Crimson Snake
"As expected, there's still a lot to go." Feeling his own presence fading, a person stood with his back to Lin Fan on a nearby building.
He watched the lights flicker in the distance. This was a choice, and not only him, but others were also waiting for this choice. The one in the sky was probably watching with great interest as he made his decision.
On his bald head, something gradually glowed red, a vibrant life force pulsating within it, a fiery power beginning to be released, as if countless limbs were fusing together, or as if blood vessels were swirling. From afar, it looked like a crimson multi-headed serpent waving its red tail and arrogant head.
"?" Lin Tong turned his head and saw a life force rushing towards him from afar, like flames. That scorching life force was enough to melt everything. The Ouroboros that was restricting Lin Fan was burned away, and the power of time in Lin Fan's body surged into the candle above his head like a tide.
Lin Tong's expression changed. Looking at the ordinary people whose skin was melting, he snorted coldly. A large number of Ouroboros surged out and enveloped those people. They were all operating at the same frequency. The environment in which those people existed changed instantly. Their bodies began to repair themselves. The scorching flames of life around them seemed to be unable to touch them anymore.
A small flame lit up the candle above Lin Fan's head, and the candle's power transformed into a plume of black smoke that rose up. But the thing inside—an oval-shaped crimson gem—descended and landed on Lin Fan's head, leaving a red snake-shaped mark on it.
Lin Fan felt his blood begin to surge, overflowing from his body and transforming into a layer of blood-red clothing. Streaks of red energy shot out from his body, incinerating everything around him.
Lin Fan's clothes and backpack were burned directly. The cloak and mask fell onto Lin Fan's body. When they touched the life fire emanating from Lin Fan's body, the clothes and cloak turned into liquid and wrapped around Lin Fan's body. The mask also fit his face perfectly.
"Run!" Lin Fan rushed straight into the boss's office not far away.
Watching Lin Fan walk away, a flash of red light appeared in Lin Tong's eyes, and a point of red light shot out, piercing through Lin Fan's body like a heat ray. However, the bright red energy armor on the surface of the opponent's body acted as an interceptor, deviating from vital parts.
"The building is about to collapse." Lin Tong looked at the people wrapped inside his Ouroboros and, without hesitation, countless Ouroboros formed chains, carrying these people as he broke through the window and jumped down. The ouroboros acted as an air cushion, mitigating the impact.
The upper half of the building, which had been mostly melted, began to collapse. On the other side, the paper figure Yang Li landed beside Lin Tong and asked urgently, "Where are the candles?"
"They got away," Lin Tong said casually.
Yang Li's expression changed instantly. He looked at the people trembling inside the Ouroboros, snorted coldly, said nothing, and transformed into a paper figure, floating into the air and disappearing without a trace.
Lin Tong, as if he had seen the potential in these ordinary people, also hurriedly ran off to search for Lin Fan's whereabouts.
On a distant rooftop, the man looked up at the night sky. A flash of red light disappeared completely. He had made his choice and naturally had to bear the consequences.
"There can only be one Crimson Snake in this world. If you grant him your wish, you will be unable to escape his control. Right now, he is still very immature."
Lin Fan clutched his shoulder, the blood in his body rapidly receding. Countless granulation tissues were forming in the gaping hole on his shoulder, only to vanish just as quickly. It was as if some force was preventing Lin Fan's self-healing. If his outer garment hadn't deflected the attack slightly, Lin Fan would have been struck in the head.
He took a bundle of rope from the boss's desk. He had brought it from the building's maintenance room two days ago as preparation for escape. In a cabinet not far away, there were also small fire extinguishers, which Lin Fan had put there before, thinking that if someone chased them, he could use the blood bullets to detonate them and create an opportunity to escape.
I never expected it to be completely useless. If it weren't for the sudden flames, I would have been arrested by now.
With his mind filled with random thoughts, Lin Fan used a rope to jump to the other side. His cloak made him undetectable to ordinary people. Lin Fan sensed the wound on his shoulder and kept breaking the cloak's concealment. A sense of crisis rose from the bottom of his heart. He gritted his teeth, and the blood there began to boil. The flame of life burned, burning everything there to ashes, even burning one side of his entire body. Only then did that sense of crisis slowly subside.
"Ouroboros is dead. How sharp." Lin Tong was neither frustrated nor regretful. This was also where his philosophy differed from Yang Li's. Yang Li was the kind of person who put life on the scales. Relatively speaking, if Yang Li had been there at the time, he would definitely have chosen to pursue Lin Fan, regardless of the lives of these ordinary people.
"At least I'm safe for now." Lin Fan quietly entered a house and erased all traces of himself.
"What should I do next?" Lin Fan asked himself. Compared to the previous twenty years, he felt that everything he had experienced in the past three days was more wonderful, and he was even slowly falling in love with his current life.
"I need to prioritize completing my own time ring, since power is everything; without power, nothing is possible. I also need to investigate everything about the candle." Lin Fan stretched out his hand, and some blood seeped out, transforming into a blood-red flame flower.
His current superpowers all come from the red gem inside the candle. Of course, for Lin Fan, who inherited the gem, it should be called the Crimson Snake Egg. But speaking of candles, Lin Fan remembered something.
A search of his clothes revealed no trace of the other candle, meaning that someone had taken the candle from the cloak during those two days but hadn't touched it.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, without this cloak, Lin Fan's mediocre stealth skills would have led to his capture long ago. In other words, the person who took the candle wanted Lin Fan to live.
Thinking about it this way, the only one who took the candle was his future self. This deduction made Lin Fan smile bitterly. How many Future Calamity did he have? And the life-saving flame that saved him was probably also the work of his future self.
"Let's go earn some time power first." Lin Fan sighed and performed the Time Ring Ritual once again, traveling back to the night before. At this moment, he was kicking open the door and looking at the corpses of Brother Hei Sister-in-law Hei. Lin Fan landed on his past self and helped him clear his name.
Interfering with his past self to clean up the traces, he then created Time Clone, picked up clothes from the wardrobe and wrapped them around himself. When he grabbed a coat, Lin Fan was stunned because there was a candle inside.
I'm really sorry for only updating once today. I should be able to update normally tomorrow.