"Assimilation, absorption".

"Cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff".

"Look at me! Look at me! Be my witness!"

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Oxygen makes people feel happy.

Outside the window, the rain was pouring down and thunder was booming.

He Yu watched as the raindrops were given life, crawling and weaving on the glass, sticky like fly larvae.

Why did I come back here?

All he remembers is being punched in the head by E01.

"Because I don't want to die as ridiculously as you, you idiot."

Someone walked up from behind. He Yu turned around, and in that instant, he knew his face must have turned very ugly.

Although the man looked exactly like He Yu, he had long hair and a smug smile on his face, making him seem like a completely different person.

"You're Eoubs-659, aren't you?" He Yu stared at the person in front of him, his mind racing: "And this is some kind of mental space?"

659 sighed and slowly sat down on the floor, looking like a teacher who had been asked an extremely stupid question and didn't want to answer at all, but since this person was his only student, he had no choice but to give in.

It nodded and said sarcastically, "Looking at it now, it's quite clever. How could it have been used as a pawn?"

"What can I do..."

He Yu chuckled softly, his tone sounding self-deprecating: "I've always been a victim, you know what I mean?"

“Of course I understand. I also know that you don’t want to get involved in this mess. You’ve been mediocre for twenty-seven years, and all you want is to make some money and live a quiet life. That’s normal. Every ordinary good-for-nothing has such a dream.” 659 glanced at him, and his face turned cold.

"It's... absolutely disgusting."

He Yu felt offended. 659 was a prisoner just like him, and everyone else could criticize him, but it couldn't.

We are one now, aren't we?

“Don’t look at me like that, I’m not wrong.” 659 knew he didn’t understand. In fact, in just one day, it had reviewed He Yu’s entire life: “You act like a victim, but you are actually the perpetrator.”

"That's quite a novel way of putting it." He Yu mimicked its posture, sitting down on the ground. The two looked at each other. "You think you know me very well?"

"You like to use sympathy to lure your victims; that's how you survive."

Looking at the man's frozen face, 659 continued expressionlessly, "I live because I am among all things, I can play with lower-dimensional life at will, this world lives because it needs monsters like me, and you... you live because people will think: Oh, this poor fool, he never has any good luck."

“I simply can’t stand those deafening wails coming from your decadent soul.”

"I think I have no choice but to come out myself and tell this fool that his fate has begun to change."

"Think about everything you've been through, think about those crazy lunatics on the radio channels."

"They can kill people with words alone. Those weak, useless cowards, even if their numbers increase to a certain limit, will hardly become beasts."

He Yu felt a tickle in his throat, and his urge to vomit was growing stronger. His ten fingers began to twitch and tremble uncontrollably.

“You always like to do that, don’t you?” 659 couldn’t make him understand everything he had discovered. It had devoured too many useless souls. Everything else was so boring except for life, which could be consumed as death.

But He Yu is different.

He was exceptionally gifted and was the only host body that could completely merge with himself.

As for 659, all it needs is a reasonable opportunity to push it forward.

“The weak can live in the world without any worries. They kneel on the ground and feed on the vomit of those in high positions. For a long time, they will think that you are born so lowly, that you are one of millions of miserable lives, an object that they can bully and humiliate at will.”

"Your experiences, your suffering, all your dissatisfaction and despair are self-inflicted, and you willingly accept them."

"But you can't look into the same pair of eyes twice in a mirror."

He Yu was hallucinating. He saw the world spinning like a kaleidoscope, and the floor suddenly sprouted sharp teeth that devoured him in a few bites. Everything rolled and expanded, and countless versions of him ran wildly in the rainy night, then their bodies cracked like shattered ceramic, and they collapsed to the ground, weeping bitterly.

"Your life will never be peaceful again."

He Yu stared at it blankly, and finally admitted it, asking in confusion, "So you want to replace me?"

"Replace? No...not at all."

659 peeled open his chest, pulled out his heart under his horrified gaze, and handed it over.

"I want you to choose for yourself."

"Will you continue living a hypocritical life, or become a monster like me?"

The heart pounded violently, and drops of bright red blood fell.

Oxygen makes people feel joyful, as if they have been reborn.

He Yu's mind was in complete chaos, yet he felt an unprecedented excitement.

"Don't you understand yet? You're already deeply involved and can't escape."

659 burst into laughter, his bloody saliva splattering onto He Yu's face, making him look incredibly ferocious.

"Join this containment feast."

"Just consider it your own doing, so you can devour more lives."

...

07:01.

E01 noticed something was wrong and lifted its head from between its knees, whereupon it saw the rotting flesh boiling over.

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