Chapter 164

Wen Xishu's audience was indeed very angry.

The expectation value was ridiculously high.

Readers immersed in stories are willing to enter the story, of course, provided it's a refreshing story, a sweet story, a healing story, a warm story...

If it's a tragic story, a horror story, a doomsday story, then it's hard to say.

Wen Xishu's operation triggered the thinking of the other three.

But for the next few people, Wen Xishu no longer cared about their stories.

The Lecturer told how he used women to make a group of people earn money for him, brainwashed women, let these women harm their own relatives, and buy inferior products at high prices.

The Murderer told how he pitted a group of people to death, buried a group of people in cement, and the process of pouring people into piles.

In this process, letting everyone please him was actually very close to the performance form of the storytelling session.

The Brat's method was similar to Wen Xishu's method.

The Brat told multiple stories in one breath in three minutes.

It had to be said that there were still many audience members who wanted to see the Brat punished.

The Brat already had championship potential, expectation value 280.

But the Murderer and the Lecturer were both just over a hundred.

By this round, there was no one left to be at the bottom for them.

Lecturer 114, Murderer 111.

The Lecturer was slightly better because people hate pyramid schemes and hate cases where relatives are brainwashed and then frantically promote them.

But in the accident segment, the Murderer clearly had the confidence to turn the tables.

It's just that the Murderer also knew that in the next round, his story would be hard to surpass someone.

So this round of the story ended extremely quickly.

Wen Xishu took first place with an expectation value of over four hundred.

The accident segment descended.

"This kid... can he survive? He is facing that group of mysterious audience members. If he dies inside!"

"Then the only thing I have to consider is that dead kid." The Murderer internally hoped Wen Xishu would die.

After all, with an expectation value of four hundred, he would have to face hundreds of people, right?

Wen Xishu walked with happy steps into his own room.

The three contestants all hoped Wen Xishu would die. But as the door of that room opened and closed...

No one knew what Wen Xishu's story would trigger.

Although the room was spacious, if there were hundreds of people, they definitely couldn't fit in.

However, this house could simulate various scenes, and Wen Xishu also guessed that he would come to a strange place.

Everything was as he had guessed.

When Wen Xishu stepped into the room... he came to an intersection in a small town.

The architecture of this small town was actually very close to the style of Moen City.

The intersection was crowded with people, a full four hundred or so, surrounding Wen Xishu tightly.

But interestingly, on their faces... there was no anger.

They just felt very confused.

For a long, long time, they had forgotten their original identities, and they had always thought that they seemed to be watching a program.

They were used to this identity and didn't think about who they were at all.

When everyone appeared here, it seemed that a kind of thinking faintly erupted—

"Who... am I exactly?"

【Why am I here?】

【Aren't we... watching the storytelling session?】

【We've been pulled into the story!】

【Wait... that person, so familiar, so familiar!】

Yes, there was someone particularly familiar.

That person was dressed somewhat provocatively, with a long tongue and large breasts.

Among this group of audience members, there was actually the Snake-Tongued Woman.

Wen Xishu was not the first to notice; he only realized it after seeing the bullet comments on the heads of this group of people.

Following the bullet comments, Wen Xishu discovered... the Snake-Tongued Woman who died in the second round.

She looked confused, completely not remembering what had happened to her.

Wen Xishu had originally thought that this was a world constructed by keyboard warriors, satisfying the pleasure of this group of keyboard warriors pointing fingers at people.

After all, the people judged by keyboard warriors were all bad people.

At least, they were bad people in their opinion.

Bizarre, heavy-tasting, satisfying overflowing sense of justice, as well as pointing fingers at the country, lustful...

These things piled up into such a storytelling session.

That was what Wen Xishu thought.

But now he suddenly realized...

He had ignored a key factor.

Knight. Ancient castle.

"If I had appeared in a very... modern scene at the beginning, then my guess might be correct."

"But I appeared in an ancient castle..."

"So this group of people is not the mastermind either."

After seeing the Snake-Tongued Woman, Wen Xishu knew that the audience members were not any mastermind at all.

The mastermind was someone else.

