On the Verge of Aberration

"Hehe..."

After Xiao Xiao untied the knots binding the woman, her body went limp and she lay sprawled on the ground like a snake. Her eyes were fixed on Xiao Xiao, who was squatting beside her, with a somewhat infatuated look. Then, slowly, slowly, she tilted her head slightly, and her limbs twisted and spasmed unnaturally, supporting herself on the ground at an unnatural angle.

The next moment, she suddenly sprang to life and pounced on Xiao Xiao like an octopus.

A strong stench of decay assaulted his senses at that moment, Xiao Xiao even felt as if a rotting corpse had appeared before him.

The corpse's pupils had disappeared, leaving only a chilling white expanse.

In the wide-open mouth, between the sparse teeth, the tongue vaguely transformed into the shape of a living snake.

It stretched its mouth out more than ten centimeters and greedily licked Xiao Xiao's face.

Aberrant Creature!

Xiao Xiao made his judgment in an instant.

The woman before them was a monster that had developed mutated features, almost indistinguishable from the Rat-Man in the subway station.

How did a rabbit end up with such a thing on its ears?

While pondering these questions, his left hand was already poised to reach down to his lower back and draw his gun to shoot him.

But then, Xiao Xiao suddenly realized another problem.

We must not kill them.

Suddenly sensing such a strong sense of threat, and seeing the woman's deformed features, it would be difficult for Xiao Xiao not to shoot her. However, in a state of Mind Burst, he instantly imprinted the woman's entire appearance in his mind. At the same time, through the keen insight of an observer, he discovered some extremely important information...

... She is still human.

The woman in front of me, although she has strong distorted characteristics, is not yet completely distorted.

Now, she should be at some kind of critical point, similar to Nuo Nuo almost had a mental breakdown before.

She hasn't reached the standard for mutation yet, or rather, she's being controlled by another force and hasn't completely become a monster.

In this situation, killing her probably wouldn't earn any points.

On the contrary, points will be deducted for killing ordinary people.

"Then what should we do?"

"..."

While Xiao Xiao was thinking about these questions, his movements were not flustered at all.

The brain has already devised a plan for the body to act, and the body executes it methodically.

As the woman suddenly lunged forward, Xiao Xiao leaned back slightly to dodge her hand that reached for his face. Then, he raised his right hand sharply, spread his fingers, and pressed it directly onto the woman's face. At the same time, he leaned forward, changing his force from a horizontal push to a downward slam, pinning the woman directly to the floor.

"Hehe..."

The woman, whose face was pressed down and pinned to the floor by Xiao Xiao, was struggling desperately, her body twisting like a snake.

But Xiao Xiao's arm pressed down on his face tightly, as if she had grabbed a snake by the vital spot. No matter how her body coiled around him, she could not hurt him in the slightest. However, her face was expressionless, but in her heart, she began to think of a solution.

"What should you do when faced with a woman who is nearly deformed but hasn't changed yet?"

"Shoot him dead and let your points be deducted."

"Or should we find a place to abandon her and wait until she's completely deformed before harvesting the points?"

"..."

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but Xiao Xiao's face remained expressionless.

At the same moment, as Xiao Xiao made his move, a strange atmosphere appeared in the office.

A series of sparks flashed, the incandescent bulb was about to go out, but the surrounding light suddenly dimmed.

As this eerie atmosphere enveloped the entire office, the music box on Xiao Xiao's left side, placed on the wine cabinet, suddenly began to rotate automatically without anyone touching it, playing soft and quiet music.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

Immediately afterwards, a series of static noises began to appear from the computer speakers in the office.

Amidst the chaotic noise, a strange aura enveloped everyone, and a sense of jubilation could be faintly sensed within it. As this bizarre music, played simultaneously by different players, began to play, the woman struggling beneath Xiao Xiao's palm suddenly began to convulse violently, her bones, fascia, and even blood vessels and muscles tightening in a strange manner.

The eerie atmosphere and music around her seemed to be some kind of invisible force, swiftly penetrating this crazed woman.

Xiao Xiao's palm could be felt even more clearly.

After the woman's struggle reached its peak, it seemed to gradually subside, as if aided by the music.

It seemed as if some invisible force was being drawn out of her body.

[Pain Substance detected are increasing. Strengthen/Decline?]

