Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

"You forgot? You're not human anymore."

The apprentice smiled and said this, then he picked up a heavy-looking brown handbag from the ground and placed it on a metal bed that resembled a hospital operating table.

At this moment, Jack was bound hand and foot to this metal bed. His black eyes were filled with terror and helplessness. Although he struggled with all his might, how could his doll-like body break free from the ropes binding him?

"Don't worry, I'm a professional."

As he spoke, he opened the brown briefcase and took out a series of tools.

These include scalpels, pliers, saws, and so on.

Looking at these tools, Jack couldn't help but shudder.

The promised check-up felt more like surgery.

At this moment, Spider Man and Xiao He, who had heard the noise, also arrived nearby.

When Xiao He saw this scene, he suddenly felt a little strange.

He felt that this so-called examination was more like an "anatomy"!

Thinking of this, Xiao He secretly made a decision: he would rather die than let that apprentice tie him up like a crab for research.

"This guy is too pitiful." Xiao He looked at Jack with pity, who had already given up struggling.

First, he was unlucky enough to encounter a bizarre event, then he was turned into a doll by a strange force, and finally he was tied up like a crab for research. It was truly... a miserable experience.

Fortunately, it's not him who's tied up right now.

At the same time, the apprentice took out a laser pointer from his bag, aimed it at Jack's eyes, and pressed the switch.

"Ouch, my eyes."

When the blinding light shone into his eyes, Jack instinctively closed them and tried to raise his hands to shield them, but he quickly realized that his hands were now tied.

"Hmm, it seems that even after becoming a doll, your eyes are still just like a normal person's, and they are more sensitive to light." The apprentice looked at Jack's pained expression and then turned off the laser pointer in his hand.

"But how do you close your eyes, those glassy eyes of yours?"

Jack's actions just now made the apprentice realize that the other person's eyes are also affected by light, but then the other person suddenly seemed unaffected. This must be because, like people, they subconsciously close their eyes when exposed to strong light.

But where did these two glass beads get their eyelids from?

"This strange power is really interesting. It can turn a person into a doll, and at the same time keep the doll in the same way as some human organs."

The apprentice muttered a few words to himself, then put away the laser pointer and took out a small hammer from his bag, tapping Jack's leg.

"Ouch."

As Jack's leg twitched, another painful cry escaped his lips.

Seeing this, the apprentice nodded almost imperceptibly. Then he put the small hammer aside, picked up a pair of pliers, and pinched a hair off Jack's furry head.

Then he picked up a sealed transparent bag and put the fluffy feather inside.

"Very good. Now we can be basically certain that, on the surface, although you are a doll, your body still retains some human instincts."

The apprentice grinned and said to Jack, "This means you still have a good chance of turning back into a human, but..."

He shook the transparent bag in his hand, pointed to the "hair" belonging to Jack inside, and said, "I still need to analyze the strange power contained within your doll's body before I can draw a final conclusion."

After saying that, the apprentice raised a scalpel, gestured a few times at Jack, and said, "However, it's impossible to analyze your doll's body just by relying on some external organizations."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crazed expression appeared on his face, and a terrifying light flashed in his eyes.

"Therefore... I need some internal organization to carry out the next analytical experiments."

Jack stared at the scalpel in the apprentice's hand, gleaming under the light, and swallowed hard.

"How about I try to shed some tears for you?" His voice trembled slightly.

Logically speaking, a doll that gets slashed shouldn't die, since dolls don't inherently have life, so there's no distinction between life and death.

But now, Jack isn't sure if, after being slashed, he'll just need some needle and thread to sew it up and be fine, or if he'll just die on the spot.

"Tears?"

The apprentice paused for a moment, then stared at Jack's glass bead with shining eyes.

"If you could shed a few tears right now, I might consider it."

After all, tears can indeed be considered an internal organizational structure in some respects.

However, upon hearing the apprentice's words, Jack was truly "on the verge of tears."

If he could shed tears, he would have done so long ago.

Seeing Jack's expression, the apprentice smiled slightly, revealing a knowing look in his eyes.

"So, we still have to 'operate' on you."

"Don't worry, I'm a professional."

