Chapter 56 Eternal Existence

Chapter 56 Eternal Existence

Chapter 56 Eternal Existence

Xu Lin knew very well that she was just a pawn.

Like a part of a huge and complex machine.

All a chess piece needs to do is to do what it is supposed to do. She doesn't know anything else, and there is no need for her to know.

"Luo Xi, I am your hidden man. Thirty days ago, you assigned me a task and asked me to pretend to be your mother here. You also gave me some pills and asked me to make sure I took them on time every day."

There was a look of admiration and awe in Xu Lin's eyes.

It was as if the one standing before her was the supreme god in her heart.

Luo Xi could see this from her eyes.

But Luo Xi might not believe it.

She herself said that she is an actress.

However, Luo Xi did not kill her. Instead, he turned around and walked towards the man who was still breathing. He first searched him and stripped him of everything, including his clothes. The ring on his finger was also roughly torn off.

Luo Xi also checked the hair and even the teeth.

The man was trembling and staring at Luo Xi. There was fear in his eyes, but more of anger.

"Who are you?" Luo Xi asked.

The other person has been stripped naked, his card ring has been taken away, and he cannot have any cards on him. In other words, if he dies, he will lose his memory and become an amnesiac.

In a way, it is equivalent to death.

Facing the question, the man showed a ferocious smile. Even though blood kept oozing out of his mouth, his expression seemed as if he was the winner. He looked down on Luo Xi in front of him with a condescending attitude.

"Luo Xi, you are destined to fail. Numbers are eternal."

This guy seemed to be shouting slogans, but his previous injuries were too severe, so he didn't shout clearly or finish his words. He just stared with his eyes wide open and died.

Judging from some of his previous behaviors, this person seems like a deeply brainwashed cult member, the kind of person whose thinking circuits are completely different from those of normal people and who likes to go to extremes.

"Numbers? Eternal existence?"

Luo Xi was pondering the meaning of this.

The other person, because he didn't control his strength, directly broke the other person's neck.

This is the problem.

Because before killing the other party, the card ring on his body was not stripped off. In this way, after the memory collector dies, if he still has memory cards, his other cards will be sealed with his death and cannot be obtained by others. Those things will be inherited by the other party on the next cycle of confinement, and the memories of this cycle will also be inherited together.

In other words, today's incident can no longer be kept secret.

Luo Xi walked back to Xu Lin.

The other party was still kneeling on the ground respectfully, but he was no longer trembling, and his emotions seemed to have stabilized a lot.

"Numbers, eternal existence, what kind of organization is that?" Luo Xi guessed that Xu Lin knew. After all, the other party seemed to be in collusion with those people, and even at first glance they were in the same group.

"You forgot?" Xu Lin was stunned at first, but then she reacted and said quickly: "No, I asked the wrong question. They are members of the Eternal Society. Sometimes, they also call themselves immortals. They are a group of lunatics who believe that the imprisoned day is the ideal existence of life, because they think that the endless cycle of imprisoned days is the real eternal life."

"Besides, you were once one of them."

Luo Xi said nothing.

He was thinking.

He understood the concept of the Eternal Society.

Because if you look at it from another angle, the Day of Imprisonment can indeed achieve an effect similar to 'eternal life'.

A day that repeats itself over and over again, as long as this cycle is "infinite", then the people who exist in this infinite cycle of the day will naturally achieve "eternal life" in a certain sense.

However, this kind of immortality is obviously controlled by some force.

Even the so-called 'eternal life' is not true immortality. Even if it is, it has a price. Each cycle requires a [Memory] card.

Of course, in the eyes of those low-level lunatics, perhaps the "amnesiac" is also an immortal.

Luo Xi thought this must be the case, because he was a madman of a high level, and it should be easy for him to understand the thoughts of those of a low level.

What's more, Xu Lin said that he was once a member of that group of people, which is very interesting. So, did he agree with this concept in the past, or did he regard Digital Society as some kind of chess piece?

"According to what you said, it was me who assigned you the task. So besides pretending to be my mother, were there any other tasks?" Luo Xi asked.

But Xu Lin shook her head.

"I have said everything I can say. I can't tell you anything else."

"why?"

"Because this is also part of the mission."

"In other words, it must be kept secret, and even the one being kept secret includes me?"

"Yes!"

Luo Xi did not continue asking questions. He sat on the sofa, seemingly lost in some thought.

After a while, he shook his head.

"No, it turns out that I can only maintain basic rationality in the cleaner state. It is too arrogant and unrealistic to think in this state."

Luo Xi looked at the clock on the wall and calculated the time.

"There are less than fifty minutes left. And that's under the best circumstances!"

