The last wish

The Patriarch asked: “Is it difficult to understand?”

Chen Yingsheng's surprised expression seemed to please the Patriarch, who said happily: "She needs someone to take care of you."

"Your so-called care is killing yourself in front of me"

"Suicide is the best gift I can give you, and I got it through hatred and death." Divine mercy and maternal compassion appear in the Patriarch at the same time.

"I gave you the death drive."

"You don't need happiness. The death drive will keep you away from happiness. You always force yourself to read, force yourself to concentrate, and force yourself to repeat traumatic experiences. You try to control or understand traumatic experiences by forcing yourself. You treat my suicide as a lifelong puzzle."

"This can be seen from the difference between you and Chen Tu. Chen Tu solves cases for fairness and justice in his heart, while you just do it for the slightest pleasure after getting the truth. But is that really pleasure?"

Chen Yingsheng was speechless.

"From a process perspective, this behavior won't bring you happiness, you'll never be satisfied, and your desires won't come true."

The Patriarch smiled: "But the result is a good one. Your superpowers have awakened."

"If the swordsman hadn't interfered and given you the meme suppression, the prophecy would have come true long ago."

Chen Yingsheng asked: "Why me?"

"I don't know either," the Patriarch said. "I once suspected that it wasn't you, so I made another wish to the Holy Grail for a child."

The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail appeared in Ren Shanshan's kaleidoscope and flashed twice.

"You've seen it. It's a superpower that was born from Wen Yuan's superpower, just like Memetic Suppression was born from Wanting's superpower, and the Holy Grail was born from Wen Yuan's superpower."

"What I didn't expect was that the Holy Grail would grant my wish and give me a child."

Chen Yingsheng reacted instantly: "Chen Fanfan"

"Yes, he was rescued from Yingzhou by Wang Ruibin's son. I heard that a deformed person was also rescued with him."

Chen Yingsheng admitted: "Such a powerful telekinesis does fit the concept of gods in people's eyes."

"I thought so too. At that time, I had no idea of ​​the idealistic power of the deformed people until I got the Withered Dynasty."

The calm lake water turned hot.

"It's incredible, it's simply the power of God!"

Chen Yingsheng asked hoarsely: "If they are really gods, why do they need to replace humans?"

"Because human civilization should have come to an end long ago." The Patriarch said in a decisive tone.

"It is the fate of mankind to be replaced by a stronger and more advanced race. If mankind is not completely replaced, and survives the disaster, becoming stronger and more united, that is also the fate of mankind."

Chen Yingsheng sneered: "You alone can decide the fate of all mankind?"

She lay on the patriarch's lap, and the two of them were like a real mother and daughter, but the atmosphere quietly became tense.

The Patriarch said gently: "It is not my arrangement, but the destiny of mankind."

“They will become one people, speaking one language; then nothing will be impossible for them.”

“You and I are just a footnote in a grand narrative.”

The Patriarch seemed to sense something, raised her head and looked at the transparent colored glazed ceiling, and said: "It's about to begin."

Chen Yingsheng sat up straight: "What?"

"The extinction of humanity," the Patriarch advised. "Give it up, become my accomplice, and become a footnote on the page with me."

A cup of familiar tangerine peel tea appeared on the table at some point. Chen Yingsheng grabbed it and drank it directly. There was a silver key at the bottom of the cup.

Then the world began to fade, and the owner of the superpowered Strange Tales Advent began to interfere with everything in his domain.

"You lied to me." Chen Yingsheng thought, "Wenyuan would not take the initiative to let you take over my body, let alone let you raise me."

The Patriarch tilted his head slightly.

"'Despair' is the activation condition of your superpower." Chen Yingsheng said, "He Cuifeng was forced to accept that her boyfriend was a talentless loser, and was possessed by you in despair; Jianxia found that the memetic suppression placed on me was ineffective, and was possessed by you in despair."

She looked around: "Since entering here, you have been trying to make me give up hope. You said that Wen Yuan gave me life for Chen Tu; you said that Wen Yuan was willing to be possessed and gave me to you to raise; and you also said that the extinction disaster in the real world has begun."

The Patriarch asked: “So?”

The surrounding scene faded, and the colors gradually filled in the old teaching building. The Advent of Strange Stories fully opened up to Chen Yingsheng, giving her the key to travel through various kaleidoscopes.

She said: "I'll get the memetic suppression again."

Chen Yingsheng no longer paid attention to the patriarch. She ran as fast as she could, ran into the teaching building without stopping, and grabbed Wang Yue.

"Swordsman." Chen Yingsheng said while panting, "Where is the thing?"

The swordsman's expression suddenly changed: "This is not the real world. You already know the prophecy."

Chen Yingsheng nodded.

The swordsman's cheek began to change again. He touched the deformed part, grabbed Chen Yingsheng's hand and ran into the classroom together.

