Doomsday Code

Chapter 1006 Inner Fear

As for Dean, after receiving Mondy's orders, Mocha simply saw him off outside the school, and the two went their separate ways.

Watching Dean's departing figure, Mocha let out a long sigh.

At that moment, Mondi appeared beside him without him even noticing.

"Let's go, call Bonavana over. Looks like we need to get serious."

Dean returned to the Monster Mountain Range and immediately reported to Chen Cheng about his negotiations.

It was only at this point that Chen Cheng realized he could no longer act according to his own whims.

Based on past experience, he should not have needed to wait at all; he could have simply led Noah and the others away from the group.

But now things are different. He is now the backbone of Dean's group, and the emperor who has truly raised the banner of national restoration.

The atmosphere was quiet for a moment, and Dean was holding the order signed by Monty, waiting for Chen Cheng's command.

"Get up. It's getting late. Let's rest here for the night and set off tomorrow."

After Chen Cheng finished speaking, he turned around and leaped towards the high cliff outside the campsite.

Seeing this, the shadow guards who were traveling with him wanted to follow, but Dean stopped them, saying:

"Everyone go back."

Chen Cheng stood on the edge of the cliff, and all he could see was a vast jungle.

"Do you know that for the first ten years of my life, all I could see were these trees? Apart from Sam, all I encountered were monsters and the pursuers who were chasing me."

I was just a tiny little kid back then, barely born. I only saw my parents once before Sam took me away.

I'm not lying to you, I knew then that I might never see them again in my life.

Chen Cheng let out a long breath and continued:

"After that, it was all about fleeing and fleeing again. I was a newborn baby who needed to be nursed, and at that time, Samlett could only find animal milk for me."

I still remember the clouded leopard that nursed me the longest. At the time, I thought the people of this world weren't even as good as that clouded leopard that would often drool over me, yet was forced by Sam to nurse me.

"If all the people in this world are this kind of beast, I felt at that time that my life was over."

So even though I've had powerful figures like Samlet around me since I was little, I've never started cultivating.

"I know that once I start cultivating, I might become very strong, because this is not bragging, but Samlett himself said that I am a genius among one in ten thousand who cultivates the path of the warrior."

But so what? With power and a title, one is like wielding a sharp blade, ready to kill.

Should I fight and vie for power for these beasts?

"Do you think my reasons are ridiculous, like those of an ignorant child? But the truth behind them is bizarre and convoluted, and there are many things and reasons that I cannot say."

"And that's how it was, until I came out of seclusion."

"Do you know, the first person I encountered besides the pursuers on the first day I came out of the mountains was a group of 'wild men'. They didn't hurt me, they were just afraid of me and drove me away from their village."

I was very happy at that time because finally the people I met were no longer a bunch of guys who only knew how to shout and fight.

But not long after I left, perhaps because of my unwarranted intrusion, they were brought about a catastrophic disaster.

"Slave-catching team, this is a word that I could never have imagined in the first ten years of my life."

They are a bunch of scum and degenerates, they can't even be called human, they are worse than animals.

They massacred the entire village, intending to capture the able-bodied villagers to serve as slaves. Their justification for this was that these villagers, living in the mountains, couldn't speak Mandarin.

What a ridiculous reason this is.

As Chen Cheng spoke, his eyes welled up with tears. He still vividly remembered the scene when he returned and saw those beasts slaughtering the villagers.

"When I was arrested, I thought I would probably die in the fields of some estate or in the mine shafts of some mine."

"And then I met Finelle, who was the second person to save me, and also the first person to save me who had no connection with me at all."

"Although she can be quite willful and capricious at times, she is still an innocent, lovely, and kind-hearted noble lady."

"It was because of her that I was able to meet Melos and others, who are 'good people' who can be labeled differently by the people I met in the first ten years of my life."

"And this world is sometimes so messed up. Good people are always the weaker party, while bad people rely on their power to act arrogantly and bully ordinary people at will."

At this time, HuiDun provided me with a platform to showcase my abilities.

"It is because of them, and you all, that I, a stranger in this land, have gradually regained my sense of belonging to this world."

"But, but I don't want to lose you all after gaining this recognition."

"Perhaps I shouldn't have chosen to run away in the first place. Perhaps then, you would have just been some kind of power-up stat in my eyes, just a bunch of useful NPCs."

At this moment, Chen Cheng's voice began to choke, and his words became somewhat unrestrained.

When he realized that he was now an emperor with power and influence, and even needed the attention of the world's major kingdoms, he suddenly found himself becoming a lonely figure.

In my past life, I read history books where monarchs referred to themselves as "lonely and lonely," and some even deliberately made themselves isolated in order to prevent others from knowing their preferences, creating a situation where those below would follow suit.

At that time, he could stand at the height of a modern person and freely criticize these feudal monarchs in history books.

But now that he has reached this point, he realizes that claiming to be a sovereign and a widow is not just affectation for those monarchs, but a necessary course for anyone who wants to become a qualified monarch.

Just like now, if Dean and his ilk were treacherous officials who, in order to curry favor with Chen Cheng, didn't bother to arrange these things...

If he messes things up and follows in his father's footsteps, what will become of Dean and his current career?

Being willful is the freedom of ordinary people, but it is absolutely not the choice of a group leader.

Just as Chen Cheng was weeping and lamenting his fate, She Li's voice reached his ears.

"I've always been here, and everyone has always been here too."

Abandonment does not offer comfort, for the sinful world in which one lives does not give others the opportunity to be sentimental.

At the same time, he was also very clear about the nature of the monarch he served.

He was not a sophisticatedly self-serving ruler; he lacked Noah's heroic spirit, and he could hardly be described as a brave man.

He was just an ordinary person with exceptional talent for cultivation and innate knowledge.

Therefore, he would feel pain because of this.