After saying that, the apprentice raised the scalpel and slowly lowered it towards Jack's stomach. Just as he was about to make his move, Jack's body suddenly trembled in extreme fear, and then a faint black light began to emanate from the surface of his furry doll-like body.

next second.

Jack's bear doll suddenly swelled up, breaking the ropes that bound it, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a huge and terrifying bear.

Its body was tall and muscular, covered in a layer of brown fur, with manes on both sides of its head resembling sharp spikes. Even its once cute face had become ferocious and terrifying, with its eyes burning with a blood-red light like a wild beast.

Its sharp, twisted claws gleamed with a chilling aura, and its back was bulging with powerful muscles, as if it could unleash a destructive force at any moment.

The bear's facial expression contorted with terror, its mouth opened to reveal sharp fangs, emanating a sinister aura. A low, hoarse roar came from its throat, as if containing endless killing intent and brutality.

"Holy crap, it transformed?"

At this moment, Xiao He, who had been watching the show from the side, was stunned when he saw the enormous figure that had even caused the metal bed to collapse slightly.

However, compared to him, the Spider-Man, who also witnessed this scene, seemed quite calm, as if he had expected this situation.

at the same time.

The apprentice stared at the bear, which was almost half a head taller than him, his expression unchanged. Instead, he smiled and said, "See? I told you I'm a professional. I haven't even started yet, and I've already unleashed your abilities."

In fact, the apprentice's goal from beginning to end was not to study Jack's body in order to find a way to turn him back into a human.

Everything he did today was to unleash the strange abilities within Jack.

The apprentice had already learned about the bizarre attack on the toy factory beforehand. In his opinion, since Jack was the first or only doll to turn from a human, his specialness was beyond question.

Based on previous investigations by the alliance, being special also means having huge potential.

The apprentice's job is to unleash Jack's potential and abilities.

When the apprentice first arrived, the leader of the Binhai Guiye Division spoke with him. The leader said that although this guy named Jack had become a monster, he didn't seem to have any monster abilities at all. It was as if he was just a talking doll.

So the apprentice decided to use "fear" to unleash the other person's abilities.

When people are in a state of extreme fear, they may suffer a mental breakdown or even die of fright.

However, for the supernatural, fear can actually elevate their power to another level.

However, fear is also a double-edged sword.

Some demon tamers who have recently acquired strange powers are at risk of losing control under extreme fear.

To unleash Jack's abilities, the apprentice staged a play: a scene of a deranged doctor dissecting an innocent doll.

The purpose is to evoke fear in the other person.

Of course, even with just that, Jack's fear wouldn't reach the "ultimate" level.

The most important factor is the apprentice's own ability, and one of his abilities is to amplify the fears in others' hearts.

Although this might not be very friendly to Jack, at least he has succeeded now.

However, there is one imperfection: the other party seems to have...lost control.

Although Jack did unleash his strange power as the apprentice had predicted under extreme fear, this power caused his soul, which was only half-corrupted by the strange power, to be further eroded.

It was this change that caused Jack's mind to be controlled by a strange force.

Under extreme fear, one possible outcome is that fear can turn into anger.

And that's exactly what Jack is in now.

At that moment, a voice seemed to appear in Jack's mind.

The voice kept tempting him to tear the human in front of him, who was about to dissect him, in half, and then twist off his head and eat it.

As a private detective, Jack had received some informal hypnosis training, but he could withstand ordinary hypnosis. However, his training results were no match for that seductive voice that sounded like a devil's whisper.

Roar!

After letting out a roar, Jack was completely controlled by the strange power.

He lunged at the apprentice in a rage, his sharp claws lashing out to tear him to shreds.

Seeing this, Xiao He, who was not far away, did not turn to look at the spider man and ask him something like "Aren't you going to help?" After all, he wasn't stupid. Judging from the other man's confident and unchanging expression, he knew that the apprentice must have a way to deal with the bear.

Not only that, he was also secretly guessing that the other party would finish the fight in a few minutes.

Meanwhile, the apprentice was not afraid of Jack's sudden attack; instead, he remained calm and composed.

He raised the scalpel again, and then, without him making any move, the scalpel began to shrink continuously, quickly becoming the size of a steel needle.

