Chapter 561
A calm voice drifted over from the other side of the wall.
"Stop dreaming, you killed someone, you must pay with your life."
Vance flinched, he recognized the voice instantly.
"It’s you, Zeon? Why are you next to me? You’re a monster, how can they lock me up next to you?" Vance said in terror.
"I’m a monster?" Adam’s tone carried a flicker of confusion.
"I am a monster, yet I helped this town build a library, I saved lives and did good deeds without killing a single person here."
"And you? You are human, but what have you ever done for this town?"
"Absolutely nothing, and on top of that, you killed someone."
"A young girl in the prime of her youth, with a beautiful future ahead of her, the very person you used to like."
"Acting like this, do you really not have nightmares at night?"
Each sentence landed like a nail driven into Vance’s heart.
"You... you’re talking nonsense! If it weren’t for you, how would I have ended up like this? It’s all your fault, I just wanted to be happy with Zella, I could have given her a great life," Vance shook his head wildly, eyes shot through with red.
"Everything changed because an outsider like you showed up, Zella clearly liked me, so why did you have to come here?"
"Still sitting there acting like some great person, when everything here was ruined by you."
"The one who should have died is you, not Zella."
𝚏𝑟𝘦𝗲𝘸𝔢𝘣𝖓ℴ𝒗ⅇ𝑙.𝘤𝖔𝗆
"I... I didn’t want this either, that woman said it would only make people faint, I didn’t expect it to turn out like this..."
Adam sat with his back against the wall, his tone was icy cold.
Vance froze in place, trembling head to toe as though struck by lightning.
His heart was like a wasteland torn apart by a gale, fear, remorse, fury, and despair tangled into a violent storm rampaging through his chest.
His eyes had gone blood-red, the whites laced with veins, feral as a cornered beast.
Every blink felt like a silent war against the demons clawing at his mind, he tried to force those memories out, but they clung like maggots on rotting bone, suffocating him.
Remorse cut into him like a blade, one slow slice after another.
He recalled every detail of his time with Zella, those once-beautiful moments had become the most painful scars across his heart, he realized he had personally destroyed all of it, pushed a vibrant life into the abyss, and every bit of it stemmed from his own selfishness.
"You probably haven’t seen Miss Zella’s corpse yet, do you want to see it?" Adam continued.
Vance’s body convulsed as if struck by an invisible force, his eyes blew wide with disbelief and terror.
"No... no, I don’t want to see it," every word sounded squeezed through his teeth, he shut his eyes, trying to scrub that image from his mind, but Zella’s smile, her gentleness, the despair when she collapsed, all of it replayed frame by frame, leaving him no escape.
Fury erupted like a volcano, he was furious at Adam, furious at fate, and even more furious at his own incompetence, he hated himself for letting desire blind him into something unforgivable.
Yet that fury was also a mirror, and the reflection staring back was nothing but ugliness and sin.
Despair swallowed his soul like a black hole.
Threads of black qi began rising from his body.
In the cell next door, Adam raised an eyebrow.
Sure enough, the Evil God had intervened in this entire course of events, all to drive him into despair, because everyone would suspect him.
But the Evil God never counted on one thing, Adam could actually understand their written language.
More importantly, he had remained calm throughout, never giving the evil qi a crack to slip through.
It hadn’t been easy, his heart had grown restless countless times, the urge to slaughter every person in this town had surged through him more than once, he had helped them so much, yet without evidence, simply because he carried evil qi, they distrusted him all the same.
He had nearly gone berserk at one point.
But Adam endured it all.
The Evil God’s bewitchment was completely useless against him.
The cell next door, however, was a different story.
Vance’s eyes now flickered with a bizarre light, the kind of madness that only came from thorough corruption by the Evil God.
His face no longer held any trace of agony or remorse, what replaced it was a sickly excitement, cold and hollow.
A twisted smile hooked the corners of his mouth, the look of a man who had trampled the bottom line of human nature into dust.
"Hahaha... why should I feel guilty? She should have belonged to me, since I can’t have her, no one will, I’ll make this entire world be buried alongside me," his voice echoed through the silent cell, carrying a madness that chilled the bone.
Black qi wreathed his body, proof of his descent into the abyss.
He looked around, bloodshot eyes incomparably insane.
"Zella... oh no, she is only the beginning, I will let everyone know what happens when they defy my will," his laughter grew increasingly ferocious.
Adam sighed, a perfectly fine young man had turned into this.
Just as he prepared to wave over a guard and get Chrome to eliminate Vance, the space around him suddenly froze.
A white-skinned, black-pupiled infant walked out from the void, its eerie little face was full of confusion.
"Why? Under my control, your state of mind should be identical to Leon’s, even if you possess the Chaotic Azure Lotus, under my innate divine ability, it shouldn’t have been able to protect you."
The corners of Adam’s mouth curled upward, "You can’t understand it? That’s right, there are plenty of things in this world that you can’t understand."
[Detected special Primordial Creature’s ability being used on Host.]
[However, Host possesses extraordinary talent and has comprehended the Primordial Evil God’s innate divine ability, resistance towards it has increased.]
Every time the Evil God used its innate divine ability, the system’s voice would ring out in Adam’s mind, his resistance was growing stronger because of it.
The Evil God’s ability to control a person’s mind was formidable, but Adam’s cheat was even stronger.
"Hehe, don’t get cocky, this is just the beginning, I might not be able to influence you right now, but I can throw you directly into the body of the already-corrupted Leon," the black-pupiled infant sneered.
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