Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

Xing's consciousness was pulled away from the illusion on the screen, and her body staggered back two steps.

Her pupils refocused, but the light and shadow reflected in that illusion still lingered in her eyes.

Pepe immediately stood up, pressed her head against her calf, and let out a worried whimper.

Lu Ze reached out and helped her up, supporting her arm with his palm until she was steady before letting go.

"You're back? What's the situation inside?" Lu Ze asked worriedly.

Xing paused for a few seconds, sorted out her thoughts, and then recounted everything she had seen in the illusion from beginning to end.

She spoke slowly and carefully, telling the whole story in a detailed and engaging manner.

From Perkz's forced smiles on the show, to opening her heart to Rocket, to her decision to undergo a "happiness surgery," and ultimately losing all her emotions, Rocket waited for her his whole life.

After hearing this, the light in Lu Ze's eyes dimmed.

He felt sorry for Tepeque.

Happiness was so close, she only needed to take one more brave step forward, just one small step, to grasp it, but she chose to escape, abandoning the warmth within reach and turning to the embrace of nothingness.

He looked down at the old television set.

The screen remained lit with static, and the hissing sound monotonously looped across the overgrown clearing.

Perkui's ghost still hovered in front of the television, reaching out to touch the static screen again and again.

Her fingertips were flicked away, retracted, and then extended again.

The rocket crouched in front of the screen, its pale blue body almost transparent in the white light of the snowflakes.

This is because it used too much willpower.

Rocket waited for her his whole life, and even in death he stayed by her side, preventing her from getting close to that memory, because that memory was too painful.

"so……"

Lu Ze spoke slowly, his voice unusually deep.

"The Rockets guarded her their whole lives, and even in death, they guarded her soul, preventing her from getting close to that painful memory."

"Mm." Xing nodded.

"And she remembers nothing. She just instinctively feels that there is something important about her on TV, but she doesn't know what it is."

"Hmm." Xing nodded heavily again.

Lu Ze blinked and looked at the Fool's Mask in his hand.

The shattered surface reflected tiny glimmers of light under the dim yellow light, and the LCD screen in the right eye area flickered on and off.

He looked up, his gaze sweeping back and forth between Rocket and Perku.

"I have an idea," Lu Ze said to Xing, "but I need your help."

"You say it." Xing looked into Lu Ze's eyes, those golden eyes were brighter than usual.

"Didn't you say you acquired a magazine?" Lu Ze asked seriously.

"Yes, that's right. Tanuki Magazine." Hoshi nodded affirmatively.

After receiving a definite answer, Lu Ze paused, turned the mask over, and rubbed it between his fingertips.

"I will edit a post and publish it through your magazine."

Xing glanced at him, asked no further questions, and immediately took out her phone to contact her confidant—Prince Huan.

Luze then put on the Fool's Mask.

The moment the mask touched the skin, the LCD screen near the right eye lit up, and streams of data flowed across the screen.

He began to use the abilities of the first phase of the Carnival of Misremembered Memories to re-edit and alter Perque's story.

Soon, a post about Perkui was completed.

"We've already made contact."

Xing held up his phone in front of Lu Ze to indicate that everything was settled.

"So what are you planning to do?"

"To rewrite history," Luze said.

"Use the rules of Two-Phase Paradise itself."