the last king of darkness

Chapter 1 The Murderer (Please collect and recommend)
pain.

excruciating pain.

Unparalleled excruciating pain, like Hutch tearing apart every nerve in his head.

Rhodes was awakened from a deep sleep.

"Fuck... why does my head hurt so much, is someone trying to brainstorm for me?"

"What the hell, whoever says drinking can prevent cerebral infarction, I'll let him have cerebral infarction first..."

Rhodes opened his eyes and was about to get up.

However, the next moment, he was stunned.

This is not a dormitory, nor is it a home. The good brother who drinks alcohol is gone, and he is not on the bed, but sleeping on the dry wasteland.

What is creepy is that there are still many people lying here and there on the wasteland. They are motionless and lifeless.

Obviously dead for a long time.

The hairs on the back of Rhodes' head exploded in an instant.

Why are there so many dead people?

I was dumped?
But it's not like a crematorium either.

Rhodes forced himself to calm down, and when his eyes moved, he discovered more weirdness.

The clothes of the deceased were strange, unlike the modern style, and the body was shriveled and blackened, not like the normal way of death, and there were signs of destruction around it, but as a man who had watched more than 1000 episodes of Conan, he keenly found that these signs were not harmonious.

But even weirder was a lamp.

In the middle of the pile of corpses, tightly held by a withered hand.

Its outer layer is a grid surrounded by gray metal, and its inner layer is thick translucent glass, from which a small flame that seems to be extinguished at any time can be vaguely seen.

And the light emitted by this fragile flame illuminates the world within a radius of [-] meters.

Beyond the [-]-meter fire, there was a thick black mist that was constantly rolling.

There is no night sky, no stars, no moon, and no sun.

Only darkness.

Rhodes opened his mouth wide and couldn't even breathe. Only the husky in his head was demolishing the house.

Make no mistake, this is by no means a normal, understandable world.

If it wasn't for the continued pain, Rhodes would have thought he was dreaming.

"Oops, I'm not in the weird world... This is going to be a terrible death..."

Rhodes regretted watching so many horror movies. All kinds of horror scenes in his memory flooded out uncontrollably in his mind. He was eaten by monsters, stuffed into the sewer alive, pressed into suitcases, made into candied fruit, etc. Waiting for uncomfortable pictures to come in turn.

"Calm down, calm down, I'm going to calm down now."

Rhodes took a deep breath continuously.

"Don't panic, don't panic, Mr. Lu Xun once said that the best way to get rid of fear is to face it, not all supernatural and ghost movies are wiped out..."

"I will definitely survive and return to my world. Zhiling Rimi Yui Yuina Asuka is still waiting for me, I can't let them feel sad for me..."

It was hard for Rhodes to calm down. As soon as his rational thinking recovered, fragments of memory surged out of his brain.

After spending tens of minutes digesting this short but very broken piece of information, Rhode's heart sank to the bottom of the sea.

As he saw it, this was a world shrouded in black mist.

The pervasive black mist will corrupt all living creatures, only monsters roam in it.

The world has sunk, countless countries have been destroyed, reduced to monster lairs, the sun, moon and stars are hard to see.

Only fire protects human beings.

They call it the Guardian Fire, or the Fire of Light, the Fire of Life, the Fire of Hope, and the Fire of Eternity, and with it they built a human settlement to survive in this dark hell.

The settlement is completely dependent on the power of fire, the stronger the fire, the bigger the settlement.

And the most powerful guardian fire is the sacred fire of the royal city, which is also their largest settlement, and all villages, towns and other settlements are within the range of its power radiation and exist around it.

The Hongshi Village where he lives is such a settlement, and it takes mining redstone in Wangcheng as its mission and livelihood.

Naturally, he is also a miner, his parents are both miners, his grandfather, grandpa, and grandpa's grandfather are also miners, and his life of mining is boundless and happy all the year round, until one day, bad luck strikes.

There was turmoil in the world shrouded in black mist, Wangcheng had to narrow its scope and gave up part of the land and settlements.

Unfortunately, Hongshi Village was among the abandoned ones, and they were forced to relocate.

And the corpses on the ground are all members of the relocation team from Hongshi Village to Wangcheng.

"This... the whole army is wiped out? Is it just me?"

Rhodes felt a strong chill.

That's never a good thing, and it usually means worse and worse bad luck for him.

He didn't know what happened during the migration, how they died, and how he survived.

The memory is broken, and there are large gaps.

"What should I do, I won't die here, will I?"

"No no, it's impossible."

"Observe, I need to observe, maybe I can find clues to go home."

Rhodes looked around and quickly noticed the red stones scattered among the corpses.

They seem to have been arranged artificially, with strong directivity.

Pointing to the center, is a strange pattern drawn by blood.

Its diameter is less than half a meter, the outer layer is a circle, and inside the circle are two intersecting lightning lines. The strong visual sense makes it look extremely aggressive, and the blackened blood makes it look a little weird.

Rhode's pupils shrank, and he forgot both fear and headache for a while.

Isn't the symbol on this pattern the title page of the article about courage in the famous psychological masterpiece "The Interpretation of Dreams" that he read before?

The experience before time travel came to my mind.

He was studying in the dormitory, and his brothers asked him to drink.

I didn't want to go, but a bad friend said that drinking can prevent cerebral infarction, open up the clogged parts of the brain, enlighten him, and let his emotional talent that has been dusted for many years reappear in brilliance.Read again the classic cheats he has collected for many years, and you will definitely be able to turn into a gentle and warm man who is a master in love, warm her all day with a word, easily catch up with the goddess in your heart, marry Bai Fumei, and reach the pinnacle of life.

