Chapter 82
"You mean, there were still people alive at that time?"
Tong Ming was squatting on the ground checking identities. He looked up in shock when he heard this: "Impossible! I've checked. All the people lying on the ground are dead. I've also stabbed those who are still alive. There shouldn't be any survivors."
Cen Xun leaned aside with his arms folded: "This is the suspicious point. If these people were pretending to be dead, then how could they hide it from you?"
Tong Ming muttered to himself, "Is it a prop, or a special skill? No, even if they used props, I can more or less see it, so that's a special skill. But how can there be several people with this special skill at the same time? It shouldn't be possible."
"Forget it, let's not think too much about it for now." Seeing that Tong Ming was unaware of this, Cen Xun said calmly, "There are only a few people present. As long as they are still alive, they will eventually show up. We can find them and find out what happened then."
Tong Ming thought about it and agreed, so he just ignored it and continued to check the human with weak breath on the ground.
These people are all high-ranking human leaders carefully selected by them. They have a strong influence in their respective families and even in human society. If they can be controlled, the power of Nightmare University can easily infiltrate the major families and gradually corrupt the high-ranking human leaders.
Now that all the people have been captured, the most critical step will be completed by Cen Xun.
After Tong Ming confirmed everything, he nodded to Cen Xun and said, "Except for the five missing people, everyone else on the list is here."
Cen Xun: "Well, you can go out."
Tong Ming walked out of the door quickly and closed it behind him.
The door closed and Cen Xun looked around. Dusty and unconscious humans were laid out side by side on the ground. The light fell on their faces, clearly illuminating everyone's features.
Cen Xun walked to the side of the first person, lowered his eyes, and looked at him.
Inspired by the paper man, Cen Xun recently developed a new way to play with puppet strings, which is to separate a single puppet string and then implant the entire string into the target.
Paper figures are dead objects without souls. After Cen Xun implants the entire puppet thread into the body, he can completely control the body of the paper figure and create an effect similar to that of a clone. So Cen Xun had a new idea: what would happen if he implanted the entire puppet thread into the human body?
With this idea in mind, Cen Xun conducted an experiment on the researcher he had captured before and obtained very good results.
If it is an ordinary implantation method, the puppet threads exposed outside can be easily observed by Feng Jihan with the naked eye. Not only that, the instrument can also detect the pollution value carried by the puppet threads, thus being discovered by humans.
But if the entire puppet thread is implanted into the human body, these problems can be solved.
Moreover, the entire puppet thread implanted in the human body cannot be removed by any means, because it has been completely integrated into the human's bones and blood, becoming an inseparable part of the human being.
Using this method to control puppets, concealment and manipulation flexibility are greatly improved.
The experiment was a great success, and Cen Xun then turned his attention to the upper echelons of humanity.
He wants to make all these humans into his puppets.
The lights suddenly became dim, as if the light was blocked by something, and flowing shadows fell on every human face, wriggling and sinking into their heads.
The unconscious humans all showed painful expressions. In the void, invisible threads were densely intertwined and spread to every corner of the room.
In the dim light, a dark shadow suddenly stood up and staggered onto the wall, followed by the second and third shadows.
Cen Xun stood at the junction of light and darkness, watching this scene, with a malicious smile on his lips.
"This is much more interesting."
A basin of cold water was poured on Qin Dangzhou's face. The unconscious Qin Dangzhou shuddered and suddenly woke up.
The moment he woke up, he was immediately hit by a burning pain. Qin Dangzhou, who had always lived a life of luxury, had never suffered such pain. With a distorted face and screaming in pain, he supported himself on the wet ground with his elbows and tried to get up.
Suddenly, a shiny black leather shoe stepped heavily on his palm. Qin Dangzhou screamed and struggled to look up along his trouser leg. A strange yet familiar face fell into his eyes unexpectedly.
Qin Dangzhou looked like he had seen a ghost. His face turned pale and he shouted again, "Ghost!" He rolled his eyes and was about to faint again, but was pulled back to consciousness by the pain in his fingers.
