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Chapter 365
Chapter 364: What you face next is me, who is even more despair-inducing than Vought!
"Hiss... Wasn't I walking with Cate? Why am I the only one here?"
Golden Boy had clearly regained consciousness, but his brain still felt swollen and painful, as if someone had taken a plunger and vigorously stirred it around inside his head.
"Shit! What the hell just happened?"
Golden Boy's head was full of questions. He looked around with a confused expression. With his excellent vision, he immediately spotted Cate, Anderson, and others lying on the lawn.
Without hesitation, he quickly walked towards them.
"Vice Principal Jervis?" He happened to see Xia Shang using psychic power to dig out Emma Meyer, who was buried in the mud.
Their eyes met. Compared to the frowning Golden Boy, Xia Shang calmly raised his right hand and flicked it back. The lawn beneath Emma Meyer's head automatically split open, creating a fissure. Immediately after, Emma Meyer's entire body flew out of the soil layer and landed on the lawn, and the fissure, dozens of centimeters wide, sealed itself back together.
"I know what you want to ask. Don't rush, I have a lot of patience."
A memory storm violently slammed into Golden Boy's brain. Completely unprepared, Golden Boy's gaze instantly became vacant. At the same time, having lost control of his body, he fell straight backward onto the lawn, his feet landing right by Cate's head.
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"Where is this?" In a daze, Golden Boy found himself in a forest. The environment around him felt both familiar and strange.
"I think I've been here before."
Golden Boy started racking his brain, trying to recall the scene before him. At the same moment, the surrounding forest began to twist and shatter, like countless smashed mirrors. But behind the mirrors wasn't endless darkness, but segments of memory that Cate had hidden.
That's right, Cate couldn't delete memories; she could only modify or overwrite them.
"Anderson?" Golden Boy looked at the memory image closest to him. He saw Anderson under the shade of a tree not far away, shouting at 'him', like a silent play, without any sound.
"Did this really happen?"
Golden Boy couldn't recall even a single related image, as if the scenes behind the mirror fragments were something he had never experienced.
Finally, driven by curiosity, he slowly extended his right hand and slowly touched the image in front of him. The moment his fingertip touched the image, a powerful suction pulled him completely inside.
"I know about your brother!" Anderson shouted.
Almost simultaneously, the surrounding scene shattered again. Golden Boy, who hadn't yet recovered from the sound of Anderson's voice, subconsciously walked towards the image on his left.
Beep beep beep!!! This time, the scene was a laboratory resembling a hospital room. Golden Boy saw himself and his brother Sam lying on two separate hospital beds. Catheters for transporting blood were attached to both their wrists. The translucent rubber catheters were connected to a blood transfusion device, which looked like it was injecting Sam's blood into his own body on the hospital bed.
In the laboratory, besides him and Sam, there were the deceased Indira Shetty, Professor Brink, and a researcher in a white coat.
"I think I'm starting to remember." Golden Boy immediately looked at himself on the hospital bed.
Sure enough, the next second, 'Golden Boy' on the hospital bed suddenly sat up, roaring in fear and anger, "What the hell are you doing to me?! Sam!"
'He' shouted at the other hospital bed, "Fuck you! Sam! Wake up! Wake up, Sam!"
Seeing 'Golden Boy' unexpectedly wake up, Shetty quickly beckoned to Cate, "Quick, do it now."
"Cate?!" It was only now that Golden Boy realized Cate was also in the room. His gaze instantly became extremely complex. Anger! Hatred! Pain, and other emotions intertwined. Finally, he staggered back as if struck by a heavy blow, his heart aching as if being twisted by a knife.
"How... how could it be you, why would it be you, why would you do this?" He rushed towards Cate, extending his hands to press on Cate's shoulders. However, his palms passed directly through her body; he couldn't touch the Cate in the memory at all.
"Cate, Cate save me, get me out." 'Golden Boy', tied to the hospital bed, kept calling for Cate's help. However, Cate, while apologizing, covered 'his' head.
"You will forget about the 'Forest'. Your brother is dead. Sleep." Under the effect of Cate's superpower, 'Golden Boy', who had just woken up, fell back into deep sleep.
Silently, the surrounding scene shattered again.
"Once, twice, three times..." Hot tears rolled down Golden Boy's eyes, because he saw more than one scene similar to the one just now.
