Chapter 343 Listening to the Waves
Chapter 343 Listening to the Waves
A biting chill crept up his spine along his lumbar vertebrae. It was an emotion called fear. The last time Ning Zhe was so scared was the last time.
But there’s no use being afraid, because what’s coming will come.
"The situation in Taoyuan City is the result of cooperation between Fen Wu and Yu Ziqian, and I stole Yu Ziqian's own understanding of himself. I have all his memories, but I don't have any memories about Fen Wu."
"This means that his memory has also been modified by Fen Wu, and there is also a Taisou worm parasitizing in Yu Ziqian's brain."
“I think there’s one in my head, too.”
Jue Yuan's rules use "thoughts" as a medium. He can only make people's original thoughts become extreme, but cannot make people have thoughts that they do not have originally. Just over two months ago, in Taoyuan City where time and space were melted by Tu Yu, Yu Ziqian had stamped Ning Zhe with the thought stamp of "I must kill Ning Zhe".
"Without corresponding thoughts as a medium, Jue Yuan's rules will not work. Yu Ziqian was able to stamp my thoughts and make me commit suicide, which means that I already had the idea of committing suicide in my heart."
But who would be so mean to him for no reason? Ning Zhe was sure that he had never thought of committing suicide. That was definitely not his own idea, but something imposed on him by outsiders.
Now it seems that this outsider is most likely Fen Wu, and a "Taisu" had been planted in his brain three months ago.
...Gan.
Ning Zhe shifted his gaze from the gambling table, adjusted his disordered breathing, turned around and saw Fen Wu lifting the curtain and walking in from outside. Their eyes intertwined for a moment, and then separated.
Meilin glanced at the two of them secretly. From the slightly subtle atmosphere between them, she could feel that no matter what the two of them had just talked about outside, they had finally failed to finish the conversation.
"Okay, okay, calm down first." Ning Zhe closed his eyes for two seconds before opening them again, sorting out the complicated thoughts in his mind and focusing his energy on the present: "Since I have rejected Fen Wu's 'good intentions', then next, I am afraid I will have to face the attack of this elusive Ascender.
Although that thing can't be called "good intentions", it is more of a trap of retreating to advance.
No one in the world would show goodwill for no reason, especially enemies. The reason why Fen Wu suddenly showed a willingness to compromise was not because of what he said before, "there is no conflict in core interests between the two", but simply because the hard bone named Ning Zhe was too difficult to chew.
"Based on what happened in Chenyugu Prison, Fenwu can not only make small-scale deletions and modifications to people's memories, but he is also fully capable of completely erasing a person's memories, turning them into an empty shell without thoughts and consciousness, and then writing different memories into this empty shell to artificially create living people with different personalities. Such means can be called 'God'."
"However, ghosts are ghosts after all, not omniscient and omnipotent gods. Fenwu planted the Taisou worm in my brain three months ago, and I was unaware of it for a long time. Theoretically, he can erase my memory and take away everything from me at any time, and he has sufficient motivation to do so, but so far, he has not done so. Doesn't he want to?"
...No.
"Ghosts have limited abilities. All the weird things I know so far have their corresponding operating rules and contact media. Even the god-like 'Taisu' must have its own limitations. It cannot be truly free to do whatever it wants, let alone act recklessly."
"Fen Wu didn't want to delete my memory, but he couldn't do it. Some hidden condition that I don't know about restricted him. I need to know the specific content of this hidden condition and understand what the 'limitation' is that prevents him from really taking action against me..."
If you can understand its own 'limitations', then you will be not far from cracking the core rules of 'Taisui'.
Ding--
A crisp sound woke Ning Zhe from his brief meditation. Pétain threw the second coin into the wine glass, but the shaky wine glass did not burst and spill after all.
Ning Zhe looked around and saw Fen Wu sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, looking very quiet.
Pétain, who had just thrown in the coin, looked back and forth between Mary and the gambler, as if he was thinking about who should be the next person to throw in the coin.
Meilin's expression did not change much, but her slightly erratic eyes and subtle body language revealed her anxiety at the moment. Obviously, Ning Zhe's previous warning worked, and Meilin had begun to weigh whether she should continue gambling like this, or take the initiative to become a loser, use a granting item as a price to get out of this game, and quickly go to see the situation of her own lady.
The gambler still sat there, not saying a word.
It's just a ghost.
Looking at everyone with their own thoughts, Ning Zhe suddenly had an uncontrollable horrible thought in his mind:
"All my thoughts just now were based on the information in my memory, and then I made guesses and drew preliminary conclusions. But my memory is likely to have been modified by Fenwu..."
Can information that is suspected to have been modified by someone really be trusted?
Furthermore, if even the premise is unreliable, how can the result inferred based on this condition be correct?
"Calm down. Fenwu didn't directly erase my memory and turn me into a zombie. This shows that Taisou's ability has its limitations. My memory should have only been tampered with in a small part. It may not be all fake."
"...No, that's not right. Who can prove that the idea that 'my memory should not have been tampered with on a large scale' was not implanted in my brain by Fen Wu to make me relax my vigilance?"
"Or to be more extreme - am I really Ning Zhe?"
"Is it possible that I was a walking corpse with no memories deleted from the beginning, and that Fen Wu artificially implanted memories in me, making me think that I was Ning Zhe and mistook a life that did not belong to me as my own?"
Is this possible?
Some brothers, yes.
This is an unfalsifiable question. No one can prove how much of their memories are real and how much are false. No one can prove that they are a living person rather than a brain in a jar soaked in a nutrient tank.
No one can answer this question.
But ghosts can.
The moment Ning Zhe had the thought, "Am I really Ning Zhe?", something strange happened.
"Ok?"
"This……"
Pétain, who was hesitating about who to appoint next, Meilin, who was worried about her lady's safety, even Fen Wu, who was resting with his eyes closed, and the gambler who was sitting in the banker's seat, all the people present cast their eyes on Ning Zhe at this moment.
On the sofa, the bright and charming graceful mature woman had disappeared, and in her place was a handsome young man sitting there with his head lowered. His jet-black hair fell down, making the skin on his collarbone look even whiter. There was a hint of bookishness in his handsome features, and it was exactly the original appearance of the young man named 'Ning Zhe'.
He raised his head, and his strange eyes sparkled between his messy hair.
"I am Ning Zhe." He said to himself in his heart, "Not anything else."
Without any evidence or reason, he believed unconditionally that he was definitely Ning Zhe.
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Have a meal, there is still one chapter before twelve o'clock.
(End of this chapter)