If the pain in his hand had not been so obvious, Qin Dangzhou would have really thought that he was dead and had fallen into the underworld. Otherwise, how could he have seen his nephew who had been dead for many years?
Before Qin Xiu could even speak, he broke down and begged for mercy, "I didn't kill you! If you want to take my life, go and take your grandfather's life. It was the head of the family who ordered this, and it has nothing to do with me!"
Qin Xiu's face looked very ugly. He originally just wanted to find his so-called second uncle and ask him what happened that year, but after hearing what Qin Dangzhou said, his death was actually related to the Qin family?
Qin Xiu said in a deep voice: "Really? What order did the Patriarch give?"
Hearing this, Qin Dangzhou, who was crying without any manner, suddenly paused, rolled his eyes, and immediately became more shrewd.
"My dear nephew, don't you remember anything?"
Qin Xiu increased the strength of his footsteps, his eyes dark: "Should I remember?"
Qin Dangzhou cried out in pain, and his mind became clearer as he realized what was happening.
"Qin Xiu, you, you're not dead, and you've turned into a monster?!" Qin Dangzhou looked up at Qin Xiu in disbelief, his eyes misty with tears, and said with deep emotion, "It's so great that you're not dead! Your father has been talking about you every day these years, saying you're his best son. Your second uncle misses you too. We're all family. How about you let your second uncle go and we have a good talk?"
"Not very good." Qin Xiu said coldly: "Qin Dangzhou, it seems that you haven't figured out the current situation yet."
Qin Xiu squatted down and took out a knife in front of Qin Dangzhou. The blade suddenly turned downward and directly cut off three of Qin Dangzhou's fingers.
"Ahhhh" Qin Dangzhou screamed in horror as he looked at his severed fingers lying in a pool of blood.
Qin Xiu mercilessly pulled his hair, his dark eyes devoid of emotion. "I'm no longer human. Do you think I still care about that blood relationship? Be honest and tell me what I want to know. Understand?"
Qin Dangzhou raised his face and gasped, his face pale. He finally realized that his nephew was no longer the same nephew as before. The current Qin Xiu was cruel and cold-blooded. He would never spare his life for the sake of the family. If he did not tell the truth, he might really die.
"I tell you! I tell you!"
Qin Dangzhou's chest heaved violently, and he spoke intermittently in fear: "These were all orders from the head of the family! At that time, H City had been conquered by monsters, and seeing that H City could no longer be defended, the head of the family gave up sending people to rescue you. It really has nothing to do with me! For the sake of our relationship, please let me go. I will give you any amount of money you want! Okay?"
Qin Xiu's expression was gloomy: "Do I know about this?"
"I know, I know." Qin Dangzhou carefully observed his expression and said, "You called the Patriarch for help, but he was worried about losing more psychics, so he refused to send someone to pick you up."
Qin Xiu closed his eyes and actually smiled. Ever since he woke up, he had been wondering why he didn't have time to take Wu Sa away. After all, he was a well-known member of the Qin family. Could it be that he really didn't notice anything when monsters invaded the city?
It turns out that I hadn't noticed it.
It turns out that the truth is that he was abandoned by his family.
Cold kinship and deformed human nature are not even as sincere and warm as the feelings of a kitten.
Qin Xiu could no longer recall the despair and hatred he felt when he learned that his family had abandoned him. Perhaps he had already expected that in such a large family, everyone was just a consumable to keep the family burning brightly. No one would really care about your life or death. The only love he received in his life came from his mother and his kitten.
Suddenly, someone touched his fingers gently. Qin Xiu opened his eyes and saw Wusa's worried look.
When Wusa saw him looking at her, she remembered that Qin Xiu didn't like being touched by others, so her fingers next to Qin Xiu curled up slightly.
The next second, his hand was firmly grasped by someone.
Wusa lowered her eyes to look at their joined hands, then looked up at Qin Xiu, who seemed very sad. As if she suddenly found some courage, she hugged his waist tightly, and then imitated the way Qin Xiu had treated him before, patting his back soothingly: "Don't be sad, you still have me."
