Chapter 409: Shu Renjun's Trump Card

Chen Ran woke up very early.

His setting was...

A robot child!

Therefore, in the morning, he cleaned up the house, lined up to buy groceries, and bought a few packs of cigarettes.

He prepared breakfast.

Like a wooden carving, he sat at the dining table quietly waiting for his parents to wake up.

His parents were very happy, but when they looked into Chen Ran's eyes, they found nothing but silence in his eyes. Perhaps at this moment... they already knew what was going to happen.

Chen Ran just watched his parents eat the breakfast he made. Amidst extreme reluctance...

'Fuse Mental State!'

Without any lingering attachment, he fished out the small transparent box from his pocket, took out the red pill, and swallowed it. The next moment, the scene became distorted.

Faintly, he heard...

"Little Ran, where are you going?"

'It's Mom's cry.'

Immediately after, he appeared in that ward and still saw the other four.

The nurse still ran out and shouted to the doctors outside: "They're awake."

The doctors were still saying the same things.

However, the ones who arrived this time were not his parents, but rather...

The her he wanted to see, yet didn't dare to see.

Li Xintong!

She looked exactly as in his memory, still so beautiful. That Li Xintong, who died when he loved her the most, was standing right in front of him.

The shame generated by his Superego filled Chen Ran's brain at this moment. He wanted to escape.

However, The Highest Goodness is Like Water's fused Mental State was desperately resisting this urge to escape.

Until he obtained the red pill again.

He swallowed it without hesitation.

Only then did her figure disappear.

"Chen Ran, I'm in so much pain. Why didn't you come save me?"

Boom!

Chen Ran's scalp exploded, unexpectedly giving him an urge to run. The thing he owed the most while he was still alive was that incident. If he hadn't been stopped by Chen Yang, perhaps his descent into Hell would have been completely justified.

He appeared in the psychiatric hospital again.

This time...

The one who came was... Chen Yang. This was something he absolutely didn't expect. When he saw Chen Yang, Chen Ran even doubted if it was an illusion.

'Friendship is actually Chen Yang?'

'Shouldn't he be family affection?'

"Want one?" Chen Yang sat by the hospital bed and handed him a cigarette.

Chen Ran didn't take it.

"In that case, then you just..." Chen Yang paused, then waved his hand and said:

"Get out of here!"

Chen Ran thought Chen Yang would say something.

Simply put.

If this was constructed from the world inside Chen Ran's heart, then the Chen Yang in his heart should voice some of Chen Ran's speculations.

For example, speculations about Chen Yang, and thereby reverse-deducing what Chen Yang would exhort him to do.

But he didn't say anything.

'Is it The All-Knowing?'

'The existence of The All-Knowing leads to Chen Yang hiding his thoughts from me in my heart.'

"Still not getting lost?"

Chen Yang was somewhat impatient. He casually threw the bag he was holding onto the bedside cabinet. Inside the bag was a dictionary. This reminded Chen Ran of a number game they played when they were little, which involved encoding characters into numbers based on their order of appearance in the dictionary index, using numbers to express characters.

As he spoke, Chen Yang fished out a small transparent box from his pocket, which contained a red pill, and threw it to Chen Ran: "Here, this is what I tricked out of that fake doctor Shu Renjun."

Chen Ran still didn't speak, not even reaching out to take the pill he handed over.

It wasn't until Doctor Shu Renjun handed him the pill that he took it immediately.

"Not bad, the idiot has made progress."

Hearing this, Chen Ran really wanted to give this guy the middle finger, but he couldn't.

The Triple-Layer Simulation was cleared.

Chen Ran returned to the door of the Principal's home. At this time, a thin middle-aged man walked down from the second floor of the villa, asking with a dark face: "Speak, who had an accident again? Fuck, things happen to this bunch of robots every day!"

Chen Ran was stunned.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the thin middle-aged man's expression became ferocious. His abdomen slowly opened, and steel wires shot out from inside, instantly tying Chen Ran up securely. Immediately after, like a machine opening a large mouth, Chen Ran could clearly see the gears near the split of that large mouth.

As well as...

Many teeth with small serrations.

That's right.

Each of the thin middle-aged man's teeth was like dense, spinning, sharp serrations.

The teeth looked like they were covered in chainsaws.

He took a bite out of Chen Ran's shoulder.

Tearing the shoulder off. Chen Ran instantly felt a piercing pain coming from the severed area.

"I'll ask one more time, what exactly happened?" The thin middle-aged man swallowed Chen Ran's arm, asking while chewing, sending blood and flesh flying.

At this time, Chen Ran perhaps hadn't reacted from the Triple-Layer Simulation yet. Or perhaps in the Triple-Layer Simulation, Shu Renjun had planted a Thought Stamp in him: I am a robot, I won't speak carelessly.

This caused him to remain silent the whole time.

Seeing this, the thin middle-aged man was furious and bit towards Chen Ran's other arm again.

"Damn it, every time a robot comes to my house, after verifying their identity, they act like this. Who the fuck designed this kind of rule, ahhh!" After saying that, he bit off Chen Ran's other arm in one go.

Chen Ran stood there like a robot that couldn't feel pain, not even his expression changing.

But, facing the Principal's questioning, this state had clearly violated the rules.

He saw the Principal's palm turn into a large pair of scissors after some mechanical rotation.

Snip!

Snip!

Snip!

The scissors opened and closed, slowly approaching Chen Ran's neck: "Are you going to speak or not?"

Chen Ran remained expressionless.

"Never mind!"

"Never mind!"

The Principal suddenly retracted his hand and walked towards the second floor. When he reached the stairs, he glanced at Chen Ran, who was like a wooden carving, thought for a moment, and returned to the living room to pick up the phone, as if calling someone. Before long, a voice came from inside...

"Send someone over from your side. A robot has malfunctioned here. Drag it to the scrapyard to be destroyed later!"

Chen Ran stood at the door, fresh blood continuously flowing from his severed arms.

About five minutes later.

Two people arrived in front of Chen Ran. Under the Principal's gesture, they loaded Chen Ran onto a forklift.

The two got on the forklift and quickly drove to the Laboratory Building. They dragged Chen Ran to the scrapyard and threw him into the lower level of scrap.

"I say, there's way too much scrap in here, isn't there?"

"Yeah, it's time to incinerate it all."

The two chatted on the upper level. One person stretched out a finger and pressed a certain button. The lower level immediately heated up, and in an instant, a raging fire ignited, incinerating the scrap inside.

In the flames, Chen Ran remained motionless, like a shell that had lost its soul.

Just as he was about to be swallowed by the flames.

A voice echoed in his ear: "Identity correct!"

The scene before Chen Ran's eyes changed again. He appeared at the door of the Principal's home.

His arms had also recovered as before.

'Awesome!'

'I almost fell for it just now.'

The reason was simple. When Chen Ran went to the Laboratory Building, after verifying his identity, the elderly security guard would always say 【Identity correct】.

But, after the Triple-Layer Simulation disappeared, he didn't hear these four words.

So, he judged that the identity verification wasn't over yet, and continued playing a robot.

Robots don't feel pain.

If he had cried out just now, or said something out of fear, he would have violated the rules in the Principal's home. At that point, it would truly be beyond saving even by gods.

It had to be said, this was Shu Renjun's hidden killer move. First, using the Superego to mess with the players' minds, and then using the Ego to trick the players who cleared the Triple-Layer Simulation into thinking the identity verification was already over. If anyone had still been reminiscing about the scenes in the Triple-Layer Simulation just now and ignored these four words, the outcome would definitely be death.