Chapter 205: 201 Collapse

"Is this... Dr. Kelake's memory?" Yu Lianyun clutched her heart, which felt as if it were boiling; she was in such agony that her face twisted, her brain spinning at high speed.

In order to quickly solve the case of Dr. Kelake's disappearance, upon learning that there were abnormal factors in Dr. Kelake's childhood, Yu Lianyun had naturally looked at photos of Kelake's childhood. Although the Dr. Kelake in the photos she had seen was older than the one she saw in the memory, she could still vaguely identify the identity from the facial features.

And it was very obvious that this memory came from the experience before Dr. Kelake was sent to the orphanage in his childhood. As the child of a pair of lunatics, the young him was not only in a distorted mental state, but even his values were twisted and evil.

It could be said that Dr. Kelake losing his parents and his memory after the fire incident was, on the contrary, a rebirth for him.

But now, Dr. Kelake's luck had also run out.

The terrifying screech did not actually last long, but to those enduring the pain, it felt as if a century had passed. Furthermore, some Mysterious Investigators had just shaken off the assault of the sound when they were instantly attacked by their abnormalized colleagues and tackled to the ground.

Glancing at the chaotic scene, Yu Lianyun turned and left. There was no order left to speak of at the scene, nor was there any need to continue maintaining it; fleeing for one's life was now the self-imposed command of every survivor.

Staggering into the alleyway that Lin Ling had walked through, Yu Lianyun dripped blood as she walked. The screeching sound from just a moment ago had clearly not only severely damaged her spirit but had also directly destroyed her body.

Her nose was bleeding incessantly, and her brain was a mess of mush. This experience of drifting between life and death, teetering on the boundary line between the yin and yang realms, was something Yu Lianyun had experienced countless times. Even in this state, she could still maintain a certain level of thought.

Information about the forbidden experiments conducted by the Three Wealth Remnants flashed slowly through Yu Lianyun's mind. The experiment used special sound waves to dissolve the Mental Barrier of those with fragile spirits, thereby obtaining the abnormal power outside the Mental Barrier.

Recalling the scene she had seen in the underground laboratory, this experiment unexpectedly did not utilize entire living human bodies, but instead specifically stripped out brains as experimental material. What was even more suspicious was that those guys didn't seem to be taking individual brains as experimental subjects, but rather taking a group of brains as a single, collective experimental subject. This meant that this was not a rigorous experiment; to put it bluntly, this was a complete mess!

But what if this wasn't just a simple experiment? Assuming the experimental researcher had already grasped all the results of the experiment, then everything he did was not an experiment at all, but more akin to production.

But how was this achieved?

Before Yu Lianyun could think any further, she immediately discovered that the ground beneath her feet was bulging high up; it was a giant pillar of flesh rising from underground. When she was forced to stand at a height three stories tall, she saw that the pillars of flesh growing from the ground were not just the one under her feet—this entire XC District was covered in pillars of flesh.

Boom!

Suddenly, blood-red heat flowed from the tops of the pillars of flesh, burning like fire.

Fear sometimes makes people calm and clear-headed. When she was forcibly pushed into the high air, Yu Lianyun was like a drunkard who had sobered up. Looking at this old city scarred and riddled with holes, a familiar feeling surged in her mind.

"Wait, this image... is the Subduing Demon Technique Seal that Dr. Kelake drew during his childhood. These pillars of flesh are equivalent to candles!" Yu Lianyun had an epiphany. No wonder when they were underground, those Three Wealth Remnants only showed a fierce and stubborn appearance; it turned out they had never intended to escape. They had been fully prepared, waiting for all of this to happen. Even if their Xuanmi Group hadn't found their tracks through clues, they were willing to generously meet their deaths in the heaven-collapsing and earth-shattering event just now.

The scalding heat melted even the solidified asphalt instantly. Yu Lianyun was burned so badly that she could only roll down from the high pillar of flesh to the level ground along the deformed road surface.

After rolling down, Yu Lianyun was already covered in blood and filth, her skin torn and flesh mangled. She struggled to climb up from the ground, only to see an even more terrifying and desperate scene.

A massive brain, a brain full of gullies that pulsed with a thumping sound, slowly hung in the sky. At the bottom of the brain were thick, pink strips of flesh that plunged straight into the ground, connecting to every pillar of flesh. After a period of writhing, the tissue on the brain bloomed like a flower, blossoming into giant black eyes.

Suddenly, a demonic wind swept through, spreading out with that giant brain as the center. Everything it passed turned into yellow sand. The yellow sand followed the demonic wind, then gathered with the demonic wind, slowly forming the shape of a book in front of the brain.

"The Book of Sand!" Yu Lianyun suddenly understood. The confidence that allowed that group of Three Wealth Remnants to skip the experimental verification steps and conduct the final experiment was this "All-Knowing Demon Book."

The ambition and desire of those lunatics were far beyond what they, as ordinary humans, could imagine.

Boom, boom, boom!

The Castle had unknowingly turned into broken walls and ruins. The large Castle had collapsed more than halfway, and the body was growing larger and larger, even almost able to rival the size of the entire Castle.

The monster's body chased after Kelake and Milaier, who were running back and forth among the ruins, and tentacles covered in eyes continuously gushed out, tightly pursuing the two.

There were falling rocks everywhere, and everything was collapsing; the range of movement was becoming smaller and smaller.

Kelake and Milaier were already panicking and had lost their way. Kelake found it difficult to even distinguish the traces of the Red Shoes with his naked eye, let alone how to escape alive under the guidance of the Red Shoes.

The monster's pores and eyes were all emitting evil, fragmented whispers that caused one's sanity to collapse, and its offensive became increasingly fierce. Kelake tightly followed the Red Shoes, which were strolling leisurely through the ruins.

While focused, Kelake suddenly trembled as if electrocuted.

"The fourth point: when you look down and see a pair of feet in shoes, do not look up; please stare at the shoes until she walks out of your line of sight." The words of the Forest Cabin shopkeeper echoed in Kelake's mind. The chill that surged in his heart was colder than being hunted by the monster; his brain felt as if it had been frozen, unable to think.

He only knew one thing: he must follow Li Jiahong's words, otherwise, he had no idea what terrifying things would happen.

"Kelake, hurry up!" Milaier, who was by his side, tugged at his hand, urging him to run, but Kelake did not move, standing in place as if he had given up resistance.

"Kelake!"

Amidst the exclamation, Kelake saw the ground crack open, and countless flesh-tendrils emerged from the cracked gaps. He couldn't help but close his eyes tightly.

He was powerless; all that remained was to leave it to fate.

Boom, boom, boom!

In the instant of the loud noise, the ground beneath him vanished, and he fell into weightlessness. Fear and intense tinnitus stimulated him to want to scream, but when he opened his mouth, he lost his voice, and his consciousness gradually disappeared.

In a trance, Kelake saw the fused monster, which was also falling, open its body and swallow Milaier, who was struggling in the fall. But within seconds, the fused monster's mountain-of-flesh body swelled violently, and then a black aura forcibly tore open the monster's body, blowing the monster into pieces. Amidst the flying blood and flesh, a half-body wearing Red Shoes landed beside Milaier, clinging tightly to her as if they were about to fuse together.

Kelake felt that Milaier was in danger and reached out his hand toward the maid who had insisted on accompanying him to the end, struggling to try and grab her hand once more.