Chapter 213: Forced Purchase and Sale

After Du Haijing's soul dissipated, Shen Cheng had an extra red card in his hand, which was the complete version of the cognitive modification.

But there was no joy in his heart, only a slight melancholy.

At this moment, Du Tianming, who was in a daze, suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

"She's coming over."

Du Tianming said to Shen Cheng: "I am leaving too. Remember, when you become an earl, you must come to the Eternal Empire to find me."

After saying this, without waiting for Shen Cheng to answer, his figure disappeared on the spot, and he even seemed to be fleeing.

And Shen Cheng's heartbeat unexpectedly quickened.

He slowly turned around and looked back, and saw the figure he had been avoiding before.

On the busy street, the woman in black is extremely eye-catching.

She walked slowly among the crowd, her eyes empty and lifeless, really like a wandering black ghost.

There was a long black shadow behind her, and all the pedestrians who stepped into the shadow disappeared.

"Who is that then?"

Han Zhiqing's voice was so horrified that she stuttered and her whole body became stiff.

Shen Cheng also felt an urge to turn around and run away, but he did not do so. The woman in front of him was their only hope of leaving this hellhole.

And based on the previous experience, running away is completely meaningless as the opponent's strength is unfathomable.

Unlike the last encounter, this time, the mysterious woman in black came for Shen Cheng. Shen Cheng's figure was reflected in her empty eyes.

Shen Cheng just blinked, and the woman in black instantly appeared in front of him from hundreds of meters away.

"Ahhhh!"

Han Zhiqing was so scared that she screamed.

Shen Cheng remained calm, but his body was slightly stiff.

"Oh it's you."

The woman in black spoke softly, her voice carrying a hint of noise, like the sound coming from an old TV.

Seeing that he could communicate and even hear her voice, Shen Cheng's heart was immediately relieved: "Do you still remember me?"

The woman in black nodded slowly: "You are a person shrouded in shadows. Sooner or later, you will come back to me."

Shen Cheng finally couldn't help but be curious: "Who are you?"

"I?"

The woman in black slowly raised her head, a look of confusion flashed across her face: "I... am just a lost person lost in the shadows."

speak English!
Shen Cheng almost blurted out what was in his mind.

However, a light suddenly flashed in his mind, and he guessed a possibility, blurting out: "Are you the only survivor of that underground shelter?"

After the ancient civilization was destroyed by the Lord of the Sky, the survivors took refuge in underground shelters, but were attacked by a swarm of insects and fell into despair.

In order to fight for the ship to the New World, they killed each other in the shelter, and finally only the only survivor was left, who boarded the ship to the New World.

The little black ball is the ship of the new world. Since the ship brought them to this strange parallel world, it also brought them to the same place as the only survivor.

Although millions of years have passed and the survivor may have turned into dust long ago, Shen Cheng still feels that the woman in black in front of him is related to the other party, and may be herself.

"Shelter...Survivors..."

A trace of thought appeared on the face of the woman in black, and finally she sighed: "I'm sorry, I can't remember, my memory has disappeared too much."

Shen Cheng has completely calmed down at this moment.

Because after actual contact, he found that this woman, who was obviously extremely dangerous, was surprisingly easy to talk to.

"Can you take us back?"

"no!"

This sentence was like a basin of cold water, poured directly on Shen Cheng's forehead.

He couldn't help but ask: "Why?"

The woman in black did not answer his question. Instead, she looked at the people around her and whispered, "You know what? There is no future in this world."

Shen Cheng was puzzled by the sudden change of topic of the shadowy woman, but he knew he couldn't rush her, so he could only listen to her patiently.

“This world is trapped in a cycle of constant birth, development, destruction, and then rebirth. This process repeats over and over again. Every time something is born, a part of it disappears. It’s like being caught in a huge whirlpool, sinking deeper and deeper in the rotation, and ultimately nothing can escape it.”

The black-clad woman's voice was filled with compassion: "I have saved many people who strayed here and sent them back, but I cannot save a world that is about to be destroyed."

Shen Cheng got a lot of information from the woman's seemingly nonsensical words.

This is a world that keeps repeating itself and is about to be destroyed, and the Woman in Black has been trying to save it, but has failed.

