The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 697 - 695 Wake Up

[Moon God. Lorrian]

Sitting atop the Moonstone Throne, he raised his right arm and gently flicked his Blood Moon Skull with his index finger,

Ding! A clear ringing sound spread throughout the Inner Court of the Temple,

Kneeling before the throne, Principal Desline immediately snapped out of her chaotic state, her starry eyes regaining their luster and beginning to shine, but the immense pressure and the deep, low whispers in her ears made her dare not make any rash moves.

Dentist Jessica could only stand at the entrance of the Inner Court,

They both looked towards the center of the Inner Court, towards the lifeless-eyed Mr. Yi, watching as Lorrian, who claimed to be the Moon God, slowly approached him.

However,

Neither the Principal nor the Dentist could make sense of the situation before them, not due to Lorrian’s chaotic demeanor,

but due to the strange condition of [Yi Chen].

Firstly, from the Principal’s side,

when the cruise ship arrived at the edge of the Silver Sea, William, standing on the deck, said something very odd.

"I will temporarily conceal my actions for the next move, and let another me take over... He might be quite vile and cruel, I hope the Principal doesn’t mind."

At the time, besides nodding in agreement, the Principal also raised a question, "Hmm... why think of replacing ’the other you’ now rather than at the start of the action?

Since you can sense the moon, the moon can sense your arrival too, right? Lorrian should know you are here, right?

Moreover, he took part in the battle to reclaim Zion, and Lorrian also knows me~ I can’t conceal my identity from him, what exactly are you planning to do?"

"I am just preparing for the worst-case scenario," was the nearly riddle-like answer William gave before smiling and walking away from the deck.

...

The Dentist had a different perspective.

She spent a full seven days and seven nights conducting a medical examination on William, knowing his body from head to toe, and also discovered the ’Second Body’ structure that William had deliberately formed on his back during the silver tarnish period,

a withered, deformed human embedded in the spine area, seemingly a vessel for someone else.

On the fourth day of the examination, while William was napping, a person claiming to be Yi Chen emerged, took over the body, and had a private conversation with the Dentist.

Yi Chen wanted her to redo a basic medical examination, fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

despite it being the same body, the results were vastly different.

In Jessica’s tests, Yi Chen’s proficiency on a physical level, his combat experience, and even his mastery of death were all far superior to William’s.

Moreover, through their conversation, Dentist Jessica conducted a psychological evaluation and found that Yi Chen had severe paranoid personality disorder and bipolar disorder, yet he was still able to disguise himself well.

In Jessica’s eyes, if one completely disregards the factor of the abyss, Yi Chen’s level of danger was over ten times that of William’s and he shouldn’t have been so easily captured, even if targeted, not kneeling here like a beast being slaughtered.

Lorrian, standing beside Yi Chen like an executioner, trod on feet formed by bizarre geometric shapes.

As he slowly raised his twisted, slender right arm, a swath of moonlight suddenly descended, forming an ancient-air emitting Moonlight Greatsword in Lorrian’s hands.

He was about to perform a "beheading,"

employing the method Yi Chen was most adept at for his execution, maximally displaying his incompetence.

A rotten and profound eerie sound came from around the Inner Court, "I hereby pass judgment, sentence this murderer to immediate death, and I will personally carry out the execution."

The words dropped along with the sword in his hand,

Thud!

The lifeless head rolled on the ground, the headless body maintaining its kneeling posture.

The smooth cut was stained silver, preventing any form of regeneration.

Yet,

whether it was Jessica standing at the door or Desline kneeling before the throne, neither showed much change in expression, perhaps they were shocked, perhaps they felt that it wasn’t William who died, perhaps the beheading felt too discordant and they didn’t perceive a definite life fluctuation.

With the completion of the beheading,

Lorrian, as the governor of the moon and the spreader of chaos,

could clearly feel that Yi Chen had been branded with the label [Death] by the moonlight, already fully trapped within it, an undeniable fact that couldn’t be changed.

The beheading was undoubtedly a success,

but as Lorrian gazed at the head no longer rolling on the ground, he felt a strange sense of loss.

Despite always wanting to kill Yi Chen, to eliminate this person who had unknowingly occupied half of William, to kill this utterly irrational and inferior murderer, to kill this outsider who came from nowhere.

But when he had done all this, he felt something was missing, as if he were engaged in a meaningless act.

