Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2996 (Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Six)

Tie Hongyan clearly had a rope tied around her left arm and nothing tied around her right arm, but she didn't feel any pain on her left arm.

She felt as if her right arm was being strangled deeper and deeper by the thin ropes, as if the ropes had been buried deeply into her flesh and blood, cutting her tendons.

She felt that the thin ropes seemed to be made of steel. As she was thinking about this, she immediately saw the scene of thin steel ropes cutting the tendons in her right arm one by one.

She tried to move her right arm, and the pain became more obvious.

Then the following scene appeared in front of her eyes: the thin steel ropes began to rotate around her right arm, getting tighter and tighter, breaking the bones in her right arm and still grinding against her.

She didn't look at her right arm at the time; those scenes appeared directly in front of her.

She shook her head in the hope that the sight would go away, thinking that at least her pain would be less when she wasn't looking at it, but shaking her head did no good.

Tie Hongyan simply looked at her right arm on purpose, but she couldn't see her real right arm. The strange scenes before were still in front of her eyes. The thin steel rope was repeatedly rubbing her right arm, making it bloody and blurred.

When she saw the thin steel ropes moving on her right arm, her pain increased a lot.

She wanted to see the true condition of her right arm but she couldn't see it at all. She silently told herself that what she could see at the moment was not the real situation. However, the severe pain in her right arm kept telling her that what she saw was actually the real situation.

She still insisted on secretly telling herself that these were not real and would not cause her any actual harm, but seeing the greater pain those scenes brought her made it seem increasingly difficult for her to convince herself.

After watching her right arm being worn out by the thin steel wire, she saw the thin steel wire turned into an axe. Her left hand appeared in front of Tie Hongyan's eyes, and she saw the axe chopping off her left index finger bit by bit.

She saw that every time the axe chopped her left index finger, she wanted to scream in pain, but she endured it. She wanted to bite her lips again, but told herself that she must not bite her lips no matter what, so she endured it.

After watching the axe chop off her index finger piece by piece, the axe began to chop off her little finger.

Again and again...the pain penetrates my heart.

After seeing the axe chop off her little finger at the base, she saw the axe start chopping off her middle finger again and again.

In the severe pain, Tie Hongyan still tried to tell herself that all this was not real, but it was too difficult to convince herself. The piercing pain made her want to use one of the methods that Ni Yuan had told her.

Ni Yuan had told Tie Hongyan before that if it was difficult to persist in the fourth part of "Step 4", they could stop temporarily, but doing so might make the pain even more unbearable when doing the fifth part of "Step 4".

Tie Hongyan knew that doing the fifth part of "Step 4" was inherently more painful than doing the fourth part of "Step 4". If she didn't persist now, she didn't know how painful it would be when she reached the fifth part.

Ni Yuan also told Tie Hongyan that if they still couldn't persevere when they reached the fifth part of the "fourth step", there would be no way back. When they reached the fifth part of the "fourth step", they couldn't stop like they did when they reached the fourth part and then experience more severe pain when they did the next part.

(End of this chapter)