Chapter 237: Crazy liar, or pure lunatic?

Crazy liar, or pure lunatic?

The patient got off the bed.

In Serius's extremely shocked eyes, Cheng Shi directly exerted force to break the bindings on his body and jumped off the bed easily.

He snatched the Concentric Dagger from Serius's hand, flexibly controlling the dagger to flip up and down between his fingers, while fiddling with the dagger, he manipulated the experimental screen that originally belonged to Serius, seemingly wanting to see the experimental data born on himself.

Serius looked at Cheng Shi in disbelief, and then frowned tightly.

There was no fear in his eyes, but full of doubt.

He was thinking about how this experimental subject got rid of the influence of various potions and woke up, and why there was no fear in his eyes, and even clearly knew his name!

"You... who are you?"

"Me? Forgot so soon? Am I not the No. 11... 1172 experimental subject in your mouth?"

Cheng Shi's gaze lingered on the screen for a while, didn't quite understand it, begged Brother Mouth for a long time in his heart but got no response, so he had to give up collecting these data of his own and looked at the scholar beside him again.

Feeling the aggressive gaze examining him, Serius was somewhat surprised: "Aren't you a death-duel prisoner who was caught?"

"Death-duel prisoner?

Yes, I am a death-duel prisoner, before I was, just now I was, but only at this moment, perhaps I am no longer.

Your expression seems very shocked; how is it, is an experimental subject who has escaped control rare? Then congratulations to you, you saw one today.

No need to guess my identity; I have no relationship with any forces or anyone, just sent here by the knights of the Grand Court of Judgment by coincidence.

And now, I am preparing to go out.

Mr. Serius, do you still want to leave this cage of 【Order】 now? If you want, I think we still have a chance for cooperation.

But before cooperation, you must tell me truthfully what I just experienced."

Serius pondered for a moment, looking at Cheng Shi with strange eyes, seemingly having guessed wrong:

"So that lord also has times when he miscalculates; why didn't the inquisitors of Montrani consider this point when putting you in prison, why didn't they use the power of 【Order】 to imprison your ability..."

?

Is this thinking of me as an enemy of Kyn Laoer?

That's good, this way, the basis for cooperation is firmer.

Cheng Shi smiled, and in order not to trigger the Honest Clown, he gave a vague answer:

"Probably the favor of 【Fate】."

He didn't lie; being able to survive from that memory just now was indeed the favor of 【Fate】.

But these words had another layer of meaning in Serius's ears; he nodded and began to face this experimental subject who had escaped control squarely.

"I have never heard of you; where did you know about me, and..."

"The fact that you want to escape from here?" Cheng Shi intimately connected the words that Serius found hard to say.

"Yes." Serius's expression was cautious.

"Scholar, you are a smart person. Think about it, me, an unlucky guy forcibly caught from outside the laboratory, how could I know the 'secret' of a reclusive scholar?

So, someone must have told me. Then guess again, who would this person be?"

Cheng Shi didn't intend to communicate with the other party with a pile of lies; the urgent matter was to figure out what happened just now, figure out what the trial was where he had killed all his teammates—no, should be killed all "himself"—and now, which scene of the trial script he was in.

So he chose to let Serius deceive himself.

As everyone knows, smart people like to think too much, and the more they think, the more mistakes they make; the more mistakes they make, the more loopholes there are in their logical thinking for themselves to drill through.

Wise men often fail due to overthinking.

Serius frowned and thought for a long time, long enough to have thought of all possibilities, before suddenly raising his head in astonishment, somewhat uncertainly:

"Galiusha? Were you sent by Galiusha?"

"Correct!" Cheng Shi snapped his fingers happily, incidentally touching his nose, "I am a bit at odds with the Grand Court of Judgment; I was discovered by that little girl when entering the city. It just so happened that she needed a helper who wasn't so close, so she secretly sent me in.

I don't know what relationship that little girl named Galiusha has with you, scholar; I only know that I came here to help, not to suffer.

So, explain my experience just now clearly, and after confirming that there is no problem with my body, I will complete my promise and help you leave here."

Cheng Shi's hands kept moving, not turning the dagger, but snapping his fingers, looking like a patient with ADHD to cover up the act of touching his nose.

A flash of suspicion crossed Serius's eyes; he didn't quite believe Cheng Shi's words, because his relationship with Galiusha wasn't a secret among those who knew about this laboratory.

But he still decided to cooperate with Cheng Shi, not because he had a strong desire to share, but because it was hard for him to wait for another "sober" outsider.

He felt the other party was right; regardless of what purpose the other party came here for, his own demand was just to seek death, so he wasn't afraid of the other party having any schemes.

Instead, he was afraid of the other party having no schemes, because that way he would also lose the bargaining chip and become a prisoner continuing to be trapped in the cage of 【Order】.

"Your body has not changed; all data are normal."

Serius decided to "cooperate," so he began to explain everything that just happened to Cheng Shi, pointing to the data on the screen:

"Whether it is life vitality or consciousness stability, they are all within the normal range, which shows that the slicing process just now did not cause any harm to you.

Your consciousness is powerful, and your self-recognition degree is high; you successfully killed them within 24 hours after the personality slice was separated. Generally speaking, personality slices that survive for no more than 24 hours are considered invalid slices, so there is no residual split personality in your consciousness.

Things are just that simple; you were sent into the laboratory as an experimental subject, and I used the Concentric Dagger in your hand to slice your personality at the first opportunity.

If following normal experimental steps, next I would continue to slice your memory, and strip the surviving personality and memory to create physiological carriers for them, and then send them into the culture dish to wait for them to grow into another you, a brand new you carrying part of the personality and part of the memory.

A pity, such an excellent subject actually failed in the first step of the experiment."

Cheng Shi frowned, even if he didn't understand the data on the screen, he pretended to understand and responded:

"So I just experienced a slicing war in consciousness?"

"War? No, no.

This statement is too exaggerated; the stripping of personality is just isolating a few selves that are different and uncommon from the main personality in consciousness. Perhaps your main personality will subconsciously treat these uncommon personalities as outsiders, but under normal circumstances, they will not conflict, because they have a 'common recognition' sense; they all belong to you.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as you.

Before meeting you, I really didn't know that if a person's self-recognition degree is too high, such an accident would occur where every personality firmly believes in its own existence.

Your personality slices have no 'common recognition'; they only believe in themselves. This situation shouldn't happen to a normal person; do you understand? Because this is an independent consciousness state that only extreme schizophrenics have.

Of course, there is another possibility, which is that you are always good at playing others, and every time you play, you firmly believe in your own identity. In this way, every personality in your cognition carries this blurred memory, so they became independent the moment they appeared.

Simply put, either you are a crazy liar, or you are a pure lunatic.

So...

Which one are you?" ===== CHAPTER 238 =====