Chapter 237

Successive breakthroughs in several stages made Zhou Fei's ability values soar.

Among them, there were even some perverted abilities that Wen Xishu was very surprised by and felt were a bit overpowered.

Memory accumulation directly reached the fifth stage.

The character of the Wise was thus leveled up to full by Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu even felt... that Zhou Fei's skills now, just used to escape from an area, made the game seem a bit too simple.

Of course, he didn't know how strong these Kind Souls were, or what kind of character the Great Kind Soul behind the scenes was. So Wen Xishu was always very vigilant.

However, at the moment, Wen Xishu was indeed shocked by Zhou Fei's specialty.

There are many ways to play games.

Some people think that playing according to the planner's requirements is called playing. Others think that if you can find a cheat, modifying it according to your own preferences is called playing.

Of course, there are some people who like to dig into the underlying code. Their way of playing games is to compete with programmers, look at various code packages in advance, guess the subsequent direction of the game, and violently crack the hidden plot of the game, by calling out dialogue text to obtain plot content that is extremely difficult to trigger in advance.

Wen Xishu now has a bit of the latter's flavor.

It was not difficult to obtain the memories of the three people in the Kind Soul Hall at first. But the further you go, the harsher the trigger conditions become.

The early stage memories, Zhou Fei's past, were easy to trigger.

A top student, a poor child, whose parents went abroad, was not taken care of by his uncle's family, and finally, because of a glimmer of kindness, came to the Kind Soul Hall.

This was Zhou Fei's past.

Compared to that, everything seemed to make sense.

This is like another character—Britney's past. If you don't dig deep, you will know that Britney's family background was well-off, her parents died accidentally, and in depression, she came to the Kind Soul Hall...

It also seemed very reasonable.

But soon, Britney's past was subverted.

Because under further digging, Wen Xishu discovered the truth about Britney—living in a city wrapped in Kind Souls and real people.

Living in a huge lie.

The story changed from an ordinary version to a thriller version.

At this very moment, Wen Xishu also discovered Zhou Fei's memory through the bug-exploiting method, which seemed to subvert some things.

Making Zhou Fei's story also change from that kind of urban top student drama style... to another, somewhat eerie style.

In the memory recounted by Zhou Fei, there was a segment like this, and it was this segment that caught Wen Xishu's attention.

"I often can't distinguish between dreams and reality. Sometimes I clearly feel that I have done a lot of things... but suddenly I wake up."

"Everything I did before, accompanied by me opening my eyes and finding myself in bed... was all overturned."

"I was told I had sleepwalking disorder."

So Zhou Fei's sleepwalking disorder wasn't faked? Was it real?

Wen Xishu felt something was wrong, because in the drug state, he was indeed affected by the drug, but in Zhou Fei's sleepwalking state, he felt everything was normal. He could conduct normal surveys.

"It's like, I feel that everything I am experiencing now could be sleepwalking."

"My life seems to have two experiences. If I say this, you might think I'm crazy. Sometimes I even suspect I'm crazy."

"When I was a child, I saw my father molting."

The word molting, when used on humans, seemed slightly eerie.

Wen Xishu had some guesses in his mind.

"Layer by layer, the skin began to be torn open by him bit by bit. After tearing it open, he looked at me with a bloody face."

"I was terrified at the time."

"But the next second, I opened my eyes. I was lying in bed, and my father and mother were feeding me medicine. They told me that I was sleepwalking."

"Similar things actually happened. I remember once, on the way home, a child's shadow became very strange... his shadow became a winding thing that looked like a snake."

"I suspected I saw it wrong, so I called him."

"But the moment he turned around, I was terrified, his face was split open."

"Although I felt scared, I really wanted to get close to observe, but when I really intended to get close..."

"I woke up."

"I returned to the bed at home, I was lying in the quilt, everything was very warm."

"No split face, no strange humans molting."

"Father was fine, I even pinched his face, he showed a loving expression, no different from usual."

"But that very day, father and mother received a mission, saying they were going to investigate some mysterious things. They needed to leave for a long time."

"So I was arranged to go to my uncle's house."

"At my uncle's house, I had a cousin named Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming's learning talent was very average... it was the kind of situation where even if he studied crazily, hired famous teachers for tutoring, and was very hardworking and loved learning himself..."

"He would probably only get mediocre grades."

"In my memory, Zhou Ming was jealous of me, and my uncle was also jealous of me. Because I was smarter than Zhou Ming."

"My story, at first glance, looks like I have been crushing Zhou Ming, but in order not to be oppressed, I finally chose to endure and show weakness, only exploding in the college entrance examination."

"That's how the outside world advertised it."

"But the truth is actually not like this. I disdain showing weakness. I once tried hard to make friends with Zhou Ming."

"My uncle did use some drugs on me, but those drugs had no effect on me... maybe it's hard for you to understand, I seem to feel that I have been taking drugs since I was a child."

"This might be an illusion, but I indeed... often wake up suddenly."

"Back to the point, I kept repairing my relationship with Zhou Ming, I started to teach him to learn, I even thought about deliberately showing weakness to give Zhou Ming some confidence so that he wouldn't be scolded by my uncle."

