Chapter 146 - 142: Three O’clock Sharp (Finale)

Chapter 146: Chapter 142: Three O’clock Sharp (Finale)

Zhong Shu’s eyes widened in disbelief when he heard Lucifer’s words.

Changlong Mall fell silent in an instant.

They had believed Zhong Shu’s words, and they had also heard Lucifer’s new rule.

Everyone put some distance between themselves and the people nearby, warily watching their surroundings.

They were terrified of becoming one of the thirty-three to be sacrificed.

No one spoke. The scene was utterly quiet.

"AHHH!!!"

A blood-curdling scream shattered the silence.

The crowd turned to look at the middle-aged woman standing by the edge of the lava pit.

It was this self-proclaimed follower of God, this zealot, who had just pushed a young girl into the lava pit.

Her eyes were bloodshot. As her facial muscles twitched uncontrollably, beads of sweat flew from her face.

She looked like someone who had experienced true terror and been driven mad by it.

"Someone has to die! Someone has to die! I have to kill someone!

I’ve already killed someone. Someone has died in my place, so you can’t kill me."

The woman was hysterical, her words completely incoherent.

Someone had set a precedent, and the expressions on the others’ faces turned vicious.

If they didn’t obey Lucifer, if thirty-three people didn’t fall into the lava pit within thirty-three minutes, God only knew how Lucifer would punish them!

Zhong Shu realized what they were about to do and shouted:

"Stop! Let me think of a way! Let me think!"

No one listened.

The scene descended into chaos.

A free-for-all began.

More and more people were thrown into the lava pit.

Zhong Shu’s eyes felt like they were about to burst from their sockets.

’Why? Why would these people be so cruel to the innocent?’

’The innocent...’

A muscle in the corner of Zhong Shu’s eye twitched.

There were no innocent people here.

Lucifer’s voice suddenly echoed in Zhong Shu’s ears:

"This is humanity. Vicious toward their own kind, yet cowardly before their enemies."

Lucifer’s voice was filled with smugness and pride.

It was as if defeating Zhong Shu was a particularly amusing affair.

Clearly, to him, Zhong Shu was just a minor character.

But the arrogant Lucifer loved nothing more than to win.

Zhong Shu ignored Lucifer and slowly closed his eyes...

When he opened them again, a chilling light burst forth.

Zhong Shu said sharply:

"Li Xinyuan!"

Li Xinyuan turned to look at Zhong Shu, waiting for his command.

Zhong Shu pointed at the middle-aged woman who had been the first to kill and said:

"Throw her in."

A cruel smile spread across Li Xinyuan’s lips.

He leaped from the third floor like a diving eagle, snatching the woman from the crowd.

"HAH!"

With a sharp cry, Li Xinyuan circulated his True Qi and shot into the sky.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Li Xinyuan in mid-air, their faces etched with disbelief.

’This person... can fly?’

The woman howled in mid-air:

"I’ve already killed someone! You can’t kill me! I’ve already met my quota!"

Li Xinyuan chuckled.

"I’ve been wanting to do this for a while."

Li Xinyuan let go.

The woman screamed as she plummeted from the sky and fell into the lava pit.

Someone was counting.

That woman happened to be the thirty-third person.

They were safe, for now.

Just then, Zhong Shu pointed at a man who had just pushed a young girl into the lava pit.

"Him too."

Li Xinyuan grinned maliciously, circulated his True Qi, and flew to the man’s side.

The man tried to struggle, but it was useless. He could only curse in terror and rage:

"We already have thirty-three people! What are you doing?!"

Zhong Shu said icily:

"I don’t like the look of you."

Li Xinyuan glanced at Zhong Shu in surprise, but his hands didn’t stop. He threw the man directly into the lava pit.

Zhong Shu began to call out the condemned, like King Yama himself.

Each time he pointed at someone, that person would be thrown into the lava pit by Li Xinyuan.

No one dared to resist.

In their eyes, Li Xinyuan was no different from those Dwarf Demons.

Zhong Shu’s voice rang out softly:

"From now on, I’m setting a new rule.

Nobody moves.

Anyone who moves from their spot will be thrown into that fiery pit."

It was very effective.

No one dared to move.

Zhong Shu had effectively become another Lucifer, one who dictated the rules of death.

He had come to understand something.

Good and evil really couldn’t save this group of people.

Only order could.

The one who establishes order must be devoid of emotion, or... able to control their emotions!

Lucifer once said that the master was the only one qualified.

He now understood: Lucifer had meant that the master was the only one qualified to set the rules.

Li Xinyuan flew in front of Zhong Shu.

"The situation is under control. What’s next?"

Zhong Shu looked up at the sky full of Dwarf Demons.

They were completely motionless.

