Chapter 165 Fifty-Eight Weeks (13)
When Rei Furuya woke up, he was still weak all over, but his mind was a little clearer than the previous two times.
Drugs can induce resistance, but the current level is far from sufficient to generate strong resistance, and they only affect the body. Once the game is successfully restarted, it's back to square one.
Therefore, Furuya Rei doesn't plan much in this regard.
This cycle will definitely end; it's just a matter of time.
This was the first time he had ever so desperately wanted the timelines to converge quickly, instead of dragging on for a month, or even a year, until the main storyline began.
Rei Furuya didn't place his real hopes on the convergence of world lines. He couldn't wait. He had to end this cycle before others were implicated by the information he had exposed, and then reload the save before being exposed in the next cycle. He would continue like this until he was no longer exposed.
He raised his eyes, and his blurry vision cleared completely, allowing him to see what was happening outside.
Sherry is organizing all the data from the three experiments under Karasuma Renya's guidance, and the images on the screen are changing accordingly.
Some blurry and fantastical dream scenes were cut out, such as the scene at the beginning where Furuya Rei empathized with his predecessor who had been reincarnated for 500 years. It was obviously a fantastical dream, lacking logic and detail, and even most of the people's faces and the surrounding scenery were blurry.
Rei Furuya quickly scanned the cut scenes and understood the difference between fantasy dreams and real memories.
It seems that creating a false dream that can fool Karasuma Renya is more difficult than he imagined.
Moreover, what would elicit a strong emotional response from him is, of course, the memories that actually existed.
It's difficult to strike the right balance.
However, at least this experiment was a success.
Fortunately, Sherry came, otherwise he might have really lost control and revealed Hiro's situation in the dream.
“This experiment has failed.” Karasuma Renya stood outside the hatch, letting the men in black bring out the blond youth and put the suppressor on him again. “I didn’t expect seeing Sherry to have such a strong effect on you. It was a miscalculation.”
Sherry paused slightly as she typed on the keyboard, glancing at the records of the first two experiments that the boss had deliberately shown her on the computer, and couldn't help but purse her lips.
"But it's not exactly a failure. At least we know that Sherry will defect in the future, and that you, Zero, are actually involved with the Miyano family." Karasuma Renya smiled as he pushed the wheelchair next to Furuya Rei. "So, that's why you were so happy to see Sherry, and even fantasized in your dreams that she would help you kill him and let you enter the cycle of reincarnation again?"
Rei Furuya's brow twitched, and he finally looked up at him.
“Sherry,” Karasuma Renya said.
Shirley tapped a few keys on the keyboard, and the screen on the wall immediately started playing an image.
The brown-haired girl killed the blond youth who was tied to the operating table and unable to move.
"Kill me."
"Thank you, I'm sorry."
The blond youth smiled happily and thanked the brown-haired girl, but the brown-haired girl's final expression was a bit blurry, probably because the dream's owner wasn't sure what kind of expression she would have had at that moment.
At first glance, this scene might be mistaken for a real memory, because both the setting and the characters are very detailed. If it weren't for the lack of logic and the blurry expression of the brown-haired girl at the end, it might really be believed to be real.
Rei Furuya sighed inwardly.
He remembered the dream too. He really wanted it that way, and since he hadn't been able to control things about Sherry, it wasn't surprising that it would eventually be exposed.
This only means that he is not yet proficient in controlling his dreams.
"Come on, eat something to replenish your energy." Karasuma Renya watched him eat slowly with great pleasure.
"It's truly astonishing, considering you've only been here a few days, and you've been mostly unconscious, yet you've remembered this laboratory so clearly, even perfectly recreating it in your dreams." The old man gently stroked his cane, his tone ambiguous. "Young people have such good memories, no, perhaps only a brain as clever as yours can do that. Others can't do it; even if they successfully capture fragments of a dream, they're all jumbled up."
Rei Furuya glanced at him: "Has this experiment already been done by many people?"
“I’ll definitely have to try it before I dare to let you try it,” Karasuma Renya said matter-of-factly.
"And then? What happened to them?" Furuya Rei asked, annoyed that the crows were pecking at his hair again.
Karasuma Renya smiled and said, "As expected of a kind and righteous police officer, you're still worried about others at a time like this. Don't worry, the aftereffects of the Dream Chair aren't serious. It's just that over time it can cause confusion in your sense of time and make it hard to distinguish between reality and dreams. You'll recover after a period of rest."
However, now that we know his plan, we will die even if we live.
Rei Furuya remained silent, his gaze shifting from the constantly changing screen to the quiet Sherry.
Although the girl was trying her best to hide it, Furuya Rei could still see her red eyes and nose, and even some water stains on the collar and chest of her white coat.
Shirley cried, and cried a lot.
In addition to what Karasuma Renya just said, at least Sherry's defection and his childhood dream with the Miyano family were indeed captured by the Dream Chair, but there was no energy or opportunity to continue showing the other undercover agents.
Although the Miyano family's affair has been exposed, and the plan to get Sherry to kill him is unlikely to succeed, at least for now no one will get into trouble before he reloads his save file.
Now, Karasuma Renya no longer attacks the Miyano sisters; instead, he protects them as if they were his own.
Especially after learning that Sherry would defect after Miyano Akemi's death.
"Don't look at her. She won't kill you to help you start a new cycle of reincarnation." Karasuma Renya tapped the ground lightly with her cane, making a crisp sound, which drew the blond youth's attention back. She smiled gently and said, "Unless she wants her sister to suffer a cruel murder."
