Chapter 4049

Zi Chen followed Yi Bufan and the others along the way. He wanted to see if the people who had escaped earlier would target them and ambush them.

It turned out that Zi Chen's guess was superfluous. After walking for a long time, he found nothing.

In the end, Zi Chen chose to give up. If he continued to follow them back, he would be further and further away from those who had escaped.

He sighed. Those ordinary people who had left earlier must have become the targets of the awakened ones.

"Let's go."

Zi Chen glanced at the large group that was about to disappear at the end of his vision and turned to leave in the opposite direction.

Angus followed him, puzzled. "Why don't you continue to follow them? Have they reached their destination?"

Zi Chen said without turning his head, "Do you remember those who had escaped earlier?

They must have become the targets of the hunt. "

Angus was a little surprised. "Are we going to turn back and search aimlessly?"

"What else?"

"If that's the case, how long will it take us to find them?"

"Do you have other things to do?"

Angus was speechless. Even if he didn't have other things to do, he couldn't just search aimlessly like this. When would this end?

They were surrounded by plains. There wasn't even a small beast in sight, let alone a person.

Zi Chen suddenly asked, "How do you feel now?"

Angus was stunned at first. Then he realized that Zi Chen was asking him, so he said, "I feel a lot better. It seems that the thought of devouring will fade away a lot when we can't see people."

Zi Chen nodded and didn't ask anything else.

Angus looked at the calm Zi Chen and asked, "I've been resisting the thought of devouring all this time. It's been very hard.

But you seem to be very relaxed. Why is that? "

Zi Chen said, "Because I can't devour them. They are all humans, our kind."

"But that's what I told myself. I reminded myself over and over again, but it was useless."

Angus said dejectedly, "The thought of devouring seems to have made me dizzy. It's hard to suppress.

If you weren't beside me,

I wouldn't have been able to hold on if I knew that you would kill me at any time. "

Zi Chen looked back at Angus and said, "The reason why you can't suppress it is because you feel that it's only right to devour them.

You think that you've been suppressing them so hard and not devouring them is a form of compassion and benevolence towards them. "

Angus asked, "Isn't it?"

"They are also living beings. Every single one of them is a living being with their own thoughts. They also have their own family. Other than the fact that they don't have power, they are basically no different from us."

Zi Chen said seriously, "The reason why I wasn't affected by it was because in my heart, I never felt that not killing them was mercy.

On the contrary, I feel that people like us who have power should protect them from harm because to us, it's as easy as lifting a finger. "

Angus was still puzzled. "But why should we protect them?

Are we not familiar with them?

He's not our family. "

Zi Chen said, "It's fine if you don't protect them. No one can force you or me. But devouring them is wrong. If we feel that they're weak, we'll devour them. Then what's the difference between us and Cardermon?

Then wouldn't we become the second Cardermon? "

Angus stood there as if he was struck by lightning. His body did not move at all.

At this moment, he truly understood what Zi Chen meant. He also understood why Zi Chen was not affected and could even calmly deal with those people who deserved to die.

It was because he and Cardermon were not the same kind of people. In his heart, he did not bully the weak at all. He also did not feel that devouring those weak humans was a natural thing.

Perhaps it was this mentality that allowed Zi Chen to not be affected by devouring and still maintain absolute rationality.

Zi Chen had already gone far away, but he still stood there. "Thank you for your advice!"

At this moment, his heart was filled with admiration for Zi Chen.

After understanding this, he felt that the devouring thoughts that affected his mind seemed to have faded a little.

Following his hazy memories, Zi Chen started to search for the fleeing humans and Awakened ones. Angus, on the other hand, stayed by Zi Chen's side and fought alongside him.

"Listen, there's movement."

Angus suddenly said when they came to a mountain forest.

Zi Chen glanced at him with a questioning look in his eyes because he didn't hear anything.

"I've had excellent hearing since I was a child, and that's why I can live until now."

Angus pointed to the dense forest ahead, "It's in this direction. Go deeper and you'll find it.

It should be a ghost hunting. "

Seeing the confidence in Angus's words, Zi Chen no longer hesitated and sped up.

After about a hundred feet, Zi Chen finally heard movement. Don't underestimate this distance. It's enough for Angus to find something in advance to save his life.

Zi Chen, who was moving forward, saw corpses lying on the ground. He encountered seven or eight corpses along the way.

These people died not long ago. They should have been devoured by a ghost.

"It should be the people before us."

Angus said, "Other ghosts can't devour so many people at once, and they almost never hunt in the wild."

Angus had followed Luke for a long time and had traveled to some places. He had a certain understanding of the ghost's habits.

After another hundred feet, Zi Chen finally saw the ghost. At this moment, it had just devoured a person.

When it heard movement behind it, it turned around and saw Zi Chen and Angus.

There was a touch of fear in its brutal eyes. It turned around and ran.

This fear confirmed Angus's guess. The ghost recognized Zi Chen and did not lose its mind. It just looked like a ghost.

Zi Chen and Angus did not hesitate to pursue.

After chasing for another hundred feet, Zi Chen, who was faster, approached the ghost and ended its life with a slash.

When he turned around, he saw that Angus's eyes were a little red and his breathing had become heavier. It was obvious that the thought of devouring had appeared again.

After seeing this, Zi Chen said, "The reason why I didn't devour him is because I'm afraid of becoming a ghost. If one day I really become a ghost, I think I'll kill myself."

Angus's body trembled. His eyes gradually regained clarity and his breathing gradually calmed down.

"I'll remember. I won't become a ghost even if I die!"

Angus swore. Whether or not he could achieve this depended on his willpower. If there was a gap in his willpower, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The awakened ghost was dead. Not far away, there were a few humans who were fleeing in fear. They were the survivors of a disaster.

Zi Chen did not bring them along. Instead, he pointed them to the place where Yi Bufan and the others were.

As for whether they could make it there alive, that was not something that Zi Chen should consider.