Chapter 166 Greed

Time, stopped.

Irene and Xiaohui's movements remained at the moment before the handshake. Xiaohui's rare expression was well preserved, and Irene's helpless expression was also frozen.

No, now that body can only be called "Tachikawa Reina". Li Zheng, who had unknowingly floated out of the yin-yang fish on Dongfeng Guhui's chest, had seen Irene's true form.

A faint shadow floated above Tachikawa Reina. It was Irene's soul and Irene's consciousness.

Compared with Tachikawa Reina's body, Irene was very thin. After all, she had lived in the hospital since she was a child. Matter determines consciousness, and the image reflected by her soul is also a very thin woman.

[This feeling is familiar. ] At this time, Li Zheng suddenly remembered a past scene.

That was the feeling after the duel with Li Ao, who had traveled through time and occupied the body of the duelist killer, was completed on the island of the duelist kingdom. The power of the "super fusion" that destroyed the world was still deeply imprinted in Li Zheng's memory.

And this time, although there was no "super fusion", the situation just became less dangerous. In fact, the reasons for the two incidents were the same.

[Upgrade patch detected, the system has started downloading, please wait...]

Yes, it is an upgrade patch! In fact, the system had already detected the upgrade patch when Li Zheng first met Irene (see Chapter 141 for details), and now it may be because Li Zheng defeated Irene that the "upgrade patch" on Irene will be taken away by the system.

Li Zheng pinched the terminal that wanted to go out to download the upgrade patch. He still had many questions to ask Irene.

Irene no longer looks like a girl. She should be around 25 years old, which is the best time for a woman. But for Irene, besides becoming a witch and killing people everywhere, she can only lie on the bed like a corpse, unable to see, hear, speak, or walk.

Although she is a little thin, Li Zheng can still see that if she is well-nourished, Irene may not lose to those popular movie stars in appearance.

"Well, I really can't leave this time." Irene looked at Li Zheng who was coming over, waved to him with some relief, and said to him: "It seems that the thing in your hand wants to eat me? Why don't you let it go? There should be nothing worthy of pity for someone like me?"

"Not pity." Li Zheng pinched the terminal and contacted Ling to ask her to turn off this guy's voice system, otherwise it would be too noisy. After the environment was quiet, Li Zheng continued: "Yes, I still have some questions to ask you."

"Oh? It's an honor." Irene simply sat down, "I will tell you everything I know, but there is a condition, at least let me maintain this state for a while, okay? I haven't moved freely with my own body for 20 years."

Li Zheng nodded, and then said curiously: "You are quite open-minded. But I am curious why you killed so many ordinary girls without any pressure to carry out the action. If you really just want to go out and see the time like that silly kid said, then you can just choose a contractor and see the world from her perspective, right? You have no scruples to use this extremely destructive and easy to expose yourself method?"

"To be honest, it's my obsession. Of course, you can also say it's because of my greed . "Irene spread her hands, indicating that she had anticipated this question, and said: "Many people once said that I was a greedy witch, who killed other people's lives to maintain the filthy soul that should not exist in the world. Later, I simply admitted that I was a witch and that I was doing things that were against the will of heaven and earth. "

"You are so direct, don't you know how to restrain yourself at all?" Li Zheng said helplessly, "It seems that you are completely inhumane."

"If you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; if you lose your animality, you lose everything." Irene closed her eyes and said lightly: "I never deny that I am a bad person. If I die, I will definitely be in hell forever, right? But everything I do is just to survive, to take a look at this world that I still like even though it is full of malice towards me. "

Li Zheng was silent.

"I can see that you and I are the same kind of people - maybe we should use the word 'spiritual' here? Forget it, it doesn't matter. The only difference is that you are very lucky, you have the skills to possess without hurting the other party, and..." Irene glanced at Dongfeng Guhui who kept a rare smile in the time pause, and continued: "And a person who is willing to let you possess and willing to give you everything about his body."

