Pain Substance Transfer

"After all, there's a guarantee..."

As Pink Boss and the others arrived at the clinic, or rather, the third floor of the private sanatorium, Xiao Xiao saw the "crazy women" who had been rescued by the Pink Maiden Gang. They were all locked in a huge room with thick soft rubber decorations on the walls. Even so, their hands were tied, and their disheveled heads were constantly banging against the walls.

In the corridor outside, a group of gaunt men in their underwear were begging the doctor for mercy.

"I can't take it anymore, I really can't hold on..."

"..."

The balding clinic doctor solemnly told them, "When I was young, I went through the same thing..."

"That's why I voluntarily left the well-paying top-tier hospital to come here and contribute my talents..."

"..."

Xiao Xiao didn't speak to the medical staff. After all, he was now a specially introduced talent favored by the BOSS, so there was no need for him to talk to these low-level people. He simply walked straight into the room without making a sound, having prepared himself mentally.

As soon as he got close, he was suddenly horrified, because he could smell a strong stench of decay emanating from them.

The stench seemed to penetrate the walls and enter the nostrils directly.

Without even taking out monitoring equipment, it can be determined that these people, like the woman just now, have reached the critical point of distortion.

It seems that only an Old Record Player can help them purify themselves.

However, I didn't expect there to be so many people, eight or nine in total.

Perhaps, if the Old Record Player absorbs all the Pain Substance from these women, she will directly reach the standard for enhancement. According to the principle that Ruan Ruan had told her before, once the Pain Substance in these special items reach their limit, they will immediately face the possibility of self-absorption or enhancement advancement. Moreover, more than 99% of the time, it will be direct aberration...

I was somewhat worried myself.

Gamblers always face these challenges and crises.

Fortunately, I'm not a gambler; I did have a warranty certificate for the Old Record Player.

Thinking this, Xiao Xiao relaxed and nodded to the person beside him. "Open the door, I want to go in."

"Okay, okay..."

The pink boss was the first to react, nodding repeatedly before turning to look at the others, her expression instantly turning cold.

"Didn't you hear me? Open it now."

"..."

Doctors and nurses rushed forward in a panic.

The gaunt men beside him were taken aback and stared blankly at Xiao Xiao:

"Where did this colleague come from?"

Are we just going to barge in?

"Has he earned such respect from the big boss based solely on his professional skills?"

"Who says our industry has no future?"

"..."

"Squeak..."

The locked gate was opened, and Xiao Xiao did not hesitate... In fact, he did hesitate, but he was too quick to show it... In any case, to outsiders, Xiao Xiao simply walked in calmly and composedly, even exuding a cold aura.

But the moment he walked in, the disheveled woman in the room turned to look at him.

Greedy, fierce, and drooling, like being surrounded by a group of cats in heat.

The look in his eyes, which seemed to want to devour people whole, made everyone outside the ward shudder.

"Can he really do it?"

Not only the medical staff, but even Gao Ning was not very confident, and looked at the Rabbit Ears beside him.

"Rest assured..."

Rabbit Ears pursed his lips slightly and whispered, "He's not the same kind of person as us."

Gao Ning asked, puzzled. "Even if you're not the same type of person, you still only have two kidneys, right?"

Just as I was about to ask more questions, I suddenly felt unwell. It felt like an invisible electric current was rolling across my skin, and my hair stood on end.

She turned her head abruptly as if she had seen a ghost, only to find that everything in front of her had suddenly gone dark.

For some unknown reason, the lights in the corridor suddenly went out at the same time, and the emergency lights came on.

The light shone from below, turning everyone's face snow-white, and everyone held their breath instantly.

Everyone present was startled by this ghostly change. They hurriedly looked up and stood there dumbfounded for a long while before the bald attending physician suddenly slapped his thigh. "Damn it, why did the power go out at this time? I still have a patient on the operating table..."

Shouting as he rushed towards the operating room, he yelled, "Get candles! Get flashlights! There's still surgery going on over there..."

"By the way, inform them to make preparations for burning people..."

"..."

The nurses immediately sprang into action, and a commotion broke out in the corridor.

But Pink Boss excitedly stepped forward, pressed her little face tightly against the window, and stared intently into the room.

Gao Ning also became very wary. She couldn't understand what the BOSS and the somewhat mysterious talent were doing, but she felt that from the moment that person entered the ward, a strange and inexplicable atmosphere suddenly filled the surroundings...

She even instinctively pulled out her gun, but didn't know who to point it at.

"Ta-da..."

"..."

Just as all the lights went out and the eerie atmosphere reached its peak under the emergency lights, a strange piece of music suddenly started playing.

