The man stared at the set of knives on the kitchen counter with fear and determination in his eyes. He was a senior executive in the company, so he had to wear a suit when he went to work. The suit was tailored close-fitting, and was unable to accommodate the extra hands. He couldn’t imagine the scene of him dealing with the client, and those hands suddenly tearing through the fabric of his expensive suit, emerging from his armpits and attacking the client.
If he hurt his wife, he could use the phrase “family dispute” to avoid the police’s interrogation. If he hurt a client, how could he explain it? Would he be able to keep his job, or would he go to jail? Would he be caught by a science department and researched as a monster, thus losing his freedom and even his life?
One couldn’t look at the man’s high position and salary. He drove a luxury car and lived in a luxurious house, but in fact, as long as he lost his current job, he would lose everything in an instant. The monthly mortgage and car loan of tens of thousands of dollars would immediately become the last straw that crushes him. He couldn’t stand a single ripple in his life. This made him depressed, and was the root cause every time he vented his anger on his wife.
It was too difficult in the outside world. If he didn’t find a way to vent, he would collapse sooner or later.
Noticing that his wife wasn’t moving, he resisted the urge to beat her up, shouting as he walked to the kitchen door, “Lu Dan, what are you still standing there for? Come and help me cut off these hands! I have a big deal to negotiate today, so I have to go to the office!” When he said this, those strange greenish gray hands were thumping against the sliding door to the kitchen, not controlled by the man at all.
Lu Dan shook her head and whispered with a look of fear, “I, I don’t dare to. I’ve never even killed a chicken! I really don’t dare.” She wanted to run away, but her body was in too much pain to run.
“If I tell you to cut, then cut them off, don’t speak so much!” The man looked down at Lu Dan, his foot stepping on her spasming hand and crushing it hard. He said ruthlessly, “If you don’t get up now, I’ll make it so you’ll never get up again!”
Lu Dan trembled in pain, but afraid of his threat, she had to stagger to her feet and walk into the kitchen, asking in a trembling voice, “How, how should I cut them?” The hands suddenly attacked her face, as if they wanted to gouge her eyes out. It scared her so much that she backed away in fright, screaming uncontrollably.
The man quickly used his two normal hands to firmly control the strange hands, gritting his teeth as he said, “Of course you’d cut them with a knife. You don’t even know how to do this? Why are you so useless? I should have known not to marry you in the first place! Your whole family eats and drinks because of me, and I got your brother a job. When it comes time for you to be useful, you can’t even do this? Are you a fucking idiot?”
Lu Dan began to cry due to fear. Her tears mixed with the dried blood and slowly carved out two lines on her dirty face.
The man held back his anger and hissed, “Take out the meat cleaver, it’s the sharpest! Where’s the cutting board? Take it out!”
Lu Dan followed his instructions in a daze, setting up the cutting board and holding the meat cleaver.
The man bit down on a towel and tried to manipulate the strange hands to rest on the cutting board, but they seemed to have the ability to think, and knowing that they were about to be chopped off, they actually began to struggle wildly, scratching the man. He really couldn’t control them, so he could only yell at his wife, “Why are you still standing there in a daze? Chop them off! Chop them! Chop them! I’m going to be late for work! Chop them!”
In a sense, the man was also driven to a desperate situation by life. Even after encountering such a strange and horrifying thing, he had to do everything possible to keep his job. His determination and roar scared Lu Dan back to reality, and tears streamed down her face.
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She kept shaking her head and muttering, “I can’t do it, I really can’t do it. I don’t even dare to kill a chicken, I really can’t do it!”
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Desperate, he could only grab his wife’s hair, force the knife into her hands, and drag her by the collar, gritting his teeth and threatening, “If you don’t cut them off today, I will cut you first!” As he spoke, the strange hands were still waving and tearing, attacking both himself and Lu Dan.
Lu Dan saw the strong killing intent in his bloodshot eyes, and realized that if she didn’t do as he said today, she would probably be killed by him. She had also long since reached her limit from the injuries from the strange hand. Sooner or later, her bones would be crushed to death by them!
Forced by reality, Lu Dan finally gripped the meat cleaver, while her husband tried his best to hold a strange hand down on the cutting board and shouted hysterically, “Cut it now! Cut it!”
