The King of Curses

Chapter 317 The Truth
The room was silent and the atmosphere was strange. Luo Nu and Ma Jing looked at each other and neither of them spoke. They used to be as close as sisters, but now they are the most familiar strangers.

At this time, Ma Jing was still holding a sharp blade tightly in her hand.

The snail girl's deep pupils fell on the knife, and then slowly fell on the other person's face.

She didn't care about the murder weapon. Although the Snail Girl was not a high-level curse-master, she was not afraid of mere blades and bullets. In comparison, she felt that the mental state of this former "sister" was more dangerous.

After the reunion, Snail Girl didn't know whether she should be surprised or happy; but she was mostly confused.

She had many questions to ask, such as where the other person had been during the time he was missing, why he disappeared in the first place, and what was going on with his current appearance.

The first snail girl created by Meng Huafan himself now looks like an ordinary woman, fragile, haggard, and with a ruined face; and when she said "I want to free myself from the bondage", this confusion reached its peak.

"……what?"

Er asked stupidly.

Ma Jing didn't say anything. She pursed her lips and rushed towards her with a sharp knife in her hand, but was subdued by Er in one move.

She only looked crazy, but in fact she had lost all her past strength and became weak.

"Let me go! Let me go!"

Being pressed under him, Ma Jing roared like a wild beast and struggled violently.

"You, why did you become like this..."

There was a deep sadness in Er's pupils.

"Don't you understand? It's Meng Huafan!"

"Father, what happened?"

"You still call that man father, which proves that you are still brainwashed."

Ma Jing sneered.

"He has taken away our lives and erased our memories of the past, just to make us puppets in his hands, ready to be used as backup bodies and hosts for him to take over at any time!"

"This is what we agreed upon from the beginning. Father didn't hide it from us... I remember that my sister was willing at the time, right?"

"Yeah, that's because I haven't remembered the past yet."

Ma Jing's face was distorted, and she suddenly lowered her head and sobbed in pain.

"What do you want me to do... I'm like two souls put together... I've lost my brain... I'm just a monster..."

Two fell silent.

Although she was naive, she could still understand what was happening at this time. Her answer was simple and clear:
"I understand."

The snail girl said seriously.

"I will take you to see my father. Sister, he will surely make you less miserable and return you to your original state."

"Hahaha, I don't want to... I find it strange. Don't you think there's something wrong? Do you know what he really looks like? Do you know whether the real 'him' is a man or a woman, old or young? Why would you trust such a hidden monster so much?"

Er's pupils trembled for a moment.

"say no more!"

Her voice suddenly increased.

"I'll take you to see my father now!"

"Oh? Do you know where he is?"

"I, of course I know!"

"Really? You know it."

Ma Jing, with her hands tied behind her back, suddenly sneered.

The situation was reversed in an instant. Er was pinned to the ground, and until she was subdued, she didn't even react to what happened; she was just horrified to find that she couldn't move. "It's worthy of being a prop produced by the Super Working Committee, it's really useful."

Ma Jing smiled slightly, restraining the madness on her face, holding a forbidden object that looked like shackles in her hand.

"you you……"

"Sister, you are still so naive, because you have never left this ship. Do you think I'm crazy? Doing nothing and just rushing up like this?"

She used shackles to seal the true energy in the snail girl's body.

"I know that person is planning to choose a new body. If this continues, anyone could become the next victim to lose himself, including you."

"I am willing to do so!"

Er retorted unwillingly.

"You obviously don't look like a snail girl anymore, but can you still feel it?"

"Yes, that's why I returned to this ship. I just wanted to escape, the farther the better, until I realized that I might never be able to escape this nightmare. I had to do something."

Ma Jing sighed.

"I'm sorry, all this is to make you break free like me..."

She swung the sharp knife in her hand, and the cold light was reflected in the pupils of the girl below.

"You, what are you going to do?"

"Oh, right - you may not know how I turned back into a normal person. The principle is actually very simple. Come, you didn't notice it just now, did you? Look behind me."

As she said this, she turned her head away.

At this moment, the snail girl's pupils began to tremble more violently.

A part of the woman's head and hair suddenly disappeared. A hole was chiseled on it, and the mark was fresh, like a peeled coconut.

In that cave, there was only empty darkness; if you got closer, you could see the internal structure of the skull and a large number of fine pores.

...but the only thing missing is a brain.

This scene is cruel, disgusting, absurd and unacceptable.

"what……"

The snail girl was almost speechless.

"I chiseled this when I went crazy two days ago. Half a year ago, I had a brain removal surgery because only by doing this could I break free and escape from the ship. Later, my memory became confused and I completely forgot about this incident."

"But after I escaped, until now, I have no brain to continue to move. Do you know why?"

Ma Jing tapped the wound on her skull nonchalantly.

"This is the Snail Girl. Even if we abandon the most important thinking organ, our souls are still bound to this body."

"How can this be……"

"You know your father's ability, right? It is the power to arbitrarily transform complex and sophisticated biological tissues, and even create a whole new race. However, he is not satisfied with this, he also wants to interfere with a more 'metaphysical' form of existence. He believes that all souls and memories come from the physiological activities of the human body, and any spiritual phenomenon does not go beyond the scope of the flesh. There has never been a 'soul' in this world."

Ma Jing, formerly known as "Yi", was the first snail girl to follow Meng Huafan, and therefore was the first to understand his research path.

"But ghosts in other dimensions and curses that can interfere with the soul actually exist. He cannot reasonably explain this phenomenon."

"When most people notice the gap between the truth of reality and their past experience and knowledge, they will of course realize that they have made a mistake, even if they are unwilling to admit it. But some people are different. They are arrogant and stubborn, and even think that reality is unreasonable. They want to change the "incorrect" reality with their own hands. And if such a madman also holds terrible power, things will become out of control."

Ma Jing sneered.

"So, you see, we pathetic people are the result. And if we want to get rid of his control, it is futile to interfere with the mind and soul. We also need to 'strip' it off from the physical level..."

(End of this chapter)