Chapter 233 The Truman Show
Chapter 233 The Truman Show
Having said that, Zhou Fei’s situation is not very good now.
Wen Xishu never touched the concealment talisman. He was still waiting for the opportunity.
It was a long few hours.
In the past, when Wen Xishu entered the Weird Tower, perhaps he could solve the mystery in a few hours, and maybe even enter the Desire Tower.
But this time, he just waited patiently.
While Wen Xishu was controlling Zhou Fei and waiting for the result, several other people suddenly woke up in the ward.
When they woke up, they seemed to still have some consciousness, but just like the old tea seller...
After a while, these people "died" immediately.
Then people in white coats would come in and carry them away.
Wen Xishu guessed that at this time, "they" had become "them".
Because soon after, everything was very similar to before, and they would suddenly recite some ancient texts.
It was precisely these identical processes that allowed Wen Xishu to have a closer guess about the truth.
"The first sound was the sound of something crawling inside my body..."
"I can hear these sounds, but as I said before, if these sounds can be heard, it means that the things inside my body are very big... If there really are so many of these things that are not small in size in my body, I would have died long ago."
"So these sounds, maybe, are not captured by hearing."
“Not many people can hear the sound of a flea jumping, but if the flea had ears, it would definitely be able to hear it.”
"These things will eventually occupy our brains..."
"Maybe they have already occupied a part of it, so when they crawl, I can establish a connection with them."
"Secondly... this is also the most crucial point."
"Why are the things that everyone recites in Britney's 'mild-case area' being recited by 'them' who have just gotten new bodies in the moderate-case area?"
"Also, I can feel some bugs crawling inside my body, which is not surprising...but why can I also feel something crawling inside the bodies of so many people in the ward?"
The rustling sound made Wen Xishu feel like thousands of cockroaches were crawling.
That was the momentum created by the voices of many people in the ward coming together.
"The new kind-hearted people in the moderate symptom area are reciting the things in the mild symptom area... and I can hear the sound of worms crawling in many people's bodies."
“The result is outrageous, but not hard to guess.”
Wen Xishu thought of a horrifying result.
"Hive mind. Or, Zerg mind. Everyone is sharing one brain, one mind..."
Wen Xishu once read a story that a person bitten by a vampire would become a new vampire.
The first generation species is supreme, while the second generation species is more special.
The first generation can directly convey instructions to the second generation, and can even directly control the second generation. The second generation is his clone.
Of course, if the first generation does not choose to control the second generation, the second generation will become an independent individual.
But if the first generation is willing, then all the second generation species will be clones of the first generation.
They can even share common feelings.
For example, if the first generation species reaches climax, the other second generation species will also feel excited.
Secondly, if the first generation species is willing, it can also switch perspectives at any time and experience other people.
In a sense, Wen Xishu is now very much like a first-generation species...
Zhou Fei, Chris, and Britney are three second-generation species.
Because Wen Xishu's will can be directly conveyed to the three of them. In certain circumstances, the three of them can also have their own will.
The four of them were working together to deal with another "first generation" with the same structure.
Wen Xishu decided to temporarily call the boss hiding in the dark a great man.
After all, this place is called the Hall of Good People.
"This explains why all infected people have a certain degree of 'synesthesia'."
"So I can also hear the sound of parasites crawling inside their bodies."
"And those who are completely parasitic can use synaesthesia to obtain the memories of other good people."
Theoretically speaking, the most complete ending must be to defeat the main brains such as the "Zerg Queen", "Ant Queen" and "Bee Queen".
But now Wen Xishu is really not sure.
"Let's find a way to leave first."
Wen Xishu has already figured out a lot of the terrain layout in the middle symptomatic area.
"The moderate symptomatic area is not an escape point... Now it seems that the mild symptomatic area where Britney is is the most dangerous. Perhaps the exit is there."
I have to say, when the role switched to Zhou Fei, Wen Xishu felt his thoughts suddenly opened up.
But for now, he had to settle Zhou Fei and switch to where Britney was.
Zhou Fei quickly returned to the hospital bed under Wen Xishu's control.
The "sleepwalking" is over.
Wen Xishu did not arouse suspicion.
"The most dangerous moment was when I was surrounded by three people in white coats, with their ears almost pressed against my body..."
"As long as I let my mind go and don't think about anything, I can wake up the parasites in my body."
"When these bugs are crawling, Zhou Fei can roam around the middle symptomatic area without restraint."
"But... it's best not to do this. Because if you do, it will increase the 'parasitic progress'."
