Kill through the narrative layer

The next second, white light filled the entire wooden house and Chen Yingsheng was forced to close his eyes.

The roof was blown off like a can and she was thrown out.

The people outside the kaleidoscope wanted to wake Chen Yingsheng up by forced falling.

He Kang slowly pulled out a piece of paper from the void. She raised her wrist and a stick-drawn sun was placed under Chen Yingsheng.

Chen Yingsheng fell straight into the sun, her body covered with red paint. In her hand was a piece of paper snatched from He Kang, on which the sun appeared.

The sound of waves rang in her ears.

Chen Yingsheng lowered his head.

The sea tore a gap in the sky beneath her feet, and the surging sea water rushed in.

The people outside the kaleidoscope wanted to wake Chen Yingsheng up by forced suffocation.

There was a small upside-down wooden house above her head and huge waves roaring and chasing her under her feet. Chen Yingsheng shouted:

"That's enough! I haven't used my Kaleidoscope yet, and I haven't found a way to save Aku!"

The people outside the kaleidoscope didn't want her to be left here with He Kang forever. The sea water kept pouring in from the skyline, and He Kang started writing again.

Chen Yingsheng stared closely at the paper he had snatched in his hand.

Without her having to look, the stick drawings on the paper took effect immediately.

The small wooden house rose from the ground, and the surreal flames swept through the memory layer and crashed directly into the overturned sea water.

He Dayong, with red eyes, was thrown over stupidly along with the flames. The yellow and red blocks around him looked like scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chen Yingsheng extended his hand to him.

He Dayong waited for rescue excitedly.

Chen Yingsheng snatched his kitchen knife away.

In an instant, the two levels of fire and water collided violently, and high-temperature steam spread.

A second before Chen Yingsheng came into contact with the water vapor, the wooden house that rose from the flat ground caught up with her height and placed her on a simple wooden bed.

He Kang raised his hands high and started dancing.

Chen Yingsheng sighed.

She understood that the people outside the Kaleidoscope were anxious to rescue her, but she couldn't blame He Kang for wanting to keep her here forever. And she still remembered that her original purpose of entering the Kaleidoscope was to save Ah Ku.

Chen Yingsheng said gently: "I won't leave."

He Kang put down her hands, and her eyes saw Chen Yingsheng's shadow for the first time.

"He Kang, I believe that we are good friends who can understand each other. I want to return to the lowest level of narrative. People outside the kaleidoscope cannot interfere there. They will never be able to wake me up."

The wish was fulfilled, and Chen Yingsheng fell infinitely with the paper and the knife.

A huge whale was born in the sea, and it cried out in the voice of Zuo Xufei:

"Chen Yingsheng! Open your eyes, let's find another way to save Ah Ku! Don't try to find a solution from He Kang anymore, or she will keep you in her kaleidoscope forever!"

Chen Yingsheng smiled and shook his head, blowing out a few bubbles.

She fell down layer by layer, and the surreal reality without flames, the realistic baseline reality, and the symmetrical layers of corpses flashed before her eyes one by one.

Finally she fell into the layer of absurd and horrifying story, and the soft bed at home caught her steadily.

The torso teddy bear is walking under the bed, the woman's face is lying on the pillow, and everything is the same as before in the warm home.

Chen Yingsheng put down the kitchen knife and paper and began to sort out the whole incident. She wanted to find a way to save A Ku.

First is the narrative layer she is in, let’s call it the story layer.

The story layer was born from the pen of He Kang in the upper layer, and was a weapon created by He Kang to attack He Kang in the upper layer.

It is a narrative at the lowest level, full of absurd and terrifying monsters, without any sense of reality, and was discovered by Chen Yingsheng early on to be a fictional story.

He Kang on the previous level has complete control over this place. The entire world has no logic and is in chaos.

The second layer is a symmetrical layer with two Li Wangli.

He Kang in the symmetry layer is a fictional character imagined by He Kang in the reality layer, but he has mastered the weapon to fight against the narrative in the previous layer, killed his creator god, and usurped the god's creative authority.

He created two pseudo-authors and placed them in two stories. They are a normal aging man and an apartment manager who is a woman working normally.

The third layer is the baseline reality of all narrative layers. It is infinitely close to the real world, but He Kang in the real layer has been killed by the He Kang he imagined.

The fourth layer is an abstract surreal sea of ​​fire. It is He Kang’s nightmare. It is more real than the three narrative layers below. It is so real that Chen Yingsheng, who is comparing it to the baseline reality, cannot fully load the characters in it with his own visual system.

