Collapse, a simulator of lifelong regret!

It is precisely because capital, which is pursuing greater profits, is dazzled by the infinite appreciation of money and the growth of wealth that seems to make one rich even as a beggar without moving anything, that capital does seemingly stupid things.

Classic American plasma, with undead horror killers as the theme of monsters and ghosts with objects unique to East Asia, like dolls, like paper figures, and a calm contrast with some abnormalities hidden under the normal.

Even if it doesn't fit in any way, with the infusion of huge amounts of money and no one caring about the money that can grow naturally, it is enough to make Stitched Monster look like something that looks okay.

Although on this point alone the boy wanted to deny this effort.

——The peace was quickly broken.

Since the first intuitive terror arrived, the previous environment that set off the emotions has come to an end, and it is time to close the net.

Taking advantage of the short period of time after the boy's composure was broken, Mei Raiden once again took back the initiative and regained the front position. She moved forward as if changing the captain in a game, carefully stepped over the white bones that suddenly appeared, and even took the initiative to start a conversation - replacing the eerie sound of the wind in the valley with human voices.

"But it's really scary here."

……

"I know, but it's easy to scare people when something like this suddenly pops out."

For the first time, the smile on Jiang Cheng's face returned to normal. He no longer had the seemingly calm expression he had before. Instead, he just nodded in response.

Something like this suddenly pops up, and with keen senses, one can be more aware of the problem and more aware of the inharmonious atmosphere around.

Only on this point, even the boy had to admit that compared with the power he possessed, his heart was essentially still that of an ordinary person. Not only was his good and evil ordinary, but he could also be frightened.

Perhaps because he has not yet accepted and fully become a Herrscher, the power given by the adaptability of the Herrscher's body does not exceed the limits of human imagination.

Perhaps because there was no advance warning, I always have wild thoughts about other people's thoughts and the danger of changing the atmosphere.

At least at one moment just now, I was indeed shocked.

I was stimulated by a place I had never been to before.

Compared to the perfect measure before, the hand holding the girl's jade fingers now subconsciously tightened a little, reaching the tightest range while ensuring that no pain was caused. Skin pressed against skin, and even body temperature seemed to have entered a connected internal circulation, as if at this moment the two people had reached a sympathy even with their most precious blood.

It seemed that she was ready to offer protection, but it was clearly Raiden Mei who pressed the boy's fingertips, gently stroking the back of his hand, and soothing his heart.

——Would even the omnipotent Jiang Cheng show such an expression?

……

Looking at the young man so close, the calmness and leisurely attitude he had maintained before disappeared. He was walking here like a normal person, like an ordinary and ordinary boy who was also in high school.

There was no seeming to be omniscient, nor was there a partial understanding of everything, and even the usual gentle and inhuman attitude was gone.

For the first time, distress appeared between his brows, and his eyes looked around vigilantly, as if his emotions were disturbed by the continuous fright.

That overly perfect smile, which was not from this world or something humans could possess, was like a fairy or god. The smile finally faded from his face, and he fell into distress like any normal person.

what……

Somehow it seemed a little closer.

After losing his appearance of being omnipotent, knowing everything, and not panicking when encountering anything, the boy seemed to be closer to himself, more touchable, and more visible.

It was as if it had transformed from the original sun, the original stars, and the original gods into human beings, and its posture was closer to that of ordinary humans.

Just like people, we have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. Just like people, we have ups and downs in our emotions. Just like people, there are times when we cannot do things and times when we are troubled.

Lost, sad, excited, happy... I will feel up because of what I like, and I will feel down because of sad things. But I will also raise my head again after seeing hope, pat my clothes, and move forward again with excitement.

Only at this moment can I truly feel that the man named Jiang Cheng is indeed an ordinary high school student who is almost the same age as me.

"Don't worry, Jiang Chengjun, just let me stand in front now, I will definitely protect you. Even without weapons, my strength is very strong, and... isn't there no ghost in this world?"

……

——Two-level reversal.

The girl, who was supposed to be the protected person, has now become the leader leading the way forward. Just like at the beginning, she stood in the front, pointed out the direction of departure, and led the boy to the place where he was going.

Although the change in dominance will make men, who are supposed to be the protectors of the opposite sex, appear to have no dignity in general.

