Chapter 24 Bloody Balance

“How did it fit something so big in its stomach? I'm baffled...”

The eerie right hand kept complaining in Shen Wei’s mind.

“Nezha had three heads and six arms, are you saying you have one head and two arms? What are you focusing on? Shouldn’t you be trying to figure out what he’s up to?”

Shen Wei rebuked, exasperated.

“Meet soldiers with generals, and water with earth. Hasty actions are a soldier’s greatest taboo…”

The eerie right hand said calmly.

Shen Wei wanted to retort, but upon closer thought, the guy’s words made some sense. So, he decided to wait and see.

The strange, stitched-together corpse placed the scale on the ground. Then, it untied the threads stitched to its arm, and wisps of black blood flowed down its arm.

The stitched monster detached its pale, bloodless arm and placed it on the scale. Then, with its other intact finger, it pointed at Shen Wei, then at the bloody scale.

“Damn it! He wants to play the weighing-meat game with me. If I want to win, I’ll be crippled at best, or bleed to death at worst…”

Shen Wei immediately understood the key point of the situation, looking at the bloody scale.

“Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a moment. Little Righty, I want to simulate!”

“Call me Lord Ghost Hand!”

“Hurry up! Little Righty! It’s a matter of life and death.”

“One year of lifespan, no bargaining!”

“Okay.”

My name is Shen Wei. By the time you hear my name, I might already be dead, because I’ve fallen into a terrifying rule anomaly.

This is an extremely terrifying and bizarre museum. Here, I encountered a monster sewn together from corpses with needles and thread.

It took out a bloody scale from its body and wanted to play a game of weighing meat with me.

Originally, I refused, but looking at its terrifying gaze, I completely chickened out. I admit I’m a coward, not nearly as brave and great as my right hand.

The stitched monster struck first, detaching one of its left hands and placing it on the scale.

Seeing this, I almost peed my pants, but to survive, I decided to take a gamble. So, I took out the dagger I carried with me, steeled my heart, and cut off my left arm at the root.

Blood flowed, and I almost fainted from the pain.

After a simple tourniquet, I placed my arm on the bloody scale. Seeing the victorious scale tilt in my favor, I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But then, the stitched monster smiled strangely, then untied the threads on its thigh, detached its left leg, and placed it on the bloody scale.

To be honest, seeing this move, I was completely dumbfounded. The victorious scale tilted heavily towards it, and I fell into despair.

But in pursuit of a glimmer of hope, I still turned my gaze to my left leg.

I first tied off my thigh with a belt, then used the dagger with great effort to finally saw off my left leg and place it on the bloody scale.

The victorious scale tilted towards me once again. At this moment, a proud smile appeared on my pale face, and I kept praising myself inwardly for being a clever boy.

But in the real world, the slap in the face often comes so quickly. The strange stitched monster untied the threads on its right leg and placed its right leg on the scale as well. The victorious scale tilted towards it again, and my smile froze on my face.

With a numb expression, I raised my knife and cut off my right leg, placing it on the bloody scale! The strange stitched monster wasn’t to be outdone, untying the threads on its body one by one and constantly placing the remains on the bloody scale.

I reported the stitched monster for cheating to the rule anomaly, but the rule anomaly called me a dumbass…

In the end, helpless, I turned my gaze to Little Shen Wei down below.

“Even a fly is still meat…”

My consciousness blurred, I steeled my heart and made the cut, becoming a great figure like Dongfang Bubai, Wei Zhongxian, and Yu Huatian.

But Little Shen Wei was too small and could not reverse the victorious scale.

In the end, I died of excessive blood loss, full of regret.

“Simulation complete, collecting payment!”

With a flash of white light, one year of Shen Wei’s life was absorbed by his eerie right hand.

Shen Wei broke free from the illusion of death. He took deep breaths rhythmically to calm his tense mood.

“Damn Ghost Hand, you don’t do anything that’s even remotely human! You’re always screwing me over using the death simulation…”

Shen Wei roared angrily in his mind.

“Don’t slander me out of thin air. I am an honest black hand, and I never do things behind people’s backs. I always say things to your face, like how I think you’re a big idiot…”

The eerie right hand was very arrogant, but Shen Wei didn’t have time to pay attention to it now.

Because the stitched monster in front of him really did untie the threads on its left hand, as predicted in the death simulation, and placed its left hand on the bloody scale.

“What should I do? I definitely can’t win in a fight! What’s more, Rule One might be implying that we can’t touch the strange exhibits here. Compete with it in cutting meat? I’ve already simulated it, I’ll definitely die. It has no pain or life, I definitely can’t beat it. So, what should I do? Rule anomalies all emphasize rules, it shouldn’t set up a certain-death situation, right?”

Shen Wei racked his brains, trying his best to think of a countermeasure.

But at this time, the stitched monster opposite him seemed a little impatient. It pointed at Shen Wei with its finger, and then at the bloody scale, as if giving him a silent warning.

“Thinking shouldn’t be limited, it should be divergent, breaking through inherent thinking, thinking what ordinary people dare not think, doing what ordinary people dare not do. Is that the path to survival? I was initially led astray by his preconceived notions…”

Shen Wei raised his eyes and looked at himself, then at the monster opposite him, whose whole body was stitched together with needles and thread, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

“No need to cut, I’m betting it all…”

A strange smile on the corner of Shen Wei’s mouth, he slowly stood up. Then, he walked to the other end of the bloody scale and sat down on it with his butt.

The victorious scale tilted immediately, and the stitched monster was completely dumbfounded. It kept untying threads, placing its remains on the scale. In the end, it even climbed onto the bloody scale itself. But its figure was thin and gaunt, completely incomparable to Shen Wei’s body of lean meat. In the end, the victorious scale never tilted towards it.

The situation was set, the strange stitched monster waved its only remaining arm to signal its concession.

Shen Wei got off the bloody scale, and the strange stitched monster’s body recovered in an instant. It ignored Shen Wei, picked up the bloody scale on the ground, and walked away with a lonely expression.

Shen Wei waved goodbye. After the strange stitched monster completely disappeared, he reached out and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and at the same time breathed a long sigh of relief.

“You little brat, you have quite a few clever ideas…”

The eerie right hand praised Shen Wei.

“It was all forced out…”

Shen Wei said with feigned humility.

“So scary, don’t normal people use their brains to think?…”

The eerie right hand said, feigning horror.

“Get lost…”