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Chapter 855 Hold Me Tight in the Firelight and Moonlight
Dr. Gao walked forward in the moonlight, as if stepping on a pure white wedding dress.

“I don’t know how to kill you unpredictable beings in the delirious world. In fact, I tried to kill one of you before, but after I killed him, he came back to life in another form. It seems that only by completely destroying your rules, completely crushing your sanity, and cutting off all your escape routes can I have a chance to kill you.”

"So I changed my approach. Instead of killing you, I tried to heal you in my own way, so that you could be a part of this world forever."

"I tried hard to deduce your rules, categorized all the abnormalities into different symptoms, and after a long period of screening, I finally locked onto you."

"For this moment, Dr. Bu and I planted the seed for you in the living quarters, so that your madness would infect more people, even my mother was affected."

"Watching your rules grow stronger and your faith increase, you've finally taken the bait. You want to use your own power to find a way out, but you've forgotten that this is a delirious world. Faith in this city is a kind of spiritual contagious disease. How could I and other unpredictable beings sit idly by and watch you grow?"

“We watched you use up all your cards step by step, transforming from a tree into a forest. You can’t turn back now, and neither can I.”

Banban and her servant lay prostrate on the ground, their wills battling against the will of the forest—a question of whether they were human or a tree.

His heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to explode. Dr. Gao put the brain-computer interface device on the woman and connected all the wires to himself.

"Perhaps I'll let you continue to grow until you completely cover the city, and you will replace delirium as the sole will of this world. But even if I agree, how could the other unpredictable beings be willing to become a part of you? The path you've chosen is destined to fail!"

Two doses of brain-sharing medication were injected into his body, the circuits tightened, and Dr. Gao activated the brain-sharing device before his heart completely exploded.

The yellow indicator light began to flash, and memories flooded Dr. Gao's mind like water. His soul grew among the trees, as if every tree in this forest was his eye. He saw the fire spiral out of control, burning down the trees and the living and management area. He also saw the fire wall collapse and more and more people stepping into the woodland.

His gaze kept rising higher, until it slowly merged with the moonlight.

Dr. Gao's brain could no longer withstand the side effects of the shared brain, nor could it withstand the crushing force of the collective will. He used the shared brain to forcibly integrate himself into the collective consciousness of the forest, but in fact, he had already prepared for the worst.

“Unpredictable power of rules manifests as various illnesses in the world of delirium. I cannot use your rules, so I can only steal a sliver of opportunity through this method.” The indicator light on the brain-computer interface turned red, and Dr. Gao’s memories and soul began to dissipate. He leaned against the woman’s back and took out two vials of sanity-destroying injections and several vials to prevent drug detection.

Hostility would be crushed by the collective will, rendering any aggressive behavior impossible unless the entire forest was burned down and everyone was killed. Dr. Gao pondered for a long time before devising a second method: a shared brain, where the patient would have the same memories and symptoms as the core patient before the injection.

As Dr. Gao pierced the woman's neck with the first needle, watching those most beautiful eyes in the world gradually become cloudy, the smile on Dr. Gao's face grew even gentler.

"Don't rush to kill me, I'll be there to join you soon."

He shares a brain with a woman who has been injected with a drug that destroys sanity, and he will also go insane as a result, but he doesn't care; everything is going according to plan.

The drug that completely destroyed reason slowly took effect. Dr. Gao then injected the drug that interfered with drug testing into the woman's and his own bodies one tube after another. As the collective will of the forest fell into chaos, the woman under the moonlight looked like a tree that withered instantly, and wrinkles appeared on her smooth, fair skin.

As the woman's will descended into chaos, Dr. Gao, who shared her brain, seized the opportunity and issued a final order to the entire forest—to grow towards the First Rehabilitation Hospital and destroy it!
Roots surged, pale arms emerged from the scorched earth, and fallen trees and rolling heads all tilted towards the hospital. "Destroy it, destroy the only normal place in the world."

As the collective will of the forest swept over, the chaotic memories in the Moonlight Woman's brain began to affect Dr. Gao. Everything in his mind was melting away. The side effects of brain sharing were already significant, and repeated brain sharing had long since brought his absolute rationality to the brink of collapse.

Dr. Gao raised the second vial of the mind-destroying injection and plunged it into his own heart.

"Are you trying to infiltrate my brain with your own rationality and be reborn within me? It's useless. I've already replaced my brain several times using this method. How could I have left such an obvious loophole?"

As the medicine was injected, Dr. Gao felt as if his heart was breaking. A large amount of blood flowed out, and the complex blood-red patterns on his skin slowly faded and disappeared.

With his hand over his heart, Dr. Gao looked down at the lines on his chest. He was able to remain rational even when he entered the heart of the forest because his father had sewn a piece of his own skin into his heart. Now he was returning everything to his father.

"The seven heinous incidents are my gift to this absurd world."

His sanity crumbled, the world crumbled like building blocks, his doctor's coat fell off, and he stopped pretending to be anyone. He was the smartest child in the Blood Orphanage, the one and only Number Two.

“Death is not the end; our heads will become poisonous with hatred, waiting for the next person to open them.”

The flames filled his eyes and burned his limbs, yet Number Two laughed with immense joy. He slowly raised his arm and stretched it out towards the moonlight amidst the flames.

“I left them countless clues, each leading to chaos and madness. I hope my death will buy you more time.”

No one knows what happens when you die in a delirious world. Number Two has never thought about it either. Ever since he saw that Gao Ming was willing to stay alone in the Blood City of New Shanghai, he was prepared to help Gao Ming without reservation. No matter what the other party wanted to do, he would do his best.

"Put on your skin, change your brain several times, and wake up from madness again and again, until my eyes and my world completely melt away."

The fire raged, and flesh and bones fell away.

The forest turned into a surging red, transforming into an endless expanse of light.

"Absolute reason is the hardest ice in the world; it feels no pain, no sadness, no sorrow. But I seem to hear birds singing and smell the fragrance of grass and trees; spring must be here."

The ice melted, spring arrived, and flowers bloomed. Number Two lowered his raised arm as if embracing himself. Flames engulfed him and the core patients, and the moonlight embraced him.

He came into this world all alone, and he will leave it all alone, accompanied only by the most intense flames and the gentlest moonlight.

(End of this chapter)