Chapter 105 Fungal Remains Frenzy 66 The Puppeteer's Methods.
The abandoned factory was converted into a temporary operating room, or more accurately, a workshop. Apart from the operating table and three shadowless lamps suspended above it, the surrounding workbenches were filled with various machines. Three puppets made from living people stood quietly to the side, each holding a tool, seemingly assisting Yu Wanyan.
What chilled Nanmenjue's blood wasn't these things, but the operating table.
A large amount of blood stained the headboard red. The thin girl lay on her back on it, her limbs roughly pulled apart and tied to the bed. Her skull had been opened, exposing her brain, which was throbbing slightly. With each throbbing, a spurt of blood oozed out. Clearly, Yu Wanyan had not done anything to stop the bleeding, leaving her lying in this filthy environment with her brain exposed.
Nanmen Jue also saw the crow Xiao Nuo. It was fine, just locked in a birdcage and placed to the side. When it saw Nanmen Jue come in, its black bean-like eyes lit up, and it spread its wings and flapped twice at her.
Unfortunately, the cage was too small and its wings were too big. When it opened its wings, they hit the cage, making it creak.
Her blood cooled down, but a burning flame ignited in Nanmen Jue's heart. She stood at the door for a moment, then stepped inside.
As soon as she moved, the three puppets turned their heads at the same time. Nanmen Jue ignored them and walked in steadily. Yu Wanyan did not move either. She raised her hands low, not in a gesture of surrender, but in the way doctors often do in the operating room, to avoid getting the blood on her hands on other parts of her body.
She was still wearing her pretty little dress and medical nitrile gloves. A pure smile appeared on her young and beautiful face. If it weren't for the blood on her hands, one would really think she was an innocent little girl, overjoyed to see her sweetheart arrive.
Nanmen Jue stopped in front of them, his gaze shifting from Zhang Zhi's still slightly heaving chest to Yu Wanyan's face.
"You knew I would come?" She was surprised at how calm her voice was.
"I'm not entirely sure, but I'm happier that you're here than Cheng Xiuye is." Yu Wanyan waved the scalpel in her hand, speaking innocently, "He told me that as long as I came here to wait for you, I would definitely see you. He really didn't lie to me. So where is he? Have you already killed him?"
Her tone showed no worry or nervousness, only excitement.
Nanmen Jue looked at her and suddenly smiled, "Weren't you chasing after him for me before? How come you're now colluding with him to plot against me?"
Yu Wanyan blinked. "I didn't scheme against you. Do you think I had any intention of attacking you? I was just doing what we agreed on here, and then waiting for the two of you to come over."
Nanmen Jue stretched out a hand and pointed at Zhang Zhi on the bed, "Is this what you're supposed to do?"
Yu Wanyan nodded happily, "I helped Cheng Xiuye dig out her brain and make it into a puppet. In return, he gave you to me. That's our agreement."
Nanmen Jue laughed again, as if he had heard a very amusing joke, "He promised to give me to you? Including my corpse?"
Yu Wanyan's smile froze, and she frowned suspiciously. "He still wants to kill you? This liar, he clearly promised me he wouldn't kill you."
Nanmen Jue's face twisted with laughter. "He promised you he wouldn't kill me?"
“Yes, I chased him away that day and almost killed him, but the side effects of his condition passed at the crucial moment, and I couldn’t kill him. That’s when he told me about this agreement.” Yu Wanyan said, “I thought about it and it was pretty good. You’re very capable. I can’t catch you on my own, but with his help, it’s really possible.”
Nanmen Jue said, "Then you were deceived by him. Look at how he attacked; he didn't seem to intend to spare my life."
Yu Wanyan pouted, but didn't get angry. She spoke in a sweet voice, but her words were chilling: "That's just how people are. They lie and they lie. Anyway, if he doesn't bring you back, he can forget about getting anything from him. Now that you've killed him, this matter can be over."
Nanmen Jue looked at her, and the deal of deception and death was spoken of so lightly, as if human life, including her own, was just like cabbage in the market, which could be weighed and traded at will.
"Do you know why Cheng Xiuye made this deal?" Nanmen Jue asked.
"I know, he wants this girl's brain. Otherwise, why would I go through all this trouble to create an NPC? I can't take her out anyway." Yu Wanyan seemed quite resentful when she mentioned this, her lips pursed as she complained, "That guy surnamed Cheng has so many requirements. The brain can't be damaged, and she has to be alive when it's taken out. In other words, this girl can't die during the entire surgery. That's troublesome! Much more troublesome than making a puppet. Fortunately, he also got me three decent quality puppets to assist me."
With each additional word she spoke, Nanmen Jue's temple twitched. Her gaze slowly shifted, turning to Zhang Zhi lying on the bed. Her face was deathly pale, seemingly oblivious to any outside information. However, when Nanmen Jue looked over, she saw a single tear that had not yet fallen from the corner of her eye.
Zhang Zhi is still awake.
She might even hear them talking.
She knew that her favorite, most trusted, and most admired brother, Nanmen, had come to save her.
Nanmen Jue looked at Zhang Zhi and, with unusual calm, continued to ask, "He wants Zhang Zhi's abilities?"
