Chapter 236

Once he had a plan, Wen Xishu began to execute it quickly.

He first started by controlling Britney, using her to express his own thoughts—cooking.

Britney felt to Wen Xishu like Wen Renjing in the Tower of Desire. Don't let Wen Renjing's lack of combat power fool you; attracting attention doesn't necessarily mean you have to draw aggro or taunt.

Britney had been on a reality show since she was a child, playing the only "real" version of herself. Under the demands of the audience, she had mastered many skills for pleasing people from a young age.

For example, dancing, singing, and cooking. She was simply too proficient at these.

Subsequently, Wen Xishu asked many "Kind Souls" about the food they liked.

After obtaining a definitive menu, Wen Xishu began to take the overlapping parts of most people's food.

The cultural differences in diet between Southerners and Northerners are huge, but to say that what Southerners love to eat, Northerners hate, is not necessarily true.

It could even be said that the tastes for many things are common.

Britney's gourmet cooking plan was approved by the Kind Souls. Because this plan looked like it had a hundred benefits and no harm for them.

After all, Britney could not go out to purchase food; the ones responsible for purchasing food were the trucks from the Mild Symptoms Zone.

Soon, the trucks from the Mild Symptoms Zone began to depart, and Britney, controlled by Wen Xishu, feigned that she had just remembered something she needed to give last-minute instructions on.

The Kind Souls still allowed it, so Wen Xishu saw the trucks purchasing food.

This truck had already been targeted by him. After adding some food that needed to be purchased, Wen Xishu watched the truck leave.

Britney's high-profile demand to cook, acting in a high-profile manner, was also intended to attract the attention of the Great Kind Soul behind the scenes.

The first step of the escape plan was thus completed.

That night, Wen Xishu switched to Zhou Fei and Chris respectively. But this night, he didn't get any interesting experiences.

Chris was still in the confinement room, and Zhou Fei was still in the collective ward of the Moderate Symptoms Zone.

Zhou Fei was fed the medicine for the second time. Although he had strong drug resistance, he still fell into a state where he would speak his thoughts out loud.

But Wen Xishu had already adapted.

Regardless of the environment Zhou Fei or Chris were in, once he had experienced it once, Wen Xishu was very proficient at doing it.

It was not yet time to use Zhou Fei and Chris.

The next morning, Wen Xishu switched to Britney.

He began to control Britney to cook. The truck actually returned to the Mild Symptoms Zone three hours after Britney requested the food purchase.

However, by that time, it was already past the Kind Souls' meal time.

It was currently morning, and Britney began to process a large pile of ingredients.

While touching these ingredients, Wen Xishu's memory unlocked again.

This memory didn't have many special features; it was all some of Britney's performances. In that past show, which was comparable to The Truman Show, Britney learned many dishes.

They were all requested by the audience. This also made the dishes Britney made the most popular choices, capable of satisfying most people's tastes.

Of course, these were not important.

What was important was—

Wen Xishu unlocked an ability that made him feel a bit uncomfortable.

【Memory accumulation reached stage one, unlocking Benevolent ability: Pervert Faith.】

【Pervert Faith: When you deliberately pose and flirt, those who are obsessed with you will be even more obsessed with you.】

【Rule six: Memory xxxx, can xxx lock xxxx】

Wen Xishu was stunned.

He was immersed in the game of letting the three escape, but ignored one point... at this moment, he was actually playing a woman.

"I hope the food is delicious enough that I don't have to use this ability."

Playing a beautiful woman and posing and flirting for a group of Kind Souls? That was too chilling.

However, this prompt also gave Wen Xishu a clue.

"So the three of them are really Qualified Ones. It seems they have all mastered some initial sequences."

"But the game setting, that is, the rule, is that one must perform certain specific behaviors to trigger memories. Only when enough memories are triggered can abilities be unlocked."

"Looking at it this way, Britney's ability might not be the only one."

