Chapter 041 Chapter 41

Xia Meng raised her eyes again and stared at the photos on the wall of honor.

In the photo, Awu has gentle features and is well-mannered.

Although his facial features were clearly different from Pan Junwen's, Xia Meng subconsciously thought of Pan Junwen's face.

Pan Junwen has a very gentle temperament, a kind of temperament that makes people feel friendly and trustworthy unconsciously.

Ah Wu in the photo even looks a bit like Pan Junwen.

But Xia Meng thought of the Awu whom she had seen with her own eyes.

Pale face and thin body.

There are always deep dark circles under his eyes, as if he hasn't had a good sleep for several days and nights.

When looking at others, there is always caution and vigilance in the eyes.

When Xia Meng recalled this, she felt that she was about to touch the truth.

But she could also feel that there was still a final layer of white veil between her and the truth.

The white gauze fluttered in the wind, making it impossible for her to see what was on the other side.

Xia Meng turned around and continued to go to workshop No. 6. After confirming that Pan Junwen was not there, she returned to the place where they had agreed to meet.

Li Zhou has returned.

He leaned against the wall with his arms folded. Seeing her come back, he looked up and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Xia Meng nodded and told Awu all the doubts he had.

After listening to this, Li Zhou pondered for a while.

Xia Meng asked him expectantly, "What do you think?"

She felt that Li Zhou should be able to give her some inspiration from a different perspective.

Every time before, he always seemed to be able to help her find the gaps and fill in the gaps in her logical thinking just right.

Li Zhou pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes and said, "Then let's start with Wu."

He always likes to get straight to the point. Since they now suspect that there is something wrong with Awu, he might as well solve the problem right away.

Xia Meng was stunned: "You mean..."

She raised her hand and made a gun gesture.

"No, this won't work." Xia Meng shook her head without hesitation.

Her "transcendence" gun, when used on ordinary people, can indeed send them out of the spiritual picture, which is equivalent to a one-way ticket.

However, if it is used on a sentry or a guide, the effect is completely different.

They will actually suffer mental damage.

Xia Meng still remembers the time at Jingbei Hospital.

Hundreds of people were swept up in that mental picture.

Xia Meng was there, and in order to open the door, she finally had to set fire to the cafeteria.

The fire burned the entire cafeteria and also sent those people out.

After coming out, Xia Meng went to ask Zhou Qi and Director Bai.

The ordinary people who were sent out were almost unharmed and did not remember anything that happened in the mental picture.

But the sentinels and guides were different.

After they came out, they basically fell into coma to varying degrees.

Some woke up quickly, while others have not woken up until now - until Xia Meng stepped into the current mental picture.

Previously, when they were in the math examination room, Xia Meng had no choice but to shoot six candidates in order to save Dr. Zhao.

Among the six people, there was a sentry named Chen Geng.

Afterwards, the unconscious Chen Geng was sent to the medical center in Heita.

Xia Meng visited him once. All his vital signs were stable, but he never woke up.

The detection equipment showed that the mental fluctuations in his brain were slightly disordered, which was a symptom of being attacked by mental force.

Of course.

If Xia Meng were given the chance to start over again, she would probably still shoot Chen Geng.

That was the retribution he deserved for what he did to Dr. Zhao.

However, with such a previous experience, Xia Meng now has to be cautious.

So as not to hurt innocent passers-by.

…

Then Su Fangxiao and Ou Xu also came back.

As expected, neither of them brought back any good news.

On the contrary, Ou Xu had a face full of green vegetables.

He wore a mask of pain on his face and complained, "Xia Meng, you're so mean! Workshop 9 is actually where feces are processed! Oh my god! It stinks so badly I'm almost passing out!"

Su Fangxiao laughed first: "They clearly let you choose first, who can you blame?"

Xia Meng couldn't help laughing.

Yeah, who can I blame?

She changed the subject and told them again in detail what she had just discovered.

After listening, Ou Xu asked seriously, "Are you saying that this Ah Wu is very likely related to Pan Junwen?"

Xia Meng pondered, "I can't rule out this possibility. Last night, when Li Zhou and I were exploring the factory, the first workshop to explode was Workshop 5. I suspect all the commotion in the human body factory last night was directly related to his escape from Workshop 5."

According to Xia Meng's guess, perhaps Awu's true identity is the spiritual power of Pan Junwen remaining in the mental images of those sentinels.

