[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste":3,"chapter-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-261":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},687845,922,"Chapter 261: Villainy is the Villain's Passport","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-261",261,"\u003Cp>That voice kept chattering incessantly, influencing Lu Ce's mind from beginning to end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Godslayer Medal had long since begun to glow, shining with unprecedented brilliance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce had never seen this object shine so brightly before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Lu Ce's own mind wasn't overly affected, though this wasn't due to the Godslayer Medal's merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, you can't make ruins collapse further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce's spirit was already pathological, severely influenced by the Jealousy Mask. In this state, the whispers had limited effect on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now roughly understood that so-called \"Life\" was likely another entity on par with gods, similar to Suffering and Pleasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging by the other party's description, \"Life\" seemed even more powerful...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having listened this whole time, Lu Ce finally spoke his first response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you must indeed be noble enough. Noble like those beings you resemble?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If your nobility resembles theirs, then I must truly be despicable...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing Lu Ce's words, the voice paused briefly before beginning to laugh slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahaha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laughter was equally distant, even carrying a mocking tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Naturally, they are all noble ones. Only the lives of the noble have value and meaning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for you, you carry blood I detest. Hmm, I don't want someone like you as nourishment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce fell slightly silent. He'd already realized some things - even earlier, when Xie Antong had said certain things to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Antong had mentioned that through analyzing conversations, she felt the prisoners' accounts of their pasts had inconsistencies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing what happened to the guards and warden, Lu Ce had already guessed some truths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he hadn't spoken up, hadn't clarified with Xie Antong, hadn't given any indication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? Clever fellow.\" The voice continued. \"Have you discovered something?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hah, indeed. Sometimes, necessary memory modifications are for their own good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If people believe they're guilty, they'll be more compliant when receiving punishment, no? Though this isn't punishment, but a blessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But if people believe themselves innocent, they'll become ungrateful, stubbornly resisting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like in your world's movie The Shawshank Redemption - glorifying so-called freedom as something praiseworthy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But that's utterly meaningless. Your thoughts, your belief in freedom, are all part of [Life]. If he truly knew his guilt, escape wouldn't seem so appealing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, the voice paused as if savoring something, relishing its own ingenious design.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even emitted strange laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that so.\" Lu Ce finally spoke. \"But you don't truly want guilty people either, do you? You want relatively pure lives to nourish you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nourish me?!\" the voice shrieked. \"This is their blessing! They are part of [Life], now granted the chance to return to the source.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like wandering nobles returning to their ancestral home - isn't that wonderful? What a tremendous opportunity for them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't be so pretentious. What 'pure lives'? Life is just life. I simply find these people more interesting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the voice laughed uproariously, delivering Lu Ce's ultimatum like a judge's verdict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hahahaha! Sin - quite the name you've given yourself. This prison doesn't welcome truly guilty people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must have guessed by now - you killed without remorse, caused your cellmates' deaths, toyed with their lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Simply because you believed them guilty, deserving of death. No psychological burden for you. Shouldn't you thank me for that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, everyone here's memories aren't entirely false. I merely... adjusted the perspective, changed the protagonists.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember this old man?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green fluorescence reassembled into an image - the meat grinder battlefield outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an ignored corner lay the miserable corpse of an old man - one of Lu Ce's original cellmates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What story did he tell you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That he trafficked urban women as breeding tools for his son, then resold them, correct?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That happened - I just made small adjustments. He wasn't the perpetrator, but the witness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He saw his villagers trafficking, raping, abusing women. Unable to bear it, he secretly helped the trafficked women escape. Then he was discovered... hehe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His end was naturally tragic. I gave him a second life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His life belonged to [Life], and [Life] gave him rebirth. Isn't it natural he should repay this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Including that blond you got beaten to broken bones - he wasn't a bully, but someone who stopped bullying. He was just pushed off a building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the scarred man you killed? He was actually a lawyer helping victims of infidelity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehehe, all like this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Without my help, could you have killed them so guilt-free?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laughter echoed through the underground passage. The goblin army stood silent, only Lu Ce remaining motionless at the center, head bowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, you—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice tried to continue laughing, but was interrupted by another laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce's laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pink mask slowly lifted, revealing its joyful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right, exactly. What's the problem?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were all noble ones - your own words. I admitted this earlier - no issue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were good people. Well, good people deserve to die, and they died horribly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm scum, so I should live, I should win!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nobility is the noble's epitaph.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Villainy is the villain's passport.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've already told me their epitaphs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So... where's my passport?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",850,"2026-06-02T09:03:27.233Z",1,"novelbin.me","f420365daa796ddab43eff924f57d573ca3a6eac704a60d0ec4df8e0992af0f9","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-262","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-260",867,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-cover.jpg"]