126 Memory Reading

◎The Disappearing Right Hand◎

In the middle of the night, anyone who sees such a scene will feel a chill down their spine.

Qi Qiuxue stared at the ghost in front of her in silence for a few seconds. After a moment, she opened her lips and whispered, "Who made you look like this?"

After speaking, there was no response.

"They don't seem to be able to speak." Li Yiqing's eyes wandered over the ghosts. The ghosts in front of him all looked like children. Most of them couldn't even stand up. They just lay on the ground and crawled forward slowly. The only few who could walk could only make some simple syllables, babbling, which were meaningless.

Just by looking at the appearance of these ghosts, one can tell what kind of pain they went through before death. Each ghost has more or less defects, and the defects are completely different. When put together, they can just form a complete human form.

Qi Qiuxue frowned and muttered to herself, "Is the murderer performing some kind of ritual?"

"Ah Qing, lend me your item." When communication fails, one needs to act decisively and find another way. Qi Qiuxue remembered the item Li Yiqing had obtained from the previous dungeon: "Memory Reading Talisman."

The Memory Reader Talisman, as the name suggests, can read the most profound memory in the user's brain, allowing them to experience it in an immersive way, seeing what the other person sees, hearing what the other person hears, and experiencing everything from joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, pain, and fear. This is a disposable prop and will be destroyed after use.

One thing that needs to be noted is that there are restrictions on the use of this prop. It can only be used after obtaining the other party's consent, and the duration of its effect is only half an hour at most.

Li Yiqing understood what she was going to do and knew the pain she would experience: "No, Axue, I'll do it."

"Listen to me." Qi Qiuxue shook her head and met her gaze. "Given your current physical condition, you're not suitable to take such a risk."

"Can……"

"It's nothing." Qi Qiuxue quickly interrupted her, raising the corner of her lips jokingly, "You don't want to fail in the dungeon because of such a small matter, do you?"

"We have to get out of here alive together. Before that, it's extremely important to make every choice. I'll use this item. This is the best outcome after weighing all the options." She said, stretching out her palm in the direction of Li Yiqing. "Give it to me."

After hearing this, Li Yiqing fell silent.

Qi Qiuxue did not urge him any further, but kept her palms facing up and waited patiently until a moment later, when Li Yiqing took out the talisman.

"Be careful." She warned worriedly.

"I will." Qi Qiuxue rubbed the back of her hand with her fingertips soothingly and took away the talisman.

Then she turned her attention back to the ghosts, and after some selection, she chose the child who looked the oldest. Compared with other ghosts, its memory should be more complete.

"Can I read your memory?" She stood up, squatted in front of the ghost, and asked gently, "I promise I won't do anything to hurt you. On the contrary, I will help you."

As if understanding Qi Qiuxue's meaning, the ghost in front of him slowly nodded.

Its palms were ruthlessly cut off when it was alive, leaving only its left hand. Qi Qiuxue placed a talisman on its forehead, held its left hand tightly, and closed its eyes.

In an instant, the ground beneath her feet suddenly shook, and Qi Qiuxue felt like she had fallen into a bizarre dream. Time was running around her, and blurry memory fragments came one after another. She shuttled and jumped uncontrollably in the dream, and then stopped in front of a blood-red vortex.

The shuttle stopped, and she opened her eyes in the vortex. Qi Qiuxue felt like she was trapped in a small body, with limited vision and restricted movement. The table beneath her was cold, like an operating table, and above her head was a dazzling pale light that made it impossible to open her eyes.

Qi Qiuxue's ears were filled with shrill and sharp cries. She couldn't tell whether the cries were from someone else or her own. She tried hard to get up, but found that she couldn't move at all. Something was binding her, and the force was so strong that she couldn't break free.

Gradually, footsteps were heard in the distance.

Qi Qiuxue tried her best to look towards the source of the sound, but from her angle she could only barely see the person below the chest. Judging from his figure and clothing, he seemed to be a middle-aged man.

The footsteps came closer and closer until they stopped two or three meters away.

Only then did Qi Qiuxue notice that there were at least four or five operating tables beside her, and on each table was a baby of only a few months old. The man took out a knife from somewhere and swung it mercilessly at the baby in front of him. He skillfully cut off the baby's right ear without any hesitation or mercy.

A large amount of blood flowed out from the baby's wound, soaking the table below him. The man laughed softly, picked up the severed right ear with his rubber-gloved hand, and put it into the juicer beside him.

Then he walked towards the second baby, the third, the fourth... Like a butcher in a slaughterhouse, the man raised his knife and cut off the baby's left ear, neck, arm, and the right ear just now, and put them all into the huge juicer.

Afterwards, he came in front of Qi Qiuxue.

The glaring light from above blurred his face. Qi Qiuxue tried hard to see, but could only barely see his eyes through the glasses and mask. They were a pair of very familiar eyes, with single eyelids, triangular eyes, shallow pupils, and a noticeable black mole above his right eye.

Without waiting for Qi Qiuxue to observe too much, the man lowered his eyes, slowly grasped Qi Qiuxue's right hand, and brought the knife in his hand very close to her wrist.

Qi Qiuxue's pupils dilated and her heart beat faster at this moment. The cold touch of the blade made her tremble uncontrollably. She instinctively wanted to escape, but she couldn't get away. She watched with her own eyes as the blade pierced into her wrist little by little, cutting her skin and blood vessels, and blood flowed from the wound.

Soon, her right hand was cut off.

Qi Qiuxue stared with tears in her eyes as she watched the man throw her right hand into the juicer, then pressed the start button with satisfaction. A huge noise filled her ears in an instant, and her flesh and blood along with those of others were crushed by the sharp blades, squeezing out every last bit of moisture and blood.

The red liquid slowly flowed out and was collected in a container by the man, which was then put into other instruments for re-filtration.

“…”

Time returned to zero, Qi Qiuxue's chest heaved violently, and she was forced to interrupt the memory sharing.

"Axue, Axue, are you okay?" Li Yiqing beside her hugged her tightly, patted her back with his palm, and soothed her emotions over and over again. Qi Qiuxue's body was shaking, and physiological tears kept overflowing from her eyes, as if she had experienced endless pain.

The pain of having her right hand cut off seemed to be engraved into her soul, making it difficult for her to calm down. But after a few seconds, Qi Qiuxue forced herself to calm down quickly.

"It's the director, Xiao Zaiyou." She opened her lips and read out the other person's name, frowning. Some people are human beings, while some people are beasts in human skin. Xiao Zaiyou is undoubtedly the latter.

"You want revenge on him, right?" Qi Qiuxue took a deep breath and looked back at the ghosts surrounding her. "But he seems to have done something that makes it difficult for you to find him and get close to him."

After he finished speaking, the ghosts in front of him nodded slightly.

Qi Qiuxue met their gaze and said softly, "I will help you."

"Hehe." The ghosts couldn't speak, they just blinked their eyes.

Then, he crawled forward dragging his broken arms and legs and gently hugged the person in front of him.

【Author’s words】

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