Where there is life, there is death.

The animal world can simply be divided into two – carnivores that are eaten by other animals and prey that are eaten.

The significance of human beings on the earth is only to add a link to the food chain, and even if the level of civilization at the end of the 19th century has been able to largely withdraw human beings from the harshness of nature, accidents still occur.

But in general, killing is often about survival, just like carnivores catch their prey and fill their stomachs in order to survive, and even murderers who commit crimes do not kill for the sake of killing.

Many criminals commit crimes for the purpose of robbery, for the purpose of seizing money...... Maybe it's because if they don't have money, they will starve to death if they don't have a job, or if a loved one is sick and has no money for treatment, there is really no way out.

And so on and so forth, and so on.

Many criminals, before committing a great mistake, may be a lazy homeless lazy lazy person, and the money is spent as soon as they get it, which greatly exceeds the expenses they can afford, so the economic situation becomes very tight.

Perhaps it was a conscientious and diligent worker who once had a job that was not decent but could support himself and his family, but was directly dismissed from the factory because of a work-related injury, not only did he not have any compensation, but he also lost his job.

They sit by the fire in their wards and pant for breath, but they have no pension or savings to live on.

Probably, it is reasonable demands or unreasonable desires that lead to the birth of crimes.

All in all, many sensational crimes basically have a simple purpose in the beginning, that is, the criminals want to survive for themselves, so they wield murder weapons against others.

Killing for survival is understandable. Therefore, most criminals are not too fearful, after all, people can understand their motives for committing crimes, and they also know how to prevent accidents from happening to them and avoid death.

Put a good lock on your home, remember to lock the doors and windows before going to bed, and try not to go out at night......

Walk on the main streets with gas lamps as much as possible, and don't go to crowded places, especially places where there are many peoples......

Don't indulge in late-night activities such as dance parties and drinking parties, and be wary of pickpockets, prostitutes, fake doctors, fake businessmen, or any stranger who is going out of the house......

This is how ordinary citizens live in an insecure London.

But on the other hand, it shows that those who don't kill for survival are really terrible, they don't kill for anything, they just kill for the sake of killing, and enjoy the act of hunting itself.

It's as if the meaning of existence is a murderer...... It's scary.

That's right, an unprecedentedly bad case, like a depth charge, directly shook the big sinkhole in London.

It is probably the most terrifying criminal who can make people feel the numbness of the scalp, and designed a murderous arrangement that simply tortures people for fun, and even without doing it himself, he forced the victim to commit all kinds of self-harm behaviors and torture himself frantically before dying......

I don't know the gender, I don't know the age, I don't know anything...... There are not enough clues as to what kind of person the criminal himself is and what he is doing such a heinous thing for.

But just what he did, the blood of the victims he killed, was enough to stain his existence red in the history books.

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It was another hazy and foggy morning, and a gray-brown curtain hung over the roof.

At 44 Baker Street, the first floor bathroom suddenly heard the crisp sound of glass breaking.

Standing in front of the sink, Mr. Smith gasped for air, his fist slammed into the center of the shattered mirror, striking hard against the wall behind him, but instead of bleeding from the cuts, his fist was still slightly dented by the solid wall.

It took him a long time to rein in his mood, but he still felt a burst of hairiness in his heart...... Almost, maybe just a little, if he hadn't been able to "remember" more things in time, would he have just disappeared without realizing it, and then been replaced by that demon?

became a sacrificed outcast, encountered the most tragic death the world can imagine, was killed alive by high temperature and nuclear radiation, and the corpses were completely crushed and scattered in the boiling sea by the power of the nuclear explosion......

No one would accept such a fate with peace of mind, and Mr. Smith was no exception.

It's just that everyone's personality is different, even if they face the same situation, it will lead to a different path to choose -

There are people who are filled with hatred and anger in their hearts, but they will suppress it and polish it into a blade of revenge, wielding it only against the real culprit.

And some people feel that the whole world owes them because they have been wronged and think that they have been bullied and hurt by others, and they begin to vent unscrupulously to take revenge on society......

Mr. Smith falls into the former category.

If there was a chance for revenge, he would never mind turning into a demon with no humanity. But the premise is that he voluntarily made himself a demonic being, rather than letting a demon replace his existence.

The transformation of a child into an adult, whether good or bad, is a reflection of the growth process from childhood to adulthood.

And one person is replaced by another, the identity is stolen, and the existence is occupied, this is the thriller plot.

Retracting his fist and looking at the pale white marks on his knuckles, Mr. Smith took a deep breath and repeated this several times before he walked out of the bathroom with a calm face, and then went straight upstairs to the bedroom on the second floor.

It has been more than a month since he arrived in Victorian London, England, and he has gradually adapted to his current identity and life, but during this time, he has slowly felt that something is wrong.

The most intuitive first thing is naturally a significant change in physical fitness, not to mention that his physical strength is becoming more and more abundant, and his strength, agility, body coordination and other functions seem to have been greatly strengthened, and he can even stretch out two fingers in an instant to accurately clamp the mosquitoes flying by his ears.

There is also the ability to perceive, the slightly myopia seems to have improved unconsciously, and he can easily see the details of the scene hundreds of meters away with the naked eye, and can hear the whispered voice of the person who is tens of meters away behind him.

Even, he vaguely sensed a mysterious and unscientific pure power, flowing in his veins like a stream of heat, burning in his body like a scorching flame.

It's just that just as a man can't control his blood, he can't seem to control this mysterious power, he can only perceive it—from vagueness to clarity, and then to perceive the growing strength of this power.