His existence is very important to them.

As long as he is here, the human body factory can keep running.

After he left, problems began to arise one after another during the night.

Ou Xu: "Now the question comes."

He: "Why did he escape from Workshop 5 to Workshop 1? Is he hiding from something?"

He: "Also, if he is really Pan Junwen's spiritual power, why does he call himself Ah Wu? Why does he use a fake identity?"

There are too many problems.

Xia Meng's intuition told them that they could not act rashly until they found the answers to these questions.

Xia Meng pondered for a moment.

She suddenly raised her eyes: "I do... have a way to figure it out."

Ou Xu: "What is it?"

Xia Meng paused and looked around subconsciously.

Shouldn't we just stop talking about it here? She felt like she was being watched by seventeen people at once.

So the four of them returned to Workshop No. 1 along the same route.

They have already started working.

The young soldiers are all skilled workers. Even though there are four fewer people today, the work efficiency is still quite high.

At the end of the day, when everyone was calculating their performance, today's score reached 147 points, which was much higher than yesterday.

As a result, the performance score this time is still based on everyone's rating.

As a result, those who had been working hard all day looked at the four of them who had been absent for most of the day with strange eyes, as if they had been taken advantage of.

But the little girl Luo Jiajia doesn't care about the scores.

On the way back to the staff dormitory after get off work, she leaned over to Xia Meng and whispered, "Sister, have you found anything special? With my reading capacity of at least three hundred infinite streams, I can help you analyze it! Really! Trust me!"

Xia Meng couldn't help but smile, thinking that this little girl was really interesting.

I am really afraid, but I can really dance.

Xia Meng deliberately asked, "Aren't you afraid that I will take you down a path of no return?"

Luo Jiajia shrugged and said, "I observed all day yesterday, and I'm afraid there won't be any clues to break the deadlock in Workshop 1. You were right to take the initiative to look for clues today. If you were willing to take me with you, I would definitely go with you. By the way, the four of you are all from the Black Tower, right?"

Xia Meng raised her eyebrows: "How do you know?"

Luo Jiajia said, "Because you all look a lot like Sentinels, but that guy named Ou Xu doesn't look quite like one. My brother is also a Sentinel, so I know that your Black Tower often has some high-level Sentinels going out on mysterious missions. What do you think? Do you want to take me with you? Maybe I can help!"

It turned out that she thought they were all Black Tower special agents.

Xia Meng smiled, raised her hand and rubbed the little girl's head, and said, "Forget it this time, little friend. Next time, if I really need your help, I will definitely ask for it."

Luo Jiajia couldn't hide her disappointment and let out a long "ah".

But she didn't insist. When Xia Meng said no, she gave up decisively.

At the end, she just asked one more question: "Will my life be in danger if I stay in Workshop 1? Sister, if anything really happens, you must let me know in advance! Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"

Xia Meng nodded: "Don't worry."

If something really happened, she would definitely be the first one to "savior" her.

It was getting dark.

Xia Meng and the others returned to the staff dormitory again.

This time, several more rooms appeared out of nowhere on the basement floor.

Sure enough, the number of rooms is calculated according to the number of people.

This further verified Xia Meng's inference.

There are only four rooms.

If you count based on the two beds in the room, it is just enough for two people to share a room.

Four rooms means eight people.

Yesterday, there were exactly eight workers wearing white armbands, excluding Chen Zhenxing and Awu who had been "eliminated".

Xia Meng looked at Awu meaningfully.

Awu didn't notice her gaze.

After a day's work, he was very tired.

He felt as if his hands and feet were tied with lead blocks, so heavy that he couldn't even lift them.

The fatigue and soreness in his body left him with no energy to warn others, and as soon as he got off work, he couldn't wait to return to his room.

Seeing the room in sight, he walked into the room without looking back.

Xia Meng withdrew her gaze.

Ou Xu asked, "Should we squeeze into his room now?"

Xia Meng shook her head: "That would be too obvious and would alert him."

Ou Xu asked: "What should we do then?"

Xia Meng whispered, "Let's wait until midnight before taking action."

Xia Meng already has a plan.

Wait until midnight.

She opened her eyes in bed.

The other three people were also awake. They all sat on the bed, leaning against the wall with their eyes closed.

