From the end of the world

Chapter 174 Tailoring the Reality Magic Realm 2
"Shear reality?"

I analyzed this sentence in my mind. Does cutting reality mean cutting it literally? Can something like "reality" be cut?
Under my repeated interrogations and the effect of the Black Rope Locking Heart Ring, the senior researcher could only endure the pain of broken muscles in his limbs and tell him the information he knew with difficulty.

First of all, it needs to be made clear that this place is indeed the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, and it is indeed located in an alien space.

This strange space was formed last year, the night after Lu Youxun escaped.

In the past, when they realized that Lu Youxun was about to lead the Luoshan forces to counterattack the secret base, the Humanitarian Department forces here immediately began to organize a transfer. Needless to say, they could not be the opponent of the Luoshan forces, and if they wanted to escape, they had to do it as soon as possible. The problem was that they actually had no confidence in escaping the pursuit of the Luoshan forces.

According to the current results, I know that the Humanitarian Department's forces here have finally successfully transferred. However, unlike what Lu Youxun thought in the past, the Humanitarian Department's forces did not escape through large-scale space transfer. Space transfer is certainly a powerful means of escape, and it is also one of the transfer records of the Humanitarian Department's forces, but the Luoshan forces are not without the technology to continue tracking. Lu Youxun is naturally very clear about this, but he can't think of anything else.

What really turned the tide for the humanitarian forces here was the super trump card that Ying Lingyun played.

He did something earth-shattering.

He did not transfer the personnel and materials within the base space, but cut "the reality where the base is located" into the "area outside of reality."

To go further, he cut out the reality of "from Lu Chan being captured by the Humanitarian Department to his escape" from the real world.

This approach not only ensures that Luo Shan can never reach this secret base again, but also allows the secret base to obtain an endless supply of demon hunter experimental subjects - because this cut-out reality can be restarted infinitely.

As long as the number of experimental subjects in the base is reduced to a certain limit, Ying Lingyun will restart this independent reality space, so that all the experimental subjects inside can be resurrected. And those experimental subjects are victims who were captured inside the base during that period of time in the past. They don't remember the memory before the restart, and every time they are resurrected, they think they have just been captured.

There were one or two times when the subjects went through great pains to find opportunities to plan a riot and escape, and they also massacred the researchers and guards inside the base, but in the end they could not escape this independent reality - because the outside was not the real world, but a void. When the base was restarted, they would return to their original positions, and the researchers and guards would be resurrected.

And unlike the experimental subjects, researchers and guards can retain their memories - the latter are not considered, but the former are doing experiments, so of course they have to remember the experimental experience. By the way, the props and equipment that record experimental data were also excluded from the restart scope by Ying Lingyun.

Perhaps the reason why I feel that the space here cannot bear my power is because this is a "cut reality".

“Cutting reality, even such a thing can be done... How did Ying Lingyun do it?” I couldn’t help but feel amazed.

"Ying Lingyun?" the senior researcher murmured.

Ying Lingyun's true identity seemed to be kept secret from these researchers, but I had no interest in helping him keep it a secret.

The senior researcher seemed to understand it quickly, and then said, "We don't know how Silver Mask did it. He never explained anything to us. Things like 'cutting reality' are beyond the theoretical boundaries of our Humanitarian Department... Maybe even Luo Shan's Great Impermanence can't do something similar."

He is a person with a level of knowledge far beyond mine, and his words carry extra weight.

Beyond theory, beyond impermanence... In other words, is this a miracle achieved by Ying Lingyun's ingenious use of the fragments of the divine seal?
Perhaps this is not even a miracle. It is a miracle.

"So, what about Lu Chan?" I asked, "Did you also summon her by restarting this reality?"

"I don't know. Logically speaking, it's impossible for Lu Chan to be reappeared here."

The senior researcher was still bleeding, and his voice was getting weaker, but he couldn't help but answer: "... Although the restart inside this secret base can revive even the dead, it must be based on the premise that the 'materials' are complete. In other words, they must all die here, and their bodies and souls must remain here, before they can be resurrected here.

"Once someone escapes, the base will try to recreate the situation when it is restarted, but data will be lost. You can think of this restart as a kind of area-limited rewind. Targets that move outside the area cannot be rewound."

