Chapter 43: When I'm Not Crazy, I'm Crazy
40.9 per cent for option I, 45.5 per cent for option two and 13.6 per cent for option three.
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[Option 2]
[Psychic Resistance: Insanity is ineffective]
……
Zheng Zhuo was thrown into the air. [Subconscious World], [Subconscious Voting], [Settlement] and all kinds of messy pop-up boxes are gradually thrown off.
Wait a minute!
Zheng Zhuo didn't have time to think. He squinted at the results of the vote, and grabbed the data that had been thrown farther and farther away—
He caught [Psychic Resistance: Insanity Doesn't Work]. That skill turned into a ray of green light and melted into his body.
Immediately after, Zheng Zhuo felt that his ascent speed had accelerated.
The world and clouds below him gradually turned into small dots on the vast sea, and finally, Zheng Zhuo lost consciousness in the howling wind.
……
"-Whoa!"
Ding Lingchang!
Bang knock!
Crash!
Zheng Zhuo fell under the bed. His head hit the bucket, and the water poured on him, and the bucket buckled on his head again.
"-Wait-what-"
Zheng Zhuo, who had regained consciousness, struggled and lifted the bucket with his free hand. He blinked—his face was covered with water—
How can there be buckets? Wait, what was I doing before?
I seem to ...... In the ocean world...... No, no, until then, the small town world ...... And until then......
I did some precautionary measures in order to research suspicious mobile phone software.
Include......
Measures to extinguish fires.
Zheng Zhuo raised his head suddenly. He saw the familiar and unfamiliar room setting. Cramped rental homes, peeling whitewashed walls, and thin steel-framed beds.
Outside the window, the sky was still dark. The night breeze blows indoors, and the cheap curtains shake with it.
“…… Reality? ”
Zheng Zhuo was still lying in the puddle of water on the ground, his face was dazed, and he was talking to himself.
……
Morning.
It was just dawn. The traffic on the street began to increase slowly, and the occasional car horn could be heard honking in the distance.
But there are not many pedestrians on the streets. And casually dressed, aimlessly wandering young people......
…… Less.
Zheng Zhuo walked aimlessly down the street. He wore a sweatshirt, sweatpants, and slippers, and kept looking up at the sky and the buildings around him. He looked out of place in the crowd of office people who passed by, and whenever he passed by, others would always look at him sideways.
"I'm out...... I'm out? ”
Zheng Zhuo was talking to himself all the way. Hearing his words, the passers-by who were already looking at him sideways hid even further.
But Zheng Zhuo himself didn't care what other people were thinking.
He tried to bring up the display box, but no matter how you called it [Collective Subconscious], no pop-up popped up.
It's called [Skill], [Ability], and [Identification], but there is no response.
Is this a good thing?
Zheng Zhuo couldn't be sure for a while.
Doesn't it mean that after completing the world, you will return to the white space?
Damage Level: What is Big? Degree of mental damage: big, and what is it?
"I also got skills...... I can't confirm that. The young woman told me to go back to the White Space for treatment...... But I'm running out now! It's miserable, it's not going to be over, is it......"
Zheng Zhuo grabbed his hair. Suddenly, something occurred to him.
"Cell phone!"
Zheng Zhuo touched all over his body. Fortunately, he subconsciously brought his phone with him when he changed clothes - thanks to muscle memory. After those strange worlds, in fact, even he himself doesn't quite remember the fact that he had to take his mobile phone with him when he went out.
"In the real world, you have to use a mobile phone to open the software, right? I forgot-"
Zheng Zhuo saw the people around him start whispering.
"Oops."
Zheng Zhuo hurriedly ran away from the road. He was worried that passers-by would call the police.
……
Inside the alley.
Zheng Zhuo turned on his phone.
"Sure enough. [Collective subconscious] software. ”
That app is still in the phone. However, the icon changed to a short red line again.
Zheng Zhuo hesitated, but still clicked.
No response.
"Huh?"
Zheng Zhuo ordered it several more times. This software still can't be deleted, but it can't be opened either.
"What? Meaning, I ...... It's over? ”
Zheng Zhuo didn't understand.
"Can't go in again? No, why am I asking this...... Isn't it a great thing that you can't go in......"
Zheng Zhuo stayed there in order to save people. But the horror of the first world was clearly far greater than he had imagined.
When making the decision, Zheng Zhuo was ambitious. But now, no doubt, he began to hesitate.
Stay away from this and live an ordinary life......
Truth be told, the thought relieved him slightly.
But......
(Those people...... )”
Thinking that there were still many people trapped inside, and there were still many unknown things that he didn't know, Zheng Zhuo couldn't feel completely relieved.
"Since it's called the [collective subconscious], it should be very good at influencing ...... I guess I'm so deeply affected......"
Zheng Zhuo pondered as he walked forward.
That's when it happened.
"Ahh Zheng Zhuo!? ”
Zheng Zhuo heard someone calling him.
He looked up. He found himself walking all the way out, and before he knew it, he had come to the small supermarket he had applied for.
And it was the schoolgirl who wore black-rimmed glasses and a plush dress that stopped him.
"Xue Ying!?"
Zheng Zhuo couldn't help but shout.
"You...... You're not ......."
Didn't you become a fish-like person!?
Zheng Zhuo almost said this. Fortunately, he reacted in time, biting his tongue and swallowing this sentence.
When he was on the research ship of the [Ocean World], he only felt that the female student he had seen in reality was a little similar to the female student who was good at [radio technology] on the research ship.
What exactly hindered his judgment – was it temperament? Or is it the vibe?
Now I look at it, the schoolgirl in front of me ...... And the schoolgirl in the subconscious, looks exactly the same!
"Huh?" The female student in front of Zheng Zhuo was also stunned when she heard Zheng Zhuo calling her.
"Did I tell you my name......
"Ahh
"Ah—you must have heard me when my dad called me."
The schoolgirls found a reason for themselves. This made Zheng Zhuo breathe a sigh of relief.
Wait a minute.
Is her name indeed Xue Ying?
Zheng Zhuoke didn't remember that he had heard her name. No, it's possible that he heard it but didn't remember it.
Seeing that Zheng Zhuo was caught in his own world again, Xue Ying waved his hand worriedly.
"Your phone caught fire yesterday and you haven't come back since you ran out, are you okay?"
She said.
"You didn't come to work on time today......"
"Ah...... I'm not feeling well. ”
Has it only been a day......
Zheng Zhuo made an excuse first. He looked into the supermarket again.
The owner was carrying the goods inside. Now he can be sure that the boss looks exactly like the ship's cook.
Are those dreams? Has he gotten rid of that thing completely?
Is there anything else I should do to prepare? For example, confirm the details, get to know more people, and find people you know subconsciously......
That's when he started to have this thought.
Airplanes.
His phone rang.
Zheng Zhuo picked up the phone, and he saw that the software icon of the [Collective Subconscious] had become a circle nested with each other.
As if to deny Zheng Zhuo's luck, Zheng Zhuo didn't touch it, but it opened it by itself.
Once again, it saw through Zheng Zhuo's thoughts, and the interface of [Subliminal Voting] emerged.
……
【Voting】
[What should I focus on next?] 】
[Option 1]
[Focus on confirming more details about the boss father and daughter to speculate on the connection between the subconscious and reality]
[Option 2]
[Focus on getting to know more people in real life, trying to remember more faces and names]
[Option 3]
[Focus on finding a person named Chu Huairen in reality]
[Option 4]
[Don't get involved anymore.] Inaction]
……
(If you select options 1, 2, and 3, all three will be executed, but the time allocated is different.) )