If others saw this, they would undoubtedly criticize him by saying, "As a man, you let a girl walk in front of you and rely on a weak girl to protect you. This is unbecoming."

It doesn't matter.

At least Jiang Cheng accepted all of this without much hesitation, and gave the first stage to the self-abased girl.

It is extremely rare for Mei Raiden, who suffers from severe depression and low self-esteem, to take the initiative to do something like this. Similar to Vilvi, she even had only two subjective initiatives until the very end. The only two actions she would do on her own, besides protecting herself, were to satisfy herself.

I originally thought that in order for Mei Raiden to perform such a self-transformation, it would at least cost her the price of sacrificing a Kiana like in Sinner's Elegy.

As expected, Mei hasn't experienced the despair that would lead to the Great Collapse yet, so her inner nature isn't yet that crazy and extreme?

For example, as a man, being protected by a girl, anyone who would bring up this topic in a collapsed world can only be called a person with a pure mental illness.

It may not sound pleasant, but the boy actually had a profound experience of being protected by the girl who seemed to be the one being protected.

“It seems that things from the last century are not all antiques. The craftsmanship of this one feels comparable to the real originals.” He just calmly pointed out his mistake and gave praise.

"I have to admit, since I've never been to a haunted house before, I now know why she didn't bring me here."

"I used to think she might be a little timid, but now it seems that this thing can really ignore the force value and only deal true damage."

……

Is it that unknown woman again?

The light in her pupils dimmed, her slightly drooping eyebrows and upturned lips proved the uneasiness in the girl's heart. Suddenly a third person appeared and broke the atmosphere between the two of them - this emotion became even more difficult to suppress after seeing the boy's unconscious smile when he spoke.

When mentioning that person, Jiang Cheng was very happy. He was really happy from the bottom of his heart, and he was so skillful that it was like mentioning his close family member.

The slightly raised corners of his mouth were different from that overly flawless, overly perfect smile that was fake. His smile was as plain as playing with friends.

Even when he was complaining, he was so natural, without any need for restraint, and he didn't worry about whether he would get angry if he told her in front of outsiders. He was so frank that he said whatever he wanted to say.

Is it true that they still cannot compare to each other in terms of the weight in my heart?

and many more……

Perhaps a girl deep down in her heart could not accept such self-pity and took the initiative to touch upon some forgotten and neglected place. The girl, who was stuck in a dead end and unable to extricate herself, suddenly remembered something.

The words I heard before were not just a denial of myself, and the smile on the corner of my mouth was not just for that unknown girl.

The boy's previous words kept replaying in his mind, and he deleted all the irrelevant parts and extracted the most important part.

——'But you didn't bring me here.'

Never been here before?

So can it represent...

——Is this my first time in Jiangcheng?

……

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Reality: When the thunder breaks the sky: 184. You can try to hold my hand

"I think everything should be alright now."

Her wild thoughts were interrupted. A girl who hoped that Raiden Mei could live a good life has almost devoted herself to her. Even if it is someone she hates, she must flatter Mei to help her get rid of her inferiority complex.

It is clear that you don't like that person, but you need to make the person you want to protect like that person, use the other person's favor to get rid of sadness, and even deliberately find out some details to deliberately create the illusion that the other person likes you. Even for a scheming person, this is enough to be called the ultimate insult.

At least the result is good. Mei Raiden has finished her exploration and no longer ponders issues related to her status and qualifications. She devotes herself wholeheartedly to the tour of the haunted house until she reaches the end.

The end is not too far away.

It’s probably only about ten minutes away.

Even if it was a product of a decadent era, it couldn't have been too expensive, and the end of the multiple corridors of a building of this size is approaching.

Walking on the most normal road, they were already halfway through the journey, and while Raiden Mei was daydreaming, they were about to reach the end.

What has come again, or is approaching, is no longer the perfunctory attitude of before, but the reason why this haunted house has been standing till now, having survived for decades, and even now serves as a famous tourist attraction to attract some brave or stupid men and women to travel together.

--fear.

Deep in the body and soul, curiosity, or what you could call the desire to commit suicide, is something that is rooted in human instinct and cannot be changed.