In this game... the audience was also just a part of the game.

Wen Xishu said:

"Everyone, do you still remember her?"

Wen Xishu pointed to the Snake-Tongued Woman.

"Before you prepare to beat me up collectively... you might as well think about why she appeared here."

The confused Snake-Tongued Woman saw everyone's gaze appearing here.

At this time, another overwhelming wave of bullet comments appeared.

【Damn! How did the female Bodhisattva come here?】

【What the hell... why is she here? Didn't she die?】

【She died, and then mixed into us? No... could it be saying that we are actually all dead?】

【Think about it and it's terrifying... what exactly are we?】

Most of the people surrounding Wen Xishu came from faces similar to Jack and the others.

Wen Xishu said:

"If you all want me to solve the mystery, you might as well step aside. There are still many ways for you to kill me. After all, the storytelling session hasn't ended yet."

"But if you want to know the mystery about yourselves, you can step aside and let me ask this woman."

The crowd began to disperse.

【He... he is indeed an analytical type.】

【Yes, anyway, the storytelling session hasn't ended yet.】

Looking at the various bullet comments, Wen Xishu sighed, these people are actually not bad...

This had a great contradiction with the Snake-Tongued Woman in the storytelling session appearing here.

Since they are not bad, why would a bad woman like the Snake-Tongued Woman appear?

Wen Xishu said:

"Do you still remember what you did before? My name is Wen Xishu, you can tell me your real name."

The Snake-Tongued Woman thought for a while:

"My name is Miaosha."

Wen Xishu said:

"Miaosha, think carefully, do you still have memories of the past?"

"If you are confused about why you appeared here, if you long for an answer, it's best to tell me now."

【Her past... wasn't her past that of a slut who seduces others?】

【This is a female Bodhisattva, what kind of past could she have?】

Some bullet comments popped up.

Wen Xishu raised his palm, revealing the palm prints:

"Don't look elsewhere, don't be disturbed. Their information may not be accurate. Miaosha, try hard to recall. Just stare at my hand."

Miaosha looked at Wen Xishu gratefully. Those bullet comments were indeed not very friendly to her. To a woman, that was an extreme offense.

Wen Xishu seemed to have guessed some things.

How could a storytelling session be full of evil people? If Miaosha was an evil person, she lost and became an audience member here...

Then could it be reasonably suspected that other audience members were manufactured through such a process?

Could it be that every audience member was an extremely evil person?

The total number of audience members here was nearly a thousand...

More than a thousand evil people, all collected into the storytelling session? Is it that coincidental?

Wen Xishu was thinking, maybe they were not evil people. This scene was a small town... is it possible that they were all people in the small town?

He had already thought of these the moment he saw Miaosha.

So subsequently, an even more terrifying guess was born.

"I... I seem to, can't remember... but I remember, I know some techniques for taking care of children. I seem to often deal with children."

Kindergarten teacher.

Wen Xishu guessed Miaosha's profession immediately.

Wen Xishu remembered that when he brought up the An brothers, there were bullet comments that knew the An brothers.

That bullet comment indicated that they had seen the An brothers on TV and in magazines.

So, Wen Xishu was thinking at the time that the people in the bullet comments were people in the real world, and they had common sense of the real world.

Miaosha was the Snake-Tongued Woman not long ago. She was the existence who liked to seduce men and destroy other people's families.

Of course, the men who could be seduced were naturally not good goods, but the Snake-Tongued Woman took pleasure in this and was naturally a bad seed.

Now, Miaosha had forgotten that she was the Snake-Tongued Woman.

What Wen Xishu was testing was whether Miaosha had forgotten her experience... or had completely lost her memory and forgotten everything.

Now it seemed that Miaosha had only forgotten her experience during a certain period of time.

Miaosha still remembered some things from earlier.

"Sorry, I seem to be a kindergarten teacher, but I can't remember more. My head hurts a bit. I seem to have gone to a place after finishing a class..."

"And then I can't remember."

Wen Xishu nodded, correct, completely correct.

Miaosha's memory matched his guess.

"Miaosha doesn't remember that she is the Snake-Tongued Woman."

