Chapter 348 - New Battle, Start! (1/2)

A year had passed, and Meng Chao had already gotten rid of most of the paths that would make Bai Jiacao turn into the Dark Witch.

Based on his parents’ reaction, his little sister had also been behaving like a hardworking, normal middle school student.

But her corruption did not lower in the slightest!

This matter was a problem that persistently bothered Meng Chao. He still had no clues about the X-shaped eyes he saw in his mother’s notebook.

Now, Bai Jiacao had become really observant. With just one glance, she figured out what was going on behind why Superstar was able to take in Spirit Creation Creatures.

No matter what, her intelligence far surpassed the standards of a normal middle school student.

Meng Chao did not know how he should approach the topic. He could only beat around the bush. “Little Cao, have you been recently… having some really strange thoughts?”

Bai Jiacao was puzzled. “Huh?”

Meng Chao elaborated. “You know, thoughts that suddenly turn very dark and evil for no reason, and you feel like taking revenge on society when you think about them.”

Bai Jiacao was even more puzzled. “W-What are you saying?!”

Meng Chao elaborated even further. “For example, do you have instances when you suddenly have undeniable urges that make you really bloodthirsty or make you want to step on me?”

“I don’t feel any bloodlust, and I don’t want to take revenge on society, but I think about stepping on you every day.”

Bai Jiacao could not help but add, “Big Brother, I should be the one asking you those questions, don’t you think so? I feel like you’ve been really weird lately. How should I put it? Sometimes, when you come home and curl up in a corner to relax, you become really thoughtful and mysterious. It’s as if there’s a thick, black fog surrounding you that no one can see through.”

His little sister was right.

Meng Chao could also sense that the greatest change brought by the training from the abnormal beast research department and large increase in his contribution points was not reflected on his body, but in his soul.

The memories from his previous life had been scattered everywhere, but now, he remembered them one by one, and they were reconnected. Gradually, they formed the full picture of many “major events” of his previous life.

At the same time he awakened the skills of his previous life, he also came to realize how he himself, his little sister, Dragon City, and his comrades had changed.

The incredibly tragic future did not begin on the day the apocalypse descended on them.

It was the opposite. The arrival of the apocalypse was like a release. It drew the curtains on the dark fate that Dragon City faced, and the entire show ended with a sigh.

Meng Chao finally came to realize why he could not awaken all his memories when he had just returned from the past.

They were like a black poison. If he awakened to them while still in high school, even if he did not end up burning all of his brain cells in half a second, his personality would have become twisted and completely devoured by that of the Meng Chao from the apocalypse.

Then, Dragon City would end up with a killing machine that was callous, cunning, and had no human emotions. That killing machine would then be unable to change the future and crush the apocalypse.

Over the past few months, his body had certainly changed a lot. He had grown half a head taller, and his shoulders became broader.

Due to the stimulation from secret techniques, his muscles were not bulged up and swollen. Instead, they looked like iron rods wrapped up in rubber. They looked soft but also firm. The two qualities blended well with each other.

When he just awakened to spirit energy, he faced the problem of spirit tattoos appearing randomly while his spirit energy spilled out. But now, it was no longer the case. He could absorb spirit energy into his pores and his capillaries, then deliver it to his branch meridians.

Even if he tensed up his muscles and squashed all his nerves and spirit meridians until they were like springs pushed to the limit, he would still look like the average normal citizen.

Due to the spirit energy tsunami at Raging Waves, all the new superhumans who were nourished by spirit energy at the northern frontlines increased their fighting strength and cultivation realms by leaps and bounds. They became known as the golden generation.

The students who did not know Meng Chao found it very difficult to believe that he was the most outstanding one among them.

Only a handful of people who were really close to him or were unique existences, such as his little sister with Night Demon Blood, could sense the deepest and most authentic part of his soul.

Lu Siya was another one.

She did not just sponsor the Broken Star Club, but also threw in real cash when Superstar bought over Spirit Creation Creatures’ assets to help Meng Chao. She was also his instructor in one-third of his classes, so they spent a lot of time together.

As a Spirit Senser, she could naturally sense the sinister aura that came from him after he awakened to the malicious skills and memories from his training in Ghost Tribe and his life in that incredibly tragic future.

“Do you know it?” she had asked him one day.