Chapter 239: Elegy of the Good City

Zhou Fei's file is not thick, and there is nothing too special. Wen Wen Xishu also finds Britney's file.

He reads very quickly, almost just scanning a few times, and remembers the content. But he still tears off a page that is relatively critical in the file, and then puts the file bag back in its original place.

After doing all this, Wen Wen Xishu begins to move toward the Mild Symptom Zone.

He first uses Zhou Fei to interpret the rules, giving the rules a small gap, because Zhou Fei's ability can create an error value for the rules in a small range according to his own will.

Subsequently, Wen Wen Xishu switches to Chris.

First, Wen Wen Xishu needs to use Chris's body to deal with the guards, and second, Wen Wen Xishu wants to explain some things to Zhou Fei.

"I... shouldn't I be in the archives? How did you switch to Chris again?" Zhou Fei says.

At this very moment, Zhou Fei and Wen Wen Xishu have already arrived on the first floor of the ward, preparing to grope for the road to the Mild Symptom Zone.

Wen Wen Xishu says:

"Time is indeed relatively tight; while the Good People are still attracted by the delicious food, we must seize the time. As for the file... I have already read it."

"The rules of the Moderate Symptom Zone have basically been explored; before going to the Mild Symptom Zone... to prevent some Good People from having returned, I have to switch to Chris. Although it is highly unlikely they will return so early, I have to consider it for stability."

Zhou Fei understands; Wen Wen Xishu is worried that there will be a battle.

However, in the Moderate Symptom Zone, all Good People have been transferred away at this time. Only those quasi-Good People who have not yet completed the transformation are still lying in the ward.

Wen Wen Xishu thinks of more.

Just not long ago, he had already solved several guards in the Severe Symptom Zone by violent means.

His actions were clean and neat, making several Good Person guards unable to react in time before falling to the ground.

Wen Wen Xishu dared to do this because he was certain that these Good People share certain sensations, but absolutely do not include pain beyond a certain degree.

On the battlefield, pain sharing is extremely fatal. Your troops are slashed by someone, and then the whole troop grins and grimaces in pain; this setting would inevitably lead to the failure of the war.

However, out of caution, Wen Wen Xishu still chooses Chris to open the way, with Zhou Fei following behind.

Of course, the second purpose of doing this is to tell Zhou Fei the truth he experienced.

"Let's talk while walking, Zhou Fei, everything you experienced... has been overturned."

After Zhou Fei was silent for two seconds, he followed:

"Speak, I want to know the truth."

Wen Wen Xishu says:

"To prevent you from not believing, I tore off a page of the file. Later when I take you out, I can show you."

"Next, I will simply tell you what kind of world you live in. What your experience is exactly."

If he finds memories that even Zhou Fei doesn't know, can he unlock Zhou Fei's sixth-stage skill?

This is what Wen Wen Xishu wants to test.

And next, what Wen Wen Xishu recounts indeed overturns Zhou Fei's cognition.

"Let's start with the place where you live. This Demon City is far more terrifying than I imagined."

"It stands to reason that the time node I appeared in should be not long after the apocalypse arrived; before the apocalypse arrived... humans at least wouldn't be enslaved on a large scale."

"But I was wrong. Two constellations had already begun to target some cities very early... so much so that not long after the apocalypse began, when people started to flee, these few cities had already thoroughly become a paradise for monsters."

"Humans didn't even realize that they were no longer the masters of this city, or they realized it, but were powerless."

In the original Jicheng, An Rong, in order to gain power to survive in the apocalypse, was subservient to Scorpio and Pisces.

In fact, the leadership of Demon City is the same.

Very early on, Demon City was targeted, because Demon City's economy was highly prosperous and developed; the more such places, the more countless twisted souls are actually hidden.

And those twisted souls, after the apocalypse arrived, were all delicious treats.

The original words in the file are like this—

"Our rare species, elite species, began to slowly occupy human bodies, but due to the harmonious coexistence proposed by that adult, we could not expand."

"However, we were powerful enough to make humans feel terrified at all times. And as that adult's attention shifted to other cities, another adult's proposition was expansion and conquest... we began to constantly invade human bodies."

"We even openly opened the Hall of Good People."

"The original intention of the Hall of Good People was for us to tame those unruly souls. There are always some humans who will say things like 'those who are not of our race must have different hearts,' and there are always some humans who will try to destroy the impression of us among other humans."

"We adopted a reporting reward mechanism, letting humans kill each other; they began to report the bad people around them."

"Under this mechanism, the aggressiveness in humans was soon eliminated; even if there was still aggressiveness, it would only turn toward themselves."

"Either become a Good Person, or become a kind person..."

"The appearance of the Hall of Good People made all humans in the entire Demon City become friendly and harmonious, which is conducive to our management."

