Chapter 48 Please pay attention to your mental health, spend a reasonable amount of time online, and do more outdoor exercise
Click.
A crisp sound echoed, and while Li Xiaogou hesitated, Wang Bo, sitting next to him, had already quickly clicked on his behalf, selecting [9: I hope the world will be destroyed this second].
"Since we're fishing, we should choose the big ones. What are you hesitating about?"
Yeah, what is he hesitating about?
Li Xiaogou found it a little funny. He thought that things that had long passed were still flowing in his blood and could still affect his emotions.
Seeing him come back to his senses, Wang Bo immediately focused on his screen again.
The second question quickly popped up:
Use a number from 0 to 9 to describe your motivation. 0 is the number that means you never take action, while 9 is the number that means you do something immediately.
Li Xiaogou chose 7 and took action after weighing the pros and cons.
Just when Li Xiaogou was wondering whether the next question would be related to the implementation steps of the world-destroying plan, a burst of music came from his headphones.
The following questions are all like this, either music or pictures, asking the respondents to describe their thoughts after listening to/watching.
The discount made him a little anxious.
Text-based questions are more straightforward, and it's easier to guess how different answers might affect the results. Music and pictures are different; there are no standard answers for artistic subjects.
Another music question.
"Damn it."
Li Xiaogou frowned.
However, the moment the music started, his expression froze.
Apart from the screen in front of him, everything else in his field of vision became distorted and intangible. The smell of something burning floated in the air, and his fingertips felt a burning sensation on the mouse pad.
The next second, he was already in a sea of fire.
This was a five-story, seaside villa. In the empty living room, tables and chairs lay tottering. The heavy curtains were on fire, emitting heat that threatened to engulf everything inside.
The burnt smell came from here.
Li Xiaogou's pupils suddenly contracted.
He is no longer in the Internet cafe.
No, he might no longer be in that time and space, because the scene he was in and the people in front of him were all things he had experienced in his previous life.
Everything is a repeat of the previous life.
The woman kneeling down and holding his trouser legs to beg for mercy, the child angrily throwing fruit at him, and the man looking at him silently.
"Please let us go."
"You are a bad person, die."
How did he respond?
Oh, he roared, telling them to shut up.
Then the man said to him, "If you touch me, you won't survive. Do you want your only remaining relative to live like a bedbug?"
This statement infuriated him and he plunged the knife into the man's chest.
The man's eyes were wide open until his death. He didn't believe that an unknown person had the courage to kill him.
But if a person is already living in hell, what else can scare him?
This is his past, a past with blood on his hands.
Now he has been brought back.
The screams in his ears continued, and this time he didn't tell them to shut up.
The man looked at him provocatively and said disdainfully: "If you touch me, you won't survive—"
This time, before he could finish his words, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and Li Xiaogou stabbed the dagger in again.
The man fell down.
Li Xiaogou's vision turned blood red, and his thick eyelashes fluttered as if drops of blood were about to roll down.
No matter how many times, he would make the same choice.
Kill, take revenge!
This is the deepest darkness hidden in his heart, but it does not make him panic.
Because he experienced the same scene again in his dreams every night, he never really finished that long day.
The woman and child screamed even more miserably. The child wanted to rush over and kill Li Xiaogou to avenge his father, but was held tightly by his mother.
Li Xiaogou raised the corners of his lips and smiled silently.
At this moment, the sound rang in my ears again.
[Suppose your parents or relatives were murdered. After investigating various data, you believe that the revenge plan is feasible. Then, who will be the target of your revenge?
A. Retaliate against the other party’s parents and relatives.
B. After all, he is the only one in charge of the other party.
C. The other party and their parents and relatives, focusing on family reunion.
D. The larger the area, the better. If you don't remove the roots, they will grow again in the spring breeze.
Is this the scene created by that weird website?
It’s no wonder that those people took the bait if they could do this. To ordinary people, isn’t this a miracle?
Understand and control people's hearts.
Li Xiaogou seemed to see some high and mighty being above the void looking at him.
In his previous life, after killing the man, he left the villa.
He did not kill the man's wife and relatives, but he also did not save them from the fire.
Everyone should be responsible for their own choices.
The same goes for the man's relatives. They enjoyed the fame and fortune that the man earned by stepping on the corpses of others, and now they should bear the risks brought by the man.
As for whether they can survive, Li Xiaogou doesn't care at all.
People can only save themselves.
He walked from the yellow sky to the sparse moon and stars, from the villa to the cheap cemetery in the suburbs.
For the last time, he burned incense for his mother, and when he heard the sound of sirens in the distance, he chose to end his own life.
In this life, he still killed men without hesitation.
Then, the website asked him if he wanted to continue killing.
If he wanted to show enough annihilation tendencies, he should certainly kill as many people as possible.
This is just a virtual space, it doesn't matter if we kill a few more, right?
Li Xiaogou took a step forward, and the woman hugged the child tighter.
Li Xiaogou was very familiar with the emotion flashing in the child's eyes, it was hatred.
Li Xiaogou and the child looked at each other quietly, and the heat from the sea of fire distorted the air.
Suddenly, Li Xiaogou retracted the dagger. Just like in his previous life, he turned around and left the villa without any regrets.
If you can easily create a space that is so realistic that it can be mistaken for the real thing, then you should be able to easily distinguish which answers are fake and which are sincere, right?
In that case, how about I show you my true choice?
The moment he stepped out of the villa, Li Xiaogou chose B.
After another twist, he was back in the Internet cafe.
