nightmare exec
Chapter 147 The Finale
Pushing open a wooden door that looked like a walk-in closet, the three of them came to a new space from the messy bedroom.
This time the scene seemed to be the living room of a new home, but it was even dirtier and messier than the bedroom just now.Broken glass, wads of paper, plastic bags and dirty lunch boxes were all over the floor.
Song Yin was stunned for a moment, then turned his gaze to Alexander beside him.
If you really don't want to look at it, it's okay to look at it, but it gave him a big jump in the first place.
Alexander in this memory has grown to the appearance of thirteen or fourteen years old.He was wearing a white shirt with a shield embroidered on the chest and blue trousers, which looked like a school uniform.It's just that there are spots on the clothes, all of which are bloodstains of different shades.
What was even more frightening was Alexander's face—half of his face had been severely deformed, turning into a mass of bluish-purple flesh bumps, the upper and lower eyelids were swollen, and there was only a gap left when the eyes were squeezed.
There were dried blood stains on his nose, the corners of his mouth, his forehead, and even inside his ears and eyes.And in those places that are barely covered by clothes, there may be even more terrible wounds hidden.
And the culprit of all this, the man who smelled of alcohol, was lying on his back on the sofa in the middle of the mess and was very drunk.He was still holding the feather duster with blood on the bamboo pole in his arms.
"This is his residual value." Scarred and almost disfigured, Alexander said quietly: "Torture me, torture me, twist me."
Having said that, he raised his finger and pointed to the opposite wall——Song Yin discovered that there was a calendar hanging on the wall. One of the three days of 789 was marked with a red circle and a 14 was written on the side.
The month before his 14th birthday... should be the day when Alexander "had an accident"!
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan looked at each other, their expressions were a little nervous.As for the reason - because according to their investigation, what happened that night was not completely consistent with Alexander's previous personal recollection.
At this time, Alexander had already walked quickly to the side room, and walked out with a mobile phone after a while.
He dialed a contact number, put the phone next to his less swollen cheek, and waited quietly.
After about four or five seconds, there was a reply from the opposite side.
"What should I do?" Alexander asked straight to the point, as if the person on the other end of the phone had already seen everything that happened just now.
Because in the final analysis, this is still Alexander's conscious world, so the answer on the other end of the phone sounds very clear.
"Ask yourself." That was obviously Lin Fengshen's voice, slowly and consistently, "Are you willing to continue to be controlled by him like this?"
"I don't want to." Alexander asked without hesitation, "What should I do?"
"You should pursue freedom. But freedom needs to rely on your own hands."
Lin Fengshen feels more like a strange psychological counselor than a mother: "I told you, I will give you an exam before your 14th birthday. If you pass the exam , everything in the future will suddenly become clear. But if you fail..."
"You will be very, very disappointed in me." Alexander repeated the words he had heard many times, expressionlessly.
"So, make your choice." After leaving this sentence, Lin Fengshen ended the call.
There was a dead silence in the messy room again.Alexander, who also put down the phone, was silent for a while, then walked towards the dining table by the wall, picked up the fruit knife on the table, and walked towards the sofa.
On the sofa full of sundries, the man biologically known as the father was sleeping soundly.And the fruit knife in Alexander's hand was only five centimeters away from his cheek.
This distance is still decreasing.
Quietly, the sharp tip of the knife had reached the man's bearded cheek, and it penetrated slowly with increasing force.
A small drop of blood quietly emerged from under the damaged skin and flowed all the way along the blade.
Song Yin swore that at this moment, he saw Alexander's eyes light up, the kind of light that seemed to see hope.
"Alexander...we should go..." he whispered, "no matter what happened in the past. Don't let the present self repeat the tragedy of the past."
Alexander didn't answer right away, but he did stop what he was doing.
After a while, he withdrew the icy sharp blade.
"You are right, there is no time, let's go."
This time, they pushed open the front door of the living room.What appeared in the next space was a brightly lit convenience store at night.It was about midnight and early morning, and the store was counting the goods that had just been delivered in large and small boxes.
It seems that not too long has passed since the last vicious torture between father and son, because the scars on Alexander's face are still shocking.However, he wore a mask, sunglasses, and a long-sleeved hood to hide it as much as possible. If you didn't stare on purpose, it would be difficult to find that he had just been beaten.
But then again, wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night is really weird.
He didn't stay in the convenience store for a long time, grabbed a few packs of biscuits and a bottle of water and ran to check out.The clerk scans the QR code listlessly, and the TV installed in the upper right corner of the cigarette sales area is rebroadcasting the local news at ten o'clock in the evening.
"A homicide occurred in the upper part of the city. The police offered a reward for collecting effective clues and finding the missing biological son of the victim."
Alexander didn't look up at the picture on the screen.He settled the bill calmly, walked out of the convenience store with his head down, walked another few hundred meters, found a public phone booth on the side of the road, and dialed a series of numbers.
Although it was early morning, the call was quickly connected, and the female voice on the other end was not sleepy.
"You killed him." Alexander said blankly, "You killed him."
"I don't understand what you're talking about." Lin Fengshen said flatly.
Alexander continued: "I taped the old guy to the sofa and beat him up. Then I took all the money in the house and ran out. But I didn't kill anyone, he didn't deserve it."
There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and Lin Fengshen suddenly whispered: "You let me down."
Alexander sneered instead: "Should I be surprised? After all, my birth was a disappointment. I tried to satisfy you, but what did I get in return?" The dim yellow light in the phone booth illuminated his scarred side face , that is the best answer.
Lin Fengshen obviously did not give up her persuasion: "A perfect bonsai always needs to be corrected and pruned, and sometimes even needs to split the trunk with an ax to become more beautiful. This is both a test and a test."
"But what if I don't plan to become a bonsai?" Alexander asked word by word, gnashing his teeth.
"Then it's impossible to plant you back in the ground." After saying this, Lin Fengshen hung up the phone.
"This is trying to train Alexander to become the backbone of Sisyphus, right?" Song Yin muttered in a low voice, "...Who would treat their son as a bonsai? Humans are not plants."
"But such things actually happen anytime and anywhere." Qi Zhengnan revealed the reality: "Even the Aksha system is the same, the executive officers of the special selection group, which one is not a bonsai carefully cultivated by it. "
Alexander, who hung up the phone, did not turn around and walked towards them, but continued forward and walked into a toilet by the side of the road.
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan hurried to catch up, and sure enough, the scene changed once the door was opened.
This time the scene was still in the middle of the night, and the first thing that appeared in front of my eyes was a row of high concrete walls more than two meters high.A basketball-sized white street lamp is lit every few meters at the top, so that the view will not be too dim.
It was also with the help of the lights that Song Yin quickly discovered that Alexander had climbed to the top of the wall, and he and Qi Zhengnan quickly followed.
After easily climbing over the wall, what was displayed in front of them was a beautiful garden under the moon.It includes a large lawn, neatly arranged sycamore trees on both sides of the road, and the sparkling lake a little far away.