"However, there are also some special existences here; the process of us parasitizing them is very slow."

This is what Wen Wen Xishu learned from the file about the background story of Demon City.

Simply put, two constellations participated.

At first, the two constellations joined forces; Constellation A was responsible for conquest and expansion, and Constellation B was responsible for stability.

Originally, under the influence of Constellation B, the population of Demon City and the number of monsters were equal. Perhaps Constellation B had ideas; what it longed for was a city where humans and various evolutionary species lived together.

But not to mention whether this could be realized, later—Constellation B shifted its attention to other cities.

This might be the handiwork of Constellation A, but A didn't think balance was important; A thought that the strong should rule the weak.

Constellation A took advantage of Constellation B going to pay attention to other cities and signaled its subordinates to expand crazily.

So the Great Good Person began to constantly parasitize, letting more and more people fall into becoming Good People.

Humans became fewer and fewer... becoming a vulnerable group.

And the appearance of the Hall of Good People made the situation of humans even more dangerous—reporting bad people around you could get rewards, and you could get materials and recognition in this society.

To prevent being reported, you couldn't be a bad person...

Either fall into becoming a Good Person, or be forced to begin to become kind.

In the apocalypse, kindness, obedience, and gentleness are really not very good things.

The Hall of Good People made the bloodiness in human souls disappear.

This is the background of the era.

Wen Wen Xishu begins to use the elimination method to exclude constellations.

The answer he finally thought of, the one responsible for conquest and expansion, is Leo.

The one responsible for stability, perhaps Libra, but considering that Libra seems to be at odds with Leo...

It seems that every time a new faction appears, he will gain Libra's favor, but will lower Leo's favor. Libra looks like someone who likes chaos and likes to stir up the water.

The two should be naturally opposed.

So Wen Wen Xishu thought of Taurus.

He doesn't know the style of this constellation, but to be able to work with Leo, thinking about it, there are only a few.

However, this is not important.

After recounting the background of the city where Zhou Fei is, Wen Wen Xishu says:

"Regarding your past, and the memory you thought you had, it is also quite different. Zhou Fei, you can't be counted as particularly smart... but your perception is very strong, and it can even be said that you are a natural good seedling for collecting intelligence."

"In this city ruled by monsters, humans have the possibility of becoming certain qualified ones. The ruler behind the city, actually didn't kill everyone, didn't choose to let the entire Demon City be monsters—

Perhaps it was hoping to cultivate certain qualified people, and after their abilities appeared, parasitize them and make them its own."

"As for you, Zhou Fei, it is shown in the file that you were different from other children since you were young; you could easily discover the strangeness around you."

"But the starting point of all this originated from you meeting a child; that child's shadow was very twisted; you remember, right? This is what you told me."

Zhou Fei nods; although his footsteps didn't slow down, always following Wen Wen Xishu, at this very moment, Zhou Fei's heart has begun to panic.

"That child is not a monster. That child is very, very important; your specialty also began because of that child."

"From then on, you could always discover the wrongness around you."

"Your parents were actually constantly feeding you various drugs, hoping to paralyze you, hoping you could be an ordinary child, a bit more ignorant, a bit more kind, don't be too curious, just like all the ignorant people, in that city full of Good People... be a weak and ignorant person."

At that time, the purpose of the monsters was to make people weak and ignorant.

Wen Wen Xishu even saw the reason for choosing Britney in Britney's file.

Testing people's reactions by teasing a real human.

The file shows—94% of the families mixed with Good People, when the Good People saw Britney show embarrassment and began to cry loudly, the Good People laughed, so in the families mixed with Good People, others would also follow and laugh.

Only 6% of the families would have some people who substituted themselves into Britney's perspective and secretly wiped away tears.

These people were all sent to the Hall of Good People.

During the second test—it was 99.5% of people who began to react the same as Good People.

"Your parents also hoped you could be weak and ignorant, but you happened to be a curious baby, and you saw eerie things. From then on, you were closely watched."

"Zhou Fei, they are studying you; they are trying to know what you saw, who that child is."

Zhou Fei looks at Wen Wen Xishu in surprise.

Wen Wen Xishu continues:

"Later, in order to observe you at close range, your parents were dragged to the Hall of Good People and became Good People."

Zhou Fei twitches.

This fact is too heavy for him.

"But at that time, you had already awakened some observation abilities; you soon discovered your father's molting."

"You were already on guard inside."

"Under the action of drugs, you couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams, but your inner guard was still there, so the file wrote—"

"We must figure out who the child human Zhou Fei saw is, and whether the child with the eerie shadow is the target that adult is looking for."