Ou Xu had a sore back from sleeping on a chair last night, and this time he refused to sit on the chair again no matter what.

He shamelessly squeezed onto Su Fangxiao's bed opposite.

Li Zhou sat next to Xia Meng.

The two people's spirit bodies were exchanged at some point, Xia Meng was holding the cat, and Li Zhou was holding Ergou.

The cat curled around Xia Meng's thigh like a cat pancake.

Ergou was coaxed to sleep by Li Zhou, and he was sleeping soundly in his arms.

As soon as she opened her eyes, Li Zhou also opened his eyes.

Xia Meng asked, "Are they all asleep?"

This was a favor she asked Li Zhou to do before tonight - to see the situation in the entire staff dormitory.

Once everyone is asleep, her action can begin.

Li Zhou nodded.

As soon as she spoke, Su Fangxiao and Ou Xu opposite her also opened their eyes.

Ou Xu couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "What exactly do you want to do? You can tell me now, right?"

It wasn't that Xia Meng was deliberately keeping it a secret.

But even she herself was not very sure.

Xia Meng whispered, "I want to try to hypnotize Wu."

Ou Xu was shocked: "Hypnosis? Do you even know this kind of magic?"

Hearing this, Xia Meng couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "Can you please stop demonizing hypnosis?"

The application of hypnosis in reality is actually much more extensive and extensive than imagined.

Wang Xiangyi is the top hypnotist in China.

As far as Xia Meng knew, even the police often invited Wang Xiangyi to participate in the investigation of criminal cases, using his hypnosis skills to help victims or witnesses recall the entire crime process, thus providing important clues for solving the case.

Xia Meng followed Wang Xiangyi and learned a little bit.

Rich theoretical knowledge, but zero practical experience.

But people are always like newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers.

The less you know, the less you fear.

Moreover, Xia Meng's greatest strength is his courage.

Of course, there is a more crucial reason why she chose hypnosis.

There is no way Awu will cooperate with them.

It is almost impossible to get true and credible clues from him while he is awake.

He is a witness who will lie.

Therefore, she could only use hypnosis to pry open his mouth and actively get the truth from him.

In reality, hypnosis was initially used in the field of criminal investigation for similar reasons.

When describing a case, ordinary eyewitnesses and victims often inadvertently provide false testimony to the police due to cognitive bias, personal subjective speculation, and emotional influence.

Sometimes they may even lie because of some vested interests.

For example, when victims and witnesses are threatened by suspects, they will lie out of fear.

Of course, sometimes it is not their subjective intention.

For example, during the course of the crime, they were greatly frightened, causing certain mental trauma, resulting in difficulty in recalling or unwillingness to recall unpleasant experiences. They may also be adversely affected by fear, forgetting or unconsciously exaggerating certain details and distorting the crime process.

In short, there are many factors that may affect the authenticity of testimony.

In order to eliminate those adverse effects as much as possible, the participation and application of hypnosis is crucial.

Just like now.

…

Xia Meng reviewed the principles of hypnosis in her mind.

Simply put, hypnosis exploits two different levels of human thinking: the conscious and the subconscious.

When people are awake, their conscious mind is dominant. The principle of hypnosis is to focus the conscious mind on a specific thing. This allows the subconscious mind to be unrepressed and stimulated, leading to a state where both the subconscious and conscious mind are simultaneously open, allowing for communication with the subconscious mind.

Hypnosis is communicating directly with the subconscious mind, bypassing the conscious mind.

From the perspective of the sentinel, to a certain extent, hypnosis can theoretically directly open the sentinel's mental picture and thus reach the subconscious of the hypnotized person.

Of course, this has a prerequisite, that is, the matching rate between the hypnotist and the hypnotized must be more than 50% - this is similar to the principle of counseling. Only when the matching rate exceeds 50% can the safety of both parties be guaranteed.

Xia Meng admitted that there was a little bit of gambling involved.

Because she is currently only sure that she can reach 80% with most of the Sentinels.

But we’ve never tested whether we can achieve the same match rate with guides—after all, who would think of testing the match rate between guides?

But it is impossible to test it now.

You can only take a gamble.

Xia Meng lifted Ergou from Li Zhou's arms.

Ergou was sleeping soundly, his whole body seemed to be made of water. Xia Meng pinched the back of his neck and lifted him up. After shaking him a little, he was still sleeping soundly with his head tilted.

