Chapter 151: The Line Between Good and Evil

Chapter 151 -147: The Line Between Good and Evil

South Sea, Antique Shop Zero.

Jiang Chaosheng returned to the shop and saw Zhong Shu staring blankly at the tea table.

Everything that happened at Changlong Mall had shattered his worldview.

There were so many good people there, so how could they have rushed to become executioners?

What exactly was the line between good and evil?

Zhong Shu felt like he was on the verge of an epiphany, but he couldn’t quite grasp it.

The drowsy Li Xinyuan saw Jiang Chaosheng, quickly stood up, and bowed to him.

Jiang Chaosheng nodded but didn’t disturb Zhong Shu’s thoughts.

He walked over to the counter, sat down, and began flipping through a book.

It was difficult for this man to feel any emotion.

The vicious battle he had just experienced had certainly stirred up a great deal of passion.

But after flying back to Antique Shop Zero, that passion had turned bland and tasteless.

Li Xinyuan nudged Zhong Shu, who snapped out of his trance and finally noticed Jiang Chaosheng.

He scrambled to his feet.

“S-Sir, th… thank you for your help.”

Jiang Chaosheng glanced at Zhong Shu.

‘This kid is a bit of a natural airhead.’

Zhong Shu asked,

“What happened to Lucifer?”

Jiang Chaosheng kept his eyes on his book and replied casually,

“He’s dead.”

Admiration filled Zhong Shu’s eyes.

“Lucifer was right. Only you are qualified to save the world.”

Jiang Chaosheng paused.

‘Save the world…’

‘It sounds like the world is on the brink of collapse.’

Jiang Chaosheng’s expression quickly returned to normal. He turned to a new page and said,

“I’m not qualified.

And I have no interest in saving the world.”

With that, Jiang Chaosheng gave a self-deprecating smile.

“Even less am I suited for it.”

His capacity for empathy was very low.

‘How could someone like me possibly be a savior of the world?’

‘That kind of grand, compassionate undertaking should be left to people like Zhong Shu or Li Mingyue.’

“Him? Save the world?”

The Evil Crow cackled nearby.

“He didn’t stop Lucifer because he likes you. He stopped him because you’re still useful.

He has no heart. He only divides people into two categories: useful and useless.

You expect someone like that to save the world?

What terrible sin did this world commit to deserve that?”

Jiang Chaosheng shot the Evil Crow a look.

‘It wasn’t wrong, just a bit too talkative.’

Zhong Shu looked thoughtful and said softly,

“Keep the useful and eliminate the useless…”

Zhong Shu looked up at Jiang Chaosheng.

“That’s what I had to understand to be able to save so many people.”

Back at Changlong Mall, Zhong Shu had killed many troublemakers.

It was only by killing so many that he was able to bring the chaotic scene under control.

But Zhong Shu was wracked with guilt.

He would never forget the old man Li Xinyuan had thrown into the lava pit.

The old man had cried out that he had a grandson to take care of, that he had a reason not to die.

But who among them wanted to die?

Zhong Shu had chosen to throw that old man into the lava pit because he, too, had killed someone.

Compared to the others, the old man was more evil.

Every time he thought about it, Zhong Shu felt so oppressed he could barely breathe.

His thoughts grew more and more chaotic…

Zhong Shu sighed.

“Sir, Lucifer asked me if I truly understood the line between good and evil.

To this day, I still haven’t figured it out. What exactly is that line?”

Jiang Chaosheng looked at Zhong Shu dubiously.

“The line between good and evil?”

‘Is this kid messing with me?’

Zhong Shu nodded earnestly.

Only then was Jiang Chaosheng sure that Zhong Shu wasn’t messing with him.

‘The kid’s just that dense.’

Jiang Chaosheng put down his book.

“You were able to control those people in Changlong Mall not because you figured something out or had some great revelation.”

Jiang Chaosheng glanced at the exhausted Li Xinyuan.

“It was because you had him.

He’s a great fighter—strong enough to bash everyone’s heads in. That’s why they were afraid of you.”

Through Yang Xiao’s ghastly face, Jiang Chaosheng knew everything that had happened at Changlong Mall, so naturally, he also knew how Zhong Shu had contained the God-Desecrating Bell.

Zhong Shu looked completely baffled.

He admitted that it was because of Li Xinyuan that he was able to make those terrified people listen to him obediently.

‘But… what does that have to do with the line between good and evil?’

Jiang Chaosheng said languidly,

“At Changlong Mall, the line between good and evil was always determined by you.

If you said someone was good, they were good. If you said they were evil, they were evil.”

Zhong Shu’s mouth fell open in astonishment.

It was as if a clap of thunder had exploded in his mind, deafening him to all other sounds.

Jiang Chaosheng’s patience with Zhong Shu was also running thin. He asked,

“You were the first one to complete a containment, so tell me, what do you want for a reward?”

Zhong Shu was silent for a moment.

“Could I… have that bell?”

Jiang Chaosheng glanced at the Evil Crow.

The Evil Crow looked completely shocked.

“That’s the God-Desecrating Bell!”

Jiang Chaosheng said nothing.

The Evil Crow muttered,

“How generous.”

The Evil Crow flapped its wings and flew into the back room.

A few minutes later, the Evil Crow returned, clutching three meter-long clock hands in its talons.

Jiang Chaosheng said,

“You may go.”

Clutching the three hands, Zhong Shu bowed slightly.

“Thank you, Sir.”

Jiang Chaosheng watched Zhong Shu’s lonely departing figure, a feeling that the kid was about to do something big.