Shirley's shoulders trembled slightly, and her hands on the keyboard clenched into fists instantly.
Rei Furuya stared coldly at the white-haired old man in front of him.
“Don’t look at me like that. I know you’re not afraid of death, so this is the only way.” Karasuma Renya reached out and touched the crow’s head that had flown back to his shoulder. “You’re not afraid of death, but you are afraid of the death of the people who are important to you, and even more afraid of them suffering cruel torture and being unable to die. This is your weakness, and you will do anything for it.”
After saying that, he sighed: "It's a pity that I still couldn't find your weakness, Zero-kun, and I can't kill Sherry."
Sherry's research on reversing aging is equally important. If the success rate can be increased to 100%, and if aptx4869 can be taken safely, Karasuma Renya can also start a new life.
However, rather than simply rejuvenating his body, he still hoped to obtain the power of immortality from Rei Furuya.
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Rei Furuya wasn't silenced this time.
Whether it was because they weren't afraid he would reveal some secret that would lead to the world's annihilation, or because the reprogrammed suppressor could stop him before he bit his tongue and committed suicide, or because they wanted to get more information through his conversation with Sherry... in any case, Furuya Rei was able to continue talking after finishing his meal.
But Shirley didn't seem to want to talk to him.
Rei Furuya thought for a moment, and his first question was: "What's the date today?"
The expressionless, brown-haired girl turned to look at him, her eyes still red from crying, and said calmly, "April 4th."
After saying that, she glanced at the motionless robot and added, "10:20 a.m.
"Thank you," said Rei Furuya.
And that was it; Furuya Rei shut up.
That was the first question and also the last question.
Even when they needed to drink water, the two did not engage in any further conversation or eye contact.
Two hours later, the robot that had been sitting quietly in the corner suddenly spoke.
"Aren't you being too formal?" Karasuma Renya, who had been watching for an unknown amount of time, said helplessly, like an old person watching their children quarrel. "You finally got to know each other with my help, don't you have anything to talk about? I even left to give you children a chance to be alone together."
Shirley answered quickly and expressionlessly, "What do you mean by recognizing relatives? He's just an ordinary child who briefly spent time with my family when I was little. My mother's clinic sees countless patients; he's nothing special."
"How could that be?" Karasuma Renya retorted. "You've probably heard that Hell's Angel Elena is a rather eccentric and taciturn person. Apart from her own children, she's only ever been this gentle with Zero when he was a child. And it's quite obvious that Zero, who didn't have a very good childhood, also developed an irresistible affection for the gentle and strong doctor who is also a blonde mixed-race. That's why he pays so much attention to you, the doctor's daughter, right?"
After saying that, he paused for a moment and said, "Perhaps that's why I dislike Shuichi Akai so much? Is it because I really hate him? It even misled my judgment at one point."
The blond youth, who seemed about to say something, instantly changed his expression, revealing extreme disgust for the name, and even scoffed coldly.
Sherry's expression wasn't good either. Suppressing her emotions, she said coldly, "So what? What does the BOSS think I should say to him? That he knew my sister would be implicated or even die because of Shuichi Akai's undercover work, yet he didn't stop her? Or that he's jealous that I, as his biological daughter, haven't enjoyed the love and care of my family, while he does?"
She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth: "If you hadn't made me stay here, I wouldn't even want to look at him."
Renya Karasuma, who was monitoring the scene, narrowed her eyes and looked hesitant. She was indeed somewhat convinced, but she did not completely believe her. She then switched the camera to look at the blond youth over there.
The blond youth, whose face was already somewhat pale, showed a slight stinging expression for a moment. Pain and guilt flashed uncontrollably in his eyes, but he quickly regained his expression and even closed his eyes, as if he did not want to continue to expose his vulnerable emotions.
Karasuma Renya couldn't help but touch his chin in confusion.
"Actually, this is something I don't quite understand either." He chose to probe directly, "Since you have this power of reincarnation, and Zero-kun has that kind of strength, and obviously cares a lot about Sherry and her sister, why didn't you do anything to change things and save them? Is it because there are some limitations to reincarnation? Like how I couldn't directly say that the protagonist of the world is Shinichi Kudo before I investigated it myself?"
Rei Furuya remained unmoved; even his nearly white, golden eyelashes didn't tremble under the light.
"Sigh, one experiment a day is still too slow. I'm getting impatient. I really need to find someone Zero cares about." Karasuma Renya sighed and slowly uttered these words that made Furuya Zero gasp for breath.
Rei Furuya slowly opened his eyes, staring blankly at the huge incandescent light above him. His vision was blurred by the glare, but his expression remained completely unresponsive.
It finally happened...
If he sees Hiro today, will he be able to control himself from thinking about Hiro during the dream experiment tonight?
The descent level is uncertain.
"Now that the experiment is over, let's deal with the situation in Scotland first."
The door opened, and the sound of Karasuma Renya's wheelchair gradually approached, finally stopping beside him.
"I'm also curious, is Scotland actually your accomplice?" Karasuma Renya's tone was subtle. "After all, if Scotland is also an undercover agent, then all three of you in the whisky group are undercover agents? Isn't that too much of a coincidence?"
"It's such a coincidence that I'm starting to suspect that Gin, who suggested the three of you team up, is also an undercover agent," he said.
Jianggu Ling: "..."
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