Chapter 235: Suspicion of the Wise

Chapter 235: Suspicion of the Wise

Chapter 235: Suspicion of the Wise

After several consecutive breakthroughs, Zhou Fei's ability value increased significantly.

Among them, Wen Xishu was even very surprised and felt that he had some abnormal abilities like a supermodel.

Memory accumulation directly reached the fifth stage.

The character of the wise man was blocked at the maximum level by Wen Xishu.

Wen Xishu felt that... Zhou Fei's current skills were only used to escape from an area, which made the game seem a little too simple.

Of course, he didn't know how strong these good people were, and what role the great good man behind the scenes played. So Wen Xishu was always very vigilant.

But at this moment, Wen Xishu was indeed shocked by Zhou Fei's peculiarity.

There are many ways to play the game.

Some people think that playing according to the planner's requirements is called playing. Others think that if you can find plug-ins, you can modify it according to your own preferences, which is called playing.

Of course, there are some people who like to dig into the underlying code. The way they play the game is to compete with programmers, look at various code packages in advance, guess the subsequent direction of the game, and brute force the hidden plot of the game. By calling up the dialogue text, they can obtain the extremely difficult to trigger plot content in advance.

Wen Xishu now has some of the latter meaning.

It was not difficult for the three people in the Good Man Hall to obtain their memories at first, but the triggering conditions became more and more demanding as time went on.

The initial stage of memory, Zhou Fei’s past, is easily triggered.

A top student and a poor child, whose parents went abroad and who was not taken care of by his uncle's family, finally came to the Shanren Hall because of a kind thought.

This is Zhou Fei’s past.

By comparison, everything seems to make sense.

This is like another character, Britney’s past. If you don’t dig deep, you will know that Britney comes from a wealthy family, her parents died unexpectedly, and she came to the charity center out of depression…

Seems very reasonable.

But soon, Britney's past was turned upside down.

Because after further digging, Wen Xishu discovered the truth about Britney - living in a city surrounded by good people and real people.

Living a huge lie.

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

At this moment, Wen Xishu also discovered Zhou Fei's memory through a bug, which seemed to subvert something.

The story of Zhou Fei also changed from the style of a short play about an urban academic master... to another, somewhat weird style.

Among the memories Zhou Fei recounted, there was a passage like this, and it was this passage that caught Wen Xishu's attention.

"I often can't tell the difference between dreams and reality. Sometimes I feel like I've done a lot of things... but suddenly I wake up."

"Everything I had done before, as soon as I opened my eyes and found myself in bed... was overturned."

"I was told I had sleepwalking."

So Zhou Fei's sleepwalking is not fake? Is it real?
Wen Xishu felt something was wrong, because when he was under the drug, he was indeed affected by the drug, but when Zhou Fei was sleepwalking, he felt everything was normal. He could conduct normal surveys.

"It's like, I feel like everything I'm going through right now might be sleepwalking."

"My life seems to have two experiences. You may think I'm crazy when I say this. Sometimes I even doubt that I'm crazy."

"When I was a kid, I saw my father shed his skin."

The word "shedding" seems a little strange when used to describe humans.

Wen Xishu had some guesses in his mind.

"He began to tear off layer after layer of skin, and after that, he looked at me with his bloody face."

"I was terrified."

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

"There are similar things. I remember one time, a child was walking home on the road, and his shadow became very strange... His shadow turned into a winding, snake-like thing."

"I suspected I was seeing things, so I called out to him."

"But when he turned around, I was horrified. His face was split open."

"Although I felt scared, I wanted to get closer to observe. But when I really wanted to get closer..."

"I woke up."

"I'm back in my bed at home, I'm under the covers, and everything is warm."

"No cracked faces, no strange humans with shed skin."

"My father is fine. I even pinched his face and he showed a loving expression, just like usual."

"But on that day, my father and mother received a mission to investigate something mysterious. They needed to be away for a long time."

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

"I have a cousin named Zhou Ming from my uncle's family. Zhou Ming's learning talent is very average... He is the kind of person who works very hard and loves learning even though he takes cram school classes and hires famous teachers to tutor him..."

"It's highly likely that he will only get mediocre grades."

"As far as I can remember, Zhou Ming was jealous of me, and my uncle was jealous of me too. Because I was smarter than Zhou Ming."