"Because the game failed, she forgot that she was a participant."

"Miaosha's memory only has memories from earlier. She doesn't remember her own experience, but that knowledge is still there."

"So the audience in the bullet comments is the same. They don't remember their own experience, but the knowledge is still there!"

"So they can occasionally provide some information, such as about the storytelling session having an accident segment."

"But they... are not the final mastermind."

"They are experimenters imprisoned here."

Wen Xishu said:

"Next, I will take advantage of the time of the accident segment to tell everyone a story."

"After listening to this story, everyone decides for yourselves what to do."

"This small town, I don't know if everyone has a special sense of familiarity?"

【It really is...】

【I always feel that on many mornings, I pass by here.】

【Too familiar, but I can't name this place all of a sudden.】

Wen Xishu ignited the bullet comments all of a sudden. He was very satisfied and continued:

"Does everyone feel that in your heart, there is actually some sense of justice? When you see evil people being judged, are you actually happy?"

"Even if everyone appears at my accident scene, but are you also looking forward to... the Brat being educated, and the Murderer and the PUA man being dealt with?"

Countless people nodded subconsciously.

Wen Xishu smiled:

"So, if I ask you, you have actually done countless evil deeds, compared to the Murderer, PUA man, Brat, and that Chef outside... you are actually all the same, do you believe me?"

【Impossible! How could I do those beastly acts!】

【Slander! Slander!】

【Of course I wouldn't do such behavior!】

【Although I can't remember some memories, how could I be that bad?】

Various bullet comments were dense and overwhelming.

"Look, your reaction, your true thoughts in your heart. You all think that you couldn't be bad people."

"Then, Miaosha, do you think you are a bad person?"

Miaosha shook her head in panic:

"No... I don't know what happened outside, but I... I won't do bad things. I can't lead children astray."

【Ah? No, are you pretending to be pure?】

【You are indeed not as bad as those few people, but you are a homewrecker, and you quite enjoy it.】

【I don't believe it, unless you let me enjoy it too.】

A large number of malicious bullet comments appeared.

Wen Xishu didn't stop them either. Miaosha looked at these bullet comments, and she felt like dying.

She couldn't believe that she was the filthy woman described in the bullet comments.

The sorrow and pain on her face also made many people feel pity.

【Her expression doesn't seem to be faked...】

【Although very slutty, don't be like this. I feel a bit bad now.】

Wen Xishu said:

"You absolutely don't believe that you would do these things, right?"

Miaosha nodded, tears falling down plop, plop.

Wen Xishu said at this time:

"Miaosha now appears among you."

"She has lost a part of her memory."

"She thinks she is a good person."

"Everyone, don't you suspect it at all? Don't you feel that, setting aside Miaosha's performance in the storytelling session earlier, she is exactly the same as you?"

As soon as this was said, everyone was silent. For a time, only a few scattered bullet comments floated by.

"Why did you appear here? Miaosha died in the last round. And then came here. Has everyone thought about whether you also died in a certain storytelling session... and came here?"

"You have actually also done many evil deeds."

【Ah? How could I do evil? I'm a civil servant, at most I drive the leader's car to show off...】

【I do evil? I sell fish in the small town seafood market, what evil can I do? I just bragged that a police officer in the police station covers me.】

【Impossible, I'm a food delivery guy, what evil can I do? Damn, I've never spat in the food when encountering stupid customers.】

【Actually comparing me to them? I just did some bad things when I was young, but after growing up, I changed!】

Various bullet comments were defending themselves.

But Wen Xishu said next:

"But you have lost your memory, haven't you?"

"There is a part of the memory, you are the same as Miaosha, you don't remember it at all, right?"

Everyone was speechless.

"Everyone, the game has reached this point, it's actually very obvious. You are the same as Miaosha. In the storytelling session, you were defeated..."

"And then you died and became the audience here. You all came from this small town before."

"But then again, a small town... how could it be full of evil people? The total population of a small town is only that much. More than a thousand people who do all kinds of evil, that's probably even Gotham would feel ashamed."

"Your small town is not that law-abiding, right?"