Qin Xiu rested his chin on Wu Sa's shoulder, and his upturned black hair rubbed his cheek softly. He raised his hand and paused, and finally fell on the black hair on the back of Wu Sa's head and stroked it gently.
This was the scene Tong Ming saw when he came in. He rolled his eyes speechlessly, picked up the knife that Qin Xiu had dropped on the ground, and without saying a word, cut another piece of flesh from Qin Dangzhou's severed finger.
Qin Dangzhou was in so much pain that he almost fainted.
Tong Ming put the small piece of thin finger meat in his mouth and tasted it like he was eating a buffet. He sighed softly and said, "It's too old and doesn't taste good. Forget it, let's play a game of questions and answers. The first question is, how did the nightmare world come about?"
Qin Dangzhou was in so much pain that he couldn't speak. Tong Ming immediately grabbed his wrist and pretended to cut off another piece of flesh. Qin Dangzhou didn't dare to refuse and said in pain, "Sacrifice! Sacrifice!"
Tong Ming savored the taste of blood in his mouth, then slowly cut off another piece of meat, chewed it, and asked with interest, "What is sacrifice?"
"It's about sacrificing the lives of people with special abilities." Qin Dangzhou was panting heavily, his face as pale as paper, sweat all over his head and face, and his clothes were completely wet. He stared at Tong Ming's hand, afraid that the knife would fall again. He spoke very quickly: "I don't know the details, but in short, many people with special abilities were sacrificed back then. Those people gathered their power together to create another space, which is now the nightmare world!"
"Oh my god, what a bloody method! Who came up with this?" Tong Ming pretended to be surprised and waved the tip of the knife towards Qin Dangzhou's eyes: "Actually, I prefer eating human eyes."
Qin Dangzhou was practically frightened by Tong Ming. No matter how cunning and scheming he was, he would be no match for a true bloodthirsty heretic. His mind went blank as he confessed everything: "It was proposed by the Heretic Monitoring Bureau! It wasn't approved at first, but then the monsters took over H City. The Heretic Monitoring Bureau had no choice but to urgently launch this plan."
Tong Ming was still very dissatisfied: "What else? Is that all? Don't you have any more valuable and explosive news?"
"It's gone, it's really gone!" Qin Dangzhou collapsed. "I'm just a small fry. I know so much because I overheard it. Please spare me. I have money. I'll give you any amount of money!"
"I don't want money. What's the use of money? I can't eat it. Give me something else, like..."
Tong Ming happily cut the knife and easily dug out a bloody eyeball from Qin Dangzhou's eye socket.
"Give me a taste of your eyeballs."
This time, Qin Dangzhou couldn't even scream and fainted from the pain.
Tong Ming stood up with regret, holding his eyeball tissue. He threw the blood-stained knife back to Qin Xiu and added fuel to the fire: "This old man is dishonest. You called the Qin family patriarch, but the first call didn't go through. He deliberately delayed, causing you to miss the best time for rescue and deliberately let you die in H City."
Qin Xiu caught the knife, remained silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you."
Qin Dangzhou had a lot of important information in his mind, so Qin Xiu did not kill Qin Dangzhou immediately, but sent Qin Dangzhou to the principal first.
Cen Xun was still making the puppet. After using [Fantasy World] to look through Qin Dangzhou's memories, he roughly understood some of the situations about the nightmare world.
What we know is that the Heresy Monitoring Bureau persuaded a group of high-level psychics to sacrifice their own power to create the nightmare world.
After the mysterious invasion of H City, not only did the Qin family give up on rescuing Qin Xiu, but the Heresy Monitoring Bureau also gave up on rescuing ordinary people.
Before the nightmare world was completely built and all the monsters in the real world were dragged into the nightmare world, a large number of humans died in the mouths of monsters. These dead humans disappeared inexplicably in H City after the disaster. The Heretic Monitoring Bureau speculated that these dead humans were also dragged into the nightmare world.
Cen Xun remembered that Feng Jihan had said before that the student from H University had died a long time ago.
Thinking of this, Cen Xun couldn't help but feel moved.
Could it be that the students of H University in the nightmare world are the former students of H University in the real world?