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

“That’s what the outside world is promoting.”

"But the truth is not like that. I don't bother to show weakness. I 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, but I feel like I've been taking drugs since I was a child."

"This may be an illusion, but I do... often wake up suddenly."

"Let's get back to the point. I kept repairing my relationship with Zhou Ming. I started teaching him. I even thought about pretending to be weak to give Zhou Ming some confidence so that he wouldn't be scolded by his uncle."

"You know, there are some idiots in this world. They themselves are not good enough, but when their children can't compare to other people's children, they will get angry at their children."

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

"My grades started to decline during my sophomore and junior years of high school. It wasn't because of drugs, nor was it like what people said, that I was deliberately showing weakness..."

"But I know that if I do this, my uncle will be better to me and it will also reduce the pressure on Zhou Ming."

"If Zhou Ming performs normally, he can get into a school that everyone considers to be pretty good."

"But if I perform too well, it will put too much pressure on him. Because although parents forbid their children from competing for material things, they are constantly comparing their children's grades."

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

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

"No... It's all fake, all fake. I never did that. Zhou Ming never apologized to me..."

Zhou Fei pressed his head, looking a little painful:
"They're all fake? No... How can they all be fake? Zhou Ming even promised to tell me a secret!"

"No...it's fake. When I woke up, Zhou Ming was still the same as before!"

"Is it true or false?"

Wen Xishu didn't expect that Zhou Fei's memory was like this.

Zhou Fei presents a sense of madness where he cannot distinguish between dreams and reality.

"What is real?"

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

He actually subconsciously said this sentence:
"What is...what is true?"

Margaret.

War, invasion, therapy, psychiatrists...

hiss.

Wen Xishu felt a headache.

Zhou Fei is the same at this moment:
"Zhou Ming apologized to me and told me he was sorry. 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've worked hard for will be overturned!"

"I hate my sleepwalking! I really hate why I have this disease."

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

"No, and no, it's not completely different, just horrible in some places, but it's basically the same."

"In that world, Zhou Ming seemed to have made a great effort. I felt that at that moment, Zhou Ming was very real. On the contrary, in another world... Zhou Ming seemed to be performing deliberately."

"No... No, I was wrong. It's not like that... In fact, it's all my imagination. Zhou Ming... Zhou Ming is that kind of person."

"The whole family is disgusting! They are all disgusting!"

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

"For a while, I thought I was getting better after taking their medicine." "But I still couldn't believe which one was real, because... because I didn't think they were human."

"Just like you told me, they are parasitizing us."

"I want to escape from here... I opened my eyes many times, and I kept thinking, if I open my eyes and suddenly wake up, will I be back to my previous home?"

"Is everything just one long sleepwalk?"

“I’m always careful.”

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

"Then my world became normal again, and everyone was just as annoying as ever!"

"But after coming here, I felt that... this place was full of weird and terrifying things. I tried my best to deny them. I didn't want to wake up too quickly..."

It's inconsistent.

Wen Xishu noticed that Zhou Fei was eager to escape from here.

The way to escape from here is to wake up.

Because every time Zhou Fei encountered something strange, a child with a cracked face, a brother who suddenly apologized, a father who shed his skin...

They will suddenly wake up and find that everything was just a dream.

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

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

So Zhou Fei tried his best to deny certain things and pretend not to know them, thinking that by doing so he would not have to wake up.

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

The secret that Zhou Ming wants to uncover may be the key.

At this moment, Zhou Fei seemed to be unable to distinguish between reality and dreams.

He even thought that he sometimes dreamed in his dreams.

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

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

The sleepwalking line always ends in a hurry.

In the awakening line, the elder brother has always disliked his younger brother Zhou Fei, and the uncle is a typical brainless villain.

Zhou Fei, on the other hand, was troubled and could not distinguish between sleepwalking and reality.

But it seems that Zhou Fei is inclined to believe that the awakening line is real.

Zhou Fei held his head in pain and told everything.

There is no doubt that Zhou Fei had made a great determination, otherwise he would not have exposed his pain and madness.

Wen Xishu said:
"Zhou Fei, maybe you are not sleepwalking at all."

Zhou Fei was puzzled and still squatted outside the confinement room with his head in his hands.

Wen Xishu said:
"Have you ever thought that both experiences were real, but each time the other party used the same brutal method to end your exploration of the truth of this world."

