this infinite world

Chapter 291 Another World Line: Pledge of Allegiance

(The original Chapter 37 was originally written well, but when I re-examined it, I found that Zhang Jie’s disguise was written too darkly, which was a bit OOC... Although it is more reasonable in terms of the plot and the influence of the villain, I think readers may not like it, so I changed it to the current version.)
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"Sorry, Zheng Zha, I can't let you save Yang Yun."

Just before Zheng Zha rushed to Yang Yun's side, Zhang Jie's eyes released a ray of light, and the telekinetic wall that Zheng Zha had just smashed just stared at him again, abruptly stopping Zheng Zha's footsteps.

"What the hell are you doing?"

When his footsteps were blocked, Zheng Zha looked at Zhang Jie angrily. He couldn't understand why Zhang Jie wanted to stop him from saving Yang Yun.I know the injuries I caused best... Just looking at the huge wounds on Yang Yun's body and the horrible scene of the current murder scene, one can understand how difficult it is for a seriously wounded man who has lost a quarter of his body to barely survive.

"I'm just doing what I should do as a 'guide', or as a 'Zhang Jie'."

Facing Zheng Zha's anger, Zhang Jie shrugged with a smile.It's just that it's different from his usual bold laugh, the smile on Zhang Jie's face is so strange now, although it is a similar expression on the same face, but something hidden behind that face is completely opposite: "It's better to say that Yang Yun died here, which is more in line with my interests."

"After all, Yang Yun has always been obedient to me since a long time ago, but I can't directly attack him due to the restriction of the Lord God... Now, I have finally borrowed your hand to get rid of him in the captain's battle. And he really only has one breath left now. Even if he is left alone, he will die from bleeding and injuries in a short time. How could I let you revive him?"

"What did you say?"

Zheng Zha looked in disbelief at Zhang Jie uttering such ruthless words. He never dreamed that these lines were equivalent to the final BOSS revealing his true face and analyzing his previous plots. Zhang Jie said: "Zhang Jie, don't you..."

"That's right, it's the 'you' that you think, Zheng Zha. It's just that you are too credulous and think too simply about things in the space of the Lord God... In my opinion, your thoughts and beliefs are still childish fantasy. Only immature people who still have hope in the world have illusions about this world and other reincarnated people who enter this hellish space of the Lord God."

Zhang Jie mercilessly mocked Zheng Zha, and his words were even more heart-wrenching and merciless than Yang Yun's, and his qualifications and his status as a veteran who entered the space of the Lord God three horror films earlier than Zheng Zha were enough to support him to say these words: "Did you forget that everyone who can enter the space of the Lord God is desperate for the real world? Under such circumstances, you would actually believe that everyone can work together to form a united and sincerely cooperative team to survive in this space of the Lord God go down?"

"Let me tell you clearly, Zheng Zha! The years I spent with you before were actually all pretended by me. In order to survive, and to preserve myself under the mission given to me by the Lord God, I deliberately pretended to be a face!"

Zhang Jie smiled indifferently, and Zheng Zha finally understood his smile. There was no warmth in that smile, only cruelty and indifference to the loss of other people's lives: "Do you really think that I, who has been hiding in the Zhongzhou team since before you entered the main god's space, would be a good man? Those are all plays I deliberately staged to deceive everyone."

"Acting skills?"

Zheng Zha was stunned immediately, while Zhang Jie did not know when he abandoned his usual laughing and bold attitude, and put on an expression of indifference that made Zheng Zha quite strange: "In this cruel and desperate Lord God space, not everyone has your high moral standards. Many people will do anything to survive. They will breed others, abandon their partners, and even kill their teammates, because in the eyes of refined egoists, other people's lives are just a ladder to climb to a higher place. !"

"Zheng Zha, don't you understand this truth?"

How can Zheng Zha not know how ugly things people can do in order to survive...

