Chapter 152: The Prison of the Living (2)
Ariana's eyes widened slowly, "Phoebe? โ
"It's me." Phoebe took her hand, "Sister Anna, what about the others?" What about Mr. Lu Xun? โ
Ariana's eye circles began to redden.
Phoebe was stunned for a moment, and her voice lowered, "Are they all out?" How long have I been in a coma? โ
Ariana nodded, "You've been in a coma for two days, and now it's just the two of us in the academy, and the others haven't come back." โ
Phoebe turned her head to look out the window, the dark clouds were rolling like a stormy wave, the majestic rain was endless, the college was empty, and every window of the dormitory building opposite was pitch black. The loneliness of nothingness rose inexplicably, as if there were only two girls left in this world, sitting in a small lonely boat.
"The Assassin Project has begun." Ariana said, "They're dealing with the Night King...... If all goes well, the rescue team should have rescued all the survivors by this time, and they should be back in half an hour. โ
"It can't be done."
Ariana was stunned, and her face changed.
Phoebe hugged the futon tightly on her body, her face was pale, her body trembled, and she slowly shook her head, "It can't be done." โ
"What do you mean?" Ariana was taken aback, "Why?" โ
Phoebe slowly turned her head with a frightened expression, "Sister Anna...... Do you know what the Night King really is? โ
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"That night, Mr. Zhao Gao asked me to use mind reading on the fake colonel, we locked each other's positions and ambushed nearby, Zhao Gao sneaked in with a gun to control the fake colonel, and then I looked directly into the guy's eyes through the glass window." Phoebe whispered, "I only looked at him for a second, and then I almost fell unconscious. โ
"We caught that guy off guard, and I managed to invade the Night King's heart, I've never seen a creature like that...... It's not a human at all, and it's not a hunter. Phoebe continued, "I have read a lot of human hearts, and the minds of ordinary people are very beautiful, and their memories are like a book, as long as I open the cover to see the contents of it, I just need to go back in chronological order, like turning the pages of a book, and their memories will unfold before my eyes." โ
"I've tried to read the hearts of hunters before, and the brains of those monsters are very simple, with no concrete thoughts, only brutal desires. But the Night King was different from all of them, his brain was filled with a boundless jumble of information, the growth and memories of countless human hunters, I couldn't handle such a huge amount of information, they filled my brain every moment, it was like thousands of movies and plays were being shown at the same time, and my head hurt, it hurt so much that it was about to explode. โ
Ariana took Phoebe in her arms and patted her on the back.
Phoebe rested her head on Ariana's chest and wrapped her arms around her waist.
Anna finally knows why Phoebe fell into a coma...... The amount of information she received was so great that her brain was stuck.
"I've been dreaming for the past two days, all kinds of dreams, every dream is strange, sometimes I'm a human and carrying a gun against zombies, sometimes I'm a hunter, walking through the ground to forage and hunt, I don't know how many humans and hunters I've played...... It's actually my brain processing the information I've received, and it's all from the Night King's memories, which means ...... They are all from the Night King's past. โ
Ariana was surprised.
"They're all from the Night King's past?"
Phoebe nodded.
"But how can the Night King be a human and a hunter the next?"
Phoebe hugged Anna's waist tightly, "I'm weird too...... Those memories are long, long, how could the Night King possibly live as a human for decades? โ
So I searched and searched and searched for a long time, and finally found that these memories all have one thing in common...... No matter what their beginnings were, no matter what they went through, all memories end in the same way. "They're all going to end up being devoured by something." โ
"Devouring?" Ariana frowned.
"They've been devoured by all sorts of things." "Sometimes it's a monster with tentacles, sometimes it's a super spider, and sometimes it's not a shape at all. โ
Ariana gradually realized something, and her face became paler and paler.
"You...... Do you mean that the Night King's state of existence is constantly changing? It evolves while devouring? Other words...... The current Night King, the ultimate form it has become after devouring countless humans and hunters? โ
Phoebe nodded, "It inherits the memories of other creatures after devouring them, and I found this clue, followed it and searched forward, and finally found the source of all my memories." โ
"What is the source?" Ariana asked.
"The source is a blank slate."
"Blank?" Ariana was surprised.
"The original Night King has no memory at all." Phoebe said, "It started out as a very inferior creature, and it didn't even have a full brain, it only became conscious after swallowing other hunters, the original Night King...... It's a ghoul. โ
Ariana froze for a moment, not realizing what it meant.
"It is the first ghoul in this world, it is the king of ghouls, all the other ghouls in this city, it was split and bred by it, it devoured countless humans and hunters, and finally became the biggest monster in this city, and has all the thoughts and memories of the devoured." Phoebe explained.
"Ghouls have the ability to split freely, so the king of ghouls creates their own kind by splitting, and those offspring who split become the spokesmen of the mother, and all the offspring have the same memories as the mother, and are manipulated by the mother, whether it is the fake colonel we see, or the young man in white, it is the mouthpiece it creates."
Ariana was dumbfounded, it turned out that there was a mastermind behind the scenes.
"The Night King is not the name of a hunter, but of a group of creatures! All the spokespersons created by the King of Ghouls are actually the Night King...... You have found the wrong target, the young man in white, the enemy of Mr. Zhao Gao, you think it is the Night King, but in fact it is just the spokesperson of the real Night King pushed to the front of the stage, and the mother body is the mastermind behind everything, it hides and manipulates them where everyone can't see it! โ
Ariana's face turned pale, and she looked straight at Phoebe, her pupils dilated blankly.
"You...... What do you mean...... Night...... Night King ......"
"There's more than one at all!"