At this moment, Alexander was running towards the lake. Looking in the direction he was going, he could vaguely see the outline of a multi-storey building in the dark night.That should be Alexander's destination.
It was too late to generate any conjectures, Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan quickly followed.A few minutes later, he followed Alexander to the downstairs of the building.
This brand-new building with a strong sense of modernity is a small-scale office building—judging from the bronze plate inlaid on the door, its scientific name is Fengshen Institute of Psychology.Obviously, with the support of Sisyphus, Lin Fengshen's career has been greatly developed here.
The Institute needs to hold a special access control card to be able to enter and exit, but this does not seem to be a problem for Alexander.He walked half a circle around the building and came to the south side facing the lake—the French windows on each floor are connected to a viewing balcony stretching out to the lake, and the rainwater pipes on the edge of the balcony are the best. climbing tools.
I saw Alexander took off his shoes and socks, and climbed up to the third floor along the pipe with his bare feet.Only then did Song Yin notice a faint light shining in a certain window on the third floor.
After a while, Alexander rolled over to the balcony outside the window, then bent over and waved at Song Yin and the two: "You don't need to come up, anyway, I will go down soon."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and pushed open the sliding door, and walked towards the light in the house.
It is indeed inconvenient to climb with bare hands, so Song Yin and Alexander stood obediently by the lake and waited.In less than a minute, there was a crisp sound of glass shattering overhead, and then the two figures entangled and rushed to the balcony, climbed over the railing, and both fell into the icy lake!
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan immediately ran to the lake, only to see the lake sparkling under the moonlight, where are the shadows of the two of them?
"What about people?"
Song Yin thumped in his heart, and was about to find out where the next door was.Qi Zhengnan suddenly grabbed him from behind, and the two fell into the lake together.
The process of crossing the lake only lasted a second, so before Song Yin could struggle, he was hugged by Qi Zhengnan and fell into the next brand new space.
"I'm going, can't you prepare me mentally?" Song Yin protested angrily, although she was unharmed, but frightened.
Qi Zhengnan apologized in a low voice, and then the two of them began to look at the surrounding environment - it was a flesh-red room without windows and without any furniture.From the floor to the ceiling, it is covered with flesh-red sponges. It looks like a bunch of disgusting human tissue, but it has an excellent cushioning effect.
Alexander had already come here one step ahead of them.He was wearing a restraint uniform that was often seen in mental hospitals. The sleeves on both sides were tied behind his waist, and his feet were also restrained by belts. This made him sit against the edge of the wall, unable to move.
"What kind of place is this?" The scene in front of him was so absurd that Song Yin couldn't make any definite guesses for a while.
"Didn't you investigate my information?" Alexander, who was sitting on the ground, looked up at him, "Where did I go after I drowned?"
The person who answered him was Qi Zhengnan: "After you and Lin Fengshen drowned, Lin Fengshen was the only one who was successfully rescued. The official report is that you have drowned and died."
"That's right, I know that." Alexander nodded calmly, as if the things he said had nothing to do with him: "So how could I 'live' for more than 30 years?"
"Because your consciousness was forcibly imprisoned by your mother." Song Yin replied, "It's like how Shaffley pushed the assistant officer's consciousness into his body, but here, you and Lin Fengshen coexist... No, It should be said that she controlled you."
"Look at you, don't you already know all this clearly?"
Alexander simply leaned against the wall and lay down on his back: "So this is my cage. It's where I was trapped for three years—in Lin Fengshen's body."
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What it's like to be imprisoned in another's consciousness.
Alexander said that it can be summed up in three words - "lunatic asylum".
It's just that this madhouse has only one ward.No windows, no doors, no day and night, no time, no voice, no one to talk to, and no freedom.
And Alexander stayed in this madhouse for three full years.
During the three years, he could only see one person—the person who used to be the closest, but now is the scariest person.
When he first found himself imprisoned in his mother's consciousness, Alexander was really crazy.After all, it was hard for him to make up his mind to run away from home. Unexpectedly, things backfired, but he completely lost his freedom.
He shouted, cursed, resisted, and even really ignited the murderous intention.But he soon discovered that everything was in vain—he was just a consciousness under the fence, unable to kill the other party, and even completely unable to destroy himself.
After realizing all this, he gradually calmed down and stopped making unnecessary struggles.He began to think about the meaning of his own existence, the relationship between himself and his mother, the intricate truth between life and consciousness, and the world.
After realizing that he no longer strongly resisted, Lin Fengshen's attitude began to gradually change—she began to appear frequently in the ward, preaching some Sisyphus dogmas and ideas to him.He also expressed sincerely that the state of their mother and child as one body has already surpassed ordinary human beings and is closer to the perfect state of God.
As a reward for Alexander's gradual surrender, the ward where he was imprisoned also began to change-the most important point of which was the "window".
Windows are not permanently attached to the wall.It appears and disappears from time to time, depending entirely on Lin Fengshen's mood.
And the scene outside the window is also irregular-sometimes it is a beautiful scenery, sometimes it is newspaper news TV, sometimes it is simply meaningless passers-by and street scenes.But Alexander soon discovered that these seemingly random scenes were actually invisible tests.
Although he has been isolated from the world for too long, Alexander cannot express a clear yearning for the real world outside.Because in Lin Fengshen's view, these are all false and flashy material temptations, which will become a stumbling block on the journey of pursuing the soul-there is only one exception, and that is books.
After three years of "domestication", Lin Fengshen suddenly said that he could let Alexander "out".
It was a well-designed and extremely difficult experiment - after all, it was almost impossible to compress the consciousness of two people into the same body.But to separate them again, deceive the verification of Aksha's system, and then send Alexander to purgatory, it needs to take a huge risk.
Sisyphus had tried more than once before this, but never succeeded.
But this time, the mother and son were different.
For the first and last time in memory, a small door appeared on the flesh-red ward wall.
Even after only staying inside for a short while, Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan felt overwhelmed. They couldn't wait to help Alexander up from the ground and walked through the door together.
Outside this door is the end of the shortcut.
After leaving the "ward", the eyes that had been stimulated by flesh red for a long time could not adapt to the new color immediately.Therefore, no matter where Song Yin looked, he always had a strange blue color.After a while, his nerves finally completed automatic calibration, and he saw clearly the truth in the last room in front of him——
Here is a bright white, plain room.There is a long table in the center, with a seat at each end of the table.However, a transparent glass wall divides the room into two halves, the inside and the outside together with the long table - it is very reminiscent of a bank's office window or a prison's meeting room.
"That's the end of my field of consciousness."
Alexander said that after entering purgatory, he would meet Lin Fengshen in this room every once in a while.
Lin Fengshen was definitely unwilling to cross this wall at the risk of his own life.And as for Alexander—although purgatory gave him the freedom he longed for, his life was still in Lin Fengshen's hands, like a kite, no matter how high it flew, it was always pulled by a thin rope and could not break free .
