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Chapter 742 is darkness, it is me.
The face that had previously only appeared in the mission recording device now occupied almost all the screens in the monitoring station in an instant. No matter where the driver looked, he would make eye contact with that face.

"Madness! The madness they're talking about has come! Help! Help!"

He felt so helpless. The driver couldn't see before and was afraid of the dark. Now that he could see, he regretted it so much. He thought it would have been better to die without knowing anything, so that he would have suffered less.

The monitoring station wasn't large, and all the instruments that should have been abandoned were activated. The red light from the indicator lights made the woman's features look even more terrifying, and her distorted face seemed to be slowly squeezing out of the screen.

The driver finally understood the fear shown by the cleaners in the video; faces swarmed in from all directions like a tidal wave.

"Maybe, maybe gouging out my eyes will work." The driver's mental defenses had collapsed, and his fingers trembled as he reached for his own eyes: "If I can't see her, I can't observe her, and I'll become normal again."

As if bewitched, just as the driver's fingers were about to touch his eyes, Gao Ming shoved him aside: "If you gouge out your eyes, your aunt will live in your brain and keep you in her arms forever."

Upon hearing Gao Ming's voice, the driver felt as if he had grasped a lifeline, but when he looked at Gao Ming's raised head, his face changed drastically, turning deathly pale with fright.

"Your face!!"

Gao Ming's face is half Li Sansi, and the other half is rapidly becoming feminized, clearly turning into another person. This incongruity is filled with an alternative kind of horror.

Blood seeped from the tattoo on his chest. The malice hidden in Li Sansi's heart was stimulated by external forces, turning into tiny black nerves that crawled all over Gao Ming's body. Some memories that he had never had before were like mud and sand stirred up by a big wave, splashing into Gao Ming's mind.

These memories are all related to Li Sansi's aunt. They are completely sealed memories. The reason why Li Sansi forgot and sealed them is very simple. Gao Ming only glanced at them and felt that it was too cruel.

Li Sansi's aunt suffers from a hereditary mental illness. After treatment, she appears to have improved a lot, but in reality, she has accepted the fact that she is insane. In order to gain more freedom, she begins to pretend in front of people.

Li Sansi's father entrusted the child to her. Everything was normal during the day, but at night, the woman could no longer restrain herself.

The food she prepared for Li Sansi contained various foreign objects. She didn't intend to harm Li Sansi; she just felt that it was okay for her to eat it this way, and that Li Sansi should be able to accept it as well.

Her attitude toward the child was also strange. The doctor said that her illness was due to heredity, but Li Sansi did not seem to have this problem. So she began to explore the differences between herself and Li Sansi, from asking all sorts of strange questions at the beginning to forcing Li Sansi to do all sorts of strange things after she fell ill.

Sometimes she could recognize Li Sansi, and sometimes she would forget him. When she had an episode, she would treat Li Sansi as anyone or anything. Pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep were fine, but she could also treat bad people, perverts, her daughter, doctors, and so on. She would beat, curse, bite, chase, and feel attached, caring, guilty, and painful. All sorts of complex emotions were intertwined in Li Sansi.

After living like this for a long time, Li Sansi decided to take his aunt to a very special place, a place that his adoptive father, a plumber, had also taken his adoptive mother to.

Black blood vessels and nerves crawled to all parts of the body, while the Blood City Ghost Mark was not to be outdone, with bright red threads intertwining with it. Both sides wanted to assimilate the other and completely take over everything it possessed.

Enduring the excruciating pain of having his bones and marrow extracted, Gao Ming felt tiny wires twisting inside his body, and his face kept changing between Li Sansi and his aunt.

The woman on the screen seemed to step out, and a blurry figure appeared in the darkness, approaching faintly, as if wanting to embrace Li Sansi.

"Oh!"

Drawing his black gun, Gao Ming aimed at the blurry figure and pulled the trigger. A flash of light illuminated the monitoring station, which was completely abandoned. There were no flashing indicator lights or the woman's face; everything seemed to be Gao Ming's imagination, only this imagination could distort reality.

As they left the monitoring station, Gao Ming, enduring the pain, took the driver's hand and ran deeper into the passage.

His hurried footsteps echoed the reversal of time, coinciding with the hidden memories in his heart. Many years ago, Li Sansi had led his insane aunt into the underground water network in this very way.

There are no talking silicone dolls in the bathtub, no mermaids, and no eerie passageways; only stench and darkness.

Keep moving forward, keep going deeper into the darkness, keep running until all the sounds of the outside world disappear and all you can hear is the sound of sewage flowing.

Gao Ming and the Li Sansi from his memory opened their eyes at the same time. In front of them was a deep pool formed by sewage converging in the center of the water network.

The city's sewage flows here, burying too many unspeakable secrets and unbearable filth; this is the dirtiest place in the entire city.

The adoptive father pushed the adoptive mother, along with her wheelchair, into the deep pool. It was also here that Li Sansi pushed his insane aunt into the pool.

Seeing his aunt submerged in garbage, her arms outstretched in the cold, foul-smelling sewage, Li Sansi instinctively reached out towards the deep pool.

Something in his soul and personality sank down with his aunt. His head ached terribly. His aunt had sunk into a deep pool, yet it seemed to have also fallen into his mind. He couldn't get rid of that mad figure; it was as if her madness had infected him.

"Hahahaha!"

Lying beside the deep pool of sewage, Li Sansi was acting strangely. It seemed that his aunt hadn't disappeared, but had instead melted into the darkness. Her figure could be seen in every dark place; she was hidden in every corner, she was darkness itself.

"Ahhhh!"

At this moment, Li Sansi was completely plunged into darkness. That memory was tearing Gao Ming's mind apart. The Blood City Ghost Tattoo and the darkness in Li Sansi's heart were fighting for every inch of flesh and blood. Normally, Gao Ming would be in control of his own will, and with his help, the Blood City Tattoo could easily suppress the malice in Li Sansi's heart. But beside this deep underground pool, boundless darkness kept pouring into Gao Ming's body, and one dark thought after another emerged. Li Sansi's face was being replaced by his aunt's face step by step.

"It turns out that Li Sansi also killed his real aunt. All the nightmares and darkness originated from Li Sansi himself."

More malice and darkness surged into Gao Ming's body, and his eyes slowly turned completely black, like a dark abyss constantly being filled with sewage. Within that calm abyss, as Li Sansi's memories returned, things began to surface one by one.

The younger brother's severed arm, the mother's belongings, the murderer, the adoptive mother's wheelchair, and so on—in the end, all these things came together to form the aunt's face.

Fear arises from the anticipation of what hasn't happened. No one knows what lies in the darkness, so as long as you imagine what is hidden there, it seems as if something will actually appear.

"I think I know the abilities of the master of the Dark Shrine now."

(End of this chapter)