Chapter 492: The Deal with Mei Wei Si

Ying Duo also did it a bit dejectedly, and Luo Jinyou, watching the scene, suddenly felt a bit out of place.

How to put it...

Hua Jian Lei and Ying Duo seem to be from the same world; once they start negotiating, it's as if no one else can intervene.

"What would you like to drink?"

At that moment, Hua Jian Lei glanced at Luo Jinyou and asked coldly.

"I'm fine with anything," Luo Jinyou replied instinctively, not expecting Hua Jian Lei to speak to him first.

"Then have milk."

Hua Jian Lei said it offhand, and actually fetched a carton of milk from behind the bar, poured it into a glass, and handed it to Luo Jinyou.

Luo Jinyou's age didn't look old at all, and indeed the Strategy Team kept taking him around; even the actors were temporarily sent elsewhere by him.

"So, what are you doing with her corpse?"

Ying Duo placed Mei Wei Si's corpse on the ground and turned to ask Hua Jian Lei.

Hua Jian Lei came out from behind the bar, squatted beside it, and inspected Mei Wei Si's corpse.

"To help you eliminate the possibility of someone faking a corpse."

Just as Hua Jian Lei squatted down, he noticed something off about Mei Wei Si's corpse.

"The Dome's autopsy is that thorough? Where did her Aberrant Species Core go?"

Yang Yixie heard that and knew he hadn't come to the wrong place today.

"Mei Wei Si's Aberrant Species Core was dissected out and placed here with me; what do you want it for?"

"You should know the special nature of the Consciousness Law, right?"

Hua Jian Lei simply had Ying Duo take out Mei Wei Si's Aberrant Species Core, placed the amber‑like core on the table, and the overhead light illuminated the queen bee inside the amber ever more vividly.

It seemed that once the outer amber layer was removed, the queen bee inside could come alive at any moment.

"Are you saying Mei Wei Si might use this Aberrant Species Core to achieve a possession?"

Ying Duo's eyes stared at the amber without emotion, seemingly already calculating how much experience a single Aberrant Species could gain from killing twice.

"Some powerful Special Ability Practitioners could indeed do that, but Mei Wei Si wasn't aiming for that."

Hua Jian Lei shook his head, rejecting his view.

"Mei Wei Si had long foreseen her impending death, but it came too quickly, and the contingency she prepared couldn't be employed."

Hua Jian Lei knew some of the inside story, after all they were both practitioners of the Consciousness Law and had exchanged a lot.

Some key points, which Mei Wei Si herself couldn't accomplish, had been entrusted to him early on.

"In her original plan, the Co‑Absorption's master might take something from her, and that premise required her death, so Mei Wei Si had long known her destined demise."

"What she sought was a 'rebirth.'"

Mei Wei Si set a trap for herself; saying it that way seems off—more precisely, she left herself a puzzle.

In the original plan, Mei Wei Si made a deal to have Hua Jian Lei perform her funeral after death, and her Aberrant Species Core was also the key to her own rebirth.

At death, Mei Wei Si would exert herself to slice her soul, dispersing it as widely as possible throughout her body, with the largest fragment residing in the Aberrant Species Core.

Hua Jian Lei would place Mei Wei Si into a specially pre‑crafted coffin, and everything thereafter would be left to the Mutation.

Just as Mei Wei Si once voluntarily became an Aberrant Species to gain power, rather than be drawn into the current open and covert struggles among various forces, she chose to gamble on an uncertain future within an inevitable death.

After the funeral, the Mutation factor inside the coffin would stay at a highly active level, and Mei Wei Si would become its sole host; for the Mutation to continue ravaging, it could only frantically repair Mei Wei Si's body, twisting and fusing her shattered soul.

The revived "Mei Wei Si" would very likely no longer be herself, so Mei Wei Si left herself a puzzle.

Every book she wrote could become a chance for "Mei Wei Si" to find herself again.

"…This person isn't normal either."

After hearing Hua Jian Lei's words, Yang Yixie fell into a brief eerie silence and only gave this reply.

"Perhaps she's simply desperate about the current situation."

Hua Jian Lei helplessly spread his hands; upon hearing the plan, he and Yang Yixie shared a similar thought.

Indeed, there's no way to understand such a lunatic.

If Bai Mu Yun has stayed away from the Dome these years, and after returning still willing to gamble a stake for his own stock, then Mei Wei Si had long become numb to this desperate future.

Hua Jian Lei said this while lifting Mei Wei Si's corpse and heading toward the inner room.

It was a small room he had long ignored; because it was so cramped, only a coffin could fit, leaving no room for anything else.

After placing Mei Wei Si into the honey‑colored coffin, he intended to put her Aberrant Species Core inside as well.

"Don't make that a burial offering for her; I have another use for it."

Yang Yixie reminded him in time, so Hua Jian Lei didn't do that and instead slipped the Aberrant Species Core into his pocket for the moment.

In Hua Jian Lei's view, Mei Wei Si's plan was never feasible, and because her death came far earlier than she anticipated, the experiment was doomed from the start.

If that's the case, the Strategy Team can have the Aberrant Species Core; it's fine for them.

At least Hua Jian Lei fulfilled the agreement to perform Mei Wei Si's funeral.

Did Mei Wei Si ever regret her original decision? If she hadn't consented to that experiment, she could at least have continued living as a human, rather than dying in this grotesque manner.

Hua Jian Lei thought she probably didn't, for otherwise she wouldn't have chosen Mutation as her only possible way out in the end.

"So why haven't you left yet?"

Hua Jian Lei stayed inside for a while before emerging; he thought that by the time he came out, Luo Jinyou and the Strategy Team would have left, but the two were still sitting at the bar.

"Um… mainly to ask you, how do you practitioners of the Consciousness Law perform possession?"

Ying Duo's question surprised Hua Jian Lei; seeing Bai Mu Yun appear in the Consciousness Space made Yang Yixie ponder for a long time, and he could only arrive at this conjecture.

"I've never died, so how would I know."

Hua Jian Lei couldn't help rolling his eyes and casually placed Mei Wei Si's Aberrant Species Core on the table.

"Then can you help me scan the state of my Consciousness Space?"

Yang Yixie turned and asked.

That's doable, but how about we wait a bit and try again? Let me first go get the payment for the deal.

Hua Jian Lei smiled, poking the amber on the tabletop with his finger.

"For example, where do people's souls go after they die in this world?"

After Meiwei Si dies, most of her consciousness will gather on the Aberrant Species fragments.

Hua Jian Lei has wondered for a long time: since this world has souls, where do people's souls go after death?

What about the souls squeezed out by the players? Do they really disappear?

This is the content of his deal with Meiwei Si: he will collect Meiwei Si's corpse, and likewise, Hua Jian Lei can use his own Aberrant Arts to forcibly awaken Meiwei Si's consciousness to see the world of souls.