Chapter 165 What do you want?

Under the cover of the grenade explosion, Xin Que fell to the wall beside her.

A file flashed across the wall, and then her figure completely disappeared from the fire escape.

Seeing Sun Xinyue sitting blankly in the corner of the room, Xin Que knew that Luo Huayi had already met up with Xin Xin.

"Cheng Zheng has been unconscious and hasn't woken up yet." Luo Hua saw Xin Que dragging his knife, but there were no obvious external injuries on his body, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Xin Que walked to where Cheng Zheng was placed and glanced at the man who was still unconscious on the sofa.

Leaning down and lifting his eyelids, Xin Que saw data rapidly processing deep within the man's pupils, knowing that his program was still deciphering the administrator's signal channel.

“He’s fine,” Xin Que stood up, “but we have a tough battle ahead of us.”

Luo Huayi's tense nerves did not relax much because of Xin Que's appearance. He moved his lips and finally asked her with a hint of confusion.

"Xin Que, what exactly are those plot points, those so-called 'ghost wall' scenarios...?"

“The city is destroyed… After those people died, I saw something on their corpses.”

"The person is not a real person..."

Even Luo Huayi found it a bit difficult to pronounce.

But he truly saw that those "people" were data, programs, and machines.

But it's not a person.

The city where he had lived for more than twenty years was just a fake, a theater manipulated by those heavenly beings.

Xin Que's thoughts, which were contemplating the next step of the plan, were interrupted, and she looked up at Luo Huayi.

Luo Huayi didn't know what to say, so he simply sat down on an empty sofa, covered his face with his hands, and fell silent.

"Why are you suddenly getting so fixated on this?" Xin Que asked him casually, her tone completely devoid of the madness and ruthlessness she had shown in front of Qu Huan earlier.

For safety reasons, from the moment Xin Que first contacted Luo Huayi until now, she has been selectively providing him with information to sow discord between him and the prison, until he completely sides with her.

But Xin Que never told Luo Huayi the truth about the world and his own existence.

Having navigated the real world for so many years, the only truth that Xin Que has always adhered to is that no matter how relaxed she appears on the surface, she will never completely trust anyone.

No matter who she's dealing with, she always makes sure she has a way out.

However, judging from Luo Huayi's gradually improving emotional mechanisms and his behavior logic that completely deviates from the prison's setting, it was inevitable that he would begin to doubt himself and his environment.

Luo Huayi's condition has visibly deteriorated.

He covered his face, whether to escape what had happened at the club or to escape the fact that the world might be a lie.

"I don't know," Luo Huayi finally spoke after a long pause, her voice heavy, "If the whole world is full of counterfeit goods..."

And what about him?

...Where is Xin Que?

He dared not think about it any further.

If this world is all a false premise, then isn't Xin Que, who stood against those people from the very beginning, actually a fellow human being in the same dimension as those who are above this world?

What is his existence?

Is it an insignificant virtual program that accidentally awakens in a false world?

...

Luo Hua realized that he could resurrect even after death, and became even more unwilling to continue thinking about it.

“Xin Que…” Luo Huayi forced himself to stop thinking. He slowly removed his hand and looked at the woman who had walked up to him.

"I..." Luo Huayi forced a smile, trying to change the subject, "What I saw... was just a hallucination, wasn't it?"

Xin Que didn't answer him, but simply raised her hand and touched his hair. "Once all the enemies are dealt with, your life will return to normal... I can guarantee that."

"What do you want?" Xin Que asked gently, quickly placing the two of them at the negotiating table. "Fame and fortune, wealth, or continuing to hold the position of male lead?"

“I remember all the requests you made when Ma Hong kidnapped you. At that time, what you wanted was to completely break free from the control of the plot and be yourself…”

"The plot is on the verge of collapse. As long as we work together to take down Qu Huan, the plot won't even be worth our attention..."

Luo Huayi was taken aback.

Did he ever think about breaking free from the control of the plot?

As his mind began to work, the scene of him desperately seeking help from Xin Que reappeared before his eyes.

But later, after experiencing so much with Xin Que, that scene under the setting sun was gradually relegated to a corner of her memory.

Luo Huayi fell silent. He gradually sorted out his thoughts from the tangled mess and slowly raised his hand to grasp her wrist.

He had long since lost sight of his fear of the plot.

In fact, I've even hoped more than once to meet her in the storyline.

The question has come full circle back to the very words Xin Que asked.

What does he really want?

Fame and fortune? Wealth?

It seems like a long time ago... He wanted to make his business the leader and solidify his hard-won position...

But as his involvement with Xin Que became more and more frequent, he rarely thought about these things anymore.

Where is the male lead?

He never considered being the male lead a good thing.

The pain he himself actually suffered is summed up in just a few words in the protagonist's life story: "unhappy childhood".

The male lead's identity serves no purpose other than forcibly drawing him into the plot.

Luo Huayi felt that the few thoughts she had managed to sort out were like tangled yarn, and the necklace she pulled out of her pocket was like knotted hair that she couldn't untangle...

The more you try to sort it out, the more complicated it becomes.

The more chaotic things became, the less he knew what he really wanted.

Luo Huayi's chaotic thoughts gave him a headache. Apart from finding many traces of Xin Que in them, he couldn't see anything else clearly.

My heart feels heavy.

Luo Huayi slowly raised his hand and put it around her waist, making her take a small step forward in front of him.

Luo Huayi gently brushed his cheek against the dried bloodstains on the woman's fabric, feeling Xin Que's body temperature, and slowly calmed down.

She wasn't pushed away...

After a long while, he finally released her. "I don't know what I want."

After a pause, Luo Huayi suddenly asked her again, "You don't belong to this world... so you'll have to leave here sooner or later?"

Before Xin Que could answer, Luo Huayi regretted asking such a strange question. He stood up and changed the subject, "These are not important... Let's deal with the immediate crisis first."

This is a really inappropriate question.

Especially when he realized, as soon as he asked the question, that he only wanted to hear a negative answer from the woman.

He walked silently to the edge of the space with Xin Que before finding a suitable topic to talk about.

“Look, I have much more control over the space now…” Luo Huayi recalled the scene of Xin Que chatting with him through the bathroom door on the day he was discharged from the hospital. He shook off these random thoughts and looked at the woman beside him, “What should we do next?”