Chapter 13: The Truth
"I've just found out that even the wound on my lower abdomen has healed, so can you say one thing, that is, within the confines of this hospital, your methods are comparable to that of a god?"
Tang Juyi counted carefully:
"Creation of living beings, mental interference, spatial displacement, material restoration...... These things can only be done by ethereal gods, right? β
Xiao Zhe was noncommittal:
"Am I not a god?"
Tang Juyi denied it:
"Even if it is, it's only within the confines of this hospital."
Seeing that the other party was a little unkind, Tang Juyi also had no nonsense, and went straight to the point:
"I made a bold assumption...... When I was cast into this asylum, you learned of my existence and modified everything in it to use as a needle and thread to weave lies. β
Because his limbs were bound, Tang Juyi could only use his eyes to indicate what he wanted to indicate:
"For example, the tape, I thought it was a hint for me, but in fact it was the first trap that made me mistakenly think that I was a 32-year-old middle-aged male as mentioned above."
Xiao Zhe held his chin and stared at Tang Juyi with dark eyes:
"Go on."
After calming down his breath, Tang Juyi straightened out his thoughts:
"You gave me hints from the words behind a few X-rays and told me to follow your rules step by step, and I did follow this line of thought as a matter of course, but there were more and more doubts in it...... The most obvious point is the mirror. β
"I have encountered a lot of glass, such as office doors, small windows in patient rooms, etc., although I can see a blurry shadow, but I can never see the real face, I can only judge based on the information of the paper tape and the feeling I feel when I touch myself."
Speaking of which, Tang Juyi thought thoughtfully:
"I've been wondering if I'm worried about what I'll find if I don't have a mirror."
"Immediately after, the man in the counseling room rushed out and stabbed me, and by the way, helped me prove a point-"
"I'm not Yan Ming at all."
Tang Juyi said this conclusion conclusively.
"The patients of 407 and 408 didn't know me at all, and the man who seemed to be driven crazy didn't look like a stranger to me...... Although I have a guess that it will be the development of [Yan Ming is the mastermind behind everything], that caused him to rush up and kill me when he shouted the devil...... But it was quickly denied. β
Xiao Zhe, who had been listening carefully, interrupted:
"Why?"
Tang Juyi calmly:
"Because he was clearly driven crazy by terror, his aggression towards me was not because of my special status, but more close to the stress instinct of unfamiliar things in stressful situations."
Xiao Zhe rubbed his head in annoyance:
"That's all? You made your judgment based on that? β
Tang Juyi smiled bitterly:
"Not only in the strict sense of the word...... After all, this is just speculation, and the reason that really let me know that the conclusions I came up with weren't true was that the game wasn't over. β
Hearing this, Xiao Zhe also showed a look of confusion:
"What are you talking about?"
Tang Juyi sighed:
"Let me explain it to you...... There is an existence independent of this hospital, and he gave me the task of [unraveling the truth], and when I told those inferences in the counseling room, and you also gave a positive answer after you brought me here, the game is not over, on the contrary, you still want to kill me, which is enough to explain a lot. β
"First of all, you're lying."
Xiao Zhe's hand knocking on the table stopped suddenly, and the black blood vessels in his arm began to spread gradually, and a depressing field also spread from him, making Tang Juyi's thinking disordered.
"Again...... It's ...... feeling."
Tang Juyi felt sick to his stomach for a while, only to feel as if he had been invaded by a cold and damp invisible substance from his mouth all the way to all parts of his body, and his whole body was drowned in this extremely uncomfortable feeling.
Paper tapes, pipes, tables and chairs...... These things all disappeared into this room, and Xiao Zhe slowly walked in front of Tang Juyi, looking down at him with terrifying black eyes:
"It's a pity that even if you realize this, you can't do anything about it."
However, what Xiaozhe didn't expect was that Tang Juyi actually laughed in this situation;
"Hey...... Hey hey ......"
The darkness that spread from all corners of the room choked Tang Juyi's throat like a tangible hand, and Xiao Zhe's expression was also full of coldness:
"What are you laughing at?"
Tang Juyi had difficulty breathing, but he still squeezed out a voice from his throat:
"You know what...... Even if you have ...... Such a terrifying ability, but still let me ...... Explore around this hospital...... Meaning...... You have to obey the ...... Some of the rules of the game ......"
Xiao Zhe's face changed, and he became angry and frightened.