"So is there a possibility that everyone has become another appearance under some external cause."

"Is it possible that maybe the Lecturer, Murderer, Fool, and Brat outside were not bad originally?"

Everyone fell into silence.

Some people began to think constantly, so much so that their heads still felt pain.

He made a strange sound.

"Ah... my head hurts so much!"

This was like a spell, and soon, other people began to have headaches.

The action of thinking seemed not to require any effort. But if you think hard, think deeply, you will indeed feel pain sometimes.

More and more people began to have headaches and began to think deeply.

They seemed to have caught a special disease.

Miaosha said at this time:

"We... are actually good people, right?"

She wasn't even confident in this sentence.

From the bullet comments in the previous rounds, she felt how vicious she was.

But after she asked this sentence, countless gazes also fell on Wen Xishu, longing to get a positive reply.

We are good people, right?

More and more people looked at Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu suddenly felt a kind of sadness.

This group of people...

How painful must they be at this very moment?

They don't even know whether they are good or bad.

"You are good people. The doomsday has come, many rules and monsters have been born, you are indeed a group of very good people."

"But it's a pity, under the fooling of monsters and rules, you have become evil people."

"Everyone, now you look at Miaosha, do you still feel... she is very bad?"

"If Miaosha's experience was forcibly transformed by some external force. Do you still feel she is bad?"

"If she is also the same as everyone, a good person in the true sense, if she is just an ordinary kindergarten teacher?"

Wen Xishu's words made Miaosha the focus of everyone's attention again.

But this time, the general direction of the bullet comments changed.

【Her appearing here means she is the same as us.】

【Wen Xishu is right... she is not a bad person, she is very likely really forcibly distorted by external forces. Then... am I like this too?】

【If I am the same as Miaosha, then what evil have I done? Damn, I can't remember my relatives! I wouldn't do anything crazy to them, right?】

【I don't know Miaosha at all... I just remember that I work in a company, but I can't remember my colleagues.】

【If it's really as Wen Xishu said... then could it be that I have personally judged my colleagues, friends, relatives?】

More and more bullet comments began to wake up slowly.

Wen Xishu sighed inwardly.

They are all a group of pitiful people.

Are they Corruptors?

Corruptors can indeed reverse other people's lives, making a person become evil, just like Jack.

But the entire storytelling session, nearly a thousand audience members...

Could it be that the Corruptor cycled a thousand times? This is too ridiculous. Even if the Corruptor corrupted multiple people in one corruption... that would still be hundreds of cycles, right?

What corresponds here is the thirtieth floor of the Tower of Desire. Currently, I'm afraid not that many people have explored here.

If it's not a Corruptor...

Then who else could it be?

Knight... Ancient castle...

Wen Xishu suddenly thought of the Shoe Girl. The Shoe Girl was killed by himself because of some reason.

Thoroughly, no longer possessing the possibility of resurrection.

But if, there are many ancient ruins, there are quite a few characters like the Shoe Girl, in Arnold's God-Slaying Church back then, it wasn't just chasing the Shoe Girl...

Then could it be that some monster hidden in some ruin was resurrected?

This was just Wen Xishu's guess.

For now, Wen Xishu needed to return to the key time node. That meant he had to get the invitation.

He originally thought that seeing these audience members would allow him to get the invitation. After all, he could be considered to have broken a wall.

But now it seemed... this wall was not deep enough.

Of course, there was also a possibility, that is—the ancient line, there was no invitation.

"Miaosha... you said you went to a certain place after finishing a class. Do you still have an impression of that place?"

Miaosha began to recall.

But next, she also began to feel a headache, because no matter how hard she tried to think, it seemed that it would only respond with a sense of nothingness.

She shook her head in pain:

"Sorry... I can't remember where that place is! My memory seems to have been cut off like this!"

Wen Xishu sighed lightly:

"Then don't think about it."

"But I think, I have already prepared enough of a story to face that person."

"Everyone, from my perspective, you are all audience members. What you seem to be able to do is send bullet comments."

"But you actually... should have your own lives, right?"

Everyone was thinking.

"I have a way... that can make that true source appear, but here, it requires everyone to act as evil people with me."

