Horror of the Olden Days
Chapter 1833

A Touch of Vulgar Fear (Twenty-Eight)

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Strange.

Judging by the force of it, even if he healed, the scars should have been quite noticeable.

In the photos, Joshua was smiling even more happily than he had just moments ago.

As an expert in flesh and blood, Fu Qian was certain that those wounds would have put an ordinary person under considerable strain just to stay alive.

The wounds were in different places, too. One photo even showed a hole straight through his palm.

Yet Joshua was full of life now, and the two autopsies conducted earlier had confirmed that he didn't have a single scar in any of those places.

Setting aside outlandish explanations like identical twins, it seemed only Supernatural Power could account for a scene like this.

One more strange element for April Fools' Day. Joshua, who looked like such an upstanding young man, seemed to have discovered his "true self," too.

Judging by the photos and how he looked in person, the Supernatural Power awakened within him even seemed to specialize in flesh and blood.

His astonishing healing ability let him mutilate himself as recklessly as he pleased, without leaving a trace.

But that raised a question: why was Joshua carrying these photos around?

It made sense that he'd taken them to test his abilities, and it wouldn't be surprising if he'd treasured them in his excitement. But wasn't he worried someone else might see them? Could it be that he wanted people to see them?

Looks like trudging around in the cold with wet sleeves hadn't been for nothing after all.

Beyond somewhat confirming the "correct" way to complete the script that he'd worked out earlier, he also seemed to have found a likely answer to why the person lying in the party basement had been a real corpse.

Why had

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