Chapter 212

Huo En sighed and admired:

"Wen Xishu, you really have many means. It seems you have many trump cards. It's really lucky to meet you."

Wen Xishu said:

"Next, we should find someone to test."

The 35th floor of the office building is an abandoned floor, waiting for placement. This place is naturally a good place for interrogation. Huo En stayed in place, while Wen Xishu, under Huo En's control, relied on his powerful speed to flash past cameras one by one, looking for prey.

For Wen Xishu, whose strength was comparable to Superman, it was really easy to kidnap someone.

Silently, under Huo En's control, he saw Wen Xishu carrying one person in each hand; a man and a woman were kidnapped by him, and they looked like managers with high status.

Among them, the woman was from the film and television column, responsible for a variety show on Saturday. The content of the program was called "Randomized Disaster."

The program talked about the dangers people might encounter in various non-unified, non-neat environments.

But it is said that actors have to sign confidentiality agreements. Although actors said afterwards that the randomized environment and people's random choices in it were all arranged by the program...

But there were still individual artists who seemed to have become different people since then.

People said one after another that this program was poisonous. Many artists who went on the show became bad artists. Later, when people saw this artist again, there was already a scar on the artist's forehead.

That was the supreme scar of the prefrontal lobotomy, symbolizing the nobility.

And the other man was a novelist.

Because this line of work was too high-risk, this novelist paid attention to steady and solid work, writing suspense and crime-solving types.

Telling the story of the protagonist in various neat and uniform worlds... relying on various non-neat clues to solve cases.

It was still a very popular and currently safe writer, at least safer than the person in charge of the film and television column.

Both were knocked unconscious by Wen Xishu with a hand knife, but soon, both woke up under the action of the "Behavior Specification Manual."

Because at this time, in this place, there was no function of falling asleep. In the state of falling asleep, the words "butterfly effect variable" appeared in their minds, and the two were immediately scared and woke up.

Huo En originally thought that Wen Xishu's mental investigation means was some kind of hypnosis... As a result, Wen Xishu said after they woke up:

"It's good that you're awake, I just happen to want to ask you."

"Who... who exactly are you!" the woman said in surprise.

"You kidnapped us?" the man said.

Wen Xishu nodded and held the Scorpion Blade against the woman's neck:

"I am a super criminal whose butterfly effect variable exceeds 10%."

Hearing 10%, the woman fainted directly.

Wen Xishu frowned slightly.

It's very strange, just like the doctor, she actually fainted directly.

Logically speaking, being able to be scared to faint has already reached an extreme emotional state.

Wen Xishu looked at the man, and the man also fainted immediately.

Huo En tentatively asked:

"Do you... have any results?"

Wen Xishu said:

"They seem to have some kind of protection mechanism on them, so that their emotions will not be in an overly excited state."

"They fainted directly. This caused my ability to not be able to unfold."

Huo En and Wen Xishu fell into silence, but soon, both reached the answer at the same time.

Huo En said:

"It seems we have to cut open their arms and take out the implants."

Wen Xishu also understood:

"So that's it. They only feel one situation, and that is huge pleasure under hormonal stimulation, just like catheters and drugs."

"Long-term use like this will lead to cerebellar atrophy, gradual addiction, and loss of creativity."

"Except for this extreme pleasure, all other emotions cannot be accumulated under the influence of the implant."

Wen Xishu said this while immediately cutting open the woman's and man's arms, cleanly and neatly taking out the implants inside.

Although this action was fast, it still woke the man and woman up from the pain.

The woman wanted to scream; she had never been so afraid, and life had never been so out of control.

But inexplicably, there was a strange sense of pleasure.

Of course, this feeling was very, very small, and under the wrapping of huge fear, it was almost imperceptible.

Wen Xishu covered her mouth instantly.

"Be quiet first."

【Help! Help! Help!】

Finally saw the bullet screen.

Wen Xishu was in a great mood.

He looked at the man and woman and said:

"The Behavior Specification Manual on you has been pulled out by me. Next, you'd better seriously think about my questions in this fear."