He muttered to himself, because he had eaten the 'poison' that transformed him into a cleaner, although he gained inhuman strength, his life span would also be frozen at one hour.

Perhaps, there will be some differences depending on each person's physique.

For example, the Duck Prophet’s killing time is only ten minutes. In fact, the killing time represents the life span of the cleaner.

Luo Xi knew that he could die at any time.

The one-hour killing time is not fixed.

Especially when one uses 'absolute rationality' to suppress all kinds of crazy thoughts, the killing time may be shortened.

This round, that's basically it.

However, Luo Xi still tried his best to think.

"Your name is Xu Lin, right?" About two minutes later, Luo Xi suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the room.

"Yes, yes!" Xu Lin on the other side nodded.

"I have a question for you to answer. You must answer this question, and you are not allowed to lie, because I can identify all lies."

"I understand. So what's the problem?" Xu Lin looked over with a questioning look in her eyes.

She had just been recalling what Luo Xi had told her alone more than thirty days ago.

Many of them seemed very strange and incomprehensible to her, but she would still record and execute them unconditionally.

Because she wants to become Luo Xi's strongest 'hidden man'.

"My question is, as a 'hidden man', will you carry out my orders unwaveringly?"

"There is no doubt about that."

"So if I contradict my orders, who do you listen to? The me of today or the me of the past?"

"."Xu Lin widened his eyes.

She was obviously in disbelief.

Because of this problem, Luo Xi had talked to her about it more than thirty days ago, and she was very sure that he would ask her about this question in the future.

But Xu Lin knew very well that Luo Xi had been an amnesiac for at least thirty days, and no one knew this better than her.

Because she confirms this every cycle day.

So, Luo Xi, who had lost his memory, actually asked the question that he was so sure he would ask.

This is a bit exaggerated.

"What? Is it difficult to answer? Or are you thinking about how to lie to me?" Luo Xi asked at this time. He already felt tired, extremely tired. The cleaner's powerful strength was fading quickly like the tide.

Sure enough, the power gained from taking the 'poison' lasted for a shorter time than I had imagined.

"No, I won't lie to you unless you ask me to. I mean, if we talk about priority, I will definitely follow the orders given by 'your past self', there is no doubt about that." Xu Lin answered seriously.

"I see." Luo Xi nodded, and then continued: "How many [Memories] did I give you at that time?"

Xu Lin was stunned.

I guess he didn't expect Luo Xi to ask such a strange question.

Wait a moment.

Luo Xi has lost his memory, so how does he know that the [memories] he has been using during this period were given by him?
Although his mind was thinking rapidly, Xu Lin still answered seriously: "A total of forty-five [memories]."

"Okay, then, the mission continues, but for the next mission, I want you to pretend to be him." Luo Xi pointed at the man who was stripped naked on the ground, "You are in collusion with the people of the Eternal Society. You even attacked me with a weapon the moment I went upstairs and opened the door. It's obvious that you want to kill me and take away any [Memory] cards that may be on me. But even so, I still choose to believe you, or rather, I believe in my past self. He can choose you to carry out this mission, which means you are 100% trustworthy."

Hearing this, Xu Lin immediately felt a strong sense of pride and excitement, as if she was being praised by the leader she admired.

It is an indescribable sense of satisfaction and recognition.

"I won't ask you anything else, but I want you to pretend to be this man. I don't know him, and I don't even know his name, but you've met him before, so you should be familiar with him. Here are his card ring and clothes. You go pretend to be him and infiltrate the Eternal Society."

"And then?" Xu Lin asked, trying to suppress her trembling voice.

"Heh, hasn't he already told you?" After Luo Xi finished speaking, he actually smiled, then lowered his head, lifeless.

The flickering lights returned to normal and Xu Lin was stunned for a long moment before coming back to her senses.

"He actually knew. Could it be that Luo Xi didn't lose his memory? He has been acting with me for the past thirty days?" Xu Lin said to herself, but soon she shook her head: "Impossible, he really has lost his memory."

At this moment, Xu Lin didn't know what she was thinking about and got goose bumps all over her body.

However, she still stood up immediately, walked over, and picked up the card ring and clothes of the man that Luo Xi had placed aside. She put on the card ring, then immediately took off her own clothes, leaving nothing behind, and then changed into the other person's clothes.

After changing her clothes, she glanced at Luo Xi, who was lifeless on the sofa, with admiration and an indescribable emotion in her eyes.

"I will do what you ask me to do, as always!"

After saying this, she had already turned into that man.

She turned and left the 'home' which she had lived in for more than thirty days and had become very familiar with.

(End of this chapter)