"Every time you see something that doesn't fit your perception, your end is to wake up from your bed..."

"Plus your familiarity with drugs - I think you have been taking some drugs. These drugs have severed part of your perception of reality."

"When you come into contact with the truth, someone forces you to fall asleep. Then you wake up... and blame it all on sleepwalking."

Zhou Fei was shocked:

"Two...two experiences, are they both true?"

Wen Xishu said:
"In fact, there are not two experiences, it's just one experience, the environment you live in has not changed... This makes it even more difficult for you to distinguish."

"You saw your father shed his skin, that's true, but this caused you to be exposed to the real world too early. Some people don't want you to know this..."

"So you are controlled by some kind of drug, and when the effect of the drug wears off, you wake up and you think everything was a dream."

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

"This also caused you to see things you shouldn't have seen, so you were controlled by the drug again. When the effect of the drug wore off, you woke up."

"It's the same with Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming is trying to tell you the truth. He sees everything you do."

"But there is no doubt that some will does not want you to know the truth."

"They made you crazy because they wanted you to continue playing the role of Zhou Fei that they wanted you to play."

Zhou Fei was shocked. He tried to accept this reality but was afraid of waking up suddenly.

Wen Xishu seemed to know Zhou Fei's concerns:
"You won't wake up. Because you are not in the dream, Zhou Fei, this is reality."

Zhou Fei was puzzled:

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

This is also the problem that is currently bothering Wen Xishu.

Britney and Zhou Fei seem to live in a world where "monsters are dressed in human skin" and a large number of people pretend to be human.

Wen Xishu had actually experienced this world before, in the turbulence of time.

Of course, it may not be the same world.

But Wen Xishu always felt that perhaps the world that ate children and the world where Britney Zhou Fei was at this moment... might not be the same, but the owners behind them and the related constellations might be the same.

This is a constellation with extremely huge power. This constellation is likely to control several cities, and the dominance rate of these cities is very high.

Unlike places like Jiangcheng, Moen, and Hujiang, there are multiple forces in these places.

But Wen Xishu could feel that there seemed to be no other forces in the cities occupied by this constellation.

Almost the entire city is cooperating with its arrangements.

For example, Britney, everyone is following the arrangement, making Britney live in a carefully arranged lie. Everything about Britney is like a show.

She was the only one who didn't know.

Wen Xishu felt that 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 the behavior style of this constellation is to try to make everyone unaware of anything unusual and live in a city full of monsters?

But he quickly overturned this idea:
"The Hall of Good People is a place where people are transformed into good people. The differences in many people's souls are erased here. This is a concentration camp for souls."

"Logically, the direction of the story at the beginning is that I want Zhou Fei, Chris, and Britney, who are about to become good people, to escape from here."

"But this is the strange thing. During my exploration, I realized one thing - the monsters are very powerful and have spread all over the magic city."

"It can be said that the monsters have already taken over the Demon City. So why are we still taking so long to convert Zhou Fei and the others?"

"Why not just kill the three of them? Why go to all that trouble to deceive and hide the existence of Zhou Fei and Britney from them?"

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

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

"So, there's a reason why I can control these three and not the others."

"Is it precisely because of their special characteristics that the people behind the scenes pay special attention to them?"

"Think about it carefully. If Zhou Fei's abilities are used to climb the strange tower, they are actually very abnormal. If these abilities are permanently in him and he can use them skillfully... then Zhou Fei is definitely a sharp weapon for deciphering the mystery."

"So that's why that person tried to weave their lives together and make them think they were living in a normal world?"

"But it failed in the end. Britney and Zhou Fei both noticed something was wrong. So they had no choice but to send him to the Charity 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, I will control you from now on. Don't worry, I will definitely reveal the truth you want."

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

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

Assuming this is the work of a certain zodiac sign, then the execution ability of that zodiac sign is amazing.

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

Zhou Fei, who was extremely confused and couldn't distinguish reality from dreams, gradually became more critical.

"Hello, Chris."

In the confinement room, Chris said in surprise:
"who are you?"

"My name is Wen Xishu, and I'm here to rescue you and get you out of here."

Britney in the mild case area and Zhou Fei in the moderate case area have helped Wen Xishu to uncover the truth.

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

(End of this chapter)