CHAPTER 330: CHAPTER 327 【WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?】

Chapter 327 [Would You Believe?]

"Not human?" Chen Nuo laughed. "How should I interpret this statement? As an angry exaggeration of human nature, or its literal meaning?"

Fang Yuanchao frowned.

"Then tell me, what exactly do you know?"

"I..."

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The old-fashioned radio played a melodious tune.

In front of the window, warm sunlight streamed in, falling on Bai Jing as she leaned back in her deck chair.

A blanket was draped over her, already warmed by the sunlight.

Squinting, Bai Jing listened to the song. When it finished, she opened her eyes, reached under the deck chair for the bell, glanced at it, then gently lifted it and shook it twice.

DING-DONG, DING-DONG, DING-DONG...

As this peculiar sound spread, it seemed to permeate every corner of the room, seeping through the walls and the ceiling.

Bai Jing stood up.

She clearly "saw" the nurse, seated by the fireplace in the living room, fall asleep again.

The doctor in the office, holding a book, also fell asleep.

Bai Jing walked softly and nimbly to the bed. With just one hand, she moved the seemingly cumbersome bed and gently lifted a floorboard.

It was a secret passage.

The elderly woman, holding a lamp, slowly descended into the secret passage, following the steps downward.

A spiral staircase led down, quickly reaching the Underground.

It was a sunless chamber.

It looked to be at least two hundred square meters in area.

Rows of metallic instruments, their lights still on, lined the surroundings.

On a console to one side, two screens displayed strings of arcing symbols that scrolled slowly, like waves.

And right in the center of the room stood a huge, circular glass Container, approximately three meters tall!

It was filled with a semi-transparent, light-green liquid that looked viscous and bubbled constantly.

Immersed within was a male human body!

The body looked very old, completely naked, emaciated, with sparse hair.

Clamped tightly to his head was a metal object resembling a pot, encasing the crown. Fine metal needles pierced directly into the man’s scalp.

Furthermore, small incisions had been made on his limbs, elbows, the backs of his hands, and on his torso—along the spine and abdomen—with semi-transparent plastic tubes inserted into them.

The entire setup appeared to be a massive life-sustaining machine.

Bai Jing stood before the console screens for a while, proficiently checking various indices and vital signs.

Bai Jing sighed softly.

She went to the refrigerator, took out two large bags of blood plasma, then moved to another instrument. She pressed a button, opened its lid, and placed the blood plasma inside.

After finishing these tasks, Bai Jing returned to the console and gently switched the screen’s display.

"My dear, today is your birthday. You didn’t think I’d forgotten, did you?"

Bai Jing spoke into a microphone on the console, her voice tender, a light laugh escaping her lips.

Her gentle gaze was fixed on the figure inside the glass Container.

"Alright, alright, I know you can hear me. Talk to me, my dear.

"How is it? The fresh blood plasma, is it delicious?

"I remember when we used to drink wine together, you always said that red wine looked so much like blood.

"You even told me stories about vampires..."

Bai Jing continued to murmur, as if talking to herself.

Her tone was gentle, yet carried a strange, deep affection.

"...Don’t worry, you’ll be waking up soon, leaving this place you dislike. I’m nearly done with everything.

"Then, you’ll come back to life, wake up...

"As for me, I have a plan to restore my Life Force.

"Then we can be happy together again, just like before.

"Don’t be like that, my dear. I have my plan. Don’t worry, it will surely succeed.

"I will revive you, give you a healthy body, and of course... I have even prepared for you a strength level befitting you.

"Controller!

"How about that?

"It might be slightly weaker than your strength back in the day, but with your genius, once you’re revived, after a little time, you will quickly return to your peak condition.

"Trust me, it won’t be long before you can hold me in the sunlight.

"Hmm... there have been a few minor deviations... but they’ll be resolved soon, taken care of."

After saying all this, Bai Jing looked at the man inside the glass Container with a tender gaze.

Finally...

Slowly, automatically, a short sentence appeared on the control console’s screen:

"Thank you, my dear..."

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"...She’s keeping a living person in a tank! Periodically, she uses fresh blood to sustain the person inside that tank!!

"Don’t think I don’t know; I’ve figured it out!

"All that blood comes from the Electric General!

"That woman, I don’t know what lies she spun, but she used her identity as the Electric General’s foster mother to deceive him. She told him it was for the needs of an Ability User, some research, or something, and got the Electric General to periodically draw some of his blood for her!

