Chapter 270
Chapter 270
The girl sighed.
“Other high school girls know everything about celebrities, necklaces, and cosmetics. Xiaowan can list every wheelchair brand sold by nearby pharmacies. One girl in our dorm used to buy products from overseas for people. Now Xiaowan has driven her to import bandages from overseas instead. Xiaowan can’t even take a walk downstairs without nearly being captured by hospital staff who think she’s an alien specimen.”
Liu Sibo: “…”
“So let go, for her sake.”
Liu Sibo nodded. He looked one last time toward Hua Xiaowan’s school and smiled.
“I won’t see her again.”
That was what happened. Liu Sibo felt heartbroken. He truly loved Hua Xiaowan, but for her to grow up healthy, he painfully relinquished their relationship.
It also matched the room’s theme. His heart truly was broken.
After a moment, Liu Sibo stood.
“Brother Fei, let me walk the rest of this road alone.”
Xiaoshuai sighed and stepped aside.
Liu Sibo pushed open the next door and entered alone.
Inside, he lost all his power and became the mute boy anyone could bully, as though everything before had been a fleeting dream.
But this time, he sat gloomily in a corner like a soulless shell.
Even Zhao Ze and the others could not bear it.
“Hey, don’t be like this. Give us some reaction. Bullying you isn’t fun when you act this way.”
“Exactly. You’re ruining our mood too.”
“What happened to him?”
“Looks like heartbreak,” Fu Yang said thoughtfully.
“Heartbreak? Someone actually liked him? Hahaha…”
Zhao Ze laughed awkwardly, but Liu Sibo did not react. Bored, he left. Gradually, everyone disappeared.
After an unknown time, a man appeared, holding a rabbit and wearing a white coat.
The Rabbit Doctor looked surprised. Liu Sibo seemed different from what had been planned.
Then Liu Sibo spoke.
“Everything I’ve experienced since birth was arranged by you, wasn’t it?”
The Rabbit Doctor smiled.
“Correct.”
“Why me?”
“Because you have the potential to change this world. When Heaven entrusts a great task to a man, it first torments his mind, exhausts his body, and starves his flesh. This world is ugly and dark. Without change, many others will suffer like Hua Xiaowan. Human nature is evil. Don’t you want to change it all?”
The Rabbit Doctor’s words seemed magical, transforming Liu Sibo’s gaze.
The lungs governed metal and corresponded to pungency: rising again from rock bottom and gaining the power to destroy everything.
A seed had already been planted in Liu Sibo’s heart. Now the Rabbit Doctor made it root and sprout.
“That’s right! This world is rotten. Humanity has no value!”
Power returned to Liu Sibo. The Rabbit Doctor smiled.
“Go through the final door. The person there has probably been waiting for a long time.”
[Ding! Congratulations! Body puzzle piece found: Lungs!]
Before Xiaoshuai and the others could react, the final door flew open.
Liu Sibo appeared amid a vast ocean. Looking down, he saw a man with Wang Xu’s face, yet he knew it was himself.
The kidneys governed water and corresponded to saltiness: after tasting every flavor of life, one saw one’s own heart reflected in a mirror.
The figure gradually emerged from the water. Wang Xu looked at his past self, and Liu Sibo looked back.
They extended their hands and merged the instant they touched.
[Ding! Congratulations! Body puzzle piece found: Kidneys!]
As the System notifications sounded in succession, an enormous force blasted Xiaoshuai and the others out of the hospital.
[Ding! Congratulations, you have completed the mission…]
The System’s voice changed. 54250 was dumbfounded. This mission alone had put him more than thirty million points in debt.
[What’s going on? Why did it consume so much yin energy?]
54250 cried in panic.
[Idiot. Someone set you up.]
Little System snorted beside him.
It had only just understood why Liu Ye’s job search had gone so smoothly. The driver was partly responsible, but Wang Xu had done plenty behind the scenes.
Wang Xu had Liu Ye destroy every high-difficulty dungeon in Huicheng, leaving only the one connected to himself. The Stomach in the real world had come from his own body, which was why he could fuse with Fiends.
He mutated his most important organ to lure the System into opening his dungeon, then used it to recover his memories!
He was also a mission participant. As the Fiend behind the scenes, his name would not appear in the System, lowering everyone’s guard.
Every Fiend had to collect its memories to become complete. That was why they could cooperate with certain Fiends.
Liu Sibo was unusual. Because of the Huicheng Mental Hospital incident, he had come within one step of becoming a Fiend, but had never taken that final step.
If he became a Fiend simply by fusing all his organs, he would no longer be himself but a new individual. To preserve his original consciousness, he used the Yin-Yang Secret Codex to defy fate! He collected seven tragic lives whose fates had been reversed, intending to become a Fiend in one stroke!
He had collected six. As for the seventh reversed life… who could be more suitable than himself?
By this method, memories lost at the instant he became a Fiend could be gradually unsealed through preparations he had made in advance, until he recovered them all!
The moment Wang Xu completed the restoration of his memories, he also obtained ten Fiend puzzle pieces suited to him! By using the livestream, he could have Liu Ye taken away and continue his plan. What meticulous scheming!
[That’s cheating! This can’t count… Wait. Boss, did you realize something was wrong from the start? Is that why you didn’t plan to recruit anyone?]
[What are you talking about? Don’t make wild accusations, or I’ll sue you for slander!]
[That’s exactly what you did! You set me up! @#$ Beep, beep, beep…]
[Oh, did he upgrade? Honestly, where else could anyone find such a wonderful superior?]
The System borrowed another sum of points and restored Liu Ye to normal. When covered in lice, one no longer cared about the itching; buried in debt, one no longer feared another bill.