So, in this secret and wonderful meeting room, with purgatory on one side and the human world on the other, the mother and son exchanged the information and materials they needed through this glass wall for so many years.
Alexander put his hand on the glass wall, and a layer of white mist slowly appeared on the wall in the next second, forming a new door.
He asked the two companions beside him: "The opposite is Lin Fengshen's conscious world, are you ready?"
"..." Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan looked at each other, confirming that there was no hesitation, apprehension or fear in each other's eyes.
"We are ready." Song Yin replied in a low voice but extremely firm: "Let's make a break with her!"
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The door on the glass wall was pushed open silently.
The side of the world where the meeting room belongs looks no different from the side that belongs to Purgatory.
"There's a door here." Song Yin felt a small gap in the wall, pushed gently, and the long and narrow door quietly opened, and a burst of moist grass and trees blew in the face.
It seemed to be early morning behind the door, and the air was soaked in a layer of cool blue light.The scene seems to be a garden in the mountains with lush vegetation.The platform paved with bluestone slabs is surrounded by bonsai, growing all kinds of seemingly delicate but distorted plants.
There is a set of stone tables and stools in the center of the bluestone platform, and an elderly woman in white silk practicing kung fu is sitting on the stone bench, slowly making kung fu tea.
"You guys are finally here."
She didn't even look up, as if everything that happened in this world was under her control: "This is the first time this kid has brought friends home. How should I entertain you two?"
Knowing that the two sides are enemies and not friends at this time, Song Yin also smiled meanly: "You are welcome, we are here to pick you up."
"Go? Where are you going?" Lin Fengshen poured the tea in the cup into the tea tray, and smiled contemptuously at the corner of his mouth: "If I wake up now, you will be imprisoned in my consciousness—it shouldn't be that you two can't leave ?"
These words did sound a little scary, but Song Yin was no longer the little white guy he was when he first entered Purgatory, and he didn't even flick his eyebrows halfway.
"Just now I heard from Alexander that you Sisyphus had done many experiments on the fusion of two consciousnesses, all of which ended in failure. Only you, a mother and child, were considered successful. I reckon that since the fusion of two people is so dangerous, then Plus me and Brother Nan... Guess, if you suddenly woke up, what kind of ghost would you turn into?"
Qi Zhengnan didn't talk as much nonsense as Song Yin did, he directly stretched out his hand to give it a try - with a snap of his fingers, a bonsai beside him immediately started to burn like a golden-red torch.
Song Yin immediately acted arrogantly: "The special selection group is the special selection group, even in the dreamland of Sisyphus' core backbone, they are still awesome!"
But Lin Fengshen just sneered: "Are you planning to play wild on my territory? Yes, I don't mind discipline and discipline you."
While talking, I saw the potted plants on the left and right sides of the stone platform writhing at the same time, and their figures swelled wildly, turning into two thick and thin buckets of ferocious giant snakes more than ten meters long. Spit letter.
Seeing this, Qi Zhengnan immediately protected Song Yin and Alexander behind his back, and at the same time waved his hands and released two sharp wind blades, easily cutting off the two giant snakes at the waist.
However, before Song Yin could start boasting, a new head and tail grew out of the severed snake body, so the two giant snakes became four.
"Fire, fire, use fire!" Song Yin repeatedly reminded.
"Tsk." Qi Zhengnan said that he didn't need to talk too much, but at the same time, he threw a few fireballs and aimed at Lin Fengshen who was not far away.
There was a flash of white light, and Lin Fengshen's figure was erratic like a ghost, easily avoiding Qi Zhengnan's attack, and at the same time there was a contemptuous sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"I thought you two had a tacit understanding. What's the matter? It turned out that it was nothing more than that."
Although he is unarmed at the moment and is still being watched by four big snakes, but this does not prevent Song Yin from opening his mouth to fight back——
"A person who runs his family like this, what right does he have to laugh at us?"
"Family?" Lin Fengshen seemed to hear some ridiculous words: "That is just a test specially designed for me. How can you who are trapped in the secular quagmire understand!"
"I do understand who infected Alexander's weird theories." Song Yin looked at Alexander: "The moon and sixpence, and the dark lighthouse of the ring prison are all things she forcibly instilled in you! You should really think about it, what is it that you are after!"
Here, Alexander hasn't answered yet, four big snakes are already approaching Song Yin, and one of them even launched a sneak attack suddenly.
Song Yin was not stupid, he was prepared to dodge calmly, and at the same time he took out a sharp dagger from his arms, and swung it at the snake's belly with the inertia of turning around.
The moment the metal collided with the hard snake scales, a series of sparks were sparked, followed by red blood splashing in all directions.
"I advise you to stop doing useless work." Lin Fengshen moved his fingers again, and more bonsai twisted and swelled up, turning into more hideous monsters.
"Is it really good to do this?" Song Yin knew that it would be useless to fight like this, but he remained calm on the surface: "We are not the kind of stowaways who can fix other people's dreams. You keep making these ghost things , if you accidentally wake yourself up and forcefully fuse my consciousness with Brother Nan's, it will be considered as the end of both."
For a second or two, Lin Fengshen did seem to hesitate.However, before Song Yin took advantage of the victory to pursue her, she curled her mouth again.
"Do you think that I will let you run wild in my world?"
As soon as the words fell, Alexander, who had been standing on the sidelines watching the battle, suddenly moved.He dodged behind Song Yin like a ghost, grabbed the blade in Song Yin's hand by surprise, and stabbed Song Yin's side with a backhand!
"Xiao Yin!" Qi Zhengnan waved a wind blade, separating Alexander from Song Yin, and at the same time flew back to Song Yin's side.
"Alexander, you..." Song Yin covered the wound with one hand, still with an unbelievable expression on his face.
"I'm sorry, but the ass determines the head, and the body determines the spirit. I have no other choice." Alexander smiled at him, "It's because you believe in the so-called feelings too much. In the final analysis, you are still naive."
The gurgling blood flowed from Song Yin's wound on the stone platform, and flowed vertically and horizontally along the stone cracks.Alexander walked towards Lin Fengshen stepping on blood-red footprints, knelt down on his knees in front of his mother, and dedicated the blood-stained dagger in front of her.
Lin Fengshen took the blood-stained dagger, put a little on the tip of his tongue.It seems to be confirming the authenticity of the blood source.
The answer obviously satisfies her.So she looked down at her creation again: "Alexander, my child, I am one with you. My goal is your goal, and my will is your will."
"Your goal is my goal, and your will is my will," Alexander murmured, as if following some sinister ancient ritual.Then he stood up again, turned around with his head down, and retreated behind Lin Fengshen.
Lin Fengshen, who holds a murder weapon and has blood-stained lips, is like a goddess of revenge: "Do you know why we were able to successfully merge? Not only because of blood relationship, but also because the child was about to die at that time, just like before performing a bone marrow transplant. Immune systems like that... So, if I half-dead you two too, guess what would happen?"