"I made everyone manifest and appear in the accident segment by telling stories."

"Of course, what I said is not necessarily true. Maybe there really is a god, a god who judges you."

"Maybe everyone is really evil, just lost their memory and don't remember."

"Next, everyone judge for yourselves whether you want to do this with me."

"In the fourth round of the storytelling session, I will tell a story. If everyone is innocent, then it means there is an evil existence, playing with you, distorting you."

"I will use the story method to ferret it out."

"If everyone is indeed evil, and there is no such person at all, everyone is born bad~"

"Then, it doesn't matter. This means I guessed wrong, my story is false, and I will be killed by the rules."

Wen Xishu spread his hands, as if to embrace everyone.

He knew that this accident had to have a summary:

"You can choose to continue being audience members who point fingers here, but among the group of people who will participate in the judgment in the future, there may be your relatives, your friends!"

"Maybe that Brat who caused public anger is the child of one of you."

"Maybe his nature is not bad, maybe you also felt a kind of palpitation at a certain moment, but if you do nothing, that kind of palpitation will only pass in a flash, and you will still just be numbly commenting!"

"That person behind the scenes must be secretly laughing at you behind your backs. Don't you want to ferret them out? Once, you were the same as Miaosha, also in the storytelling session, recalling those evil deeds that went against your own nature!"

"He distorted your personality and toyed with your lives. If you couldn't resist and didn't notice, that's fine,"

"But now, you have already felt that something is wrong with all of this. Don't you want to take back your true memories? Don't you want to know which bastard is distorting and manipulating you? Do you still want to let those sins that shouldn't have existed continue to spread?"

"Or do you want to continue hiding behind the bullet comments, like cowards, pointing fingers?"

"All games that try to fool you with your own fate should break the rules of the game, ferret out the bastard who made the game, and return it to its most cruel fate!"

"Now, as long as you are willing, I will help you ferret it out."

After a series of speeches, the entire intersection was silent. After a while, bullet comments appeared.

【Does such a... monster really exist?】

【Can he really defeat someone who can distort our fate?】

【I can't remember... but I feel I have been here for a long time. If I get rid of the current situation, will I definitely become better?】

【It's hard, it's hard. If I am the same as Miaosha, then I have also done very bad behavior, right? But no one remembers, right? Since no one remembers, I can pretend it didn't happen, right?】

Kindness sometimes also means cowardice.

Wen Xishu's speech indeed made many people realize... they might really have been teased by some powerful existence.

But they were just ordinary people, just people hiding behind bullet comments, pointing fingers and evaluating others.

They were afraid that the owner of the ancient castle would abuse them because of the resistance born in their hearts.

Wen Xishu originally thought that the lobbying in this round had failed. He had to start the backup plan.

But at this time, Miaosha stood out:

"I believe you. Wen Xishu... I want to ferret that person out!"

Miaosha's crying made everyone moved:

"I'm not like this... I'm not like what's in the bullet comments! I cherish my reputation very much!"

"I cannot tolerate being slandered and defined like that, I cannot tolerate my own life being modified so wantonly by a bastard!"

"Even if I die, I don't want to die so filthily!"

Her voice was hysterical, but Wen Xishu knew very clearly that no matter how much she roared, she couldn't wake up people who were trying to pretend to be asleep.

But as long as the expectation value is not 0, that's enough.

Because even if the expectation value is 1, even if this story is the lowest score in the whole field, at least it will enter the accident segment.

Wen Xishu smiled. He came to the door, which meant the accident segment was about to end.

"When they didn't know the truth, they only dared to stand at the intersection, relying on the crowd to surround me."

"So at the beginning, I was thinking, how could such people dare to declare war on the person who toys with their fate?"

"Continue to laugh, continue to point fingers, continue to be immersed in the joy of being an audience member."

"No problem, I didn't expect... people hiding behind bullet comments to have true justice."

Wen Xishu's final gaze fell on Miaosha:

"At least, my story's expectation value won't become 0."

"Even if there are no thousands of troops, only one person, I will slaughter that bastard."

(End of chapter)