The fifth floor is the top floor, filled with gray and black memories, and the real He Kang lives here.

For other levels, the top level is the paradise where the Creator lives; for He Kang himself, the top level is a wooden house used to imprison himself.

He Kang can influence everything with her paintbrush at the top level. She is invincible here, and even the forces outside the kaleidoscope cannot interfere with her.

She can even influence the real layer and manipulate the super-powered detectives in the real layer to get the real name of the illusionist.

Chen Yingsheng looked at the knife and paper in front of her, and slowly came up with a plan: she would kill her way from the bottom to the top, to He Kang at the top, and force He Kang to break out of his shell.

Chen Yingsheng picked up a kitchen knife. The kitchen knife he brought back from the surreal world was a weapon that transcended narrative layers.

The first thing she killed was the beret penguin with its eyes closed, and at the same time, she wrote her first story on paper:

[He Dayong, who failed in his investment, had to use vending machines to pay off his debts. If the vending machines really had their own consciousness as described in the horror story, they probably would not want to be bought and sold by such a man.

He Kang, your father doesn't love you. Don't dwell on the past of his attempted murder. You are far more important than a father who doesn't love you. 】

Chen Yingsheng doesn't tell horror stories, and He Kang doesn't need any stories. He Kang needs to face the harsh reality.

Carrying a kitchen knife out of the house, Chen Yingsheng ran into the old lady in floral cotton coat without eyebrows, diligently building a shack with corpses.

Chen Yingsheng chopped at him with his knife.

Second story:

The stubborn and slovenly old people in Liwangli are disgusting. They try their best to take advantage of others and make the environment a mess.

But even though they were trapped in the abstract, surreal sea of ​​fire, they were willing to lend me a helping hand.

He Kang, people are multifaceted and the most changeable creatures. Sometimes they are black and sometimes they are white.

Most of the time they are gray, and you have to personally come to the reality and see those gray people who are trying their best to live. 】

Chen Yingsheng dragged a bloody kitchen knife to the shopping mall, first chopped the twisting white animal to death, and then went to the familiar printing factory.

The named supervisor was holding a general staff meeting. Under everyone's gaze, Chen Yingsheng walked up to the podium and slashed at the spitting supervisor with a knife.

The third story:

[Most people hate work and toxic interpersonal relationships. But humans are social animals. They need to communicate with others and work to earn money to support themselves.

Not every job is miserable. Some people can realize their self-worth, gain happiness and rewards through work.

He Kang, come out of the eggshell and go see those people at work. Work alienates people, but people also need work.

Don't resist your own heart. The two pseudo-authors you created both have jobs, and you expect to work normally to support yourself. 】

Bathed in blood, Chen Yingsheng waved goodbye to the employees. She took the elevator to the 500th floor and jumped to the symmetry level.

She killed all the family members of He Kang in the two Liwangli and burned 159 pieces of sun paper.

The fourth story:

[Your family once loved you, but now hates you. It doesn’t matter. What matters most is you yourself.

He Cuifeng's initial wish was for you. You love her and are attached to her, and treat her as your own sister.

But He Kang, people change. When He Cuifeng found that you could not satisfy her greedy desires, she used you to do something illegal.

Don't be attached to her anymore, she is not the sister you imagined. 】

Chen Yingsheng finally came in front of the apartment manager.

She commented: "You don't look like a He Kang."

"Really?" The apartment manager did not comment. She handed the registration book in her hand to Chen Yingsheng.

There was only one sentence written on it: He Kang, I want to go out.

Chen Yingsheng sighed.

The fifth story:

[It doesn’t matter whether you are a man or a woman. You must be a human being before you can be a man or a woman.

Your parents interfered with your gender through external forces, and they brought you pain.

He Kang, you can be a man or a woman, and you are a happy and healthy person.

The apartment manager said she wants to go out, you want to go out too]

Chen Yingsheng walked to the center of the flower bed and buried the headless corpse with flower petals.

The sixth story:

[A person with super powers who can grant wishes should not be trampled upon by thousands of people.

He Kang, you are not a wish-making machine. Your superpowers should be used by you and not by others. 】

Chen Yingsheng took the 1716 elevator to the real floor. She was wanted by the whole city, and the wanted warrant stated that she was the suspect in the murder of He Kang.

The seventh story:

[A bird struggles to get out of its shell, and the egg is the world. If anyone wants to be born, he must destroy the world.

He Kang, break out of your shell.

You were not completely ignorant. You rejected Zhang Xiaona's wish because you vaguely guessed that the baby He Shan in her belly was not your father's child.

You are afraid that He Shan will tear your family apart, and you are also afraid that He Shan will not be able to face his sick brother.