The eerie atmosphere is from an instrumental piece called "PARIS".

Everyone was startled and turned their heads sharply to look at a bodyguard.

The other party looked embarrassed, hurriedly took out their phone, and hung up the inappropriate call.

But inexplicably, as the phone rang, the melody began to echo in everyone's minds.

Like a strange form of pollution, I suddenly heard this melody and it kept echoing in my mind all day.

At the same time, Xiao Xiao, who had entered the ward, saw the outlines of the women in the room by the emergency light coming from outside. He saw that some of them had climbed onto the ceiling, some were hanging on the walls, and some were lying on the ground.

A series of greedy and stiff faces, with only one pair of eyes shining brightly.

"That's really scary..."

An invisible atmosphere of terror made him a little flustered, but he managed to hold on and only showed a calm face.

"You want it, don't you?"

He whispered to the Old Record Player, "Then go ahead, it's all yours!"

"Clap clap clap..."

The instant he uttered those words, sparks suddenly burst forth from the clinic and from the electrical connections.

"Waaah..."

The women in the room could no longer contain themselves. Suddenly, they all let out sharp, cat-like cries and pounced on Xiao Xiao. In the dim light, Xiao Xiao looked like he was standing among a group of monsters, his slender figure like prey being targeted.

But at that very moment, the melody that had been swirling in their minds for so long suddenly intertwined with each other.

Like an invisible tide, it surged into the ward, resonating with some substance within the bodies of those frantic women.

Xiao Xiao hadn't actually done anything, but the women who rushed towards him suddenly fell to the ground one by one.

His body began to struggle violently, convulsing, his ten fingers twisting and making cracking sounds.

At the same time, the information that the Old Record Player had been enhanced flashed through Xiao Xiao's mind:

[Item Name: Old Gramophone]

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

[Enhancement Cost: 370 points]

[Enhancement Cost: 340 points]

[Enhancement Cost: 260 points]

[...]

"What exactly is that?"

Gao Ning saw this scene from outside the window, and his heart felt as if it had been struck a heavy blow. He cried out in shock.

"Theoretically, this should be an illusion..."

The Rabbit Ears clung tightly to the window, its eyes sparkling, almost overflowing with excitement.

"But how can I believe something so real is an illusion?"

"..."

My brain started to boil; the melodies that kept clashing in my mind had already intertwined into a torrent.

Actually, the corridor is very quiet now because of the power outage and the resulting tension; people are even afraid to breathe too loudly.

But everyone experienced a deafening sensation, their brains being assaulted by strange sound waves.

Extreme stillness and extreme noise form a perfect unity.

Throughout the entire hospital, only Xiao Xiao remained calmly standing, sensing the decline in the Old Record Player's enhancement points:

He could also clearly see that the women who were rushing towards him were being entangled by an invisible pressure, writhing on the ground in pain. In the process, some mysterious substance on their bodies was being forcibly pulled out. Through their subordinate relationship with the Old Gramophone, he could even intuitively feel that it was frantically accumulating some kind of power.

The upgrade cost plummeted like lightning, quickly dropping below one hundred points.

Sizzle...

Amidst the chaotic sounds, madness reached its peak, and the fall began.

The woman convulsing and struggling around them was moving less and less, as if she was pulling herself out of some kind of pain. The crackling electrical sparks around them were also decreasing, and gradually, one by one, the lights began to come back on.

Just as the horror and strangeness were about to disappear, Xiao Xiao saw the last piece of information on the old record.

[Enhancement Cost: 1 point]

[Should we strengthen it?]

[...]

"Have the Pain Substance in their bodies been completely absorbed?"

"I didn't expect that I would still be one point short..."

At that moment, just a second before the surroundings rapidly returned to normal, countless thoughts flashed through Xiao Xiao's mind:

Among them, the Old Record Player was excited and thrilled, trying to rush to a higher level in one go, but found that the Pain Substance in front of him still lacked a little bit of surprise and loss. There was also the question of whether to take this opportunity to directly advance or wait for her to earn more money in the bar. Some even keenly sensed that someone outside seemed to be watching them.

Chaotic thinking can usually damage a person's brain, but Xiao Xiao cleared everything up in an instant.

He stood in the center of the room, and before the Old Record Player could become frustrated because it was still one point short, he took a deep breath.

A smile appeared on her face, and she said softly, "There's still one missing, isn't there?"

"Don't worry, even if we're short one, or even a hundred or a thousand, I'll still make it..."

"..."

Then, he spoke his decision directly to the empty room, or rather, to the city:

"Strengthen!"