Xia Meng: “…”

Unexpectedly, the flawless plan suffered a disastrous defeat from the very beginning.

He was actually defeated by his spiritual body.

Fortunately, after shaking and trembling, Ergou was finally woken up.

The little guy raised his short paws, rubbed his eyes, and started to work reluctantly.

It jumped off the bed and out the door.

He walked past the door of Luo Jiajia and Ge Yue's room and entered the room where Awu and the young soldier were.

Xia Meng's eyes passed through Ergou and scanned the room.

Awu and the young soldier were already fast asleep.

Chang Jun snored when he slept, and his snoring was deafening.

Awu was relatively quiet. He slept on his side with his back to Chang Jun who was lying on the other bed, curled up like a shrimp.

——This is a very insecure sleeping position.

Xia Meng gestured to Ergou to walk in front of Awu.

She asked Ergou to raise his hand and press his paw on Awu's forehead.

The mental power was released towards Awu through the spiritual body.

A mist-like ball of light dissipated between the claws and forehead, and then entered Awu's body little by little.

Xia Meng's consciousness followed that ball of mental power and stepped into the darkness.

In the room with four people, Xia Meng, who had been projecting her senses with her eyes closed, suddenly fell to one side.

The three people in the room were not alarmed when they saw this.

Before the operation, Xia Meng told them that if her consciousness left her body, it was very likely that she had successfully entered Awu's subconscious mind and the hypnosis was successful.

Beside her, Li Zhou reached out in time to support her shoulders and carefully placed her head on his thighs.

He lowered his eyes and looked quietly at her profile with her eyes closed.

He lifted his hand from her shoulder and unconsciously wanted to touch her face.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch her cheek, he suddenly stopped, as if afraid of disturbing her, and then slowly withdrew his hand.

He leaned back.

Her hair fell smoothly on his legs. He lowered his eyes and quietly reached out to pinch a strand of it.

Maybe it's also due to some psychological effect.

The moment he held the strand of hair in his palm, he felt that his heart, which had been floating for many years, suddenly became solid.

It’s hard to describe what that feeling is like.

He thought, maybe this is the effect of the 80% match rate.

The 80% top-level matching rate made him instinctively trust her and want to protect her.

...How can such a magical thing exist?

He couldn't help but wonder again.

A guide who can reach 80% with everyone.

Is this really possible?

On the bed opposite, Ou Xu and Su Fangxiao exchanged glances silently.

Ou Xu: “…”

Su Fangxiao: “…”

Is this a picture they can see for free?

…

Everything in front of Xia Meng was dark.

She entered Awu's subconscious mind.

When you are asleep, the activity of your subconscious mind also decreases.

This means that he is in his most relaxed and hypnotic state, and it also means that his vigilance has been lowered.

What she needed to do next was to use sound to guide his subconscious mind in the direction she wanted.

She spoke softly in the darkness, "Awu, you are now in a straight corridor—"

His subconscious began to respond to her voice.

The darkness gradually faded.

Xia Meng saw a corridor appearing in front of her, extending into the distance.

Xia Meng described the scene based on the appearance of the corridor in the human body factory.

"Now, you start walking down the corridor, passing Workshop 1, and come to the first fork in the road. The road to the right leads to Workshops 2, 3, and 4, so you go left. You continue forward and come to the second fork in the road, and this time you go left again. You see the door to Workshop 5..."

Xia Meng briefly described the route to Workshop No. 5.

The scenes in Awu's mind kept changing with her words, becoming more and more smooth.

Xia Meng knew that Awu had entered a hypnotic state and it was time to extract his memory.

She: "When the door opens, you will be transported back to a certain day. That day was your last day as an outstanding employee of Workshop 5."

Xia Meng put her hand on the door.

She: "Now, I will open the door. Tell me what happened that day."

As she finished her words, she reached out and opened the door.

On the other side of the door is the scene inside workshop No. 5.

In workshop No. 5, located at the heart, the instruments representing the left and right atria and ventricles are in operation.

The workers were busy transporting the crimson energy stones back and forth.

Xia Meng could even see Awu busy at work.

He was dressed no differently from the other workers, wearing the same uniform and the same red armband.

It seemed like a normal working day.

Xia Meng: "Now, tell me, what made you decide to leave here?"

At this moment, the entire factory suddenly shook violently.

