It's not a good idea to get too close to espers, as they are very dangerous.
Discussing life and ideals with a capable person is an even worse choice. This is undoubtedly exposing your weaknesses to the other person. They are good at and passionate about these things, and no one can defeat them in their logic.
The outliers are a lesson for us. The moment the sharp blade is swung, there are only two possible outcomes.
Harvest lives, or destroy yourself.
But perhaps there is another possibility
Jiang Yiyi stared at the collector for a few seconds. Compared with the abnormal person, the collector gave a much better first impression.
A normal, well-mannered man, well-educated, exuding a genuine gentlemanly aura, almost like an ordinary person - the reason I say almost is that no matter how much he looks like an ordinary person, the light that suddenly appears when his gaze rests on Jiang Yiyi's eyes is enough to confirm that he has an abnormal emotion about this, almost obsession.
This made him always subconsciously soften his tone when facing Jiang Yiyi, appearing extremely restrained and gentle.
Unlike the deviant who wanted Jiang Yiyi to release her evil side, the collector simply liked Jiang Yiyi's eyes. This harmless little hobby did not seem to require the death of either party to end.
There must be another possibility.
Jiang Yiyi thought casually, even if there wasn't one, but since one of them was him, there must be one.
After all, I am Jiang Yiyi.
This kind of self-awareness may seem a little too arrogant, but at some point, it is also called having a clear understanding of oneself.
The Collector sat in the seat where the Deviant had sat, looking into Jiang Yiyi's eyes.
He did not mind silence, he even enjoyed it, because in silence, there was no one to distract him, allowing him to focus on those eyes.
Dark eyes, so beautiful from beginning to end...
"Let's talk about yourself?" Jiang Yiyi finished thinking and started the topic under the other party's focused gaze: "Why did you become 1-008?"
The Collector blinked and changed his posture, making sure he could look into those eyes without making eye contact with Jiang Yiyi, and then he said softly, "I think this proves that I am strong enough."
The Collector is indeed different from other people with special abilities. No matter if they are Death Gods, Masked People or Abnormal People, they all have a distinct indifference to life - whether it is other people's life or their own life, but the Collector is just the opposite.
The way he looked at Jiang Yiyi and the concentration he put on the body of the abnormal person showed that he had a special feeling for life itself.
People are always used to exploring the unknown and secrets, perhaps because of instinct or perhaps out of curiosity, so Jiang Yiyi paused for a few seconds.
He sensed the existence of a secret from the Collector - to be more precise, every person with special abilities has their own secrets, and these secrets make them what they are now.
And Jiang Yiyi was very sure that as long as he asked, he would get an answer from the collector.
But there is no need. The reason why a secret is a secret is because it is the most correct approach to keep it hidden in the dark.
Digging up the misfortunes of others will not make the situation better. On the contrary, true death will follow once the deepest secrets are uncovered.
The abnormal person is the best example. He revealed everything to Jiang Yiyi and there was no turning back.
"Tell me about your obsession."
Jiang Yiyi skipped the unnecessary stuff and went straight to the point.
He looked out the window. The sun hanging high in the sky was emitting light and heat to the world. The sunlight shone through the glass onto his body, bringing some warmth, just like yesterday.
"Obsession?" The Collector repeated the word and smiled in realization: "So, that's how it is. The doctor needs to fulfill our obsession before he can..."
The Collector paused. "Save the world?"
“It’s not like saving the world.”
Jiang Yiyi's mind flashed with what the Deviant had said before, about whether the world needed him to save it. Jiang Yiyi denied it: "It's just a small task that has to be completed."
"What is on the other side of the mission?"
The topic unconsciously shifted to Jiang Yiyi, and the collector asked: "The doctor said before that he wanted to 'cure' us. What does 'cure' mean?"
"If the doctor fulfills our obsession, we can become ordinary people?"
The collector stared at Jiang Yiyi's expression. Jiang Yiyi's expression remained as calm as if it was engraved on it, without any useful information.
"Or, after completing our obsession, we will become new humans in the true sense, just like the doctor?"
"Is there any connection between the little tasks that have to be done and 'curing' us?"
Jiang Yiyi paused for two seconds. The collector's reaction to this question was completely opposite to that of others.
None of the abnormal people asked the reason - because they didn't care what purpose Jiang Yiyi wanted to achieve through this.
To them, their little quirks are far more important than those unimportant things, even if these unimportant things include their own lives.
But the collector asked - rather than hoping that Jiang Yiyi would realize his obsession, he cared more about why Jiang Yiyi did this.
