MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 213 Synesthesia
Huh? Huh? Huh!
What did I see?
A mere casual glance was enough to etch an indelible shadow into a young girl's heart for a lifetime.

The afterglow of the setting sun spilled onto the grass by the river. A boy, probably about the same age as himself, was squatting in front of the body of a petite girl.

Is it a murder case?!

Sayaka's hands and feet instantly turned ice-cold, cold sweat poured down her face, and her heart felt like it was about to jump out of her chest.

She instinctively let out a scream.

Upon hearing the sound, Fang Zheng turned his head to look over.

With just that one glance, Sayaka's scream was abruptly cut off, as if choked by an invisible hand.

What kind of face is that?

He looked ordinary and was not very old, but when he squatted next to a corpse, his face showed no panic, no excitement, no emotion, only a deathly calm.

Like ghosts and zombies in horror movies, or dolls in the dark of night, they are terrifying because of instincts ingrained deep in human genes.

Humans instinctively feel fear toward beings that resemble humans but are not.

Because in the memories of our ancestors, that meant disease, corpses, danger, or even other species that would prey on Homo sapiens.

At that glance, Sayaka didn't see the brutality, anger, or fear she had imagined a murderer should have on that face. Instead, his unmoving, glass-bead-like eyes when he turned his head gave her a strange sense of unease.

"Madoka, run!" After a moment of stunned silence, Sayaka, suppressing her fear, grabbed her best friend Madoka Kaname's arm and turned to flee.

"Ah!" But Madoka Kaname, who was being pulled forcefully, did not immediately follow. Instead, her body seemed to have lost all its strength and she collapsed to the ground.

Sayaka, whose body was stiff with fear, was unable to react in time and lost her balance, falling backward.

Before she could adjust, she fell heavily to the ground with a thud, her buttocks and the back of her head hitting the hard ground at the same time.

"Ouch!" Sayaka cried out in pain, rubbing the back of her head. She struggled to get up, but immediately noticed that something was wrong with her best friend.

Madoka Kaname's face, which was usually as cute as a small animal's, was now completely devoid of color, deathly pale, with her pupils dilated to an extreme. She slumped to the ground, staring blankly ahead, her body trembling violently.

Xiaoyuan was so scared she collapsed?

That's true. Xiaoyuan has never been very brave. She herself gets so scared that her whole body goes limp, let alone her.

"Get up quickly!" Sayaka anxiously tried to pull her friend up, but found that the other person was as limp as a puddle of mud and she couldn't muster any strength.

Without a second thought, Sayaka immediately bent down, picked up her friend in a princess carry, and turned to run away.

"you!"

She had only taken two steps when she was forced to stop, her face turning as pale as her best friend's.

The boy who was suspected of being the murderer appeared silently in front of her without her noticing. He was bent over, his face almost touching her chest, and his eyes were fixed on Madoka Kaname in her arms.

"What are you trying to do, you bastard? Are you trying to kill me to silence me?!" Sayaka quickly took two steps back, put Madoka Kaname down from her arms, protected her behind her, raised her fist, and her voice trembled with fear.

"I've trained in karate! Let us get out of here, or I'll beat you to a pulp!"

Under that wary gaze, Fang Zheng quietly looked at Madoka Kaname, who was slumped in the arms of the blue-haired girl, her eyes vacant.

That's right, she looks exactly like the girl's corpse she found in a strange space.

Is it an counterpart from a parallel universe? Or a past or future version of yourself? Or simply a coincidence within a vast number of possibilities?

Fang Zheng didn't know, nor did he care much, but he could sense that there was some profound connection between the two.

In this world, the observation capabilities of the "World Sea Battleship Hull" are unilaterally blocked, and even the precision of the "Concerto" is limited to the molecular level, making it temporarily impossible for him to directly read the memories in Madoka Kaname's brain.

But he was still able to obtain information about her body at the molecular level.

The DNA information of the two is exactly the same. The only difference is the degree of physical development—the age of the corpse Madoka Kaname is about half a year older than that of the living Madoka Kaname.

However, based on the detection results of the traces on the body, she had been engaged in continuous combat for at least two years before her death, during which time her body showed no signs of development.

Considering the effects of that unknown force with powerful regenerative abilities, it's hard to say exactly how many years had passed since Madoka Kaname's body finally died.

Although he couldn't probe her memories, Fang Zheng could sense that Madoka Kaname was currently enduring some kind of intense pain.

Her entire nervous system was experiencing abnormal electrical discharges, and her brain nerve signals were as chaotic as boiling porridge.

Judging from the areas of abnormal discharge, it seems that from the moment she saw Madoka Kaname's corpse, which she had inadvertently revealed earlier, she was experiencing the pain caused by the injuries on the corpse as if she were experiencing it herself, under the interference of some force or phenomenon.