"Sometimes outward strength can temporarily mask inner weakness, but sometimes it is through this outward strength that we can find out the hidden weakness."

The apprentice's eyes were firm and calm.

The next moment, the scalpel in his hand, which was as sharp as a steel needle, was suddenly thrown out by an invisible force, and then, like a nimble venomous snake, it kept piercing back and forth on the bear's body.

In just one second, it had already pierced through the opponent's head, heart, abdomen, and other parts of the body.

Jack, who was about to pounce on the apprentice, seemed to be nailed to the spot, frozen in place, not moving an inch.

Immediately afterwards, Jack's transformed, enormous bear form suddenly began to shrink rapidly, like a deflated balloon.

Soon, Jack, who had shrunk back to the size of a normal doll, not only stopped attacking, but his body also seemed to sway. In no time, he collapsed to the ground as if he had lost his support.

His once lustrous hair suddenly became dull and lifeless, as if it had lost all its strength and vitality.

His eyes lost their wild ferocity and became helpless and frustrated.

"What... happened to me just now?"

Jack lay on the ground, feeling utterly weak, as if even his bones had gone limp... well... it seemed like he didn't even have any bones left.

But none of that matters. What matters is that he felt like he had done hundreds of push-ups in one go, and he almost died on the spot.

The apprentice approached Jack, and when he saw the clarity return to Jack's eyes, he let out a deep breath: "I'm not very good at things related to the soul, but as for things related to the body..."

At this point, the apprentice paused slightly, then glanced at the weakened Jack and smiled, "That's one of my strengths."

As he spoke, he held up two fingers, with a scalpel the size of a steel needle between them.

And wisps of black smoke were swirling around the scalpel.

"Although I still don't know the internal structure of your doll-like body, I can sense that the strange energy within you is flowing slowly like water."

At this point, an extremely crazed look appeared in the apprentice's eyes.

"In my view, the flow of strange energy is equivalent to the circulation of blood and qi in humans. Although those above always say that strange beings are creatures beyond our understanding, I believe that the appearance of strange beings must be closely related to humans, as long as..."

However, just as the apprentice was speaking, the Spider-Man walked over and interrupted him.

"Don't bring up your theory again. You know perfectly well that if you hadn't proposed this theory at the conference, you wouldn't still be wearing this silver-rimmed badge."

The spider-man shook his head.

Perhaps the apprentice's theory is true, but given his level and personality, it's best to abandon it.

Upon hearing the Spider-Man's reminder, the apprentice's gaze gradually calmed down.

He's just a bit eccentric, not an idiot. How could he not understand the meaning behind Spider-Man's words?

But with his eccentric personality, how could he possibly listen to what the Spider-Man said?

He calmed down because... Jack, who was lying on the ground, had already passed out.

He's already unconscious, what's the point of him continuing to talk?

So he turned to the spider man and said calmly, "I've already helped him activate his ability. After he wakes up, he should be able to use it proficiently after a few tries."

"Speaking of which, it's better for us who are fused with a complete monster, otherwise we'd end up like him, with so many flaws." The apprentice glanced down at Jack on the ground and continued, "By the way, I've already obtained some of the monster's energy from his body."

As he spoke, the apprentice brandished the scalpel between his fingers.

The next second, the scalpel began to grow larger and larger, and soon returned to its original size.

The apprentice's strange abilities are methods and shrinking; as for what he can enlarge or shrink, the scope will soon become very broad.

At the same time, after the scalpel returned to its original size, the wisps of black energy surrounding it became even more noticeable.

After saying that, the apprentice turned around and walked to a glass case next to him.

And inside that glass case was the princess doll.

"Alright, now I'm going to get to work. You can leave."

The apprentice pointed at Jack on the ground, looked at Spider-Man, and said with a smile, "Remember to take him with you too, otherwise I'd really like to see what his internal structure is like."

As he spoke, the apprentice brandished the scalpel in his hand.

With the addition of black energy, the scalpel seemed to become even more eerie.

At this point, the apprentice shifted his gaze from the spider-man to Xiao He, who was watching the show not far away: "Of course, if you'd like me to study this for you, you can stay and observe."

Xiao He: "..."