Chapter 1264: Chu An's Layout 2

The atmosphere suddenly turned eerie.

Lin An, like a third party, blinked slightly and looked at the projection of his Second Will beside him.

It seemed that after he regained control of his outward mental power, the Second Will could freely mobilize his strength and simply "walked" out.

Vaguely, he felt that this action behind it represented more meaning.

Moreover, the conversation between the two at this moment made him unable to understand.

The information was too scarce.

This state of the Second Will was obviously also a sudden outbreak, as if it had only just realized the problem in that very moment earlier.

Was Chu An going to act against the Second Will?

What does that mean?

Is it the instance mentioned just now?

His thoughts raced, Lin An's heart sank—not because he thought Chu An was hiding information from him, but because he could clearly sense that the information Chu An and the Second Will possessed far exceeded his own. Their confrontation had already begun without his knowledge.

Such an uncontrolled, even unknowing situation was clearly disadvantageous to him.

As for the reason Chu An's layout wasn't told to him, he could understand.

The Second Will is essentially him; speaking it out would make everything meaningless.

In the silence, the Second Will gradually withdrew the coldness in his eyes, as if, upon realizing Chu An's layout in an instant, he became like a cat stimulated strongly, going berserk in that moment. But after regaining his senses, he quickly adjusted his emotions.

"When did you start?"

"Weapon Test Facility?"

"No, is it the school?"

"No, it's the highway!!"

Constantly self-denying, the Second Will rapidly listed one location after another, his eyes unfocused, quickly recalling fragments of memory.

After a while, he slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again and let out a low laugh, as if self-mocking, staring fixedly at Chu An.

"I know..."

"Did it start from the hospital?"

"From that time you knew of my existence, right? No, you already knew me from the very first day."

"I should have thought of it... I should have thought of it..."

"What a ruthless method, Chu An!"

"I underestimated you; I thought I had figured out your trump card, but I never expected you to deliberately reveal it to me..."

Unlike Lin An, who was still desperately analyzing the two's conversation, the Second Will's mind was now filled with shock.

He too had just suddenly realized that Chu An's layout against him had reached its final step; he had almost walked into a dead end without knowing! How terrifying, and all of this was accomplished under his very eyes, using his own power!

Just a little more... just a little more and he wouldn't even know how he died!

Even when he first clashed with Chu An and was deceived in the City Defense Battle, he had never been so shocked.

Back then, he merely thought Chu An won by using cheating-like abilities.

Once he learned that Chu An could tamper with memory, he quickly found a countermeasure!

Memory alteration seemed unsolvable, but given his intellect and experience, he naturally had a way to deal with this ability!

It's simple; memory essentially records information about everything, which in theory can be encoded like the magnetic strip on a videotape, replaceable with data.

Altering memory is altering data; therefore, if the memory information at each moment is increased to an extreme limit, the difficulty of alteration would increase infinitely!

It's like changing ten numbers is easy, but what about a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million!?

As long as one piece of data doesn't match, he can instantly realize his memory has been altered! By compiling his own memory into a code, he can restore the altered memory in the shortest time!

Like a system backup, unless Chu An becomes strong enough to violently break through his thoughts and destroy the entire "encryption system," he would instantly react.

The Second Will clearly knew that since the City Defense Battle ended, Chu An had not altered his memory at all.

At most, it was just enhancing persuasiveness, subtly activating his own ability to increase credibility.

But...

Today's conversation, in which Chu An seemingly explained the anomaly's truth, was actually not revealing any secret to Lin An at all! Instead, it was planting a time bomb to blow him to pieces! His proud layout had already been secretly broken by Chu An without his awareness.

No one knew of his trembling at this moment.

The Second Will let out a long breath, then took a deep look at Lin An.

Suddenly, he spoke seriously:

"Lin An, I admit I want to replace you."

"But actually we are originally one entity; I don't think I've done anything wrong. After replacing you, I will still take care of AnXia and the others—at least they are useful to me."

"Be wary of Chu An; compared to me, he is the truly cold-blooded ruthless one."

"I use any means merely to survive, but he does so to achieve his own goals."

"No matter what, up to now I have never harmed you, nor anyone around you..."

While speaking, the Second Will turned his head again toward Chu An and gave a cold laugh:

"But you're different!"

"Chu An, I'm curious—when you speak the truth, are you sure the first person Lin An wants to kill isn't you?"

"Heh, quite a clever tactic."

"Whether you are the person behind the gate or not, whether you have any relation to him..."

"In fact, you and that scum are of the same kind, right?"

Like speaking in riddles, after finishing, the Second Will slowly "retreated" to Lin An's side, word by word:

"Lin An, if I were you, I would kill him right now!"

Still expressionless, Chu An gave a slight smile, tugging at the corner of his mouth, seemingly unaffected by the Second Will's provocation.

He simply looked past the Second Will, calmly gazing at Lin An:

"Lin An, it's still that saying, believe me."

"You know the answer."

After speaking, Chu An seemed to be hesitating over something rare, and after a moment he silently made a mouth shape.

Lin An, who had been frowning, stared in shock after seeing it.

That mouth shape..

Mirror!?

At the same time, the Second Will slightly froze; in the two people's silent, thoughtless exchange, he seemed to sense something.

Is there something he doesn't know?

Looking at Chu Colonel, who still refused to explain anything afterward, Lin An remained silent and did not choose to question the past.

Even if he could feel that the Second Will truly realized what Chu An was hiding this time, and even felt that the Second Will was almost certain that, upon learning Chu An's layout, he would inevitably 'fly into a rage'.

The Second Will was unwilling to speak of it; more so, he wanted to buy time, fearing that Chu An would prematurely detonate that time bomb.

The battle between the two had reached a critical point, with neither side having absolute confidence.

Perhaps realizing that saying anything more would be meaningless, the Second Will gave Chu An a deep look and then vanished directly.

"Actually, I'm really curious what exactly happened that makes you unwilling to keep hiding it..."

"But I should thank you..."

"If it truly comes to the final step and I only then learn what you're really doing, I might actually die..."

With a light chuckle, the Second Will seemed to regain his former confidence and completely disappeared.