Creepy Pharmacist: All my patients are scary!

Chapter 608: Miaomiao's Mother

Lynn closed his eyes, a chilling smile slowly creeping onto his lips as he said:

"Is that so? But sometimes, eyes don't lie, and neither do nerve fluctuations. If you don't recognize her, then why did you flinch the moment you saw this photo? What are you afraid of?"

Raines' gaze darted away, his expression shifting between dark and uncertain.

Lynn adjusted his monocle and said in a deep voice:

"About one or two centuries ago, you captured a family that fell from the Shattered World. You performed flesh modifications on them to exploit their Reality Warping abilities, subjected them to a series of deep-level torture and slaughter, and in the end, both that mother and the cat awakened their warping abilities thanks to you."

"You hunted them relentlessly, backed them into a corner, and didn't even spare a single cat because she too was a creature from the Shattered World. So, what happened next?"

"Did you kill her?"

There was no emotional fluctuation in his voice, yet anyone could hear the bone-chilling coldness hidden within.

He was referring to Miaomiao's mother—the woman who desperately dragged Miaomiao away from that hell!

What happened after?!Miaomiao had been searching, frantically searching all this time!

Raines couldn't bear to meet Lynn's gaze. Those eyes were like knives, as if they could slice the flesh off his body one piece at a time.

He said heavily, "I don't know. I wasn't involved in that incident. And you said it was hundreds of years ago—how could I possibly remember something from hundreds of years ago?!"

But just as he finished speaking.

Lynn had already stood up.

Without any hesitation.

The Night Demon Blade in his hand instantly plunged into Raines' abdominal cavity with a wet, tearing sound.

In an instant, immense pain overwhelmed Raines, twisting his face into a mask of agony, the veins on his face bulging grotesquely.

Lynn whispered low in his ear, "Then think. Until you remember."

"I don't mind telling you, this is exactly why I'm here. You have plenty of time to consider your answers, but in that time, I have no qualms about using the most extreme torture on you. So I suggest you think very carefully about every single word you say."

Shh-shh-shh—

The Night Demon Blade embedded in his abdomen slowly twisted in Lynn's hand.

Under the effect of his passive ability, the pain inflicted by the blade multiplied geometrically.

"We didn't catch her!"

Finally.

Under Lynn's extreme torment, Raines finally spoke in agony.

Miaomiao's entire body trembled.

Lynn said lowly, "Then where did she go?"

Raines endured the searing pain in his abdomen and said, "I don't know. Her mental warping ability was extremely strong. Everyone we sent after her was killed by her. We never caught her. But we knew she couldn't have lasted long. She overused her warping ability the moment she first awakened it. Even if she managed to survive, her mind and will were probably already shattered by now!"

At those words, Miaomiao stumbled back two steps, her pupils dilating uncontrollably, the warping fluctuations around her body becoming chaotic and unstable.

In the photo lying on the ground, her mother was holding her with gentle tenderness, her smile as soft as a blooming flower bud.

Lynn twisted the Night Demon Blade again, and Raines let out an even more agonized scream.

He said lowly, "You're lying."

"I'm not!" Raines gritted his teeth through the pain. "Experiments on Shattered World creatures were just beginning back then. Examples like this were countless. Even if they managed to awaken Reality Warping, a large proportion of the survivors would later be devoured by their own abilities and die, their will shattered!"

"That woman couldn't have held on! She awakened Mental Warping, and the backlash she suffered would have been even greater than other subjects! When she escaped with that cat, she was already at the end of her rope!"

Boom—

It was like a silent thunderclap exploding in her mind.

Miaomiao's gaze went instantly hollow.

As if old wounds had been violently torn open.

As if those words were still echoing in her ears, echoing through the countless centuries past.

Lynn grabbed Raines by the collar, his face already devoid of any expression, yet one could still see his grip tightening, millimeter by millimeter.

"But you never found her body, did you?"

Raines said in pain, "What does it matter if we found it or not?! We were going to turn her into a puppet anyway! Even if her will hadn't shattered, the puppet curse we implanted in her would have eventually turned her into a heartless sculpture!"

Pfft—

Lynn directly severed his upper and lower body in two.

A piercing scream instantly filled the entire room.

But he still didn't die, because he was a modified Stitched Person, and Lynn wasn't about to let him die quickly.

Because from the creation of the Flesh Plague, one could already see the scope of their experiments. Over these hundreds of years, it was impossible to count how many experiments they had conducted on those who fell from the Shattered World. They had used every means imaginable to control those subjects.

And Miaomiao's family was just one example among countless others.

But Lynn still refused to accept this outcome.

Because if Miaomiao's mother had truly died, the System wouldn't have given him the mission to find her. That could only prove she was still alive, but for some reason, she was unable to seek out Miaomiao, unable to fulfill that promise.

Because she had said she would come for Miaomiao.

And Miaomiao had clung to that very conviction, waiting painfully for centuries.

Lynn's face darkened as he continued the interrogation with the deepest malice.

Being in hell, perhaps such things had long become commonplace, so one could turn a blind eye to your atrocities, because every creature committed evil.

But if this evil touched the people around me.

Then there would be no room for compromise!

"That's not the answer I wanted to hear." Lynn grabbed his upper body, disregarding his pain. "I don't believe you would give up investigating this matter so easily. That's not your style. Tell me every single detail of your follow-up investigation. If you dare leave out even one thing, I'll snap one of your nerves. The choice is yours."

Raines said in agony, "I've already told you! We didn't get any information! I didn't—"

Pfft—

"AHHH!!!"

A violent scream filled the entire room.

Lynn meant what he said.

He felt no pity.

Because he knew very well that the pain Miaomiao and her family had endured back then was a hundred times, a thousand times greater than what Raines was suffering now!

"Speak."

"You devil! You'll die a miserable death!! I will never—"

Pfft—

"AHHH!!"

The torture continued.

Miaomiao sat there hollowly, teardrops falling from her chin, drip by drip, onto the photo on the ground. She couldn't accept such a reality, and she refused to believe it, because she had been searching all along, and she would never believe her mother was truly dead.

But now, her mind was still a blank void, as empty as a desert.

In the distance, Hei Xianyue, who had been watching Lynn's brutal interrogation while invisible, had also roughly pieced together the tragedy from their exchange.

Though her Emotional Development still made it hard for her to fully comprehend.

She could still see what was flowing from Miaomiao's eyes...

Grief.

It was the grief of losing a mother...

She instinctively clenched her hand, watching Miaomiao collapse emptily on the ground. Her gaze dropped, involuntarily falling on the photo on the floor.

And in that instant, she froze.

Because it seemed that somewhere in her memory, long, long ago, in her mother's manor, she had once glimpsed something similar.

A yellowed... photograph.