"Daughter, look, everyone in the car has passed out. How about mom takes you and we escape? Once we run away, everything will be fine!" lody White cunningly grabbed lanie Morgan’s wrist, turned around to leave, but just as she spun around, she saw a woman in a black cloak outside the car, staring at them coldly.
The woman made no sound, still wearing the black cloak, hidden in the darkness. If lody White hadn’t turned around, she wouldn’t have sensed her presence at all.
"Who, who are you?" lody White asked in surprise, looking at the old woman whose face was hidden.
The woman ignored her, only sneering to remind lanie Morgan: "In two minutes, your face will be completely ruined."
Hearing the old woman’s words, a flash of coldness suddenly appeared in lanie Morgan’s eyes. She grabbed her mother’s hand tightly, pulling her back.
"Mom, I’m sorry, but I will make it up to you in the future!" lanie Morgan, after grabbing her mother, suddenly squeezed her neck, making her unable to move.
lody White looked despairingly at her daughter, who seed like a ghost, and reached out to grasp aimlessly: "Why...?"
lanie Morgan gritted her teeth and revealed the truth: "Only by taking your face can I escape the police pursuit and start over. Mom, didn’t you love the most? Then give your face, okay?"
"No, no!" lody White finally understood the madness behind lanie Morgan’s actions and struggled violently on the spot.
Seeing her begin to struggle, a savage glint appeared in lanie Morgan’s eyes, and the hand squeezing her mother’s neck tightened uncontrollably.
lody White felt breathing beco more and more difficult. She wanted to pry open lanie Morgan’s hand from her neck, but her strength diminished until she completely lost the ability to resist.
"It’s done! She’s already dead!" The woman beside them saw that lanie Morgan had strangled her own mother and hurriedly intervened to stop her.
These words, like a bolt from the blue, caused lanie Morgan, who had been in despair, to suddenly deflate.
She abruptly released her grip and looked at her mother below, whose eyes were wide open in death, her face ashen. lanie Morgan suddenly cried out in despair.
"Mom, I’m sorry, I didn’t an to, I didn’t an to..." lanie Morgan, as if drained of all strength, slumped onto the seat next to her, crying uncontrollably.
The old woman, however, calmly advised her, "It’s better this way. With her taking the bla for you, you can still be a free person from now on!"
lanie Morgan suddenly raised her head to look at the woman, not understanding what she ant. However, she saw the old woman slowly extending her hand, releasing two wriggling insects from her palm. The insects, sensing the presence of death, quickly crawled onto lody White’s face and burrowed into her skin.
A little over a minute later, lody White’s facial skin was peeled off intact. The woman picked up lody White’s face and asked lanie Morgan, "Will you switch?"
At this point, did lanie Morgan have any reason not to? She gritted her teeth and forced herself to nod, "Switch!"
As soon as she spoke, the woman sprinkled so white powder onto the freshly removed face, then carefully placed it onto lanie Morgan’s face. lanie Morgan felt an unbearable itch on her face. She wanted to scratch it, but the old woman sternly stopped her.
"Don’t move, or you’ll ruin it!"
The old woman’s sharp yell scared lanie Morgan into retracting her hand once more, but the itch on her face felt as if it were gnawing at her very bones. She felt a pain so intense that she fell to the ground, screaming.
This agony lasted for about a minute, and only then did the prickling sensation on lanie Morgan’s face gradually subside.
Once she felt the itch lessening, she slowly reached out to touch her face, realizing that her skin had completely healed.
She wonderingly touched the areas near her ears and jawline, amazed to find no trace of seams.
"My face..." lanie Morgan stood up from the grass in astonishnt and asked the old woman.
The old woman let out a sinister laugh, pointing to the car’s side mirror, signaling lanie Morgan to check for herself.
lanie Morgan nervously rushed over to look at the side mirror and, sure enough, saw her mother’s face staring back at her in the reflection.
It turned out that the so-called skin swap was really just that—a skin swap—and now lanie Morgan wore her mother’s face...
lanie Morgan felt a bit disappointed as she pulled away from the side mirror, turning to glance at the woman: "Will I have to be like this forever?"
The old woman sensed lanie Morgan’s dissatisfaction and deliberately tempted her, "If you want a younger face, it’s possible."
"What should I do?" Upon hearing this, lanie Morgan eagerly asked with shining eyes.
The old woman didn’t address her directly, instead turning to pick up lanie Morgan’s discarded face from next to lody White, sprinkling so powder on it, and reattaching lanie Morgan’s face to lody White’s.
Since lody White was dead, even the powder couldn’t fully integrate lanie Morgan’s face back onto hers. Thus, the old woman released the two worms from her palm once more, placing them on lody White’s face. After several rounds of restoration, the face miraculously healed too.
"Now your mother is you, and you are free," the woman indicated to lanie Morgan to swap clothes with lody White. After completing everything, lanie Morgan felt a lot more settled.
Despite her inner conflict over killing her mother, as long as she thought about her newfound freedom and the new face that allowed her to go out, she felt reborn.
As lanie Morgan turned to follow the old woman away from the scene, she couldn’t resist taking one last look at her mother’s body, quietly saying, "Mom, I’m sorry. Once I’m free, I’ll definitely burn more paper money for you."
Once the old woman led lanie Morgan into the nearby woods, she reached out and offered her two worms again.
lanie Morgan felt a natural fear of the worms, and when she saw them offered to her, she quickly recoiled. The old woman saw this and coldly said, "If you want to live with this old face forever, just go."
"I..." lanie Morgan hesitantly touched her own face. In truth, although her face swapping was successful, she certainly didn’t want to wear her mother’s face for the rest of her life.
Just thinking of how every ti she looked in the mirror, she would rember her mother dying at her hands, she couldn’t accept it.
"If you don’t want that, take my Poisonous Insect!" The old woman knew lanie Morgan wouldn’t be content as she was, so she once again offered the worms to her, tempting her.
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