The world has turned into Hell's Game, why should I stay human?
Chapter 284 - 278 Quack! I don’t want to listen, don’t want to listen! (Two in One)

Chapter 284: Chapter 278 Quack! I don’t want to listen, don’t want to listen! (Two in One)

"Oh."

Liu Zheng nodded.

"Young man, don’t you find that surprising?"

Dickens hadn’t expected such a response.

"Not surprising, humans evolved from apes after all, and are still considered a type of animal."

He shrugged.

"Apes? No, according to our research, humans were originally meant to be a beast like a wolf."

Dickens shook his head.

"That works too, wolves sound even cooler."

Liu Zheng said.

"Don’t you find that disgusting? Noble humans originally being lowly beasts."

Dickens asked curiously.

"Then do you believe in the existence of the soul?"

He countered.

"Of course I do, in fact, I have indeed seen ghosts."

Dickens replied.

"So what do you think is noble, the body or the soul?"

"Certainly the soul. Just like my teacher Master Albert, his soul is grand like the stars in the sky."

Dickens said without hesitation.

Even though he had betrayed Master Albert, founded the Blood Healing Church, and led to the decline of Carcarens Academy, this did not affect his admiration for his former teacher.

And Albert’s appearance was not outstanding, even somewhat ugly.

"So what do you think is noble, the past or the present?"

Liu Zheng asked again.

"This..."

Dickens hesitated.

"Suppose there’s a person, he used to help others warmly and was honest, but later he started refining copper and tortured many young boys and girls, would you say he is noble or despicable?"

"Certainly despicable."

Dickens didn’t hesitate this time.

"So you see, humans are now human, that’s enough. Besides, I don’t think humans themselves are very noble, what’s noble is that certain shining human qualities."

He said.

"I didn’t expect someone as young as you to see things so clear-sightedly, I truly admire that. If you could enter Carcarens Academy, Master Albert would definitely want to teach you personally."

Dickens said wistfully.

"I am just standing on the shoulders of giants."

Liu Zheng said modestly.

"Do you mean you have been taught by a sage?"

"No, I mean that my body determines my mind. If we’re talking physically, I’m not even human anymore."

He raised his four tentacles to indicate.

"Ah, this... is it possible for you to tell me how you ended up like this?"

Dickens looked at his tentacles both fearfully and eagerly.

"It’s nothing special, I ate something I shouldn’t have, listened to some ’Gospel’ I shouldn’t have."

Liu Zheng licked his lips, seemingly reminiscing about the poor taste of Black Mountain Goat Cub eyeballs.

"Of course, if I hadn’t become like this, I would have died a long time ago. It’s a trade-off, I suppose,"

he said, spreading his tentacles.

"Gospel..."

Dickens’s flames began to flow again, connecting into a network on his body like blood vessels.

"Yes, I also heard it. Those voices flowing in the Holy Blood, they are longing for reunion."

He whispered, his voice becoming indistinct.

"Is this a trigger word?"

Liu Zheng once again raised the sawtoothed butcher knife.

"It calls to me. Young man, tell Amelia to be wary of the Holy Blood."

Dickens clawed open his own chest; no blood flowed out, just a fistful of flames that he grabbed and threw on the ground, burning incessantly.

"No, embrace the Holy Blood, let us evolve."

"No, everything is too late. It will descend from the blood moon, ruling all."

"Amelia!"

Dickens let out a high scream, then sprang up from the throne again.

Fierce flames burst out from his body, forming a suit of flame armor around him.

"Burn the filth blood!"

He shouted angrily and mechanically, his fiery claws reaching for Liu Zheng.

Wherever it went, the air steamed and deformed from the heat.

"What are you bluffing, do you think you’re the Red Ghost?"

He rolled his eyes, his four tentacles grasping the Slaughter Knife and chopping down.

A great force struck again, and Liu Zheng flew into the wall like a tennis ball.

His luck was bad this time; he hit his head directly.

The occipital bone at the back of the skull broke instantly, and the shock waves nearly blended his brain.

Amidst the severe pain, waves of nausea came from deep within his brain, and his vision blurred, obviously affected.

Groggy, he saw a bright shadow rushing towards him.

Liu Zheng tried to control his body and dodge to the side.

However, with his brain severely impacted, his body was not as responsive as usual.

Dickens’s fiery claws brushed past him, taking two of his tentacles and charring the stumps.

"Indeed, protecting my brain like I used to was right."

Liu Zheng thought groggily.

Even if he could regrow them, the negative impact of brain damage on fighting was too great.

Dickens attacked again, this time his claw back spraying flames to accelerate.

The already enhanced speed of the claw strike reached a new level; he couldn’t even see it clearly, let alone counter it.

To dodge or to block?

Instinctively, he made a third choice.

Liu Zheng raised the Slaughter Knife to protect his head, then charged directly underneath Dickens.

Dickens hadn’t expected him to do that, and because his speed also exceeded his own control, he couldn’t retract his claws in time.

But just because he couldn’t retract his claws didn’t mean he had no other means.

The scorching flames burst forth like a fountain from his previously torn wound, spraying onto Liu Zheng’s body.

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