Speaking of this, the group of snakes waiting around them suddenly swam and re-merged into a jaw-dropping giant snake. Its thick body tens of meters long coiled around Qi Zhengnan, who was holding Song Yin in his arms.
For a moment, Qi Zhengnan even felt that the giant snake in front of him was the real Lin Fengshen, and that she did possess the terrifying greed and desire to devour everything.
No, to be more precise, it is not Lin Fengshen, but Sisyphus.
However, the scorching confrontation didn't last long—just as the giant snake's body was tightening, Qi Zhengnan's figure suddenly disappeared from the encircled circle covered with scales.Instead of supporting Song Yin, there was another thinner figure.
Lin Fengshen's pupils suddenly dilated.
Alexander, who was obediently submitting to her in the last second, suddenly teleported to Song Yin's side.
She didn't know what was going on - because it was the "talent" that Alexander learned in purgatory.But she soon sensed something abnormal behind her, and instinctively turned around.However, one step faster than her, the person behind her had already punched her in the side, grabbed her collar again, and held her tightly.
Lin Fengshen's voice sounded like a whine from the abyss of hell.Although Qi Zhengnan held onto her tightly and couldn't break free, she still stretched out her arms forward.
There was a hissing sound all around, and countless snakes came out from the cracks in the rocks.And the terrifying giant snake also got the command, opened its bloody mouth full of sharp teeth, and swooped down from a high place.
"It's now!"
Qi Zhengnan, who was swapped behind Lin Fengshen by Alexander, shouted loudly.It was too late and then quickly, only to hear a loud sound of the stone slab cracking, and the giant snake smashed the stone platform out of a small hole.However, what it chewed was nothing but a blue-purple butterfly shadow.
In the next second, Song Yin, who was still dying just now, appeared in front of Lin Fengshen with the support of Alexander.And Qi Zhengnan immediately rolled up the wind blade, completely separating them from the swarm of snakes.
"...How about it, isn't it strange that I can still jump like this after being stabbed?"
The wound and pain looked real, because Song Yin frowned and turned pale.But his mental state is still stable, and his eyes are even shining.
"Is my blood good to drink? Do you want another drink?"
He shook his blood-stained palm, and then took the initiative to open his collar, showing the small patch of strengthening medicine pasted on the back of his neck: "There are more good things in purgatory than in the world."
"..." Lin Fengshen's hair was disheveled and his eyes were dark: "You want to know where those people who were taken away are kept? Do you think I will tell you obediently?"
"Of course it's not that simple." Song Yin's face was pale due to blood loss, but this also made the smile on his face even more weird: "Have you forgotten? The 'True Beast' you planted on Tuff... In the asylum of Purgatory, there are a lot of these hungry gadgets 'collected'!"
"Don't talk nonsense with her!" Qi Zhengnan was worried about Song Yin's physical condition, "You two take her first, and I will be the queen!"
As he spoke, he tied Lin Fengshen's hands behind his back tightly, and threw them to Song Yin and Alexander.He ran away quickly to attract the attention of the group of snakes.
Under the protection of Feng Ren, Song Yin and Alexander escorted Lin Fengshen to transfer immediately.From the stone platform in the mountain to the "interview room" shared with Alexander, there is only a narrow door, and it will not take long to arrive.
However, just after passing through the narrow door, there was a sudden violent vibration on the ground, and then the whole space was distorted.
The originally bright room began to flicker, and the walls and ceiling peeled off in large chunks, exposing fragments of grotesque dreams here and there, which seemed to be transforming into new scenes.
"...The dream is very unstable, I might wake up!" Alexander warned loudly, "Hurry up and take her to purgatory!"
There are only a few steps away from the glass wall in the center of the meeting room. On the other side of the wall is Alexander's world, which is also a part of Purgatory.As long as Lin Fengshen can be pushed into purgatory, she will fall into a comatose state where she cannot wake up independently, just like all executive officers.
Seeing that victory was in sight, Song Yin turned her head hastily and looked towards the narrow door they just passed through——
Like the meeting room where Song Yin was, the mountain platform in the narrow gate also began to collapse and peel off.More and more new memory fragments began to appear, like a Rubik's cube being constantly turned by a big hand, quickly pieced together a new pattern.
Song Yin shuddered, realizing the real horror—even if Lin Fengshen was successfully pushed into purgatory and could not wake up, as long as the platform in the mountain disappeared, Qi Zhengnan would not be able to rush to join him through the narrow gate.
No... things might be much worse——Qi Zhengnan might be trapped in the complicated and endless maze of memories, constantly pushing open one strange door after another, just like when he was in the star gate more than 20 years ago. Like the nightmare lingering in it...
No, we must not let what happened back then repeat itself!
"I'll leave it to you here, just do as we discussed before!" He suddenly let go of Lin Fengshen, pushed her to Alexander, and turned around and rushed towards the narrow door without hesitation.
Looking at his back, persuasion was unnecessary, Alexander could only curl his lips: "Really, whether it is a father or a son, it is a virtue in front of the person you like."
The glass walls are within reach.Across the wall is another world.Lin Fengshen seized this last chance and struggled to get out of trouble, but Alexander grabbed his wrist again.
"Do you like the feeling of being controlled by others? Mother." He quietly looked at the only relative in blood: "Thanks to you, I hate it very, very much."
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Song Yin had long known that he was born lucky, but he had never felt so deeply grateful—the next second when he successfully returned to the platform in the mountain, the narrow gate completely collapsed and disappeared.
Now, he and Qi Zhengnan should be in the same dream space, but their shortcut back to the meeting room has been cut off, and the new way out is not yet known.
In just one or two minutes, the platform in the mountain had turned into a pile of ruins, with pools of blood on the east and west, and black snake scales the size of a palm scattered everywhere.The mountains, rocks, plants and trees near the stone platform were all burned by the flames, and the air was filled with a burning smell that was still warm.
Following the breath of death, Song Yin kept walking forward.There were scorched corpses of snakes entangled here and there on the ground, and many of them were turned into fly ash.
After about ten more steps, the vibration and collapse of the dream space completely stopped.It looks like Alexander has successfully pushed Lin Fengshen into the purgatory space.
The biggest crisis has been resolved, and the most important thing right now is to find Qi Zhengnan as soon as possible, and together find a new way to leave the memory maze and return to the meeting room.
The strengthening medicinal patch on the neck continued to exert a strong effect, but even so, the wound still gave out a burning pain.Song Yin gritted his teeth and tried to run forward while observing left and right, hoping to find Qi Zhengnan's whereabouts as soon as possible.
He just stopped and walked, passed through the dilapidated stone platform, and walked down more than ten bluestone steps.Both sides of the mountain road are full of charred towering trees.A quiet Chinese-style courtyard stands in front of it. There are two figures, a man and a woman, standing in front of the door, but Qi Zhengnan is not there.