Wen Xishu began to look forward to Chris and Zhou Fei's abilities. If Britney's ability strengthened the Benevolent's attributes, making those who like the Benevolent like the Benevolent even more...

Then would the abilities of the Wise and the Brave also make their character positioning more obvious?

This rule suddenly gave Wen Xishu great inspiration.

"Wait a minute, although I am controlling them, I am not them... Only after I know their memories can I unlock their abilities."

"And they themselves actually remember these memories."

"What I need to do is to acquire the memories they already have, but currently, the way to acquire memories in the game is by doing certain specific things."

"But can I exploit a bug?"

Wen Xishu suddenly thought of an experiment.

Lunch time arrived quickly.

With the help of the character Britney, Wen Xishu made very delicious food.

It could be said that today's canteen in the Mild Symptoms Zone was a place where all the Kind Souls longed to gather.

Under Britney's operation, the canteen soon attracted a large number of Kind Souls.

From Britney's perspective, Wen Xishu saw these Kind Souls collectively drooling to satisfy their gluttony.

Honestly, this scene was quite terrifying.

Because when normal humans are greedy, although they will secrete saliva, it won't be exaggerated. But in the canteen at this time, except for a few real people, almost everyone was drooling; this was no longer an idiom, but a concrete quantifier.

Wen Xishu was very satisfied with this effect. He let Britney stay in the kitchen, creating the illusion that she needed to continue cooking food.

At the same time, Wen Xishu began to switch the character to Zhou Fei.

Moderate Symptoms Zone.

Even during the day, the wards in the Moderate Symptoms Zone were dim.

Wen Xishu suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.

Because Zhou Fei had the habit of sleepwalking, he wouldn't attract too much attention when doing some things.

The Kind Souls in this Kind Soul Hall were now all fighting their own desires. Because even Zhou Fei himself felt a strong sense of hunger.

Although not yet completely parasitized, with the help of empathy, Zhou Fei had already felt the deliciousness of the food.

And the real Kind Souls would feel dozens of times stronger than Zhou Fei.

Today, no Kind Souls came to carry away some "quasi-Kind Souls," not because there were none in the ward that needed to be carried away, but because the Kind Souls were all very greedy.

In the ward, the sound of insects crawling came. This time, it was a bald middle-aged man who completed the parasitic process from human to Kind Soul.

He sat up straight, very similar to the tea-selling old man from yesterday.

But the difference was, there was no white coat to take it away; it stood up by itself, drooling, and began to move toward the Mild Symptoms Zone.

Also with the help of this point, Wen Xishu judged that now was the best time to act.

Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei and arrived at the stairwell.

That concealment rune was still there.

"Unlike the game, in the game, this thing switches in two minutes."

Wen Xishu really wanted to take a bottle to store it, but in the end, he touched the rune, and Zhou Fei's body began to become transparent.

At this very moment, the camera could actually see the process of Zhou Fei disappearing.

But Wen Xishu still did it, because he bet that no one would notice this corner now.

He bet right.

Next, Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei and began to walk toward the Severe Symptoms Zone.

Wen Xishu was already very clear about the structure of the ward.

Not long after, he arrived at the courtyard on the first floor, and then Wen Xishu walked out of the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard was an open terrain, where he could see some Kind Souls, dragging their not-yet-proficient new bodies, walking toward the Mild Symptoms Zone with twisted postures.

Wen Xishu was sure that the opposite direction was the direction of the Severe Symptoms Zone.

So he controlled Zhou Fei to walk toward the Severe Symptoms Zone.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, Wen Xishu found the entrance to the Severe Symptoms Zone.

Although the Mild Symptoms Zone was the real Severe Symptoms Zone, after all, it had already been occupied by the Kind Souls...

But the nominal Severe Symptoms Zone did indeed have the feeling of a Severe Symptoms Zone.

Surrounded by high walls, it was like a heavily guarded prison.