"I don't know where it is either." He replied, "I only know that you brought 'something' with you after you returned on December 31, 93 of the new calendar."

On December 31, 2004, Zhao Wanting gave the memetic suppression to Liu Tianyi for safekeeping. Chen Yingsheng played Liu Tianyi in his memories and obtained the memetic suppression.

Her superpower is a huge memetic pollution that will force everyone who sees her to awaken their superpowers and then be replaced by them. Memetic suppression is the most effective way to prevent it.

The swordsman continued, "But you've already gotten it once, and I don't know if you can get it a second time."

"I must get it." Chen Yingsheng clenched the chalk and wrote the date on the blackboard.

She was instantly overwhelmed by a feeling of dizziness. When she opened her eyes, she saw Liu Tianyi's home in front of her and heard a gentle knock on the door.

"Wanting!" She opened the door.

"I'm not Liu Tianyi." She got straight to the point, "But I need things more than Liu Tianyi, I——"

"I know." Wan Ting said, "I knew this day would come, ever since that nun found me."

Wanting pinched something out of thin air, like a small piece of moonlight, and gently put it into Chen Yingsheng's hand.

"Go ahead." Wanting said briskly.

Chen Yingsheng returned to the National Taiwan Normal University on January 4, 2009. She stood up with the help of the podium and looked up to see a room full of deformed people.

She decisively left Liu Tianyi's strange story and entered He Kang's strange story. In He Kang's strange story, the world was upside down and she fell downward.

She yelled: "Kan-Kan! Take me up!"

Chen Yingsheng broke away from the kaleidoscope in the kaleidoscope and returned to the first level of the kaleidoscope, where Qiao Fei wanted to die.

Almost there, almost there, she was going to force herself to wake up and return to reality. Even if the memetic suppression could only take effect for one minute in reality, she would have time to end her life and prevent the prophecy from coming true.

But how to leave Qiao Fei's kaleidoscope, Chen Yingsheng thought anxiously. This strange white-haired girl was killed by the swordsman, and the rules were not even finished writing - Chen Yingsheng was stunned.

The white-haired girl in the capsule was holding an old piece of paper with red words written on it:

1. You must clearly identify the source of the kaleidoscope.

2. It is forbidden to leave the ghost story with memetic contamination.

3. The Holy Grail will grant your wishes.

Cold sweat broke out at Chen Yingsheng's temples, and she read the second rule over and over again. She was still a huge source of meme pollution, and she had not received any meme suppression at all.

There was only one possibility—the person she just saw was not Wanting at all.

Chen Yingsheng used the key to return to Liu Tianyi's ghost story, and she pushed open the door of the classroom.

The person standing on the podium was not Professor Shen, but the Patriarch who used Wen Yuan's body.

She should have thought of it earlier, the rules reminded her.

On January 4, from the moment she entered Liu Tianyi's strange story, the rules reminded her:

1. You are already dead and there are no ghosts in the world.

This is not Liu Tianyi's kaleidoscope at all, but the Patriarch's kaleidoscope. Since Chen Tu began to prepare the plan for the brain in the jar, the Patriarch had already thought of a countermeasure.

The desperate Liu Tianyi was possessed by the Patriarch, who asked Ren Shanshan to kill him. Everything was already a foregone conclusion.

That’s why there is a strange Professor Shen of unknown origin in the Kaleidoscope. Professor Shen understands everything about memetic suppression very clearly and has mastered the criteria for leaving the Kaleidoscope. The fourth rule requires that the cause of death be reported to Professor Shen.

Professor Shen is the projection of the master of the kaleidoscope in the ghost story. The Patriarch is Professor Shen, and Professor Shen is the Patriarch.

The Patriarch stood on the podium and she asked: "Doesn't any of you find it strange?"

"Liu Tianyi doesn't know the truth about Wanting's suicide, but you see everything from your past memories."

"…I thought it was a blocked memory."

"That is my memory," the Patriarch said. "Welcome back to my kaleidoscope."

The Patriarch stood on the podium against the light, looking at the only student in the classroom with a smile.

Chen Yingsheng suddenly asked: "What are you waiting for?"

"Despair," the Patriarch replied. "Let me take over your body."

"You don't have to take the blame for the extinction of humanity. I am the culprit. Leave it to me. I will return to reality and make all the arrangements."

Chen Yingsheng turned around and ran.

A trace of fear rose up in her heart, and it was undeniable that she was shaken.

She shuttled through the ghost stories like a madman. She met Su Li, Shou Lao, and the young Wei Wo.

Finally, she stopped at Ren Shanshan's strange talk.

This is the Universal Building. Chen Yingsheng has a rope tied around his waist and is being lowered into a deep pit.

She broke free from the rope and fell downwards.