"In that case, what about that girl Lu Chan?" I asked, "After all, Lu Chan should be a man, right?"

"That girl just showed up out of nowhere after some reboot."

At this point, he also revealed a bewildered expression: "We can't understand whether she is a bug that appeared after countless restarts, or this reality that was cut out of reality has finally begun to be haunted. For some reason, all the demon hunters who were resurrected after the restart call the girl Lu Chan, but we have no idea where she came from." The only thing that is certain is that the girl seems to be an unknown spirit, and the doctor and Chen Long seem to have some understanding of her origins, and they will imprison her in a special cell every time the restart occurs.

"Although we want to study her, firstly, our base does not have the need to study spirits; secondly, research on unknown and strange objects always has hidden risks. The doctor and Chen Long both asked us not to ask too many questions, so we will not interfere."

There are so many mysteries... That’s what I thought.

I thought I could get some information about the young girl Lu Chan from the senior researcher, but I didn't expect that the image of the young girl Lu Chan became even more confusing in my mind.

It seems that I can only meet the other party in person.

Although the girl Lu Chan seemed harmless, as the senior researcher said, she was an unknown strange creature, and I didn't know what kind of dangers would occur if I rashly contacted her in private. And because of this, I couldn't resist the urge to meet and communicate with her.

The senior researcher said that the girl Lu Chan is a spirit. In other words, is she something like a ghost? Then this is the first time I have seen one... No, if I think about it carefully, considering the nature of my flame, as a flame aggregate, I seem to be similar to a ghost? Doesn't that mean we are meeting the same kind?

I asked the senior researcher about the location of that special cell, and he told me the route he took after leaving the cell based on his memory.

After writing it down, I asked, "So what do you think of me?"

"What?" He couldn't understand.

I asked carefully: "In your opinion, am I also one of the experimental subjects who has been repeatedly dying and coming back to life in this base?"

"Of course." He said, "You passed by the scene where we captured Lu Chan two years ago. You were the kid who was captured because you accidentally witnessed the incident. Although I don't know why you suddenly took out Luo Shan's Wuchang Sword, you must have been experimented on by us many times..."

"——Isn't that right?" I immediately caught the contradiction. "Isn't this the first time you met me? That's why Dr. Silver Mask was surprised by the appearance of a 'child' like me. And it was also the first time you got my information. You even had a verbal conflict with Dr. Silver Mask because of me... Could it be that I remembered all this wrongly?"

"what?……"

He seemed to realize that something was wrong. He was confused at first, then showed an expression of headache. He seemed to raise his hand to touch his forehead, but he was powerless because the muscles in his arm were cut.

This reaction was really strange. It was as if I, who appeared here, had some kind of aura of misunderstanding. Everyone who saw me would mistakenly believe that I was supposed to be the experimental subject here. They would even make up a reasonable identity background for me in their memory, and even have corresponding paper information.

Even when Chen Long saw me before, he seemed vaguely unsure of his memory, as if he was really doubting whether he had seen me, an "accidental passerby witness", at the scene of capturing Lu Youxun.

The only one who has not shown a similar reaction is Doctor Silver Mask.

That being said, the girl Lu Chan described by the senior researcher seems to have similar characteristics to me.

She clearly didn't look like Lu Youxun at all, but the demon hunters around her immediately identified her as Lu Youxun. Unlike me, the researchers didn't seem to be affected by her "aura of misunderstanding".

Seeing that the senior researcher was getting more and more entangled, I grabbed his heart and forced him to turn his attention back, then asked: "Next question, what is the matter with Doctor Silver Mask? Is he Ying Lingyun's 'possible clone'?"

"...From what I know, he should be a clone of Silver Mask, or a doppelganger." He answered, "but he is completely opposite to the original. Silver Mask himself is the embodiment of evil and madness. He forced his researchers to conduct inhumane human experiments and pushed us to the edge. The doctor is soft-hearted. Although he has the best scientific research capabilities in the base, he is always entangled in things like not attacking pregnant women, not attacking children, and not using overly painful experimental methods...

"But he still holds the authority to restart, and probably controls the core lifeline of this independent reality. Even Chen Long obeys him, so we all call him 'the one with the highest authority'."

"So where is Ying Lingyun himself?" I asked. "His clone is here, but where is he in person and what is he doing?"

(End of this chapter)