Many people who accidentally came here, such as those researchers studying parallel worlds, were sent back by her, but the researchers mistakenly believed that the outsiders would not stay here for long?
Shen Cheng actually wanted to ask, why don’t you send us away now?

But he held back and instead followed up on the topic of the woman in black and asked, "Why is the world like this?"

"Because it is shrouded in a shadow, and no one can escape, including me!"

The woman in black turned around and looked back: "The shadow is getting bigger and bigger. When it completely covers the entire world, that is when this world will disappear completely."

Shen Cheng looked behind the woman. The shadow behind her was extremely long, with no end in sight, as if it was connected to the horizon.

All the people and objects covered by the shadow disappeared into it.

Shen Cheng originally thought that the shadow was brought by the woman in black, but now he realized that she was also a victim.

Shen Cheng looked down and found that the black-clad woman's feet were indeed in the shadows, but unlike the others, she did not disappear.

"In fact, I am almost gone, but I am still trying my best to hold on."

The woman in black confessed, "I can send the others away, but not you."

Shen Cheng felt that he was being targeted: "Why?"

"Because you are like me, shrouded in shadow. You are already in the shadow, and you cannot escape it no matter what world you are in."

The woman in black looked at Shen Cheng with pity: "Anyone who is shrouded by the shadow but does not disappear immediately can passively gain his power, but will eventually return to his arms and disappear completely."

The woman's pitying eyes made Shen Cheng extremely uncomfortable: "Who is 'he'?"

"Eternal nothingness, the end of everything, you will understand it later."

When the woman in black said this, the long shadow behind her began to rotate and turned into a huge black hole. The terrifying gravity pulled everything around it in.

This was not the first time Shen Cheng had encountered such a situation, but this time he realized that he might be in trouble.

He was also pulled towards the black hole by this extremely powerful gravitational force.

But surprisingly, Han Zhiqing was not affected by the gravity of the black hole. She listened to the inhuman communication between Shen Cheng and the woman in black in confusion, and watched in confusion as the huge black hole appeared and sucked everything in.

It was not until she saw Shen Cheng being sucked in that she reacted. She quickly stretched out her hands to grab Shen Cheng's arm and pulled him back with force.

Seeing this scene, Shen Cheng once again felt that he was being targeted.

Forget about the woman in black, but why is Han Zhiqing not affected by the black hole?

But he knew in his heart that he was the only unlucky one because Han Zhiqing was not shrouded in the shadow.

The huge gravitational force of the black hole pulled Shen Cheng, and Han Zhiqing, who was holding his hands, was also dragged inside.

"Let go!"

Shen Cheng shouted hurriedly, saying that Han Zhiqing's strength was not enough to pull him out, but would pull her in instead.

"do not want!"

Han Zhiqing used all her strength to grab Shen Cheng's arm, and would rather die than let go. She was dragged into the air.

Just as Shen Cheng was about to shake off Han Zhiqing's hand, the woman in black who was watching the scene suddenly sighed.

“I don’t know whether what I did was right or wrong…”

She suddenly grabbed Shen Cheng's hand, pulled it hard, and actually succeeded in pulling him out of the black hole's gravity.

Then he and Han Zhiqing were thrown into the distance.

"Don't use this power too often, otherwise you will disappear faster and faster. This is my only warning to you."

The words of the woman in black rang in his ears, and Shen Cheng turned around abruptly, and saw that the woman in black had been sucked into the black hole instead of him.

The moment he was sucked in, the woman in black said something to Shen Cheng. Although he couldn't hear it clearly, he could read from her lip reading that what she said was - Good luck!
The black hole grew larger and larger, and the pedestrians, vehicles, buildings on the streets, and even the entire city, the entire earth, the mountains and rivers, the land and the sea were all torn apart by gravity.

Shen Cheng and Han Zhiqing flew in the air with their hands clasped together. They looked up and saw countless torn objects flying towards the huge black hole in the sky like a storm.

This scene shocked their hearts. A living world was destroyed before their eyes.

In the end, even the light was swallowed by the black hole, leaving only a circle of faintly glowing light surrounding the black hole.

Until everything disappears and returns to darkness again.

Unlike the last time he lost consciousness, Shen Cheng remained conscious this time.