"I can't let the character of Zhou Fei become a 'good guy'."
Wen Xishu lay on the hospital bed, and a familiar prompt appeared.
[The current character is in a safe state and will not attract "their" attention for a short time, meeting the switching conditions. Do you want to switch the character to the brave or benevolent? ]
Wen Xishu switched to the benevolent Britney.
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The perspective changes again.
The dark confinement cell and the dim ward disappeared.
It was already afternoon, and Wen Xishu saw the warm afternoon sun through the window, feeling as if he was dreaming of his past life.
But soon, he saw people in hospital gowns playing and frolicking in the yard.
The old man selling tea was also among them.
But like everyone else, the tea-selling old man's hospital gown was of a different style.
Wen Xishu stood up at this time and realized that his style was actually different from that of the people around him.
The "quasi-good people" around him all wore zebra-striped uniforms. At first glance, they looked more like prisoners than patients.
Britney's clothes, although also a hospital gown, did not have any stripes.
Just pure white.
"I didn't notice it last time. I was really careless... Is it a role problem? It seems that I can only think at full power when I am with Zhou Fei?"
Wen Xishu was really not used to this situation. It was as if he was divided into three people, each with completely different characteristics.
He began to manipulate Britney and walked out of his room. When passing by the dressing mirror, Wen Xishu took a closer look.
This was different from the blurry image quality when switching roles. Now he could truly feel Britney's beauty.
I have to say, Britney looks like a person in a painting, even if she just looks in the mirror casually.
Wen Xishu felt that the young Evelin was probably of the same appearance level as Wen Renjing.
So far, Wen Xishu has never seen handsome men and beautiful women of this level.
But Britney is very close to their level.
"With this look, if he goes to the Hunyu Tower, he will definitely be a good hand."
Wen Xishu looked away.
In the mild case area, or the "quasi-good person" area, there are not many good people in advanced forms wearing white coats.
Most of them are “quasi-good people.” Yes, most of them.
Last time, the child was stared at by a man in a white coat because he did not open his mouth when reciting the "Rules for Being a Good Pupil and Child".
In the end, it was Wen Xishu who manipulated Britney and made the man in the white coat let the child go.
Combining this information, Wen Xishu was convinced that there were real humans here.
However, Wen Xishu was a little confused as to why these real people were here.
"Perhaps the Good People Hall will also retain some real people, but just do personality modification, using electric shock, coercion, intimidation... to make real humans obedient, but not parasitic. The purpose is probably to keep samples?"
Wen Xishu noticed that these kind people looked like they were having fun in the yard, with laughter and joy heard from time to time, making the atmosphere in the entire light-case area neither as depressing as the heavy-case area nor as weird as the moderate-case area.
But if you look closely, you'll find... these laughs repeat from time to time, and there's no fluctuation in volume.
Scriptures such as the "Standards for Being a Good Pupil and Child" were also read aloud in a mechanical tone, as if they were a piece of code to be written into their brains.
But there are also a few people who appear very natural, who will think, and who will frown because they can't remember what to read for a moment.
These few people are the real human beings.
They are almost all children.
And once these children make some mistakes, they will immediately attract a lot of attention.
It can be said that the few strange feelings in the mild disease area come from the joint actions of kind people.
When these children, who are real humans, do not behave in a coordinated manner, the good people will collectively look at these children with the same frequency of movement.
"These 'good guys' are not playing, they are doing the final 'grinding' to become more like real humans."
Wen Xishu thought of his experience not long ago when he manipulated Zhou Fei and Chris.
Only by thinking all the time can you suppress the bugs in your body. This also means that only a brain that gives up thinking is the "paradise" that these bugs like.
"In order to turn a person into a good person, besides implanting insect eggs, it seems that we have to slowly make him become confused."
"This does have a sense of kindness being stupidity."
Shanren Hall sounds like the name of Long Xia, but I don’t know in which city this Shanren Hall is located.
"If there were no bunker players, this city would be in a very bad state... Sooner or later, these kind people would completely parasite everyone in the city."
"Maybe it's already an exaggeration now. If you think pessimistically, maybe there are already many good people in this city who are pretending to be human beings and acting like they are human beings."
When Wen Xishu manipulated Britney to walk out of her room and come to the yard...
"They" all looked at Britney again.
But it was different from the looks he gave those children… these looks seemed extremely greedy.
Britney has a beautiful figure and a beautiful face. It stands to reason that being stared at is a common occurrence. As a beauty, she must get used to being noticed.
But then, Wen Xishu felt a strong sense of discomfort.