Reaching out again and again, feeling the pain again and again, until finally, he recalled all the memories, and then suddenly opened his eyes.
"How many more times do I have to go through this before it ends?"
Golden Boy stood up numbly. Just when he thought it was another forgotten memory, he saw Mr. Jervis standing before him.
"Looks like you've remembered everything," Xia Shang smiled.
"This isn't my memory?"
Golden Boy was somewhat disbelieving.
"Poor guy."
Clearly, after a round of memory storm, Golden Boy couldn't even distinguish between memory and reality. Of course, if Xia Shang hadn't actively withdrawn his superpower, Golden Boy might have been forever immersed in the memories.
"I don't believe you're real." Golden Boy's entire body ignited with raging flames. Then, with a charge, he swung his right punch backward and blasted it towards Xia Shang's chest!
A muffled thud.
Golden Boy's punch hit an invisible barrier, causing flames to splatter everywhere.
However, before he could react, a huge strength sent him flying backward. The speed at which he charged forward was the same speed at which he was now sent flying back.
Two grooves suddenly appeared. When Golden Boy looked down, half of his lower legs were buried in the mud.
"The opponent's attack can actually hit me, doesn't that mean I've returned to reality?" At this moment, Golden Boy was like someone waking up from a long dream. He pulled his legs out of the mud and then walked towards Xia Shang.
"Vice Principal Jervis... what just happened?"
Facing the bewildered Golden Boy, Xia Shang glanced at his wristwatch and said, "I waited twenty minutes for you. I told you, I have a lot of patience."
"Those memories just now?" Golden Boy asked anxiously.
"They were all the truth."
Xia Shang looked at Cate on the ground. He could see two trails of blood tears slowly flowing from the corners of Cate's eyes.
"Now that you know the truth, how do you feel? Don't rush to thank me, because what you face next is me, and I'm even more despair-inducing than Vought." Xia Shang smiled as he used psychic power to smooth the grooves on the lawn, while a deep purple light flickered in his eyes.
"Now I'll give you two choices: either cooperate with me, and I'll get you into The Seven, or refuse me, and end up in a cinerary casket."
(End of Chapter)
"Hiss... Wasn't I walking with Cate? Why am I the only one here?"
Golden Boy had clearly regained consciousness, but his brain still felt swollen and painful, as if someone had taken a plunger and vigorously stirred it around inside his head.
"Shit! What the hell just happened?"
Golden Boy's head was full of questions. He looked around with a confused expression. With his excellent vision, he immediately spotted Cate, Anderson, and others lying on the lawn.
Without hesitation, he quickly walked towards them.
"Vice Principal Jervis?" He happened to see Xia Shang using psychic power to dig out Emma Meyer, who was buried in the mud.
Their eyes met. Compared to the frowning Golden Boy, Xia Shang calmly raised his right hand and flicked it back. The lawn beneath Emma Meyer's head automatically split open, creating a fissure. Immediately after, Emma Meyer's entire body flew out of the soil layer and landed on the lawn, and the fissure, dozens of centimeters wide, sealed itself back together.
"I know what you want to ask. Don't rush, I have a lot of patience."
A memory storm violently slammed into Golden Boy's brain. Completely unprepared, Golden Boy's gaze instantly became vacant. At the same time, having lost control of his body, he fell straight backward onto the lawn, his feet landing right by Cate's head.
…………
"Where is this?" In a daze, Golden Boy found himself in a forest. The environment around him felt both familiar and strange.
"I think I've been here before."
Golden Boy started racking his brain, trying to recall the scene before him. At the same moment, the surrounding forest began to twist and shatter, like countless smashed mirrors. But behind the mirrors wasn't endless darkness, but segments of memory that Cate had hidden.
That's right, Cate couldn't delete memories; she could only modify or overwrite them.
"Anderson?" Golden Boy looked at the memory image closest to him. He saw Anderson under the shade of a tree not far away, shouting at 'him', like a silent play, without any sound.
"Did this really happen?"
Golden Boy couldn't recall even a single related image, as if the scenes behind the mirror fragments were something he had never experienced.
Finally, driven by curiosity, he slowly extended his right hand and slowly touched the image in front of him. The moment his fingertip touched the image, a powerful suction pulled him completely inside.
