And then the familiar feeling of spatial teleportation disappeared.

Gu Xinghe found himself standing at the entrance of Wheat Field Town.

When he looked up, the scene in the town before him was almost exactly the same as when he first entered this instance.

Just as Gu Xinghe wanted to confirm once again that he had really been teleported to the gate of the town in reality.

Or is it just a fictional, illusory space like the centipede spider we encountered before?

At this moment, Gu Xinghe discovered that his perception seemed to be being subtly altered in this space.

【I am Camos. After many years, today my sister Serina and I have returned to our hometown, Wheatfield Town】

I am Camos, and my favorite person is my sister, Serena.

【……】

A large amount of self-awareness about Camos was being transmitted directly into Gu Xinghe's mind as if it were being manipulated.

It's as if they want him to completely forget his original identity and memories, and to believe that he is just a native of this small world.

However, these perceptions and memories related to Kamos are not very detailed.

It's more like the existence of certain stereotypes.

It was as if a program mechanically "stuffed" other people's impressions of Camos into his mind.

At this point, compared to when I first entered this world and participated in the game instance.

Gu Xinghe, whose mental strength had been greatly enhanced, clearly realized this at this moment.

So now, he was no longer the same as he had been on the steps of the teaching building at Dawn Boarding School.

When he fell into the illusion of the centipede spider, he was instantly pulled into it, which was tantamount to being "killed in an instant".

After breaking through the initial illusionary space, they realized that they had been stuffed into a giant cocoon made of white spider silk.

But at this moment, he was facing the manipulators' constant attempts to distort his understanding.

Compared to the past, Gu Xinghe has grown a lot and is now able to "pull back" or even... turn the tables.

A faint black mist began to appear and swirl around him, and an invisible spiritual force began to counterattack.

Then, while retaining his own cognition and memories, Gu Xinghe "swallowed" that piece of Camos's memories.

During this process, Gu Xinghe also discovered that his mental strength had improved through training.

At the same time, the mental attribute value on his player panel was also slowly increasing.

After "swallowing" the instilled memories, Gu Xinghe began to organize the information about Camos.

As he had previously perceived, there were not many real details about Camos's memories.

Most of the repetitive content feels more like brainwashing.

He wanted to instill in Gu Xinghe, who had received this memory, the love that her brother Camos had for his sister.

Didn't brother Camos and sister Serena fall in love and then hide away together back to their hometown, Wheatfield Town?

At this moment, Gu Xinghe recalled the contents of the first article he had seen in the newspaper.

However, it seems that the reality is not as described in the newspapers.

As he had guessed, aside from a few names of people and places being correct.

The article likely contains a significant amount of fiction and filler content.

So, when he entered the house, the scene before him had transformed into the view of the town gate.

At the same time, the person behind the scenes also instilled in him knowledge about Camos.

Is it possible that they want him to relive the storyline of that article as the male protagonist?

In that article, the initial plot did indeed begin at the entrance to Wheatfield Town.

However, looking at it this way, doesn't the current development seem a bit like an endless nested doll? A dungeon within a dungeon?

But precisely because of this, Gu Xinghe, who is currently quite fearless, has no immediate intention of destroying this small world or leaving.

Instead, they planned to follow the "story" within this nested doll-like scenario.

If things proceed as the mastermind intends, we should get closer to the corrupted core of this instance.

With this in mind, Gu Xinghe began to observe the scene before him.

Compared to the illusionary space of the centipede spider where he had fallen, which limited the scene to a small, dark space.

The view before us was clearly much wider and brighter.

The scene was almost identical to what he had seen when he first entered the [Crop Circle] instance.

Looking in from the current town gate, the layout here is roughly the same as the layout of Wheat Field Town in his memory.

Only some of the buildings have changed slightly due to the passage of time.

Based on the deduction, this should be the wheat field town ten years before the beginning of the story.

However, this is not a time travel to the actual ten years ago.

It was merely a replica of the town from ten years ago, made from the memories of the person behind it.

It is a subspace that exists in relation to reality.

At this moment, Gu Xinghe, having finished surveying this wheat-field town from ten years ago, turned his head away.

He was observing another "actor" who was clearly also going to be involved in the same script as him.

At this moment, standing with him at the entrance of Wheat Field Town was clearly Cheng Li.

She had her eyes closed, and it seemed as if she was passively receiving the relevant memories under the indoctrination of the person behind the scenes.

At that moment, as if sensing Gu Xinghe's gaze, Cheng Li opened her eyes.

She looked at Gu Xinghe with a satisfied smile on her face.

"Brother, what's wrong? Why are you standing here staring at me without moving?"

elder brother?

At this moment, Gu Xinghe recalled the earlier attempt to distort his perception of him—to make him believe that he was Camos.

So, is Cheng Li, who is currently receiving the memories and cognition of her younger sister Serina, and is playing the role of her younger sister?

In this light, the mastermind behind this might indeed be related to the brother and sister duo, Camos and Serena.

At this moment, Gu Xinghe also realized that neither he nor Cheng Li had had their appearance altered.

They were simply instilled with knowledge and memories related to Serena.

In other words, at this time, he and Cheng Li were the legendary forbidden siblings in love.

So, does this mean his previous guess was correct?

Was the ending that the newspaper article didn't show really the ending with the hatchet?

Serena, the younger sister, regretted killing her brother.

So she had the men who walked into the house receive the memories she implanted and become her brothers, and then let them go through the "plot" again?

So, is the person behind the scenes who is manipulating the swarm of insects in the town Serena?

Or perhaps, she was completely controlled and parasitized by pollution?