Gu Jun finally knew what the strange feeling he had had since he was in the mental hospital was false and empty.
Whether it's the guards in the hospital, the white coats, or the pedestrians on the road after they come out, they all seem to lack souls. And the houses on the side of the road, brightly lit but seemingly empty, he realized that it was just a background.
Gu Jun stood up, and really walked towards the blond woman. She was in her twenties, good-looking, wearing a fashionable dress, and was laughing and talking with another female companion at the same table. He walked to their table, "Hello."
"Hello?" The blond woman replied suspiciously.
"My name is Jun." Gu Jun said, "May I know you, what's your name?"
The female companion on the opposite side of the woman laughed, and the blond woman also smiled slightly because she was approached, "Oh, I... I, I am..."
She hesitated to speak, and wanted to say her name several times, but she couldn't say it when she was on the verge of speaking...
Gradually, the blond woman was startled, and seemed to realize the strangeness, what's her name? Who are you
What's the matter, isn't it just a name, tell the other party, the female companion wanted to say it for her friend, but she was stunned when she opened her mouth.
What's her name? What about yourself
"You can't tell." Gu Jun murmured hoarsely, "Because you don't have names."
Just when the two women were panicking, and some other people around were also confused, something flickered.
Gu Jun continued to sit at the dining table and have dinner with Hannah. The conversation just now did not happen. The blond woman had a good conversation with her companions. At this time, they got up, checked out and left, talking about something unknown. , If you want to listen carefully, but you can't hear clearly.
He saw Hannah shrugged slightly, and only he and Hannah in the restaurant remembered just now.
As for the others, the two female customers, they are not characters in this script, they have no names and no lines.
They're just set details for a restaurant scene, and so are everyone else.
"Tell me, boy," Hannah asked. "Are we mad? Or are we awake?"
"You have both." Gu Jun leaned back in his chair weakly for a moment, looking at the street outside and his surroundings.
The background? Others are your background, and you are also someone else's background.
Even in the previous world, how much can he be sure? He could meet a thousand different people on the street in one day, see their faces, hear their voices, or not know any of them. When they were out of his sight, he couldn't be sure if they were still there.
I don't know if they really existed.
Before, he could be sure that it was within the line of sight, but now, he is not sure about anything.
"I already understand what you mean." Gu Jun said to Hannah, "What do you know now? What do you think we should do?"
"I don't know more than you." Hannah put down the knife and fork in her hand, picked up a napkin and wiped her mouth, "I tried everything, killing, setting fire, destroying, nothing changed. People with names are People we know, if you suddenly walk into a house that is not on your itinerary, you can even see someone standing there motionless, not as fresh as a dead body."
Gu Jun really remembered the games like GTA that he had played before, and the passers-by on the street were also so sluggish.
Manipulate the protagonist to beat passers-by half to death, and run away for a while, as if nothing happened.
"What about suicide?" He didn't hear Hannah mention it just now. "Have you tried it?"
"You know the endings of the protagonists in "The King in Yellow." Hannah put down the napkin, called the waiter to pay the bill, and said, "Isn't suicide an ending that fits the style? I haven't tried it." I tried suicide, but I tried cutting my own finger, and then, suddenly, there was no scar."
She raised her right index finger, intact.
Gu Jun frowned, feeling a little confused in his heart.
If there are no answers from these passers-by, background people and named acquaintances...
Wouldn't you be able to explore it from yourself? Suicide is the last resort, right? Or something else, he took an ax and chopped Hannah.
I wanted to break through the trap, but things didn't change after that, because this was the end, Jem Mazelvic went crazy and hacked his sister to death.
This is a typical ending of "The King in Yellow".
"What about "The King in Yellow Clothes"?" Gu Jun wanted to look at the original, "The one that made us go crazy and wake up again."
"In the library of the University of Michigan." Hannah said, "the school knows about your acute mental disorder. Our university is always a bit mysterious. The school has locked up the book and prohibited students from reading it. I am Because she is both your sister and a reporter, and she graduated from the University of Michigan, so she can see it."
"Then let's go to the University of Michigan." Gu Jun got up, "Go now, is the library still open?"
"It depends on whether the story allows us to go. If it is so arranged, the door will be open in the middle of the night. If not, we won't be able to go." She said calmly.
Gu Jun took a deep breath. When he was in the mental hospital, he never felt such strict restraint.
Although he was locked in that small ward most of the time, comparing it now, he felt that he was free then.
Why did Jem enter the mental hospital? Really crazy? Or do you want to go in on purpose
"Where are my notes?" Gu Jun asked again, "You took them away."
"No," said Hannah, "you burned it all yourself, yelling frantically, 'Burn the words, destroy them! Don't let them dominate, no!'"
The waiter came over, she settled the bill, and then gave a tip, "Let's go, dinner is over, let's see where we will go and what to do when we are dictated by words."
Is it dominated by words, Gu Jun pondered, or is it dominated by fate.
A person has insight into his own destiny and has done everything he can, only to find that history keeps repeating itself and tragedy eventually comes.
Then…
Regarding this problem, Gu Jun had made up his mind as early as in the altar space, and then he still challenged it, knowing that it was impossible.
Every drowning human being struggles to die before dying.
So, Nyarlathotep did this, taunting him, mocking him, to see how he can fight against fate? Its destiny
Suddenly, Gu Jun seemed to hear Mr. Wilde's strange voice again.
Is it, is that so... or the fate set by the king in yellow...