Fortunately, at this moment, only a few low-level guards remained. Fortunately, the Severe Symptoms Zone would transfer some people to the Mild Symptoms Zone from time to time, so the back door entrance of the Severe Symptoms Zone was open. It's just that there were four patrolling guards.

Yes, there were still guards.

Although most of the Kind Souls were driven by desire to go to the Mild Symptoms Zone to enjoy gluttony.

But there were still a small number of Kind Souls who were given death orders to guard some places.

Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei, carefully, without making any sound, bypassed the guards, and entered the Severe Symptoms Zone.

After arriving at the Severe Symptoms Zone, Wen Xishu was not unfamiliar.

Because Chris's memory was also in his own mind. With the help of Chris's understanding of the Severe Symptoms Zone, Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei—passing through room after room of electrotherapy rooms, passing through dark corridors and stairs leading to the basement, and finally arrived outside the confinement room.

The door of the confinement room was locked. Chris could not escape from here.

Zhou Fei, who had no key, could not open this door to let Chris out.

In fact, the correct way was to wait for Chris to come out of the basement.

But Wen Xishu couldn't wait to do an experiment.

Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei and arrived outside the confinement room where Chris was.

It was extremely quiet here.

Because this was a relatively central location in the Severe Symptoms Zone, there were no guards.

After Wen Xishu controlled Zhou Fei to arrive here, the progress was stuck.

Zhou Fei couldn't open the door, and Chris couldn't get out.

But next, Wen Xishu's show-off operation also came. Wen Xishu began to forcibly switch characters.

Generally speaking, only when the character is in a safe state will a prompt to switch characters appear. But it had appeared before, when Chris entered the confinement room and needed an emergency switch.

At that time, Wen Xishu was still thinking about ensuring Britney's safety and did not switch urgently, but arranged for Britney to return to her room.

So Wen Xishu understood that if you don't ensure the character's safety, you can switch at will.

Wen Xishu forcibly switched to Chris's perspective.

In the confinement room, everything was pitch black.

But Wen Xishu suddenly spoke:

"Zhou Fei. You're here."

At this time, Zhou Fei was in a state of having just finished a "peculiar experience."

Wen Xishu already knew earlier that the three characters had their own wills. When their emotions fluctuated greatly, they could even briefly suppress the will of Wen Xishu, the controller.

Zhou Fei was very surprised at this time. He actually came all the way from the Moderate Symptoms Zone to the confinement room in the Severe Symptoms Zone under the control of that will...

And in the Severe Symptoms room, there was actually someone who knew him?

Zhou Fei's feeling was like this—

He pretended to sleepwalk, but it seemed that after pretending for a long time, he would really sleepwalk.

This place had big problems. His own body seemed to have been implanted with some wills... He seemed to be gradually starting to merge with something.

It could even control his behavior.

Several times, he woke up... feeling that his movements were different from before he slept.

This feeling also appeared on Britney at this time.

When Wen Xishu switched to other characters earlier, he ensured that Britney was resting and sleeping.

But this time, when Wen Xishu switched to Zhou Fei, Britney was in the kitchen.

Britney was a little confused:

"I actually... inexplicably made so much food for them?"

Britney in the distance was also doubting life.

But it was far less than the confusion in Zhou Fei's mind at this moment.

"Your uncle's family did very bad things to you. You shouldn't give bad people a chance. Do you regret it now?"

Chris's voice sounded a bit weak.

Zhou Fei was shocked:

"Who the hell are you, how do you know my past?"

Chris smiled:

"I am the one who can save the three of you. You should have discovered it, right? Those living in the ward are not humans."

Zhou Fei didn't speak.

Wen Xishu knew that Zhou Fei was still in a daze at this time.

Wen Xishu said:

"The character I am controlling now is called Chris, a retired soldier. You have another partner called Britney. She is a household name big star."