"If I ...... If you said it right...... When things suddenly turn to ...... This situation ...... So that's it...... I've ...... Touched ...... Final...... Truth ......"
The darkness receded like a tide, and the light in the room reoccupied a small part of the space, and even Xiao Zhe, who had always held the absolute advantage, took a few steps back again and again, shocked and angry:
"You?!"
Tang Juyi slowly stood up from his chair, the ropes that bound his limbs also disappeared inexplicably, and his clothes quickly changed into the clothes he wore before entering this hospital.
"Sure enough, this place is not a real hospital at all, but your spiritual world."
Tang Juyi sighed with emotion as he walked towards Xiao Zhe opposite.
"Your abilities are so beyond the norm that one word can easily be associated with one wordβ[imagination]."
The smile gradually brought sarcasm, and Tang Juyi also walked in front of Xiao Zhe:
"This place is an illusory cage built in your mind based on your own memories and imagination, so you can be like a god here, because the spiritual world is infinitely possible."
"Yan Ming, Han Lang, 407, 408, including the thin man before, are all in your memory, you can't create a living person, so you can only simulate their reactions based on previous memories, and because of this, if you are unfamiliar with me, they will also feel strange."
"I don't know what you went through to make it possible for you to build this world in your mind, but it's clear ......"
Tang Juyi pointed to his head with his finger, and then drew a few circles:
"As soon as I realized that this was a spiritual world, you could no longer control me."
At the same time, Xiao Zhe's complexion was also difficult to see.
Tang Juyi bent down, leaned in front of Xiao Zhe as if provocative, and said word by word:
"The truth is that I'm in the mind of a nasty kid who, twisted by his past experiences, has become a grotesque-looking, non-existent haunted hospital."
Rumble!!!!
It was as if the sky was falling apart, and everything around Tang Juyi began to collapse and collapse, making him feel as if he had fallen from the clouds into the abyss, and his consciousness sank directly into chaos.
"Bang"
There was another feeling of fall and pain, which made Tang Juyi suddenly wake up.
The bunny man in a suit was sitting on a soft chair with an orange-red drink, looking at him with interest.
And the feeling of falling just now seems to be a brief feeling caused by his own falling to the ground.
Tang Juyi sat on the ground in a daze, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and mutter:
"I'm ...... When did this second game start? β
The rabbit man shook the drink in his hand:
"From the moment you lost consciousness and fell forward three seconds ago."
Hearing this, Tang Juyi reacted for a while, and then he understood what the rabbit man meant, and his face couldn't help but change drastically:
"This second game was played for less than a second?! Just the time interval of one fall?! β
The rabbit man grinned and said:
"Nan Ke has a dream, and sometimes it's just a time to fall."
Then, he kicked the ground again, whistled, sat in a soft chair and slid to the small table before, and then hooked his finger towards Tang Juyi, who felt that his eyes were glazed, and the next second he found that he was also sitting at the table, and there was another drink on the table.
"First of all, I have to congratulate you on successfully completing the second game."
The bunny man crossed his fingers, and there was some joy in his tone.
Tang Juyi rubbed his eyebrows, raised his hand to stop the other party from continuing:
"Wait a minute!"
The rabbit man was not annoyed when he saw this, but just waited quietly for Tang Juyi.
After taking a few deep breaths, Tang Juyi also fully recovered and looked at the rabbit man on the other side of the table:
"May I ask, that gameβ"
The rabbit man said calmly:
"The truth is exactly what you say."
Tang Juyi let out an "oh" and nodded thoughtfully:
"It's all unreal......"
Unexpectedly, the rabbit man denied it:
"Not really."
Tang Juyi was stunned:
"Huh?"
The bunny man's tone was still calm:
"A large part of what you went through came from the child's real memories...... Less than one-tenth of the revised part has been made. β
In other words, there is indeed such a hospital, and some unspeakable things have happened. As for which ones are true and which ones are false...... Unknown. β
Hearing these words, Tang Juyi sat at the table with his mouth open, only to feel cold all over his body.
"I think what we should do now is talk about the rewards of this game rather than being nostalgic for that disturbing hospital."
The rabbit man raised the glass in his hand and gestured towards Tang Juyi:
"What do you think?"
Tang Juyi, who came back to his senses, only hesitated for a moment, then also raised the drink in front of him and touched the glass with the rabbit man:
"Agreed."