He clearly felt that his body seemed to be compressed into two dimensions in an instant, and then forced through a narrow passage before recovering from two dimensions to three dimensions.

The darkness in front of him slowly faded away, and Shen Cheng found that he had returned to the palace in the underground shelter.

It was still pitch black here, but he was already able to see in the dark, so it looked no different from daytime.

Everything that happened before seemed like a dream.

But Shen Cheng knew this was not a dream.

At the last moment, the woman in black, who claimed that she could not send him away, chose to help him and threw him out of the world that was about to be destroyed.

The price of doing this is that the speed of the woman in black's disappearance is increased, and she is eventually swallowed by the black hole.

Shen Cheng still doesn’t know who that woman is, nor does he know her name. After a brief meeting, they said goodbye forever.

"Ok?"

Shen Cheng, who was feeling melancholy, also discovered a mysterious power emerging in his body.

According to the woman in black, she was shrouded in shadow and passively gained his power, but was destined to disappear like the woman in black.

Shen Cheng raised his right hand, and his five fingers were constantly decomposing and then healing themselves.

His disappearance had already begun, and if he were a normal person, he would have lost several fingers by now, but he was a vampire, so he was able to heal himself.

It just healed itself and then disappeared again, and this cycle kept repeating.

This means that Shen Cheng suffered a permanent wound, which continued to consume his source blood.

Shen Cheng has always disliked this kind of blood-burning power, but now it is forced upon him, leaving him no chance to refuse.

It's forced buying and selling!

Except for Shen Cheng, the other three were also sent out of that world by the woman in black and woke up.

"Brother Shen?"

Han Zhiqing's worried voice rang out. She grabbed a flashlight from the side and shone it on Shen Cheng. Then her eyes turned red, and she rushed over to hug him and burst into tears.

But this was not sadness, but tears of joy for escaping death and the happiness of finally leaving that hellhole.

Si Han, who had just woken up nearby, was stunned when he saw this scene.

This girl completely ignored her grandpa and ran to hug Shen Cheng. What was going on?

Before the incident happened, Han Zhiqing was curious about Shen Cheng, but she was also quite polite to him.

Why is it Brother Shen again now, and why are they hugging each other?
What shady things happened during my hibernation?

Shen Cheng was comforting Han Zhiqing when he suddenly noticed Si Han giving him a murderous look.

The meaning of that look was very clear - beast. What did you do to my granddaughter?
Shen Cheng felt very wronged. Of course I did my best to take care of her, but there was no bed in that parallel world, so it was impossible to take care of her in bed.

He gently pushed Han Zhiqing away from where she was hugging him, and reminded her, "Your grandpa is fine."

Han Zhiqing rubbed her eyes: "Oh!"

This extremely perfunctory "oh" made Si Han's eyelids twitch and he almost choked.

You haven't even gotten married yet, and you're already ignoring your elders?

How can this elbow bend outward at the speed of light!
Fortunately, Han Zhiqing was not really heartless. She quickly moved to Si Han's side and grabbed his arm: "Grandpa, I'm so glad you're okay. I was so worried about you."

Are you so worried that you ignore me and just hug your little lover?
Si Han was originally full of resentment, like an old farmer whose cabbages were taken away by a pig.

However, seeing my granddaughter crying with tears in her eyes and snot running down her nose, I felt much softer.

He stroked her head gently with his hand: "Don't cry, grandpa is fine."

After he couldn't find anyone in the parallel world, he decisively put himself into hibernation to avoid mental exhaustion. Now he looks like he just woke up, full of energy.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your family reunion."

A sudden voice suddenly sounded.

Mr. Li was also sent out by the woman in black. Because she was not aware of the grudges between these people, she treated them equally.

However, Mr. Li's mental state was a little off at the moment. He grabbed his face with his hands, revealing two bloodshot eyes from between his fingers. He stared at the three people in front of him: "Seeing you three getting along so well, it reminds me of the days when I was trapped in that hellhole. It was really like crying out to the heavens and the earth for help but to no avail..."

　The vampire power system accidentally missed the title of Marquis, so just remove it.

　　Extraordinary = Baron, Master = Viscount, Ace = Earl, Legend = Duke
　　
　
(End of this chapter)