"I can control the three of you. My mission is to help the three of you escape from here."

Zhou Fei said:

"Why should I believe you?"

Wen Xishu didn't explain either:

"You will bite your own finger."

Subsequently, Wen Xishu immediately switched Zhou Fei's body and bit his own finger. Then he instantly switched to Chris.

Zhou Fei only felt his consciousness blur, and then he felt the pain in his right index finger.

"You!"

Wen Xishu said:

"Do you believe me now? If I wanted to kill you or harm you, I wouldn't need to be so troublesome. Of course, you can also not believe me, you can continue to stay here and become a part of them."

"My task is to ensure that one of the three people can survive anyway. I hope all three can survive, and the four of us can solve the puzzle together."

"But if you don't cooperate, it doesn't matter, I can also choose the other two, or even just one person."

Zhou Fei was a Wise one after all. After being silent for a while, Zhou Fei said:

"So, their large-scale departure from their posts earlier was also done by you?"

Wen Xishu thought to himself, this kid is finally on the right track.

He wanted them to work together, but at the same time, he could only control one person... then he had to test whether the other two could do things according to his instructions when he was controlling one person.

Now it seems that his test was very necessary and very effective.

Wen Xishu said:

"Yes, Britney, her gourmet food attracted these monsters, which also gave me a chance to take you away. Although it might not be this time."

Zhou Fei said:

"But what are you going to do? I can't open the door of this confinement room."

Wen Xishu said:

"First, I need you to start telling me some things in your life that have had a greater impact on you. I hope you can say it in a relatively concise and refined language."

This was also what Wen Xishu planned to let Zhou Fei say to Chris later.

He was already convinced that by triggering various behaviors in the Kind Soul Hall, he could unlock memories, and if he unlocked more memories, he could gain skills. This was like an upgrade mechanism.

It's just that the mechanism is not about fighting monsters and killing enemies, but self-exploration.

But at the moment, Wen Xishu felt that it was too slow.

He wanted to exploit a bug and dig out all the memories on Zhou Fei and Chris at once.

Zhou Fei was of course afraid of exposing his privacy:

"Why? Since you can control me, can't you read my memories?"

Wen Xishu controlled Chris and said:

"No, instead of suspecting me, you might as well cooperate with me. Zhou Fei, I need you to do this, and I can take you away. If you think this is some conspiracy, you can think about it, is it necessary for them to plot against you?"

"Although you have strong drug resistance, how long can you hold on?"

These words made sense.

Zhou Fei had actually discovered long ago that the Kind Souls here were not humans. They seemed to obey a certain will, like insects.

At this very moment, Zhou Fei also felt that he was an insect, and Wen Xishu was the insect queen.

But he also really felt...

Wen Xishu's motivation was different from the Kind Souls.

Whether to be transformed into a Kind Soul or to believe in Wen Xishu, Zhou Fei made this choice very quickly:

"Alright..."

At this moment, Zhou Fei began to recount the more critical experiences in his memory.

Wen Xishu also successfully started to exploit the bug. Because just when Zhou Fei was halfway through, Wen Xishu tested it, and he switched to Zhou Fei's perspective.

Soon, Wen Xishu received a prompt.

【Memory accumulation reached stage one, unlocking Wise ability: Non-logical Behavior Preference.】

【Memory accumulation reached stage two, unlocking Wise ability: Small-scale Error Interpretation Correction of Rules.】

【Memory accumulation reached stage three, unlocking Wise ability: Overload Drug Resistance.】

【Memory accumulation...】

Zhou Fei began to upgrade crazily.

Wen Xishu suddenly realized that if he followed this upgrade speed and character positioning strengthening—it's not guaranteed that he wouldn't need the key to the confinement room.

Perhaps... after the Brave Chris reached full level, he would be able to walk out of the confinement room by himself.

At the same time, Wen Xishu also noticed some clues from Zhou Fei's memory.

(End of this chapter)