Memories flood back like a tide.
Bang!
Fang Xiu crushed the remaining peach in his hand, even crushing the pit.
The girl, Tao, immediately let out a shrill scream.
At this moment, the peach tree with the human face seemed to come alive, and a huge human face slowly opened on the trunk.
That face seemed to be a composite of countless faces, suitable for all ages, neither male nor female.
"I never imagined your obsession was so deep. Is this what humans call love? It can even break through the fog of memory," the giant face exclaimed in shock.
"You shouldn't have let me forget my wife, you deserve to die!" A voice like that of a vengeful ghost came from Fang Xiu's mouth.
The next second, his figure vanished from the spot like a ghost.
Whoosh!
A flash of silver light.
A scalpel was plunged deep into the enormous human face.
"ah!!!"
The giant human face suddenly erupted with an inhuman roar, and the peach tree with the human face seemed to come alive, its branches flailing wildly.
The group of people who were eating peaches were suddenly thrown out.
"Huh? Where am I?"
How did I get here?
Who are you?
The people who had fallen to the ground all had blank stares and kept asking questions.
However, this confusion only lasted for a moment before they gradually regained their senses.
"The peaches are poisonous!"
"It erased our memories!"
The crowd gasped in shock; they were so close, so very close, that they would be lost forever.
Losing your memory is almost the same as losing your life.
Fang Xiu ignored the crowd and stared intently at the peach tree with human faces.
He had just used a large amount of pain power, which should have been enough to kill the peach tree with human faces, but it did not die.
At that moment, he keenly noticed that several peaches on the human-faced fruit tree had burst open.
The peach pits from the peaches they had eaten earlier seemed to have grown legs, quickly traveling to the roots of the peach tree and merging into it.
As they integrated, many more peaches grew on the peach tree with human faces.
This gave Fang Xiu a vague idea that this strange creature probably possessed the ability to devour the life force of others.
Those peach trees with human faces must be the individual lives they devoured, and these lives formed the peach tree with human faces.
If everyone had just eaten the peaches and completely lost their memories, their ultimate fate would be to be transformed into new peaches with human faces, hanging on the tree.
The reason why the peach tree with the human face was not killed by a single blow was because it had countless lives, and those peaches paid for its life.
Is it a battle of attrition?
Fang Xiu frowned slightly. It wasn't that he was afraid of exhausting himself; he was no longer the same person he used to be, the newbie who would run out of mana in one strike. It was just that Nightmare was in Putuo Temple and hadn't appeared yet, so he must be up to something big.
If too much pain energy is consumed on the Peach Tree with Human Faces, one will be unable to face the nightmare.
Perhaps, this is the purpose of nightmares.
Along the way, they used the strangeness and dangers of the strange realm to constantly deplete their spirituality.
Nightmare is very wary of the power of pain, as can be seen from the fact that he didn't dare to take the scalpel head-on when he was in the Bureau of Investigation.
With this thought in mind, Fang Xiu felt it necessary to make use of these cannon fodder.
He cannot expend too much spiritual energy.
We've saved you all the way, now it's your turn to contribute.
"Kill it!" Fang Xiu ordered the crowd directly.
Upon receiving the order, everyone immediately prepared to take action.
However, at that moment, a cry of anguish suddenly erupted from the crowd.
"Big brother!"
Have you seen my older brother?
A young man in a leather jacket said in a panic.
The group looked around and found that one person was indeed missing from the group.
That person was the man in the leather jacket's older brother.
They are two brothers who experienced a strange event together and then became spirit masters together. They have supported each other along the way, going through life and death many times. They are also blood brothers, so their deep bond goes without saying.
"Big brother! You..."
The man in the leather jacket stopped speaking abruptly.
He was shocked to discover that on the peach tree with the human face, there was a peach's face that was none other than his own elder brother!
The man in the leather jacket's expression shifted repeatedly, then he let out a piercing scream: "No! Brother! Why!"
Clearly, the older brother of the man in the leather jacket was very unlucky. Perhaps because of his big mouth, he was the first to finish the peach, completely lost his memory, and turned into a peach with a human face.
"Fang Xiu! You can foresee the future! So foresee it! Why did my older brother die? He..."
Whoosh!
A flash of silver light.
The man in the leather jacket suddenly bulged his eyes. He looked at Fang Xiu in disbelief, then at the scalpel stuck in his neck, and his consciousness gradually faded.
His hand gripped Fang Xiu's arm tightly, but eventually fell limply to his side.
As the scalpel was pulled out, the man in the leather jacket fell straight to the ground, his eyes wide open in death.
Seeing Fang Xiu with his blood-red eyes, silver hair, and a blood-stained scalpel in hand, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
"I've saved you so many times, and now that I failed to save you even once, it's become my fault?" Fang Xiu's calm, chilling voice rang out.
Hearing Fang Xiu's words, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
Indeed, Fang Xiu is right; when faced with bizarre events, people are bound to die.
Especially the S-level Nightmare event.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the entire group was wiped out, but because of Fang Xiu, the casualty rate dropped sharply, and sometimes no one died at all.
In this situation, if someone dies, they cannot accept it and believe it was Fang Xiu's mistake.
Just like an example from ancient times, a kind person distributed porridge to relieve disaster victims every day. At first, the porridge was very thick, but after a while, the kind person's resources could not support it, so he began to use less rice.
This action, however, drew criticism from the disaster victims, who accused him of mistreating them and not treating them like human beings.
The same applies to Fang Xiu now. You have saved him countless times, but there was one time you didn't save him, and that is your sin.
Faced with such a person, Fang Xiu had only one word: kill!
He was already furious because the peach tree with human face almost made him forget his wife, and now that someone had walked right into his trap, why not kill him?
"I know there are definitely some of you who have this idea. Remember, you can think it, but never say it to my face, or... people will die."
Fang Xiu's calm words were like the wailing of a vengeful ghost, sending chills down one's spine.
It was only then that the group of people, who had been rescued multiple times, realized that Fang Xiu was not a great philanthropist, and quite the opposite, he was not even a good person.
He kills without blinking an eye.
Along the way, the teammates who were mysteriously killed were almost identical to those killed by Fang Xiu.
"The reason I saved you is not because I pity you, but because I think you are still somewhat useful and can be used as cannon fodder. I hope you don't dig your own grave and end up not even being cannon fodder."
"Now, everyone, charge! Kill this monster! Anyone who disobeys will die!"
(There will be another chapter later)
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