Chapter 144: Observation Record

Observation Record: Preliminary Assessment and Intervention Plan for Golden Descendant's Current Status

Recorder: Anaksgoras

Time: Year Unknown

Purpose: Assess companions' mental states and lay groundwork for the "Awakening" operation.

The conclusion is disheartening, but it must be recorded.

Xi Lian is occupied with her own matters, and rational analysis can slightly ease the helplessness of witnessing all this.

I divide the subjects of observation into two categories: non-responders and responders.

The former include Bai E, Wan Di, HaiSeYin, etc.; they are trapped in deeper stasis or cycles, like an epic with a predetermined ending that is suddenly closed, leaving only a blank back cover.

Discussing Rescue for them is premature before finding the correct "key."

Therefore, this record focuses on the latter—those who can still respond to external stimuli.

1. A Ge Lai Ya

Condition Overview: Severe.

Cognition has significantly deteriorated, retaining only basic stress responses.

I assess her condition as a FunctionalShell.

Specific manifestation: located on a gloomy seashore.

She shows no reaction to any mention of Weng Fa Luo Si, the mission, or the past, as if those years never existed.

The only sign of "activity" is that when my silhouette enters her perception range, it triggers a fixed contempt protocol.

Refined wording, "stable" emotion.

Analysis and speculation: this is not communication but fragments remaining after a mental defense mechanism collapsed.

Xi Lian believes she may still retain a deep consciousness, but I am more inclined to think her core has been completely "formatted" by an impact beyond our comprehension.

Now she resembles an echo set with a single trigger condition.

Preliminary plan: high-risk contact.

Perhaps a simulated positive emotional shock is needed to attempt bypassing her surface defenses.

Yet the success rate is doubtful, and there is a risk of triggering unknown hazards.

2. Feng Jin

Condition Overview: Deep fusion trauma. Fusion with Titan power has corroded her essence.

Specific manifestation: As for Feng Jin… the situation is subtly similar yet entirely different

Kneeling on a high platform, praying under a dim yellow sky.

Her posture is silent, as if merged with that abnormal sky.

Only when approached, attempting to touch the faint halo surrounding her, does she slowly open her eyes.

At the first sight, breath caught.

Those are not human eyes.

Countless layers of colored concentric rings rotate slowly within, forming a bizarre vortex that dazzles and unsettles.

This is far from any natural form, more like a… imprint left after Fusion.

Is it the Titan Aigele of the "sky"?

Or the price she has paid across countless Next Reincarnation Cycles to uphold the heavens?

Analysis and speculation: her condition is more dangerous than A Ge Lai Ya's.

The latter still has at least one external outlet, whereas Feng Jin's pain is implosive.

Preliminary plan: extremely dangerous, currently no intervention possible.

Any external stimulus could become the final straw that breaks her.

(Record ends here, a soft, fluffy Doll fell in front of me. I ignored the nearby mutter of "really no energy," swept it aside. The interference persists, but I must complete this assessment.)

3. Sai Fei Er

Condition Overview: Advanced Cognition distortion, accompanied by powerful reality-warping ability.

Specific manifestation: Among all responsive companions, Sai Fei Er is the only one able to engage in superficially normal conversation, which briefly gave me hope.

However, I soon discovered the tragic truth: she has constructed an absolutely harmonious Fantasialand for herself.

Any attempt to discuss the real situation, Weng Fa Luo Si's crisis, or why we are here, will, upon reaching an invisible boundary, be naturally deflected by her superb rhetoric, or more oddly—she seems to truly "forget" my previous question.

Most unsettling is that her ability has been amplified beyond imagination.

She does not merely believe an illusion; she can make the partial facts she "believes" become the surrounding reality.

More frightening is that this distortion seems to passively affect those who interact with her...

Analysis and speculation: this former "swift-footed thief star"...

She is not insane; she has chosen madness as a refuge with hyper clarity.

Her ability is the ultimate self-defense mechanism.

Preliminary plan: extremely complex.

Conventional Persuasion or debate is completely ineffective; her logical consistency is perfect.

The breakthrough may lie in exploiting the nature of her own ability.

Currently there is no safe plan.

4. TirixiBiyosi......

The record was interrupted by an exaggerated sound.

Na Ke Xia lifted her only right eye toward the source of the sound.

TirixiBiyosi stood among her Doll mountain, assuming a pose:

One hand reaches forward, pointing at Na Ke Xia, the other hand covers half of the face, revealing only a deliberately deep gaze.

"Witness!"

Her crisp voice is full of dramatized fervor, "Magic technique!"

Na Ke Xia puts down the pen, feeling the temples throbbing.

"Ms. Tili Biyosi,"

Na Ke Xia's voice deepens, trying to retain the last scholar's demeanor, "If possible, I hope you can stay quiet. I am conducting something important…"

"No!"

She immediately vetoes, shifting to hands on hips, "You write all day, never play with me! Mom says good kids need someone to accompany them!"

The "mom" she mentions naturally refers to Heimu, a Cognition confusion that never gets corrected.

Na Ke Xia tries to explain the importance of observation records in the simplest language, but she immediately covers her ears, starts spinning in place, her skirt flaring, "No listening, no listening! Magus's ears only hear cheers and interesting things!"

Finally, at Ti Bao's seventeenth shout of "Magic technique!"

And when she tries to stuff a squeaking doll into his hand, a long‑suppressed impulse breaks through the defense.

He jerks up from the chair, a motion that startles Ti Bao, who steps back half a step, eyes widening with curiosity.

Then, Na Ke Xia does something that makes him deeply regret it later—he also spreads his arms, shouting in a tone that even he finds unfamiliar:

"Ma↑gic↓tech↑nique→!"

—A green light bursts forth from beside him.

In an instant, Na Ke Xia and Ti Bao both freeze in shock.

Ti Bao immediately erupts in huge cheers, "Wow—!! Real Magic! Teacher, so awesome! One more time, one more time!"

She excitedly hops in place, mimicking his earlier pose with arms and legs flailing, "Magic technique! Magic technique!"

And Na Ke Xia, after shouting that line and releasing the green light, freezes in place as if the pause button were pressed.

All expressions on his face quickly fade, leaving only a near‑blank stiffness.

He lifts his hand extremely slowly, supporting his own forehead.

It feels as if a cold gate in his heart has dropped, Locking away the brief "liveliness" just now.

Sai Fei Er's ability... has already begun to take effect.

Because of frequent probing contacts, Na Ke Xia has already been subtly polluted by her wish, "Why are you so uninteresting? Why not be more fun?"

That uncontrolled behavior just now is the proof.

Though he can still control it with willpower for now, no one knows what the long‑term effects will be.

Watching the jubilant Ti Bao in front of him, beginning to mimic that pose…

A wave of intense fatigue surges to his heart.

Na Ke Xia sits back in the chair, the pen tip lingering on the paper for a long while, yet he cannot write a single character.

Xi Lian... where exactly are you right now?