"..." Li Zheng was silent. Indeed, he was very lucky. If his contractor was not Dongfeng Guhui who was willing to communicate, willing to listen to his teachings, and willing to let him possess and control everything about his body, but an arrogant boy who used himself as a plug-in tool, used it when he wanted to show off, and left it on the bench at other times, and then used Li Zheng's ability to open a harem as a stud, his choice might not be much more humane than Irene's.

"Right? But I don't have such good luck. I also tried to negotiate with them, but the final result was failure." Irene changed her posture and continued: "If you are not desperate, who would like to be hunted down every day as a witch? But my childhood experience tells me that this world cannot accommodate me: when I was five years old, the plane crashed, and it was my mother who exchanged everything for my survival; later, my five senses faded little by little until I became a waste that was no different from a corpse; I finally had the ability to go out, and all the dark ability users in Europe wanted to kill me as soon as possible. Fortunately, in order to monopolize my power, they did not pass this news to District 11, otherwise I would have died in this competition."

"In fact, it seems that you will not live long now." Li Zheng looked at the terminal that was getting harder and harder to hold and the countless warning sounds from the system, and said to Irene: "Then why did you go to the European Cup before? It is easier to be exposed, isn't it?"

"That time I went there because I wanted to die. But those people The people were driven away by John's hired men. Really, you are only twelve years old, don't think of yourself as an adult..." Irene's expression changed for the first time. Before, Irene had a look of indifference, but now she looked doting, "It was also that time that I found that I was not lonely. Afterwards, I hoped that the organization under my name could focus on research on prosthetics instead of continuing to hunt people."

"Then because of the shortage of funds, you came to Duel City, right?" Li Zheng frowned, thinking that the situation was not that simple, "Then why did you continue to kill? It stands to reason that you can let others win with the 'Beetle Machine'? I also know the strength of this deck. "

"For this, I can only say that I am used to it." Irene finally showed a very sorry expression. She looked at the body of "Tachikawa Rena" standing in time and said: "I have become accustomed to this way of action, and I have completed it unconsciously. I am very sorry..."

Li Zheng talked about this and felt that there was nothing to say. He should be able to answer Xiaohui's questions in the future. Irene is indeed a villain, and she even admits that she is a real witch who has given up her humanity in order to survive. But if you think about it from another perspective, Irene's actions can only be considered mild compared to those Long Aotian in the novels that Li Zheng occasionally read in his previous life, who would kill the whole family if someone looked at his woman, and would shout "My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of God" and then kill everyone if he was a little unhappy.

To be honest, if the Q-level dark ability was placed in the "College City" of an anime in the previous life, it would be easy to be rated as level 5, and even compete for the top two. If the person who obtained this theory was an ordinary middle school boy or a cynical person, the consequences can be imagined.

Of course, reality cannot be compared with novels. After all, this is the 21st century, and Irene's behavior can be regarded as the wrath of heaven and people.

Then, he held the terminal, which was basically uncontrollable, in front of Irene and said, "Xiaohui gave you the right to surrender so that you can freely decide your own fate once. Then I will give you a right now: I will tell you clearly that the time stop will end soon. At that time, you can use your ability to leave, and I will not stop you; then, you can also choose to be eaten by this thing now. It may only eat your ability and turn you back to the fragile patient you were before, or it may directly eat your soul and make you unable to go to hell. Choose."

"There is no need to choose at all." Irene smiled slightly and reached out to catch Li Zheng's terminal. Then Li Zheng untied all the restraints on the terminal, and the terminal sucked Irene in in an instant!

[Download of the upgrade component "Greed" is complete, and the upgrade patch has started to be installed. Please wait... Installation is complete! ]

["Greed"? 】Li Zheng pinched his chin and thought: [Is the struggle for the most basic right to survive greed...]

——————Fragments of the Pot of Greed——————

Thanks to the book friend Shenyin Humanoid Master for the reward.