Zi Chen followed Yi Bufan and others along the way, hoping to see if the people who had escaped earlier would keep an eye on them and ambush them secretly.
Facts have proved that Zi Chen's guess was unnecessary. After walking for a long time, he found nothing.
In the end, Zi Chen chose to give up, because if he continued to follow them back, he would be farther and farther away from those who escaped.
He sighed, it must be the ordinary people who left before, who became the targets of those awakened ones.
"Let's go."
Zi Chen glanced at the large army that was about to disappear at the end of his field of vision, turned around and left in the opposite direction.
Angus followed him in confusion, "Why don't you continue to follow? They are already there?"
Zi Chen said without looking back: "Do you remember those people who escaped earlier? They should have become the targets of hunting."
Angus said in surprise: "Do we have to turn back and search aimlessly?"
"What else?"
"If so, when do we have to find out?"
"Do you have anything else to do?"
Angus was speechless. Even if he had nothing else to do, he couldn't continue searching aimlessly. When would this end?
Surrounded by plains, not even a small animal can be seen, let alone a person.
Zi Chen suddenly asked: "How do you feel now?"
Angus was stunned for a moment, then realized that this was Zi Chen asking him, so he said: "I feel a lot better. It seems that if I can't see anyone, the thought of swallowing will fade a lot."
Zi Chen nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Angus looked at Zi Chen who was calm and asked: "It was very hard for me to resist the thought of swallowing along the way. But I think you seem to be very relaxed. Why is that?"
Zi Chen said: "Because I can't devour them, they are all human beings and our same race."
"But I also told myself the same thing, reminding myself over and over again, but it was of no use at all."
Angus said in frustration: "The devouring thoughts seem to be overwhelming my reason, and it is difficult to suppress it. If you weren't by my side, knowing that you would chop me down at any time, I would definitely not be able to hold on anymore."
Zi Chen looked back at Angus and said: "The reason why you can't suppress it is because in your heart, you feel that it is natural to devour them. You feel that you have worked so hard to suppress them, and you are doing them a favor by not devouring them."
Mercy and kindness.”
Angus asked: "Isn't it?"
"They are also alive. Each one is a living being, with their own thoughts and their own relatives. Apart from not having control over power, they are fundamentally no different from us."
Zi Chen said seriously: "The reason why I am not affected too much is because in my heart, I never feel that not killing them is mercy. On the contrary, I feel that those of us who have power should actually protect them more.
They are not harmed because for us, it is a matter of effort."
Angus was still puzzled and asked: "But why should we protect them? We are not familiar with them? He is not our relative?"
Zi Chen said: "It doesn't matter if we don't protect you. No one can force you or me, but swallowing is wrong. If we think they are weak, we will devour them. Then what is the difference between us and Kadmon? Then shouldn't we?
Have you become the second Kadmon?"
Angus stood there, as if struck by lightning, his body motionless.
At this moment, he truly understood what Zi Chen meant and why Zi Chen was not affected and could even deal with those damned people calmly.
Because he and Kadmon are not the same kind of people. In his heart, he does not bully the weak at all, and he does not think that it is only natural for him to devour those weak humans.
Perhaps it was this mentality that allowed Zi Chen not to be affected by the devouring force and still maintain absolute sanity.
Zi Chen has gone away, but he is still standing in the same place, "I have learned a lesson!"
At this moment, he had great admiration for Zi Chen in his heart.
After understanding this, he felt that the devouring thoughts that affected his mind seemed to fade a little.
According to the vague memory, Zi Chen began to look for the escaped humans and the escaped awakeners. Angus followed Zi Chen and fought side by side with him.
"Listen, there is movement."
Arriving in a mountain forest, Angus suddenly said.
Zi Chen glanced at the other person with a questioning look in his eyes, because he didn't hear anything.
"I have had excellent hearing since I was a child, and it is precisely because of this that I am able to survive until now."
Angus pointed to the dense forest ahead, "In this direction, you can find it if you go deeper. It should be a ghost hunting."
Angus said so confidently that Zi Chen no longer hesitated and accelerated forward.
After walking for nearly a hundred feet, Zi Chen finally heard the movement. Don't underestimate the distance of a hundred feet, it was enough for Angus, who had discovered it in advance, to save his life.
Zi Chen walked forward and saw the corpses lying on the ground, and encountered seven or eight corpses along the way.
These people died not long ago and were probably devoured by a ghost.
"It should be the people before us."
Angus said: "Other ghosts cannot swallow so many at one time, and they almost never hunt in the wild."
Angus has followed Luke for a long time and has traveled to some places, so he has a certain understanding of the ghost's habits.
After another few hundred feet, Zi Chen finally saw the ghost. At this moment, he had just swallowed a person.
And after hearing the movement behind him and turning around, he saw Zi Chen and Angus.
There was a hint of fear in his cruel eyes, and he turned around and ran away.
This fear confirmed Angus's guess. The other party recognized Zi Chen and had not lost his mind. He had just turned into a ghost.
Zi Chen and Angus pursued without hesitation.
After chasing for nearly a hundred feet, Zi Chen, who was faster, came to the opponent and ended his life with one knife.
After he turned around, he saw that Angus's eyes were a little red and his breathing had become thicker. Apparently, the thought of devouring had appeared again.
After seeing this, Zi Chen said: "The reason why I don't devour him is relying on my true will, because I am very afraid of becoming a ghost. If one day I really become a ghost, I think I will commit suicide."
Angus's body shook, his eyes gradually regained clarity, and his breathing gradually became calmer.
"I remember, I won't die as a ghost!"
Angus vowed to do so, but whether he can do this depends on his willpower. Once his willpower opens a hole in a certain area, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The awakened ghost is dead, and there are still some humans fleeing in fear not far away. They are still surviving.
Zi Chen did not take them with him, but pointed them to a path, which was where Yi Bufan and others were.
As for whether they can arrive alive, that's not something Zi Chen should consider.