In that instant, the surging flames with the violent curse instantly enveloped Ryan.
The violent red flames refracted into his angry pupils.
And his hand finally reached in front of the fierce ghost at that moment.
Curse Clearing! Activate!
Buzz—
The dazzling light suddenly surged out from Ryan's palm at that moment. They turned into pale light streams, like winding threads, madly shuttling through the vicious flames and surging towards the fierce ghost that was within reach.
The little girl's pupils suddenly enlarged, and she let out a sharp long howl.
Countless burning human faces symbolizing the curse were crazily peeled off from her body by those threads.
It was like a grand firework, spreading along the veins of the curse, surging towards the surrounding walls and spreading all over the ancient castle in all directions!
Erase!
Destroy!
Extract!
"Ah—"
The huge sense of being extracted made the fierce ghost let out a painful and venomous scream.
Because for a fierce ghost, the curse is the companion of hatred and resentment, like the flesh and blood attached to the bones. Extracting the curse is equivalent to cutting off their flesh and blood.
"How dare you!"
In the ear-piercing shriek, her blood hand almost instantly stabbed ferociously into Ryan's chest and pierced out from his back.
This time, it was not an illusion but a real piercing!
Scarlet blood gushed out from his back in an instant, splashing out a scarlet rain of blood in the surging flames.
But at this moment, she suddenly saw Ryan raise his head.
She saw the terrifying smile blooming on his face.
"You let me... get close to you..."
Buzz—
In an instant, the fierce ghost's eyes suddenly contracted.
But it was already too late. In that elegant smile, Ryan's hand suddenly stabbed into her chest. In the surging flames and the white waterfall-like light, he hugged her body.
Endless hatred and evil thoughts immediately poured out of her body like greedy black vines, wrapping around his arms in an instant and pouring into his body, stabbing straight into his consciousness.
It was like endless wailing.
It was as if he had fallen into hell.
Scalding yet icy cold, bone-piercing and violent.
At that instant, countless scenes surged crazily in his pupils along with the hatred and resentment.
[Ding! The host's vitality is being lost!]
[Ding! The host's vitality is being lost!]
But Ryan didn't pay any attention at all.
Countless scenes were surging. At that moment, he seemed to truly feel the hatred in the girl's heart.
He saw her being imprisoned alone in the iron cage in the tall tower, saw the father with a cold expression whipping her hard again and again with a whip!
He saw the cruel and sick mother using scissors to cut off her golden hair bit by bit, mixing it with the internal organs of animals and stuffing it hard into her mouth, forcing her to eat!
He saw the crazy and excited brother using a table knife to slash one deep cut after another on her arms and face, cuts that were so deep that the bones could be seen.
It was a shrill scream bursting out from the bottom of the heart.
Torture.
Abuse.
Even so, there was still a glimmer of hope deep in her heart.
Just like in the "Remnants of the Past", just like once upon a time when she was still sitting in front of the warm fireplace with her family. Her father always came back from work very late, but her stepmother was extremely kind to her and never made her feel like an outsider. Her brother was naughty, but whenever she was bullied, he would also stand up and drive those people away fiercely.
It was a noble family living in the Middle Ages.
The castle was gloomy but warm.
The knight uncle was rather rigid, but he would also secretly give her small gifts on her birthday.
The chef uncle was rough, but when she occasionally sneaked in, he would also smile and stuff a few pieces of pastries into her hands.
The doctor brother was the scariest because every time she was sick, he would make Alice drink that very bitter medicine, but every time after drinking it, whether it was a cold or a cough, she would get better soon.
So Alice also knew that the doctor brother was also very kind to her.
Until she was imprisoned in the tall tower.
Hanging in the cage.
Looking out at the sky outside the tall tower from a distance.
Because of those past good times, even under the cruelest torture, there was still hope in her heart.
Hoping that this was just a nightmare.
After waking up.
Father, mother, and brother, everyone in the castle would still show her warm smiles.
But she didn't wait for that.
What she waited for was that night, the blood-stained butcher's knives in the hands of those crazy and cruel people.
Pfft— Pfft— Pfft—
Like three ferocious dogs sharing their prey, they were waving their butcher's knives, with smiles on their faces, and brutally tore her apart in that tall tower.
Hatred!
The unstoppable hatred and resentment!
It completely exploded at the moment when she was dissected. She didn't wait for anything. The nightmare she thought in her heart was actually the bloody reality.
She gradually heard a woman's ferocious voice in her ear.
She gradually recognized that the voice was her biological mother's.
But wasn't she already dead?
Why could she still talk in Alice's ear?
It didn't matter anymore!
Mom said they were all vicious, that they all had a hypocritical face, and that they were hopeless evil spirits from the bottom of their hearts.
Mom said she was killed by them.
So.
It wasn't just Alice who was killed.
Mom said she wanted Alice to stay with her forever, mom said that she must not let those guys go, mom wanted Alice to kill, and Alice would kill.
Father must be killed!
Stepmother must be killed!
Brother must be killed!
Everyone alive in the castle must be killed!
But Alice didn't want to kill Chef Uncle because Uncle had secretly sent food to Alice in the cage. Alice also didn't want to kill Doctor Brother because Doctor Brother had cried for Alice. He had wanted to secretly take Alice away, but his legs were chopped off.
No... It didn't matter anymore.
Because Alice was no longer human...
Countless scenes emerged in the surging hatred, bone-piercingly cold, yet also making people feel extremely angry.
Because Ryan knew!
All of this was controlled by her biological mother, that vicious and jealous woman behind the scenes!
She not only brutally destroyed the whole family but also ruined her daughter's happiness. And now she was even living in her daughter's body, using the curse of this ancient castle as the foundation, greedily continuing to release her malice in this Dark World.
One creature after another was lured into this ancient castle and slaughtered.
Their souls were built into every brick of the castle, their flesh was made into delicious dishes, and she used their skins to create one puppet after another to deceive Alice.
She had been controlling the girl from the beginning to the end.
From life to death!
She didn't let herself be at peace, nor did she want her daughter to be at peace!
Ryan gritted his teeth. In the midst of the countless malice that surrounded him, he desperately searched for that soul. The curse erasure had temporarily wiped out part of the fierce ghost's power, but the surging malice and hatred were also madly impacting his consciousness.
It was like jumping into a cold icy pool.
The bone-piercing coldness surrounded him from all directions.
He kept diving down.
He kept searching.
And finally, at that moment, he found the girl in the endless hatred.