Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 294 Russell: Kill Me

Russell opened his eyes in confusion, and what he saw was the familiar ceiling.

He blinked before realizing that this seemed to be the ceiling of his own mausoleum. At this moment, he was sealed in a bed, with two people on either side of the bed staring at him with expressions of curiosity or inquiry.

Russell took a moment to react, then realized that these seemed to be his boss and his boss's henchman.

So what just happened?
"How do you feel now?"

When Russell heard his boss ask this, his voice sounded more inquiring than concerned, as if he was doing some research and asking about the results of an experiment.

For some reason, Russell's body shook instinctively, as if great fear was engraved into his instincts.

"Not-not-so-bad?" Russell answered a little confusedly. For some reason, his brain seemed to stop functioning at this moment, as if he had lost the ability to think.

"Hiss, this reaction, isn't it really stupid?"

The boss's voice sounded again, and then his eyelids were pulled up and his pupils were checked.

"It's okay, it's okay. I just went through too much madness for a while, so my brain stopped functioning temporarily. It's not even considered temporary madness, so it's not a big problem!"

When Russell heard his boss speak again, some unfamiliar words made him instinctively want to think, but his mind went blank.

The two people beside the bed were discussing something.

"You seem familiar with this situation?"

"I've encountered this quite a lot before. I'm thinking about how to conduct psychoanalysis in this situation..."

Russell couldn't remember what happened next. He only remembered that with a start, his brain seemed to become much clearer, and then some fragments of memory flooded into his mind.

About myself and also about the treatment I just had.

Finally returning to normal, Russell, who had recovered from his dementia, looked at Luo Lin and said weakly: "Boss, kill me!"

"Uh..." Luo Lin touched his nose with a rare guilty look. Then, as if he had thought of something, he regained his composure and looked at Russell and said, "How about you sense the pollution in your body and see if it's better now?"

Upon hearing this, Russell was slow to sense the contamination in his body, and surprisingly, he discovered that his condition was indeed much better than before. The solution proposed by Lucifer was actually effective, and the power from him and the power of the outer gods had actually formed a certain balance in his body.

However, this balance is not perfect. It is like resisting the will of the ancient gods with only a few anchor points. Although it can be resisted, the balance will be overturned if you are not careful.

"So let's continue?" Rowling asked at this time.

After a few seconds of silence, Russell nodded and said, "Go on!"

If he retreats at this point, all the suffering he has just endured will be in vain!
……

Russell opened his eyes in confusion, and what he saw was the familiar ceiling... Hey, why does this scene feel so familiar?
Russell thought about this, and for some reason he suddenly had the urge to laugh, and he did so.

"Hahahahahaha!"

While laughing, Russell also had the urge to break free and jump for joy, but the seals binding him were too strong. He had not yet been officially resurrected and only possessed the status of Sequence 0. In terms of strength, he was not even as strong as the real Sequence 0 Russell, so he could not break free at all.

Moreover, Russell had a subconscious feeling that he could not break free, and this made his efforts to break free much less.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Russell burst into laughter once more. Even though He didn't know why, He couldn't help it. "Fuck! Why did he suddenly go crazy? Can Sequence Zero also go crazy?"

At this moment, Russell heard a voice from the side, and then he felt his eyes go dark.

……

Russell opened his eyes again in confusion. He stared at the ceiling blankly for a few seconds, feeling that this ceiling was so damn familiar.

"Are you ok?"

At this moment, a head popped over from the side. After seeing the other person's face clearly, Russell suddenly had a sudden inspiration. It seemed that the other person was the most important person to him, his...daughter?
"Daughter! Daddy loves you!" Russell blurted out. He instinctively wanted to struggle to get up from the bed, but after struggling for a long time, he was futile. He could only look at the person in front of him with eyes full of fatherly love and said, "Daughter, can you give Daddy a hug? Daddy really loves you! I miss you so much!"

The corner of Rowling's mouth twitched. He looked at Russell, who was full of fatherly love, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Is he crazy again?" Amon next to him said with a strange expression.

"Interpersonal dependence, a symptom of temporary madness. Although He shouldn't regard me as his daughter, never mind. There's nothing to say to a madman..." Rowling explained, shook his head at Russell who was dumbfounded by the temporary madness, and then stretched out his hand.

Russell felt a black screen before his eyes.

……

Russell opened his eyes for the umpteenth time, looking at the ceiling above, and suddenly felt a great fear.

For some reason, he particularly wanted to escape from where he was now, no matter what the cost.

This made Him struggle madly.

"Well, it seems that this temporary madness is an escape..."

He heard a voice beside him say this, and then he lost consciousness.

……

An unknown amount of time passed before Russell, in a daze, suddenly heard a voice beside him say:

"Phew! Finally done. This was the hardest treatment I've ever done."

What treatment?
Russell regained consciousness and opened his eyes. He saw a ceiling that seemed particularly familiar to him for some reason. At this moment, two heads popped out from the side. They were his capitalist bosses, Lucifer and Amon.

For some reason, Russell suddenly felt a little pain in the back of his neck. He sat up from the bed and instinctively touched the back of his neck, then couldn't help but let out a "hiss".

"What's going on? What did you do to the back of my neck?"

Russell felt like he could even cosplay as Kogoro Mouri now, because like him, the back of his neck had gone through countless hardships.

But this shouldn't be the case. He doesn't even have a normal human body, so theoretically he should be immune to physical damage!
"Well..." Luo Lin touched his nose and said without a trace of guilt, "This is all for your own good."

For my own good? Really? Why don't I believe it?

Russell glanced at Luo Lin suspiciously, some fragments flashing through his mind forever. He looked at Luo Lin in disbelief and said, "Wait, how did you knock me out by pinching the back of my neck? I'm a Sequence 0 after all."

(End of this chapter)