After a moment’s thought, Zhong Shu picked up a piece of rubble and threw it at a Dwarf Demon.

Li Xinyuan immediately grew vigilant, quickly flying in front of Zhong Shu to shield him.

He didn’t know what crazy idea Zhong Shu had, but if the Dwarf Demon attacked, he could block it.

The Dwarf Demon glared at Zhong Shu but made no other move.

Zhong Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Throw these Demons at the God-Desecrating Bell.

Use them to move the hour hand of the God-Desecrating Bell.

Aim carefully. We don’t have much time."

Li Xinyuan’s eyes shot wide open.

He understood.

There was a Barrier around the God-Desecrating Bell; nothing could get near it except a Demon.

To nullify Lucifer’s rule, they had to make the hour hand point away from three o’clock.

So, by throwing these Demons to strike the God-Desecrating Bell and change the time from three o’clock, they could break the game.

Li Xinyuan immediately sprang into action. He gathered his True Qi and kicked out.

"War God Dragon King Technique, Sixth Style, Celestial Deformed Leg!"

The Dwarf Demon was unable to move, only able to watch as Li Xinyuan’s foot grew larger and larger before its eyes.

SWOOSH!

BANG!

The Dwarf Demon was sent flying like a rubber ball, crashing heavily against the God-Desecrating Bell.

The hour hand moved a tiny bit toward two o’clock.

Li Xinyuan looked at Zhong Shu with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

"You’re really something else, kid.

You figured out that these Demons couldn’t move, didn’t you?"

Zhong Shu shook his head.

"I wasn’t sure. That’s why I threw a rock to test it."

Li Xinyuan laughed.

"You... you dared to do that without being sure?

If that Demon had attacked you, I might not have been able to stop it.

You’ve got some serious guts."

Suddenly, Li Xinyuan’s smile froze.

He slowly turned to look at Zhong Shu.

’This kid never intended for me to protect him, to block the Dwarf Demon for him.

Otherwise, he would have called me over to protect him beforehand.

This kid still can’t get over his Holy Mother complex.

He was planning to risk his own life to win a chance for the people below!’

Li Xinyuan said nothing. He unleashed the Celestial Deformed Leg again and again, sending one Dwarf Demon after another flying into the face of the God-Desecrating Bell.

The hour hand of the God-Desecrating Bell moved steadily toward two o’clock.

Zhong Shu waited nervously for a change.

After a long while, the hour hand of the God-Desecrating Bell finally moved from three o’clock to two o’clock.

BOOM!

The God-Desecrating Bell, with a tremendous roar, shattered into dust.

Zhong Shu was stunned.

’The Taboo Item... shattered?’

Zhong Shu quickly noticed that the hour, minute, and second hands of the God-Desecrating Bell hadn’t disappeared. Instead, they were falling from the sky, about to plunge into the lava pit.

Zhong Shu shouted hastily:

"That antique clock wasn’t the Taboo Item, the three hands are! Li Xinyuan!"

Li Xinyuan’s figure vanished in an instant, reappearing above the lava pit to tightly grip the three hands, each over a meter long.

In another flash, he was back on the edge of the pit.

"AHHH!!!!"

"ROAR!!!"

The Dwarf Demons began to scream horribly.

A terrifying suction force emerged from the lava pit, swallowing the Dwarf Demons one by one.

As the last Dwarf Demon’s claws, which had gouged deep marks into the ground, were sucked into the lava pit, the pit itself vanished.

The floor reverted to the mall’s tiles.

The crowd stared in astonishment at this turn of events.

Someone asked in a low voice:

"Is it over?"

Someone by the mall entrance shouted in delighted surprise:

"The doors are open! We can get out!"

The crowd cheered and rushed for the exit, fleeing this terrifying place.

Zhong Shu stared intently at the sky.

Lucifer was still there!

Suddenly, Zhong Shu’s pupils contracted violently.

He saw Lucifer’s finger twitch!

After the God-Desecrating Bell had appeared, Lucifer hadn’t moved at all, aside from speaking.

’But now...’

A possibility suddenly struck Zhong Shu.

Lucifer was an Angel, not a Demon.

Lucifer wasn’t part of the three o’clock Demon carnival!

If the God-Desecrating Bell had the power of blasphemy, then Lucifer was clearly one of those being suppressed by it!

The Bell of Profanity has lost its power, and Lucifer’s seal has been broken!

Zhong Shu shouted urgently:

"Li Xinyuan! Run! We have to get these things back to Antique Shop Zero!"

Li Xinyuan didn’t dare to delay. Cradling the three clock hands under one arm and tucking Zhong Shu under the other, he fled frantically toward the outside.

"Alas..."

A sigh echoed.

Zhong Shu looked back.

Lucifer’s half-a-head was looking right at them!