The more unknown it is, the more one wants to know; the more fearful one is, the more one wants to explore. The contradictory and excessive emotions often end up being reckless, and one uses one's life to explore the darkness and the unknown at the cost of almost losing one's mind.

As the longest night arrived, the narrow corridor, which already had extremely low visibility, was completely shrouded in darkness, with only the occasional flashing red light and a faint light that was so faint that it was almost invisible to lead the way forward.

The instinctive fear of human beings is played to the extreme, and this is an extreme product made by a group of people who have nothing to do and enjoy scaring others.

In that era, there were even creators who paid a large sum of money to design a very niche animation, and even paid close attention to every detail.

Even though this haunted house and the city called Changkong had not yet stood out too much in that era, at least not to the point where it can almost be called the capital now, it is completely believable that it was something that could be created by people who had not been devastated physically and mentally by the era of continuous decline, whose souls were not worn out by infinite involution and meaningless tedious work, and who had not experienced the stock price falling faster than jumping from a building.

"Be careful, it seems we are entering a dangerous area."

"We'll be able to leave here soon, let's speed up."

……

The boy adjusted his emotions, and at the same time made sure that the Star Sea Harmony could attack at any time, making absolute preparations, like the backup plan of Vivi, and then took a step forward, trying to block the girl.

This time the concern is not about employee injuries.

In other words, there is no need to use the injuries of employees to cover up one's true thoughts.

This is indeed a protective desire. It seems to have started from the moment he killed that fat pig and from the first time he heard Raiden Mei being bullied at such a close distance. It has been increasing infinitely like a cockroach. By the time the first one was discovered, these disgusting creatures had actually already spread everywhere.

——It was just the first time we were so close.

In fact, the boy had seen injuries at not such close range more than once.

As a girl who suffered the malice of the entire city, she chose to live alone during the time she was in school. The boy had actually seen others discussing countless times how to bully and hurt Raiden Mei.

But at that time he never intervened, avoiding those people as if they were garbage. Even if those people were all his classmates and all his teachers, he was just choosing one person to isolate himself from the whole world.

Since it is impossible to be the one who helps Nobita and the only correct option cannot be chosen, then at least I will not become Suneo, a cold bystander who mentally hurts the girl together with the bully.

If you don't have enough strength, forcing yourself to stand out will only put you in a bad situation.

This can be called cowardice, it can be called escapism, and it should even be something despised, because recklessness is always closer to bravery than cowardice.

This is understandable. Temporary compromise is nothing. Even if you were a captain, you should not force yourself to step forward when you have no ability to solve the problem, causing the number of people hurt to increase from one to two. You may even lose your initiative and be unable to find a way to solve the problem in the outside world. Instead, you will be forced to be dragged into it, which may catch the eyes of others.

But now it's different.

I can no longer behave the same way as before.

It is no longer possible to rationally choose to stand by and watch as we once did.

The reason why he took a step forward and chose to stand up this time did not seem to be simply because of the courage that came with having strength, but something that seemed more magical and had nothing to do with strength and wisdom.

If I encounter the same bullying again, perhaps even if I am still an ordinary person, I will not be able to avoid it as I did before.

Maybe I still won't necessarily choose the worst or most reckless way, but I will definitely try my best to change everything.

Perhaps it can be seen from the fact that the fat pig-like guy did not do anything wrong, but was just a little offensive and his words were a little disrespectful, but he chose to kill him without hesitation.

It doesn’t matter anymore.

Normally this is indeed a disturbing emotion.

However, there is no need to care so much now. This is just the first simulation. As long as you adjust your mood, there will be the second and third times. One day you will be able to show your complete self unscrupulously. The Star Sea Harmony you have now is enough to be used as a threatening nuclear bomb.

"Don't be afraid. These are just man-made. Even if there are real people acting as ghosts, they can't really harm us. They are all paid office workers. At least... you can try to hold my hand tightly."

……

Do you care about me?

but……

unnecessary.

It's really not necessary.

The girl bit her rosy lips gently, her white teeth seemed to be just doing a habitual routine. There was no emotion that could be called fear in her crimson eyes. The only slight panic was even because she could feel the boy behind her trying to bypass her.

did not leave.

Without turning around.

He didn't give up his seat either.