"You know, there is a kind of idiot in this world. They are not good themselves, but their children can't compare to other people's children, so they will get angry at their children."

"During that time, I was thinking, maybe I could make progress with Zhou Ming."

"In my second and third year of high school, my grades started to slide. Actually, it wasn't affected by drugs, nor was it what the outside world said, that I was deliberately showing weakness..."

"But I knew that by doing this, my uncle would be better to me, and the pressure on Zhou Ming would be less."

"Zhou Ming could actually get into a school that was not bad in everyone's eyes if he performed normally."

"But if I performed too well, it would put too much pressure on him. Because although parents explicitly forbid children from comparing material things, they constantly compare children's grades."

"I don't want to pressure Zhou Ming."

"My relationship with Zhou Ming also eased... no, there was a big breakthrough, because one day, he apologized to me!"

"No... it's all fake, it's all fake, I have never done this. Zhou Ming has never apologized to me either..."

Zhou Fei pressed his head, looking a bit painful:

"It's all fake? No... how can it all be fake! Zhou Ming also promised to tell me a secret!"

"No... fake, after I woke up, Zhou Ming was still the same as before!"

"Is it true or fake?"

Wen Xishu didn't expect Zhou Fei's memory to be like this.

Zhou Fei presented a kind of madness that could not distinguish between dreams and reality.

"What is real?"

This sentence seemed to stimulate Chris, who was being controlled by Wen Xishu at the moment.

He actually subconsciously read this sentence too:

"What... what is real?"

Margaret.

War, invasion, treatment, psychologist...

Hiss.

Wen Xishu felt his head ache a little.

Zhou Fei was the same at this moment:

"Zhou Ming apologized to me, said sorry to me, and said he would tell me something very important one day."

"But everything... everything ended when I woke up."

"I'm afraid of waking up! I'm afraid of suddenly opening my eyes, lying in bed, and everything I worked hard for being overturned!"

"I hate my sleepwalking disorder! I really hate why I have such a disease."

"Why can't it just be simple sleepwalking? Why do I have to experience a completely different world?"

"No, it's not, it's not completely different, it's just that some places are very scary, but generally it's the same."

"In that world, Zhou Ming seemed to have made a great determination. I feel that at that moment, Zhou Ming was very real, but in the other world... Zhou Ming seemed to be deliberately performing."

"No... no, I was wrong, it's not like this... actually it's all my imagination, Zhou Ming... Zhou Ming is just that kind of person."

"His family is disgusting! All disgusting!"

"After I came here, the doctor told me to think less and sleep more."

"For a while, I felt that after I took their medicine, I started to get better."

"But I still can't believe which side is real, because... because I feel they are not human."

"Just like you said to me, they are parasitizing us."

"I want to escape from here... many times when I open my eyes, I think, if I open my eyes, wake up suddenly, will I return to the previous home?"

"Is everything a long sleepwalking?"

"I have always been very careful."

"Because I discovered that every time I encounter something strange, or even something eerie and terrifying... I will wake up suddenly!"

"Then my world becomes normal, and everyone is as annoying as ever!"

"But after coming here, I feel again... this place is full of eerie and terrifying things, I try my best to deny them, I don't want to wake up too fast..."

It was contradictory.

Wen Xishu noticed that Zhou Fei longed to escape from here.

The way to escape from here is to wake up.

Because the previous Zhou Fei, every time he encountered eerie things, a child with a split face, a brother who suddenly apologized, a father who molted...

Would wake up suddenly and learn that everything was a dream.

So Zhou Fei was afraid of this place and wanted to wake up.

But Zhou Fei also wanted to figure everything out and avoid waking up.

So Zhou Fei tried his best to deny certain things, pretending not to know these things, thinking that by doing so, he wouldn't have to wake up.

Wen Xishu also suddenly understood why Zhou Ming appeared in Zhou Fei's memory at the beginning.

The secret Zhou Ming wanted to solve might be a key.

Zhou Fei at this time seemed to have really lost the ability to distinguish between reality and dreams.

He even thought that sometimes he would dream in his dreams.

But Wen Xishu was a bystander, he knew that Zhou Fei was in a real state at this time.

Now, he could roughly divide Zhou Fei's world into the sleepwalking line and the waking line.

The sleepwalking line always ends in a hurry.

In the waking line, the brother has always disliked the younger brother Zhou Fei, and the uncle is a standard brainless villain.

And Zhou Fei, troubled, can't distinguish where is sleepwalking and where is reality.

However, it seems that Zhou Fei tends to believe—the waking line is real.

Zhou Fei held his head in pain and recounted everything.

There is no doubt that Zhou Fei still made a great determination, otherwise he wouldn't have exposed his pain and madness.

Wen Xishu said:

"Zhou Fei, maybe you are not sleepwalking at all."

Zhou Fei didn't understand, still squatting outside the confinement room door holding his head.

Wen Xishu said:

"Have you ever thought that both experiences are actually real, but every time the other party uses a rough and identical way to make you end your exploration of the truth of this world."

"Every time you see something, something that doesn't fit your cognition, your end is waking up from bed..."

