Chapter 121 Identity Replacement
Gu Jiaying opened her eyes and saw a courtyard full of flowers.
A young woman with long hair tied into a long braid was working back and forth in the courtyard. Gu Jiaying felt that she looked a little familiar, but the woman always had her back to him, so he couldn't see what she looked like.
After about two or three minutes, the doorbell rang, so the woman put down the things in her hands, finally turned half of her face to the side, and walked towards the door with a very happy mood.
After seeing half of her profile, Gu Jiaying felt more familiar, but he still couldn't remember where he had seen her. He wanted to see what she looked like from the front, but a not-so-pleasant emotion spread in his heart, making him feel resistant.
When Gu Jiaying was feeling conflicted, the woman appeared in front of him again, holding a letter in her hand. She stood in the yard facing Gu Jiaying, then opened the letter with great interest and read the contents in a low voice.
The sender of the letter was her husband. The content of the letter roughly meant that her husband was temporarily blocked by work and could not go home, but it didn't matter, he would come to reunite with her in a few days.
"Okay, I'll be waiting here for you."
The woman put the letter back into the envelope, pressed it against her heart, and then looked at Gu Jiaying with a smile.
He knows!
When the person in front of him smiled, that smiling face overlapped with a photo in Gu Jiaying's memory.
That was Dai Zhourong’s original wife.
But wasn’t the original wife already dead a long time ago? How come she appeared before him, still so vivid, as if she was looking at him alive!
Gu Jiaying broke out in a cold sweat and instantly regained consciousness. His widened pupils reflected not only the beauty of the woman - but in Gu Jiaying's eyes, her face was filled with a strange smile, the courtyard behind her, and the thin screen frame.
And the snow-white ceiling and glaring lights outside the frame.
The courtyard and the woman he saw were just a piece of content embedded in the screen above his head.
It's not like the dead are really resurrected, but the reality is not much better.
Because when he turned his eyes to the side, he met Dai Zhourong's gaze.
Then, his upper body was pushed up uncontrollably. He instinctively resisted but was unable to move.
That was because his neck, limbs, waist and abdomen were all tied to a bed board, and his clothes were changed into a loose hospital gown with blue stripes.
But Dai Zhourong was wearing a snow-white coat.
Gu Jiaying learned many stories about Dai Zhourong, either actively or passively. He never knew that he was also proficient in medicine, but he was interested in sculpture when he was young.
He's not planning to create some kind of living sculpture on himself, is he?
Gu Jiaying looked at the sharp, glowing knife in his hand, as well as the various instruments beside him, some he recognized and some he didn't. All of them were emitting a cold and sharp halo.
He didn't know what was going on for a moment, so he didn't dare to speak. Dai Zhourong smiled at him and said:
"Aren't you curious about what's in that villa? Now I'll show you what's inside."
As he spoke, seven or eight screens in front of Gu Jiaying suddenly lit up, causing his eyes to suddenly feel stung by the bright light. However, when he saw clearly what was displayed on the screens, he completely ignored the pain in his eyes.
The screen showed countless human bodies placed in large glass tubes. Most of them were teenagers around seventeen or eighteen years old, but there were also some younger and older. Next to the glass tubes holding them was an identical painting.
But the relationship between them is not that the painting depicts the human body, but that the human body is pieced together according to the painting.
I don’t know how many people I killed before I was able to put together these few successful bodies.
That was not Gu Jiaying's random guess, but in the other screens, the images shown had only a small area that was cleared, and the rest was a mess, with bloody broken limbs, various tools, and paintings piled together randomly.
There were also people who were still alive, but they were tightly chained and almost all of them were mutilated, uttering miserable howls.
Even in the real hell, there would never be such filth and cruelty.
Gu Jiaying felt that the air was filled with the smell of blood. He couldn't help but want to vomit and close his eyes, but he only felt a sour and bitter feeling in his throat. He didn't dare to really close his eyes, for fear that once he closed his eyes, he would never have the chance to open them again.
"This is all my masterpiece!"
Dai Zhourong opened his arms, his tone excited and proud:
"What a perfect splicing and reconstruction, the Creator is no better than this!"
The Creator would never be so cruel as to use dozens or hundreds of people to create the lives of only a few, who were already perfect.
