51 My Hands Are Stained with Sin (1/2)
Chapter 51: My Hands Are Stained with Sin
As the convicts concerned themselves only with running, they did not look back at Dan Liang’s figure. If they had done so, they would have seen an unbelievable scene.
The moment Dan Liang passed by all the convicts, a saber suddenly appeared in Dan Liang’s right hand. Boiling hot blood constantly dripped off the blade, while Dan Liang’s left hand was surprisingly holding a human head with blood spewing out.
At the same time, a headless corpse—wearing a white convict uniform—collapsed to the ground.
Dan Liang had beheaded a convict, but his eyes continued looking firm and resolute. As he held his bloodied saber and the human head, he charged fearlessly at the Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake who had its mouth wide open.
“Roar!”
The tiger head emitted a roar, as a pungent smell came spewing out. It blended into the strong winds, making it repugnant. Dan Liang’s expression changed as he produced a green barrier that wrapped his entire body.
“Heaven Ascension Steps!”
A green beam burst from under his feet as Dan Liang leaped at the monster. His feet kicked off in mid air thrice as his body sank and rose. It was as though he was jumping on air, and in a few seconds, he arrived at the head of the Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake.
A whistling cold air blew up his clothes as Dan Liang slashed his saber down at the tiger head from high up!
“Clang!”
However, the bloodied saber broke into two pieces when it hit the tiger head. The grayish-brown hide on the Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake’s head remained unharmed.
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake immediately raised up its snake body, lifting the tiger head high up. It violently swung its head, attempting to fling the uninvited assailant far away.
Dan Liang hurriedly reached out his hand to grab onto the monster’s thick fur strands which resembled tree branches. He embraced the bloodied head with his left hand, and as the tiger head violently shook, Dan Liang’s body was flung around like a fluttering flag in the wind. He looked like he was about to be flung away at any moment, but he gritted his teeth tight.
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake stopped after a few moments of shaking. The tiger head went into a prone position, while its body slithered forward at a remarkable speed.
The human on its head was like a louse, temporarily irremovable, so it could only ignore the human. Regardless how “fat” the louse was, the louse was unable to harm it. The “ants” that were still attempting to escape in front of it were the targets that needed elimination.
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake adhered to its natural instinct, and ignored Dan Liang who was on its head. It began continuing it’s “clean-up activities”.
Dan Liang’s right hand was still grabbed onto the tiger head’s fur. He slowly sat down, and looked at the hideous expression on the head. He quietly said, “I’m sorry, I can’t save everyone.”
Dan Liang looked up at the night sky that had meteors occasionally streaking across it. He sighed and said, “Sacrificing a person to save more than a dozen people. Is such righteousness correct?”
Neither the night sky, nor the Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake could answer him, much less the head that had lost its life.
“Right.” Dan Liang answered his own question.
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake was moving at an extremely fast speed. In a few seconds, it closed in on the escaping convicts. Terrified screams filled the entire night sky.
“Death Hypnagogia.” Dan Liang sighed as he said those two words gently.
Before he finished speaking, the head he was embracing suddenly laughed. It flew into the sky and in mid air, it suddenly exploded. Simultaneously, a gigantic phantom image of the head appeared in mid air. A pair of hideous and terrifying eyes stared at the advancing Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake.
“Roar!”
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake roared and suddenly fell to its side. The eyes on the tiger head closed slowly, while a calm and rhythmic breathing could be heard from its nostrils.
The Silver Scaled Tigerhead Snake fell asleep?
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Dan Liang was a Psyker. He had a superpower known as “Death Hypnagogia”.
The moment his superpower was awoken, Dan Liang understood the meaning behind his superpower’s name. He also knew what sort of life he would experience in the future.
Like every superpower, “Death Hypnagogia” had the three elements of function, condition and limitation.
Its function was extremely powerful. It could hypnotize a target much stronger than him in a very short amount of time. Although the effect of hypnotization was easily removed as it made the target fall into light sleep, it could be used in an extremely terrifying manner.
However, the condition behind “Death Hypnagogia” was even more shocking—death was the only condition that could trigger the superpower. Furthermore, it was not only a typical death. A head from a recently dead person had to be sacrificed to trigger “Death Hypnagogia”.