"Plus your familiarity with drugs—I think you have really been taking some drugs. These drugs have severed a part of your reality cognition."

"When you come into contact with the truth, someone will force you to sleep. So you wake up... and attribute everything to sleepwalking."

Zhou Fei was shocked:

"Two... two experiences, are both real?"

Wen Xishu said:

"Actually, there are no two experiences, it's just one experience, the environment you live in hasn't changed... which makes it even harder for you to distinguish."

"You saw your father molt, this is true, but this led to you coming into contact with the real world too early, someone doesn't want you to know these..."

"So you were controlled by some kind of drug, and after the drug effect ended, you woke up, and you thought everything was a dream."

"A child is unstable, seems to have not adapted to its new body, so it was exposed in front of you."

"This also led to you seeing what you shouldn't have seen, so you were controlled by drugs again, and after the drug effect ended, you woke up."

"Zhou Ming is the same, Zhou Ming tried to tell you the truth, he saw everything about you."

"But there is no doubt that some will doesn't want you to know the truth."

"They made you crazy, just hoping you can continue to play the Zhou Fei they want you to play."

Zhou Fei was shocked, he tried to accept such reality, but was afraid of waking up suddenly.

Wen Xishu seemed to know Zhou Fei's worries:

"You won't wake up. Because you are not in a dream at all, Zhou Fei, this is reality."

Zhou Fei didn't understand:

"If it's really as you said... what kind of environment do I live in?"

This is also the problem that troubles Wen Xishu at the moment.

Britney, Zhou Fei, seem to live in a world where "monsters wear human skin" and a large number of people impersonate humans.

This world, Wen Xishu has actually experienced, in the time turbulence.

Of course, it may not be the same world.

But Wen Xishu always feels that perhaps the world that eats children, and the world where Britney and Zhou Fei are at this time... may not be the same, but the master behind it, the associated constellation, may be the same.

This is a constellation with extremely huge power, this constellation, very likely controls several cities. And the rule over these cities is very high.

Unlike Jiangcheng, Moen, Hujiang and other places, these places have multiple forces.

But Wen Xishu can feel that the cities occupied by this constellation seem to have no other forces.

Almost an entire city is cooperating with its arrangements.

For example, Britney, everyone is listening to the arrangements, letting Britney live in a carefully arranged lie. Letting everything about Britney be like a show.

She is the only one who doesn't know.

The feeling it gives Wen Xishu is—the forces behind the scenes went to great lengths to make Zhou Fei and Britney believe that the world they originally lived in was normal.

Wen Xishu also thought, could it be that this constellation's style of doing things is to try to make everyone live in a city full of monsters without noticing anything unusual?

But he quickly overturned this idea:

"Kind Soul Hall, a place that transforms humans into Kind Souls. This place erased the differences in many people's souls. This is a concentration camp for souls."

"Reasonably speaking, the story direction at the beginning was that I wanted Zhou Fei, Chris, and Britney, who were about to become Kind Souls, to be able to escape from here."

"But this is a very strange place. In the process of exploration, I noticed one thing—the monster's power is very large, and monsters have spread all over the magic city."

"It can be said that monsters have ruled the magic city. So why go slowly to transform Zhou Fei and them?"

"Isn't it better to kill the three of them directly? Why go to great lengths to deceive and hide from Zhou Fei and Britney, not letting them know about the existence of monsters?"

Wen Xishu felt that through Zhou Fei's memory, he seemed to be very close to the truth.

"Zhou Fei, Chris, Britney, all three are different from ordinary people."

"So, there is a reason why I can control the three of them, not others."

"It is also precisely because of the specialty of the three of them... that led the people behind the scenes to pay special attention to the three of them?"

"Think carefully, these abilities of Zhou Fei, if used to climb the Mysterious Tower, are actually very perverted. If these abilities are resident on him, and he can use them proficiently himself... then Zhou Fei is definitely a sharp tool for deciphering the eerie."

"So that person tried to weave their lives, letting them think they were living in a normal world?"

"But it failed in the end, Britney and Zhou Fei both noticed something wrong. Had to be sent to the Kind Soul Hall?"

The truth is confusing, and everything is just Wen Xishu's personal guess.

But Wen Xishu has become more and more interested in the truth.

"Zhou Fei, next I will control you. Don't worry, I will definitely solve the truth you want for you."

The memories of Zhou Fei and Britney made Wen Xishu notice a key point—

This city is full of monsters, monsters disguised as humans. The situation he was most worried about has become a reality...

Assuming this is the work of a certain constellation, then the execution power of this constellation can be described as very amazing.

At this very moment, Wen Xishu's perspective has come to Zhou Fei.

Zhou Fei, who was confused and couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams, his eyes gradually became sharp.

"Hello, Chris."

In the confinement room, Chris was surprised:

"Who are you?"

"My name is Wen Xishu, and I am the one who came to save you from here."

Britney in the Mild Symptoms Zone and Zhou Fei in the Moderate Symptoms Zone have already made Wen Xishu gain something about the truth.

Wen Xishu had a premonition that Chris's memory might be able to help him solve the puzzle.

(End of this chapter)