It's even possible that, like synesthesia described in some paranormal stories, the corpse's experiences are resonating with her in some way.

Fang Zheng stepped forward.

"You bastard, don't come any closer!" "Ha!" Sayaka responded without hesitation with a whip kick.

But the target seemed to have anticipated this, without even blinking, and with a quick grab and pull, Sayaka's ankle was firmly seized, causing her to lose her balance instantly and fall flat on her back to the ground, seeing stars before her eyes, and she collapsed on the spot.

Fang Zheng walked straight to Kaname Madoka's side, and the red spiral smoke of the healing potion spread out, temporarily relieving the girl's body, which was convulsing violently due to abnormal nerve discharge.

……

"Where am I?" Consciousness slowly returned from a state of confusion. "Did I just fall?"

"Oh no! Xiaoyuan is in danger!"

Ignoring her severe headache, she struggled to get up.

Her gaze fell on the boy standing next to Madoka, and a surge of rage instantly burned within Sayaka: "You bastard! What do you intend to do to Madoka... ugh?"

"Mantouka?" The angry words stopped abruptly, replaced by a blank of consciousness.

Sayaka's legs went weak, and she collapsed to her knees, powerless.

The dilapidated, mutilated corpse, covered in black bloodstains and clearly subjected to inhuman torture, instantly captured her entire attention, causing her to even overlook the figure of another girl named Xiaoyuan beside her.

She knelt on the ground and crawled to the front of the corpse.

With a blank expression, her trembling fingers hesitantly touched Madoka Kaname's cold cheek, but then abruptly withdrew as if burned.

Seeing my childhood best friend turn out like this is a huge shock.

She was on the verge of a breakdown, unable to even shed tears, feeling short of breath and experiencing bouts of dizziness.

"Slap!" A sudden slap landed on her head, making her jerk.

Her head was forcibly turned to the side, and her gaze met that of Madoka Kaname, who was completely unharmed and unharmed.

"Huh? This! This!"

"How can there be two steamed bun cards?" Shock made her turn her head repeatedly, trying to understand the absurd scene before her, her mind blank.

"You? Who are you?!" She finally reacted, asking incredulously with a trembling voice, "Why were you with the other Xiaoyuan? Did you kill her?!"

Fang Zheng ignored her barrage of questions and calmly said, "You're her friend, aren't you?"

"Then, this Kaname Madoka corpse is yours."

"Although she is probably not the Kaname Madoka of this world, it doesn't make much difference. Notify her family and take your friend back for burial."

As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Zheng walked away into the sunset without looking back, leaving behind the unconscious Madoka Kaname and the stunned Sayaka.

Sayaka's gaze fell again on the corpse on the ground, her eyes reddening with anxiety, and she was on the verge of tears. "What...what should I do..."

"Right, I need to call the police." Her stiff, trembling hands pulled her phone out of her bag, but she failed several times before finally turning on the screen and starting to enter the police number.

"Aaaaaah!!!" Before she could even dial the number, she let out a terrified scream.

A wet and icy sensation suddenly gripped her wrist, sending a chill down her spine.

Kaname Madoka suddenly woke up and grabbed her!
Feeling the touch on her wrist, that small, cold, sweaty yet unusually strong hand, even though it squeezed her painfully, Sayaka temporarily disregarded the pain and asked anxiously, "Madoka? Are you awake? Are you hurt anywhere? Wait, what happened to your eyes?"

She noticed that Xiaoyuan was covering her eyes tightly with her left hand.

Madoka Kaname's body trembled violently, her face ashen, covered in cold sweat, and her voice trembled as she said, "Don't call the police..."

"But what can we do if we don't call the police!" Sayaka stared blankly at the corpse on the ground that also bore Madoka's face. "We're just students! No matter who this Madoka corpse is, we have no way to handle this!"

“Let me do it.” Kaname Madoka took a deep breath, then took out her phone and dialed a number.

"Drip... drip..."

"Madoka? What's wrong?" A gentle male voice came from the other end of the phone; it was Kaname Tomohisa, Madoka's father.

Because his wife is busy with her career, he, as a "stay-at-home husband," takes care of almost all the household affairs and cooks delicious dishes that Xiaoyuan loves.

"Dad..." Xiaoyuan pleaded with her father in a hoarse, almost distorted voice, "Please drive to the river right away... And please, please don't call the police..."

"Yuan?" Hearing the unusual tremor in his daughter's voice, Kaname Tomohisa's heart tightened, and he immediately sensed that something was wrong.

He took a deep breath, suppressing his unease. "I understand, I'll be right there!"

(End of this chapter)