"Xin Jue, Xin Jue, sober up, see who we are, I am Guo Guo!"
Opening his eyes again from the darkness, Tang Xinjue saw the tearful Guo Guo.
Her hand still rested between the opponent's eyebrows, and she was about to crush the thin protective cover in the next second, while Guo Guo was still trying to wake up her conscience.
... It seems that this is still a cycle.
Compared with the last quick-fix tragedy, it seems that some changes have taken place this time.
—For example, at this moment, Tang Xinjue no longer had the urge to goug his eyes, nor did he have those indifferent and cruel thoughts.
She tried to withdraw her hand, and lowered her arm obediently. Guo Guo was startled when he saw this, and his eyes showed surprise:
"Xinjue, you, have you returned to normal?"
Tang Xinjue didn't answer directly, she looked around and saw some outlines in the thick darkness.
This seems to be a water room that has been abandoned for a long time, and the machine is covered with dust and unknown black slime. The edge of the room was covered in darkness, and no more sights could be seen.
But just looking at the structure of the water room, it is not like a small hot water room in a teaching building, but more like a space connected to the laundry area in a dormitory building.
Keep this information in mind. On the other side, Guo Guo called her several times, Tang Xinjue turned around and asked, "What happened before?"
In the fragmented memories she was filled with, there were only images of Guo Guo attacking her and her own [inner] thoughts. The cause and effect are all blank.
In this cloudy plot, she wants to know the clearest information such as the timeline.
Guo Guo hesitated for a moment, did not choose to run away immediately, but said truthfully:
"Have you forgotten, today is the day we agreed to go out to explore. Originally, we wanted to take this opportunity to let you and Wan Qing talk to each other and clear up the misunderstanding... But for some reason, you just went to the water room on the first floor. Attack me suddenly!"
She was still in shock: "Did the ghost stay here and affect you again? Then we'd better hurry up..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she opened her eyes wide in horror:
Tang Xinjue, who had just returned to normal, suddenly reached out and strangled her neck!
[Hee hee, this is not enough. ]
Hearing the reappearing voice in his heart, Tang Xinjue watched his hand move again, digging out Guo Guo's sky eye.
The sobriety and self-control just now seemed to be just a short-lived illusion, and the second round of killings started again, and every link perfectly coincided with the last time:
Zhang You and Wan Qing, who attacked Guo Guo and wounded them to save others, taunted and were ridiculed...
When the process reached the stage of being satirized by Zhang You, Tang Xinjue felt her movements subtly paused.
Zhang You coughed violently, and there was no fear of imminent death in his bloodshot eyes, only full of strong mockery:
"On the contrary, I think that your self-righteous appearance is very..."
"Don't say it!"
This time, when Tang Xinjue heard himself interrupting the other party sharply, he took the first step to sneer: "You wastes who have not experienced any hardships and pains and live in the greenhouse, even if they die, they are just unknown nourishment .Letting you live until now is already the biggest mistake of the rules, who gave you the confidence to fight against me?"
Every word of her used her mental power to oppress, destroying the opponent's sea of consciousness.
Zhang You coughed up another mouthful of blood, but just shook his head: "Because... I am human."
"Since a person is alive, there will be a day when he will die. Whether it is birth, old age, sickness, death, or being killed in the game, it is just the end of life. Will my life make you more noble if you kill me? Do you add a life?"
Even before Zhang You died, his expression was still half a smile:
"...Student, life and death are not up to you."
Tang Xinjue suddenly fell silent.
This passage seemed to activate a certain switch. Although there was no sound, it made her feel the violent anger in her heart, as if she was about to break free from the shackles of her body in the next second and burn the entire space into ashes!
But just like the last cycle, there was no one in the arena for her to vent.
With this impatience that had nowhere to vent, when the beam of light came in again and Guo Guo was standing at the entrance of the cave, Tang Xinjue raised his weapon without even thinking about it, and rushed towards Guo Guo with a murderous attack. !
Guo Guo who just saw this scene: "???!!!"
But the attack hadn't landed on her, as if it was wiped out by some invisible barrier, nothing happened. Guo Guo still stood there unscathed.
"So that's how it is."
Tang Xinjue couldn't help laughing at the moment when the control of the body was briefly returned: "You can only let me experience [the future], but you can't change what has happened in the past. This is the foundation of the illusion, right?"
[…]
The voice didn't answer.
Although it exists in the form of thoughts in the heart all the time, so real that it can hardly be distinguished from his own mental activities, Tang Xinjue can still accurately capture the moment of its silence, and calmly and politely let the other party break the defense:
"Next, do you want to continue to start the third cycle, let me once again personally experience the process of eliminating my roommates, feel my indifferent and cruel thoughts, and repeat it again and again until it is completely implanted in my consciousness?"