Gu Jiaying was not at all amazed by the perfect work before him. He was only filled with overwhelming fear, because it made him think about his own fate, wondering if he would also be dismembered and reshaped like those human bodies.
His body began to tremble involuntarily, and the chains that bound him also shook and made sounds, which were particularly loud and harsh in the empty white room.
But he couldn't break free, his body was limp and he couldn't muster any strength at all. He could only look at Dai Zhourong in horror:
"You, you don't want to..."
"Good boy, don't be afraid, you are different from them."
Dai Zhourong sensed his fear, lowered his voice to comfort him, looked at him with a kind expression, and interrupted the words he had not yet spoken.
She walked over to him again, looked at him with a kind gaze, reached out and stroked his forehead, then slowly moved down, caressing his eyes, nose, lips, and ears on both sides in turn.
His movements were gentle and soft, like caressing a flower that could wither and break at any moment.
However, Gu Jiaying did not feel any joy of being tenderly cared for, but only panic.
He trembled uncontrollably, goose bumps appeared on his arms. Even though he had no strength left, he tried desperately to avoid his touch.
"They were just dead practice tools, and you—"
Dai Zhourong ignored his struggle, and finally pinched his chin, saying with deep affection:
"Will be my living wife."
No, don't!
When Gu Jiaying heard such "sweet words", she trembled even more violently.
When Dai Zhourong spoke, he was looking through him at another person. The wife he was talking about was not himself, but... the person who had just appeared on the screen above his head.
Gu Jiaying trembled and shook his head, shouting at all costs:
"I'm not her, I won't be her, you're crazy, you lunatic! A murderous demon!"
Dai Zhourong ignored his subsequent curse words and calmly corrected his previous wording:
"Of course you are not her now, but once I replace you completely from the inside out, erasing your memories as well, you will be my wife."
When he finished speaking, his eyes were already on a test tube next to him.
Gu Jiaying followed his gaze and saw what was in the test tube out of the corner of her eye.
The test tube was filled with a thick, silver-gray liquid tinged with blood.
Perhaps it was because of Dai Zhourong's verbal hint that Gu Jiaying instantly thought of things like brain matter.
Is there really such a technology in the world that can replace brains with brains and replace memories with memories?
No--
Whether there was one or not, it would not change the outcome that he would be killed today. Gu Jiaying struggled with unprecedented strength - he thought it was unprecedented strength, but in fact it was just a slight shake, and even his howl with all his might was as light as nothing.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard the sound of kicking the door so clearly.
The door that was kicked open was not the secret room they were in, but one of the dark secret rooms where the disabled people were imprisoned.
When the sound of kicking the door was heard, the attention of both of them was drawn over.
The footage was transmitted from a camera placed high up. It showed the door being kicked open, and then something was thrown in. Smoky white mist was immediately released in the secret room, and it took about ten minutes for it to completely dissipate.
Those who were originally enjoying the pain were all lying here and there, unconscious. Only a few people were still struggling and not falling asleep, looking at the door in horror.
A man fully armed from head to toe walked in and threw four objects in four directions at a very fast speed. Then the objects stuck to the wall, emitting a cold and bright light, enough to illuminate the secret room.
Afterwards, the man stood still in front of the disabled people on the ground, and looked frightened.
Dai Zhourong laughed:
"You actually found a way to open the castle and found this place. Hahaha... Your boyfriend is really smart and perseverant."
Gu Jiaying neither has a boyfriend nor knows the person who appears on the screen, but he can probably guess that it might be someone arranged by Lin Guantang.
The identity of this person is not the focus now. Gu Jiaying looked at the laughing Dai Zhourong with fear and trepidation - this is not right. His shocking secret has been discovered, so he should not be nervous and afraid. Why is he laughing as if he has succeeded?
"idiot."
Dai Zhourong suddenly stopped smiling and looked at Gu Jiaying with disdain:
"You found this castle, but when you were taken away, you cooperated very well and didn't have any intention of continuing to explore. What could be the reason? Is it difficult to guess?"
That could only be because other arrangements had already been made - he only needed to find the address, leave it in mind, and then someone else would find the right time to go in and explore.