You rejected He Cuifeng's wish because you were afraid that He Cuifeng would leave you. She was the only person who made a wish for you. You loved her and were attached to her. You couldn't imagine a world without her.

He Kang, stop being your creator god and transform yourself into a flying bird and enter the real world. 】

Chen Yingsheng, covered in blood, sat on the street. Wang Ruibin, with a serious face, walked towards her with Zuo Xufei.

She wrote the eighth story before she was arrested:

[I'm sorry, I sound like a preachy middle-aged man, I hope you can read this.

Reality is as sharp as a knife and more terrifying than any story.

After carefully reading all seven stories, He Kang finally read the eighth story. He Kang met Chen Yingsheng outside the top narrative. Their minds were connected, but the price was that He Kang's superpowers were temporarily ineffective. 】

Zuo Xufei in the real layer handcuffed Chen Yingsheng.

Chen Yingsheng said goodbye with a smile: "Thank you for reminding me to go out, goodbye."

She stood in a blank space with a piece of paper covered with writing and a knife with a bent blade.

He Kang came under her knife and waited for the death.

Chen Yingsheng was stunned.

"What are you thinking about? I'm not here to kill you."

"You are dangerous. You have superpowers that you believe are real, but you suffer from severe autism. You are like a baby holding the nuclear/bomb switch."

"I have to admit that killing you is the safest and most secure way, but I won't do that."

Kill me, I don't want to live.

He Kang, who existed in the image of a pseudo-human girl, still could not speak, but her thoughts could be directly presented in Chen Yingsheng's mind.

"So that's what you think." Chen Yingsheng suddenly realized, "That's why the headless corpse was placed in the flower garden for thousands of people to trample on, and was also used as an anchor point for the jump."

Chen Yingsheng hid the knife behind her back and said cunningly: "I don't want it."

【Then you will stay here with me forever. 】

"You won't."

Chen Yingsheng sat with her knees hugged. She sighed: "You have never been a selfish creator god. You dominate the world of ghost stories, but you also leave a backdoor for the world."

He Kang looked at her quietly.

"Remember the white-haired girl who was almost burned to death in the sea of ​​fire?"

He Kang raised her hands and waved them wildly. Chen Yingsheng knew that she was expressing her anxiety. The smart He Kang had already guessed what she was going to do.

Rule 5:

5. Burned

What was burned was not the "Rule of 5," but the number 5 itself was part of the rule.

Counting from 1 to 500 can unlock super powers.

Chen Yingsheng began to count: "1,2,3--hmm!"

He Kang covered her mouth.

Chen Yingsheng smiled, and He Kang looked at her blankly.

"Look, He Kang, you look like a healthy girl now."

"Break out of your shell and face the reality. Not only am I by your side, but there are also thousands of other people in this world. You are never alone."

I can’t do that.

"Then don't do it."

He Kang was confused. The person in front of her had just advised her to face reality.

"I want to make a wish." Chen Yingsheng said suddenly.

【I don’t have any super powers here. 】

"I know, that's why I want to make a wish. You are not a wishing machine, and I don't want to treat you as a wishing machine."

"He Kang, initially, making a wish was just for the sake of making a wish. People were looking for psychological sustenance and expressing their expectations. No one thought that a god would really fulfill their wish."

Isn’t that a blessing?

"Yes, it's a blessing." Chen Yingsheng smiled gently.

She closed her eyes and made a sincere wish:

"I believe that He Kang is He Kang. He can be a boy and she can be a girl. She can be closed but not troubled by pain. She can also break out of her shell and embrace the real world."

This was the first and only time that He Kang did not rely on the butterfly hand gesture to express his emotions.

Chen Yingsheng saw obvious confusion, emotion and surprise on He Kang's burned and disfigured face.

All her emotions were mixed together. She was like a newly hatched bird, stroking her face excitedly with her hands and sensing everything with joy.

"He Kang's only mission is to become whoever he wants to be."

Chen Yingsheng opened his eyes.

Tears overflowed from He Kang's eyelids, which could not close, and she looked a little at a loss.

Chen Yingsheng smiled and asked a question that was not planned:

"He Kang, where did the swordsman hide you?"

[I am outside the world——]

The change happened suddenly.

The torso teddy bear jumped out from Chen Yingsheng's sleeve, rushed towards He Kang at incredible speed, and bit his head.

"What is the torso Teddy outside the world?"

【It is...the truth about super powers】

The master of ghost stories was swallowed up, the world of ghost stories completely collapsed, and Chen Yingsheng was only one step away from the truth.