Chapter 43 Lies and Light
They turned their heads in disbelief, only to see Selena in the distance, holding the core hub in her hand, her thumb still on a button.
"Hehe, debugging is complete now."
"No!!!"
Wan Lei roared, and Selena pressed the button without hesitation.
Boom!
Standing here, they couldn't see Mapleheart City, but they heard the earth-shattering explosion.
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu turned around in stunned silence, vaguely seeing a mushroom cloud rising on the distant horizon.
Immediately afterward, the ground shook like a magnitude twelve earthquake.
The ground quickly cracked from the north, and fissures like the mouths of abyssal giants spread rapidly, but even faster than the ground cracking was the shockwave that stirred up an endless, terrifying sandstorm.
Within the sandstorm, the group stood motionless.
Wan Lei's mood was complex and confused.
They had worked so hard, but in the end, they couldn't save the city. The good and the guilty had all died.
Now, they had to kill the person they had risked their lives to save earlier.
The main thing was... they weren't even sure if they could beat her.
At the moment, they were both seriously injured and extremely weak.
As for Selena, the black aura around her was already surging, and the majestic, dark power of sin surrounded her, as if it were tangible.
Selena's image at this moment was like a vengeful spirit crawling out of hell, her blood-red eyes filled with resentment as she stared at Wan Lei, as if she wanted to devour him alive.
Her aura and pressure were now no different from those of Jinglian, the Great Benevolent.
She was now... a Great Sinner!
"Why does she hate us so much? I remember... we were the ones who saved her."
Wan Lei sighed. This day had completely changed his understanding of human nature.
"You... killed my sister!"
The ferocious, vengeful spirit Selena walked slowly, looking at Wan Lei and speaking one word at a time.
"It was just my mission."
Wan Lei's expression was calm.
"You're talking nonsense! We've been with you the whole time, and no one gave you any missions. If your mission was to kill her, why didn't you do it sooner and hand over the core hub to her!
She was no longer a threat. Why did you still kill her!
You just heard that the core hub could detonate the entire city, so you wanted to snatch it from her, and you also wanted to... become a Great Sinner,
Right?"
"No, I don't want to. Power is irrelevant to me, and I don't care about the power of sin."
"You're full of it! I'm going to kill you to avenge my sister, even if it means... killing everyone in the city, I will kill you!!!"
Selena roared, her voice filled with resentment.
"I think... you've always wanted to detonate the entire city and become a Great Sinner, right?"
Wan Lei smiled coldly,
"You stole the core hub for that very purpose. It's just that you were caught before you could escape.
After we saved you, the core hub was always with me, and you didn't have a chance to debug it.
Later, I gave it directly to Tanya, and you had even less of a chance.
So, when Tanya was debugging it, you shouted loudly, reminding us to stop her, because you didn't want to give Tanya the chance to become a Great Sinner. You wanted to become a Great Sinner yourself.
You succeeded. The core hub is in your hands..."
"You're lying, I didn't!"
Selena spoke very quickly.
"No, you did. If you really cared about Tanya, then after we defeated her, you should have checked on her injuries immediately, not giving me a chance to take her life.
But you didn't. The first thing you did was to take the core hub into your hands.
You say now that you want to avenge your sister, but that's just an excuse, not an explanation of your purpose, but an excuse to comfort yourself.
Maybe you still have a glimmer of conscience, maybe you still have a trace of kindness.
You're going to kill tens of millions of people, and your conscience is bothering you, so you found an excuse to take revenge to convince yourself.
This excuse can also conveniently eliminate us, who pose a threat to you. After all, we have the strength to defeat the Great Benevolent.
And we once saved you, and if you want to kill us, you have to convince yourself first.
See, what a great excuse, it greatly fills your guilt and satisfies your psychological needs.
In fact, you were selfish and greedy from the beginning. If you want to be a bad person, just point to your heart and be thoroughly bad, openly and honestly.
Like you, wanting to be a whore and still wanting to erect a memorial arch, disgusting and lowly."
"You..."
A trace of panic flashed in Selena's blood-red eyes, obviously Wan Lei had hit the mark, and she was somewhat embarrassed and angry.
"I don't care what you think, call me a bad person or whatever. Now, you are no longer the Thunder God you once were, you have no power. I will give you two a chance to swear an oath to the Nest of Sin and be loyal to me forever.
I will lead you in the battle against the Wheel of Morality, destroy the Benevolent, and in the future, when the world is divided equally, you will have your share of the credit. Consider it yourselves..."
"Idiot."
Wan Lei sneered. A non-existent world, a non-existent person, and she wanted him to be loyal? How ridiculous.
"Bastard!"
Selena roared and her palm turned into a sharp claw, ferociously attacking Wan Lei.
She had just broken into Wan Lei's formation when she suddenly stopped.
She saw that Wan Lei had a ball of light in his hand.
"What... what is that?"
A strong sense of palpitations made Selena retreat again and again.
It was daytime now, and she wasn't afraid of light, but the light within that ball made her feel like she had encountered a natural enemy.
She had a premonition that as long as she dared to rush over, that ball of light would tear her apart.
Just like she saw, that ball of light was constantly destroying the black aura on Wan Lei's body.
"I suddenly discovered that I have a divine power, a technique, that can just restrain this dark power of sin.
I originally thought it was just a light bulb, useless except for emitting light, and that using the power of sin would make it impossible to use this technique.
Fortunately, I still have the Dao of Light. I discovered that the Divine Light Technique, after being blessed by the Dao of Light, is precisely the nemesis of these powers of sin.
After all, this is the Dao of Light that Mu Xian comprehended in the Nest of Sin, such a place of deepest sin.
Even the Nest of Sin cannot resist the light, so how can you resist it.
Today, I have experienced too many things, and it feels longer than a year. So this is what it feels like when every day is like a year.
I'm tired. Let's destroy it."
As he spoke, the light ball in Wan Lei's hand quickly brightened, and the black aura on his body dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"No, stop! You will also lose the power of sin. When that time comes, you will be weaker than even a Lower Sinner!"