Could there be a better time for them to get married, a more ample time for them to get married at sea?
What I thought was a perfect opportunity created by racking my brains was nothing more than a trap designed to lure prey into the cage.
Wait, if it's a mark—
Gu Jiaying realized something else later: since he woke up, he no longer felt the necklace pendant around his neck...
His ring!
"A plastic ring is totally unworthy of your status."
Dai Zhourong seemed to guess what he was thinking and gave a direct answer:
"Since you intend to use it to guide the way, then walk towards the end of hell with your touching little boyfriend."
The answer was clear enough—this ring, along with the note left in the castle that was previously thought to be very secret, was indeed used by him as bait!
"what you up to?!"
Gu Jiaying asked without even thinking, and was met with a disdainful laugh:
"Stupid question."
Gu Jiaying shook his head:
"Don't kill him, he's innocent... please!"
Dai Zhourong hissed, signaling him not to say anything more:
"How can I not reward the person who finds the treasure? Besides, since your boyfriend is willing to go this far for you, it would be a good thing for you to die together today."
Gu Jiaying wanted to say something else, but Dai Zhourong didn't want to listen anymore. He simply picked up the tape next to him and sealed his mouth, then lowered the bed board.
From the corner of his eye, Gu Jiaying could only see that the secret room where the man was located began to release another kind of gas, and some sparks began to appear in other videos.
Are you planning to poison people to death, or just burn all the sins clean...
He was extremely confused and felt that someone was going to be killed by him. He was heartbroken.
But he was no longer in the mood to care about that person's condition, because he might be the one to die now.
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself. If you hadn't been so determined to find out my secret, how could he have died looking for you?"
Dai Zhourong laughed mockingly, but Gu Jiaying had no way to refute. Her eyes were red, and tears flowed from her eyes because of regret, fear, and despair.
He thought he had found the truth of life, but he didn't expect to find the end of death.
"It's better to replace your eyes first, so that you won't cry anymore."
Dai Zhourong pressed his fingers on his eyeballs and said slowly:
"Don't be afraid. I'll give you anesthesia so you don't feel the pain. Once you have a dream, you'll disappear from this world easily."
No, he doesn't want to be someone else! But who can save him?!
Even the positioning ring had been taken away. He didn't even know where he was now, so who could he pray to save him?
And the person he killed.
Tears welled up in Gu Jiaying's eyes. She stared with wide eyes as Dai Zhourong picked up an injection and stabbed it at her.
Bang——!
Blood splattered in front of his eyes and landed on his face, making Gu Jiaying shudder.
Blood spurted out from Dai Zhourong's wrist where he was holding the needle, causing him to groan and the syringe fell into the dripping blood.
He covered his pierced wrist and looked towards the door in anger and shock, only to see that a figure holding a gun had sneaked in silently at some point.
That's impossible!
The ring with the positioning device had been thrown into the castle and burned together with it. There was no signal at all here, and the door was closed. Even if he found this place by accident... how could he open the door quietly!
"Who are you? How did you find this place?!"
Dai Zhourong spoke subconsciously, pretending to be terrified, and endured the pain. While waiting for the other party to answer, he quietly reached back to grope for a weapon.
"Perhaps, I should remind you—"
A man in black, armed with a gun, spoke at the door. His voice was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman. Logically, he should be a complete stranger, but strangely, he calmed Gu Jiaying's already extremely frightened heart.
Then he heard the man say:
"You're going to perform body modification on him, and not asking for his consent is already a heinous crime. Don't you even bother to do a physical examination beforehand?"
This was obviously said to Dai Zhourong, but it made Gu Jiaying stunned.
After being stunned for a moment, Dai Zhourong came to his senses, but looked at Gu Jiaying in surprise and doubt, repeating "impossible" in his heart.
The implication of the person in front of him was clearly that Gu Jiaying's body had undergone some kind of modification in advance, but of course he also did a basic examination to confirm that this was an absolutely original body, without even ordinary scars.
So, what exactly happened?
Gu Jiaying suddenly wanted to laugh. Although she immediately suppressed the impulse, her heart was still beating too actively with joy and excitement.
Because he already knew this person, or rather, who was the person who ordered him to come.
——It was Lin Guantang who arrived as promised and came to save him.
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