But there is still a suspicious point. So many people suddenly disappeared, including the parents of the students and the relatives of the deceased. Didn’t they make a fuss?
Cen Xun searched through Qin Dangzhou's memory again and again, but was sure that he couldn't find any major social news about this incident.
That's strange.
Cen Xun closed his eyes and tried to recall what happened that day.
The nine brothers and sisters were fighting in H City. At the same time, H City was captured by monsters and a large number of humans died. The Heretic Monitoring Bureau then launched a sacrifice plan and created a nightmare world.
Cen Xun and [Destiny] teamed up and used the skill of [Time] to reverse time. The devastated city was rebuilt in the reverse flow of time. Logically, the dead should also be resurrected.
But no.
Next, Cen Xun and other monsters were dragged into the nightmare world.
There is another strange thing.
Judging from Feng Jihan's memory, he seemed to be aware of the emergence of the nightmare world, and was even certain that Feng Jihan would like the nightmare world.
But the question arises again, if he knew about this, why would he deliberately reverse himself and all the other monsters back to their larval stage?
Cen Xun felt a bit of a headache. He had to do it. At least he could leave some memory or clues behind. Now he was just guessing and couldn't piece together the truth.
Cen Xun's gaze fell on the newly made puppets.
These people only know a general idea about this matter. It seems that if they want to know the complete truth, they can only go to the Heresy Monitoring Bureau, the originator of the sacrifice plan.
Three hours later, Cen Xun finished making all the puppets and put them all back into the real world.
The puppets made by Cen Xun himself retained a great deal of autonomy. Without Cen Xun's control, they would find reasons to explain where they had been during the three hours of disappearance.
After confirming that the Heresy Monitoring Bureau and the major families were in chaos, Cen Xun put a trip to Chiyuan Prison on his itinerary.
The originally milky white puppet thread had turned blood red, symbolizing that this "low-profile indictment" had successfully recorded their crimes. Cen Xun wrapped the puppet thread around his hand and said to the other monsters, "While the Heresy Monitoring Bureau is currently preoccupied with its own affairs, we should go to Chiyuan Prison now. It's best to go and return quickly."
Two hours after the banquet incident, Feng Jihan and Zhou Mian finished writing their reports and met again in the corridor.
Feng Jihan asked Zhou Mian with concern: "Is your eye okay?"
Zhou Mian blinked subconsciously, the sharp pain of his swollen eyeball still lingering in his nerve endings. Thinking of the last scene he saw, he nodded somewhat heavily: "It's okay."
Seeing that he looked troubled, Feng Jihan took the initiative to open the conversation: "Tell me, what did you just see?"
Zhou Mian was indeed worried about this matter. He pursed his lips and said, "I have seen the future of [Huangliang]."
Feng Jihan pretended to be nonchalant and said, "What kind of future? Judging from your expression, he has killed everyone in the world?"
"No," Zhou Mian shook his head, surprising Feng Jihan. "Captain, you once asked me how far into the future I could see. I said it depends on how many forks in the road a person faces. The fewer forks in the road, the farther I can see."
"[Huangliang] is the one with the fewest forks in the road that I have ever seen."
Zhou Mian said slowly: "[Huangliang] has only one fork in the road, and his future has only two outcomes."
"In the first ending, the nightmare world collides with the real world, and humanity enters the Dark Ages."
"In the second ending, the nightmare world does not collide with the real world, and humanity has a glimmer of hope."
Zhou Mian raised his eyes and looked calmly at Feng Jihan, whose expression gradually faded.
"Unfortunately, he has reached that fork in the road and it's too late to turn back."
Zhou Mian said softly, "The fate of the world is in his hands. The choice he makes next is crucial and will affect the future of all mankind."
"Captain, do you know what [Huangliang] is going to do next?"
Feng Jihan's Adam's apple rolled, remembering what Cen Xun had asked him last time.
Cen Xun was going to Chiyuan Prison, which was once the place where heretics were detained.
What will Cen Xun encounter there?
Feng Jihan walked out of the monitoring area of the Heresy Monitoring Bureau and sent a message to Cen Xun.
No one responded for a long time.
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