Versatile: Alternate World

Chapter 215 - Collection Of Rotten Body Parts

"I will not talk even if you kill me!" the scientist is very resolute.

BANG!

Another bullet pierced his leg. He screamed again due to the pain but he didn't yield.

"Looks like a bullet is not enough to make you speak, then, how about this?"

The scientist was expecting something painful but I do not tolerate him for not speaking even though it is painful. I need answers, not silence.

Gathering my mana on my hands, I slowly convert it to a magic spell that I had just recently learned and injected it into the guy's leg.

"Huh?! What are you doing?"

"You refuse to speak while in pain so I will torture you instead. See this?" then I slowly raise a frozen human leg.

"A human leg that is... frozen?! Wait, what have you done to my leg?!"

"You didn't notice it right? You didn't even notice that one of your legs is no longer in its proper place."

Nervously, the scientist look at the area where his leg was supposed to be. And there, what was left behind are fragments of frozen blood and flesh from his leg. His leg senses were numbed before it was cut off from his body.

"Now, will you tell me what is going on or I am going to slowly remove this? I know the anxiety you will feel once this begins, you will not feel pain but after, what? Well, let's just say that you will see your body parts melt alongside the ice. And who knows which part I would create a frozen version? Is it this one?" I proceed to hold his left arm and he started to freak out.

"Maybe this one? Or this one? Or..." then my eyes fixated on his head.

"I will talk! I will talk! Please don't torture me anymore!"

"Speak!"

He started to tell the reason for the place becoming a research facility and making grotesque and failed experiments. The head of the Katakura family is getting older and he didn't want to get old, so he decided to find a way to cure old age. That's when he started to experiment with a lot of things regarding the human body, just to attain immortality and a young body.

"Just to attain immortality he wasted a lot of things and lives for a shitty way to find immortality!? What bullshittry is he trying to create?!"

"Please, I already told you everything, please let me go!"

"I will keep my promise, go and never come back!"

The scientist quickly crawl to the floor and escaped.

"You are just letting him go? He is one of the main lead researchers here and has been brutal to many things."

"I am letting him go but who said I am letting him live?"

"Huh?" Kurai didn't understand what I was talking about.

...

The scientist crawl a lot faster than he ever crawled his whole life. Now that one of his legs has been severed without him feeling it, he has no choice but to continue to crawl and find a place where he can contact the higher-ups about the intruder.

"It is your mistake that you let me go alive, heh!"

When he managed to arrive in a safe area, he pull out his phone in the pocket of his lab gown. He already felt his phone but he didn't understand what is happening when he can't grasp it.

"What is going on?" as he removed his hands from his pockets, he was scared when he saw his hands is no longer looking like one and looks more like a block of ice.

Soon, he felt coldness on his body like never been before. It was so cold that he felt like he was inside a refrigerator. Despite the place being hot enough to melt a block of ice in a few minutes, he felt like he is from a different place.

"What... what...is going...on...?

He tried to move his body but realized that his movement slowed down, and it also significantly made all his body stiff. He can't move. Due to his movement restriction, he uses his eyes to look at what is happening to his body. To his horror, big chunks of ice are starting to appear on his body. Not just white ice. but blood-red eyes. Soon, even his eyes started to get stiff and it didn't take long before every single part of him was frozen. After a few seconds, his whole body exploded and all the ice scattered all over the place. Due to the heat of the area, the ice slowly melted, leaving nothing behind as a result.

...

I continue to walk further with Kurai in the facility. Due to how deep we are already, there is no way we are still above ground. Most likely, we are underground. But the design of this place is amazing, you think you are walking in a straight line but in reality, you are descending to the place without noticing it. I look up and can see that we have indeed descended. If not for the way this place was designed, you might have already known that you are descending.

Soon, I smell something disgusting in the air all of a sudden. There was a very bad smell that I can't pinpoint but it is pretty bad I want to puke.

"Looks like we are near the "Collection of Rotten Body Parts" and where it was held," Kurai said without even being bothered by the smell despite being a big feline that has a lot more sensitive nose than me.

"Collection of what?"

"Collection of Rotten Body Parts. Although it is not the official name since I don't know, I call it like that due to its appearance and its disgusting smell. You will understand once we arrive at its special containment cell. It is a big place so we will not miss it."

We continue walking and more wails of other creatures started to get frequent. Not only that but the smell is just getting nastier that I don't know whether it is indeed from a rotten piece of meat or just plain rotten things combined together.

Then, it appeared before me. Now I understood why Kurai called it the "Collection of Rotten Body Parts." It was indeed a heap of rotten body parts of a human being. However, this is an abomination. He seems like a huge arena of a football field. He was so big that you will think it was a pile of rotten body parts but you will notice that it is moving and all of the body parts are all part of the body of the creature.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Another scream of a man reached my ears. However, this time, I have finally known where it was coming from. It was not from a person being abused or being experimented on. It came from the creature that we call Collection of Rotten Body Parts.

"I still remember how horrendous this person became before he turned into a monstrosity like this. He was supposed to be the experiment that meant regrowing lost limbs. At first, they thought it was a success due to how he regenerated after his limbs were cut off. However, the regenerated body parts didn't stop regenerating and continue to regenerate new body parts. Not only that, the older body parts that were generated started to rot really fast that no one would believe that those body parts were growing from his body for just a few days."

"So you mean, this guy is immortal?"

"I don't know. However, all I know is that once he is cut down, he will regenerate and will continue to produce a sh*tload of body parts that will slowly rot and increase the smell of the rotten. So basically, you can call him an immortal."

No wonder his screams seem to feel full of sorrow and pain. This is not a good way for him to live.

"Due to that regeneration, whenever the excess parts of his body grow, they grow twice the amount cut. Although the severed limbs will not do anything, they will still smell rotten and in the very end, it gets combined with them."

He keeps on wailing and it looks like he is too heavy to move even though there were no binds that hold him, he seems to be not moving and just keeps on wailing in pain.

Despite the smell, I don't think I can't stand this creature to continue to exist like this. Sure he is pitiful but he still needs to perish. It is only the logical way to do it for him. He needs to stop his own suffering and accept death.

"I will kill this collection of rotten body parts."

"Huh? You think you will be able to kill him?"

"I don't know but I am thinking of something that has a possibility of him dying. Since he keeps on regenerating, he needs to be killed before he can even regenerate," I said, considering all of my options.

"Are you serious? Do you think it is an easy feat at killing creatures like this? I have indeed seen your prowess and dispatching the rejects and the failed subjects are a breeze to you. But are you capable of doing it?"

I grinned and glanced at Kurai.. "I won't be Death's favorite if I can't do a simple thing such as this."