In William's recovered memories of his past life, he had only been forced to kill some security personnel while escaping the orphanage at the age of ten.
In truth, this had not been his first time killing someone. Otherwise, he could never have so smoothly killed several well-trained adults, nor remained so composed after taking several lives for the first time, without his escape plan being affected in the slightest.
His true "memories of killing" had been sealed away deeper inside, locked within Yi Chen's memory vault.
The reason they had not been released was precisely because these memories would have a harmful effect on an individual, possibly causing William's personality to deteriorate severely.
However, from Yi Chen's perspective, this was now the perfect point at which to release those memories.
That was because the memories were directly related to the theme of the "mask." They might have an important influence on the Face Condensation to come, or even directly control the process.
Buzz! A memory flashback.
Returning to when he was only a little over four years old—an age at which an ordinary human child would normally be attending the younger classes of kindergarten—Yi Chen had already endured a full year of hellish life in the orphanage.
Because of Yi Chen's special status—he was the product of a union between Director Cao and the genes of an outstanding outsider—and because he had scored highly in every talent assessment, he had received preferential treatment from Director Cao, his "mother," ever since childhood.
Even after he formally entered the orphanage's hellish lifestyle, Director Cao still granted him special privileges in certain matters, and even gave him care and lessons that the other children never received.
Not every child could persist in such an environment.
Whenever a child seriously violated the rules,