In order to survive, he treats his teammates as a burden, in order to survive, he steals key items and wants to keep them for himself, in order to survive, he bullies his teammates, and even in order to survive, he turns the entire team into a breeding team... Some of these things have been experienced by Zheng Zha himself, and some things are told by Zhang Jie in front of him!
That's why Zheng Zha couldn't believe it, Zhang Jie who told him about the situation of the breeding team and the situation of the Zhongzhou team in the past, has now become that kind of person, the kind of person he hates the most!

"Who the hell are you? Are you really the Zhang Jie I know?"

Zheng Zha said in a trembling voice: "The Zhang Jie I know is a real brother who can laugh and chat with us, who can patiently teach us how to train and how to live in this God's space, let his sister-in-law cook a good table, drink and brag with us...not the Zhang Jie I know now!"

"Because the Zhang Jie you know has completely died on Elm Street, and now I am just a guide who has fused part of his soul."

Zhang Jie’s voice was indifferent and frightening, but what made Zheng Zha’s heart even colder was his words: “Have you ever thought about it? After Elm Ghost Street, the Zhongzhou team was wiped out. After the difficulty was reduced, the newcomers ushered in a horror film that is too simple to be used. In this horror film, there is only one murderer who can be solved with ordinary guns... And now you have experienced the attack of death several times. , will usher in the god of death, a world that can wipe them out ten times?"

"Do you want to know what's going on with all this? I can tell you everything..."

"No! I don't want to hear it! For me now, saving Yang Yun is the most important thing I should do!"

Zheng Zha roared like thunder. At this moment, he had entered the state of "explosion" again. With a flick of his wrist, a high-concussion particle dagger suddenly appeared in his hand: "I don't want to listen to your nonsense, but if you want to stop me from saving Yang Yun, then I will defeat you first!"

"Ridiculous, who do you think you're talking to?"

Zhang Jie just stared at Zheng Zha's act of directly pulling out his weapon, and Zheng Zha felt a majestic force rushing straight ahead.This force is invisible and qualityless, and at the same time, it contains a seemingly irresistible force. Even if Zheng Zha tried his best to chop the high-vibration particle dagger forward, trying to break through this invisible force, he was still pushed away by this force!
"Wow!"

Just this time, Zheng Zha suffered serious injuries. The battle with Yang Yun just now consumed most of the energy in his body, and at this moment, he was so anxious that he spurted out a mouthful of blood.Even though he still wanted to rush towards Zhang Jie, his physical condition really didn't allow him, so he had to kneel down on one knee, covering his heart and panting continuously.

"Do you understand? This is the gap between you and me..."

He conveniently sucked the dagger that had just dropped from his hand back into his hand with telekinetic power. Under Zheng Zha's gaze, Zhang Jie pressed his finger directly on the tip of the dagger, and then pressed down little by little until the unknown material was cast. All he knew was that the extremely tough and sharp dagger was directly crushed into a mass of scrap iron... During this movement, Zhang Jie's fingers were unscathed.

"Double A-level telekinetic power, plus the leader's [-]% authority to exert enhanced attributes, this is the power that you punched Yang Yun to the brink of death just now without realizing it, and it belongs to the power of 'fine detail'."

While explaining the gap between the two to Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie glanced at Yang Yun on the ground, and his face suddenly became a little unhappy: "Little Qiang is really unbeatable. Even in this state, he can hang his life by force. If we want to wait for him to die naturally, I'm afraid it will take a long time... But whatever, I have plenty of time."

"Zheng Zha, are you interested in hearing some stories from me? What you have always wanted to know, the story about 'me'... the story of 'Zhang Jie'."

"Who wants to hear your bullshit stories!"

Zheng Zha was furious, and regardless of his physical condition, he forced himself to stand up, and was about to rush towards Zhang Jie again: "Now I'm going to beat you down! I'm going to..."

"What a shame, I'm not asking for your opinion, this is a notice, not an invitation."

