Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 98 Waiting in the Lighthouse

Xia Shou's steps slowed down again because Alice's hand on his neck tightened again, but this time it didn't seem like she was going to suffocate him.

"You are coming in too, or are you really going to come in?" A strange voice came from the front, and then a bamboo hat appeared in the field of vision, followed by a straw raincoat, a straw raincoat made of long, blue-green thin gems.

When Xia Shou saw the other person's face, he recognized him in an instant.

S-class investigator, Edward!

The person who disappeared after entering the Blood Demon's House, and still did not appear after the Blood Demon's House was resolved, but whose life lamp was still on.

What a strange illusion, Xia Shou thought, and then planned to pass by the other party.

Edward spoke up, "I'm not your hallucination. I've been investigating you. To be honest, I almost missed it."

Xia Shou ignored him and continued walking up.

Edward flashed in front of Xia Shou and directly held up a sign with words written on it.

[Stop, do you think you are the special one? You traveled from another world to this world, suddenly gained some mysterious power, and then became the protagonist of this world?

Do you think it's possible? Your original world should be a very ordinary world, a world where even various weird things don't exist. 】

He continued, "Turn off the communicator. I'm not hallucinating. They can hear me."

Xia Shou frowned slightly and slowed down his pace.

The other party knew that he was a time traveler.

But the fear lighthouse can read what people fear subconsciously, so it is normal to be seen through.

"Are you still treating me as an illusion? This is the scary thing about this place. This is probably why that person chose this place.

He had already calculated this day, knowing that even if I came in and blocked your way, I wouldn't be able to stop you, because you would regard everything you encountered as an illusion.

It is indeed a little difficult to win your trust in just a few words. I have already thought of this obstacle, but I have to give it a try.

I will just ask a few questions and you can think about it yourself. "

After saying that, Edward took out another stack of cards and handed them to Xia Shou.

Xia Shou took the cards cautiously and read them one by one. There were questions written on them long ago.

[Are you sure that the personality in the Death Note is really a personality that is good for you? Can its words really be trusted? ]

[Shangguan Yan, how much do you know about this person? She sent you to the Blood Demon House and gave you blood that can increase your abnormality level, and the price was just to make you work overtime. Is this reasonable? Do you think you are worth this? ]

[In your opinion, you may indeed have this value. After all, you really hold a lot of cards, such as Dorian Gray's pocket watch, the Death Recorder, and some secrets that even I can't find out. But from Shangguan Yan's perspective, she probably doesn't know, so her decision is very subtle.]

[Two possibilities.]

1. If she doesn’t know your hidden cards, then you are a worthless person and there is no reason for her to assign this urgent task to you.

2. If she knows those cards of yours, how does she know them? What does she want to accomplish by using you?

Xia Shou stared at the question on the card and fell into deep thought.

I have to say that the questions raised by Edward are very worthy of thought, and all the suspicions are logical. Xia Shou has also thought about them many times.

From the perspective of hallucination, this Edward's illusion is very realistic and deceptive, and it is even impossible to tell whether it is an illusion or not.

But on the other hand, Xia Shou also had an idea, which was to ask the other party the truth.

If the Fear Lighthouse can give a logically consistent explanation, then even if this explanation is not the truth, it is of great value and at least provides a reasonable way of thinking.

In this way, the use of the Fear Beacon is not just to scare people, it is even a universal answering machine that can provide information and ideas that the person involved is completely unaware of.

"It's quite interesting. Just tell me directly, what is going on? If you have really found out the truth, it's okay to tell it now, and you can even gain my trust. But if you can't say anything useful, then you are just an illusion who can only play conspiracy theories." Xia Shou said coldly.

"I was waiting for you to say this. Let's stop and talk. Just stopping won't have any effect on you. If you want to continue going up after listening to what I say, I can't stop you. But I have to remind you that the Fear Lighthouse is not in its normal state right now. You will definitely die if you go up there."

Before I continue, you'd better turn off the communication device. People outside will not use this to help you. It is purely for research, so if you turn off this device, there will be no loss for your tower climbing operation this time."

Xia Shou decisively turned off the communication device. Just as the other party said, the one-way communication setting could only be used for research afterwards and was of no help to the ongoing tower climbing operation.

