frightfiction Chapter 242 Nightmare Referee
Chapter 242 Nightmare Referee
Behind Lu Youyou was a giant, a giant composed of black mist.
Within the black mist are eyes of various shapes, each containing pupils of different colors.
The moment their eyes met, Wang Qiao was transported back to that desperate night, to that weak version of herself who had failed to resist.
A sharp pain in his arm brought Wang Qiao back to her senses, and she met the worried eyes of Angel Chick and Cute Little Snake.
"I'm fine. Check if any of the other gang members have been infected. Remember not to look into Lu Youyou's eyes."
"it is good!"
Angel and Mengmeng dispersed on the spot and went to check on the status of the gang members in different directions.
……
Lu Youyou felt like she had become an emperor.
Those fragments of memory are like memorials awaiting my review.
Now, she randomly selects a memory.
It was a five or six-year-old boy kneeling in repentance.
"I'm sorry, little sister, I shouldn't have pushed you into the well, but who told you to steal my Ultraman toy? Mom bought it for me!"
The little boy suddenly transformed into a robust and sunny young man, quietly leaning against a woman whose face was so aged she could be his grandmother.
"Mom, stop printing the missing person posters. My sister might have been kidnapped and taken to some remote mountain village to be someone's wife. Don't worry, as long as she gives birth to a son, she'll definitely live a life of luxury."
"You should leave the money to your son. You know, he's not married yet. In modern society, women are materialistic. They won't marry you if you don't have a house or a car."
The scene shifts again, and the woman's face appears even older, and her figure even more emaciated.
But the boy's face was exactly the same as in the previous clip, unchanged.
Time has left no trace on his face.
The woman looked at him with heartache and pain, deliberately pulling at him, getting closer and closer to the rooftop railing.
At the critical moment, he pushed his own mother away, which allowed him to escape.
The mother's screams as she fell echoed throughout the sky.
"The evidence of killing your sister is gone, but the evidence of killing your mother is—"
The video stops playing and then starts playing in reverse.
Lu Youyou felt that she had reconnected with the people in her memories.
At that moment, she was the mother who jumped from the rooftop.
She held the little boy by the feet and repeatedly shoved him into the deep well, making him experience the agony of drowning.
Then she fast-forwarded time.
She grabbed the boy by the collar and repeatedly climbed over the rooftop railing, making him experience the despair his mother felt when she was making a desperate gamble.
There was a snap.
The screen went dark.
Among the crowd, a man, howling like a madman, jumped into the ice and was devoured by the hungry black hands.
At the same time, more and more people are starting to get infected.
They either collapsed to the ground crying until they lost their voice, or went mad and jumped under the ice.
Some people were also awakened by their pets and hurriedly left.
The wind stopped.
The chaotic brawl has ended.
Lu Youyou felt dizzy. She bit her tongue to maintain a brief moment of consciousness. Seeing that all the gang members and pets were still there, she could no longer control herself and fainted.
When she woke up again, she was lying in bed, with Wang Qiao sitting beside her.
She was looking at him with concern, waving in front of him.
"Youyou, can you see my hand moving?"
Lu Youyou straightened up, feeling extremely sore all over.
"Where's Xiao Hei? Is Xiao Hei alright?"
Wang Qiao smiled and patted Lu Youyou on the shoulder.
"At first, its mouth and stomach hurt, but after it took some high-grade all-purpose pills, it's now lively and energetic again."
"That's good." Lu Youyou finally felt relieved.
"By the way, what did you mean when you asked me if I could see your hand? Do you all think I'm blind?"
Wang Qiao understood the meaning behind those words.
Lu Youyou's eyes were alright, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"After you fainted, your pupils dilated immediately. Everyone thought you were dead, but you still had a heartbeat. We fed you five high-grade all-purpose pills in a row, but you still didn't wake up. It scared everyone."
Lu Youyou asked in surprise, "Is it that serious?"
"Yeah, this is the first time I've ever seen someone shed blood and tears. You're really something else."
Lu Youyou also felt pretty awesome.
They can survive like this.
Suddenly, she remembered something and opened her [Personal Panel].
Everything else was pretty much the same as I remembered, except for one item in the skills section that had changed.
The skill related to nightmares that I remember is called Recreating Nightmares, right?
How did it turn into a nightmare referee?
[Nightmare Judge: Single-target attack skill; can bring in any person or object from your memories and have them perform any action.]
Lu Youyou rarely opens her [Personal Panel], but she did this time because she used an unfamiliar skill.
So she didn't know when the change occurred, but the direction of the change was positive.
Previously, she could only defeat her enemy's mind by repeatedly playing back the enemy's painful memories and transforming into the person who left the deepest impression on him when he was in a daze.
Now she can become any person or thing in the enemy's painful memories and act accordingly more quickly.
However, there was one thing that Lu Youyou was very curious about: how did Nightmare Judge achieve crowd control when it was clearly a single-target attack skill?
Could it be... that the human evolution fluid the honey badger warrior gave her had an effect?
"Take a look at your watch. If nothing unexpected happens, they're still talking about you."
"What do you mean?"
Wang Qiao said mysteriously, "Just open your watch and you'll know. If I tell you, it won't be fun."
Lu Youyou turned on her watch, first sending messages to her friends who cared about her to let them know she was safe, and then checking the public chat.
[Yuan Rong: My God! I've watched that video over and over again. So many disgusting eyes! If this were special effects in an old movie, I'd criticize the entire crew. But it's actually real!]
[Bai Yining: But judging from the color and skill moves, it doesn't seem like a reputable sect.]
[Lu Ziqi: Who among those who have survived to this day hasn't taken a life? In a sense, we're all villains; it's just a matter of who's the more ruthless one.]
[Xu Shuncheng: She's so powerful, she can control everyone to commit suicide without even deducting her own points. It's completely unfair!]
[Chen Shou: She probably doesn't control people to die. I controlled one before and lost three points. I suspect her skill is to turn people into madmen, and if the madmen commit suicide, it has nothing to do with her.]
【…】
Lu Youyou kept swiping upwards until her hands ached before she finally saw the video they were talking about.
In the center of the video are her dark eyes, without a trace of white, like two empty black holes.
What's most eye-catching is the giant eye behind her.
The black mist was filled with eyes, which were covered and revealed again as the mist surged, layer upon layer, like a skeleton made of eyes.
Even Lu Youyou herself felt chills when she watched the video.
Not to mention those who witnessed people going insane and self-harming on the scene.
No wonder Wang Qiao could leisurely accompany her; it seems no one would dare to provoke her gang anymore.
After all, those who come looking for trouble either die or go insane, and she doesn't even lose points.
But only Lu Youyou herself knew that she could no longer replicate that group skill.
Even when watching this video, she had no clue whatsoever and no sense of immersion.
It felt like watching someone else's actions, utterly unfamiliar.