Anle Tomb 5
The damp floor and tattered walls, the attic is as hot as a steamer in the summer, and the small candies on the table have become deformed and wilted due to the humidity and heat.
The moment Ji Yunding saw this scene, he realized that he must have been affected by the fog.
Judging from Ji Ye’s tone, I thought he wanted them to feel pain, but that’s not the result, is it?
She couldn't move or speak. So, she should just watch.
A little boy was sitting at the table, trying hard to peel off the candy that was stuck to the candy wrapper, while his mother was looking at him with a smile.
Ji Yunding is not good at healthy parent-child relationships, but it can be seen that these two are very happy.
However, Anlezhong obviously would not only show her such a warm scene.
"Xiao Yunding, what's the point of struggling?"
Ji Yunding heard Ji Ye's voice. He stood beside and looked at Ji Yunding. His tone and expression no longer had the frivolous look they had before.
Afterwards, Ji Yunding felt the scene in front of him changed. This time, the child in front of him was surrounded by the children in the school and was called a nickname because of his feminine face.
The little boy has grown up a little, and his features can be vaguely seen. His eyes are slightly droopy, which makes him naturally lovable.
He returned home in silence, only to see the floor in a mess - traces of a recent quarrel.
His mother remarried, and he no longer had to live in that hot and humid attic, but his mother no longer smiled as often.
It's clearly my own home, but I feel like I'm living under someone else's roof.
You need to watch how much you eat at the dinner table, be quiet and not cause any trouble, and live like a pet that is easy to take care of and can be shown off to others.
But he would cry, because he knew that he looked very beautiful and endearing when he cried, and people couldn't help but feel guilty.
In this way, he was able to escape for a moment from quarrels, insults and malice.
Until someone discovered that beating him would make him cry.
The scene ended here, without a beginning or an end. Ji Yunding looked at the polar night beside him and frowned.
"Xiao Yunding, what did you see?" Ji Ye tilted his head and smiled, "This is my memory extracted from the Forgotten Valley. But it has been a little worn out - I have been here for too long, and some of it should have dissipated. I only showed it to you, please don't tell your companions, they are seeing other people's."
"Why did you show me your memories?" Ji Yunding asked. "Wouldn't it be the same if you showed me other people's memories?"
"I know you will pity me." Ji Ye walked closer, squatted down, raised his head and looked at Ji Yunding, "And I don't remember how to cry. I can only cry when I stand next to this memory that I can't see. Look at me, am I beautiful?"
"...I've already told you that I'm face-blind, why don't you believe it?" Ji Yunding sighed deeply and rubbed his hair with a headache.
What should I do?
"You don't have to make a decision now. You can think about it carefully." Seeing Ji Yunding beginning to show an embarrassment, Ji Ye immediately pleaded, "I just want to tell you that all the tragedies and painful experiences you know will eventually happen to everyone. No one can escape. Only Anle Tomb..."
"That's not what I'm worried about." Ji Yunding lowered his head and glanced at Ji Ye. "I'm wondering, are you afraid of pain?"
“…”
Ji Yunding folded his hands in front of his chest and looked at Ji Ye: "I have been wondering what your core desire is since I entered the ghost story. Now it seems that it should be 'not wanting pain'."
When they met in the dream, Ji Yunding noticed that Ji Ye saw her stab him, and his first reaction was not to ask "Aren't you afraid of death?", but "Can't you feel the pain?" At that time, there was no other information, so Ji Yunding didn't think much about it.
However, combined with the scene he just saw, Ji Yun had come up with such a guess. And Ji Ye's surprise, which he did not have time to hide, also confirmed this statement.
"It seems so. Second question, are you the leader of Anlezuka?"
"Xiao Yunding, people who are too smart will appear scary, you know." Ji Ye muttered, which was regarded as an admission.
Weird must have a morbid obsession with his core desires. Based on his core desires, it is not difficult to infer his identity.
"One last question, what does the light in the darkness mean?"
"I don't know." Ji Ye answered very straightforwardly this time, with a helpless expression, "These are the rules that the environmental weirdo generated on my basis. I can only slightly influence them."
"Is it similar to what I saw online before, where the programmer's code didn't have comments, and it worked but I couldn't understand it and couldn't modify it randomly?"
"I don't really understand the metaphors used in your main world, but... the last half of the sentence is about right."
Ji Ye didn't intend to persuade Ji Yunding too much and annoy her, so he just waved his hand and let everyone come back to their senses.
Zhao Wenjin was nowhere to be found - it was estimated that when they were affected by the fog, he was sent to the Anle Tomb by Ji Ye.
"There is a temporary space crack here that can last for about an hour and a half. You can go back to the main world plane through here." Ji Ye bowed slightly and saluted without any entanglement.
