Chapter 207: 203 Milaier

Darkness was swallowing Kelake's vision, fear was crushing his fragile sanity, and the truth of the matter and forgotten memories were like a boiling tide, easily drowning Kelake's personality...

Time turns back to when Kelake was abducted by the Three Wealth Remnants and just brought to their secret underground base.

"Kelake Carter, an important strategist for the New York branch of the Abnormal Biological Foundation. In over forty years of life, he has safely navigated thirty-three Level-Earth or higher abnormal incidents, and his psyche has never shown any trend of abnormal contamination. There aren't many people left in this world as exceptionally rational as him." The burly rat-like man looked at Kelake's face, appearing somewhat intoxicated, and laughed strangely, "The Book of Truth says he will be the key to the success of this experiment, perfectly suited as a stabilizer for the experiment!"

"Being a stabilizer, he is also the best candidate for Alien God transformation." The other Recombined Men were extremely satisfied with Kelake.

Regarding this, the burly rat-like man sneered and said, "Whether he is the final object for Alien God transformation is not something we can decide. Let us wish him good luck.

In that mental world dominated by a multiple-personality patient, Dr. Kelake must also maintain his sanity well; he mustn't die easily... Hahaha."

The insane Three Wealth Remnants laughed rampantly and, in an instant, skinned Kelake alive, like peeling an egg. In the end, only a smooth brain remained. To keep the brain active, they first soaked it in the amniotic fluid of the Mother of Black Goats, which was filled with metamorphic active substances, then inserted electrodes into the brain and placed Kelake's brain into a specially made laboratory, putting it together with other brains that had undergone the same treatment.

As a special sound wave played inside the laboratory, a fantastical yet eerie scene appeared within the room. A hazy purple-red flash emerged, and the brains in the laboratory also underwent strange changes due to the influence of the sound waves.

However, what these Recombined Men did not know was that the "stabilizer" they perceived was actually not stable at all. Deep within the heart of the outwardly polished and successful Dr. Kelake Carter, a terrifying "demon" had actually been lurking all along.

That demon killed kin and devoured friends, was devoid of humanity, skilled at disguise, and possessed intense self-destructive and antisocial tendencies. She was like Kelake in the mirror, his absolute opposite.

While those Recombined Men were smugly talking, they did not know that the sin lurking deep within Kelake's soul had already heard all of their plans.

When Kelake's consciousness entered the mental world, his opposite consciousness also descended into the mental world in the form she desired. And because she could remain clear-headed while entering, she was one of the first people in the entire mental world to be "born" and "awaken."

Upon first arriving in this world, she stood in the ice and snow, naked and barefoot, in a posture of freedom, feeling an unprecedented sense of exhilaration. Looking back at Kelake, who was still waiting to awaken, she made a decision in her heart.

She wanted freedom; she wanted to become the Dominator.

Since she was his mirror, then she would be called Milaier.

Milaier realized that if she relied only on her own strength, she was weak. She could not act recklessly; she needed to be like a patient snake or an ambushing wolf, preparing for the final hunt. To plan everything out, she had to become the triumphant protagonist in the final grand spectacle.

For this reason, she kept observing this mental world and recording its rules. She knew of the existence of Memory Objects earlier than anyone else. So-called Memory Objects were the strangest items that each person carried with them when they were "born" into this mental world. Their forms and functions basically had no pattern, but they were generally the things the owner cared about most deep in their memories.

Milaier's Memory Object was a fake gemstone, the best gift given to him by a childhood playmate. She would treasure it in her belly just as she did in childhood.

But what Milaier found amusing was that Kelake, who lacked this part of her memory, did not know the "value" of that pocket watch; it was the only thing their biological parents had given them during their childhood.

The time displayed on that pocket watch seemed to be the time of the Real World. Milaier was certain that her other half, Kelake, would sooner or later notice the falseness of this world through the abnormality of the pocket watch. This was exactly what she hoped for and was part of her plan.

Kelake was her helper, and he must be her helper.

The multiple-personality patient who entered this world was not just Kelake; there was also a multiple-personality patient named Xiawa.

Through Milaier's observation and confirmation, Count Bluebeard, who "dominated" this world with his status, was one of Xiawa's multiple-personality fragments.

To figure out who else in the Castle was another fragment of Xiawa, Milaier came to the Castle as a traveler, took the opportunity to join it, and investigated while "working" in the Castle, only then finally distinguishing them.

There were four of Xiawa's personality fragments in total: Count Bluebeard, symbolizing lust, gluttony, and sloth; Butler Walunte, symbolizing wrath, pride, and greed; the cook Hela, symbolizing envy; and the gardener Kande, representing the cowardly, good side of Xiawa.

What Milaier found extremely puzzling was that the relationship between these four personality fragments was not as special as the relationship between her and Kelake. These four personalities did not know of each other's existence. Perhaps because of this, they did not have the "one-way life-and-death" connection that she and Kelake had.

Milaier could feel what Kelake felt, which meant that if Kelake was injured, she would be injured simultaneously, and Kelake's death might mean her death. What made her unhappy was that the injuries she sustained could not make Kelake "synchronize."

Milaier made a guess about this: once a consciousness fragment in the mental world knew who its source was, it would share damage. If the other party did not know, this "sharing" was one-sided.

Therefore, Kelake must live, at least until the very end, to be killed by her own hands!

Milaier knew the capabilities of the other "self" well. In order not to be in a passive position and not be discovered by Kelake, she made a bold decision.

After learning of the evil deeds of Bluebeard and Walunte in the Castle, she deliberately guided Kande to discover their secret.

After a period of self-encouragement, the kind Kande overcame his cowardice, stole and sealed the Stone Statue of the Shadow of All Things that Bluebeard and Walunte worshipped, preventing them from having the chance to continue harming people.

Subsequently, Milaier schemed to expose Kande's actions. Before the angry Bluebeard and Walunte could find him, she took Kande's Memory Object a step ahead of them and pushed Kande into the bottomless abyss, killing him with her own hands, thereby replacing his identity and becoming the "source" that Bluebeard and the others believed him to be.