Rhodes couldn't resist the kind invitation of his friend and the desire in his heart. Although he didn't know much about drinking, he still went.

It turned out to be really useful. After reading books such as "Sea King's Sutra" and "Scumbags" after drinking, Rhodes felt that he had grasped the true meaning of life, understood "Emotional Quotient", and would never be confused by the atmosphere. The child dislikes it.

The only thing lacking is courage.

Then, he thought of the "Interpretation of Dreams" he was watching just now, and thought of the symbol about courage.

Before going to bed, he laid out the symbol with both hands according to the book, put it on his chest, and closed his eyes peacefully.

He thought that after waking up, the new bright road of life would unfold before his eyes, but he did not expect to be really "peaceful".

Thoughts flashed by, and a thought jumped up in Rhodes' mind.

If all this really has to do with it, well.

Can I go back?

The moment this idea appeared, the blood vessels in the brain were beating wildly, and the heart was about to burst. The longing to go home attracted him, family members, best friends, the Internet, keyboards, real or virtual, present or future wives, encouraged him he.

Infinite courage rises in my heart.

There is nothing to be afraid of anymore.

Rhodes quickly ran to the target point.

In such an unknown danger, decisive and targeted actions may not necessarily lead to good results, but they are the closest path to success.

Hesitation, hesitation, staying put, seems safe, but often leads to worse results.

Although it cannot be determined, this is the only possibility.

Maybe with just a light touch, he can travel back home in an instant.

Rhodes jumped into this weird pattern.

In the next instant, the body felt hot, as if something hot had penetrated it.

Immediately afterwards, the eyes went dark, and countless pictures rushed to his face.

On the dark wasteland, a team is walking alone.

In the team, one hand was raised high, crushing a black skull, and there was a very obvious eye pattern on the back of the hand.

There was a disturbance in the procession, and ghostly figures walked among them.

All are dead.

The picture disappeared, the strange feeling faded, Rhodes came back to his senses, the pattern under his feet began to evaporate, black blood evaporated, turned into fine black dust, and flew away.

The light dimmed a little.

"what happened?"

Rhodes was a little confused, what do those pictures mean?What is hot and swelling?
Also, is this weird symbol just gone?
Won't you surprise me a little bit?
Looking around, the scene of corpses lying all over the ground still makes people feel creepy, but there is a feeling of familiarity.

Suddenly, a thought popped up:
"Could it be that the scene I saw just now is the scene when this team was destroyed?"

"The hand that crushed the Tianling Cap is the murderer?"

But what good is it that I know the murderer?If I kill the murderer, will a portal be opened on his body to send me home?

While he was in a daze, Rhodes suddenly noticed ghosts floating around, and there was a strange humming sound in the air, casting a shadow over all the corpses.

"How is this going?"

"Didn't I release some ghost thing?"

puff!
A monster covered in black hair stepped in from the edge of light and darkness.

The moment the fire light shone on it, a raging fire was ignited, and black smoke and dust scattered all over the sky with the flames.

Its movements froze for a moment, but it didn't stop completely, like wading through mud.

"Grass!"

Rhodes was taken aback and backed away again and again.

"What the hell is this! I don't want this kind of surprise!"

puff!puff!puff!
More black-haired monsters stepped in from the black mist.

The flying black ash and burning fire made them look extremely terrifying.

boom!
In a panic, Rhode accidentally tripped over the corpse.

Just as he was about to get up, the corpse grabbed his ankle.

"Fuck!"

Rhode's whole body's hair stood on end, he kicked off the corpse's hand, and jumped out like a frightened rabbit.

"The corpse is alive!"

What's worse, Rhodes looked at it in a blink of an eye, and every corpse within a hundred meters was about to move.

"groove!"

Rhodes couldn't say anything else.

He had nowhere to run, and he didn't know where to run.

I won't be finished, will I?

While panicking, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a shooting star passing by in the distant sky.

The thought was touched in an instant.

Rhodes immediately remembered that this was the rescuer of Wangcheng.

In the impression of memory, Wangcheng is the pillar of all their beliefs.

As a human kingdom that can survive in such a harsh and dark environment, they must have their own way of operating to deal with threats from the sinister outside world and the invasion of monsters.

The migration team lost contact here, they must have found something unusual!

"Hey!"

Rhodes shouted, hope suddenly rose in his heart.

Not just the hope of salvation, but a greater hope.

He stepped into the pattern just now and saw the scene of the destruction of this relocation team.

Combined with the traces left at the scene, it can be deduced that this must be a man-made murder.

The murderer is characterized by a very obvious eye pattern engraved on the back of the hand.

This is very important information to solve the case. If he provides it to the rescuers, he should give some rewards.

According to the experience of the original world, for a serious case involving the murder of hundreds of people, at least an S-level arrest warrant should be issued, which can provide important information for arresting the S-level wanted criminal. It is not too much to allocate a flat in Wangcheng, right?

If things really went as he thought, among other things, at least the probability of surviving would be greatly increased.

"I'm here! I'm here!"

Rhodes jumped up and down in front of the light, waving wildly.

And the meteors in the sky seemed to have noticed this place, and flew towards it.

"Good! I have hope!"

However, in ecstasy, Rhodes suddenly discovered that there was a black engraving on the back of his waving hand.

The black lines staggered up and down, forming a huge pupil.

Exactly the same as what I saw before.

isn't it?
Rhodes' whole body froze.

This... the murderer is actually me?
I report myself and assign a cell in Wangcheng?

boom.

The meteor landed.

(End of this chapter)