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Chapter 720 The Birth of the Forbidden Zone

The glass container was filled with medicine, and Yu Hui was connected to tubes. The doctor and the black bear said that this was a necessary process to save his mother.

The tiny body was immersed in the viscous medicinal liquid, while Yu Hui looked out at the world through the glass.

It was so ugly. The doctors wore white coats, but black, withered arms grew from their necks and elbows. They carried huge snail shells on their backs, with the faces of the gruesome dead etched on them.

The black bear's appearance had also changed drastically. It no longer had a human shape at all, but resembled a giant bear walking upright, exuding malice. Its skin seemed to be covered with long black fur. Its eyes were sunken, and its black pupils concealed greed and desire, as if it were about to grab someone and devour them at any moment.

Looking further into the distance, the world, somewhat blurred by the glass, was pierced by enormous black roots, and everywhere were wriggling tiny tentacles. Some of them had eyeballs at their tips, eyes completely different from human eyes, deep and dark, colder than a venomous snake.

Looking at his own body again, Yu Hui could clearly feel that the Life Flower was absorbing something from his body. The seed took root and sprouted in his flesh and blood, pushing open his skin.

The so-called "flowers of destiny" have nothing to do with flowers. At least in Yu Hui's eyes, they are blurry mouths that grow by devouring kindness, but they wither quickly if the supply of good emotions stops.

“Those strange patterns... I feel like I’ve seen them on a shrine in the sky before. Are these life flowers fragments shaken off from that shrine? Are they memories forgotten by the gods?”

More channels took root in his body, and Yu Hui kept seeing his mother's image in his mind. Whenever he was about to fall asleep, an electric current would pass through his body, causing him to continuously nourish the life flower.

“My child, you did it.” The black bear stood outside the glass tank, feeling proud of its child for the first time, and probably for the last: “Your mother is next door. She will stay with you until you wake up from your coma. Then she will appear before you and personally take you out.”

Finding a piece of black cloth, Black Bear casually covered the glass with it, then left the room and walked down the corridor. The rooms on both sides were filled with similar glass jars, and the air was filled with the fragrance of the Life Flower. Just being here could continuously reduce the malice in one's heart.

"The new Life Flower is very effective. This time, the black roundworm has made a great contribution. I also need to produce the new medicine as soon as possible, otherwise that kid will eventually climb over my head."

The black bear walked past each glass tank, climbing the steps one by one.

The black cloth slowly slid down, and Yu Hui saw the figure of the black bear. He opened the basement door, and beams of light shone in, illuminating the black bear. He didn't turn back and left alone.

"You still couldn't escape; you still became medicine."

"Once you are drained by the life-giving flower, your heart will be made into a gift and given to the next medicine. The tragedy is passed on."

"But thankfully, at least you saved your mother."

"Perhaps we can study the Destiny Flower more; it's too special."

"I hope the next medicine won't be as cowardly as you, and I hope there will be a medicine that can truly save this city."

Time seemed to slow down in the medicine, and the children's voices kept ringing out.

As the days passed, Yu Hui's body became unrecognizable as human; he was supposed to stay here until he withered away completely.

Unexpectedly, Wansheng's explosives breached the factory door, causing a series of explosions, billowing smoke, and cracks appearing in the sealed glass containers, which then shattered in the next moment.

Yu Hui, who had grown in the medicinal liquid, crawled out of the pipe and walked along the dimly lit corridor, where he saw the equipment connected to the other side of the pipe.

The blood drawn from his own body, the life-giving flower nourished by his own flesh, were all transported in containers to the next workshop, where they were made into bottles of medicine. Yu Hui didn't care about any of this; his small body continued crawling towards the next room. The black bear had said his mother was right there.

Pushing open door after door, Yu Hui only saw children trapped in the potion. Their souls were not pure enough, and the life flowers on their bodies could not fully bloom. Even so, the Zhuchuan Society still imprisoned them and used them to produce low-grade potions.

"Where's mom?"

Explosions, alarms, footsteps—the pharmaceutical factory was in chaos. No one cared about the current afterglow; he was like a crawling amphibious monster.

After struggling up the steps to the first floor, Yu Hui looked up and saw some pictures and words on the wall.

Having not seen the sun for a long time, his eyes were stung by the sunlight, but what was even more scorching than the sun was the content of the picture.

Because of violating the rules of the pharmaceutical factory, Room 031 was used as a typical example. People from Takekawa posted various terrible things that happened to her inside the workshop, along with pictures of Room 031's miserable state.

The terrifying images seemed to come alive, frantically drilling into Yu Hui's eyes. All the children's voices in his mind stopped, and the world seemed to become quiet in an instant, except that the flower of life blooming on him began to wither.

When the soul is no longer pure, the flower of life cannot draw upon kindness and will wither.

Something burst forth from Yu Hui's heart. He no longer saw himself as a child, but began to assimilate into the filthy city. His weak, deformed arms took root in the soil, and ribbons of evil thoughts began to waving all over his body.

"Kill him, kill them!"

Intense negative emotions spread wildly, bottles of medicine shattered, and the blood and some mixture extracted from Yu Hui's body crawled towards him. As the impact widened, the other children in the pharmaceutical factory also began to crawl towards Yu Hui.

Their tragic memories were intertwined with the medicinal liquid, causing the life-giving flowers to fall in droves. Among the countless petals, a forbidden aura emerged.

……

"Snapped!"

The medicine bottle in Gao Ming's hand exploded. He touched his cut finger. Just now, when the blood and medicine mixed together, he saw Yu Hui's memory.

It seems that because they had both been fed the Life Flower, Gao Ming was also treated as a child to be used in medicine. That painful memory haunted him, as if trying to assimilate him.

“The medicine of Takekawa-sha is children. The citizens of this city are shrouded in darkness, so they look for pure souls in newborn children and use them as the catalyst for their medicine.”

A simple encounter brought Gao Ming an unexpected gain: he gained a preliminary understanding of the existence of the restricted area.

"The transformation of the old pharmaceutical factory into a restricted area is probably related to that child named Cheng Guang. He was the first child to lose control, and Yu Hui was influenced by him to gradually lose control."

The children who were used as medicine could transmit their memories through the flesh and blood in the medicine, something Gao Ming had never imagined. He felt as if he was slowly unveiling the city and seeing its true face.

(End of this chapter)