Chapter 217 Smile (Middle)

The rain kept falling.

The atmosphere wasn't exactly harmonious.

Zhou Ze silently realized that the street he was standing on was slowly shrinking, and the ground beneath his feet was becoming blurred.

Everything within his sight was being compressed.

Gradually forming a version of the nightmare.

Oh, no,

Actually, it couldn’t be called a version, it was more like,

a continuation.

He turned around,

to find that behind him was no longer the bookstore, but a tightly closed iron gate.

Looking up again, the curtain of rain was gone, replaced by an unknown liquid constantly dripping from the dense pores in the wall.

Another dream?

Had he returned to the dream again?

Back to where he left off last time,

Back to the paused position of the nightmare,

And when that button was pressed again,

it only seemed to give you a little halftime break,

What you should bear next,

What you should experience,

What you should face,

There's no way to escape it.

Zhou Ze didn't know why, why this dream, this chain, had such great power.

Back when he entered Sanxiang Village, relying on the "operation" of that bronze ring, Sanxiang Village was able to exist as a unique structure until now, but it didn't have the ability to actively "suck" people in.

Sanxiang Village could only quietly exist in that location, and you still needed to rack your brains to find it to enter, it wouldn't be like this dream, opening its mouth to actively devour you.

The end of the dream,

The beginning of the dream,

Within this, there was a very obvious unreasonableness, as if Zhou Ze, the subject of the dream, was completely insignificant.

Regardless of whether Zhou Ze was willing or not,

He would come in,

And he had to come in.

Zhou Ze took a deep breath,

To be honest,

Boss Zhou, who always had a salted fish mentality, disliked this feeling the most. He liked being unrestrained, wasting his own youth and life, but he wasn't willing to let anyone point fingers at his life, or even force him to do things.

Therefore,

Boss Zhou chose nonviolent non-cooperation at this time,

Entering the dream again in a daze,

Alright then,

Since that's the case,

Then he would just be a calm observer.

Closing his eyes,

Even spreading his arms,

Zhou Ze made a posture of actively welcoming it.

In the oppressive and narrow space,

The liquid kept pouring onto Zhou Ze's body,

Slightly viscous, with a smell similar to disinfectant constantly entering his nose.

However, some of the things that Zhou Ze had originally imagined didn't appear.

For example, skin cracking, or dense blisters, or flesh rotting to expose bones, none of these appeared.

Of course,

This feeling wasn't good either, a bit like a specimen soaked in formalin.

In front of him was a white cloth curtain, wrapped tightly.

Zhou Ze walked over, reached out and tore a hole in it, then pried it open forcefully.

Ahead,

was the same space as behind him,

But a pregnant woman with a big belly was leaning against the wall, constantly retching, looking very painful.

Her body should have been very weak to begin with, and at this time, the strong stimulating smell in this space made her very uncomfortable.

Another pregnant woman?

Why were there so many pregnant women here?

Zhou Ze subconsciously lowered his head,

Then he was a little stunned,

His stomach was flat,

Huh?

Something seemed wrong.

Zhou Ze reached out and touched the place where Lao Dao (old Taoist priest) often pulled out his talismans,

This was a man's body!

Had the main perspective changed this time he re-entered the dream?

Also,

This woman in front of him,

No wonder she looked so familiar,

She was the main perspective from his last dream.

Zhou Ze walked over, wanting to help the woman up.

It was a kind of instinct, even though he knew this was a dream, but he had at least accompanied this woman before.

Just at this moment, the iron gate behind Zhou Ze was pushed open, making a harsh scraping sound, and then several people wearing hazmat suits walked in, their rain boots making "squelching" sounds on the ground.

Two of them directly grabbed Zhou Ze's shoulders and dragged Zhou Ze backward.

Their strength wasn't actually that great, but although Zhou Ze's perspective in this dream had changed from a woman's back to a man's, what hadn't changed was that his body was still extremely weak.

Even the strongest person, being detained in this place, eating food that was almost like swill every day, never seeing the light of day, would probably become useless very quickly.

The pregnant woman was also picked up, and the two of them were carried out together.

Zhou Ze tried to keep turning his head to look around, until the surrounding passage began to widen, and finally, he could hear bursts of noise in the distance.

Not the sound of a prison,

In fact, Zhou Ze had been in prison before. Although there were many, many people locked up there, it was exceptionally quiet. Everyone was out of energy, and no one would be stupid enough to grab the bars and shout things like "Let me out, please let me out," useless words like that.

The lights above began to get brighter and denser.

Zhou Ze was lifted up and placed on a stretcher, and then his wrists and ankles were re-secured.

Zhou Ze had heard Lao Dao say before that some s....m themed couples' rooms had this kind of project, where people would be bound to the bed in a "large" shape to increase the fun.

The stretcher was pushed forward, and Zhou Ze turned his head to see another stretcher next to him, with the pregnant woman lying on it.

Compared to Zhou Ze's indifference, the pregnant woman seemed much more nervous, constantly crying and shouting something, obviously, she had realized that something was wrong.

Her husband, assuming that the man who fed her was her husband, had fought desperately to win her the chain, certainly not to enjoy this moment.

