have an extra one, and it would be a waste if you can't finish it. If you don't mind, this one is for you!"

Sister Le and Zhize looked back from a distance and smiled at Tokioka, a friendly but distant smile.

The consciousness caught it under the light.

"Thank you, actually..."

He paused.

Yuan Ting smiled and said, "Goodbye~"

He said goodbye, turned around and ran to meet his companions.

The boy in a light brown long coat stood on the street, holding a familiar orange-flavored ice cream in his hand, thinking, in fact——

Your ice cream should have been just right.

Sister Le would stand beside them, biting into peach-flavored ice cream, watching her three younger brother-like companions quarreling and hugging each other, and then walking away together.

Shi Deng looked at them, but as he looked, the illusory fourth figure disappeared.

He stood there and took a bite of the ice cream.

…

The screen changes again.

In the sky full of flames, super-class monsters are destroying the city.

The dark red hair of Shi Deng was blown up by the wind.

He stepped on Yuan Ting's back and crushed it. Not far away was Zhi Ze who was half-kneeling on the ground. Cen Le's face was covered in blood. He lit up a faint healing light and treated Zhi Ze.

Shi Deng smiled softly and said to the boy who was resisting, "I have investigated you. A few years ago, your sister and mother both died at the hands of Yuan Guang."

"So you joined Tiangu, thinking you could protect others, right?"

"The spearhead team is really powerful."

Shi Deng: "I will kill them in front of you first, okay?"

He wiped the dust off his boots on Yuan Ting's back, and the moment he landed on the ground, he was hugged tightly by Yuan Ting.

Yuan Ting spat out a mouthful of blood foam. The tip of his nose was filled with the unpleasant smell of asphalt and dust from the ground. The fire was rolling. He barely raised his head and yelled at Zhi Ze and Cen Le: "Go quickly--!"

The Abyss leader with deep blue eyes raised his head slightly and closed his eyes, as if he breathed a sigh of relief. The next second, he kicked Yuan Ting away!

With a bang, the enthusiastic young man crashed heavily into the building, and his life or death was unknown.

Cen Le's pupils shrank: "Yuan Ting!!"

She had lost all her strength and could not walk forward. She could only grit her teeth and use all her strength to perform range healing, barely able to cover Yuan Ting.

"He told you to run away, why didn't you run away?"

Shi Deng walked over, leaned over, pinched Zhi Ze's chin, and patted his face.

"Stupid or not."

During the first reset, Shi Deng had not yet fully understood his time ability, so he did not dare to make active changes to some of his choices.

After killing the previous leader, imprisoning Black Mist, and eliminating so many elders, and removing some unreasonable systems, Tokido did not make any other changes.

He truly became the leader of Yuan Guang and did everything that he remembered the previous leader doing.

He imprisoned a chaotic black mist, and it seemed that he also imprisoned himself.

Shi Deng even calmly regarded himself as a whetstone for his former partners.

Black fog pollution starts from the heart. It will show you what you fear. Shi Deng remembered that it took Yuan Ting and his three friends too long to get rid of their fear last time.

Maybe if they had escaped a second earlier, they could have survived.

He knew very well what Yuan Ting, Zhi Ze and Sister Le feared the most.

Shi Deng loosened his shaky chin and said, "It is because of your misjudgment that you are facing the current predicament. Don't you think you can control everything?"

"Super auxiliary system, main treatment, additional field, very good, but Cen Le, you still can't help your partner now? Waste."

Shi Deng raised his hand, and just before he was about to attack, Cen Le withdrew the treatment and launched a slow attack on him.

The lights paused slightly.

Zhize opened his eyes instantly, his pupils brightened a strange grey color, and he pulled Cen Le back violently, saying in a hoarse voice: "...Great Prophecy!"

Countless transparent threads that could spy on people's fate flew out from his palms, and the time light quickly dodged them.

At the same time, Yuan Ting, who had been motionless, suddenly burst into powerful and terrifying black thunder, accompanied by corrosion and high temperature.

He leaped into the air, his eyes burning like fire and filled with hatred and vengeance, he stretched out his hand and a long sword flashing with lightning suddenly appeared in his palm.

Yuan Ting swung a knife at Shi Deng, "I'll give you the orange-flavored ice cream. I was really blind at that time--!!"

Shi Deng smiled and stepped back, hunting in the waves of fire and the night wind. A thin thread that predicted fate touched the fingertips of the young leader.

Suddenly, a bright red light appeared, as bright as blood.