Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

Lin Bai shrugged, looking indifferent: "I don't care."

"However, if he dares to act arrogantly in front of me again..."

Lin Bai patted Aya on the shoulder and smiled innocently: "Whether this life can be saved is uncertain."

Gu Canglan gave Aya a deep look and nodded, saying, "Don't worry, if he continues to be ungrateful... whatever you do, I will not interfere."

Lin Bai didn't dwell on it. "So, sir, what do you think of my proposal? Would you be willing to teach me alchemy?"

Gu Canglan sighed, his expression complex.

"young people."

"Alchemy is not something you can learn just because I want to teach it."

"This craft requires talent, but even more money."

"It is an analysis of truth based on equivalent exchange. It requires a massive amount of knowledge, surgical-like spiritual control, and even more... financial support that you cannot imagine."

His gaze was as sharp as a hawk's, as if he could see through Lin Bai's soul:

"Are you sure you want to trade this precious favor for an opportunity that might leave you with nothing or even bankrupt you? With those five hundred gold coins, you can at least live a life of wealth."

All eyes were on Lin Bai.

Lin Bai smiled.

That composed and unhurried demeanor was not suppressed in the slightest by the master.

Whether I can learn it or not is my business.

Whether you teach or not is your business.

Lin Bai's voice was calm, yet it exuded a chilling confidence: "Besides, how do you know I lack talent if you don't teach me?"

Gu Canglan stared at him for a long time.

A few seconds later, a meaningful smile appeared on his face, as if he were seeing his younger self.

"Good lad, you're interesting."

With a flick of his wrist, Gu Canglan sent an ancient-looking copper coin flying in an arc before landing in Lin Bai's hand.

The copper coin is engraved with intricate gold-plating circuits and feels slightly warm to the touch, clearly indicating that it is not an ordinary item.

"This is my address in Blackrock City. Take this; you can come find me anytime."

Gu Canglan turned around, his black robes fluttering, unwilling to linger any longer.

But just before stepping into the shadows, he paused slightly, turned his head, and his tone became more serious.

"There's one more thing, which can be considered a parting message."

The old man's gaze swept over the crumbling ruins of the eerie realm deep inside the tunnel.

"That doll lady is the private property of the Spiral Tower."

"By destroying it, you've taken a bite out of the Spiral Tower's cake. Those lunatics are notoriously vengeful."

Gu Canglan gave Lin Bai a deep look:

"Fortunately, the backing of the Dust Brotherhood is still manageable, but... it's best to report this immediately. Otherwise... once those lunatics set their sights on you, you'll know what a real nightmare is."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle breeze swept by.

His and Lan Xiao's figures gradually faded, as if merging into the darkness, and finally disappeared completely.

......

The person is gone.

Only Lin Bai and his group remained in the tunnel.

Lin Bai carefully put the copper coin away from his body, then turned and walked towards the center of the tunnel.

As the ghost realm completely collapsed, the black iron box containing the ghost's true form was revealed once again.

It lay quietly in the pile of rubble, its surface covered with intricate sealing patterns, emanating an unsettling chill.

"Is this the strange thing inside?"

Iron Fist immediately perked up, forgetting his disappointment at not getting the money earlier, and eagerly came over.

"I've never even seen what a monster looks like! Does it have three heads and six arms?"

Xie Qingtang also frowned and stepped forward, still holding the knife tightly, his vigilance undiminished.

Lin Bai didn't speak.

He crouched down and gently stroked the spiral logo on the box with his fingers.

A nauseating sense of familiarity traveled up to my fingertips.

"Click".

The sound of the latch popping open was particularly crisp in the deathly silent tunnel.

Lin Bai forcefully lifted the heavy box lid.

When the crowd gathered around saw what was inside the box, they all gasped in shock.

Buck let out a shriek, instinctively taking two steps back, his face deathly pale: "Holy crap... what... what the hell is this?!"

Lying inside the box was a "woman".

Or rather, it was a creature that was once a woman.

She was curled up on the black velvet cushions, and if you didn't look at the left side, she looked like a sleeping beauty.

But her left cheek, left arm, left chest, and even the entire left side of her body have been forcibly replaced with pure white, cold, and lifeless ceramic.

The most terrifying part is the interface.

There were countless pink fleshy buds there.

Like plant roots, they penetrate deep into the ceramic, forcibly "growing" flesh and porcelain together.

This forced fusion across species carries an extreme sense of distortion and blasphemy.

She is dead.

In the right eye, which still retained human features, the pupil was dilated, frozen with extreme pain and despair.

On her right cheek, there was still a dried tear stain.

At the bottom of the box was a yellowed label; the cold, printed lettering was chilling:

[Experimental Subject Code: Porcelain Doll-039]

[Status: In the process of being discarded/destroyed]

"vomit--"

Behind Iron Fist, one of his underlings couldn't hold it in any longer and ran to the side to dry heave.

This kind of direct, physiological terror is far more repulsive than those menacing monsters.

"This is...a person?" Xie Qingtang's voice trembled.

Her hand holding the knife was somewhat unresponsive, her knuckles turning white.

She thought of the orphanage and those "doctors" in white coats, their eyes burning with a fanaticism as if they were looking at lab rats.

Those nightmares seemed to overlap with the scene before my eyes.

Lin Bai remained squatting there, expressionless.

But his hands were clenched so tightly that his nails almost pierced his palms.

Deep in his mind, he asked coldly.

Question: What is this?

[Driving simulation in progress...]

[Estimated simulation time: 1 second]

[Answer: This is the true form of the "Doll Lady".]

[A product of the fourth laboratory in the Spiral Tower of Blackrock City. They capture living people with specific spiritual frequencies and, while they are conscious, forcibly "graft" bizarre limbs onto them, attempting to create controllable humanoid weapons.]

[Note: Number 039 was merely a failed experiment. Due to a severe rejection reaction, its consciousness collapsed, and it was devoured by the strange entity, ultimately becoming the monster you see.]

Lin Bai felt a chill run down his spine.

It's the lab again.

Ah Qi is the escaped "Number 7".

Xie Qingtang and Tiequan are survivors of the underground laboratory in the orphanage.

Now, it's this "039" again.

Behind this seemingly wasteland of survival, a massive, blood-stained net appears to be silently unfurling in the shadows.

The so-called "spiral tower", the so-called "inner city".

How many disgusting things like this are hidden beneath that glamorous and extraordinary exterior?

Are human lives just consumables here?

......