Chapter 187 Xiao Chou’s Origin
Bai Jinli was supported by Hao Ren, and he woke up from his nightmare after taking only two steps.
"Are you awake? Do you feel dizzy? It's okay, this is normal. You will be fine after resting for a while." Hao Ren saw that Bai Jinli looked very unhappy and his face was covered with cold sweat, but he did not let go and continued to support him.
"Hao Ren?" Bai Jinli's vision was a little blurry when he just opened his eyes. As it gradually became clearer, he recognized the person who was supporting him.
He stood firm, put some distance between himself and Hao Ren, then looked around and saw Lou Su's figure behind him.
Lou Su followed them absentmindedly about two meters away, and he didn't even hear what Hao Ren said to Bai Jinli who had just woken up.
"Thank you, Mr. Hao. Please go and do your work first. I want to talk to Lou Su." Bai Jinli said to Hao Ren.
If he remembered correctly, the situation here was that Lou Su used his supernatural powers to get rid of the last mutant yellow cow in the vicinity. Next, they would meet up with supernatural users from other directions and continue searching forward to see if there were any trapped people.
Hao Ren is the person currently in charge of the overall situation and is indeed very busy.
"Okay!" Hao Ren turned around and called Lou Su, "Take care of Bai Jinli. Your mental strength has been almost exhausted. Rest well from now on. Don't take any more actions, or you'll faint again."
After Hao Ren finished speaking, he ran away quickly with the others. When Lou Su saw Bai Jinli wake up, he took a few steps forward.
"Are you okay? Is your mental energy completely exhausted?" Lou Su asked.
Bai Jinli nodded, "Yes, I need at least a day's rest to recover. What's the situation now? [Floating Life Dream] collapsed because I exhausted my mental strength. Are we back to the time when we first entered the dungeon?"
"Probably." Lou Su's face was very ugly. "I just checked. There is no task panel for this copy. I don't know how to pass it. Could it be that we really need to fall in love, then Xiao Chou will let us out?"
Bai Jinli immediately said, "Then don't go out. Anyway, it looks no different from outside. Let's just say goodbye and stay well."
Unless Xiao Chou slaps them again and makes them lose their memories immediately, there is absolutely no possibility for them to fall in love.
And even if he lost his memory, Lou Su would not fall in love with him. At most, he would fall in love with Lou Su unilaterally like before.
Bai Jinli felt unwell just thinking about it.
"There must be other ways to pass the copy. I don't think Xiao Chou can influence our thinking. Otherwise, why bother creating such a fake copy? Wouldn't it be better to just do it in reality?" After scaring both himself and Bai Jinli, Lou Su quickly changed his mind.
Bai Jinli said after hearing this: "I thought so too. In fact, do you think this copy is more like Xiao Chou's [Floating Life and Fantasy]? This is what I thought of after visiting your [Floating Life and Fantasy]. It couldn't let me be with you in reality, so it created this copy and forced Chu Xihen to die in front of you. It just wanted things to develop in the direction it wanted."
"It's like I dream of sending Xi Hen to the time when he is still in the research institute, so that he can avoid the suffering he will endure after leaving the institute?" Lou Su understood Bai Jinli's meaning and immediately used himself as an example.
"Yes, to put it bluntly, my special skill is to make people have a beautiful dream that is impossible to happen in reality." Bai Jinli said.
That’s why this skill is called [Floating Life and Fantasy].
After thinking about it, I realized that this was indeed the case.
"It's a pity that even after entering [Floating Life and Dreams], I couldn't steal the medicine for Xi Hen." Lou Su said with some regret.
Hearing him say this, Bai Jinli immediately asked, "Did you see clearly what was in the box? I was hit by the black mist, not only did my mental power quickly deplete, but I also saw the scene of my parents being bitten to death by the infected."
"I was hit by the black mist and kept seeing Xihen dying of illness in front of me. Finally, I used the wind blade to cut the box open and saw a black...egg rolling out? Its shell seemed to be made of rock fragments. From the gap between the fragments, I saw a baby curled up inside."
When Lou Su said this, his handsome eyebrows were wrinkled together.
Because he was not sure whether he had seen it wrong in the panic, he and Bai Jinli were affected to the point of almost collapsing as soon as they came into contact with the black mist. And there was actually a baby in the stone egg, and it was still absorbing the black mist. He simply couldn't imagine what kind of monster it was?
"When people encounter black mist, they will feel despair. And the black mist is extracted from the test subjects of the research institute. Does that mean that the black mist is despair itself?" Bai Jinli followed Lou Su's words and thought of this.
He had also noticed in Chu Xishi's room that when Lou Su mentioned the competition, the black mist in the jar would grow. That was because Chu Xishi knew that she could not beat Chu Xihen, and she felt despair in her heart. When her despair filled the entire jar, it would be transported to the upper floor through the pipe above.
"The black mist is despair?" Lou Su had stayed in the black mist for too long, and his severely polluted mind suddenly became clear because of Bai Jinli's words. "Yes, the black mist is despair, and what it nurtured is Xiao Chou! The baby in the black stone is Xiao Chou!"
Bai Jinli's eyes widened when he heard this. "You said that the little clown who brought us the end of the world was raised by that HBP research institute? Do you think this melon is ripe?"
"When you were unconscious, [Future Prediction] still didn't see it comprehensively enough. Xihen told me that the reason why Xiao Chou and the Infinite Game existed was because of human despair. This just corresponds to what we saw at the HBP Institute. Those beastly researchers were conducting human experiments while using instruments to collect the despair of the test subjects, and then using despair to nourish the babies in the stone eggs!"
Lou Su was just regretting that he hadn't accomplished anything in "Floating Life and Dreams", but now he suddenly felt that this trip was worth it, at least they knew how Xiao Chou came about!
"This is unbelievable. A demon that can destroy the world was actually created by humans!" After knowing this fact, Bai Jinli was extremely angry!
"Brother Bai, wait until your mental strength recovers, then use [Floating Life Fantasy] on me again, and we'll go back and confirm it again." Although Lou Su was already very sure that the baby in the stone egg was Xiao Chou, he still wanted to take another look. If possible, he wanted to find out when Xiao Chou started to pull people into the dungeon.
"Okay." Bai Jinli agreed with Lou Su's idea.
If they can use his [Floating Life Fantasy] to find more of Xiao Chou's weaknesses, they will all become their trump cards to deal with Xiao Chou after they get out!
Before, I didn't know the origin of Xiao Chou and always thought it was an invincible creature. Now that I know it was created by humans, Bai Jinli is not so afraid anymore.
Since humans can create it, they can definitely destroy it!
"Boss, Jinli, are you okay?" Just as the two finished discussing, a familiar voice sounded in front of them, causing them to look up with different expressions...