Lu dan closed her eyes and slashed down. The blade sank into the dense and strong muscle with a thud, and was then embedded into the thin bone. The sticky blood splattered everywhere, filling the kitchen with a strong fishy smell. Lu Dan didn’t dare to open her eyes, but her ears were filled with her husband’s screams.
He had never made such a sound before. He was in extreme pain, and was also afraid, but he couldn’t dodge it, so he could only endure it, which brought a lot of despair. The scream made Lu Dan’s ears tremble for a moment, and she vaguely felt something familiar.
That was right, wasn’t that how someone usually screamed? For some reason, when she realized this, the fear and panic in her heart were interrupted for a second, but this second of clarity was soon disturbed by her husband’s angry roar. “Can you be a bit more fucking clean? Did you do that on purpose?”
“No, no, no, I didn’t! I wouldn’t dare!” Lu Dan pulled out the knife while crying, but the knife was stuck in the bone and couldn’t be pulled out at all, causing him to suffer even more.
He wished he could kick her to death, but he needed her help, so he could only hold back. He knew that if he tried to do it himself, he would definitely be unable to follow through.
“Can’t you pull it out in one go? Are you torturing me on purpose? Have you waited for an opportunity to take revenge? Lu Dan, I’m really unlucky to have married you, you piece of trash!” The man cursed viciously like before, then held her hand, pulling out the knife together. He shouted, “Go on! Cut!”
Not only were the two of them splattered with blood, but the otherwise snow-white kitchen was also stained with blood. A man bit a towel and forced a woman to raise a knife to slash his own hand, it sounded like the world’s most absurd drama.
Lu Dan was already startled, and with her eyes remaining tightly closed, she cut a second, third, and fourth time, until she finally cut off the left strange hand. She targeted the second hand next, cutting the first, second, and third time…
She didn’t know how many times she cut, but she was suddenly pushed away by her husband and kicked with all his strength. However, this kick didn’t have its usual vicious strength when he kicked her stomach, and only made her take two steps backwards. Due to excessive blood loss, her husband had no strength.
He spat out the battered towel and said weakly, “Bring two pieces of rope and help me tie the wounds. Blood is still flowing, and I must stop the bleeding as soon as possible.”
Lu Dan failed to cut the strange hands off at the root, leaving two short stumps that were slowly oozing blood. However, there was no way to cut them flush, as this was already the limit of what she could do. She opened her eyes and looked at her husband, who was lying in a pool of blood. She almost didn’t recognize him. She had never seen him so weak, wretched, tragic, and disheveled, as if he was dying.
She remembered one time when he had a gallbladder removed and lay weakly in bed, but as soon as she walked over with the lunch box, he punched her so hard that he broke her nose and caused blood to splatter on the spot. The reason was because she was just two minutes late. Even when he was lying on the hospital bed, he was still a tiger that could eat people, and was never weak.
But today, he was really weak. He had lost too much blood, and his face was so white that it was almost translucent. His fingertips moved slightly, but there were no follow-up actions.
“Get the ropes to stop the bleeding, do you hear me?” His roar was also accompanied by a subtle tremor.
Lu Dan turned around and ran, finding the rope he usually used to tie her up. After cutting it to a suitable length, she tied the bleeding wounds tightly. The sound of her husband’s painful gasps and venomous curses kept entering her ears, but Lu Dan’s heart, which originally trembled with fear, slowly regained its composure. Even she didn’t know why.
After the wound was tied tightly and covered with a layer of plastic wrap, the blood soon stopped oozing. Lu Dan helped the man to shower, wiped his shivering body, and put on his suit and tie for him. The strange hands were as thin as dead branches and the stubs were in his armpits, leaving nothing to hinder him. On the surface, the man was still the same handsome executive, with only his face a little pale.
He reached for his briefcase, but was crushed by a sudden sharp pain. How could he go to work in such a state? However, when he was considering whether he should ask for leave, the company called him again to confirm his schedule. He could have taken a few days off to recuperate, and his boss would not prohibit it, but if he didn’t negotiate this business deal, there were plenty of people in the company who would want to replace him. Without him, earth would continue spinning, but without this job, he had no future.
“I’m going to work, you clean up the kitchen.” The man finally gritted his teeth and left. He also had his helpless and sad moments.