He murmured to himself,

“That’s good. Everyone in the Taboo Association has something big to do.”

Jiang Chaosheng flicked his wrist.

A little shadow figure was flung off.

The little shadow figure hurriedly bowed and scraped to Jiang Chaosheng.

Jiang Chaosheng tapped the little figure’s head.

“Go give them a shot in the arm.”

The little shadow figure gave a solemn salute.

…

South Sea City, Divine Peptide Biotechnology Company.

This was the World Dream Group’s key project for the year.

It signaled that the World Dream Group was finally venturing into the high-tech industry, beyond traditional commerce and manufacturing.

The Divine Peptide Biotechnology Company had yet to officially begin operations. It hadn’t even recruited any researchers, and the faint smell of formaldehyde from the recent renovations still lingered in the building.

However, the true heart of Divine Peptide Biotechnology—the underground research lab—was already up and running.

The underground lab was a secret; not even the employees of Divine Peptide Biotechnology knew what it was for.

All they would know was that it was a confidential company research area.

Inside the massive, high-tech white laboratory, Liu Weiqian was engrossed in studying the essential blood of a Vampire.

The research on Extraordinary Creatures involved a massive workload.

Liu Weiqian could delegate some of the peripheral parts of his projects to the researchers working above the underground lab.

Those researchers wouldn’t know what was being studied in the underground lab; at most, they would assume they were researching or cultivating some new type of bacteria.

In other words, all the researchers the Divine Peptide Biotechnology Company would recruit in the future would be Liu Weiqian’s assistants.

Xia Li sat in her office, her face a little pale.

The essential blood Liu Weiqian was studying came from her, the Vampire Ancestor.

Suddenly, a smiling shadow face appeared on the office wall.

Xia Li glanced at the smiling face.

“Yang Xiao? What is it?”

The smile morphed into a few crooked words:

“Zhong Shu, successfully contained Number 0-26, the God-Desecrating Bell.”

Xia Li pressed her lips together.

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

She had been preparing to take over the containment of the God-Desecrating Bell from Zhong Shu, but in the end, she never expected the kid to actually pull it off.

The shadow script read:

“Reward received: the God-Desecrating Bell!”

Xia Li’s hand, holding her coffee cup, trembled, and scalding coffee spilled onto her white cuff.

But she didn’t care.

Xia Li’s pupils quaked.

“He was rewarded with… the God-Desecrating Bell itself?

No, I have to talk to Sir. I must be the one to contain the next Taboo Item!”

…

South Sea City, Dusk Bar.

This bar had only recently opened, but it was already packed with customers.

There were two reasons for this.

First, the bar had a “mask policy”: everyone who entered had to wear a mask.

This novelty and sense of mystery appealed to the city’s fun-loving youth.

Second, the bar was co-founded by several gorgeous and enchanting women.

Every night at midnight, one of the proprietresses would perform a bold, sultry dance on stage.

Countless people were drawn by the scandalous fame of the proprietresses.

The first floor of Dusk Bar held the dance floor and open seating, the second floor had private rooms, and the third floor was private territory.

…

「On the third floor.」

The vast room was dimly lit, resembling an ultra-luxurious KTV suite.

The surrounding walls were covered with all sorts of portraits from subculture mythology.

Five women, each with a different style but all masked and possessing bewitchingly sexy figures, were seated on the sofa in alluring, seductive poses.

“Sister, the Witch Association is still short two members. We need to find them quickly to make things more fun.

I think that Rose from the Mutual Aid Association would be a good fit.”

The woman in the revealing clothes, with a graceful figure and a black fox mask, spoke as she fiddled with her manicure.

“Looking at you withered flowers every day… even if my Lord of Dusk doesn’t get tired of it, I sure do.”

This was the Seductive Demoness, a recent addition to the Witch Association.

The Proud Witch, who was tall with long, slender legs, threw the water bottle in her hand at the Seductive Demoness.

“You little hussy, you never miss a chance to annoy someone. Can’t you see our sister is thinking?”

The Seductive Demoness rolled her eyes at them and stood up.

“Fine, fine, I’m the annoying one. I’m going out to dance.

Gotta absorb some more yang energy to keep my Lord of Dusk well-fed, hehe.”

The “sister” the Witches spoke of was, of course, the Succubus Jin Meiting, who called herself the Jealousy Witch.

Although she and the others all called themselves Witches, her Combat Power was the highest, making her the matriarch of the Witches, so to speak.

Jin Meiting suddenly sensed something and snapped her gaze to the wall in front of her.

The other Witches followed her gaze, and even the Seductive Demoness, who had been about to leave, was captivated.

A smiling shadow face appeared on the wall, followed by a few crooked words:

“Beauties~ Good evening~”

Jin Meiting said coquettishly,

“Are you here to see me, or these little sisters of mine?”

The Witches all stared at the smiling shadow face in amazement.

They weren’t afraid, because they had long since heard that:

the Lord of Dusk had a Shadow Envoy by his side, one of immense skill who was highly favored by Dusk.

However, the two sisters who had joined the Witch Association later, the Proud Witch and the Seductive Demoness, had never seen it before.

The shadow script read:

“I have some news.”

The shadow script continued:

“Zhong Shu has successfully contained 0-26, the God-Desecrating Bell.”

Jin Meiting furrowed her brow.

‘Zhong Shu… he’s that strong already? He’s capable of containing a Taboo Item on his own?’

The shadow script added:

“Zhong Shu’s reward—the God-Desecrating Bell!”

Jin Meiting’s beautiful eyes flew wide open.

The shadow script finished:

“I’m off. You may continue.”