Doomsday Code

Chapter 958 Inner Demon Tribulation

With a muffled thud, Kui Niu did not choose to dodge and took Chen Cheng's punch head-on.

Already injured, Kui Niu's mouth bled after taking Chen Cheng's punch.

Chen Cheng stopped throwing punches. When he saw the blood at the corner of Kui Niu's mouth, his heart felt like it was being shredded and shredded again in a meat grinder.

Back then, he thought that the more he interacted with the world, the more attached he became to it, and the more he would never be able to go back.

Now he saw the blood at the corner of Kui Niu's mouth, the resentment in She Li's eyes, and the worry on Noah and the others' faces.

Chen Cheng looked up and roared at the sky.

With a deafening roar, like a boulder piercing through the clouds, the entire sky was swept away by Chen Cheng's roar.

At this moment, Chen Cheng wished he had no memories of his past life. He also understood why, in mythology, people must drink Meng Po soup to be reincarnated after death.

Being reborn with memories is not a blessing, but a curse and torment.

He makes people always remember who they are, instead of truly integrating them into their new life.

This not only harms himself, but also his new life, new family and friends.

Chen Cheng endured this torment his entire life, and after he was able to take care of himself, he chose to leave Samlett.

It wasn't that he didn't want Sam to be by his side to protect him; it was just that a voice inside him told him that he wasn't an emperor, he was just a researcher.

He believed that he had possessed the body of the emperor to whom Samuel served after his death.

And this sense of guilt will deepen as time goes on and one becomes closer to Sam.

Because his own memories would remind him that he was not the emperor, but the person to whom the man who had killed the man in front of him, who had protected and raised him, was loyal.

That's why Chen Cheng was so resolute in letting Samlett leave.

His previous claims about wanting an easier life were nothing but self-deception.

He could use those words to deceive Sam and the others, and he could deceive himself, but in the end, he couldn't deceive his own heart.

Therefore, once he has the opportunity, he will be eager to study science.

However, his true inner thoughts were not about studying science, but about finding the so-called loopholes in this world.

He thought that as long as he found the loophole, he could expose the so-called time travel lie and then go back.

However, he kept these true thoughts buried deep in his heart, and even deceived himself.

Until he arrived in this new world, until he saw that boundary wall that resembled a virtual game, all the thoughts buried in his heart were exposed at that moment.

He could no longer deceive his own heart.

He wanted to go home, even though he was an orphan in his previous life.

But there were his dean, his classmates, his teachers, as well as senior scientists, political commissars, and so on. It was the place where he lived for more than 20 years, growing from a mentally challenged infant into a world-renowned scientific researcher.

That kind of world is real for him, not this world that he was born with memories of, like a holographic game.

However, he himself did not realize that as time went by, he was accepting his new identity, and at the same time, he was also accepting the family and friendship in this world.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have let Sam leave out of guilt, nor would he have wanted to fulfill his ideal of restoring his kingdom because of his identity in this life.

These things had absolutely nothing to do with Chen Cheng, who was sitting in the research institute, but he still chose to do them.

So when he saw the blood flowing from the corner of the bull's mouth and smelled the rust in the blood, he stopped and roared at the sky.

Seeing Chen Cheng's pained expression, Kui Niu and She Li wanted to step forward, but they were both stopped by Ge Long.

"Don't go near him, or he'll really go crazy."

Ge Long's mental strength is extremely sharp. She can sense the intense fluctuations in Chen Cheng's mental state at this moment. If there are any external stimuli, he will easily go into a state of demonic possession.

At this moment, Chen Cheng was in pain and struggling; he was asking himself who he was.

But there were two voices in his heart.

At this moment, Chen Cheng wished he could split himself in two, one side being the Chen Cheng buried in scientific research, and the other side being Brown, burdened with the responsibility of restoring the country.

Chen Cheng could no longer control himself and fell from the sky. Then, like a madman, he kept crashing and falling in the forest, while the expression on his face kept changing.

Sometimes he is Chen Cheng from his past life, and sometimes he is Brown from this life.

Time passed, and Chen Cheng, a boy who was not yet twenty, looked haggard and worn out. He looked like an old man, with disheveled hair and tattered clothes, lying in the deep pit he had created himself, covered in mud.

If it weren't for the visible rise and fall of his chest, everyone would have thought he was dead.

At this moment, the most tormented were Kui Niu and She Li. They had sworn allegiance to Chen Cheng, and for them, the suffering of the monarch they served was their own suffering.

The ones who felt the most guilty were Noah and his friends. In their eyes, Chen Cheng's situation was just like that of their ancestors, who went mad after visiting the ends of the earth.

If Chen Cheng hadn't done it for their world, he wouldn't have become the way he is now.

Of all these people, only Ge Long showed an excited expression.

Just now, she had witnessed a sequence of ascension to godhood.

Just as Chen Cheng was caught up in the madness of self-awareness, the inexplicable sequence of godhood found him again.

However, this time Chen Cheng did not time travel, but instead, as described in cultivation novels, he went through a tribulation of inner demons.

For Chen Cheng, the greatest inner demon is the memory of his past life and his experiences in this life; this is his greatest inner demon.

Ge Long was able to discover these things because her mental strength was strong enough and she was close enough to Chen Cheng to notice them.

After an unknown amount of time, Kui Niu and She Li, their voices trembling, called out to Chen Cheng from the deep pit:

"His Majesty."

"Son."

The two dared not approach Chen Cheng, fearing that their proximity would cause him to go mad with demonic possession, so they could only call out to him from a distance.

At this moment, scenes from his past and present lives kept flashing through Chen Cheng's mind.

Who are you?

I am Chen Cheng, the chief engineer of the research institute.

He himself was Brown, the sixteenth emperor of the Thorn Flower Empire.

No.

I am who I am.

I am who I am.

"...I am myself."