"I know about your brother!" Anderson shouted.
Almost simultaneously, the surrounding scene shattered again. Golden Boy, who hadn't yet recovered from the sound of Anderson's voice, subconsciously walked towards the image on his left.
Beep beep beep!!! This time, the scene was a laboratory resembling a hospital room. Golden Boy saw himself and his brother Sam lying on two separate hospital beds. Catheters for transporting blood were attached to both their wrists. The translucent rubber catheters were connected to a blood transfusion device, which looked like it was injecting Sam's blood into his own body on the hospital bed.
In the laboratory, besides him and Sam, there were the deceased Indira Shetty, Professor Brink, and a researcher in a white coat.
"I think I'm starting to remember." Golden Boy immediately looked at himself on the hospital bed.
Sure enough, the next second, 'Golden Boy' on the hospital bed suddenly sat up, roaring in fear and anger, "What the hell are you doing to me?! Sam!"
'He' shouted at the other hospital bed, "Fuck you! Sam! Wake up! Wake up, Sam!"
Seeing 'Golden Boy' unexpectedly wake up, Shetty quickly beckoned to Cate, "Quick, do it now."
"Cate?!" It was only now that Golden Boy realized Cate was also in the room. His gaze instantly became extremely complex. Anger! Hatred! Pain, and other emotions intertwined. Finally, he staggered back as if struck by a heavy blow, his heart aching as if being twisted by a knife.
"How... how could it be you, why would it be you, why would you do this?" He rushed towards Cate, extending his hands to press on Cate's shoulders. However, his palms passed directly through her body; he couldn't touch the Cate in the memory at all.
"Cate, Cate save me, get me out." 'Golden Boy', tied to the hospital bed, kept calling for Cate's help. However, Cate, while apologizing, covered 'his' head.
"You will forget about the 'Forest'. Your brother is dead. Sleep." Under the effect of Cate's superpower, 'Golden Boy', who had just woken up, fell back into deep sleep.
Silently, the surrounding scene shattered again.
"Once, twice, three times..." Hot tears rolled down Golden Boy's eyes, because he saw more than one scene similar to the one just now.
Reaching out again and again, feeling the pain again and again, until finally, he recalled all the memories, and then suddenly opened his eyes.
"How many more times do I have to go through this before it ends?"
Golden Boy stood up numbly. Just when he thought it was another forgotten memory, he saw Mr. Jervis standing before him.
"Looks like you've remembered everything," Xia Shang smiled.
"This isn't my memory?"
Golden Boy was somewhat disbelieving.
"Poor guy."
Clearly, after a round of memory storm, Golden Boy couldn't even distinguish between memory and reality. Of course, if Xia Shang hadn't actively withdrawn his superpower, Golden Boy might have been forever immersed in the memories.
"I don't believe you're real." Golden Boy's entire body ignited with raging flames. Then, with a charge, he swung his right punch backward and blasted it towards Xia Shang's chest!
A muffled thud.
Golden Boy's punch hit an invisible barrier, causing flames to splatter everywhere.
However, before he could react, a huge strength sent him flying backward. The speed at which he charged forward was the same speed at which he was now sent flying back.
Two grooves suddenly appeared. When Golden Boy looked down, half of his lower legs were buried in the mud.
"The opponent's attack can actually hit me, doesn't that mean I've returned to reality?" At this moment, Golden Boy was like someone waking up from a long dream. He pulled his legs out of the mud and then walked towards Xia Shang.
"Vice Principal Jervis... what just happened?"
Facing the bewildered Golden Boy, Xia Shang glanced at his wristwatch and said, "I waited twenty minutes for you. I told you, I have a lot of patience."
"Those memories just now?" Golden Boy asked anxiously.
"They were all the truth."
Xia Shang looked at Cate on the ground. He could see two trails of blood tears slowly flowing from the corners of Cate's eyes.
"Now that you know the truth, how do you feel? Don't rush to thank me, because what you face next is me, and I'm even more despair-inducing than Vought." Xia Shang smiled as he used psychic power to smooth the grooves on the lawn, while a deep purple light flickered in his eyes.
"Now I'll give you two choices: either cooperate with me, and I'll get you into The Seven, or refuse me, and end up in a cinerary casket."
(End of Chapter)