The putrid voice echoed again in the Inner Court,

"Killed so easily! Why should such a lowly being reside within William? Why didn’t it resist more, why did it die just like that!?"

Just as Lorrian felt dissatisfied with such a beheading,

he suddenly noticed that the severed head lying on the ground seemed to be ’changing’, the head didn’t appear freshly cut but rather showed signs of decay as though it had been set aside for a while.

Snap!

The rotting eyeball fell out on its own,

and from the pitch-black eye sockets, tears flowed continuously, to be precise, a sticky, pitch-black substance, a liquid that contained only death and no other impurities.

As Lorrian stared at the decaying head absentmindedly, the body without a head in front of him also began to change.

What was originally just an ordinary body kneeling on the ground now bowed lower, in a gesture of worship. It was as if paying homage to some unseen deity, as if worshiping the concept of death in a spiritual plane.

As the act of worship unfolded,

more and more black liquid flowed out from the eye sockets of the head, and even from the nostrils, ears, and mouth, spilling out,

flooding the floor in front of it with bubbling, surging black liquid, even starting to produce hands from its depths, crawling out were all those who had once been killed by Yi Chen,

they crowded together, lifting Yi Chen’s head, and reattaching it to the body.

Even though the neck was silverly severed, the head still managed to rejoin.

Regaining its original position, it extended its neck awaiting Lorrian’s beheading, while the surrounding dead did not disperse but stood as spectators to witness the process.

This occurrence stunned Lorrian, he was sure of death, yet why this occurred baffled him.

This time he summoned more moonlight to converge upon his sword blade and suddenly struck down...

Perhaps it was an illusion, but at the instant the blade fell, Lorrian felt Yi Chen tilt his head slightly, glaring at him with pitch-black pupils.

The head was severed again and rolled away.

When the surrounding dead tried to pick up the head again, they were immediately torn apart by several strikes of moonlight sword energy, turning into pools of black liquid.

But... Yi Chen’s head continued to flow black liquid, spawning more dead, even forming a procession supporting a canopy, carrying the head back in front of the worshiping body.

Rejoined again,

and again offering Lorrian the chance to behead.

This time, Lorrian directly cleaved the surrounding temple, letting a great amount of moonlight pour in, scorching the group of onlooking dead, evaporating the black liquid.

Beheading again, with even greater force!

This time, the severed head was flung into the air... but before it could touch the ground, snap! It was caught by a hand.

However, the one catching the head was not a dead person, but Yi Chen himself.

Forcefully reattaching the head to his neck, he stretched and yawned, his whole body crackling with the sound.

"Huh~ Ah! Continuous real death cleared my mind quite a bit, finally sweeping away the accumulated chaos... It’s been a long time since I fell into such a chaotic state."

Yi Chen suddenly turned his head, staring at Lorrian beside him with his pupil-less pitch-black eyes,

"You got it wrong, Mr. Lorrian.

I am a dead man myself~ The more you try to implant the concept of death in me, the more comfortable I will become.

It’s been a long while since someone killed me like this, I must admit you are indeed very powerful. Much stronger than the last time you imprisoned me in the Aquarium, especially this newfound chaotic ability.

I was almost completely lost, almost completely sunk into the ’fake world’ you constructed."

No sooner had these words fallen than an axe cleaved directly into Lorrian’s Blood Moon head.

Bang~ The Blood Moon skull shattered, and the whole world too, shattered and exploded like glass.

Huha! Deep breath~

Yi Chen, Jessica, and Principal Daislin awoke together in a tub filled with silver liquid, each with a neural conduit inserted into the back of their heads, connected to a special device at the center of the tub, a metal container immersed with a shimmering brain, which barely breasted the water surface.

They were currently in an underground experimental laboratory of a clinic,

and as the three sat up, their gazes simultaneously turned to the opposite side of the laboratory

Lorrian, dressed in a silver suit and with silver hair, was sitting on a stool, legs crossed, still rolling a silver coin in his hand, his moon eyes meeting theirs.

A tall female doctor also stood by his side throughout, giving him a continuous infusion.

"Yi... you are the first and the only individual who has relied on his own to surpass the ’Brain in a Vat’, no wonder you could become William’s other half. I knew it, William’s tastes should not be inferior to mine, not to let a wasteful entity reside within him."

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