Most of the corpses shared a common trait.
Even without their skin, it was clear they had good physiques and proportions, with smooth muscle lines and evenly distributed fat.
Obviously, they had been carefully selected prime specimens while they were still alive.
Seeing such a bloody scene, Yue Shi knew that this place likely had everything to do with Boss Pi.
“You're here!”
Just then, on the ground not far away, a beautiful woman's human skin suddenly spoke.
Yue Shi turned his head to look at the skin, his gaze sharp.
Under his stare, the expression on the beautiful woman's skin froze.
“Why are you so mean?”
Behind him, the skin of a sunny young man also spoke, even offering Yue Shi a smile.
The vertical pupil on Yue Shi's forehead opened, his vision sweeping across the human skins on the floor and the hanging skinless corpses.
【A Human Skin】
【A human corpse with its skin peeled off】
The information provided by Insight was very simple, without any abnormal warnings.
Whether it was the hanging corpses or the skins on the floor, they all seemed ordinary and non-threatening.
But this only made Yue Shi more wary.
How could ordinary human skins speak as if they possessed independent consciousness?
Moreover, when that skin said “You're here,” its tone wasn't one of surprise, but of realization.
It was as if they had known all along that Yue Shi would find this place.
He cast his gaze deep into the warehouse.
It was a shadowed area obscured by the densely hanging corpses.
His future self had not appeared to stop his current self from exploring the warehouse. This suggested that there shouldn't be any major risks here.
Boss Pi was likely hiding in there, and Yue Shi had no intention of letting that filthy thing escape!
He stepped forward, walking toward the depths of the warehouse.
With every step he took, the human skins he stepped on emitted different sounds.
Some cried out in pain, some cursed, and some made rather indecent comments.
“It hurts so much!”
“Get off!”
“Handsome, could you step on me a few more times?”
“What are you looking for?”
“Tell me, I'll help you find it.”
“I'm very familiar with this place.”
All sorts of voices rose from beneath his feet, making the place feel strangely lively.
Yue Shi turned a deaf ear to them, his eyes scanning the surroundings inch by inch.
The interior of the warehouse was larger than he had imagined. Besides the densely hanging skinless corpses, there were also bodies in the corners with their internal organs hollowed out.
There were also completely dismembered body parts.
Yue Shi walked through the forest of corpses for quite a while, checking several metal cabinets leaning against the walls.
The cabinets contained nothing but tools covered in dark red stains.
Had he come up empty-handed?
“What is the handsome guy looking for?”
“Talk to me, I'll help you look.”
“Step on me twice more and I'll tell you everything.”
The human skins beneath his feet began to clamor for his attention again.
Yue Shi stopped and simply asked, “I'm looking for someone.”
“Who?”
“What do they look like?”
“Are they as good-looking as you?”
The skins immediately pressed him for details, their voices a chaotic mess.
“Do any of you know where Boss Pi is?” Yue Shi said.
“Boss Plankton?”
“Who's Boss Plankton?”
“That one-eyed water flea?”
The voices of the human skins seemed full of confusion.
Yue Shi shook his head. “Not a water flea, but a guy who likes to peel off human skins.”
“Do you remember who peeled yours off?”
The moment he said that, the entire warehouse went deathly silent.
The noisy sounds on the ground vanished instantly.
Not a single human skin spoke another word.
The expressions on their faces—whether they were originally in pain, curious, or otherwise—became eerily identical at that moment.
A cold mockery seeped through the silence.
After three or four seconds of dead stillness.
Every human skin spread across the floor opened its mouth at the same time, shouting the same question in unison.
The multitude of voices blended together, forming a skin-crawling harmony.
“How did you find this place!”
Yue Shi's gaze swept over the carpet of human skins beneath him.
At that moment, a skinless corpse hanging upside down behind him suddenly broke free from its hook and lunged at his back!
Yue Shi didn't even move.
Bang!
The corpse was shredded into pieces half a meter away from him.
Chunks of flesh pattered down, hitting the human skins below and eliciting bursts of startled cries.
The next second.
Creak, creak.
Every hanging skinless corpse in the warehouse began to sway violently at once.
They swung back and forth, left and right, in an irregular rhythm, the amplitude growing larger and larger.
The corpses collided with one another, creating a series of dull thuds.
Sizzle, sizzle.
The incandescent bulbs overhead began to flicker, blinking on and off.
The blood-and-flesh hell was cast in an even more sinister light.
“Hahahaha.”
Thousands upon thousands of human skins laughed simultaneously.
The laughter was like overlapping waves of the sea, each higher than the last, echoing throughout the warehouse.
“Shut up.”
Yue Shi's ethereal voice possessed immense piercing power.
The laughter stopped abruptly.
The swaying corpses also came to a standstill.
The entire warehouse returned to silence.
“I'll give you one chance. Come out on your own.”
Yue Shi spoke with utter arrogance.
In response to his declaration, the expressions on the human skins covering the floor collectively turned playful and disdainful.
Creak.
The skinless corpses began to sway once more.
Yue Shi wasted no more words.
With him as the center, countless spatial rifts suddenly emerged.
A blooming Death Lotus rapidly spread in all directions.
The carpet of human skins exploded one after another, fragments of skin flying everywhere.
The skinless corpses were sliced and torn apart, severed limbs falling to the ground while some were sucked directly into the spatial turbulence, vanishing without a trace.
“Ah!”
Further away, the human skins that hadn't been reached yet let out blood-curdling screams.
These were screams of genuine terror, completely different from their previous act.
Yue Shi ignored the shredded skins and corpses.
He looked around, searching for any clues.
Trace Seeking pointed here, so something related to Boss Pi must be here, just hidden away.
He walked forward step by step, and everywhere he went, the carpet of human skins and the skinless corpses were pulverized.
The warehouse was large, but it didn't take long for Yue Shi to walk through every inch of it.
The floor of human flesh had turned into a pile of shredded, rotten skin.
The skinless corpses had all become chunks of meat scattered across the floor.
There were no more nonsensical, noisy voices.
Only the smell of blood and a salty, fishy stench lingered in the air.
Slam!
The warehouse doors were suddenly shut.
The incandescent bulbs all went out, plunging the warehouse into darkness.
A figure stood outside the door and locked it.
A smile played on Yue Shi's lips; the target had finally revealed himself.
Before entering the warehouse, he had left ravens outside as was his habit.
He just didn't know if the one appearing this time was Boss Pi's true body.
Yue Shi was about to give chase.
Suddenly, an incredibly heavy pressure bore down from all directions.
The air seemed to instantly turn into water, making it impossible to breathe.
Yue Shi performed a spatial jump, attempting to teleport outside the warehouse.
However, to his surprise, he was still surrounded by darkness and heavy pressure after the jump, and there was still no air.
It was like being in the deep sea.
No, it was the deep sea!
Yue Shi saw fish.
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