"All your programs and works are praising order. I want to know, what is the most out-of-control thing in this world?"

Such a taboo topic pushed fear to the peak.

Wen Xishu didn't even need to use violence; just asking this question made people feel his abnormality, or rather, his own loss of control.

But some things, even if not said, will be thought about in the heart.

The mental bullet screen still let Wen Xishu see the answer.

Interestingly, the answers of the two people were the same.

【He is aiming for that incident! This damn lunatic! There is actually someone who dares to investigate that matter!】

Huo En couldn't see the bullet screen, but he saw Wen Xishu reach out and explore above the heads of the two.

Under the effect of mixed feelings, a large amount of memory began to emerge in the form of pictures.

Soon, Wen Xishu obtained all this information.

Huo En could see some surprise from Wen Xishu's expression. But soon, Wen Xishu's expression became normal.

The whole process was very short, less than ten seconds. Wen Xishu nodded towards Huo En:

"Huo En, I've already handled it. It's truly very heavy information."

The man and woman thought they were going to be tortured, but they didn't expect the other party to let them go suddenly.

Huo En naturally believed Wen Xishu:

"Let's go. We have to leave here."

Wen Xishu began to take Huo En away.

This time, the two began to withdraw openly from the elevator.

"We have to find a safe place first. In the process of looking for this place, I will tell you about a loophole in this world..."

"Speaking of which, that is also an old friend of mine."

Huo En revealed curiosity.

Wen Xishu said:

"I didn't expect that everything was connected."

Huo En said:

"I hope you are like me, skipping the part of selling passes and hanging appetites, and talking about things directly."

Pushing the wheelchair, Wen Xishu said softly:

"There are many ability users on the Ark, and the time of boarding the Ark happened after an old friend of mine left..."

"Hmm, let me think about how to organize the language."

Huo En sighed at the complexity of Wen Xishu's connections, but was also curious about what happened.

"Let's talk about this place first. Actually, someone has been here before, but this person is already dead."

"There was once a forbidden book here, written by an outsider like you and me. This person's book described a person who did not follow order and acted completely according to his own desires. In this city that follows order, if a person does not follow order, then this person must be able to live very well. If he is strong enough."

"The protagonist in this forbidden book predicted several cases, and as a result, these cases all happened in reality."

"This book promotes extremely reactionary thoughts relative to this city."

"That is... do whatever you want, don't believe in the Behavior Specification Manual, don't believe in the supreme system."

"I have to talk about the marriage system first. The protagonist predicted four things."

"The fourth one hasn't been realized yet, but the first three were all realized."

"The first thing is, in order to facilitate management, the partners here are all assigned according to the system."

"Everyone is born with a decision on who to form a family with and who to have children with."

"But one day, the protagonist pulled out an implant on a woman's arm, which is the Behavior Specification Manual. Forced this woman to say a sentence that all women... no, even all men in such forced families, dared to think but dared not say—"

"I want to cheat, I don't love my other half."

Huo En was silent.

Wen Xishu smiled:

"This part also happened in reality. That writer really did this thing just like his novel. He fell in love with a woman."

"Then this woman said something that meant the same as in the novel. She longed to choose the person she loved according to her own preferences; she didn't love her current husband and children."

"This incident caused a great sensation, but the law enforcers did not find the writer and the cheating woman."

Huo En said:

"What about the second thing?"

Wen Xishu said:

"The second thing is related to children."

"In the school in District 11, there was a child who was arranged to be a computer operator. But the child didn't like such a life. At the age of 15, the most rebellious age, he met the protagonist."

"Under the protagonist's bewitchment, he pulled out the implant that could bring him huge happiness and paralyze his own will."

"Without the Behavior Specification Manual, the child said he wanted to be a painter."

"So the protagonist began to take this child to pursue his dreams."

Huo En said:

"Looks like it happened in reality too?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"This is the most vicious out-of-control incident in this city. The child said this sentence on camera: I want to choose my dream according to my own ideas."

Choose a partner according to your own ideas.

