Pale and her eyes constantly changing, Miss Crawford bit her lower lip tightly, her slender throat trembling slightly.

"But...... But I ...... I still think ...... It's hard to accept, and I'm really scared...... Sorry ......"

Then she finally shook her head vigorously, and subconsciously wanted to step back, and she tried hard to pull her wrist out of someone's hand.

Because this truth is really too terrible, it is definitely not a casual joke, and you can easily ignore the little things in the past......

Man is the spirit of all things, who said that stupid thing? The only people who believe in the wisdom and courage of mankind, the value of this dream, are those who have never peeked into the abyss.

I didn't know the existence of such a curious work as "The Song of Saya", and there probably wasn't such a work in this world, otherwise, Laura would probably have some resonance at this time.

— because there are some similarities in the situation.

The madness called the real is offended, blasphemed, and becomes implausible. If she was poisoned, then that poison was called "truth." Just as pure oxygen is harmful to living things, the unreserved truth will only crush the human spirit.

Only 1:5 oxygen and nitrogen are the air you can breathe. In the same way, breathing in a small amount of truth diluted by panic is the only way to maintain a sound heart.

In fact, just by thinking back to the scene she had watched through the Divine Source, Miss Crawford felt that her emotions and mind, which had been so hard to stabilize, were about to collapse again.

I couldn't breathe well, and my chest felt as if I was being pressed by a boulder, as if I was about to suffocate......

And the muscles of the whole body also stiffened, and the mind was also blank, and the violent tremors followed and spread throughout the body......

The SAN value is almost instantaneously cleared, rationality is almost completely evaporated, and the spirit may fall into a frenzy at any time, completely collapsing and disintegrating from the mental level......

It may be an illusion, but it's a little too deep and clear. Miss Crawford felt that she might have gone mad, and that the slightest thought of it would cause a strange fear to run through her body like thunder.

Even if she had tried her best to refuse to let herself think about the past, and it was the defensive instinct of her body and the subconscious of her brain that were desperately trying to stop this dangerous behavior.

However, the effect only kept her away from the dark abyss that would lead to self-destruction, and it did not completely alleviate the fatal symptoms, but only made her a sleepwalking person who couldn't tell the reality -

It's like getting lost in a dream, everything loses its sense of reality, the mind is confused, and I don't know what to do.

Therefore, she subconsciously wanted to escape from this cruel and terrible reality, not to think about anything, not to do anything, just as she didn't know anything, as long as she could escape from the root of it all.

It's just that she can't be allowed to escape like this-

"Hey...... It doesn't have to be that, Laura. ”

Mo Chen smiled bitterly again, but the palm of his hand that held Miss Crawford's wrist tightened slightly.

It seems that he didn't let go of his hand at all and let the other party escape from his plan at this time.

And his eyes were also chaotic, as if the originally calm abyss had been stirred up a little bit at once, and the feeling of malice and chaos overflowed slightly, making people almost can't help but suffocate.

"Hmm——!!"

Miss Crawford's face suddenly became even paler, and she looked like a young herbivore separated from her parents, and she suddenly lost her support.

"I also only learned about this matter for a short time, I didn't know before this, and you didn't know either, but whether you and I, whether we know it or not, it won't affect the nature of the matter......"

Mo Chen frowned tightly, he sighed, and subconsciously relaxed the strength of his palm.

"Obviously, before you didn't know it, there were no problems, why can't you accept it now? I'm not just like this, I've always been like this......"

“……”

“……”

"Don't open it...... Joked...... Good no good! ”

Miss Crawford gritted her teeth and said in a trembling voice, this is not simply judging people by their appearance.

"This kind of thing...... This kind of thing...... Of course you can easily accept it, but I'm just a ......"

"Wait, I said I just found out about it, why do you think I'll be able to accept it easily?"

Mo Chen interrupted her words a little helplessly, this kind of thing is also a bit out of step for him, who would have thought that in the end of seeking the truth, he would get such a shocking result?

"Huh...... What, what? What do you mean? ”

Miss Crawford was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly it seemed that things were not as she had imagined.

"That's what it literally means! Let's put it this way, if you've always felt like Laura Crawford – your memories, your character, your experiences...... It's all traceable, and it's incredibly self-consistent. ”

Mo Chen let go of the palm that grabbed her wrist, spread out his hand, and said in an unusually calm tone.