"Go ahead." Xia Shou said.

"You will be possessed by another body and replaced by the person in the Death Note." Edward sat down on the steps again and got straight to the point.

Xia Shou stopped and sat down on the steps. He also wanted to take a break and verify his new idea.

But just as he sat down, Alice's hand around his neck suddenly tightened, and then a new transparent hand emerged from the air, grabbed his arm, and tried to pull him up!

But why did Alice pull him up? Wasn't Alice's existence just to scare him and make him escape from the lighthouse?
"Hey, what's with that expression? You don't even have the patience to sit down and listen to me for five minutes? Or are you having a bleeding hallucination?" Edward looked puzzled.

Xia Shou stared at Edward with his eyes fixed, enduring the increasing pressure on his neck, his brain working rapidly.

This Edward can't see Alice, so Alice is an illusion? This Edward is the real tower climber?!

Edward said that the tower has become deadly, which is exactly the same as the reminder of seeking death. Now, is Alice, who forces herself to go up the tower, the fatal factor?

Although it makes sense at first glance, in an illusion, everything could be an illusion.

Edson said that the fear factors in the Lighthouse of Fear would work together to make the fear reasonable, so Alice's action of forcing him to continue climbing the tower might also be a disguise deliberately made to stimulate his inner desire to escape.

"Go ahead and talk. I'm listening." Xia Shou said in a hoarse voice, not letting Alice pull him and continuing to move towards the top of the lighthouse.

"Okay, then I'll give you a brief summary of what I've investigated. You should know something about me. I disappeared in the Blood Devil's House ten years ago, but my life lamp is still on in the Control Bureau. After you cleared the Blood Devil's House, you didn't find any trace of me, right?"

"Yes."

"According to the archives, the architectural layout of the Blood Devil's House ten years ago was not upside down, and the gravity was completely normal. I was the one who changed it to what it is now, in order to give those who enter the Blood Devil's House through dreams a clear reminder that this is not reality, but a dream.

The Bureau's intelligence on that house is far less than what I know. That house will randomly capture people who are sleeping, usually disabled people, because disabled people have a stronger desire for a healthy body and are more likely to attract blood demons. They will kill each other in that house and complete their own missing parts in reality by devouring other people's limbs.

For example, if I don’t have a right hand, then I will devour other people’s right arms. As long as I do it many times, the opponent’s right arm will lose its functionality in reality, and my right arm will be broken and regenerated, becoming a healthy one.

That house is a place where people plunder each other's physical resources. You should have investigated this, right?"

Xia Shou frowned slightly and nodded slowly. The conclusion given by Edward was consistent with Liu Guangyao's own account. Liu Guangyao's right hand was seriously corrupted, but it could still coexist with the body. Moreover, Liu Guangyao did enter the Blood Demon's House in his dream, participated in the escape, and really met Edward.

What Edward said was all true.

"continue."

“But before I took action, the rules of the Blood Demon House were actually even worse. Those distorted spaces all came from reality, and they were all scenes that the participants were very familiar with. The people who participated in the escape were often from the same social circle, and a disabled person was responsible for hunting down relatives and friends in reality.

Of course, the projection of this dream into reality would not be so extreme, and the cost of limb mutilation would become less serious after being shared by many people. However, another more troublesome hidden danger also arises, that is, the hunter is completely unable to distinguish between dreams and reality, because the Blood Demon House's imitation of reality is extremely perfect.

This led to many people misjudging reality as a dream and killing their friends. This is the famous Blood Demon incident. The way I eliminated the Blood Demon incident was to use the inversion ritual to confuse the dream space, so that they can easily distinguish whether the scene in front of them is a dream or reality.

So I solved the Blood Demon incident, but later the Blood Demon House extended new rules, which you know better than me. "

"Then what do you want to say? The Blood Demon incident is now completely over. What you said cannot prove your true identity."

“You’re right, but that room is the key to the whole thing. Before that, I was thinking about how to escape from Shangguan Yan.

And the Blood Demon House gave me that opportunity.

I entered the Blood Demon's House simply as part of a mission, but my disappearance was something I planned myself.

Because that room happened to have a mechanism that allowed me to escape from Shangguan Yan's control, and I took advantage of that mechanism."

(End of this chapter)