The distance was not too far, and Song Yin first recognized that the woman was the girl when she was young.
This time the scene seemed to be the living room of a new home, but it was even dirtier and messier than the bedroom just now.Broken glass, wads of paper, plastic bags and dirty lunch boxes were all over the floor.
Song Yin was stunned for a moment, then turned his gaze to Alexander beside him.
If you really don't want to look at it, it's okay to look at it, but it gave him a big jump in the first place.
Alexander in this memory has grown to the appearance of thirteen or fourteen years old.He was wearing a white shirt with a shield embroidered on the chest and blue trousers, which looked like a school uniform.It's just that there are spots on the clothes, all of which are bloodstains of different shades.
What was even more frightening was Alexander's face—half of his face had been severely deformed, turning into a mass of bluish-purple flesh bumps, the upper and lower eyelids were swollen, and there was only a gap left when the eyes were squeezed.
There were dried blood stains on his nose, the corners of his mouth, his forehead, and even inside his ears and eyes.And in those places that are barely covered by clothes, there may be even more terrible wounds hidden.
And the culprit of all this, the man who smelled of alcohol, was lying on his back on the sofa in the middle of the mess and was very drunk.He was still holding the feather duster with blood on the bamboo pole in his arms.
"This is his residual value." Scarred and almost disfigured, Alexander said quietly: "Torture me, torture me, twist me."
Having said that, he raised his finger and pointed to the opposite wall——Song Yin discovered that there was a calendar hanging on the wall. One of the three days of 789 was marked with a red circle and a 14 was written on the side.
The month before his 14th birthday... should be the day when Alexander "had an accident"!
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan looked at each other, their expressions were a little nervous.As for the reason - because according to their investigation, what happened that night was not completely consistent with Alexander's previous personal recollection.
At this time, Alexander had already walked quickly to the side room, and walked out with a mobile phone after a while.
He dialed a contact number, put the phone next to his less swollen cheek, and waited quietly.
After about four or five seconds, there was a reply from the opposite side.
"What should I do?" Alexander asked straight to the point, as if the person on the other end of the phone had already seen everything that happened just now.
Because in the final analysis, this is still Alexander's conscious world, so the answer on the other end of the phone sounds very clear.
"Ask yourself." That was obviously Lin Fengshen's voice, slowly and consistently, "Are you willing to continue to be controlled by him like this?"
"I don't want to." Alexander asked without hesitation, "What should I do?"
"You should pursue freedom. But freedom needs to rely on your own hands."
Lin Fengshen feels more like a strange psychological counselor than a mother: "I told you, I will give you an exam before your 14th birthday. If you pass the exam , everything in the future will suddenly become clear. But if you fail..."
"You will be very, very disappointed in me." Alexander repeated the words he had heard many times, expressionlessly.
"So, make your choice." After leaving this sentence, Lin Fengshen ended the call.
There was a dead silence in the messy room again.Alexander, who also put down the phone, was silent for a while, then walked towards the dining table by the wall, picked up the fruit knife on the table, and walked towards the sofa.
On the sofa full of sundries, the man biologically known as the father was sleeping soundly.And the fruit knife in Alexander's hand was only five centimeters away from his cheek.
This distance is still decreasing.
Quietly, the sharp tip of the knife had reached the man's bearded cheek, and it penetrated slowly with increasing force.
A small drop of blood quietly emerged from under the damaged skin and flowed all the way along the blade.
Song Yin swore that at this moment, he saw Alexander's eyes light up, the kind of light that seemed to see hope.
"Alexander...we should go..." he whispered, "no matter what happened in the past. Don't let the present self repeat the tragedy of the past."
Alexander didn't answer right away, but he did stop what he was doing.
After a while, he withdrew the icy sharp blade.
"You are right, there is no time, let's go."
This time, they pushed open the front door of the living room.What appeared in the next space was a brightly lit convenience store at night.It was about midnight and early morning, and the store was counting the goods that had just been delivered in large and small boxes.
It seems that not too long has passed since the last vicious torture between father and son, because the scars on Alexander's face are still shocking.However, he wore a mask, sunglasses, and a long-sleeved hood to hide it as much as possible. If you didn't stare on purpose, it would be difficult to find that he had just been beaten.
But then again, wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night is really weird.
He didn't stay in the convenience store for a long time, grabbed a few packs of biscuits and a bottle of water and ran to check out.The clerk scans the QR code listlessly, and the TV installed in the upper right corner of the cigarette sales area is rebroadcasting the local news at ten o'clock in the evening.
"A homicide occurred in the upper part of the city. The police offered a reward for collecting effective clues and finding the missing biological son of the victim."
Alexander didn't look up at the picture on the screen.He settled the bill calmly, walked out of the convenience store with his head down, walked another few hundred meters, found a public phone booth on the side of the road, and dialed a series of numbers.
Although it was early morning, the call was quickly connected, and the female voice on the other end was not sleepy.
"You killed him." Alexander said blankly, "You killed him."
"I don't understand what you're talking about." Lin Fengshen said flatly.
Alexander continued: "I taped the old guy to the sofa and beat him up. Then I took all the money in the house and ran out. But I didn't kill anyone, he didn't deserve it."
There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and Lin Fengshen suddenly whispered: "You let me down."
Alexander sneered instead: "Should I be surprised? After all, my birth was a disappointment. I tried to satisfy you, but what did I get in return?" The dim yellow light in the phone booth illuminated his scarred side face , that is the best answer.
Lin Fengshen obviously did not give up her persuasion: "A perfect bonsai always needs to be corrected and pruned, and sometimes even needs to split the trunk with an ax to become more beautiful. This is both a test and a test."
"But what if I don't plan to become a bonsai?" Alexander asked word by word, gnashing his teeth.
"Then it's impossible to plant you back in the ground." After saying this, Lin Fengshen hung up the phone.
"This is trying to train Alexander to become the backbone of Sisyphus, right?" Song Yin muttered in a low voice, "...Who would treat their son as a bonsai? Humans are not plants."
"But such things actually happen anytime and anywhere." Qi Zhengnan revealed the reality: "Even the Aksha system is the same, the executive officers of the special selection group, which one is not a bonsai carefully cultivated by it. "
Alexander, who hung up the phone, did not turn around and walked towards them, but continued forward and walked into a toilet by the side of the road.
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan hurried to catch up, and sure enough, the scene changed once the door was opened.
This time the scene was still in the middle of the night, and the first thing that appeared in front of my eyes was a row of high concrete walls more than two meters high.A basketball-sized white street lamp is lit every few meters at the top, so that the view will not be too dim.
It was also with the help of the lights that Song Yin quickly discovered that Alexander had climbed to the top of the wall, and he and Qi Zhengnan quickly followed.
After easily climbing over the wall, what was displayed in front of them was a beautiful garden under the moon.It includes a large lawn, neatly arranged sycamore trees on both sides of the road, and the sparkling lake a little far away.