"But one day, you find that although you have all the memories of Laura Crawford, you don't even have any doubts about your previous life...... But in reality? This is not the case at all. ”

At this he paused slightly, first glancing at Miss Crawford, and then continued—

"Your essence is actually just an indescribable being, eating everything about the person who corresponds to your identity, including memories, personality, and name, and then pretending to be that person and living until now......"

And for some unknown reason, that part of your original self has been completely abandoned by you! Instead, you have completely embraced new memories and identities, forming a whole new personality, so that you don't even know what you are......"

“……”

“……”

Mo Chen turned back, looked at the prismatic crystal-like divine source held in his other hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly said the conclusion:

"So this kind of thing...... Even if the parties are good, how can it be so easy to accept, I am actually very entangled in whether it is good or not, otherwise I wouldn't have run out to see the snow scene just now......"

“……”

“……”

Miss Crawford looked at him blankly, and always felt that the other party's tone was calm to the point of being a little abnormal, but strangely, she did not feel that the other party was deceiving herself at all.

This time, she didn't turn around and run away, or subconsciously retreated to distance herself, but really felt that she was starting to calm down.

After all, all fears come from the unknown, unfamiliar areas, and incomprehensible concepts.

However, the feeling that Mo Chen gave her just now was that she was still the same person, and she was also maybe not completely equivalent, but at least it was an emotional state that human beings could understand, and she would also be depressed and troubled......

It wasn't the unspeakable thing of primordial chaos that created her extreme fear.

Regardless of whether this guy's essence is good or not, but at this time, he seems to be really just Mo Chen himself.

That is to say...... You're actually ...... You're actually ......"

Miss Crawford opened her mouth, but suddenly found that she was really short of words at this time, and she could not find suitable words to express herself after opening her mouth for a while.

"I don't dare to say anything else, but I'm really just me now, and nothing else...... Anyway, I only have "me" memories and experiences, and the "me" before me has nothing left. ”

Mo Chen shrugged his shoulders and said seriously.

"Even though I know about it, I really don't think it has anything to do with me...... It's like reading someone else's diary, it doesn't make any sense at all, and I don't want to go back to the way I was. ”

“……”

Miss Crawford nodded as if she didn't understand, she didn't really understand what kind of complicated situation this was, but at least she knew the general meaning that Mo Chen wanted to express, that is, he was actually himself from before to now, not anything else.

Maybe it's just a one-sided statement, and there is no evidence to prove it, but people will subconsciously believe what they want to hear, like a drowning person grasping the last straw and refusing to let go.

Miss Crawford inhaled hard, as if to suppress some emotion in her chest, and then she opened her mouth to say something.

But at this moment, there was the sound of footsteps outside.

The footsteps stopped when they reached the door, and their owner did not show up.

Immediately afterward, Jacob's slightly embarrassed and contrived cough came from outside, and there was a faint hint of persuasion in the words—

"Ahem, that ...... I've just heard Sophia say it, but my lord, I still hope you don't force this kind of thing ......"

“……”

“……”

Forced, forced? Forcing what? Miss Crawford couldn't react for a while.

But Mo Chen couldn't help but widen his eyes all of a sudden, and turned his head to look outside: "Wait, why are you so innocent out of thin air......

……

……

At the same time, on the other side of the Lost City.

In an ordinary residential area near the city gate, the upper floor of a stone building resembling a tall tower.

"There's something wrong with this, no, it's getting more and more wrong, what the hell am I doing here, even that guy seems to have completely forgotten what he had in mind in the first place......"

Serena sat at the table in her own room, and with a little distraught, she wrote this line in her diary, her irritability reflected in the tip of her pen.

The overly strong handwriting almost cut through the excellent quality paper, and the feeling of anger and irritation jumped on the paper.

The room is slightly dimly lit overall, but there are electric lights on the wall near the table. And even in the interior of the room, the walls are uneven, and at a glance you can see that they are made of rough stone, and they are useless except for being solid and dry.

But it's peculiar – this slightly cramped private space, dimly lit and warm, dry environment, without the rough, rugged style of modernity......

But it gave Serena an indescribable sense of security, as if this was the warm nest she had always dreamed of.

And you can also see the cityscape under the thick ice from the window, the roaring air rail train is running non-stop, and the sound insulation is good and you can only hear the faint roar.

There aren't too many people walking around the streets, but they're not completely invisible, and the clockwork machines on patrol are always visible......

These are also the sources of the sense of security that Serena feels-

It won't make her feel completely isolated from the world, resulting in a sense of loneliness and depression.

