Intent of Slaughter

"You jolted awake from deep thought (00:56)

You finally comprehended the method to open the last three orifices (00:57)"

The opening of the second AFK Record left Shen Qian stunned.

He quickly realized that this so-called "comprehension" must have been the system automatically refining the method. But why were there no memories of the method for him to extract?

Frowning, Shen Qian sensed that things were far from simple and continued reading.

"You stepped out of Room 303 (00:59)

The woman's scream in the hallway filled you with shame, so you returned to the room (00:59)"

Shen Qian was confused at first, then he understood. His face immediately darkened.

He had not been wearing clothes at the time...

"You got dressed, left the room again, and departed Tongxinyuan Hotel (01:03)

You arrived at H7 Apartment across the street and sent Huo Ling'er a message through your wristband: I'm downstairs at your place (01:10)

You met Huo Ling'er on Wangjing Road and brought her into a nearby alley (01:15)

Huo Ling'er asked whether you had something urgent to see her about so late at night (01:15)

You said to Huo Ling'er: 'Guess which side my heart is on?' (01:16)

Huo Ling'er said: 'The left?' (01:16)

You smiled faintly and said affectionately: 'No, it's on your side.' (01:17)

..."

Shen Qian:?

Was the system malfunctioning?

Where the hell had it downloaded such cheesy pickup lines...

Forcing down the burning shame, Shen Qian continued reading. He believed the system must have had some purpose; it could not be this bored.

"Huo Ling'er was dumbfounded (01:18)

Huo Ling'er blushed (01:21)"

It took her three whole minutes to react?

Shen Qian could not help mocking her absurdly long reaction time.

"Huo Ling'er struggled to form coherent words and refused to meet your eyes (01:22)

Taking the opportunity, you made a request: 'Can you sleep with me?' (01:23)

Although flustered, Huo Ling'er rejected you and became somewhat angry (01:23)"

The system was getting desperate here!

Shen Qian made the regretful assessment, only to realize something was wrong a moment later. The shame in his heart intensified. How am I supposed to face Huo Ling'er in the future!

"So you changed your request: 'Can you put on something cool for me to admire?' (01:25)

Huo Ling'er slapped you and left (01:26)"

Shen Qian froze completely.

He now seriously suspected that the system had developed some kind of malfunction. No matter how he looked at it, this did not seem to serve any legitimate purpose.

With his heart dead as ashes, Shen Qian kept reading indifferently. Things had already come to this—how much worse could they get?

Just seconds later, Shen Qian nearly jumped to his feet.

"You took a taxi to 'Emperor KTV Club' on North Second Ring Road and paid a fare of 37 yuan (01:35)

You entered 'Emperor KTV Club' and booked a luxury private room (01:38)

You ordered ten top-ranked singing companions (01:42)

You had them change into cool clothing and dance around you (01:43)

Your blood surged as you watched them dance (01:49)

You successfully used 'Blood of Desire' to open the seventh orifice, the Perineum Orifice

..."

A... club?

Shen Qian remained silent for a long, long time.

He only wanted to ask one question... why were there no pictures here?

What happened to the promised memory fragments?

Feeling as though he had become dirty, Shen Qian was somewhat despairing. Yet he had finally understood the system's purpose... Blood of Desire?

So this was the method for opening the seventh orifice? Or was it something the system had tailored specifically for him?

Shen Qian did not know. He merely remembered another issue with a jolt—how much money did he have left?

"The veins in your abdomen ruptured, and you began losing blood (01:51)

Amid the screams of the singing companions, you broke through the window and escaped (01:52)

You entered the sewers and evaded pursuit by the club's security guards (01:59)"

The second AFK Record ended there, and Shen Qian let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, he had gotten it for free. Though skipping out on the bill was shameful and not behavior to be encouraged... it had all been done by the system anyway.

The beginning of the third AFK Record made Shen Qian solemn, and he finally learned why he had ended up at 998 Special Hospital.

The text alone could not convey what condition he had been in at the time. The truth was that excessive blood loss had forced him to enter the hospital and find blood bags matching his blood type for a transfusion. After that, Shen Qian had fallen unconscious for a full five hours.

When he awoke again, Shen Qian began his journey to open the eighth orifice.

The system's method for opening the eighth, the Tongue Orifice, was called "Touch of Nerves."

The method was not as sinful as the one for opening the seventh orifice. Shen Qian had used a device from the hospital's obstetrics department, called a "Childbirth Experience Simulator."

This machine was used to simulate the pain of childbirth. Its original purpose was to help husbands better understand the greatness of their wives and mothers... but Shen Qian had turned it directly to the highest setting and endured it for four hours.

Yes, four hours...

Even reading it in text made Shen Qian's teeth ache.

The greatest difficulty of "Touch of Nerves" was that one had to remain conscious throughout the entire process, and even divide one's attention to use qi and blood to strike at the orifice. Was that really something a human could do?

No wonder Huo Ling'er had said that even her great-grandfather had opened only Seven Orifices.

Shen Qian had gone to use the childbirth simulator just after dawn. He was not discovered by the nurse on duty until ten in the morning, but she thought Shen Qian had only started using it a short while ago. She had no idea he had already been inside for four full hours.

Afterward, Shen Qian had secretly given himself another blood transfusion in that storage room and fallen unconscious again for seven hours.

That was everything contained in the third AFK Record.

After the Tongue Orifice was opened, only the theoretical final orifice remained: the Coccyx Orifice.

At this point, Shen Qian also understood that the system intended to directly help him open all Nine Orifices and reach the theoretical limit of an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist.

But why were there still two AFK Records left?

Puzzled, Shen Qian opened the fourth AFK Record.

"You woke up in the storage room (17:35)

You left the hospital and spent 48 yuan on four boxed meals at a construction site cafeteria 250 meters away (17:49)

You recuperated in an unoccupied corner of the construction site and began adjusting your physical condition (18:33)

You snapped off a steel rebar as a weapon and left the construction site (20:47)

You took a detour to avoid surveillance and arrived at Hope Orphanage on North City Road (21:03)

You found a Scavenger hiding in an abandoned dormitory at Hope Orphanage (21:06)

You engaged him in battle (Click to extract Combat Experience) (21:08)

..."

Shen Qian's pupils shrank. I ran into a Scavenger again... no, the system brought me to find a Scavenger again.

He roughly understood where the large bloodstains on his clothes had come from. Quite a lot of it probably was not even his.

Because in the records that followed, the system found three more Scavengers over the next five hours and killed them all.

By this point, Shen Qian had roughly understood that opening the ninth orifice was most likely related to battle.

Sure enough, at the end of the AFK Record, Shen Qian saw a line of text.

"Your strength was exhausted, but your will reached its peak (02:18)

You successfully used 'Intent of Slaughter' to open the ninth orifice, the Coccyx Orifice (02:19)"

He had never expected the process of opening the last three orifices to be so tortuous...

Without the system, even if Shen Qian had known how to open these three orifices, he probably would not have dared to try. He felt that he would most likely die halfway through.

Either dead or crippled.

Shen Qian rubbed his brow and thought of one final question... All Nine Orifices had been opened, so what was the fifth AFK Record for?