Chapter 141

Mo Yi slowly narrowed his eyes and took two steps towards Jiang Yuanbai:

"So...why do you want to help me?"

Jiang Yuanbai struggled to hold up his body lying on the ground, his voice so hoarse that he could hardly hear the original tone:

"I was trapped in the game for a long time, my memories were missing and incomplete, but I had the impression... This game was feeding on me, and I could feel myself slowly losing consciousness, and merged with the game step by step until..."

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes hard, and continued:

"Until I heard your voice... I felt the power that kept pulling me into the depths was cut off..."

Jiang Yuanbai opened his eyes again, stared at Mo Yi with his light brown eyes that were almost the same as Jiang Yuanrou, and said slowly:

"I woke up little by little like a frozen person, but my body locked my consciousness tightly like a cage, like locking me in my stiff and dead body."

Jiang Yuanbai's brows frowned in pain, and he trembled and let out a breath. Jiang Yuanrou frowned her slender eyebrows worriedly, and gently pressed her palms on Jiang Yuanbai's clenched fists, as if she wanted to convey his warmth and strength to him.

Jiang Yuanbai was awakened by Jiang Yuanrou's actions. He turned his head in a daze and looked at his sister, his eyes becoming firm and sharp.

He looked at Mo Yi and said, "I can only tell you the next thing."

Mo Yi was stunned: "Even your sister can't do it?"

Jiang Yuanbai shook his head firmly: "It's because she is my sister that can't do it."

He turned his head and looked at Jiang Yuanrou deeply, his eyes full of broken pain and warm attachment, and Jiang Yuanbai said slowly:

“The less you know, the safer it is.”

Jiang Yuanbai held Jiang Yuanrou's palm covering the back of his hand with his back, then looked up at Mo Yi: "If I hadn't "heard" your wish just now, I wouldn't have been willing to say it."

He paused and continued, "And, I could feel that over time, my memory was slowly fading and blurring. Instead of letting it rot in my mind, it would be better to give it to someone who is useful... Maybe he can do something we can't do."

While saying this, Jiang Yuanbai's eyes kept staring at Mo Yi.

Jiang Yuanrou lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then sighed slowly: "Okay, I respect your opinion, but... can we change the place to talk?"

She looked around the inside of the terrible room, and there was no way she could see what she was originally looking like. The original black and viscous gel substance had dried up to a deep and light brown color, pressing tightly against the walls and floors like a layer of film. The entire housing price exuded a strong stench like a dead animal corpse.

Jiang Yuanbai shook his head: "It must be here."

Jiang Yuanrou compromised, she stood up and walked out of the room.

Wen Chen stared deeply at Jiang Yuanbai, who was weak on the ground, then stretched out his fingers and gently stroked Mo Yi's wrist, leaned into his ear and whispered, "I have something to call me."

After saying that, he also walked out after Jiang Yuanrou. The broken door panel that had been corroded was closed behind him. The room soon became quiet, leaving only Jiang Yuanbai and Mo Yi looking at each other silently.

Seeing that there were only two people left in the room, Jiang Yuanbai turned his head and looked at Mo Yi and said:

“It was a short time when I felt like I was integrated with this game, so I could know something…I shouldn’t have known.”

Mo Yi listened quietly.

Jiang Yuanbai reached out and pointed to the dark brown skin covering the ground, and said, "Do you know? This game... is full of these things, black and disgusting mucus."

Mo Yi recalled the way he looked when he found Jiang Yuanbai when he was in the dungeon. His face was pale, his eyes were closed, and his limbs were deeply trapped in the cold and sticky darkness, looking lifeless. And outside the two transparent walls that stood up was completely dark... Could it be that these mucus he saw in this villa?

Jiang Yuanbai's voice trembled a little, but he quickly calmed down and continued:

"These black matter... can lead to the darkest things in people's hearts, the most painful memories, or the most feared things. No... can't be said that."

Jiang Yuanbai was silent for a few seconds, as if he was considering the words. He spoke slowly and described carefully:

"It itself is the darkest thing in the heart, the most painful memories, and the things that are scared. To be precise, these sticky black substances... are the concreteization of all negative emotions in human beings."

Mo Yi subconsciously tightened his fingers, his dark eyes were silent, but the slightly white knuckles hanging beside him could show his uneasy mood. He stared at Jiang Yuanbai, waiting for his next words.