At this moment, Alexander was running towards the lake. Looking in the direction he was going, he could vaguely see the outline of a multi-storey building in the dark night.That should be Alexander's destination.
It was too late to generate any conjectures, Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan quickly followed.A few minutes later, he followed Alexander to the downstairs of the building.
This brand-new building with a strong sense of modernity is a small-scale office building—judging from the bronze plate inlaid on the door, its scientific name is Fengshen Institute of Psychology.Obviously, with the support of Sisyphus, Lin Fengshen's career has been greatly developed here.
The Institute needs to hold a special access control card to be able to enter and exit, but this does not seem to be a problem for Alexander.He walked half a circle around the building and came to the south side facing the lake—the French windows on each floor are connected to a viewing balcony stretching out to the lake, and the rainwater pipes on the edge of the balcony are the best. climbing tools.
I saw Alexander took off his shoes and socks, and climbed up to the third floor along the pipe with his bare feet.Only then did Song Yin notice a faint light shining in a certain window on the third floor.
After a while, Alexander rolled over to the balcony outside the window, then bent over and waved at Song Yin and the two: "You don't need to come up, anyway, I will go down soon."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and pushed open the sliding door, and walked towards the light in the house.
It is indeed inconvenient to climb with bare hands, so Song Yin and Alexander stood obediently by the lake and waited.In less than a minute, there was a crisp sound of glass shattering overhead, and then the two figures entangled and rushed to the balcony, climbed over the railing, and both fell into the icy lake!
Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan immediately ran to the lake, only to see the lake sparkling under the moonlight, where are the shadows of the two of them?
"What about people?"
Song Yin thumped in his heart, and was about to find out where the next door was.Qi Zhengnan suddenly grabbed him from behind, and the two fell into the lake together.
The process of crossing the lake only lasted a second, so before Song Yin could struggle, he was hugged by Qi Zhengnan and fell into the next brand new space.
"I'm going, can't you prepare me mentally?" Song Yin protested angrily, although she was unharmed, but frightened.
Qi Zhengnan apologized in a low voice, and then the two of them began to look at the surrounding environment - it was a flesh-red room without windows and without any furniture.From the floor to the ceiling, it is covered with flesh-red sponges. It looks like a bunch of disgusting human tissue, but it has an excellent cushioning effect.
Alexander had already come here one step ahead of them.He was wearing a restraint uniform that was often seen in mental hospitals. The sleeves on both sides were tied behind his waist, and his feet were also restrained by belts. This made him sit against the edge of the wall, unable to move.
"What kind of place is this?" The scene in front of him was so absurd that Song Yin couldn't make any definite guesses for a while.
"Didn't you investigate my information?" Alexander, who was sitting on the ground, looked up at him, "Where did I go after I drowned?"
The person who answered him was Qi Zhengnan: "After you and Lin Fengshen drowned, Lin Fengshen was the only one who was successfully rescued. The official report is that you have drowned and died."
"That's right, I know that." Alexander nodded calmly, as if the things he said had nothing to do with him: "So how could I 'live' for more than 30 years?"
"Because your consciousness was forcibly imprisoned by your mother." Song Yin replied, "It's like how Shaffley pushed the assistant officer's consciousness into his body, but here, you and Lin Fengshen coexist... No, It should be said that she controlled you."
"Look at you, don't you already know all this clearly?"
Alexander simply leaned against the wall and lay down on his back: "So this is my cage. It's where I was trapped for three years—in Lin Fengshen's body."
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What it's like to be imprisoned in another's consciousness.
Alexander said that it can be summed up in three words - "lunatic asylum".
It's just that this madhouse has only one ward.No windows, no doors, no day and night, no time, no voice, no one to talk to, and no freedom.
And Alexander stayed in this madhouse for three full years.
During the three years, he could only see one person—the person who used to be the closest, but now is the scariest person.
When he first found himself imprisoned in his mother's consciousness, Alexander was really crazy.After all, it was hard for him to make up his mind to run away from home. Unexpectedly, things backfired, but he completely lost his freedom.
He shouted, cursed, resisted, and even really ignited the murderous intention.But he soon discovered that everything was in vain—he was just a consciousness under the fence, unable to kill the other party, and even completely unable to destroy himself.
After realizing all this, he gradually calmed down and stopped making unnecessary struggles.He began to think about the meaning of his own existence, the relationship between himself and his mother, the intricate truth between life and consciousness, and the world.
After realizing that he no longer strongly resisted, Lin Fengshen's attitude began to gradually change—she began to appear frequently in the ward, preaching some Sisyphus dogmas and ideas to him.He also expressed sincerely that the state of their mother and child as one body has already surpassed ordinary human beings and is closer to the perfect state of God.
As a reward for Alexander's gradual surrender, the ward where he was imprisoned also began to change-the most important point of which was the "window".
Windows are not permanently attached to the wall.It appears and disappears from time to time, depending entirely on Lin Fengshen's mood.
And the scene outside the window is also irregular-sometimes it is a beautiful scenery, sometimes it is newspaper news TV, sometimes it is simply meaningless passers-by and street scenes.But Alexander soon discovered that these seemingly random scenes were actually invisible tests.
Although he has been isolated from the world for too long, Alexander cannot express a clear yearning for the real world outside.Because in Lin Fengshen's view, these are all false and flashy material temptations, which will become a stumbling block on the journey of pursuing the soul-there is only one exception, and that is books.
After three years of "domestication", Lin Fengshen suddenly said that he could let Alexander "out".
It was a well-designed and extremely difficult experiment - after all, it was almost impossible to compress the consciousness of two people into the same body.But to separate them again, deceive the verification of Aksha's system, and then send Alexander to purgatory, it needs to take a huge risk.
Sisyphus had tried more than once before this, but never succeeded.
But this time, the mother and son were different.
For the first and last time in memory, a small door appeared on the flesh-red ward wall.
Even after only staying inside for a short while, Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan felt overwhelmed. They couldn't wait to help Alexander up from the ground and walked through the door together.
Outside this door is the end of the shortcut.
After leaving the "ward", the eyes that had been stimulated by flesh red for a long time could not adapt to the new color immediately.Therefore, no matter where Song Yin looked, he always had a strange blue color.After a while, his nerves finally completed automatic calibration, and he saw clearly the truth in the last room in front of him——
Here is a bright white, plain room.There is a long table in the center, with a seat at each end of the table.However, a transparent glass wall divides the room into two halves, the inside and the outside together with the long table - it is very reminiscent of a bank's office window or a prison's meeting room.
"That's the end of my field of consciousness."
Alexander said that after entering purgatory, he would meet Lin Fengshen in this room every once in a while.
Lin Fengshen was definitely unwilling to cross this wall at the risk of his own life.And as for Alexander—although purgatory gave him the freedom he longed for, his life was still in Lin Fengshen's hands, like a kite, no matter how high it flew, it was always pulled by a thin rope and could not break free .