Occasionally, when walking on the street, once he finds that there are too many people around him, too noisy, Mr. Smith will subconsciously feel bored, and even gradually have an urge to suppress the murderous intent.

Irritable, malevolent, bloodthirsty, immoral and unpredictable, as if dedicated to destroying and destroying everything...... He is keenly aware that his emotional personality tendencies are changing in this way.

And not only that, but there also seem to be a lot of problems with memory, such as every morning he wakes up in the bathroom with a sudden spirit, and every night he keeps having some bizarre and fragmented dreams.

Most of the dreams are intermittent, illusory and distorted fragments, and some of them seem particularly bloody, as if he himself has suddenly become another person, an out-and-out demon, trying to torture some people with all kinds of cruel and cruel "games......

And those "games" have a very good sense of déjà vu, all the details of the murderous and heinous cases done by the mad "demon" he has seen from the newspapers that have become more and more fanatical in the past month.

At first, he thought it was because he was thinking about it day and dreaming at night, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Until the "demon" in the newspapers, who had plunged the whole of London into a morbid frenzy, soon dreamed of the details of each horrific and horrific crime he would dream of in his subsequent dreams.

- Although it is not detailed, it is only a few fragments of intermittent fragments, but it is quite real, as if he personally planned and arranged everything.

In addition, every night in his dreams, Mr. Smith would vaguely feel as if his consciousness had dived into the dark and lightless depths, and he could feel a huge, beyond comprehension existence lurking around him...... The indescribable fear made him realize that he might be approaching the truth of the Great Being, and in the process, he gradually gained profound wisdom and came into contact with supernormal knowledge.

It was only now that he had finally basically digested some of these things, and he could be regarded as an introductory occultist, and understood his own problems, and he broke out in a cold sweat because of it.

Most people have a dark side in their hearts, everyone is the moon, there is always a dark side, never let people see it.

His problem was that the coexistence of human and demonic bloodlines, which should have been a psychological problem, had now become a real problem, equivalent to a split personality...... The dark side of his heart was occupied by the instinct of demonic power, and he became an existence equivalent to a sub-personality.

And the problem is getting serious, if he can't find a stable dividing line between humans and demons, then he will not become a demon, but will be replaced by a demon.

Back in his room, he glanced at the broken mirror shards and the newspapers that had been thrown on the floor, and Mr. Smith had no intention of cleaning them up, so he stepped on them.

He was in a rather bad mood and couldn't calm down at all.

The demonic side is not just a sub-personality, it has its own calculations and wants to replace the human side. And the bad thing is that because it's more in tune with the demonic power, it awakens much faster than Mr. Smith.

It's been almost a little over a month.

If Mr. Smith does not want to be quietly replaced and disappear into the world, he must take action to turn the scales that have tilted.

He also roughly understood what kind of position he was - a demon.

If he continued like this, he would only lean towards the demonic side, and the demonic bloodline would upset the delicate balance that had been designed at the beginning, eroding the human bloodline, and allowing an existence infinitely close to a pure-blood demon to emerge from his body.

But this does not mean that the Great Being will interfere with this process, and He remains neutral about what happens in the mortal world.

He never talks about the conditions for giving Mr. Smith a chance to be reborn, and he never thinks about interfering with the process of how Smith chooses, or where he will go in the future, and even the possibility of deviating from the original design idea and ruining the design.

In other words, if the demonic side really kills the master personality and replaces it, the Great Being will not have any opinion, let alone change his opinion.

There is no way but to save yourself.

Struggling to digest the deep wisdom in his head and retrieve the supernatural knowledge, Mr. Smith found that if he wanted to overwhelm the demonic side, it seemed that he had only ...... Learned?

He has demonic power in him, which is an extraordinary source, and the sub-personality that represents the demon is definitely more compatible with the demonic power than him.

If he doesn't want to die, he must make use of the growing magic power he possesses, and master extraordinary mystical powers in a form that can also be applied to humans, and balance his current fateful state.

And it has to start now!

Because that madman has committed crimes one after another in the past month, with extremely cruel and heinous means, he has stained his name as a "demon" with the blood of dozens of people, and accumulated a lot of primordial magic by absorbing negative emotions such as fear and despair.

— and newspaper sales in the London press industry have also contributed significantly to spreading fear, with the "Devil" being as famous as the infamous "Jack the Ripper" a few years ago, and the horror game completely overshadowing the serial murder of the century.

The whole of London fears the "devil", and every street and alley, every foggy or rainy night is filled with terror.

Even the bad influence is radiating to the whole of the United Kingdom, and even the wider region, which will continue to provide the "demon" with a huge amount of primordial magic, so that it will gradually become a real demon.

The further it dragged on, the more the situation turned against Mr. Smith.

With this in mind, Mr. Smith set out to act—

Through the extraordinary wisdom he gained from enlightenment, he found an alchemical formula that could contain his biggest problem at the moment, and gathered materials to create a clarity potion, which is a simplified version of the alchemical potion known as the poison of the sleepless, the effect of which is to drive away fatigue and keep himself awake to the greatest extent possible, without having to replenish his spirit through sleep.

He will never be able to fall asleep again! Give that demon another chance!

Then, with the help of other means, Mr. Smith began to learn all kinds of dark magic knowledge in his mind at an unprecedented speed, greedily absorbing the mysterious knowledge and turning it into his own skill.

When the outside world began to run wildly, trying to catch the "demon", he also went crazy out of fear, and forced himself to close his door to penance in a way that bordered on self-harm......