Zhang Jie's gaze fixed, and Zheng Zha was like a flying mosquito trapped in a spider's web. He could only struggle on the spot, but he couldn't even take a step. Then Zhang Jie nodded in satisfaction and said, "The story begins on Elm Nightmare Street..."

————— Zhang Jie is explaining—————

"...How? Do you understand?"

Zhang Jie's eloquence is very good, and his narration is clear, just like he once played the role of narrator in Resident Evil One, introducing what exactly is here to Zheng Zha and others who have just entered the main god space.

But Zheng Zha was not in the mood at all, and he didn't have time to listen. He just tried his best to break free from the shackles of Zhang Jie's thoughts: "Then what are you doing now? What are you saying about killing Yang Yun with my hands... What is your purpose!"

"Purpose?"

Zhang Jie was taken aback for a moment, but then he sneered and said, "Of course it's for living... If you can live, who would want to die?"

"At the very beginning, I just wanted you and Yang Yun to fight each other for the title of captain. After the two of you decide the winner, I will use the all-pervasive 'Reaper' to completely kill you in this horror movie... But, now I have changed my mind."

"Compared to living as a half-guide and half-reincarnation team member again, I want to use this opportunity to liberate myself from this annoying identity, and the cultivation skills that Yang Yun got back from Cursing Grudge gave me a chance!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Jie's face suddenly twisted, it was a complex expression mixed with ecstasy and pie in the sky: "Can you believe it? That guy actually wanted to save me! He gave me a cultivation method, and promised to use this horror movie as an opportunity to separate the captain's authority from me, and then let me be an ordinary person again, out of the main god's space... Ha, it's so naive and cute!"

"But that idiot didn't even think about it. After possessing great power, he fell into the mortal world. Who would want to? Rather than being an ordinary person, it's better to let the two of you fight each other. After Yang Yun's death, I will transfer the captain's authority to you, and I, as the controller behind the Zhongzhou team, still control this team, just like before!"

When Zheng Zha heard this, he believed it eight out of ten. He had personally experienced the magic of self-cultivation, and he had no doubts about the fact that there were self-cultivation skills that could solve Zhang Jie's problems.And Zhang Jie's explanation just now also explains why Yang Yun said that he was acting together with Zhang Jie, but actually reminded him everywhere, and finally guided him here...

But after Yang Yun's countless calculations, the only thing he missed was that Zhang Jie had deceived everyone.Zheng Zha doesn't know whether he has lost the disguise of humanity and returned to his original appearance as a guide, or this is Zhang Jie's true character. In fact, he has never changed, and he has always been the man who can do anything to survive for himself... This traitor who has been hiding in the Zhongzhou team for a long time has failed everyone's trust!
Zhang Jie, who finally finished talking about his plan, had a flash of light in his eyes. Zheng Zha, who was restrained in place, suddenly felt that he had regained his ability to move, and the final boss who was hiding behind the Zhongzhou team showed a cruel smile, and threw a purple thunder and lightning sword from the space bag, just in front of Zheng Zha.

"Come on, Zheng Zha, this knife is for you."

Zheng Zha didn't care about the big knife stuck on the ground, but stared at Zhang Jie, as if to read something from his expression: "What do you want to do?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I exchanged a contract with the main god, and you just need to use this knife to kill Yang Yun, and then you will be the new captain of the Zhongzhou team...Of course, the captain on the bright side."

Zhang Jie took out a piece of paper, shook it quickly in front of Zheng Zha, and then took it back: "In the battle just now, I have already got your blood, now I just need to complete this last step, then this contract can be fulfilled... From now on, I will not affect any of your decisions, and will just hide in the Zhongzhou team as an ordinary spiritual power just like in the past."

"Come on, Zheng Zha, choose, this is my last chance for you."

"Do you want to become my enemy out of control, or pick up that knife and take Yang Yun's life..."

"Swear allegiance to me again?"

(End of this chapter)