The next second, an alarm sounded on the radio.

[Beep—beep—beep—]

[Alert! An explosion occurred in Workshop 5, and the factory building collapsed. All workers are requested to immediately bring energy stones to begin reconstruction work.]

All the workers immediately took action under the command of the radio.

Truckloads of energy stones were delivered.

If there aren't enough stones, fill them up with people.

At a certain moment, Awu was lifted up by the people around him and stuffed into the gap of the energy stone on the wall.

Until the alarm stops.

All night shift workers leave.

Workshop No. 5 became dark.

Until one moment, Awu struggled, broke free from the shackles of the energy stone, and fell to the ground.

Behind him, the energy stones emitted a bright red light and were absorbed by the wall bit by bit.

Awu's face was filled with horror.

Then he got up and staggered away from the place.

Xia Meng understood.

It turns out that Awu was the victim of that Cotard's syndrome attack.

She stood at the door and watched Awu stumble out and rush towards the end of the corridor.

She was about to catch up when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind her at the other end of the corridor.

"Teacher Pan..."

"Brother Pan..."

It was those voices calling Pan Junwen again.

Why did traces of Pan Junwen appear in Awu's subconscious?

What is the special connection between the two of them?

Is Awu a relative of Pan Junwen?

One is a scholar, the other is a warrior. Are they brothers?

However, Xia Meng remembered that she had read Pan Junwen's information.

He is an only child.

Xia Meng hesitated for a moment, then immediately turned around and walked towards the direction of the sound.

The corridor continues to extend forward.

Xia Meng ran faster and faster, and soon ran into the darkness.

At the moment when the familiar darkness descended, Xia Meng suddenly shouted, "Awu, do you remember the last time you saw Pan Junwen?"

As the words fell, a light suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

After the blinding light faded, she opened her eyes and saw a counseling room in front of her.

Familiar layout, familiar tables and chairs.

This is the Guide Center.

Pan Junwen sat on the guide side.

Sitting opposite him was a young man.

Xia Meng remembered this man, one of the seventeen sentinels.

This person had just received counseling from Pan Junwen the day before the accident.

The man hesitated a bit and reminded cautiously: "Teacher Pan, you know my situation, right? My mental barrier..."

Pan Junwen smiled, stretched out his hand and shook the other person's hand.

Pan Junwen: "Relax, leave everything to me."

His voice was gentle, as soft as a pediatrician's.

Xia Meng understood. Who could not like such a guide? Even she couldn't help but feel a sincere affection for him.

If Lao Wang was willing to treat her like this normally, she would have hugged his thighs and cried bitterly, and changed her ways.

How could it be possible that he would be angry by jumping up and down and climbing up the roof all day long?

At this time, Xia Meng was in Awu's subconscious mind and could almost come and go freely.

She can enter and exit the memories displayed by Awu at will.

She watched them enter a state of counseling.

She slowly said, "Awu, what about you now? Where are you?"

The next second, the surrounding scenes began to blur.

Xia Meng felt as if she had transformed into spiritual power again, flowing through the blood vessels in the sentry's arm.

The mental force came to his mental barrier.

Different from Xia Meng's counseling.

For ordinary guides, the first step in guidance is to break through the sentinel's mental barrier.

Pan Junwen's matching rate with him is not high, only 54%.

Therefore, it is not easy for Pan Junwen to cross the mental barrier.

Pan Junwen's mental power kept trying to hit the surface of the mental barrier.

Like bursts of rain falling.

Pan Junwen's spiritual form is rain.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the force of the rain was getting stronger and stronger.

As a result, the mental barrier remained completely motionless.

Xia Meng watched quietly from the side.

Where is Awu?

Where is he?

At this time, she finally heard Awu's voice.

"I've already told you, you can't handle it. His barrier is too strong. You won't be able to wear it through even if you grind for ten years. I have to do it!"

"Awu! Stop messing around!"

The next second, from high in the sky, a bolt of lightning struck impatiently, hitting the transparent high wall directly.

With a loud bang, the barrier was shaken by the lightning and a crack appeared.

Xia Meng raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Pan Junwen and Awu appear here at the same time?

Judging from the tone of their conversation, this doesn't seem to be the first time Wu has done this.

There were clearly only Pan Junwen and the sentry in the counseling room.

How did Awu get in?

No……

Could it be that...

