Noticing that the person holding her was gradually calming down, Mu He gently patted his back, her vision still filled with darkness.
Does this silly child really know what he's saying?
Zhong Mu slowly released Mu He, wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve, glanced down at Mu He's condition, and slumped his shoulders heavily. "Can the doctor's body recover like this?"
Mu He nodded, "Don't worry, I'm a monster. As long as I find my limbs and sew them back up, my flesh and bones will heal slowly."
"That's good..." Zhong Mu's tense heart finally relaxed a little. "I can sew clothes... I'll sew them for you later."
Mu He silently curved the corners of his mouth. Can sewing limbs and sewing clothes really be compared? Oh well, I hope he doesn't shed tears while he's sewing.
After setting his goal, Zhong Mu immediately stood up, gripped the axe tightly, and said, "Does the doctor know who took my legs? I'll go get them back for you."
Mu He shook his head. "I can't see him. I don't know what he looks like. I only recognize his voice... He said he has never had legs and wanted to try walking. He kept asking me to lend him my legs, saying he would return them soon."
"But two days have passed and he hasn't shown up again. Instead, other people have been chasing after me demanding my parts. I don't know who cut off my hand. The sounds were so chaotic and disordered that I couldn't hear anything at all."
Mu He shook his head and sighed. It seemed that once a precedent was set, people would keep begging him, and as they kept begging, the other party would gradually disregard his wishes and insist on getting it no matter what.
Zhong Mu did indeed notice that the bloodstains on the doctor's pants had dried and turned black, but the bloodstains on his arm were still dripping. Clearly, only his hand had been cut off that day. If he had legs, he would have left on his own even if he didn't want to.
As if remembering something, Zhong Mu squatted down, took Mu He's remaining hand, and rubbed his palm. The inside of his palm was covered with scratches and abrasions.
Just as he had predicted, the doctor, who had lost both legs, could only move by crawling on his hands. However, after one of his arms was cut off, he became completely unable to move and was left to be slaughtered.
First, they tricked away the legs that could move, then they took away the hands that could resist, leaving the person with no say whether they wanted to or not.
"The people of this city know how to devour people step by step." Zhong Mu's face darkened, and he gripped the axe tightly without hesitation. "I'll go find people and ask them. If I force them to confess, they'll find a way to help the doctor find the limbs."
Mu He quickly tugged at Zhong Mu's sleeve, "There are too many people in the City of Fallen Life, and in this city, severed limbs are constantly circulating and being transferred. It will be very difficult for you to find my limbs on your own. Forcing those people to question me is just a waste of time."
"What can we do?" Zhong Mu gritted her teeth, she couldn't bear to watch the doctor's limbs be taken away by such a city.
"It's alright. You're the one who came to this city to find me, so you can find out where the part of me I've lost is."
"What do you mean?" Zhong Mu looked down in confusion. Just listening to the doctor describe the situation in the city was already troubling. In a city where limbs were circulating everywhere, it was indeed difficult to accurately find a limb that no one even knew who had taken.
"My heart is bound to your item. To the player, my heart might be useful, but in reality, what's bound to you as an item is me, the monster. My heart is just a manifestation of the item, like... a contract item, understand?"
Zhong Mu paused for two seconds, then tried to rephrase it into an analogy that was easier for him to understand, "It's like Ya Ya is bound to Brother Xiu as a prop in the whole Ghostly Quest, but their contract prop is a prop coin, while what your prop coin presents to me is your heart, like this?"
Mu He nodded, "Originally, it should have been a coin, but the player who initially bound me did so by taking my heart, so the heart became a contract item."
Zhong Mu nodded silently. Whether it was a stroke of luck or misfortune, in a sense, the entire Ghostly Realm now belonged to the doctor.
"So, you can actually sense the location of my limbs just like you can sense where I am." Mu He smiled calmly. "Only you can find it back."
Zhong Mu roughly understood that feeling. He had found the location of the doctor in this city by relying on the connection of his heart, so he must be able to find the location of other limbs as well.
He turned around, squatted down, put down the axe in his hand, reached out and hugged the doctor, muttering, "Can the doctor wait for me here? If I take you there, I'm afraid something might happen. I'm not as strong as Brother Xiu, and I can't protect you in the chaotic crowd."
"It's okay, I can wait for you here." Mu He patted Zhong Mu's shoulder and whispered, "I promised you I wouldn't let anyone take any part of me away again, so I'll definitely take good care of myself and wait for you to come back."
Zhong Mu nodded with slumped shoulders. "I'll go get your leg back first to make sure the doctor can walk."
"Be careful," Mu He whispered, watching Zhong Mu walk away as he responded.
The alley returned to silence. Mu He sat in the corner, silently looking down and touching his empty trouser leg.
In dungeons, monsters are often torn to pieces by various items or weapons before emerging from the Fountain of Rebirth. In fact, the monsters are already used to the feeling of losing limbs and don't care. The only questions are when they will be found and sewn back together.
But he almost forgot that humans care a lot, and he scared the silly little boy who was worried about him into tears.
However... the emotions transmitted from his heart surprised him. Zhong Mu was such a big person, someone who could lift him up with one hand, but when he cried, the emotions transmitted from him felt like his heart was being squeezed, making Mu He not know what to do.
What is this emotion called among humans again...?
My heart... it aches?
That's a very accurate description.
Covered in blood and carrying an axe, Zhong Mu walked down the main street of Mingyun City, causing some people who had been eyeing him with greedy looks and wanted to beg for his limbs to back away.
Many people in Mingming City looked like this, nervously pacing back and forth while clutching a limb, carrying a long saw, and covered in blood, but no one found their appearance horrifying. Zhong Mu, on the other hand, was filled with fear, murderous intent, and glaring angrily at those around him.
It's normal to cut off someone's limbs with a weapon; it's not normal to walk around with murderous intent.
Zhong Mu was almost completely confused about what was going on in this city.
Following the sensation in his heart, he searched along the street for the location of the doctor's lost limbs. Some limbs were a little closer, while others were far away and out of reach for the time being. So he went to the closer area first, which happened to be the two legs that he needed to retrieve first.
As we walked along the dilapidated streets we had come from, we gradually entered the main city area, and the people walking on the streets began to become strange.