Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 80 - 16

Chapter 80: Chapter 16

The old woman with the cat face looked at Li Zhiyuan with great shock.

She couldn’t believe that the words she had just heard had come from the mouth of the child before her.

Her hands, unconsciously, let go of the shoulder they had been grasping, and her body also took a small step backward.

At this moment, she even began to wonder:

Why is it that, compared to him, I am the one who seems like a child who only knows how to throw tantrums?

Myself and him,

who is the real Corpse here?

He spoke with confidence, decisively, and moreover, he didn’t stop; he continued:

"The one who’s to be crippled should take care of the disabled part, and it’s best if it’s hemiplegia. Given the conditions here, it’s impossible to provide a wheelchair for him, and no one will leave their job to push him around for leisure.

After becoming paralyzed, he can only lie in bed, curl up on dirty mattresses, and need someone to care for his every need.

He has to be able to speak, to cry out, and his hands must be able to pick up and throw things in anger.

Only this way can there be some excitement to watch, the interactivity is stronger, and the experience feels richer."

The old woman with the cat face nodded, her hands unconsciously smoothing out the wrinkles on the boy’s clothes that she had caused earlier, but her hands were dirty and made the boy’s clothes even dirtier; she even felt somewhat flinched by this.

"The one who’s to be sick, remember, must not be fatally ill from the start.

It should be a chronic illness that can be recurrent, that can be managed with effort and cost at stages, but can never be cured.

You must control the severity of the disease; it can’t be lethal, but it should be painful enough to make life unbearable.

The frequency of the illness must also be controlled; after each treatment, let him rest for a while, let him appreciate the value of health.

But this interval can’t be too long; don’t give him a complete labor cycle, don’t let him have the opportunity to create value for the family.

This way, he himself and his family will fall into a vicious cycle of internal consumption due to the recurring illness and treatment costs, more likely to trigger family conflicts, strip away pretenses, and reveal the ugliness of human nature."

The old woman with the cat face took two silent steps back, hands folded in front of her, and asked:

"Is there... anything else?"

"The most important thing is that the one who’s mad shouldn’t be completely insane; being fully insane is too easy for her, it’s as if she knows nothing, equivalent to giving her relief, which is pointless.

It has to be that kind of intermittent madness, where most of the day she has to be normal, just going mad for a little while, but her madness must have a strong aggressiveness.

I think, her family will probably control her with forceful measures, just like she did to her mother.

Give her enough lucidity to curse, to wail, to curse, to be hysterical.

She might repent, right? We don’t need to understand or empathize with her, but regard her repentance as one of the sources of joy and enjoy it thoroughly."

At this point, Li Zhiyuan nodded to himself:

"The details that need attention, that’s it for now, do you have anything else to add or suggest?"

The old woman with the cat face: "No... nothing else."

"Actually, this plan was originally a bit risky; what if a truly filial descendant emerged among the three of them?

But it shouldn’t be; given the grandchildren of the old lady, they all feel that the old lady has lived too long, sucking up their Luck, ruining their prospects.

This kind of offspring, should still be reassuring."

The old woman with the cat face: "Yes, very reassuring."

"So what do you think of this plan?"

"Ah? Good, very good, extremely good, I will do as you command."

At this moment, Li Zhiyuan saw black mist beginning to rise from the body of the old woman with the cat face, somewhat like the dry ice that’s vaporizing on a stage.

"What’s happening to you?"

The rising black mist began to quickly converge.

"It’s because the plan is too good; just by thinking about it... my resentment actually started to dissipate."

"Can you still hold on?"

"Yes, my resentment is deep; I think, by the time the three of them reach their deserved retribution, I will be able to completely relieve myself."

"So, you’ve been suffering all this time?"

"Every single moment, as if being fried in boiling oil, enduring torture.

If I couldn’t speak, if I had no thoughts, it might be easier, but unfortunately... I do, and so this pain is multiplied."

"That’s really pitiful."

"No, not pitiful, we... no, I should say me.

For something like me to exist, to be born, already isn’t easy.

Although every time I look up at the sky, I feel frightened and fearful, but I... am grateful to Him."

Li Zhiyuan looked at the old woman with the cat face before him; in fact, he was not looking at the woman but at the black cat.

The old woman had raised her three children with difficulty and even helped bring up their grandchildren.

In the end, the one who truly appreciated the old woman’s kindness, even willing to avenge the old woman at the cost of immense daily suffering, turned out to be the ugly, disabled old cat that the old woman had taken in.

Perhaps, the biggest difference between humans and animals might be that humans’ lower limit can sink lower than that of animals.

"Just, are you sure that telling... pointing these out to me, you yourself won’t be in trouble?"

"Me?" Li Zhiyuan shook his head, "How could I possibly be in trouble; I’m clearly doing good deeds."

"Doing good deeds?"

"Yes."

Li Zhiyuan pointed at the Niu family siblings who were still kneeling in the room and continued to explain:

"You, Corpse, intended to kill them, but I saved their lives; isn’t this the same as doing good deeds and acquiring virtue?"