"She’s using the Electric General’s blood to feed that living dead person she’s hiding in the tank!" Fang Yuanchao recounted, his face dark, a cold sneer on his lips.

The smile on Chen Nuo’s face gradually faded.

Body Seizing? The Electric General’s blood! The Body Seizing ability of the black and white rice grains is only limited by blood relations. Could the Electric General’s foster mother be planning to use the Electric General to resurrect someone? If that person isn’t related by blood to the Electric General, then... transfuse his blood? Chen Nuo didn’t know if this method would work. But... it sounded incredibly dangerous!

"So, do you know what this black jade stone is for?"

"...I know a little, but not very clearly," Fang Yuanchao gritted his teeth.

"How did you find that out?" Chen Nuo frowned.

"Do you think that woman, hiding such a huge secret under the house, could handle everything by herself?

"Let alone the regular cleaning, tidying up, and moving things—do you think she’d do all that personally?

"No!

"She needed someone to do the work.

"And for that place, I was the best choice.

"That woman isn’t human! She’s an Ability User. She can control people’s minds, control their memories!

"Every time, she would make the doctor and nurse in that house pass out, then she’d take me with her into the underground chamber.

"She’d use her terrifying ability to control me, make me work...

"And after I finished, she would use her special ability to erase my memories!!

"It’s been like that for all these years!

"Otherwise, my memories would have recovered long ago!

"Every so often, she would send me to do these secret tasks, and then she’d wipe my memory clean!

"My brain is almost ruined by her!

"I’m always forgetful, always unable to recall many things, and I even get frequent headaches!

"I even feel like my memories are jumbled, and sometimes, I feel like a Madman!"

Chen Nuo took a deep breath, trying to process this information, and continued, "Then how did you discover all of this? And how did you escape?"

"How the heck would I know?" Fang Yuanchao shook his head. "Maybe every time she erased my memory, it was like rewriting a disk, again and again...

"But then, one time, something possibly went wrong.

"Perhaps after my brain had been ’rewritten’ so many times, it developed some kind of resistance?

"Or maybe the excessive rewriting caused an error?

"Anyway, there was one time her ’rewrite’ didn’t completely wipe my memory, and I regained consciousness right then!

"Then I witnessed everything and heard a lot of her nonsense.

"Finally, I found a chance one day and ran away...

"She actually left the house occasionally, but the people inside didn’t know; she knocked them all out.

"That time, I didn’t pass out... I felt like my brain had undergone some frightening changes after her ability had been used to erase it so many times...

"When she knocked everyone out that time, I didn’t faint.

"Then, I took the opportunity to run away."

Chen Nuo was silent for a while, then asked, "You ran away, but... why did you steal that black jade stone?"

Fang Yuanchao looked at Chen Nuo and frowned. "Because I heard that woman say this thing could kill the Electric General!

"The Electric General saved my life. He gave me my life back, provided me with stable care and a livelihood...

"I owe him!

"So, I wanted to save his life."

This... this was truly typical of Brother Fang’s way of doing things...

BANG!!!

The iron door was suddenly kicked open!

The Electric General strode in, his face livid!

The muscles on his face twitched and contorted.

He walked up to Fang Yuanchao, looking at Fang Yuanchao’s surprised expression!

The Electric General clenched his fists tightly, grinding his teeth, and said word by word, "Repeat... everything you just said... all of it! Repeat it all, to my face, Old Fang!!"

After a few seconds of shock, Fang Yuanchao suddenly turned to Chen Nuo. "You! You’re not that woman’s minion?!"

Chen Nuo sighed.

The Electric General roared, lunged forward, and grabbed Fang Yuanchao’s clothes, bellowing, "Speak up!! Old Fang!!!"

Fang Yuanchao instantly understood. "You... you’ve been listening all along, haven’t you?"

"I’m telling you to speak!!"

"Is there any point in repeating it? You clearly heard everything."

"You’re lying! You must be..."

"Whether I’m lying or not, you can judge for yourself." Fang Yuanchao sighed. He grabbed the Electric General’s wrist and, bit by bit, pried the General’s hand from his collar.

The Electric General’s body shook!

He instinctively let go, then said through clenched teeth, "Why didn’t you just tell me directly... instead of running?

"You could have..."

"Would you have believed me if I had told you?" Fang Yuanchao countered.

The Electric General was silent.