This time, Luo Xia had a lot more experience. With the necklace around his neck helping him, he no longer turned telepathy into the torture of pulling someone's hair out. Ward didn't even feel a thing before Luo Xia had already invaded his mind.
Huh, this is a lot easier than invading Alexandra and Bakuto's minds.
That was probably because Ward had only lived for a little over twenty years, while Alexandra and the other old monsters had lived for centuries.
With fewer memory fragments to sift through, it was much easier for Luo Xia to search them.
He also found that Ward's memories, like Alexandra's, contained more negative memories than positive ones. But that was only natural. Unless someone had serious psychological problems, they would hardly accept Hydra's inhuman ideology.
Luo Xia searched carefully, cautiously finding Ward's childhood memories.
Looking at the memories from Ward's childhood, Luo Xia sighed. "Wow, it all started with you being abused. Is your whole family made up of psychopaths?"
Ward was shocked and furious. "What are you doing? How do you know about my family?!"
Luo Xia didn't answer. He continued searching through Ward's memories, and soon found one that stood out as especially vivid.
There were three children in Ward's family, and Ward was the middle child. But the three brothers had never been close.
In this memory, Ward's eldest brother, a boy already in his teens, threw their youngest brother down a well. The boy could swim, but even by constantly treading water, he could barely keep himself from sinking.
Ward was very close to his younger brother and wanted to save him. But his eldest brother not only stopped him from helping; he forced Ward to watch his brother struggle at the edge of the well.
His eldest brother was