Former Body

The Ring Research Institute, shimmering with seven-colored light, sped rapidly through the river of time.

Lu Guang was walking among them at that moment.

He was disemboweled and lost both arms, yet he moved as usual. To those unaware of his condition, he appeared like a living dead, a truly bizarre sight.

His destination was a special room within the Ring Research Institute.

If the Ring Research Institute is likened to an aircraft, then this room is equivalent to a landing craft.

Lu Guang only needs to enter the room alone to set the time he wants to 'land'.

Although this 'landing craft,' like the entire Ring Research Institute, still needs a cooling-off period after landing at the same location, Lu Guang doesn't need to worry about this right now, because he has been using this body for nearly 5 years, which means he hasn't returned to that point in time for 5 years.

Although he was somewhat embarrassed and could only pry open the door with his shoulder, the moment he touched the door, his smile deepened, as if he had touched a new life.

Lu Guang entered the room 30 seconds later.

He pushed the door open with his shoulder again and slowly walked out, but this time, he was no longer at the Ring Research Institute.

Instead, it was located in a dimly lit basement.

Ahead, there were nine heavy metal doors, creating a dungeon-like atmosphere.

He scanned the nine doors, a hint of disdain in his eyes. "My other eight brothers are here, but the dean foretold your fate. Seven of you died at Qin Yiguan's hands, leaving only one barely clinging to life. Actually, you... deserved it!"

"Who told you to be so ordinary?"

"I am fundamentally different from you."

"Twenty-one years ago, I entered the timeline, looking down on you as if you were mere clowns. You will die, but no one can kill me. I will not die; I will live forever!"

He immediately went to the fifth room door, used his shoulder to pry open the iron door, and the iron bolt was twisted and deformed.

The dim light from the corridor slowly seeped into the room.

This created a hazy scene in the extremely dark room.

In his hazy vision, Lu Guang could see a thin figure sitting quietly in a chair in the space ahead, his back straight, as if he were being watched.

Lu Guang smiled dismissively.

This is who I used to be, a pathetic creature who was locked in Black Room all day long.

As Lu Guang slowly approached, he felt increasingly uneasy.

When he came here to switch bodies before, his former self was like a mouse that had been hiding in the dark for more than ten years. He would panic, he would run away with his head in his hands, and eventually he would curl up in the darkest corner of the room, trembling, and he didn't even dare to look at the outside world.

But today.

He sat there motionless.

Lu Guang felt a sudden pang of fear, and his eyes twitched slightly. He pushed the door open again with his shoulder, widening the angle and letting more light into the room.

The figure sitting in the darkness finally emerged.

Lu Guang felt a chill run down his spine, his Pupil instantly shrank to a black dot, and almost in an instant, his body was covered in a layer of cold sweat!

But the black-clad youth sitting inside the house smiled faintly, exuding an incredibly sinister and terrifying aura!

At that moment, the black-clad youth, while watching Lu Guang at the doorway, slightly raised his head and pointed to the upper right corner above his head.

Lu Guang's eye muscles twitched violently, and his eyes moved slightly as he looked in the direction the boy was pointing.

But there was a corpse hanging from the ceiling, in a hanged position, and it was swaying slightly.

Moreover, the prop he used to hang himself was very strange, as if it were a rope twisted from black smoke.

Lu Guang's body trembled, and he felt as if his liver and gallbladder were about to burst.

That's yourself!

To be precise, that corpse was him from 21 years ago!

He's dead!

"Let me guess."

But then the boy sitting in the chair, surrounded by complete darkness, slowly began to speak, "Someone from your Ring Research Institute must have returned to this point in time, and there are two possibilities."

"One possibility is that you, Lu Guang, died in the Ring Research Institute, so your director will personally return and recruit this 21-year-old Lu Guang again. After that, your position as the head of the field team will be inherited by someone else."

"The other possibility is that you didn't die."

"So you will come yourself and take over this new body in a way similar to memory transfer."

"I really hope it's the first one."

The boy calmly said, "In that case, I can finally meet that so-called director of the Ring Research Institute."

Lu Guang's body, standing at the door, trembled even more violently.

"What a pity, it's you who came."

The boy in the shadows suddenly laughed, "Now I'm a little curious too. Since I killed the you of the past, will you gradually disappear into the river of time due to cause and effect, or will you, now two independent beings, be unaffected by time but gradually die from your injuries?"

Lu Guang swallowed hard and instinctively took a step back.

But at that very moment, he was suddenly overcome with excruciating pain, and his wounds gushed blood again. He realized that the effects of the 'Consciousness Enhancement Injection' were about to wear off, and his body was about to die!

Thump.

Lu Guang suddenly knelt on the ground. He wasn't surrendering; rather, his body was already overwhelmed, and large gushes of blood were spurting from his chest.

The boy in the shadows remained motionless, quietly observing the scene.

Cough!

Blood also spurted from Lu Guang's mouth, and his lips and face were splattered with scarlet blood. His eyes were glazed over, and he could no longer speak.

"Don't be so impatient."

But then the boy looked up, gazing down like a demon king, "This place is pitch black, it's my territory. I haven't even tormented you yet."

In that instant.

[Gestalt Collapse] was activated, and billowing black mist surged from beneath the boy's body. The black mist drifted along the ground in front of Lu Guang, and then countless small demons, each less than 30 centimeters tall and with indistinct faces, condensed within the black mist.

"These are the designs engraved on the hilt of Lucifer's sword; they are the lesser demons in Hell responsible for the torture of the living."

The boy smiled slightly.

Immediately, those little demons bared their fangs and claws, raised their tiny blades, and jumped onto Lu Guang's body. They looked clumsy, but their movements were extremely precise, slicing off pieces of flesh from Lu Guang's body. The slices of flesh were thin and covered with droplets of blood. At a rough glance, it seemed that at least 1,000 slices could be cut off from an adult without killing him!

Lu Guang's scream rang out.

But it was just a whimper stuck in his throat, because a large amount of blood had already flowed back into his lungs, blocking his trachea!

At this moment, there was disbelief in Lu Guang's eyes.

Why were Qin Yiguan able to get ahead of me...?

How did he do that...?

I have no way out!

Thump!

Lu Guang's body collapsed completely to the ground. He had lost all will to resist and was on the verge of death. Various little demons bounced and jumped on his body, and thin slices of flesh flew through the air.

It was around this time.

His body, starting from his feet, gradually became ethereal, and without spreading out any particles, his body began to disappear inch by inch.

"Huh?"

"I see."

The boy in the darkness chuckled to himself, "Both of my guesses will come true: you will not only gradually disappear from time, but you will also gradually die from your severe injuries!"