Chapter 16 A Painful Choice

"Shua shua shua—"

The sound of the pen tip scratching across the paper interrupted Tang Qisheng's thoughts. "I promised I could save your friends, but you need to pay a price."

Hearing this, Tang Qisheng couldn't help but become nervous. "What... what price?" The boys hadn't mentioned this before, which made Tang Qisheng feel uneasy.

"Your friends are trapped in the dean's mental experiment, and they can't distinguish between illusion and reality." The pen tip paused, and the boy continued to write: "So they need an eye, an eye that belongs to an outsider, an eye that can see through the illusion."

The boy continued to explain patiently, "You should be able to feel the difference in that kasaya. That is the mental world constructed by the dean, and it is also where your friends are trapped. As long as you are willing to take out your eye and put it into the kasaya, your friends will naturally be freed."

Tang Qisheng instantly shuddered. He only had one eye left, and the importance of eyes in this hospital was self-evident. Losing his eye meant he would only be able to stay in the underground world forever, turning into an immortal monster like the children outside.

But... but did he have a chance to say no? Bitterness and complexity climbed onto his face, making this man in his early forties look much older in the blink of an eye. If it weren't for Jiang Cheng and Wang Fugui, he and Zhu Jie would have died long ago.

Also, and most importantly, if Jiang Cheng and Wang Fugui were trapped in the dean's mental world to death, what about Zhu Jie?

Even if she could leave the hospital alive, would she, alone, really have a chance to escape the Night Watchman's pursuit?

So this was a painful and difficult choice, but the ending was already destined. "I promise you," Tang Qisheng said in a hoarse voice.

Seemingly confused by Tang Qisheng's difficult attitude, the boy hesitated for a moment before continuing to write: "You may have misunderstood. The price I mentioned is only temporary. Speaking of which, you should also thank your wife. She didn't leave you, so I have a way to let you leave here together."

"Are you telling the truth?" The entanglement on Tang Qisheng's face disappeared, but then some vigilance emerged, "You... you're not lying to me, are you?"

Perhaps grateful that the other party helped him find his mother's whereabouts, the boy was surprisingly patient at the moment. "After you help your friends escape, the dean will also suffer a heavy blow due to the backlash, and this hospital will also fall into chaos. Taking advantage of that time, I will let my father go out again and bring your wife over as well. You know, without eyes, you can't leave here, but your wife has two eyes. As long as she is willing to lend you one, then you can leave together."

Although he couldn't bear Zhu Jie suffering the pain of having her eye gouged out, this was already the best solution now. Moreover, with an eye, they could leave soon. As long as they left here and returned to the real world, all injuries would heal.

"Okay, I can bear this price," Tang Qisheng agreed.

"Don't be in a hurry. I have one more thing to ask of you. After you achieve your goal, I hope you can also help me and my father leave together." A trace of pain appeared on the boy's fragmented face, "Mother is gone. After this hospital collapses, mother will also disappear. There is no reason for me and my father to stay here anymore."

Just to find his mother's whereabouts, the boy had persisted alone in this terrifying and bloody underground world for so long. Tang Qisheng admired him. If he could also save the boy and the rag doll, that would naturally be the best. "Okay, I promise you," Tang Qisheng promised very seriously.

"You agree very readily now, but who knows if you will go back on your word after me and my father lose our value?" The boy turned over a few pages, revealing a contract that had already been written. "This is the contract I drafted. Please take a look at it first. If there is no problem, then sign it. I see that people in the hospital all follow the contract, saying that if you sign this thing, you can't go back on your word."

Looking at the scribbled handwriting of the contract, Tang Qisheng couldn't help but find it funny. What could a mere contract decide? But this was also considered a promise from him. He took the booklet and glanced at it. The contract didn't contain much, only two pages. On the blank space on the second page, the boy had already signed his name.

This was also the first time Tang Qisheng knew the boy's name. He was called Wu Yi.

Taking the pen handed over by the rag doll, Tang Qisheng signed his name very solemnly on the blank space. "By the way, my wife is a very cautious person. She may not believe your father. I'll send her a message."

Worried that Zhu Jie would not be able to receive the mobile phone message, Tang Qisheng decisively handed his mobile phone to the rag doll, instructing it to find Zhu Jie and show her the mobile phone. He left words in the memo that were enough to make Zhu Jie trust the rag doll.

After doing all this, Tang Qisheng took a deep breath. The picture on the old-fashioned TV was still continuing, and the situation was becoming more and more critical.

As Tang Qisheng inserted his trembling fingers into his eye socket, his world fell into nothingness. This was also the first time Tang Qisheng knew that the world of blind people was not darkness, but nothingness.

Now Tang Qisheng was even less likely to notice that at this moment, Wu Yi's hand was repeatedly stroking the part of the contract where Tang Qisheng had signed, and a strange smile slowly appeared on his remaining half of his face.

Slowly, the nothingness in front of Tang Qisheng seemed to be stirred by something, and a crack opened. He gradually saw clearly, that was... that was exactly the Zijing kasaya, and at this moment, the kasaya was constantly rotating, and constantly emitting strange light.

Grasping the eyeball, Tang Qisheng resolutely stuffed the eyeball into the kasaya, and the next second, the light in the kasaya dissipated and began to tremble "buzzing". Even more violently than the kasaya trembled was Tang Qisheng's body.

Experiments,殘肢 (can zhi), corpses, different colors of potions, sharp scalpels, and various bloody scenes that challenged the limits of human physiology, countless bizarre scenes flooded into Tang Qisheng's mind, and the huge pressure almost made his head explode. These were all the dean's atrocities.

Immediately afterwards, the dean's shrill screams came from his ears, the ground began to shake, and the entire underground world began to collapse.

The rag doll's movements were faster than expected. Just as Tang Qisheng was about to collapse to the ground because he could not bear the pain in his mind, a pair of warm arms hugged him in his arms, "Qisheng!"

Hearing Zhu Jie's long-lost voice, the pain on Tang Qisheng's face was instantly washed away by ecstasy. "You... you're really okay, that's great!"

"Quick, this... this won't last long, let's leave here quickly." With Zhu Jie's support, Tang Qisheng quickly stood up. He looked at Wu Yi's position in his memory, "Wu Yi, quick, let's go together!"

But what responded to him was a strange sneer, "Heh, go? Mr. Tang, where do you want to go?"