"Zhou Fei has already begun to be on guard against his parents, and Zhou Fei's observation ability is far higher than other humans... we need a bad survival environment to interfere with Zhou Fei."

"Simply put, Zhou Fei, you began to suspect your parents, so your parents were transferred away; in your memory, they went abroad. But the fact is... they died."

"They became Good People very early on."

Zhou Fei clenches his fists.

Wen Wen Xishu sighs:

"Sorry, should I continue?"

Zhou Fei grinds his teeth:

"Continue, I want to know the whole truth."

Wen Wen Xishu's footsteps didn't slow down:

"Good, you began to suspect the whole world, so in order to keep you from having the energy to suspect the whole world, they tried to let your uncle raise you."

"Your uncle is a human, and your cousin Zhou Ming is also a human."

"Living in such a city, your uncle and Zhou Ming know very well how to survive; only ignorance can survive."

"Your uncle longed to protect you, and also knew what the Good People wanted to see... he played a bad uncle, always targeting you."

"But Zhou Fei, although in your impression, your uncle was very bad, look, your body has always been very good, right?"

Zhou Fei doesn't speak; his breathing is already a bit rapid.

Wen Wen Xishu continues:

"Your uncle's initial approach was to constantly suppress you, make you hate him, and put your attention on him; this was also consistent with the requirements of the Good People."

"But his purpose was to let you live."

"Because he didn't want you to realize the truth of the world; once you know that you live in a city full of monsters, but have no ability to change it... you will be very painful and easily targeted by monsters."

"You often couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality. You began to be affected by drugs. But I tell you, these drugs didn't come from your uncle, but from Good People."

"Good People began to feed you medicine; these medicines would make you speak out your thoughts, and make you sleepy and dream a lot. This is also the reason why you couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality."

"However, because you yourself didn't know some things, the secret of that child was never dug out."

"They gradually began to lose patience."

"It was also at this time that your uncle felt he should let you know everything. Your uncle also noticed that there was no such secret on you, no secret that made the Great Good Person interested..."

"Perhaps you would soon be dragged into the Hall of Good People."

"Your uncle was thinking about how to let you truly, no longer attract their attention. So your uncle also began to use drugs."

"But you misunderstood; your uncle was to protect you; even if you were stupid, dumb, at least you were alive."

"In this process, your kindness moved your cousin Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming decided to tell you everything. I think... Zhou Ming perhaps hoped to escape this city with you."

In Zhou Fei's eyes, tears appeared at some point.

He suddenly choked up:

"How... how are they?"

Wen Wen Xishu sighs:

"In this environment... how could they be?"

"Their intentions were seen through by the Good People. So... you woke up again, but your cousin is already like a different person, your uncle seems to still be that uncle, but he can never tell you the truth behind it again."

"Zhou Fei, they died; they became Good People."

Wen Wen Xishu stops his footsteps, because in front, some white coats begin to walk back.

He lowers his body, signaling Zhou Fei to also hide in the bushes, waiting for these white coats to leave.

Zhou Fei lowers his head, tears finally unable to help falling.

Humiliation, hatred, sadness, all poured in.

In memory, the uncle was indeed not a good person, but he had already done everything a normal person could do for his own bloodline.

Better to live miserably than to die well; in order to let Zhou Fei live, to let Zhou Fei not be sent to the Hall of Good People, the uncle had been doing what he could.

At this time, Zhou Fei suddenly realized why his uncle hated him so much, but had to send him to the Hall of Good People at the very end. He could have sent him in very early.

It turned out everything was fake; he lived in a huge lie.

Wen Wen Xishu can feel Zhou Fei's mood at this time.

He and Britney are both poor people in this city. Those who died are the same; even love had to be loved in the form of hate.

Because they were afraid of being seen through, because they lived in a place where they couldn't help themselves and had no dignity to speak of.

Perhaps the original concept of the constellation that tried to maintain stability was for humans and non-humans to live in peace, but now, Wen Wen Xishu sees many templates, and the only place where humans can live with dignity...

Is only the bunker.

"Wen Wen Xishu... I want to avenge them." Zhou Fei lowers his crying voice.

Wen Wen Xishu is not sure.

This mission is not difficult; Zhou Fei, Chris, and Britney, who have awakened their abilities, to escape from here, is really not difficult, consistent with Wen Wen Xishu's judgment of the difficulty of the 30th floor.

But to kill the big boss behind the scenes, this might not be something that can be done in this mission.

After thinking for a long time, Wen Wen Xishu sighs:

"Zhou Fei, let's live first. You live, so the sacrifice of everyone will not be wasted."

Zhou Fei wipes away tears:

"I know, I won't be impulsive; I will definitely escape from here."

Wen Wen Xishu nods:

"Next, we will meet up with the third victim, and we will escape from here today."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 240 =====