So, in this secret and wonderful meeting room, with purgatory on one side and the human world on the other, the mother and son exchanged the information and materials they needed through this glass wall for so many years.
Alexander put his hand on the glass wall, and a layer of white mist slowly appeared on the wall in the next second, forming a new door.
He asked the two companions beside him: "The opposite is Lin Fengshen's conscious world, are you ready?"
"..." Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan looked at each other, confirming that there was no hesitation, apprehension or fear in each other's eyes.
"We are ready." Song Yin replied in a low voice but extremely firm: "Let's make a break with her!"
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The door on the glass wall was pushed open silently.
The side of the world where the meeting room belongs looks no different from the side that belongs to Purgatory.
"There's a door here." Song Yin felt a small gap in the wall, pushed gently, and the long and narrow door quietly opened, and a burst of moist grass and trees blew in the face.
It seemed to be early morning behind the door, and the air was soaked in a layer of cool blue light.The scene seems to be a garden in the mountains with lush vegetation.The platform paved with bluestone slabs is surrounded by bonsai, growing all kinds of seemingly delicate but distorted plants.
There is a set of stone tables and stools in the center of the bluestone platform, and an elderly woman in white silk practicing kung fu is sitting on the stone bench, slowly making kung fu tea.
"You guys are finally here."
She didn't even look up, as if everything that happened in this world was under her control: "This is the first time this kid has brought friends home. How should I entertain you two?"
Knowing that the two sides are enemies and not friends at this time, Song Yin also smiled meanly: "You are welcome, we are here to pick you up."
"Go? Where are you going?" Lin Fengshen poured the tea in the cup into the tea tray, and smiled contemptuously at the corner of his mouth: "If I wake up now, you will be imprisoned in my consciousness—it shouldn't be that you two can't leave ?"
These words did sound a little scary, but Song Yin was no longer the little white guy he was when he first entered Purgatory, and he didn't even flick his eyebrows halfway.
"Just now I heard from Alexander that you Sisyphus had done many experiments on the fusion of two consciousnesses, all of which ended in failure. Only you, a mother and child, were considered successful. I reckon that since the fusion of two people is so dangerous, then Plus me and Brother Nan... Guess, if you suddenly woke up, what kind of ghost would you turn into?"
Qi Zhengnan didn't talk as much nonsense as Song Yin did, he directly stretched out his hand to give it a try - with a snap of his fingers, a bonsai beside him immediately started to burn like a golden-red torch.
Song Yin immediately acted arrogantly: "The special selection group is the special selection group, even in the dreamland of Sisyphus' core backbone, they are still awesome!"
But Lin Fengshen just sneered: "Are you planning to play wild on my territory? Yes, I don't mind discipline and discipline you."
While talking, I saw the potted plants on the left and right sides of the stone platform writhing at the same time, and their figures swelled wildly, turning into two thick and thin buckets of ferocious giant snakes more than ten meters long. Spit letter.
Seeing this, Qi Zhengnan immediately protected Song Yin and Alexander behind his back, and at the same time waved his hands and released two sharp wind blades, easily cutting off the two giant snakes at the waist.
However, before Song Yin could start boasting, a new head and tail grew out of the severed snake body, so the two giant snakes became four.
"Fire, fire, use fire!" Song Yin repeatedly reminded.
"Tsk." Qi Zhengnan said that he didn't need to talk too much, but at the same time, he threw a few fireballs and aimed at Lin Fengshen who was not far away.
There was a flash of white light, and Lin Fengshen's figure was erratic like a ghost, easily avoiding Qi Zhengnan's attack, and at the same time there was a contemptuous sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"I thought you two had a tacit understanding. What's the matter? It turned out that it was nothing more than that."
Although he is unarmed at the moment and is still being watched by four big snakes, but this does not prevent Song Yin from opening his mouth to fight back——
"A person who runs his family like this, what right does he have to laugh at us?"
"Family?" Lin Fengshen seemed to hear some ridiculous words: "That is just a test specially designed for me. How can you who are trapped in the secular quagmire understand!"
"I do understand who infected Alexander's weird theories." Song Yin looked at Alexander: "The moon and sixpence, and the dark lighthouse of the ring prison are all things she forcibly instilled in you! You should really think about it, what is it that you are after!"
Here, Alexander hasn't answered yet, four big snakes are already approaching Song Yin, and one of them even launched a sneak attack suddenly.
Song Yin was not stupid, he was prepared to dodge calmly, and at the same time he took out a sharp dagger from his arms, and swung it at the snake's belly with the inertia of turning around.
The moment the metal collided with the hard snake scales, a series of sparks were sparked, followed by red blood splashing in all directions.
"I advise you to stop doing useless work." Lin Fengshen moved his fingers again, and more bonsai twisted and swelled up, turning into more hideous monsters.
"Is it really good to do this?" Song Yin knew that it would be useless to fight like this, but he remained calm on the surface: "We are not the kind of stowaways who can fix other people's dreams. You keep making these ghost things , if you accidentally wake yourself up and forcefully fuse my consciousness with Brother Nan's, it will be considered as the end of both."
For a second or two, Lin Fengshen did seem to hesitate.However, before Song Yin took advantage of the victory to pursue her, she curled her mouth again.
"Do you think that I will let you run wild in my world?"
As soon as the words fell, Alexander, who had been standing on the sidelines watching the battle, suddenly moved.He dodged behind Song Yin like a ghost, grabbed the blade in Song Yin's hand by surprise, and stabbed Song Yin's side with a backhand!
"Xiao Yin!" Qi Zhengnan waved a wind blade, separating Alexander from Song Yin, and at the same time flew back to Song Yin's side.
"Alexander, you..." Song Yin covered the wound with one hand, still with an unbelievable expression on his face.
"I'm sorry, but the ass determines the head, and the body determines the spirit. I have no other choice." Alexander smiled at him, "It's because you believe in the so-called feelings too much. In the final analysis, you are still naive."
The gurgling blood flowed from Song Yin's wound on the stone platform, and flowed vertically and horizontally along the stone cracks.Alexander walked towards Lin Fengshen stepping on blood-red footprints, knelt down on his knees in front of his mother, and dedicated the blood-stained dagger in front of her.
Lin Fengshen took the blood-stained dagger, put a little on the tip of his tongue.It seems to be confirming the authenticity of the blood source.
The answer obviously satisfies her.So she looked down at her creation again: "Alexander, my child, I am one with you. My goal is your goal, and my will is your will."
"Your goal is my goal, and your will is my will," Alexander murmured, as if following some sinister ancient ritual.Then he stood up again, turned around with his head down, and retreated behind Lin Fengshen.
Lin Fengshen, who holds a murder weapon and has blood-stained lips, is like a goddess of revenge: "Do you know why we were able to successfully merge? Not only because of blood relationship, but also because the child was about to die at that time, just like before performing a bone marrow transplant. Immune systems like that... So, if I half-dead you two too, guess what would happen?"
