Chapter 259
Chapter 259
The Priest, nearly deranged, picked up a fruit knife. Wu Tian hurriedly stopped him.
“There’s no need! Don’t do this! I’ll alter his memories first. Then he’ll let go!”
Wu Tian did not want the man to die either. If the Priest died, where would Wu Tian get his chance for revenge?
He reached out and pressed both hands against Liu Ye’s head.
This was his ability. As long as his hands touched someone’s body, he could alter that person’s memories. To a certain extent, he could even affect reality.
He activated the ability instantly.
Normally, he should have entered the other person’s mental world and edited their memories like cutting strips of film.
But this time was different. When he entered Liu Ye’s mind, he saw endless white light!
The next second, the boundless light swallowed him whole.
“Aah!”
Wu Tian screamed, reeled backward, and collapsed onto the bed. The Priest stared in horror as Wu Tian’s eyes turned into two black holes.
Streams of white light spread outward from those holes. Amid Wu Tian’s screams, his skin crumbled into ash little by little until he vanished completely into the air.
The Priest: “…”
He was utterly stupefied. To put it bluntly, he had wet himself. What had just happened?
Wu Tian had only looked at Liu Ye’s memories, yet both body and soul had been destroyed? That was terrifying!
Everyone watching the screen was frightened too. The way the man died was horrifying: his body and soul had been tormented bit by bit until they vanished completely!
At that moment, within the Red String in the elderly ward, Xiaoshuai suddenly heard the System.
[Ding! Body puzzle piece found: Hands!]
At the same time, pain shot through Liu Sibo’s hands, followed by new information entering his mind.
The instant he learned his new ability, he was ecstatic. He shouted to Xiaoshuai,
“Xu Fei, we can get out! Open the Red String!”
He felt invincible again. The world ought to revolve around him now. Once he got out, he could rule it, because these hands could alter not only human memories, but even the memories of Fiends.
From this day forward, he would fear no one. Everyone would become his loyal servant!
Xiaoshuai glanced at him. Through John’s broadcast, he knew what had happened with Liu Ye and understood Liu Sibo’s newly acquired power.
Escaping from here with that ability should be easy. The problem was…
“I think we should stay here a little longer.”
Liu Sibo: “???”
“Why? We can leave right now! I can use my hands to alter Liu Ye’s memories. Then we can finish my body puzzle. Once we’re outside, the two of us can join forces and rule the world!”
Liu Sibo did not dislike Xiaoshuai. The man had deceived him, but he truly was capable.
Once they escaped, Liu Sibo would alter Xiaoshuai’s memories and make him an assistant!
Xiaoshuai glanced at him again and said calmly,
“The previous owner of those hands thought the same thing, until he met Brother Liu…”
“And then?”
“Then those hands became yours.”
Liu Sibo: “…”
“Uh… let’s stay here a little longer.”
…
Wu Tian’s destruction seemed to awaken Liu Ye from his sleep. He looked at the Priest, and his little mouth puckered.
“No!”
“Waaah! Uncle is so ugly!”
You’re crying because I’m ugly too? And aren’t you the one who made me look like this? The Priest thought bitterly as he slammed into the wall.
Then he saw the grapes. With all his strength, he made a desperate leap, seized them, and knelt on the floor with both hands raised over his head.
“Stop crying! The grapes are here!”
Liu Ye glanced at the grapes, then began crying again.
“I want watermelon!”
“Fuck!”
The Priest collapsed flat on the floor. How could the boy change his demand like that?!
Perhaps Wu Tian’s destruction had agitated Liu Ye, because his cries had become even more powerful.
The entire hospital began collapsing. Xiaoshuai was watching the broadcast when a shock wave knocked him down. The Red String shattered, flinging everyone out.
The moment Liu Sibo emerged, he stretched out both hands to alter the surrounding Fiends’ memories. Then he discovered… the Fiends had been blown away too.
[Ding! Body puzzle piece found: Nose!]
Liu Sibo: “…”
He sensed another new ability. It was quite useful, yet something about this felt wrong. He had finally gained a power, but… he had not even used it!
Gaining a new ability was good, so where did this crushing disappointment come from?
While he was still wondering, another shock wave sent him flying.
“Brother Guiwa! What do we do now?”
Xiaoshuai hid in a hole, coughing blood as he asked with difficulty.
“When that kid starts crying, he never stops. You must get whatever he wants within a set amount of time. Once time runs out, what he wants will change, and he’ll torment you in some new way. Hurry and find a watermelon. That should be easy enough.”
Guiwa desperately hoped they would calm Liu Ye down. Just hearing the crying made his body tremble. He knew that sound far too well and had developed a trauma response to it.
At least a watermelon was easy to find. Back in the village, some bastard had shown Liu Ye a cartoon. After he cried, he insisted on having a Gundam.
Where were they supposed to get him a Gundam?
With no other choice, they searched every puppeteer in the entire Inner World and had one build him a full-scale replica!
As a result, Fiends in the Inner World still spread rumors that Guiwa and the others planned to lead them in an invasion of space.
That was not even the most infuriating part. The little bastard got bored of it after only three days. They had been furious!
Xiaoshuai faced his own difficulty. Where were they supposed to find a watermelon?
“This is a hospital. There should be a fruit market nearby, right?”
Brother Biao hid behind Director Zhao and spoke with difficulty.
“The problem is, this is a mission world. Can we even get outside? And even if we can, we don’t have any money!”
Xiaoshuai struggled to speak.
Just then, he saw the Fiend that had chased them earlier fly past. It actually gestured that it wanted to cooperate.
Xiaoshuai: “…”
That worked too?
With the hospital’s Fiends covering them, they successfully made it outside.
Xiaoshuai was astonished to discover that the outside was the Inner World!
“So every mission world is built inside the Inner World!”