novelraw Chapter 162: Odd Changes, Evens Stay the Same?
Chapter 162: Odd Changes, Evens Stay the Same?
[Ding! You have completed the special hidden mission: Pig-Headed Butcher's Ingredients. You have received mission rewards: Pig-Headed Butcher Affinity +10. The Pig-Headed Butcher will not participate in your punishment!]
[Ding! Pig-Headed Butcher's special reward is being prepared. Please return to collect it in half an hour.]
Gurgle—gurgle—
The Pig-Headed Butcher turned around again to stir the thick soup in his pot, speaking calmly:
"The transaction is complete. The ingredients you want are in the freezer. Go get them yourself. Remember, don't touch things that aren't yours, and don't handle things you shouldn't touch."
Creak—
The sound of a large door opening.
Lynn's gaze instantly fell upon a pitch-black open door not far away. Waves of chilling cold air rumbled out from within, making one shudder.
Lynn grinned and said, "Thank you, I understand."
...Tap—
Lynn passed through that door and stepped into the kitchen freezer.
One after another, huge rusty iron hooks dangling from above clashed against each other, emitting crisp metallic clanging sounds.
Clearly in the past, these iron hooks had been completely filled with the carcasses of various hunted creatures.
Lynn raised his head, carefully searching.
And the next moment, Lynn's gaze landed on a body hanging from an iron hook in the deepest part of the freezer.
"Bai Yi?!"
Lynn instantly recognized that figure.
Without another word.
He immediately pulled the iron hook, gradually lowering the young man who was hanging mid-air.
After setting him down, Lynn quickly rushed to his side, frowning as he looked at that pale face.
Lynn narrowed his eyes and swiftly lifted his clothes.
Then he immediately saw that from his chest to his abdomen, there was a clearly visible, crudely sewn scar.
Rip—
Lynn calmly used a knife to forcefully cut open the suture thread on his chest.
Then he immediately saw that inside his belly and chest were stuffed large amounts of blood-soaked cotton, his internal organs having long been scooped out.
"Indeed! Indeed! Indeed he's already been made into a puppet! But fortunately, fortunately he encountered me!"
"Fellow countryman, bear with it a little. Although your kidney is cooked, I've retrieved your other parts for you, bro!"
Lynn's eyes were moist.
When fellow countrymen meet, tears fill their eyes.
Seeing someone from the same world, of the same age, suffering like this, as a normal person who yearns to return home, how could he not feel heartbroken?
"Endure it... don't be afraid... bro will stitch you up right away. Don't worry, from now on you'll be my little brother, we two fellow countrymen will depend on each other for survival..."
Lynn immediately tried to retrieve the internal organs he had just taken from the dining table from his System space.
But at that moment.
Bai Yi, lying on the ground, suddenly moved unnaturally.
Crack crack crack—
Almost instantly.
Bai Yi's limbs abruptly supported him on the ground in a bizarre posture. He raised his head, his empty eyes snapping open with a whoosh, his entire body propped up face-up on all fours like a spider woman.
Lynn was startled.
"Whoosh—"
Bai Yi's head instantly turned to face Lynn from below, the empty eyes quickly regaining excitement and sickness, letting out a sharp, prolonged shriek at Lynn.
[Ding! Crisis level 10%]
[Ding! Crisis level 20%]
Smack—
Lynn delivered a hard slap across the face.
Bai Yi's body was instantly sent flying over ten meters by that slap.
"Indeed still under control!"
Lynn cracked his neck, gritted his teeth, grabbed a nearby iron hook, and began swinging it in his hand.
"With big brother here, little brother don't be afraid. Big brother will help you recover right now, guaranteeing you'll be exactly what you were before!"
Clatter clatter—
The revived Bai Yi had an expression full of excitement. He flipped over and scrambled up from the ground, then immediately climbed up the wall like a spider, clattering loudly.
"Alice likes you so much... she doesn't want me anymore... hahahaha... Alice likes you so much..."
Bang—
Lynn raised his hand and fired a shot.
Bai Yi, who had been rapidly crawling on the wall, immediately fell down like a bird.
[Ding! You shot Bai Yi. Your Firearm Mastery +1]
"..."
Bai Yi lay on the ground with an empty expression, limbs twitching, electric currents crackling across his chest, his whole body convulsing continuously.
Lynn looked serious, blowing away the black smoke rising from the gun barrel.
He strode over.
When about ten meters from Bai Yi, Lynn said seriously:
"Fellow countryman, how are you? Are you feeling alright?"
"..."
A brief silence.
And the next moment, with a whoosh, Bai Yi suddenly sat up, opening a huge bloody maw toward Lynn and emitting sharp, prolonged shrieks.
Bang—
A gunshot.
[Ding! You shot Bai Yi again. Your Firearm Mastery +1]
"..."
Watching Bai Yi lying there (ヾﾉ꒪ཫ꒪)—foaming at the mouth and convulsing.
Lynn thought for a moment, feeling it still wasn't secure enough.
Bang—
He fired another shot.
[Ding! You shot Bai Yi. Your Firearm Mastery +0.5]
This time, Bai Yi completely stopped moving.
Only then did Lynn feel reassured. With a serious expression, he quickly rushed over, using chains to clatteringly bind him tightly.
"Fellow countryman, it's not that big brother intentionally shot you. According to the logic of our world, after having your internal organs scooped out, you would definitely be dead."
"But this Dark World is different. Besides the body, there are many bizarre methods to keep you conscious, like curses and evil spirit possession."
"Those shots I gave you earlier were actually for your own good."
"Because these are among the few weapons I have that can counter curses and evil spirits. The holy attribute can greatly suppress these anomalies. If you still have your own consciousness, open your mouth and say something to me."
Lynn carefully watched him.
After a long time.
Bai Yi's eyelashes slowly moved. He painfully opened one eye and murmured:
"I..."
Bang—
A gunshot.
[Ding! You shot Bai Yi. Your Firearm Mastery +0.5]
And the dense holy electric currents instantly electrocuted Bai Yi, making his whole body tremble, his eyes rolling back, foaming profusely at the mouth (ヾﾉ꒪ཫ꒪)—.
Seeing Bai Yi's consciousness about to awaken.
Lynn could hardly contain the joy in his heart. He immediately made Bai Yi sit up, holding his shoulders, saying:
"Brother! Fellow countryman! How are you? Can you hear me?"
Bai Yi (ヾﾉ꒪ཫ꒪)—murmured: "I... I... my head hurts..."
Smack—
Lynn raised his hand and delivered two slaps.
"Now?" Lynn asked urgently.
Bai Yi painfully vomited a mouthful of thick black blood and murmured: "Thank you... I feel... much better..."
Lynn was overjoyed, grabbing his shoulders, saying:
"Much better is good! Much better is good! Bai Yi! Is your name Bai Yi?! Quickly tell me, how did you come to this world?! Do you know how we can return?"
Lynn's gaze grew increasingly urgent, that indescribable joy and excitement being a rare experience over these past two years.
Under the effect of the holy power, the curse within him had clearly been temporarily suppressed.
Bai Yi's consciousness slowly awakened.
He looked blankly at the human before him who appeared about the same age, murmuring:
"Are you... human?"
Lynn happily replied in Chinese: "Human! And a good person! A perfectly normal descendant of Yan and Huang just like you!"
Hearing that familiar Chinese language, Bai Yi instantly became agitated. He trembled and asked:
"Odd changes, even remains unchanged?"