Britney's discomfort was also conveyed to Wen Xishu. Stimulated by this feeling, some new memories were unlocked.
"Britney Loves Playfulness", "Social Experiment", "Magic City's Latest Live-Action Experimental Drama", "Good People's Favorite Show"... These titles with quotation marks appeared one by one in Wen Xishu's mind.
Wen Xishu's previous memory of Britney was that she was a Chinese teacher whose parents passed away not long ago and she became depressed.
I came from a wealthy family, but I loved to play when I was young. Apart from that, I had no other shortcomings. I loved to help others...
When these things were combined together, Wen Xishu realized that something was wrong.
Britney didn't like studying, but she became a teacher...
And those titles that flashed by - words like "Playful Britney" and "Social Experiment" stimulated Wen Xishu to gain some new memories.
"No way... Could it be that Britney has always been in this kind of environment?"
It seems that we have found out why Britney is so special and why she is so popular in this area.
Magic city.
This is considered a new city unlocked by Wen Xishu in the Three Towers World.
Britney's memory is not complicated, but it is outrageous enough.
From childhood to adulthood, Britney has lived in a huge, elaborate deception.
All friends and relatives, all social relationships... are all fake.
Every day’s experiences are exposed by countless hidden cameras.
Simply put, everything about Britney is a script.
But she doesn't know it herself.
The direction of Britney's life will be decided by audience voting.
Who Britney will become, who she will fall in love with, when her parents will die, it's all part of the show.
Not long ago, Britney's parents died in a car accident, which was actually a show effect. Because everyone was tired of seeing Britney's joy and wanted to see Britney's vulnerability.
Britney began to suffer from depression.
This is the memory unlocked by Wen Xishu, but in fact, it is just a montage.
Britney’s depression has little to do with the death of her parents. What makes Britney depressed is that...she finally discovered the truth about the world.
She was living in a huge scam. She discovered it early on.
It can even be said that she planned the death of her parents herself.
She kept hinting to those who were qualified to write scripts that her life was happy and she was happy every day.
Say that nothing sad will happen in your life and no one will see your tears.
Soon, these words stimulated the audience, and the audience voted for Britney's parents...
In a sense, Britney is actually controlling the people who are controlling her...
But she was unhappy because she further verified that she was living a "lie".
She learned to dance, to cook, and eventually became a teacher and a goddess in the eyes of many people...it was all a show.
"Chris's story is outrageous, and so is Zhou Fei's, but neither is as good as Britney's..."
After digesting all the memories, Wen Xishu began to ponder some details.
He gradually adjusted to the looks around him and put on a fake smile.
A smile is brighter than the sun.
The kind people around also began to respond to this smile, but their greedy eyes did not change.
"Social experiment... a favorite show for good people."
"Britney has these things in her memory. It seems that she does know about the existence of good people."
"For her, not only is life fake, but even actors are not real human beings..."
"She came here, maybe she came here on her own initiative?"
"Good people like Britney in the show... This also explains why Britney is here but has not been completely parasitized."
Wen Xishu was not sure and needed more memory clues about Britney's past.
However, the triggering conditions for unlocking the memories are not strict. Wen Xishu did not search for the memories in depth, but he already had some understanding of the past of the three people.
But Wen Xishu doesn't quite understand good people.
"I may have underestimated the influence of good people. Now it seems that the number of souls wiped out in this soul concentration camp is not small."
"Also, I guessed earlier that the good guys were a hive mind... a queen bee was controlling everyone. But it was appropriate that they retained some self-awareness."
"If this speculation is true... the collective love of Britney by good people may not be because Britney is so charming that she can charm everyone in every way."
"But the master of the good people, the first generation, the queen bee, the queen of the Zerg, he likes Britney?"
"But I can't let myself be careless..."
Wen Xishu did not forget rule four. They like xxx things, they have xxx desires, and after xxx reaches the limit, xxxxxxx.
Although most of the rules were obscured, Wen Xishu could guess... Britney, as a person that "they" like, would most likely not end up well.
Got to escape.
The qualified people this time may be "Zhou Fei", "Chris" and "Britney".
We have to let these three people escape.
But to escape from here, you not only need to understand the terrain, but also have to know enough about good people.
Wen Xishu began to formulate a strategy in his mind:
"Britney is the only one who can observe good people up close."
“Without a doubt, I have to use Zhou Fei to interpret the rules and remember the terrain, and use Chris to break through some hard obstacles.”
"But that's not enough. I also need to find a way to understand the enemy's weaknesses and characteristics..."