Zheng Nuo held Ji Yunding's wrist and wanted to go with her to make sure that Ji Ye would not play any tricks. Ji Yunding shook his head and pushed Zheng Nuo and Wang Le out while she was not paying attention.
"Wait for me outside for ten minutes, don't worry."
There is still work to do.
"Xiao Yunding, have you changed your mind?" Although Ji Ye said this, he couldn't hide the doubt on his face.
No matter how you look at it, Ji Yunding's final attitude didn't seem to be convinced. In fact, Ji Ye didn't expect to succeed in one go.
If it were so easy to convince someone, then perhaps it wouldn't be worth the fuss.
"I want to kill you." Ji Yunding's tone was very calm. He took out the dagger and turned it around. "Just trying it, but I think you don't know how to fight."
"you……"
"This has nothing to do with reasoning. I just simply think that people who are afraid of pain won't fight." Ji Yunding tilted his head. "By the way, I've been fighting since elementary school - although I was just fighting back."
None of the rules mention that you cannot attack members of Anlezhong, but they do mention that members of Anlezhong will not actively attack investigators.
Ji Yunding originally thought that this was a false gesture of goodwill, but now it seems that this was an unconscious sign of weakness.
People who are used to showing weakness will show their bloody wounds to others to win sympathy from others. In this process, the wounds will generally rot due to repeated exposure, and people will fall into a state of self-pity.
——Look, I am very weak and in pain, please don’t hurt me.
Ji Yunding could fully understand Ji Ye's idea. After all, this world always gave people an illusion. Those beautiful words and superficial efforts always made people feel as if the weak would be protected as a matter of course.
But in reality, this is an unequal, unreliable and unreasonable charity, and is often accompanied by some harsh demands.
Ask them to behave like perfect weaklings, ask them to be grateful and repay their gratitude with their own death.
Otherwise, those who consider themselves benefactors will not hesitate to stab the wounds exposed by the weak in their attempt to beg for mercy, just to inflict harm more efficiently.
"If you hadn't shown me this memory, I wouldn't have believed that the leader of Anle Tomb would be such a person." Ji Yunding took a fighting stance and faced Ji Ye. "Coward."
"If you want to kill me, then go ahead." Ji Ye smiled bitterly, then walked closer, "You are definitely more qualified for this position than me."
Anyway, as long as Ji Yunding kills him, she will "identify" with Anlezhong.
"Really? It will hurt." Ji Yunding said, holding the dagger and slashing forward casually, almost scratching Ji Ye's cheek, "Because I am not proficient in using it - my intention is not to cause unnecessary pain, I just don't have a good grasp of it."
Ji Yunding did not forget that he was still in a ghost story, so he patched up his actions and showed that he fully approved of Anlezhong's ideas, at least on the surface.
The weirdness could not resist its core desire, because that was what they essentially depended on for existence. Just like now, Polar Night staggered back two steps and finally revealed a look of horror.
When Ji Yunding attacked again, he instinctively put his hands in front of him and squatted down.
A very typical person who can't fight.
Ji Yunding reluctantly withdrew his attack, and had no choice but to squat down and poke Ji Ye with the handle of his dagger: "Hey, fight with me. Don't you have any backup plan?"
Apparently not. In the ghost story, if Ji Yunding did not break the rules, then Ji Ye would also be subject to many restrictions.
The main bodies of spiritual monsters are generally very weak, and Ji Ye seems to be no exception. He obviously didn't expect that Ji Yunding would dare to attack regardless of the consequences.
"No... so scary..."
Ji Yunding grabbed Ji Ye's hair and asked him to lift his face. Seeing his expression, he could not help but be stunned: "Why are you crying? Fight back. Haven't we not fought yet? Crying is useless."
"…It worked. You won't hit me anymore, right?"
Ji Yunding and Ji Ye looked at each other for a while, speechless.
If I had known this guy actually had this kind of personality, I would have confronted him head-on in the counseling room.
Here we have to mention what Ji Yunding is worst at - coaxing people, especially those who are too emotionally delicate.
But Ji Yunding is best at one thing - providing solutions.
Ji Yunding took out another small knife and stuffed it into Ji Ye's hand, then pointed to his heart and said, "Kill me once, and everything will be over."
"What on earth are you going to do..."
"If you don't fight me again, I'm sorry, it might hurt." Ji Yunding put the tip of the dagger against Ji Ye's face and smiled, "You must be scared, you look so funny."
Unfortunately, Ji Yunding knew very well what the scumbag would say, and knew what words would anger the other party, but she generally would not choose to say such words.
"No wonder they all like to see you cry."
………………
Weirdness cannot possibly compete with one's core desires, and this can easily derail long-term plans.
Once their core desires are threatened, they can do anything, break any bottom line, and sacrifice anyone, but their core desires are different and elusive.
This is also one of the reasons why the mainstream view is that humans cannot cooperate with monsters.
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