[Enhancement Cost: 430 points]

[Enhancement Cost: 390 points]

[...]

[Note: Thank you, Master! I feel so satisfied. I want more...]

[...]

In a very short time, Xiao Xiao suddenly realized that information about the Old Record Player was flashing through his mind.

The sudden change startled Xiao Xiao slightly:

"Forty points were lost instantly?"

"Did the Old Record Player absorb the Pain Substance from this woman's body?"

"Turning her into this Pain Substance is exactly what the old record needs for enhancement?"

"Is it a job that matches your major?"

"..."

As he thought about these things, his expression remained unchanged. He only felt the face beneath his palm gradually calm down, and slowly released his hand.

Looking down, one could see a hint of confusion on the woman's face. She weakly opened her eyes, her gaze slowly shifting. When she saw Xiao Xiao, her eyes were still somewhat dull, but as they turned, she saw the Rabbit Ears not far away.

His eyes suddenly lit up with surprise. "Boss..."

But she could only utter such a brief call before she could no longer bear it and fainted.

"My body is too weak..."

Xiao Xiao observed from the side and felt that her spirit was as weak as a candle in the wind.

"That's amazing..."

Throughout this process, Rabbit Ears, sitting cross-legged on the desk, kept a close eye on Xiao Xiao's movements.

She saw that when her sister was untied and suddenly went berserk, Xiao Xiao easily pinned her to the ground, a woman who usually required two strong men to hold down. After that, she couldn't understand what was happening; she could only feel the surrounding lights flickering and faint music filling her mind.

She couldn't be sure if it was a hallucination, but she could clearly feel some kind of eerie power permeating the office.

When she realized what was happening, she saw that her sister had regained her senses and had even called out her name accurately before she lost consciousness.

The extremely bizarre and impactful scene made her breathing rapid with excitement.

The look in his eyes as he looked at Xiao Xiao was full of admiration.

What's going on?

After doing all this, Xiao Xiao showed no sign of panic on his face.

In fact, the initial panic had already subsided, and the extremely frantic thinking had now subsided, allowing the individual to calm down.

But he seemed perfectly normal, casting an inquiring glance at the Rabbit Ears.

"Huff... huff..."

The Rabbit Ears, as if trying to calm itself down quickly.

Trying to keep his voice steady, he said in a low voice, "These girls we found have all become like this."

"They're all Jin Biao..."

"It's all that damn guy's fault that these people are in this state."

"He used any means necessary to control these girls, including beatings, humiliation, starvation, imprisonment, and illegal drugs..."

"He drove these people insane."

"We went through a lot of trouble to rescue him, but he was already ruined..."

"But..."

As she spoke, she suddenly looked up at Xiao Xiao with excitement and said, "But I know that you can definitely, you can definitely cure them."

"..."

Her words made Xiao Xiao feel a little strange.

His face remained expressionless, but his mind instantly absorbed and organized a vast amount of information.

In just two or three seconds, all the fragments were organized and intertwined.

The matter seems simple. The Rabbit Ears said that this girl was one of the girls who had gone missing before. Yang Jia said that the strangers kidnapped these girls to feed the Rotten Kingdom. That's probably the origin of the rotten smell on her.

The decay, or rather the deformed traits, in this girl were born from the Rotten Kingdom.

Unlike the girls who were abducted by the Black Hat Man, these people were fed much earlier.

Perhaps, once a girl enters the Rotten Kingdom, she can never be found again. But the Pink Maiden Gang is quite powerful, and they actually managed to find a few of them. However, they have also been severely affected by the Aberrant Creature.

Fortunately, they are only on the very edge of the edge, and they have not yet become completely distorted.

Furthermore, the Old Record Player itself seemed to possess the same Pain Substance, which is why it was able to save her.

But it was just a hair's breadth away, just a tiny bit more, and there was no way to save him except to shoot him dead.

These things are not difficult to deduce, but Xiao Xiao found strange was something else entirely.

He turned around calmly and said to the Rabbit Ears, "You know us?"

"Of course..."

With its chest heaving with excitement and its eyes filled with adoration, the Rabbit Ears jumped off the desk.

Little by little, he moved closer to Xiao Xiao, suppressing his excitement, and whispered:

"Hey handsome, will you buy me?"

"I'm very capable..."