Ah Wu was originally in Pan Junwen's body! ?

The two of them share the same body?

Xia Meng suddenly understood.

——Pan Junwen actually has a dual personality!

Awu is not his younger brother, but a secondary personality in his body.

It's like he's his younger brother.

Dual personality disorder is a dissociative identity disorder.

It means that a person has two independent sub-personalities.

A main personality and a secondary personality.

The two personalities have two ways of thinking, and the thinking and decision-making of one party are not interfered with or influenced by the other party and can operate completely independently.

Lightning struck the mental barrier again and again.

Not hard, just like knocking on the door.

After a while, a crack that grew bigger and bigger appeared on the transparent barrier.

Pan Junwen's mental power took advantage of the moment the gap opened and drilled in.

Taking Awu's spiritual power along with him.

In fact, their spiritual power is originally one.

Just as their personalities share the same body, their mental powers are also fused with each other.

However, under the control of different personalities, the form of mental power will show certain differences.

Like thunder and rain.

…

"Awu, do you still remember the moment you woke up in this world?"

Xia Meng slowly asked this last question.

This time, the world before my eyes became empty again.

But there was no change for a long time.

"……Remember."

Xia Meng suddenly heard Awu's voice answering.

"That day, I was sleeping in his body."

"My sleep is always long."

"It's only when he mobilizes his spiritual power that he can easily wake me up."

"That moment was the only time we could talk to each other."

Xia Meng understood what he meant.

In patients with dual personality, the main and secondary personalities usually do not appear at the same time.

They would periodically take turns controlling the body.

Only at a certain time can they appear at the same time.

That is the moment their consciousness becomes spiritual power.

They broke free from the shackles of their bodies and appeared to each other in the form of spiritual power.

One becomes thunder and lightning, the other becomes rain and dew.

Look at each other and blend with each other.

So, every time we counseled him afterwards, Awu would always wake up.

It's like some kind of silent agreement.

Every time, Awu is responsible for opening the mental barrier.

Pan Junwen is responsible for the guidance.

The two of them divided the work and cooperated with each other, and the combination was perfect.

This is something they are completely unable to do in reality.

"That day, I was sleeping and felt severe pain all over my body, as if it was being torn apart..."

Awu described it in a low and hoarse voice.

Xia Meng understood that what Awu was talking about was the moment when Pan Junwen had a car accident.

"It was like I was thrown out of his body."

"But I can't wake up."

"I desperately called his name, desperately trying to find him. But no one responded to me."

"Until one moment, I felt a trace of my own spiritual power responding to me from a distance."

"So I struggled desperately to find my spiritual power. I thought, as long as I return to my spiritual form, I can find Awen."

"So... I kept searching, searching desperately..."

Xia Meng let out a breath slowly.

She finally understood.

Why did those seventeen people suffer from Cotard's syndrome at the same time?

Why do nihilistic delusions arise at the same time, believing that one has lost part of the body?

Because of Awu.

Awu lost the other half of himself.

His strong obsession became part of the mental landscape that influenced these seventeen people.

A giant with Cotard's syndrome.

Awu is the giant himself.

When Pan Junwen in the distance closed his eyes forever, another part of his body woke up in the form of remaining mental power.

However, that was only the mental power that remained in the other Sentinels.

Sooner or later, it will disappear as the remaining effects dissipate.

Awu will also disappear along with them, forever.

Xia Meng called out softly, "Pan Junwu."

It was as if the calm surface of a lake was broken by the sudden falling rain, causing ripples.

The surrounding space suddenly shattered.

Xia Meng blinked and found herself back in Ergou's body.

In the darkness of the night, Awu had opened his eyes without knowing when.

It was still that haggard and pale face.

At this moment, he looked thinner and weaker than when Xia Meng first saw him.

Because the remaining mental strength is getting less and less.

But at this moment, Awu's eyes were very bright and gentle.

It was a bit like the Pan Junwen that Xia Meng had just seen in his memory.

It turns out that Awu's eyes are very similar to Pan Junwen's.

He rubbed his forehead and sat up.

He looked at Ergou, as if he could see Xia Meng through the little ferret's eyes.

He whispered, "I remember everything now. Thank you."

Awu regained his memory.

He raised his eyes and looked through the long and narrow window at the human body factory in the distance.

He asked, "Are you someone sent by the Black Tower?"