“Be careful on the road.” Lu Dan stood at the door as usual, sending her husband off with a smile. She didn’t know how many times she had sent him off with words of blessing, but internally prayed that he would never come back.
The elevator slowly descended, and Lu Dan immediately closed the door and sat down on the floor to catch her breath. However, not long after she had to get up again to clean up the mess in the house without complaint. The broken furniture had to be thrown away, the splattered blood had to be wiped away, and she had to find a black plastic bag to hide the strange hands in a hidden corner.
She knelt on the floor and wiped the large swath of blood, her expression almost numb, but her mind repeatedly recalled everything that happened this morning. She didn’t see how those strange hands were chopped off at all, but she clearly remembered the feeling of the blade being embedded in muscle and bone. There was some resistance, a bit of rebound, and the feeling of warm blood splashing on her skin made her slightly numb. There was also the thick, choking smell of the blood.
She recalled it over and over again, and even picked all the details from the depths of her mind to savor them. She simply didn’t know why she would want to recall it. Shouldn’t such a horrible thing be forgotten forever?
Her body was clearly trembling, and she told herself over and over again in her heart—stop thinking about it! However, her mind was disobedient, and every time she blinked, another clear memory would surface.
Amid her bizarre struggle and flashbacks, she unknowingly cleaned the house, applied medicine as usual, and laid down on the bed for a nap. She thought that she would lose sleep from fright, but no, she fell asleep almost as soon as her head touched the pillow. She returned to the glorious morning, slashing her husband’s hand again and again.
When she woke up, she found that her hands were trembling, as if she was still in the dream. However, there was no fear in her heart, and she was just dazed and felt subtly touched. She did know why she was touched, and mechanically walked into the kitchen and began to cook dinner.
There were plentiful ingredients in the house. In order to reduce the chances of her “hooking up” with someone, her husband only allowed her to drive out alone once a week, so she always filled the refrigerator up to the brim. She kicked over the trash can, and then saw the strange hands wrapped in a black plastic bag.
Fearing that the sanitation workers would find them, she didn’t dare to throw them away.
As if bewitched, she stared at the hands for a long time, and her mind began to recall the feeling and smell of cutting them off.
At this moment, the phone rang, and she almost jumped in fright. When she saw the caller ID, she didn’t dare to delay connecting a single second. The man’s slightly weak voice came from the speaker, “I have to accompany a client tonight, so I won’t come home for dinner. Have you cleaned up the house yet?”
“It’s all cleaned up. How are you, are you doing okay?” Lu Dan asked in a whisper.
The man simply ignored her, and hung up the phone after he got the reply he wanted.
Later that night, the man came back drunk again. As soon as he entered the door, he took off his suit jacket and shirt and checked the wound under his armpit. After ripping off the rope and plastic wrap, he was shocked to find that the bloody cut had healed. What kind of terrible recovery ability was this?
He was so relieved that the anger he had been holding in all day began to flare up again and he yelled, “Lu Dan, Lu Dan, where the hell are you? Where’s dinner?”
Lu Dan ran out of the bedroom in a panic and mumbled, “Didn’t you say that you went to dinner with a client? I just cooked myself a bowl of noodles and didn’t make dinner.” She was injured more than ever today, plus her mind was full of turmoil and she could barely think, so she acted lazily.
The man scolded angrily, “Don’t you know that I can only drink when I’m accompanying a client, and I can’t eat much? You trash, you can’t do anything right. You’re dead to me, today I’ll have to teach you a good lesson. Bitch, whore, you only know how to spend my money. Not only you, but your family are all blood-sucking leeches…”
“Ah! Don’t hit me, please don’t hit me! I will die if you hit me again!” Lu Dan was grabbed by the hair and slammed into the wall.
At this moment, the pair of severed strange hands grew out from the man’s armpits again and swung their fists at Lu Dan. Not only was Lu Dan startled, but even the man was stunned. He thought it was impossible to regenerate a chopped off limb, but the pair of greenish gray strange hands were beyond his comprehension.
Why, how could this happen? The man unconsciously let go of Lu Dan and stood there terrified, while Lu Dan immediately fled, locking the bedroom door tightly.
Poor Lu Dan. I think she’s this close to killing that scum, but I hope she doesn’t. She still deserves to live a good life.
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