Wen Xishu’s biggest problem at the moment is that he knows too little about the power of good people.
He was also wondering which zodiac sign would be the author of the good man.
Wen Xishu's thoughts were soon diverted because a little guy appeared in the yard.
It was a cat. There was a pet in the yard. The cat kept sniffing the ground.
He looked at the cat thoughtfully.
The other people in the yard ignored the cat.
Because even this cat is wearing a zebra-striped hospital gown. This is a parasitic cat.
"Cats are also parasitic? That's why they're not curious?"
Wen Xishu felt that this seemed to be a clue.
As time passed, the bright sunshine soon turned dark red and the sunset was about to fall.
It's dinner time.
Dinner in the intensive care unit and the moderate care unit is eaten in an extremely closed environment.
But the mild case area is not like that. It is in the spacious and clean cafeteria.
Wen Xishu controlled Britney and looked at the food in the bowl. It was all normal food that met human appetite and body needs.
This made Wen Xishu feel magical.
"Is it because of the price of occupying a human body? Although I control this body, I also have to endure its desires."
Regarding good people, Wen Xishu currently has only the following guesses:
He guessed that good people had some kind of "synesthesia", as if he could hear the sound of worms crawling in the bodies of other quasi-good people.
They all serve a certain will and can be replaced by that will.
But at the same time, when it is not replaced, a small part of self-will is retained. This is the difference of every good person.
But despite their differences, some of their feelings are actually common, which is why their movements are sometimes unusually coordinated.
Of course, everything is just speculation, and Wen Xishu cannot make plans based on speculation.
However, Wen Xishu's guess was soon verified.
While enjoying dinner, Wen Xishu saw an interesting scene. Only from Britney's perspective could he see these details so closely.
Because of the long queue, some kind-hearted people would enjoy the food first. Wen Xishu's gaze also fell on a man in a white coat who was having dinner.
“That white coat… before it was parasitized and turned into a good person, it seemed to like spicy food very much.”
The food of good people is different.
"Interesting. From this point of view, although the good people have to learn human behavior... but in fact, after they complete the parasitism, they still retain some of the original owner's habits, or desires."
"Some people like sweet food, some like salty food, and some like spicy food."
"And judging from the food... this food is the food of normal humans. They are kind people, and what they eat is no different from humans!"
The most crucial point, Wen Xishu discovered... when the men in white coats were enjoying food full of chili peppers, some kind-hearted people would subconsciously make a "shaha" sound as if they were being spicy.
Some began to drool.
Synaesthesia...
Wen Xishu was convinced that these kind people did share the same feelings, and this speculation had been confirmed.
"At the same time, I can also conclude that the matrix can cut off the feelings with certain individuals."
"Although it is the mother, it is likely to cut off its connection with most of the swarm due to synaesthesia."
This is very natural, if Wen Xishu was a first-generation vampire and bit a bunch of second-generation vampires... and everyone would have the same feeling.
Then Wen Xishu will definitely find a way to cut off the connection with certain second-generation species.
To give a simple example, the first generation does not eat coriander, but the second generation likes to eat coriander crazily...
Of course, the first generation species must cut off some of its sensory connections with the second generation species, at least cutting off the sharing of taste, to prevent itself from being disgusted by coriander.
That's how it is now.
Many kind-hearted people don’t like spicy food and look at the people in white coats who eat spicy food with doubt.
Many good people like spicy food, so they gave the good man in the white coat his signature fake smile.
In the entire cafeteria, some people felt nauseous from time to time, and some people drooled from time to time.
This scene was so interesting that it gave Wen Xishu confidence.
The funniest thing was that when the cat subconsciously ate the food that fell on the ground according to its habit, all the white coats started to vomit.
"So... I can at least be sure that the Matrix, um, the Great Benefactor, is not omnipresent. If it were linked to every Benefactor, it would probably take a while just to process the information."
"And, I also discovered that every good person still retains some of the original owner's desires."
“And when one person feels the appetite coming up, other good people will also feel the desire for food.”
“This is the breaking point!”
Putting all the clues together, Wen Xishu has already figured out the framework of the escape plan.
"The benevolent one is really a trump card."
Although the Great Good Man is not everywhere, Wen Xishu currently does not know whether the Great Good Man, the ultimate boss, is keeping an eye on them.
But Wen Xishu can be sure... when all the good people looked at Britney with greedy eyes, at that moment, the great good man must have been looking too.
"He likes Britney, and Britney is the bait to divert his attention."
"But it's not enough. Britney needs to attract more firepower."
(End of this chapter)