Xia Meng nodded.

Awu seemed to know that Xia Meng was unable to speak in her current state, so he only asked yes or no questions.

He then asked, "So, this is also someone's mental picture? What a strange mental picture."

The little ferret nodded, then shook his head.

Turning around, its short claws scratched two lines on the wall, carving out the number "17".

Awu understood.

He was shocked and said, "The mental picture of seventeen people? No wonder it's so chaotic here!"

He then asked, "Do you know how to leave here?"

The ferret nodded, then hesitantly raised its paw and extended it towards him.

Awu was silent for a long time this time.

Xia Meng thought he didn't understand, and was scratching her head, thinking about how to explain, when she heard A Wu suddenly say, "I know."

Awu got up and got out of bed.

Xia Meng was stunned for a moment and subconsciously wanted to follow, but saw Awu waving his hand.

"I'll go by myself. I remember I'm familiar with all seventeen of these people."

"They must have been influenced by me. My instinct was to find Awen, so they became like that."

"It was my fault."

Xia Meng subconsciously wanted to speak and say that it was not his fault.

It’s just…

But she couldn't speak, and could only watch as Awu's body suddenly became translucent and glowed with a faint blue light, like a disembodied spirit.

Then, without looking back, he walked out the door and headed towards the human body factory.

In the four-person room, Xia Meng suddenly opened her eyes.

She gasped sharply.

Ou Xu and Su Fangxiao came over nervously.

Ou Xu: "Are you okay? What happened?"

Su Fangxiao: "Are you okay? How's Ah Wu?"

Xia Meng propped herself up on Li Zhou's legs and sat up in a daze: "...He woke up."

Ou Xu asked: "Then what?"

Xia Meng subconsciously turned her head to look at the window.

The windows of their room can also see the factory in the distance.

It was late at night.

A bright moon hangs high in the sky.

The human body factory seems to be still running in the night.

The sound of the gears seemed to come from far away.

However, the next second, the factory suddenly made a deafening noise.

The four of them looked into the distance.

Xia Meng and Ou Xu's eyesight was so poor that they couldn't see what was happening there.

Ou Xu slapped Su Fangxiao's arm. "What's wrong? What's going on over there?"

Su Fangxiao looked shocked.

She said in astonishment: "The human factory... is falling apart..."

Immediately afterwards, countless lights of various colors began to fly up into the night sky from the remains of the factory.

Colorful lights rose into the sky one after another.

Li Zhou whispered at this time: "It was the spiritual power of those seventeen people. The door opened."

The moment the words fell, the seventeen rays of light gathered in the sky and formed a small sun, instantly illuminating the entire sky as if it were daytime.

Wherever the light reaches, all shackles disappear.

The staff dormitory that trapped the four of them turned into countless powder in the blink of an eye, floating in the air and disappearing into smoke.

Xia Meng almost immediately ran towards the factory.

The door opened.

This means that the obsessions of those seventeen people have been filled.

Cotard's syndrome.

Influenced by Ah Wu, they longed for Pan Junwen.

Awu used all his remaining strength to fill it.

The moment those seventeen people were awakened, it meant that Awu would disappear forever.

And before he disappeared, he didn't even hesitate for a moment.

The human body factory was shattered into ruins, leaving nothing behind.

Xia Meng stood in front of the wreckage of the spherical fortress and sighed in daze.

She murmured in a daze: "...He didn't even leave a single last word."

In fact, she was accustomed to death.

In Beijing North Hospital, various kinds of deaths occur every day.

But this was the first time she had seen with her own eyes a person go to his death calmly and without hesitation.

Awu at that moment was very different from the Awu she first met.

He is so timid and so afraid of death.

But at this moment, he walked more firmly than anyone else.

Xia Meng felt that she was a little shocked.

I can’t describe how it feels.

There is a little bit of sourness and bitterness in my heart.

She suddenly felt a little regretful.

She could obviously think of another way.

Li Zhou walked slowly towards her and stopped behind her.

At that time, he heard the entire "conversation" between Awu and her from beginning to end, separated by a room.

Li Zhou raised his hand and gently placed it on her shoulder.

He whispered, "He went to find his Awen. He has no regrets."

Li Zhou thought for a moment and then said, "If I were him, I would make the same choice. His choice has nothing to do with you, so you don't have to blame yourself too much."