He closed his eyes in pain and continued, "When I heard that I failed the membership test, I felt like I was wrapped in these... things... it made me relive every nightmare in my life over and over again, and experienced all the most terrifying and painful memories over and over again... magnified thousands and hundreds of times-"

Jiang Yuanbai was a little suffocated, and his palms placed on the ground slowly clenched into fists, and then slowly spit out a few broken pronunciations as if they were strangled to their throats:

"Then... in the memory I left behind... was... my body began to produce these black substances outwards."

Mo Yi subconsciously turned his head and looked at the dry brown film covered on the wall around him, and asked:

"So, these are you-?"

Jiang Yuanbai nodded and shook his head, took a deep breath, and replied: "To be precise, all the people close to me have been "infected"... Except for Yuan Rou, maybe it is my subconscious protection..."

Mo Yi nodded thoughtfully: "So, is it that all of you released so much black matter in this room?"

Jiang Yuanbai nodded, and his fingers turned white due to the force: "But, strictly speaking, I am patient zero."

Mo Yi took a deep breath and asked a question he wanted to ask since the beginning:

"You said that these black substances can bring out the most painful memories in people's hearts, so what you see inside is real?"

Jiang Yuanbai was stunned, as if he didn't expect Mo Yi to ask such a question. He thought about it carefully, and then hesitated to answer:

"perhaps?"

He looked at Mo Yi with some confusion: "What? Have you seen something among those black matter?"

Mo Yi paused, his eyes stopped at a certain point in the air with some confusion, and his voice was so light that it would disappear without listening carefully: "...I just saw some pictures that had never appeared in my memory."

Jiang Yuanbai seemed equally confused. He frowned and said, "I only know that these substances exist for pain. Could it be that they create illusions for you to torture you from illusions?"

Mo Yi asked back: "Have this situation ever happened to you?"

Jiang Yuanbai lowered his head and pondered for a while, and a look of pain slowly appeared on his face. He took a deep breath and stopped recalling:

"Every minute and every second in the game seems to be stretched tens of thousands of times. I and I don't remember what I have experienced in it. I only remember the pain and despair in it, and some broken images, so this question... I think I may not be able to answer... I can only say, maybe."

Mo Yi nodded and pinched his eyebrows tiredly, feeling that the amount of information he received today was too large.

Jiang Yuanbai's explanation is like a lost puzzle, completing a corner of the entire huge picture, as if many things that were impossible to see clearly before had answers.

Although he hasn't figured out what the escape game called stayalive is, and although there are still many mysteries that have not been solved, it is at least an improvement, at least he knows why it is pushing the progress of these dungeons and what it wants from them.

At this moment, Mo Yi seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Yuanbai with a tragic face and asked:

"By the way, you just say such a critical message, won't the game punish you?"

Jiang Yuanbai reluctantly curled his lips: "That's why I insisted on letting this conversation take place in this room. The source of these dark matter is my body, so... it's like a shield here, and the game can't "listen" me. The specific principle is difficult to explain. All I know is... the game will not allow this to happen."

He raised his chin and signaled Mo Yi to carefully observe the brown film stained on the ground-

They seemed to be evaporating slowly, gradually becoming thinner and thinner. Mo Yi could even see the color of the carpet under the film.

Mo Yi was slightly stunned, and only then did he hear Jiang Yuanbai's speech speed suddenly accelerate. He said anxiously: "So we don't have much time."

He stared at Jiang Yuanbai, and saw his eyes staring at him tightly, saying in a hoarse and gloomy voice:

"There's one last thing, you know...isn't the man you walked with human?"

"...I know." Mo Yi pursed his lips, nodded with a small amplitude, and replied: "It was his help to rescue you and make you wake up."

He lowered his eyes slightly, subconsciously rubbed his cold and pale fingers gently, and asked slowly and in a deep voice: "So, I want to ask you, do you think... he is the same as you?"

Jiang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Are you saying that you are swallowed by the game like me and then gradually become a food nourishment?"

He sneered softly, then slowly shook his head:

"How is that possible."

Mo Yi's eyes slowly sink, staring at Jiang Yuanbai and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jiang Yuanbai showed a gloomy expression, and his eyes looked a little cold: "I mean, I don't know what he is."

He stared at Mo Yi with his eyes that had no similarities to him before, and said lightly and slowly:
Chapter completed!