Speaking of this, the group of snakes waiting around them suddenly swam and re-merged into a jaw-dropping giant snake. Its thick body tens of meters long coiled around Qi Zhengnan, who was holding Song Yin in his arms.
For a moment, Qi Zhengnan even felt that the giant snake in front of him was the real Lin Fengshen, and that she did possess the terrifying greed and desire to devour everything.
No, to be more precise, it is not Lin Fengshen, but Sisyphus.
However, the scorching confrontation didn't last long—just as the giant snake's body was tightening, Qi Zhengnan's figure suddenly disappeared from the encircled circle covered with scales.Instead of supporting Song Yin, there was another thinner figure.
Lin Fengshen's pupils suddenly dilated.
Alexander, who was obediently submitting to her in the last second, suddenly teleported to Song Yin's side.
She didn't know what was going on - because it was the "talent" that Alexander learned in purgatory.But she soon sensed something abnormal behind her, and instinctively turned around.However, one step faster than her, the person behind her had already punched her in the side, grabbed her collar again, and held her tightly.
Lin Fengshen's voice sounded like a whine from the abyss of hell.Although Qi Zhengnan held onto her tightly and couldn't break free, she still stretched out her arms forward.
There was a hissing sound all around, and countless snakes came out from the cracks in the rocks.And the terrifying giant snake also got the command, opened its bloody mouth full of sharp teeth, and swooped down from a high place.
"It's now!"
Qi Zhengnan, who was swapped behind Lin Fengshen by Alexander, shouted loudly.It was too late and then quickly, only to hear a loud sound of the stone slab cracking, and the giant snake smashed the stone platform out of a small hole.However, what it chewed was nothing but a blue-purple butterfly shadow.
In the next second, Song Yin, who was still dying just now, appeared in front of Lin Fengshen with the support of Alexander.And Qi Zhengnan immediately rolled up the wind blade, completely separating them from the swarm of snakes.
"...How about it, isn't it strange that I can still jump like this after being stabbed?"
The wound and pain looked real, because Song Yin frowned and turned pale.But his mental state is still stable, and his eyes are even shining.
"Is my blood good to drink? Do you want another drink?"
He shook his blood-stained palm, and then took the initiative to open his collar, showing the small patch of strengthening medicine pasted on the back of his neck: "There are more good things in purgatory than in the world."
"..." Lin Fengshen's hair was disheveled and his eyes were dark: "You want to know where those people who were taken away are kept? Do you think I will tell you obediently?"
"Of course it's not that simple." Song Yin's face was pale due to blood loss, but this also made the smile on his face even more weird: "Have you forgotten? The 'True Beast' you planted on Tuff... In the asylum of Purgatory, there are a lot of these hungry gadgets 'collected'!"
"Don't talk nonsense with her!" Qi Zhengnan was worried about Song Yin's physical condition, "You two take her first, and I will be the queen!"
As he spoke, he tied Lin Fengshen's hands behind his back tightly, and threw them to Song Yin and Alexander.He ran away quickly to attract the attention of the group of snakes.
Under the protection of Feng Ren, Song Yin and Alexander escorted Lin Fengshen to transfer immediately.From the stone platform in the mountain to the "interview room" shared with Alexander, there is only a narrow door, and it will not take long to arrive.
However, just after passing through the narrow door, there was a sudden violent vibration on the ground, and then the whole space was distorted.
The originally bright room began to flicker, and the walls and ceiling peeled off in large chunks, exposing fragments of grotesque dreams here and there, which seemed to be transforming into new scenes.
"...The dream is very unstable, I might wake up!" Alexander warned loudly, "Hurry up and take her to purgatory!"
There are only a few steps away from the glass wall in the center of the meeting room. On the other side of the wall is Alexander's world, which is also a part of Purgatory.As long as Lin Fengshen can be pushed into purgatory, she will fall into a comatose state where she cannot wake up independently, just like all executive officers.
Seeing that victory was in sight, Song Yin turned her head hastily and looked towards the narrow door they just passed through——
Like the meeting room where Song Yin was, the mountain platform in the narrow gate also began to collapse and peel off.More and more new memory fragments began to appear, like a Rubik's cube being constantly turned by a big hand, quickly pieced together a new pattern.
Song Yin shuddered, realizing the real horror—even if Lin Fengshen was successfully pushed into purgatory and could not wake up, as long as the platform in the mountain disappeared, Qi Zhengnan would not be able to rush to join him through the narrow gate.
No... things might be much worse——Qi Zhengnan might be trapped in the complicated and endless maze of memories, constantly pushing open one strange door after another, just like when he was in the star gate more than 20 years ago. Like the nightmare lingering in it...
No, we must not let what happened back then repeat itself!
"I'll leave it to you here, just do as we discussed before!" He suddenly let go of Lin Fengshen, pushed her to Alexander, and turned around and rushed towards the narrow door without hesitation.
Looking at his back, persuasion was unnecessary, Alexander could only curl his lips: "Really, whether it is a father or a son, it is a virtue in front of the person you like."
The glass walls are within reach.Across the wall is another world.Lin Fengshen seized this last chance and struggled to get out of trouble, but Alexander grabbed his wrist again.
"Do you like the feeling of being controlled by others? Mother." He quietly looked at the only relative in blood: "Thanks to you, I hate it very, very much."
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Song Yin had long known that he was born lucky, but he had never felt so deeply grateful—the next second when he successfully returned to the platform in the mountain, the narrow gate completely collapsed and disappeared.
Now, he and Qi Zhengnan should be in the same dream space, but their shortcut back to the meeting room has been cut off, and the new way out is not yet known.
In just one or two minutes, the platform in the mountain had turned into a pile of ruins, with pools of blood on the east and west, and black snake scales the size of a palm scattered everywhere.The mountains, rocks, plants and trees near the stone platform were all burned by the flames, and the air was filled with a burning smell that was still warm.
Following the breath of death, Song Yin kept walking forward.There were scorched corpses of snakes entangled here and there on the ground, and many of them were turned into fly ash.
After about ten more steps, the vibration and collapse of the dream space completely stopped.It looks like Alexander has successfully pushed Lin Fengshen into the purgatory space.
The biggest crisis has been resolved, and the most important thing right now is to find Qi Zhengnan as soon as possible, and together find a new way to leave the memory maze and return to the meeting room.
The strengthening medicinal patch on the neck continued to exert a strong effect, but even so, the wound still gave out a burning pain.Song Yin gritted his teeth and tried to run forward while observing left and right, hoping to find Qi Zhengnan's whereabouts as soon as possible.
He just stopped and walked, passed through the dilapidated stone platform, and walked down more than ten bluestone steps.Both sides of the mountain road are full of charred towering trees.A quiet Chinese-style courtyard stands in front of it. There are two figures, a man and a woman, standing in front of the door, but Qi Zhengnan is not there.
The distance was not too far, and Song Yin first recognized that the woman was the girl when she was young.
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