"You know about that prop too?" Yu Wanyan's eyes lit up immediately. "Let me tell you a secret, that prop is actually right here with me!"
Upon hearing this, even Ying Yao, who had been standing silently at the back, watching Nanmen Jue and Yu Wanyan talk, looked up.
Ying Yao had previously mentioned that there was a device that could transplant other people's brains into oneself while preserving memories. If the recipient had supernatural abilities, those abilities would also be transferred to the recipient.
This thing, which doesn't even sound like a low-level prop, doesn't belong to Cheng Xiuye, but to Yu Wanyan?
Nanmen Jue hadn't expected this either. Yu Wanyan looked at her surprised expression and giggled. While laughing, she took out a... pot.
It looks like a nine-compartment hot pot grid, only smaller, so that Yu Wanyan can hold it in her palm.
"The Brain Thief, a purple item. To use it, you boil a brain inside and then eat it. The side effect is that the memories and emotions of that brain will live on forever and will be constantly attacked by it." Yu Wanyan enthusiastically introduced while holding a small hot pot. "But I can understand it. You've already eaten it, so why can't it attack you? That's why I won't use this kind of thing. Eating brains sounds disgusting. Brother Nanmen, you shouldn't eat it either. I'll find it repulsive."
Nanmen Jue stared at the pot. Yu Wanyan looked at her, frowned, and warily withdrew her hand. "You don't really want to eat this, do you? Whose is it?"
Nanmen Jue put his hands behind his back and gestured to Ying Yao.
They hadn't fought side by side yet, but she inexplicably felt that Ying Yao understood what she meant.
Then she looked at Yu Wanyan again and said softly, "You said before that you wanted to see me return to my peak. Have you changed your mind now?"
She changed the subject, and Yu Wanyan didn't seem to care.
"So I actually said something like that? Oh, I do think I did." Yu Wanyan tilted her head, a look of sudden realization on her face. "Back then, when I couldn't have you, of course I had to put on a nicer front. Isn't that how adults are? It's to lower your guard and save face for yourself. Now that I have the chance to truly have you, why wait for you to return to your peak? A handsome guy like you is a shoo-in in the Reincarnation Space... um!"
Yu Wanyan spoke recklessly, clearly unaware that Zhang Zhi was still awake. However, because Zhang Zhi had been with Nanmen Jue and the others for a long time, she had heard many strange things. Therefore, her previous words had not triggered the God's judgment of leaking secrets. Until she uttered the words "reincarnation space," she suddenly clutched her chest, and the scalpel in her hand clattered to the ground.
She immediately realized something, her face contorted with rage as she turned to look at the bed. "That brat is so stubborn, she actually couldn't..."
Before she could finish speaking, a sharp attack suddenly struck, a gleaming dagger aimed straight at her face.
Nanmen Jue had been waiting for this very moment!
At the same time, Ying Yao also moved. Nanmen Jue was facing Shangyu Wanyan, while he blocked the three puppets that started moving at the same time.
However, with that one movement, his movements became much more sluggish. The speed that would never normally affect him actually struck his chest. He staggered back a few steps, and dark red blood seeped out from under his mask.
Nanmen Jue had no time to notice what was happening over there; she was facing Yu Wanyan's frantic counterattack.
This was her first formal encounter with Yu Wanyan. Although she was an orange-named opponent, Yu Wanyan's movements were not particularly refined in Nanmen Jue's eyes, but she sensed a familiar aura emanating from her.
Like her, the fierceness and bloodthirstiness ignited by countless life-or-death battles are completely at odds with her exquisite and beautiful appearance. When Yu Wanyan gets into a fight, she is just like Nanmen Jue, more like a wild dog than a lone wolf.
"Brother Nanmen, do you really want to kill me? You've been waiting for me to slip up, haven't you? You even noticed she was still awake?" Yu Wanyan laughed wildly. "I like you so much, and you actually want to kill me!"
"Is your liking just about digging out my brain and turning me into a puppet? That's a scary kind of liking, I don't want it." Nanmen Jue dodged an attack and charged forward again, his dagger pointed directly at Yu Wanyan's throat, his voice suddenly turning cold, "Too many people have died by your hand, let's end it here."
Nanmen Jue's injuries had not yet healed, so his attack was a little slower, but it was still ruthless and fierce. Yu Wanyan was weaker in agility and was unable to dodge in time, and the dagger slashed her throat.
Yu Wanyan's eyes widened suddenly, blood spurted out, she clutched her throat and backed away step by step, her eyes wide open, staring straight at Nanmen Jue.
However, a strange smile appeared on her face.
Nanmen Jue sensed something was wrong and was about to step forward to finish him off.
"Nanmen... Brother, you are really amazing. No wonder you are the one I chose."
Even though her throat had been cut and Yu Wanyan's head had fallen to an angle that a normal person would never bend, she was still speaking, her normal human voice turning into a mechanical one.
"Unfortunately, the methods of a puppeteer... are beyond your wildest imagination, hehe."
She fell backward, a strange smile on her face.
This is also a puppet.
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