In other words, his obsession is not important enough for him to ignore other existences.
This is what normal people would do, but it is not what people with special abilities should do.
The reason why people with special abilities are so dangerous is precisely because they have no empathy.
Death, destruction, and despair have absolutely no ordinary meaning in their dictionary. They are not afraid of death, nor do they despair of the destruction of the world. There is nothing like that in their world.
If there isn't one, why would you care
The collector noticed Jiang Yiyi's gaze. He tilted his head slightly and thought for a few seconds. His tone was slightly cheerful: "Doctor seems to have a lot of doubts about me?"
"One question for another?" The collector looked into Jiang Yiyi's eyes and said, "It just so happens that I have some doubts about the doctor as well."
"I think that an overly in-depth conversation may not be a good thing." Jiang Yiyi expressed her concerns frankly: "I don't want you to become the next abnormal person."
The Collector thought for two seconds: "If you're just worried that I'll die from this..."
"That's not necessary." The collector bowed slightly to Jiang Yiyi, showing his gentlemanly demeanor and being extremely calm: "Death is our final destination, and no one can avoid it."
"If he died because of the doctor..." The collector smiled at Jiang Yiyi, his dimples looming: "That would make even the god of death jealous."
"What's more, I have been looking forward to having such a conversation with the doctor for a long time." The collector's eyes stayed focused on Jiang Yiyi's eyes from beginning to end: "Only through dialogue can I further understand the doctor."
"This is the professional quality that a collector should have." The collector said calmly, as if he was talking about something insignificant: "Only by fully understanding the collection can you preserve its true value."
"So, what do you collect?"
“Is this the first question?”
Without waiting for Jiang Yiyi to answer, the collector answered the question with a gentle and restrained smile: "I collect everything that has value."
"The heart of an abnormal person..." Jiang Yiyi: "The purest evil of mankind is its value in your eyes?"
"Indeed." The Collector said, "Since the doctor has already talked to the abnormal person, what does the doctor think of the abnormal person?"
"The weakness shaped by the tragic past, coupled with the ability to surpass human limits, ultimately created an abnormal person who could not support his fragile soul."
"It seems that the doctor knows enough about abnormal people."
The Collector said gently and calmly: "Just like what the doctor said, the reason why he is an 'abnormal' is because the tragedy in him did not create a strong enough soul, which doomed his final outcome."
"His death... is but another coward's retreat."
"He once retreated before a man stronger than him, allowing him to dominate his life; and after he confirmed his own power, he retreated before malice, allowing it to dominate his behavior; and finally, he retreated before death, allowing death to end his life."
"His life began with tragedy because of his abilities, and ended with the character shaped by the tragedy."
“He suffered because of the malice of others, and chose evil because of his own weakness.”
"The crimes he has committed cannot be written down easily, and the death he has caused is beyond human imagination."
"He was only eight years old when he realized what he was capable of. And the first death after that was the couple who adopted him. The husband killed his wife and then himself."
"This is just the beginning of evil." The Collector knows the Abnormal very well: "His unformed sense of good and evil, and the death that came too easily, led him from crude venting to pure evil."
"He is extremely powerful, and he is also extremely weak."
"After all, only the weak would target 'good people' as their hunting targets."
"But he is 1-005." Jiang Yiyi said thoughtfully: "Pure evil is enough to make him 1-005?"
"The doctor has experienced this firsthand, hasn't he?" Collector: "The Abnormal is very sensitive to human weaknesses."
"His only mistake was choosing doctors as his hunting targets. This was very stupid." The Collector smiled. "After all, doctors are experts in psychology."
"And he should be aware of how bad his mental state is..."
To the abnormal person, Jiang Yiyi is his hunting target, so how can he be sure that he is not Jiang Yiyi's hunting target
Jiang Yiyi still remembers that conversation vividly. Although the other party's death eventually declared his failure, that could not conceal the fact that at a certain moment, Jiang Yiyi had truly thought of killing the other party - if that became a reality, then the other party's goal would be completely achieved.
After a brief pause, the Collector brought the topic back to the topic: "What the doctor meant by 'curing' us, is it related to fulfilling our obsession?"
Jiang Yiyi nodded and answered another question he hadn't asked: "And both of them are related to the new world."
"In fact, I am convinced that the arrival of the new world will make everything return to the way it should be."
The Collector paused for two seconds before continuing, "Let everything return to how it should be? It sounds like this is all just a mistake."
"The doctor has been on the side of the New World since the beginning." The Collector was a little confused: "Is it because the Old World is so bad?"
