Chapter 254: The Other Half

Han Fei was very familiar with Spider’s face, his bedside table was decorated with Spider’s writings. As someone playing the Spider, he would spend his free time trying to understand the man. Han Fei was one of the living people who knew Spider the best. In his impression, Spider should be intelligent, melancholic, introverted but the Spider he saw now was a monster formed from flesh and blood. His body wasn’t even pieced together yet. ‘Spider should be the manager of Cattle Alley, how did a manager end up like this? What has the Doctor done to him?’

The House of the Butcher shook and the blood from the factory streamed towards the house like they were being guided by some kind of force. The Spider built from flesh rammed madly against the front door. More flesh gathered around him and the presence he emitted was stronger than a normal Lingering Spirit. The situation inside the house wasn’t any better. Xu Qin made every moving object her target and spread her curse everywhere.

Black and red were corrupting the building. The speed by which the house absorbed the blood slowed down but the heartbeat that came from the centre of the house became more pronounced. The corridors cracked and the walls crumbled. With another powerful shove, the entire 2nd and 3rd floor of the house sank!

A large hole appeared in the middle of the house. Echoes of cries reverberated everywhere. Before the tragedy, Han Fei had no idea so many people lived here. Without the ceiling and floor, the sound of the heartbeat echoed even louder. All the survivors turned to the site of the collapse. The floor of the House of the Butcher sank into the ground. The complicated underground maze was revealed. The rooms underground were like individual torture chambers, each of them was filled with various torture and murder instruments.

On the surface, the House of the Butcher was the sanctuary for the survivors at Cattle Alley but in reality, it was the gathering spot for all the best butchers. The ugly truth stunned everyone but that was not the scariest. In the middle of the underground maze was a hollowed out surgical room with a black roof. The room was rather spacious and it had many medical supplies. It looked like a place of recovery and healing but of the entire building, that place emitted the strongest stench. A thick blood vessel that extended out from the surgical room split into smaller vessels and they connected to the whole building. Normally these vessels were hidden inside the walls. Seeing this, Han Fei was reminded of the meat packaging plant. The pig-faced manager used these blood vessels to control the entire factory. In other words, the owner of this surgical room could do the same thing here as well. In fact, perhaps it was the surgical room owner who taught the manager how to control the blood vessels at the factory. ‘No wonder this place is called House of the Butcher.’

Underneath the normal, welcoming facade hid a secret bloodier and gorier than the meat packaging plant. The pig-faced monsters were compelled by gluttony, once the prey fell into their arms, they would perish either inside the monsters’ stomach or the blood pool at the factory. However, the situation at the House of the Butcher was different. The people here treated you with kindness, you’d never realize you were the prey until it was already too late.

Bang! The stairs shook again. The building was not supposed to be so fragile. The blood vessel from the surgical room hadn’t got the chance to fully control the whole building structure. Bricks fell here and there. Xu Qin who was chasing after Han Fei stopped. The blood underneath her feet started to pour underground as if attracted by more delicious food which was hidden there!

As Xu Qin headed towards the centre of the House of the Butcher, people with masks emerged from the ground. They were not Spider’s subpersonas but people who accidentally found their way into Cattle Alley. They were accosted by one of Spider’s subpersonas and then they stayed. Their mask was specially made. The masks were cracked and it was clear that the masks were pieced together from different masks. ‘The actual subpersonas’ masks have been shattered and then mixed with other masks to make these outsiders’ masks.’

Han Fei was contemplating why someone would do this when the answer revealed itself to him. The blood vessels that originated from the surgical room started to gush with blood. A dark and smelly blood started to surge upwards into the building!

Each of the bricks at House of the Butcher had a blood vessel inside them. They were used to transport a special kind of decomposing smell that collected at the surgical room. Exposure to this unique smell would cause one to go insane. Human nature and animal nature fought over control of the physical body. The hunger pangs increased in intensity. Even though the stench was atrocious, it would cause the victims to growl with hunger.

The unique curse at Cattle Alley was triggered through this method. Lee Huo next to Han Fei lost control immediately and swung his fist at Drake. Drake’s single eye glowed with bloodlust. Only Weep who had taken a soak in the blood pool could resist the curse. Han Fei was not doing so well himself. But whenever his glutinous desire grew, the hilt of Rest in Peace would chill, stopping him from straying into madness.

At the centre, the outsiders with the masks were in the same state as Weep. They could retain their rationality to a certain degree.

‘The subpersonas’ masks can help resist the curse.’ Han Fei placed number 6’s mask on Drake’s face. The moment it was put on, Drake calmed down immediately. He shivered because there was a moment when he thought about eating his own flesh because he was so hungry. Han Fei only had one mask and he couldn’t get close to Lee Huo to help him anyway. All he could do was to grab The Dreamer and stay away. ‘Without the mask, the curse will also be triggered once you leave Cattle Alley. If you do not eat meat, you’ll turn into this mindless monster controlled by hunger.’ Han Fei finally understood the true horror of the curse at Cattle Alley and the pain Xu Qin was constantly under. ‘There are hundreds of curses on her. If there’s a chance, I should help her undo them one by one.’

His eyes turned to the centre of the building. After the curse at Cattle Alley was triggered, Xu Qin who lost her mask became even crazier. She bit on her arms and sucked on her blood. Her maddened face colored with satisfaction. “So sweet…” The arresting beauty opened her arms and plunged towards the surgical room. The female faces that surfaced on her skin followed beside her, the humanoid curses supported her fall. There was more than one curse which was invoked through Xu Qin’s body. She was used to this impossible pain. To deal with despair, she turned to deeper despair; to deal with curse, she unleashed a stronger curse.

Something was clearly not right with Xu Qin’s state. More curses appeared around her, they almost submerged her but even so, more curses still poured out from the 13 table knives. The slender arm yanked off the surgical room’s roof and exposed this hell for everyone to see.

In the middle of the surgical room was a doctor in white coat lying on a white bed. His chest was sliced open and a half heart was beating inside the chest!

Endless black vessels glued themselves to the half heart. The Doctor attempted to transplant the heart into his body but no matter what, his body refused to accept the half heart.

Since he forced the transplant regardless, it caused the whole House of the Butcher to crumble. The unbearable pain caused the Doctor to grimace. The mask on his face was thus tilted to the side and his true face was revealed. Half of his face was fair and mature but the other half was that of an ugly, disgusting monster.

As the subpersonas of Spider, the Doctor was slowly turning into a nonhuman.

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