Chen Yingsheng ignored Baicha's screams from above the deep pit. The steel bars at the bottom of the pit pierced her legs, causing her to break out in a cold sweat.

The Holy Grail lights up.

Chen Yingsheng instantly forgot the pain.

She crawled closer to the Holy Grail and put her face against it.

"Can making a wish to you stop the prophecy?"

The Holy Grail flashed twice - Wen Yuan was answering "No".

Chen Yingsheng asked in a low voice: "Chen Tu's wish caused you to lose your life, will my wish make the Holy Grail cease to exist?"

The Holy Grail flickered.

Chen Yingsheng snuggled quietly beside the Holy Grail for so long that the Holy Grail thought she was asleep.

The Holy Grail flickered worriedly, and a white-haired girl appeared at the bottom of the pit. Chen Yingsheng had never thought that their family would be reunited in this place in this way.

She spoke slowly:

"My wish is—"

"From now on, change the concepts of all individuals with independent thinking in the world: the real world is illusory, and the kaleidoscope is real. This change is permanent and the change targets myself."

Chen Yingsheng closed her eyes, and the Holy Grail shone brightly, turning into powder bit by bit in the golden light. The final proof of Wen Yuan's existence was destroyed by her daughter herself.

......

Chen Yingsheng woke up in the detective agency.

She realized that she had successfully returned to reality and immediately rushed into the kitchen to find all the tools she could use to commit suicide.

A thin man nearly two meters tall stood in front of the refrigerator. His hands and feet were three times longer than those of an ordinary person, and his short torso seemed to be spliced ​​onto his limbs.

Chen Yingsheng used the dim light from the refrigerator to see his face clearly: "Chen Fanfan!"

Chen Fanfan, who was replaced by super powers, greeted enthusiastically: "Hello, do you have anything to eat? I slept too long and I'm very hungry now."

Chen Yingsheng turned around silently, opened the door, and saw the deformed Zuo Xufei and Wang Ruibin standing at the door.

"Aren't you going to work?" Chen Yingsheng asked calmly.

"We don't need the police!" Zuo Xufei said happily, "Just make a wish for whatever you want! The power of promise will treat everything fairly!"

Chen Yingsheng closed the door and opened it again.

“Is the Superintendent still there?”

Wang Ruibin replied: "It's still there. Everything from the previous civilization is worth keeping. It's incredible that humans have built so many buildings without superpowers."

Chen Yingsheng nodded and walked straight towards the Super Management Bureau. She even forgot to take public transportation and ignored the deformed people on the road.

She made her way to the Super Management Bureau, entered the room with the kaleidoscope, and lay on the machine.

She didn't know whose kaleidoscope she was observing, but it didn't matter anymore. She just wanted to escape from everything in the illusory world.

......

The player, Amnesiac, wakes up in the detective agency.

The white-haired girl stood by the bed holding the rules. The girl held the rules in her hands:

1.You are Chen Yingsheng.

2. You will always remain in your own kaleidoscope.

3. I'm sorry, I'm not a good father. I was trapped in Wenyuan's death, thinking about my own plans and forgetting your feelings. Please take care of yourself in the kaleidoscope.

Chen Yingsheng opened the door and went downstairs.

In the kitchen downstairs, Chen Fanfan, who was acting normally, opened the refrigerator to look for food.

Chen Fanfan saw her and immediately complained: "The eight-treasure tofu and pine nut corn I bought for you have been in the refrigerator for several days, and you didn't even know how to eat them!"

Chen Yingsheng nodded obediently, and Chen Fanfan looked at her with surprise: "What's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, I'm going to go out for a while."

"Hey! You're not wearing shoes!"

Do I need to wear shoes in the virtual world? Chen Yingsheng thought calmly. She let Chen Fanfan help her put on her shoes and walked out of the office.

People on the street were talking about it: "Superpowers disappeared overnight"

"Yes, it disappeared! My colleague's sister-in-law's friend works at the Superpower Research Institute of Danjiang University. I heard that..."

It is indeed a virtual world, Chen Yingsheng thought expressionlessly, it actually fulfilled her wish.

She hailed a taxi and the radio in the car sounded: "Today, there is a shocking news from the scientific community. Scientists have made an astonishing discovery - our world may be false..."

After getting off the taxi, Zuo Xufei was taking Lolina around the Super Management Bureau. Chen Yingsheng watched for a while and asked: "What are you doing?"

"She wants to apply to the police academy." Zuo Xufei took the water.

“The world is fake.”

"Who cares whether it's true or not!" Zuo Xufei poured water on his head.

Lolina replied: "Even if it's fake, I still have to take the college entrance examination!"

Chen Yingsheng sighed.

Facing the sunset, she made her last wish: If everything before my eyes is fake, let me treat it as real and live here forever.