The blue light from the computer screen beside him reflected on Wang Bo's face. Seeing Li Xiaogou looking at him, he asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Li Xiaogou was about to speak when the same feeling came over him again.
He was drawn into another dimension.
The heat in the air grew stronger, almost steaming him dry, his throat spasming and burning.
There was darkness in his eyes, someone was pressing on him, and the sound of crying could be heard one after another.
His last choice passed the test?
So he was brought here, the origin of it all.
Someone pushed the body that was pressing on him away, and a ray of light leaked in.
A pair of large, calloused hands slid under his armpits and lifted him up.
He saw the man's face again.
The man held him in his arms, knocked open the car window with a hammer, and then lifted him out of the window.
【Back to the starting point of everything, this time your choice is:
A. Give others the chance to escape and end the source of all pain.
B. Accept fate, escape and lie dormant, and choose a better way of revenge.
C. Escape and live a completely different life.
D. Choose the exact same life.
With the experience of the previous question, Li Xiaogou already understood the other party's intention.
In this way, "it" screens out those who truly have destructive tendencies, or "dangerous elements."
The real answer is the best choice.
But this time, Li Xiaogou hesitated. He didn't know what to choose.
He was only four years old that year.
His father, who rescued him from the school bus, died in the accident forever.
All clues in the school bus burning case point to someone deliberately burning the bus, resulting in the deaths of the 33 children inside.
This case caused a huge sensation across the country.
There is no evidence to prove that it was Li Xiaogou's father who set the fire, but he was carrying a group of children. Apart from him as an adult, who else could have the ability to set the fire?
The incident took place on a mountain road and there were no other witnesses to prove it.
What's more, the only child who survived in the entire case was Li Xiaogou, the school bus driver's biological son.
In the eyes of the general public, there is no better proof than this.
If the fire was not set by Li Xiaogou's father, how was Li Xiaogou, who was not sitting by the window, rescued?
He must have let Li Xiaogou out before setting the fire.
Fortunately, God has eyes. Li Xiaogou did not run far enough, and the explosion caused by the burning car still affected him.
After the incident, he was in a coma for half a year. When he woke up, everything was settled and everyone had convicted his father.
Only Li Xiaogou knew that there was another survivor in the car besides him.
Li Xiaogou was not familiar with the boy, but he was known to be from an international class and came from a wealthy family. A group of people stopped their car in order to kidnap the child.
When Li Xiaogou saw the group of people rushing into the car, he took out a knife, subdued his father, and then lifted the child from the seat.
The child struggled and pulled off the man's mask.
Everyone sitting next to Li Xiaogou saw the man's face.
After they kidnapped the boy, they set fire to the car.
Everyone was struggling and howling. The car was filled with the smell of burnt human flesh. Every inch of Li Xiaogou's skin was in sharp pain, as if being pricked by countless needles.
He thought he was dead, however, his father rescued him at the last moment.
His father said to him: "Live well."
If it weren't for saving him, perhaps the father could have saved a few more children.
If he hadn't survived, perhaps his father wouldn't have been identified as the murderer.
If he had not been in a coma for half a year, perhaps his mother would not have become depressed due to the public gossip.
The child who was taken away eventually survived, but the family kept silent about it and acted as if they had never been in that car from beginning to end.
If he had to do it again, what would he choose?
Li Xiaogou smiled lightly. Wasn’t he just starting over?
He's living a completely different life.
But if he were reborn at the moment when the school bus was hijacked, he...
A red ball of light exploded before his eyes, and the melting heat engulfed his body.
If he had the chance to do it again, he would choose to die in this car with his father.
The father will not be convicted easily, the investigation will be restarted, and after the pain, the mother will no longer have to struggle to survive with him, and she can have her own new life.
As for myself, I don’t have to live my whole life in hatred.
Accompanied by a sharp pain, Li Xiaogou was thrown back to reality.
The host made a buzzing sound. Wang Bo leaned over curiously and asked, "What's wrong with you? You didn't respond when I called you just now."
Li Xiaogou shook his head and was stunned when he saw the words on the computer screen out of the corner of his eye.
His test results are in.
[Unfortunately, you're not a annihilator. Rather than a annihilator, you have a more serious tendency toward self-destruction. Please pay attention to your mental health, spend a reasonable amount of time online, and get more outdoor exercise.]
Li Xiaogou's eyes lingered on the word "regrettable" for a few seconds, and then he asked, "What happened to you two?"
Wang Bo raised his eyebrows proudly and said, "I am undoubtedly the guardian of Blue Star. Jiang Mu, this kid, has thick eyebrows and big eyes, but I didn't expect him to have the tendency to destroy the world."
This surprised Li Xiaogou. He looked at Jiang Mu and asked, "Did you experience anything strange while doing the test?"
Jiang Mu shook his head. "No. Besides the music and drawing questions, I tried my best to choose non-world destroyer questions. I don't know why the result is like this."
Wang Bo scratched his head: "Maybe the key lies in the music and picture questions."
Li Xiaogou lowered his eyes. He was the most surprised of the three people because he was the only one who had the strange experience of being transported to another time and space.
Before he figured out how to explain what happened in the past, he decided not to tell Wang Bo and the others about it for the time being.
"That's good. We can observe what this website does to people with different attributes." Li Xiaogou comforted Jiang Mu.
Jiang Mu nodded, still puzzled.
On the night they returned to their residence, Jiang Mu received a message from a stranger. The message was an invitation letter with a familiar hexagram pattern on the cover.
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