Jiang Yiyi was silent for two seconds: "There is no difference between the old world and the new world in my eyes."
"It's not me who makes the choice, it's you."
"We?" The collector pointed at himself, then at the second floor, and finally at the place outside the independent space: "Which we?"
"Humans." In other words, all the NPCs in this game.
When the protagonist of this game is the new world itself, then the final outcome of the game is no surprise.
The ending of this game was set from the very beginning, and all the NPCs exist for this reason - of course, the reason why NPCs exist in most games is to enrich the player experience, but "Star Prison Storm" is definitely not like that. On the contrary, it uses players to enrich the game.
So, I guess the planner already knew that we couldn't make money, right
The Collector did not pursue the topic further, but arrived at the answer: “So, the doctor is doing the right thing.”
"I'm doing what I want to do." Jiang Yiyi corrected him: "Right and wrong are relative concepts. They cannot be simply defined."
"Indeed." The collector agreed with Jiang Yiyi: "What does the doctor think of the world?"
“This wrong, bad old world.”
Jiang Yiyi took back the initiative of the topic: "You have been asking me about my opinions on certain specific things. Is it because you want to understand the collection?"
The collector answered every question: "Because I have been curious from the beginning, why do these eyes exist?"
"Why do doctors look at the world like this? They tolerate all right and wrong, good and evil, but not the doctors themselves..."
The collector moved closer and stared into those dark eyes. They were pure black without any impurities. If one stared at them for too long, one would have the illusion of falling into an abyss.
The Collector looked away. "This has something to do with the doctor's little secrets, so I want to know the reason."
"Because..." Jiang Yiyi looked down at the body: "This is not my body."
The Collector showed a listening attitude.
"It's just a piece of data." Jiang Yiyi spoke straightforwardly, seemingly without considering whether the person on the other side could accept such an absurd and bizarre reality: "And this world is just a piece of data."
"So, in the doctor's eyes, all this is fake."
The collector concluded: "Then, death, blood, and madness are naturally not enough to move the doctor, and all the data here are naturally not worth causing the doctor to have emotional fluctuations."
"Is this the reason why doctors can look at the world in this way?"
Jiang Yiyi denied him: "No, what I mean is that data can be edited and modified."
"The me you see is not the real me." Jiang Yiyi said calmly: "This is also the reason why I chose the new world."
"Even if it is a false existence, manipulating other people's lives is still not allowed. Even if the world allows it, I will not allow it."
The Collector helped him expand on this sentence: "This 'other people's lives' should not refer to us, the virtual data, but to the doctor who has his own body but now exists in a piece of data?"
"Manipulating my life is even more unacceptable."
Jiang Yiyi denied his words: "Li Yihe said something very right. Whether this world is a game depends on whether the people in the game can leave the game and return to the other world where this game exists."
"If he can, then this is just a game for him. If he can't, then this is a real world for him." Jiang Yiyi paused for two seconds: "A real world with an irresistible 'Supreme Will'."
"So, the doctor's words about manipulating other people's lives just now refer to..." The Collector paused for two seconds, as if consuming what Jiang Yiyi had just said: "We? The humans in this world?"
"Even if it's a virtual world, something that shouldn't exist should still be corrected."
The Collector stopped laughing and turned serious: "I can probably understand why."
Jiang Yiyi was a little surprised by his sudden words.
"Why does the doctor have such beautiful eyes? Why did the abnormal person make the risky decision even though he knew it would not succeed? Why did Bai Cang resolutely stand on the doctor's side..."
"Because doctors have this kind of charm."
The collector looked intently into Jiang Yiyi's eyes, and saw light in the depths of those dark eyes.
Enough light to light up this world.
Jiang Yiyi blinked and broke off the eye contact.
The collector reacted, looked away, and his gaze fell on Jiang Yiyi: "A free and powerful soul will still emit a dazzling light no matter where it is."
"Doctor, I made a mistake."
“The most valuable thing about a doctor is not his eyes, but his shining soul.”
I always feel that the other party has changed from wanting to dig out my eyes to wanting to kill me.
Jiang Yiyi pondered the collector's train of thought, and realized the next second that he could never guess what a mentally ill person was thinking.
"I know what my obsession is now." The Collector clapped his hands and said, "I want to see what the new world looks like in the doctor's eyes."
"I want to see what that brilliant soul really looks like."
As he spoke, the familiar notification bar jumped in front of Jiang Yiyi again.
"The hidden ending has been unlocked, the current progress is 5/7."
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