“Good evening, Gao Ming. Do you feel ill again?” After a long silence, Xuan Wen adjusted her expression. She treated Gao Ming like a typical patient. “Have the hallucinations started to disrupt your normal life again?”
“Those things were never hallucinations. I don’t need treatment, and I will stop running.” Gao Ming stepped on the broken glasses. His lips moved, “I thanked you inside the level five accessibility verification lab. The words appeared to have injured you. You care about that.”
“Your back was shaking. A psycho criminal exposed her flaw at that moment.” Gao Ming continued to walk forward to close their distance. “Why do you still remember me? The version of myself in the nightmare.”
Gao Ming walked to the space between the moonlight and the shadow. A person who should have lost his memory asked the other why she still remembered him. Actually, that was not what he wanted to say, but the words tumbled out of his mouth. Perhaps he really wanted to confirm something. There was a person who never gave up on him despite his multiple deaths in Han Hai. She kept dragging him out of the mud. He wasn’t unwilling to believe that such a person would lie to him.
“Of course, I remember you. When you were sent here, your body was broken. It was the other doctors and myself who fought to save you from death.” The woman closed the patient’s record and turned to look out the dark night through the bent windows.
“It was indeed you who saved me from death many times.” Gao Ming stared at Xuan Wen’s face. “But it was not at the hospital but at that circulating tunnel.”
“Your conditions have worsened. You can’t differentiate the real from the fake anymore.” Xuan Wen sounded more like she was trying to convince herself.
“You don’t need to use mental illnesses as an excuse to lie to me. I just want to know one thing.” Gao Ming’s heart pounded. The veins popped under his skin. Then, the blood started to spread uncontrollably. “Was it part of your plan to push me towards death again and again? Was it you who manipulated it so that I was betrayed and had to suffer different kinds of death? I just want to know one thing. Did you save me again and again? Or push me into the abyss again and again?” Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novelꜰire.net
In the nightmare, Xuan Wen was very proactive. She was like a passionate and cunning flower blooming in the summer. She didn’t care about the season and the weather as long as she could achieve her most incredible beauty. Xuan Wen, in reality, had a lot of concerns and carried secrets in her heart. The doctor’s coat shielded her soul.
“The Xuan Wen you encountered in the nightmare was me. We employed Immortal Pharma’s latest technology to send your consciousness into Han Hai. During this process, you’d adopt different identities in the nightmare. For example, you’d cross a dark tunnel or pass through a thick fog. You have participated in a few recent brain realm tests, so you should be familiar with this.” Xuan Wen had been keeping tabs on Gao Ming. She knew what Gao Ming had done after leaving the hospital.
“That was not my question.” Gao Ming pointed at his heart, “Was it you who was responsible for my endless deaths?”
“Endless deaths?” Xuan Wen was visibly confused. “If you die in Han Hai, you’ll die permanently. That’s why I’m stumped. Why do you keep saying that you’ve died multiple times? Is it an issue with my treatment? Or was there a mistake we’ve missed when we sent your consciousness into Han Hai?” Xuan Wen told the truth. She had no reason to lie after admitting that she was the one who sent Gao Ming into Han Hai. That was why Gao Ming was always carried out of the tunnel by Xuan Wen. However, she appeared clueless about the deaths Gao Ming professed. Only Gao Ming’s heart contained the multiple death memories. Only he knew he had experienced so much despair. Gao Ming used the Dream Ghost’s power to confirm that Xuan Wen was not lying.
“You shouldn’t be so rash to expose Han Hai’s Blood City.” Xuan Wen pointed at Gao Ming’s tattoo. “This will bring tragedy to you and the people around you. Immortal Pharma will target you, and you’ll spend the rest of your life inside a tank.”
“It’s hard to say who the tragedy will fall upon.” Gao Ming stopped approaching Xuan Wen. He left his memory of Xuan Wen in the moonlight. “You’re also Han Hai’s participant. What role did you play in the dead city?”
“Dead city? It looks like you know more than I do.” Xuan Wen closed her eyes to think. “Project Han Hai is Immortal Pharma’s core secret. The former world’s saviour wanted to create a world where humans and ghosts could coexist. He sought to eliminate despair from the world so that death would stop being the final destination of human lives. He used a taboo game to push his idea in Xin Lu. He used the beauty of the world to heal the wounds of the nightmare, but too many things stood in his way.
“Human greed couldn’t be abolished. No one was willing to share their goodness to save the ugly ghosts.” Xuan Wen revealed the truth hidden by Immortal Pharma, “In his desperation, the world’s saviour had a change of thought. To prove the validity of his plan, he found a massacred city in the black mist. He planned to build his new world there.”
“Is that city Han Hai?”
“Yes. Thirteen blood cities exist deep inside the nightmare. Han Hai was butchered by the other twelve cities many years ago.” Xuan Wen’s emotions didn’t fluctuate. “The world’s saviour led the ghosts and the players who believed in him to build a new city on the ruins. He brought hope to despair.
“A new world was about to appear. However, at that moment, the world’s saviour led the Unmentionables further into the black mist. Only the Immortal Pharma higher-ups know why.
“At first, Immortal Pharma and Xin Lu management still tried to carry out the world’s saviour plan. However, after the new No. 0 showed up, everything changed.”