He stretched out his right hand, palm facing down, and pressed it directly onto the Wolf Bandit Leader's head, which was covered in filthy blood and mane.
The [Star Atlas] unfolded within his consciousness, its light flowing.
Special function activated: Soul Reading (shallow Soul Searching).
This was a rather sinister and domineering skill, capable of forcibly seizing fragments of the target's recent memories. However, it inflicted irreversible damage upon the victim's soul. At best, they would become an idiot; at worst, their soul would scatter and vanish.
Han Yuchen rarely used it under normal circumstances, but he felt no psychological burden when dealing with a monster like this—one that took pleasure in torturing and killing humans and deserved no mercy.
"Ugh... Aaaahhh—!!!"
The Wolf Bandit Leader's body suddenly arched, convulsing violently like a fish out of water!
Its eyes rolled upward until only the whites remained. Inhuman screams tore from its mouth as foam mixed with blood continuously spilled out, while blood gushed even more violently from the stumps of its limbs.
A chaotic mass of memory fragments, filled with bloodshed and darkness, surged forcefully into Han Yuchen's mind like foul water bursting through a dam.
Most of them were meaningless scenes of slaughter, feeding, and obscene mating memories, filled with violence and filth.
Han Yuchen frowned and endured the mental discomfort. Like an extremely efficient sieve, he rapidly filtered out the useless information and focused on searching for recent memories, especially those related to this attack and the two Curved Blades.
At last.
Near the surface of its memories, he caught a relatively clear scene from just a few days ago.
The view swayed—it came from the Wolf Bandit Leader's first-person perspective.
The location appeared to be deep within a dark cave, where firelight flickered.
A human figure completely