Zhou Ze had always felt that everyone in the prison had a great misunderstanding about this ankle chain. Of course, this was also a misunderstanding deliberately created by the prison management, even intentionally cultivating this lie.

The woman's shouts were chaotic, not in Tongcheng dialect, but probably in a dialect from another place, so Zhou Ze tried hard to listen to what she was shouting and saying, but he gained little, he basically couldn't understand it.

Finally,

The two stretchers were pushed into a room with some surgical instruments and equipment.

For Zhou Ze, who had once been a doctor, the surgical equipment and instruments here were so old that they couldn't be any older. He had only seen some of them in textbooks before.

The people in hazmat suits checked the two people on the stretchers again and then left together, walking out. Soon, another group of people in white coats walked in.

Zhou Ze kept watching them, he was waiting for these white coats to speak, because in Zhou Ze's mind, there had always been a guess, and this guess needed corroboration.

As long as these people spoke,

he could confirm whether his guess was correct or not.

However,

they didn't speak.

This group of white coats had no communication from the moment they entered the room.

Although Zhou Ze could see the youth and age beneath their masks, and even that two of them had some gray hair, he could also see the difference in their status, the obvious second-in-command and the chief surgeon.

But they just didn't speak, they didn't have any communication.

Perhaps, this kind of thing was a bit like routine for them.

Two living specimens were sent into the laboratory,

They responded as usual,

Just like a chef clocking in every day, not needing to research new dishes, the dishes they made every day were fixed, and the seasonings like salt, MSG, and oil all had standard configurations. Everything was in order, following the steps.

Two young white coats walked to a location at the innermost part of the room, a place that looked like a safe, where a metal tube protruded from the inside. The two white coats drew out a ball of scarlet red stuff, like opening a faucet.

This was,

Blood?

Was this big safe a blood bank?

Next, the young white coat holding the blood sample stood to the side and pointed at Zhou Ze and the pregnant woman in the next bed.

The meaning was,

Which one first?

An older white coat walked to the pregnant woman's side and signaled for this one first.

No communication,

Still no communication.

This was a dream, Zhou Ze kept telling himself, since it was a dream, then it must be fake, even if it had happened before, it was definitely not happening right now in front of his eyes.

Zhou Ze originally thought he could watch all this very calmly,

Like a person sitting in a movie theater watching a late-night horror movie, and Chinese horror movies that can be released have a rule that there can't be real ghosts. No matter how mysterious the beginning is, no matter how good the atmosphere is, in the end, they will definitely attribute it to a mental illness or hypnosis, some kind of so-called scientific explanation.

So, as long as you have the mentality that you will definitely be eating shit in the end,

You will feel that no matter how terrifying the beginning part is, it is limited.

Zhou Ze thought he should have this mentality,

He wouldn't have too many waves,

But he was wrong.

When the young white coat slowly injected the blood into the pregnant woman's body like an IV drip,

Zhou Ze watched as the pregnant woman's body began to convulse frantically,

Her blood vessels were constantly thickening, veins bulging, as if they were about to explode,

Her expression was extremely painful, and at the same time, she kept trying to raise her head, wanting to see her abdomen.

The white coats on the side were very quietly taking notes with forms, they were already numb, and they had long been used to it.

The pregnant woman's screams and roars became more and more exaggerated, blood began to overflow from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and the convulsions were also constantly intensifying, her body began to twist, but because her limbs were fixed, it formed an extremely exaggerated and uncoordinated posture.

Her neck was turned over,

Her body was clearly facing up,

But her face was facing down,

Her teeth were constantly biting the smooth stretcher, hoping to alleviate her pain.

Her arms had also been twisted over long ago, and her legs were twisted into twists.

Zhou Ze's gaze was a little dazed,

This was a tragic scene that was difficult to describe in words,

Perhaps,

Zhou Ze was mentally prepared for the pregnant woman's pain and torture.

But what stung him the most was,

That group of guys in white coats, calmly standing by, watching all this.

As a former senior medical worker, the white on their bodies made Zhou Ze feel so dazzling.

The pregnant woman's struggle lasted for a while,

Finally,

At a certain moment,

She stopped struggling,

Her whole body fell into a strange stillness in a pretzel-like posture,

Dying from torture,

Dying from pain,

Dying from twisting.

Boss Zhou, who was used to seeing life and death, used to seeing wandering souls,

Was a little afraid to look at this time,

Especially the pregnant woman's eye sockets,

Black,

Empty,

But exceptionally terrifying.

A middle-aged white coat took out a scalpel,

And cut directly into the pregnant woman's stomach,

From a professional point of view,

Zhou Ze could confirm that the other party had the surgical skills of a senior surgeon,

Smooth incision,

Without the assistance of other modern medical equipment,

But he cut with incredible precision.

Then,

He put his hand, wearing a plastic glove, into the pregnant woman's stomach,

And pulled out an infant the size of two adult palms,

But this infant's body was black, as if it had been filled with lead.

He held it in his hand,

Weighed it,

Waited for a while,

The infant suddenly moved,

And then continued to twist in pain, as if it was continuing its mother's pain.

Seeing the infant in his hand actually still moving and struggling,

All the white coats around suddenly cheered together,

As if their research had made a new breakthrough.

The middle-aged white coat holding the infant even shouted excitedly:

"Yoshi..."