Chapter 206: 202 Mirror

Falling into the abyss, Kelake did not know how long he had been unconscious; he only knew that when he woke up, he had not yet hit the bottom, but was still falling endlessly.

Looking down was darkness, and looking up was also a stretch of darkness.

Kelake felt dazed. Just now, during his unconsciousness, he had dozens of incredibly long and realistic dreams—no, rather than dreams, they were real memories, only those memories did not belong to him, but to more than twenty people of different identities. One of those memories was the mutually complementary memories of Walunte, Hela, Bluebeard, and Milaier, all originating from a man named Xiawa.

Although Xiawa is a girl's name, it truly belonged to a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder.

It seemed that because he became the final survivor of this mental world, the memories of the people who perished in this mental world naturally fell into his mind.

In those dreams, Kelake personally experienced their lives and felt what they felt. After he had completely walked through the memories of those twenty-plus souls, he felt his state of mind had undergone a sort of sublimation, possessing a sense of thorough enlightenment as if seeing through life.

Perhaps because of this, when he experienced Xiawa's memories again, he did not feel the same panic and fear he had when he first encountered them.

Xiawa originally had no name; this name was inherited from his younger sister. He was born into a crazy single-parent family. Because the family's financial situation was poor, his mother had taken her two children to move into an ancestral Gubao before he could even remember, living there in isolation ever since.

The mother focused on the sister, and only on the sister. She would give the sister a name, play with her, and dote on her, but... the mother also frequently hurt the sister. Yet, no matter what terrible things the mother did to the sister, he, as the older brother, only felt immense envy, because the mother only remembered him when she was cooking; the rest of the time, he lived like air.

Although Xiawa himself would not admit it, Kelake could feel that he often envied his own sister.

Xiawa's feelings for his sister were very complex; he both envied his sister for being able to exclusively enjoy their mother's love and deeply loved his only sister.

Usually at home, the mother ignored him, but the sister always paid attention to him. In that vast, empty Castle, she was his only playmate and the only person in the whole world who seemed to notice his existence, the one who made him feel that he was still alive.

Therefore, in Xiawa's heart, he always had a desire to protect his mother and sister.

However, it was impossible for luck and beauty to exist in this crazy family; the sister died after all.

The day she died, the mother cried very sadly, while he, amidst his sadness, felt happy.

From now on, he would be the mother's only child.

As he had wished, the mother intensified the love she had for the sister and bestowed it upon him. He inherited the sister's name, inherited the sister's clothes, inherited the sister's identity, and also inherited the sister's injuries... he completely replaced the sister.

It was just that he felt he was a cursed fellow; not long after his sister died, his mother also passed away from illness. He became an orphan, and just like that, a child lived in the Castle for over half a year accompanied by two withered skeletons, until he was discovered by nearby villagers who sent him to an orphanage.

The orphanage soon discovered Xiawa's mental Abnormalities, and upon investigation, found he suffered from multiple personality disorder and antisocial tendencies, leading to him being sent to a Mental Hospital.

Years later, an unknown research project needed to utilize patients like Xiawa, so someone spent money to buy him along with other patients and secretly transferred them to the Shenzhou Region.

Perhaps Xiawa was indeed a jinx; the organizers of that secret research project had only just received the experimental subjects in the Shenzhou Region when they were immediately captured by the Enforcers and the Xuanmi Group of the Shenzhou Region, wiped out in one fell swoop.

At that time, the Mental Hospital where Xiawa and the others had previously lived in the New York region had gone bankrupt and closed, and the New York region refused to let them return to its soil on the grounds that the identities of this group of smuggled patients were unknown. The Shenzhou Region side had no choice but to accept them and place them in various Mental Hospitals in the local area that had the capacity to take them in, among which Xiawa was placed in the Mental Hospital in Fengxiang City.

But not long after, trouble occurred at the Mental Hospital in Fengxiang City; the Three Wealth Remnants attacked the place and abducted the other patients and medical staff, including Xiawa. After that, there was almost no memory, only a few flickering memory fragments.

In those intermittent memory fragments, the Three Wealth Remnants vaguely revealed that they had been treated as experimental subjects again and obscurely mentioned the truth behind this experiment.

This was a world constructed by the spirits of over twenty humans, but this world seemed to be disintegrating.

"How much longer will this last? Can we still return to the Real World?" Kelake muttered.

Lost and confused, he looked around and suddenly discovered a delicate figure, so pleasantly surprised that he couldn't help but shout the other person's name, "Milaier!"

Milaier did not respond, only keeping her eyes tightly shut, falling powerlessly.

Kelake struggled, wanting to get closer, yet it was not easy. It took him a while before he finally "swam" to Milaier's side.

He grabbed Milaier's hand and then hugged her tightly, listening to her heartbeat. Although he did not know if a heartbeat counted as proof of an individual being alive in this world, he still breathed a sigh of relief.

A faint glimmer of light, like hope, suddenly bloomed before Kelake's eyes. He looked up; at the end of this bottomless abyss was actually the "path" out. He could finally end this long fall.

"It's good that you're okay; we can get out soon," Kelake said softly, gently hugging Milaier's slender waist.

Feeling a pair of fair arms slowly wrap around his head, Kelake felt a slight joy. He looked up and saw Milaier smiling gently.

The two who had shared adversity could finally look at each other without any reservations, not needing to care about the passage of time.

But soon, as if Kelake had realized something, his breathing suddenly began to quicken. His eyes, filled with disbelief, revealed intense pain and despair. All of this happened the moment his ear pressed against the gemstone sequins on Milaier's soft abdomen.

His body was sinking into Milaier's gradually deforming torso, his self shattering.

According to what Walunte and Hela had said, this mental world would only have a door to the outside when only one individual consciousness remained.

But Milaier had not died. As one of Xiawa's split consciousnesses, if she had not died, why had the door to leave this world opened at this moment?

The answer was already obvious: Milaier was not one of Xiawa's split consciousnesses at all.

She is mine!