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"Come on, let me see how powerful you are!" Cheng Kui, clad in armor, charged towards the diverse group of gamers.

The armor's anti-supernatural force field fully deployed, unleashing a massive surge of barrier power that rushed towards the players.

"How naive! Even if our power is limited, we are still not someone like you who can resist!" A player said calmly, looking at the armored vehicle charging towards him, and stretched out his inhuman hand to grab it.

They have every right to be proud. The players who can come here are top-tier among players. Even if they are not Breaker, they have all reached the pinnacle.

Cheng Kui, who was just an ordinary person at the beginning, can now control a large amount of barrier power even after being infused with many combat skills and even mental will. The difference in their actual strength has been reversed due to the adjustment of environmental factors.

Cheng Kui was stronger than the player, but in their fight, the player was the one dominating Cheng Kui. This outcome was unexpected, yet also quite logical.

"So guess how I'm going to attack you?" Xu Mingfei said slowly, remaining calm and composed in the face of Cheng Kui's attack. Even though Cheng Kui's current attack power could bring him back to the rules with a single slap, he remained unperturbed and instead teased Cheng Kui with his words.

Seeing Cheng Kui charging towards him in his armored vehicle, Xu Mingfei made no move. His body was like a phantom, scattered by the impact of the armor, but the speeding armor was completely thrown into chaos and fell to one side.

"Does your stomach hurt?" Xu Mingfei's figure solidified once more, a mysterious smile playing on his lips. "When you passed through me, I released something from its ethereal state and sent it into your stomach!"

"Nonsense!" Cheng Kui was inevitably distracted and checked the body monitoring window of the armor. It showed that although there had indeed been a force that struck his internal organs, the armor protected him and caused no damage. At most, he only felt a pain, and nothing was left in his stomach.

"Damn it, I'm distracted!" Cheng Kui thought anxiously, and quickly prepared to defend himself, only to find that his opponent did not take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, but instead still had a mysterious smile on his face.

"You think the Countermeasure Bureau's technology is really that advanced?" Xu Mingfei said slowly, "Because they were fortunate enough to survive in the main world, they accidentally learned a lot of information, but their essence is far inferior to ours, let alone those beings."

"I've taken over your existence. If I'm not mistaken, my future name should be..." Xu Mingfei's body blurred and flowed into Cheng Kui's body, uttering a name that seemed to possess magical power, causing Cheng Kui to pause in surprise. "█████."

Upon hearing this name, Cheng Kui was completely stunned. Memories flooded his mind. He, or rather, He, at that time, seemed to flow like liquid in the underground caves and crevices. He seemed to have heard some kind of incantation.

The incantations piqued His interest, and He emerged from the ground, appearing at a legion's encampment. After inadvertently crushing a large number of insects, He saw the "person" draped in bright red feathers, as if stepping out of the light and shadow.

However, Cheng Kui was not that being after all; he was merely the Child of Ashes, the ashes left behind after that being's annihilation. The fragments of memories he obtained were mostly viewed from a human perspective, thus lacking much crucial information.

In any case, among the memories that Cheng Kui has emerged are many of his own memories, or rather, the memories of his predecessor. His ashes were born as humans, initially as monstrous humans who were indifferent to the weak emotions of humans. In that world, he became a demon god above humans and conquered that world.

However, he did not break through the limits of humanity and enter annihilation again, reincarnating into another world. He was still the peerless demon who destroyed the world, but when he finally Destruction the world, he actually left a trace of life.

He reincarnated time and time again. If his initial goal was to return to his original self, after one reincarnation, his true nature was gradually obscured, and his reincarnated identity changed, from a wealthy young master, a poor mountain dweller, a prostitute in Yangzhou, a useless scholar, a great hero, and so on.

Love, hate, passion, dreams, and ambitions gradually entangled him, and he became more and more like a person. After countless lifetimes, he became the Cheng Kui he is today, or perhaps Cheng Kui is just a facade of him.

He was concealed by too many masks, and Cheng Kui was merely the outermost layer. Cheng Kui also understood these people's intentions: to become his deepest, most profound self, and ultimately become Him—███████.

"I see. It's a pity you've all forgotten one person. He's the backup plan left by the Countermeasure Bureau..." Cheng Kui's surface consciousness was completely torn apart by Xu Mingfei. One by one, the surfaces belonging to Cheng Kui awakened. At the same time, the other players also entered his body without hesitation.

There were seven of them at first. Mary was left outside, and the other four made up for their regrets and achieved self-redemption. However, one of the seven mysteriously disappeared.

Zhong Sangtan, this self-proclaimed lunatic, had completely lost his presence not long ago, and even he had forgotten the other person. This staircase was not Mary's past, but Zhong Sangtan's past.

After all, they had appeared directly in front of their target the previous times, so if this really was Mary's past, he should have been able to find Mary quickly. But in reality, this was Zhong Sangtan's past, but because he had forgotten about him, he did not see the other party who was so close at the time.

"So I really was just an extra, saving the world and all that..." Cheng Kui's consciousness slowly dissipated. When he learned that he was going to save the world and had the chance to become a savior, he knew there was danger, but he still relied on his immortality and chose to go along. He thought he was the protagonist, but it seems that wasn't the case.

Inside the mecha, numerous consciousnesses within his body were in chaos. The consciousnesses of more than a dozen players and Cheng Kui's past life began to intertwine, causing the body to convulse continuously. However, the mecha automatically activated its backup plan. Black liquid surged outside its body, generating a large number of weapons that launched a devastating attack on the city below.

With the Destruction of the city, this past fate was completely overturned. The door was opened, and the armored man arrived at the place Cheng Kui had seen before, the underground cave filled with black crystals. The call that rose from the heart instantly became incredibly strong.

Deep within the body, the player's consciousness is further suppressed by the barrier's power, and various bodily conscious thoughts begin to activate.

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