Choose a dream according to your own ideas.

The answer is already very obvious.

Huo En and Wen Xishu looked at each other, seeming to realize the concept.

But neither of them said that sentence.

"What is the third thing?" Huo En asked.

Wen Xishu said:

"It is mourning."

Huo En frowned slightly:

"What does this mean?"

Wen Xishu explained:

"In this city, everything must be accompanied by a smile. Humans cannot easily be sad, angry, or afraid."

"You have also seen that even when facing robbers like us, with a knife on the neck, they are afraid, but once it exceeds a certain value... they will fall into a coma."

"People are only allowed to be happy. The huge implanted happiness also deprives them of true happiness."

"Once they are separated from that huge happiness element, can they really be happy?"

"Here, people are worshipped after they die. But in order to unify management and facilitate the neat operation of the city, even the expression on the face when worshipping the dead, how many times to kowtow, and when it is allowed to worship... are strictly restricted."

"The protagonist took a teenager to worship his grandfather. The teenager was afraid at first, but as the protagonist pulled out his Behavior Specification Manual... under the protagonist's bewitchment, the teenager began to slowly recall every bit of his grandfather."

"He was not reconciled. His grandfather was so good, but he could only live so poorly all his life, because in this city, you are born and everything is arranged for you. All your thoughts of resistance will be abandoned by the happiness element."

"But when that thing was pulled out, the teenager finally had the right to be sad wantonly."

"He also said to the camera, I want to miss the past according to my own will."

Huo En said:

"This protagonist... being shaped like this, is truly heinous."

Wen Xishu said:

"Yes, the author of the novel is actually an ability user. I don't know the specific ability, but I do recognize him."

Huo En thought about it and didn't know there was such a person on the Ark.

But this is also normal. There are many ability users on the Ark, and it is not certain that he can recognize every one of them, nor is it certain that every one of them has been naturalized by the Captain.

Wen Xishu continued:

"In reality, this also happened. Honestly, I didn't expect him to be able to do this."

Huo En said:

"Then what about the fourth thing?"

Wen Xishu shook his head:

"The fourth thing, which is the fourth prediction. Failed."

"After the first three predictions succeeded, many people's hearts also began to look forward to what the fourth thing was. What the fourth prediction was."

"But not long after, this author was killed by law enforcers."

"To be precise, the Abyss Behemoth began to appear."

Huo En understood:

"In other words... at this time, the Captain began to intervene?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"I don't know the specific things that happened, but I guess Tianlangxing was very likely in a state of being imprisoned from the beginning... or rather, Tianlangxing was actually very weak from the beginning and was imprisoned by the Captain."

"But at that time, the Captain could not control Tianlangxing, and the Captain had been attacking Tianlangxing's inner world."

"In order to save himself, Tianlangxing contacted this author and left four predictions in the most critical mental world... that is, this city."

"But unfortunately, he was killed just after fulfilling the third prediction."

"The fourth prediction was just released, but it hasn't been realized yet."

Huo En said:

"Love according to your own will, decide the future according to your own will, and mourn the past according to your own will."

"Looks like if the fourth prediction is realized... some kind of shackle will be broken?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"Yes."

Huo En said:

"This is like a ritual. After proceeding to the fourth one, the ritual is completed, and the blockade on people's hearts can be lifted."

"I think so too. So, in the absence of any clues, we might try to realize this fourth prediction," Wen Xishu said.

Huo En became interested:

"What is your friend's name?"

Wen Xishu said:

"His pen name is San Tian Liang Huo Banana Pei Jia. His real name is Yin Junchi. I once saved him. I didn't expect that he would choose to leave that city and go to the Ark. I didn't expect that he would have such an exaggerated experience."

Huo En said:

"Your experience is very rich."

Wen Xishu said:

"If there is a chance, you can go to the place where I am, and your experience will also be very rich."

Huo En smiled and didn't take this sentence. He longed to stay on the Ark:

"Tell me, what is the fourth prediction? Let's go realize it!"

(End of chapter)