Creepy Pharmacist: All my patients are scary!

Chapter 610: The Cursed Runes on the Puppet

But more importantly, this photograph had traces of mental cursed arts applied to it, and it was precisely because of this curse that it had been hiding the true appearance of this photo from Miaomiao's eyes!

And he had also heard from his teacher.

The Doll Manor had been established only in the last few hundred years. After the manor was founded, the Madam began adopting cursed puppets from all over the Dark World, and that was how the current manor came together!

And before the Madam had transformed into flesh and blood, she had been a cursed puppet herself!

Lynn was stunned.

He didn't know if this deduction was correct!

But if it really was true, then was the Madam actually...

But if that were the case, then why hadn't she gone back for Miaomiao? Was it because she had forgotten? Or was it because of the shattering of her will?

He didn't know.

But regardless, this was certainly an important lead!Hei Xianyue quietly pinched the photograph and said, "Actually, we puppets weren't born with cursed arts abilities. It was only after Mother adopted us that she inscribed curse rune seals on our bodies to give us the ability to protect ourselves, which is how we gained the power to cast spells."

"As for the original seals, I've heard Mother mention that she copied them from her own body. But she doesn't know why she had those seals on her either."

Hei Xianyue shook her head and returned the photograph to Lynn.

And Lynn's gaze immediately fell upon Hei Xianyue's pale neck.

That's right!

Every time he had recharged Miss Puppet before, he had noticed the eerie purple patterns on her back, and whenever Miss Puppet cast spells, those patterns would manifest all over her body.

Especially when she was stimulated, strange purple flower buds would appear in her eyes.

He hadn't paid much attention to it before.

He had just thought it was beautiful.

But now that Miss Puppet had mentioned it, he immediately understood the purpose of those runes.

"Let's take a look!"

Lynn's expression turned serious. He immediately set down the dazed Miaomiao, took all the photos from her, and laid them neatly on the ground.

Because he knew that all these photos had spells cast on them. Beneath the warm surface, what was hidden was a history as bloody as blood itself!

If...

Just saying if!

If those curse seals had been branded onto Miaomiao's mother by those Plague Doctors during her transformation, then everything could be explained!

"Miss Puppet, you should be able to dispel the surface layer of this curse, right? Please!"

Lynn asked earnestly.

Hei Xianyue paused for a moment, then said, "I can give it a try."

Then she closed her eyes, and her slender fingers instantly began forming one elegant hand seal after another. The runes on her neck and cheeks immediately lit up with eerie purple patterns as the cursed arts surged within her.

And in that moment when she opened her eyes, a flood of cursed arts power fell upon the photos spread out on the ground.

Those photos immediately began to discolor, as if burning, slowly revealing the hidden bloody scenes underneath.

That buried history!

That family's past, hundreds of years ago, being cruelly tortured in the Plague Doctor's base.

It began to reveal itself bit by bit.

Lynn immediately held his breath, concentrating intensely as he sifted through the photos one by one, selecting all the old photos related to The Woman, then carefully observing and searching each one.

Nothing!

Every single photo was filled with extreme bloodshed and slaughter.

It was as if those terrifying scenes had reappeared before their eyes once again.

And finally, when he reached the last few photos, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his gaze instantly locked onto the photo in his hand.

Miaomiao's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

That photo showed the Plague Doctors performing flesh removal and body modification on The Mother's body. And it was in this photo that they witnessed the horrifying scene: a Plague Doctor holding an engraving knife, carving complex patterns one by one into The Mother's body as she lay bound on the operating table.

"Is this it..."

Lynn looked up and asked.

Hei Xianyue's gaze fell upon the woman in the photo, upon those countless patterns...

Silence.

A deathly silence.

And finally.

Hei Xianyue said quietly, "Yes. I've seen the original curse seals that Mother inscribed for Eldest Sister. They're exactly the same as this."

In that instant, Miaomiao felt as if the sky had fallen, her mind roaring with a deafening boom.

The overwhelming emotional turmoil.

Caused the little girl to fall backward, completely unconscious.

Lynn quickly caught Miaomiao's body, but even he was shaken by this truth. He murmured, feeling a surreal sense of unreality ripple through his entire being.

Was that how it was?

Was that really how it was?

Miaomiao's mother, the one she had been waiting for for hundreds of years, the one who had desperately dragged her out of hell, the one who had promised she would come back for her...

Was she...

The Doll Mistress?

Everything was so dreamlike, so absurd, yet when all the clues came together, it was all so real.

So the family he had been trying to find for Miaomiao had actually been right by his side all along...

But, but if that was really the case, then why had the Madam never mentioned this? Why had she never gone back to get the child who had waited for her for hundreds of years?

"Did she... forget?"

Lynn said in a low voice.

Because Raines had said that the ability she awakened was mental warping, and excessive overexertion had almost certainly destined her to suffer the backlash of reality warping and the shattering of her will.

Because reality warping was never that easy to control.

Just like Miaomiao.

After hundreds of years of sleep and accumulation, even now, she still faced the constant risk of losing control.

Lynn looked up, feeling how absurd this world was.

Hei Xianyue quietly watched his expression and said:

"After this is over, you can come back to the manor with me. Whether it's true or not, after you see my mother, everything will become clear."

Was that how it was?

Because she didn't remember anything.

But still, subconsciously, she kept searching for her daughter all over the world, which was why Hei Xianyue existed, along with all the doll children who sincerely called her mother...

Because perhaps in her consciousness, her husband and son had long since shattered, and the only one still alive in this world was that little cat who had always seen her as Mommy. Maybe the first time she could open her mouth and speak, she would have felt some comfort.

Lynn took a deep, forceful breath and stood up.

He smiled and said, "Thank you. At least this clue brings us one step closer to the truth. If it really is the case, I believe Miaomiao will be grateful to you, Miss Puppet."

He patted Hei Xianyue on the shoulder and picked up the unconscious Miaomiao.

He knew.

Miaomiao would probably need some time to process this.

But at least, this was a positive development.

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