Chapter 204: Collapse
“This is… Dr. Clark’s memory?” Yu Lianyun clutched her seemingly boiling heartbeat, her face contorted in pain, her brain racing at high speed.
In order to quickly solve Dr. Clark’s disappearance case, upon learning that Dr. Clark had anomalous factors in his childhood, Yu Lianyun naturally had also seen photos of Dr. Clark from his childhood period. Although Dr. Clark in the photos she had seen was a bit older than the one in her memory, she could still vaguely identify his identity from his facial features.
And obviously, this memory came from Dr. Clark’s experiences before he was sent to the orphanage as a child. As the child of a pair of madman parents, his young self was not only mentally distorted, but even his worldview was twisted and evil.
It could be said that Dr. Clark lost his parents and memory after the fire incident, which was instead his rebirth.
But now, Dr. Clark’s luck had run out.
The terrifying screech lasted only a short time in reality, but to those enduring the pain, it felt like a century had passed. Moreover, some mystic investigators had just barely escaped the invasion of the sound when they were instantly attacked by their abnormalized colleagues and pinned to the ground.
Glancing at the chaotic scene, Yu Lianyun turned and left. There was no order left at the scene, nor any need to continue maintaining it; escaping had become the self-imposed command of every survivor.
Staggering into the alley that Lin Ling had taken, Yu Lianyun dripped blood as she walked. The earlier screech had obviously not only severely damaged her spirit but also directly destroyed her body.
Her nose kept bleeding, her brain a mushy mess. This experience of teetering between life and death, straddling the boundary between yin and yang realms, Yu Lianyun had gone through countless times. Even in this state, she could still maintain a certain degree of thinking.
In Yu Lianyun’s mind, information slowly flashed back about the taboo experiment conducted by the remnants of Sancai: the experiment dissolved the mind barriers of spiritually vulnerable people through special sound waves, thereby acquiring anomalous power beyond the mind barrier.
Recalling the scene she had seen in the underground laboratory, this experiment unexpectedly did not use whole human living bodies at all, but instead only stripped out brains as experimental material. Even more suspicious was that those guys did not seem to use single brains as experimental subjects, but rather a group of brains as a single overall experimental subject. This meant it was not a rigorous experiment at all—or bluntly put, it was complete nonsense!
But what if this was not just a simple experiment? Suppose the experiment researcher had already fully grasped all the results of the experiment, then everything he did was no longer an experiment at all, but more akin to a production.
But how was this achieved?
Before Yu Lianyun could think further, she suddenly saw the ground beneath her feet bulging high up—a massive flesh pillar rising from underground. When she was forced to stand at the height of a three-story building exterior, she saw that the flesh pillars growing from underground were not just the one under her feet; the entire XC district was covered in flesh pillars.
Boom!
Suddenly, the top of the flesh pillar erupted with blood-red hot flow, burning like fire.
Fear sometimes also brings calm clarity. When forcibly elevated into the high air, Yu Lianyun, like a drunk sobering up, looked at the wounded all over old city and felt a familiar sensation surging in her mind.
“Wait, this image… it’s the demon-subduing technique seal that Dr. Clark drew in his childhood—these flesh pillars are equivalent to candles!” Yu Lianyun suddenly understood. No wonder earlier underground, those remnants of Sancai only showed ferocious resistance; they had never intended to escape. They had long prepared everything, waiting for all this to happen. Even if her mysterious group had not found their whereabouts through clues, they were willing to generously meet their deaths in the earlier collapse of heaven and earth.
The scalding hot flow instantly melted even the solidified asphalt. Yu Lianyun, scorched, could only slide down from the high flesh pillar, rolling along the deformed road surface to the ground level.
After rolling down, Yu Lianyun was covered in blood and filth, her skin torn open. She struggled to crawl up from the ground, only to witness an even more terrifying and despairing sight.
A massive brain, its surface full of ridges and pulsing with thuds, slowly hung in the sky. At the bottom of the brain were thick pink flesh strips directly piercing the ground, connecting to every flesh pillar. After a burst of wriggling, the tissue on the brain bloomed like a flower, opening into huge black fleshy eyes.
Suddenly, a demonic wind swept through, radiating from that massive brain as the center. Everywhere it passed, all things turned into yellow sand. The yellow sand followed the demonic wind away, then gathered with it, slowly forming the shape of a book in front of the brain.
“Book of Sand!” Yu Lianyun suddenly understood. The confidence that allowed those remnants of Sancai to skip experimental verification and proceed directly to the final experiment was this “omniscient demonic book.”
The ambitions and desires of those madmen were far beyond what ordinary humans like them could imagine.
Boom boom boom!
The castle had unknowingly turned into ruined walls. The massive castle had collapsed by more than half, its body growing larger and larger, soon rivaling the size of an entire castle.
The monster’s body chased Clark and Mireille as they ran back and forth amid the ruins, constantly spewing tentacles covered in fleshy eyes that tightly pursued the two.
Fallen stones everywhere, collapsing everywhere, the active area shrinking smaller and smaller.
Clark and Mireille were already panicked and running blindly. Clark could hardly even spot the red shoes’ trail with his eyes, let alone escape to safety under the red shoes’ lead.
The monster’s pores and eyes all over its body emitted evil whispers that shattered reason, its attacks growing even more ferocious. Clark tightly pursued the red shoes, which strolled leisurely through the ruins.
In his focus, Clark suddenly trembled all over as if electrocuted.
“Fourth point: when you look down and see a pair of feet in the shoes, do not look up; keep staring at the shoes until she leaves your line of sight.” The words spoken by the shopkeeper of the forest cabin echoed in Clark’s mind. The chill surging in his heart was colder than being chased by the monster, his brain frozen as if unable to think.
He only knew one thing: he must follow Li Jiahong’s instructions, or what terrifying thing might happen was completely unknown.
“Clark, run!” Beside him, Mireille grabbed his hand, urging him to flee, but Clark did not move, standing in place as if giving up resistance.
“Clark!”
In the exclamation, Clark saw the ground cracking, countless flesh tendrils drilling out from the fissures. He involuntarily squeezed his eyes shut.
He was already powerless; all that remained was to leave it to fate.
Boom boom boom!
In an instant of loud noise, the ground vanished beneath his feet, plunging him into weightless fall. Fear and intense ear-ringing stimulated him to want to scream loudly, but when he opened his mouth, he lost his voice, his consciousness gradually fading.
In a daze, Clark saw the fused monster falling with him open its body, swallowing Mireille who was struggling in the fall in one gulp. But in less than a few seconds, the fused monster’s fleshy mountain body swelled violently. Then a burst of black energy forcibly tore open the monster’s body, blowing it to pieces. Amid the flying flesh and blood, a half-body wearing red shoes fell beside Mireille and clung tightly to her, as if to fuse together.
Clark felt Mireille was in danger and reached out to the maid who had persisted in accompanying him to the end, trying hard to grab her hand again.