In addition, I have gotten rid of the complicated social relations of the past, and I no longer have to deal with heavy work pressure, except for being responsible for necessary technical positions and some less heavy manual labor, I can basically live well here......

And there are a lot of strange technologies here, both ordinary and sophisticated. For example, electric lighting, electric heating, and hot water supply make it a paradise to enjoy in this icy environment.

Add to this the rationing of medicines, and a seemingly trustworthy medical system like a witch doctor; A simple and crude transportation system, fast and convenient transportation, and a semi-automated social system that cannot be understood but liberates manpower......

It can be said that the only drawback is that there are not many entertainment programs, and there is no possibility of Internet access, and there is a limit to the area where activities can be carried out, and the rest of the other aspects are really all advantages.

Serena felt that this period was the easiest time for her life after she stepped out of society.

Although she is complaining about her ex-husband's slow and unhappy trend, it is undeniable that even she herself is the same.

Putting down the pen and closing the diary, the woman, who had been a policewoman, stood up and walked to the window, pushing open the tightly sealed window sash, and the cold air like a knife blade suddenly hit her face.

"Whew, it's cold!" She shivered subconsciously, and then tugged at the scarf around her neck.

But her gaze had already gone beyond the layers of buildings, towers, and temples, and looked at the magnificent and huge temple in the distance. She had no way of understanding what the people in this place were thinking.

Besides, it doesn't seem like a simple face-saving project, but it must have a more important and extraordinary significance.

After a few days of observation, she found that the aborigines would subconsciously avoid the area around the temple, as if passing by there was a sense of blasphemy.

Serena thought about it, and she thought that it should be an important factor related to religion and belief, but it was more likely that it was the specific location of the core institution of this mysterious force.

It's not that she hasn't doubted the possibility of mysterious powers, after all, she has seen the "tentacles" sent out by this force and lurking in human society before-

The main thing is that Tracy's old guy's elite bodyguard team, it seems that each one is not a person at all, and he will not die if he gets a bullet in the head, and he can continue to get up.

Of course, it's very reminiscent of zombies or something.

But after arriving in this hidden city, and seeing the strange and unreasonable technology—especially the evil machines with human bird heads—Serena was greatly relieved.

Sure enough, zombies or anything can't be done at all, those are definitely simulating robots that go one step further, because this powerful mysterious force has enough technology and resources to do this!

The question now is, what kind of terrible organization is it?

Serena can be sure that what she has perceived so far is only the tip of the iceberg, and she has not been exposed to the real truth at all, but that kind of terrible ...... I thought that the opponent was a huge pharmaceutical group, which was enough to make people desperate.

Now that I think about it, how capable of causing trouble is that guy Greenton? What kind of mysterious organization did you get into trouble?!

The plots in various American blockbusters were swiped in my mind, and when Serena came back to her senses, she found that her face was a little stiff, so she quickly closed the window.

The heating in the room is no longer lost, and the temperature starts to rise rapidly.

Serena exhaled happily, but she began to feel annoyed, she felt that she had to start taking action to gather intelligence, otherwise she would somehow become the backbone of this organization sooner or later.

And the person who helped her in the first place also seemed to be suspicious of the truth behind the Williams consortium, and she also knew that that person should be the daughter of Williams's first heir.

Because Serena has not been able to send information back as agreed, the other party seems to be preparing to use her power recently and quietly come over here to take a look.

The former has no way to stop it, and he doesn't know how to tell the other party that the control here is extremely strict, and the hidden secrets are extremely important, and once he comes here, it is basically impossible to leave again.

Maybe it's time to start thinking about getting first-hand information and charting an escape route?

It's a tough job......

While Serena was thinking about how she should use the next buffer time to prepare, there was a knock at the door.

When the door was opened, a woman in a brown canvas jacket dressed in a remnant costume was outside, and she bowed her head and ticked Serena's column on the roster, and spoke:

"Temporary notice, you are going to participate in the STEM system for the first login record tonight, you are the third batch of arrangements, be sure to arrive at the main temple on time at eight o'clock......

"STEM System...... What is it? Serena didn't hide her confusion, because it was completely unnoticed.

Merely...... Is it in the Grand Temple? Is this a direct opportunity to get close to that area and observe it openly?

"I don't know, it's all said that it was a short notice......

The remnant woman spoke, but the depths of her dark brown eyes burst out with a frenzied color of faith—

"But Jacob said, "It's the will of the gods, don't doubt it!"