[…]
"But at the moment, it seems that you can't even say a piece of cannon fodder in this set of games that took a lot of effort, isn't it a bit too hip?"
Tang Xinjue didn't even need to say the following words. Obviously, the effect originally designed by the other party is definitely not what it is now.
The surrounding darkness began to roll and thicken again. Before engulfing her again, Tang Xinjue felt a certain power flickering in her mind, and the darkness stopped moving.
[… Hee hee, I am also very curious, the teammates who lived and died together died in your hands, but you are still indifferent. Are you hiding it well enough, or are you just such a cold-blooded person in essence? ]
[Facing your inner thoughts, don’t you really yearn for supreme power and status? Don't you feel relaxed and joyful at the moment when you get rid of the burden with your own hands and completely release your nature? ]
[Look at all this, this is the future that must happen soon, no matter how hard you try, you cannot avoid it. You are a very smart person, and you will not do something that has no success rate. Of course, you don't need to resist fate, just accept it a little bit, accept your true self... ]
This voice was exactly the same as Tang Xinjue's own voice, but as it began to try to guide Tang Xinjue's thinking, it revealed a sense of strange distortion.
Tang Xinjue listened quietly, as if she couldn't find a reason to refute, so she could only remain silent.
The voice in my heart also obviously smiled, and continued to strike while the iron was hot:
[But you guessed it right, the time here is unlimited, and you still have many, many opportunities to see your true self, don't you? ]
"You speak very hard. Although you talk nonsense and have only one purpose, it is to persuade me not to be a human being." Tang Xinjue suddenly said, "But, it's none of your business?"
[? ]
In the momentary astonishment of the other party, she briefly regained control of her body, raised her head and looked at the endless darkness, as if she was looking at a certain pair of eyes inside:
"I have seen your world countless times, and I have heard this kind of threat and temptation countless times. But every time I wake up at dawn, I only have one thought after opening my eyes. That is, none of your business."
"How about it, is this sentence very familiar, as if you have heard it once?"
Tang Xinjue also smiled slightly:
"It's been a long time since we met last time and you persuaded me to abandon people and become a ghost. I never thought I would still not forget my original intention, classmate Li Xiaoyu."
It was impossible to be brainwashed. From the moment the vicious "idea" appeared in her mind, Tang Xinjue realized that there was a high probability that a part of her consciousness would be occupied by ghosts.
This is equivalent to sharing the same brain and soul with ghosts, and being eroded to such an extent, people are not far from carrying the coffin. But she doesn't think she's gotten to this point—it's quite possible that the vision is still affecting her.
And the reason why the source of the voice can only hide in her cos body is also very obvious: due to certain restrictions, the other party cannot directly come forward to fight.
Otherwise, do we still need to keep brainwashing her here that "it's boring to be a human being"? Just kill her, wouldn't she be forced to become a ghost
That voice was silent again for a long time, until Tang Xinjue thought that the other party just walked away, it suddenly and readily admitted:
[Long time no see, your guess is still so accurate. It seems that what I said is right, we are indeed the same kind. Even in this illusion-shattering realm, even if your abilities have actually been sealed, you can still sense my aura. ]
"No, you think too much."
Tang Xinjue retorted politely: "It's because among all the ghosts I met, you are the only one who is as eager as a pyramid scheme boss to recruit me, and whose speaking skills are so dull and low-level."
She didn't even need clichés, the other party had already revealed her characteristics clearly in the process of MLM brainwashing.
Of course, thanks to "Zhang You" for his precise taunts in the two rounds, Li Xiaoyu broke the defense so quickly.
"But even so, my answer to you is still the same: none of your business, who are you?"
She is willing to be a human being, willing to live in the sun, and willing to fight against the darkness for this reason. This is her own choice. There is no room for manipulation by others.
"Even if I sink into the ground, I will always be a human being. And even if you get another chance to be a human being, can you go back? Do you deserve to be my kind?"
Li Xiaoyu: […]
It may still want to say some lines, or it may be limited by the brain size and environment of the ghost. It can only watch the darkness flow again, following the set process, and engulf Tang Xinjue again.
…
"Xin Jue, Xin Jue, sober up!"
The third cycle began, and with a voice that Tang Xinjue had gradually gotten used to, she opened her eyes.
But this time, just as the malicious thoughts in her heart started to appear, she noticed something strange:
"Li Xiaoyu is gone, you are the new replacement."
[? ? ? ]
It didn't do anything!
"You don't talk, you don't directly control me, it shows that you are very cautious. You probably know me better, we have met... maybe even fought against each other."
Repeating the cycle is indeed tiresome, Tang Xinjue didn't want to repeat the performance, so he went straight to the point:
"Did you say it yourself, or let me guess, who are you?"
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