Chapter 410

Seeing this, Li Zhuiyuan looked up, picked up the water cup on the table, and took a sip of water.

If a lie wants to be realistic, it must maximize its internal true content; if the true content is limited, then don't disperse it evenly, but concentrate it at the beginning.

When they first met, Ye Dui very straightforwardly called himself "a monster without human skin."

The bait was placed here.

It had to have something attractive enough to itself in its hands to exert influence on itself, hanging a carrot to lure itself to follow it.

Combined with the fact that the sealed land under the tomb shouldn't be the core area, when he went to the Goguryeo tomb, he would likely encounter it early in the preliminary stage.

Therefore, comprehensively speaking, from the beginning of the interrogation record to here, the authenticity shouldn't have any problems.

But from here downwards, it might start to be adulterated.

Li Zhuiyuan put down the water cup, lowered his head, and continued to look down:

"Peeping at me for so long, are you happy?"

Ye Dui didn't know how to answer this question, but the other party didn't seem to intend to let him answer either.

Because when the other party's gaze looked at him, everything about Ye Dui was imprisoned.

Although he could still think, he couldn't make any response to the outside world, as if he had suddenly been abandoned by this world.

Ye Dui used a metaphor here:

Like a fish that had been made into a dish and placed on the dining table, still with its eyes open.

In his heart, Li Zhuiyuan drew a circle around this sentence.

This was a feeling of being treated as food.

Li Zhuiyuan knew someone who had this ability.

In that cave under the foot of Langshan in Nantong that had already been covered by quicksand, that person's dining table and chopsticks had once been placed.

It was just that this feeling was very difficult to describe so aptly, unless felt personally.

Then, was this feeling really Ye Dui's?

Or was it... his?

Next, this person climbed out of the well.

He returned to this place, looking around, as if savoring the residence he had once built with his own hands.

Ye Dui spent ten years here peeping at the records of the past, which meant that this person had not left this well for at least ten years.

Of course, an extreme possibility wasn't excluded, that this person would take the opportunity to come up while Ye Dui returned to his cell to transmit messages every once in a while.

But this probability was extremely low, because Ye Dui had no room to resist in front of him, and he had no reason to hide from Ye Dui and return.

Li Zhuiyuan frowned slightly, because the statement below was a bit chaotic; it wasn't the chaos of Ye Dui's statement, but Ye Dui's subsequent encounter itself was very chaotic.

After a brief savoring of the old place, this person said:

"Since you like peeping so much, then I will take you to see more interesting things and satisfy you well."

Ye Dui was grabbed by this person and went down the well.

It was mentioned before that the water ripples here had been deliberately brought to a boiling degree by this person, so when Ye Dui was forced to be immersed under the water surface of the well mouth, he tasted what was called "life is worse than death" in the literal sense.

Just this instant, Ye Dui felt that his desire to survive and the various unwillingness in his heart regarding his own ending had all turned into bubbles.

He wanted to die; he even wanted to cooperate unconditionally now, just to let himself die faster, even if it was just dying early by one breath, no, even half a breath.

But in the next moment, this feeling of torture disappeared again.

Ye Dui was dazed.

Like a chicken that had been scalded with boiling water and plucked, suddenly told that it didn't need to be boiled in a pot.

He continued to be grabbed by this person and moved forward; under this well, he didn't know why it was so long, as if it could never reach the end.

But soon, this thought of Ye Dui was changed; water ripples suddenly appeared in front of him, and in the picture, he saw a man wearing a warlock's robe, floating and sinking.

Ye Dui vaguely guessed the identity of this warlock.

When the four of them transmitted messages to each other, they would do some basic exchanges, such as reporting their specialties.

Immediately after, the water ripples in front disappeared, and the picture no longer existed.

Afterwards, it was another long march, and when the feeling of despair rose again in Ye Dui's heart, he saw another "cell," inside which was an old man with silver hair all over his head.

The old man lay there, with a sword inserted in his chest; he grabbed the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands, not pulling it out, but pressing down hard, not letting the sword tip leave his body.

This old man had once told Ye Dui during message transmission that he was using this method of self-harm to constantly increase his resentment.

Next, it was another long section, and the third cage appeared.

Inside was a plump middle-aged woman, who was sitting there cross-legged, naked, with a golden fat maggot constantly drilling in and out of her body.

The woman had said during message transmission that she used a kind of gu technique, devouring herself, and maintaining herself one after another in golden meat maggots, to extend her existence.

Ye Dui finally realized that this man who kept grabbing him and moving forward had the ability to patrol the prison under the tomb.

This person had stayed at the bottom of the well for such a long time in the past, not sleeping or extending his "life," but... digging a tunnel!

A method that all four of them had tried and collectively confirmed could not succeed was realized by this person.

Below, the real torture belonging to Ye Dui began.

In the march, he was thrown out again and again by this man, experiencing all kinds of water ripple torment.

Every different water ripple was a cell... an empty cell.

And this person was treating himself as a stone to ask the way, using himself to throw a stone to ask the way.

Different torture, chaotic pain, disorder and tearing of consciousness...

Ye Dui had never thought that torture could be so diverse.

Fortunately, the duration of each endurance was not long, and every time he felt he was about to perish, this person would lift him in front of him.

Black blood oozed from this person's body, constantly surging towards him, bringing him strands of pure resentment that were abundant to the point of suffocation.

This was not life extension, because Ye Dui had already died; this was extending Ye Dui's existence time.

The above content was summarized by Li Zhuiyuan himself, and he couldn't dig deep into the details, because Ye Dui's memory in this stage was very chaotic, not necessarily because he suffered too much torture, but because Ye Dui accepted this resentment.

However, here Li Zhuiyuan could extract three key points:

One, this person shouldn't be in a hurry to escape here, but wants to go to a place here.

Two, this person has the ability to instill resentment into others; this resentment will cause the recipient's consciousness to be destroyed to a great extent.

Three, the reason why Ye Dui could enter that person's cell and achieve refuge might not be influenced by any remnant, but this person deliberately gave Ye Dui the key.

He anticipated that ten years later, he might need a stone, and in his eyes, Ye Dui was the most suitable in size and weight.

At the same time, here, it also explained why the second page of the "Wordless Book" had been pitch black for so long.

Because Ye Dui had encountered this level of torture before, so when the "Evil Book" tortured and interrogated him, it spent more time and energy.

It was really thoughtful; clearly stating past experiences, yet it was like "dialogue" with himself who was reading the book at the moment.

However, Li Zhuiyuan still insisted that this was because "it" didn't expect that he would put it directly into the "Wordless Book," and would arrange for the "Evil Book," such an unreliable evil thing, to interrogate it, which made it have to isolate its own line of sight first to readjust its plan.

As for why Ye Dui could "see at a glance" that he had no skin, it was explained when Ye Dui deduced this person's physiognomy earlier; below, when Ye Dui described the feeling of being instilled with resentment every time, he said that at this moment, he would be very, very close to this person, close to the point of seeming to have merged into this person's body and soul, and he saw this person's true appearance.

This person had no skin, not the skin of flesh and blood, but this person's soul was a kind of natural smoothness and purity; Ye Dui couldn't understand why such a deformed existence that was incompatible with this world could be born, and why it could live to this day.

Seeing this description, Li Zhuiyuan did some self-reflection.

He often compared his past emotions to a desert, unable to retain water; to a certain extent, it corresponded to Ye Dui's description.