Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1059 The Choir Performance
After explaining Edward's request, Xia Shou began to try to sleep without removing his mask.

Thankfully, being able to enter the heavenly choir without removing the mask while sleeping is good news.

Even more fortunately, he didn't run into any acquaintances when he entered the club this time.

Although Xia Shou had somewhat forgotten who the acquaintance was, he subconsciously remembered that every time he entered the club, there would be an overly enthusiastic guy who would greet him.

Besides that, he also remembered that he seemed to have some dealings with Sparrow.

He wasn't confident he could fool Sparrow if he encountered him, but fortunately he didn't run into him this time. The only person who greeted him was a man wearing a plaster hood.

It seems that the eighteen-year-old version of himself had something to talk to this Khufu about before, but Xia Shou brushed it off with the excuse that "I have something urgent to do this time, let's talk next time."

Following his memory, he entered the choir's flesh wall and walked through the complex flesh wall maze.

It wasn't until he had walked for a while through the flesh wall maze that Xia Shou realized he had acted too impulsively.

Last time, it was with Sparrow's guidance that he found Dorian Gray inside the anthill-like, complex walls.

He remembered the route then, but now that route is preserved in the details of a dream he had when he was eighteen, and he can't remember it at all...

Just as Xia Shou was about to give up, he suddenly heard a melodious tune.

It wasn't the kind of music that drives your mind crazy like a choir, but rather the perfectly normal, pleasant music of everyday life.

Xia Shou followed the direction from which the music was coming. When he passed a face embedded in the wall, it was singing a beautiful song in a classical style.

As Xia Shou approaches, the face stops singing, and the melody and rhythm begin to play further away, as if the music is guiding him.

Xia Shou quickened his pace, following the direction from which the sound came, passing a violin made of a spine with pain receptors, and a pipa made of shoulder blades.

He wandered around, eventually arriving in front of that person.

"Teacher... I knew you would come."

A slender woman dressed as a man, with delicate and androgynous features, sat there as if being tortured, her body pierced by countless fleshy lines and bone spikes.

Xia Shou felt that the other person was a woman, partly because of the woman's voice and partly because of his intuition.

"that……"

“I’ve remembered what I’d forgotten, what I’ve investigated about the… terrible things you did in the past,” Dorian Gray said.

"This means that the gods want you to work again, teacher. Haven't you ever thought about escaping this fate?"

Is it enough to just come out of the book?

Xia Shou was stunned for a moment, completely unable to understand what the other person was saying.

He could only say, "Actually, I..."

"So that's how it is. It's changed again... It's changed again. No need to say anything more, I can tell that you're different from last time."

Dorian Gray sighed softly, the bone spur piercing her lung giving her a sharp, distorted sound.

"So, how old are you now that you've traveled here? And what is your purpose?" Dorian Gray asked.

"Twenty-eight years old, you came to find me because of Daniel Wallace."

"Twenty-eight? That doesn't seem right. At that age, you should have killed a lot of people. Your mind must be quite twisted."

Then you contacted Daniel... which means you've reached the final step of publishing the book, which is great.

Daniel works at the Dream Theater, using the alias Anton. You should be able to find him easily by asking around.

But I'd like to ask, are you... coming in your true form or possessing someone?

"What do you mean?"

"So, did you enter through your own body, or did you possess someone else's body by wearing a mask?" "Possession? What about that?"

"That's good, but the original owner of this body is in a terrible state."

"It seems you've completely forgotten what I told you before, and you haven't bothered to learn about the Heavenly Choir again. You just thought of me and came straight here, right?"

"Any questions?"

“I’ve said before that you should contact me when the choir doesn’t have any major performances.”

Before you came, ask someone about the show schedule; you completely forgot all that.

"I have absolutely no recollection of this! Is the problem serious?"

“If the person you possessed is your companion, then the problem is very serious. He will probably stay here to keep me company.”

"Oh, no, that's not it." Xia Shou breathed a sigh of relief. "I heard he's a death row inmate."

"That's alright, it's just a pity that your body is completely ruined. You might have a very terrifying nightmare."

"Why?" Xia Shou became nervous. "Should I run away immediately?"

"If I could run, I would have let you run away long ago. By the time you got inside the wall, it was too late. By then, the quasi-signatures and signatories had already taken their seats, and the concert was about to begin."

"Once the performance begins, you'll be in the same state as me, becoming a human instrument. It'll be very painful, I don't think current teachers could handle it."

"Damn, isn't that the end of it?" Xia Shou said, covering his face.

He is asleep now and cannot take off his mask.

He needs to leave the club to wake up, but now he can't even get out of the choir wall!

"How can there be a master in the world who makes his disciples worry? Such a master can only be described as hopeless."

"Come here, sit next to me, and then hug me tight," Dorian Gray said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the wall suddenly vibrated. It wasn't a physical vibration, but rather a kind of magnetic field-like, mental vibration!

"Start warming up the instruments, hurry up!" Dorian Gray said coldly.

Xia Shou ran over and sat down next to Dorian Gray, reaching out to hug him: "And...and then? Is that all?"

"Of course not, because I'm going to connect all your pain receptors to me. The process will be very painful, probably similar to open-chest surgery without anesthesia or self-immolation."

But at most, the pain will only last a few minutes, which is nothing compared to the pain of the subsequent performance.

I never imagined I'd be shown such a pathetic state.

Dorian Gray sighed, and hundreds of fleshy spikes shot out from his body, piercing Xia Shou's body directly.

In an instant, Xia Shou let out a heart-wrenching scream, but the intense pain prevented him from fainting. It seemed as if an invisible force was forcing him to remain fully conscious.

Two hours...

When the pain subsided enough for Xia Shou to speak, he roared, "Didn't you say it would only last a few minutes?!"

"I was very fast this time, it only took me twenty seconds. It's your perception of time that was prolonged by the pain."

This is the effect the Heavenly Choir wanted—to replace Avici Hell as the new arena for performing meritorious deeds. How could it possibly be any better than Avici Hell?

Dorian Gray gave a bitter smile, then took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice:

"Hehe... The performance is about to start, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)