"It's you?!"

Looking at the half-dead man with black eyes under the slab, Yun You frowned slightly and recognized his identity.

This man was precisely the strange neighbor Yun You saw when she first moved into Jinyu Homestay and exchanged a glance with.

Back then, she thought he was quite odd, not only staying up all night but also constantly making strange "knife sharpening and iron beating sounds", and making a mess both inside and outside his room...

However, Yun You was busy exercising and researching the Star-Attracting Skill at the time, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

Now it seems, this guy was indeed not that simple...

He killed everyone in the hotel, wiped out half the street, and his ultimate target was probably Yun You.

If his plan had started a month and a half ago, the young girl who had just awakened her Talent Ability back then might truly not have been his match.

But unfortunately, there are no 'ifs' in the world.

The man with black eyes struggled, using both hands to lift the slab pressing against his waist and abdomen, exerting all his strength and bursting with veins on his head.

The spirit body of the receptionist girl he controlled also helped, lifting the slab together.

However, his strength was indeed very small; to Yun You, the cement slab felt like cotton, but on him, it was as heavy as Mount Tai. Even if he clenched his teeth hard enough to crack them, he couldn't move it an inch.

Bang—!

Suddenly, the man with black and white eyes flipped his eyes and felt something suddenly crash onto the cement slab, further crushing his ribs.

The object itself wasn't heavy, but the force under its feet was as heavy as the slab itself, a single stomp nearly took away half the man's life.

"Wooah!"

The severe pain and suffocating feeling made him involuntarily scream.

Struggling to open his eyes, he barely discerned the figure trampling on him—it was none other than Yun You, with a gloomy face.

"You... you are..."

The man widened his eyes, and his already small pupils shrunk like pinholes.

"Are you the Apprentice Death God?"

"Damn... damn! How can you be the Apprentice Death God... how could you be the Apprentice Death God?!"

"Wooah..."

His voice was filled with unwillingness, frustrating to the extreme.

"Red-eyed... you with the red eyes, could have been the perfect 'Soul Carving', damn... fate hasn't treated me kindly!"

Listening to his hysterical complaints, Yun You frowned slightly and placed her sharp claws on his throat.

"Tell me, who exactly are you? Why did you attack me? How are you controlling these spirit bodies?"

"Also."

Pointing at her eyes, Yun You asked coldly, "What do my red eyes mean? What is 'Soul Carving'?"

"I don't want to hear any nonsense, speak or your head will be relocated."

"..."

Faced with the young girl's threat, the man with black and white eyes didn't immediately open his mouth but instead sneered and shook his head.

"Defeated by an Apprentice Death God, I accept it! Want any information from me? Dream on!"

With that, he turned his head as if he was prepared to die.

"Oh, still a tough guy."

Yun You raised an eyebrow, showing a bit of interest.

People who aren't afraid of death are indeed difficult to deal with... but don't forget, this is Nest City, and Yun You is an Apprentice Death God.

If a Death God is willing to put some effort into tormenting someone, then... death is often the easiest outcome.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk, doesn't matter."

After thinking for a moment, the young girl smiled and shook her head, earnestly patting the man's head, smiling, "It's quite a coincidence, the biotechnology side has a recent project called 'Soul Slayer' or something."

"I don't know the exact effects, but a friend doing research at the company said this thing can extract people's consciousness and upload it to various objects... ice blocks, stones, magma, and even iron water being forged."

"However, once consciousness is uploaded onto these objects, the subject will endure unimaginable immense pain, even the most resilient will cannot last a few seconds, often collapsing on its own."

"Imagine, if you open your eyes and find you don't have a body, replaced by a string of heated iron blocks, needing to endure being hammered by machines every moment, with nerves simulating the burning pain... just imagining it feels terrifying."

"Of course, to prevent waste, the company will use regional time delay devices, extending those a few seconds to years or even decades, thus recording valuable pain data."

"Yet even so... this project has been suspended due to ethics violations, but the experimental group clearly is not reconciled and has been secretly collecting test subjects, even offering a valuation of 3 million Silver Cannon for a perfect test subject."

Yun You grinned, using her claws to pat the other's gradually pale cheeks.

"I think you'd be a good fit, though your body isn't very robust, your willpower is strong; if sold to them, you could fetch at least around 1.5 million."

"By the way, the Soul Slayer project has an additional function—memory extraction."

"Although the process is cruel beyond measure, even described by my friend as 'the most atrocious technology in history' and 'the end of humanity', but it doesn't matter, since it's not me enduring the pain."

With that, Yun You paused slightly, observing the expression of the man with black and white eyes.

Of course, the young girl was bluffing, she certainly didn't have a friend in biotechnology, nor could she know about the internal research projects of major companies.

But it doesn't matter.

In Nest City, the words spoken by an Apprentice Death God are tantamount to authority.

The man had no choice but to believe, he was already frightened to the point of sweating profusely and trembling all over.

But truly showed some backbone, even at this point, he still clenched his teeth, holding onto a glimmer of hope.

"She's lying! She must be lying to me!"

"Can't speak, speaking means death, not speaking holds a glimmer of life..."

Seeing him straightening his back and enduring his posture, Yun You was genuinely amused.

"Alright, tough guy then, is it?"

She glanced at the man, then pressed her headset, sighing, "A-Shuang, Miles, I've caught someone committing a crime over here, after a check, he should be an unregistered black account."

"This guy's physical condition should be adequate, and his willpower meets your standards; if you need him, you can come to collect right now."

"..."

"What? You say the test subject for Project Group No. 1 has been fully collected? Only Project Group No. 2 can collect, and Project 2 is even more unethical, transferring the test subject's consciousness into farm pigs?"

"Hmm... never mind, what's the effect, doesn't bother me."

"I'm fine with it, he won't have any objections either, come to collect him now, still at the original offer of 1.1 million Silver Cannon..."

The young girl's words were vivid, with each word uttered, the man's expression grew uglier.

Finally, as she finalized the deal with "Frost Moon" on the other end of the phone, the man spoke up.

"I object! I object, I don't want to become a pig...!"

"I will speak, I'll say it all!"

He panted heavily, sweating like rain, "I am a 'Soul Sculptor'! The reason I stupidly attempted to attack you... is because I saw your red eyes!"

"Red eyes mean you have the potential to become a Soul Sculptor too; meanwhile, it also means your soul is a good material; if polished carefully, it would certainly refine into excellence!"

"I want to turn you into a piece of 'Soul Carving', which is why I mistakenly attempted actions against you... Lord Death God... I plead with you, considering my value, spare me once!"

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