Chapter 210 The Escaped Writer
Horn sighed and said in admiration:

“Wen Xishu, you really have a lot of tricks up your sleeve. It seems like you have a lot of cards up your sleeve. I’m really lucky to meet you.”

Wen Xishu said:
“Next, we should find someone to test it.”

The thirty-fifth floor of the office building was an abandoned floor, waiting to be resettled. It was naturally a good place for interrogation. Horn stayed where he was, while Wen Xishu, under Horn’s control, relied on his powerful speed to flash past the cameras, looking for prey.

For Wen Xishu, whose strength is comparable to that of Superman, it is very easy to kidnap someone.

Silently, under Horn’s control, Wen Xishu was seen swinging a person in each hand. A man and a woman were abducted by him. They both looked like managers of high status.

The woman is from the film and television column and is responsible for a Saturday variety show called “Random Disaster”.

The program tells about the dangers people may encounter in various inconsistent and untidy environments.

But it is said that the actors have to sign a confidentiality agreement. Although the actors later said that the random environment and the random selection of people were all arranged by the program…

But there are still some artists who seem to have become a different person since then.

People said that this program was poisonous, and many artists who appeared on the program became bad artists. When people saw this artist again later, there was already a scar on his forehead.

That is the supreme, lobotomy scar that symbolizes nobility.

The other man is a novelist.

Since this line of work is too high-risk, this novelist prefers to proceed step by step and writes suspenseful crime-solving novels.

It tells the story of the protagonist solving cases in various neat and uniform worlds… relying on various irregular clues.

He is still a very popular and, for now, relatively safe writer, at least safer than the person in charge of the film and television program.

Both of them were knocked unconscious by Wen Xishu’s knife, but they soon woke up under the effect of the “Code of Conduct Manual”.

Because at this time and place, there was no function of falling asleep. In the state of falling asleep, the words “butterfly effect variable” appeared in their minds, and they were immediately frightened and woke up.

Horn originally thought that Wen Xishu’s mental exploration method was some kind of hypnosis… But when Wen Xishu woke up, he said:
“Good you’re awake. I just wanted to ask you something.”

“You… who are you!” the woman asked in surprise.

“You kidnapped us?” the man said.

Wen Xishu nodded and put the Scorpio knife against the woman’s neck:
“I am a super criminal with a butterfly effect variable exceeding ten percent.”

When the woman heard the number 10%, she fainted out of fright.

Wen Xishu frowned slightly.

It was very strange. Just like the doctor, he fainted.

Logically speaking, being frightened and fainting means that one has reached an extreme emotional state.

Wen Xishu looked at the man, and the man immediately fainted.

Horn asked tentatively:

“Have you… any results?”

Wen Xishu said:
“They seem to have some kind of protection mechanism that prevents them from becoming overly emotional.”

“I fainted immediately. This prevented me from using my abilities.”

Horn and Wen Xishu fell silent, but soon, they both came up with the answer almost at the same time.

Horn said:

“Looks like we’ll have to cut open their arms and take out the implants.”

Wen Xishu also understood:
“So that’s it. They only feel one thing, which is a huge pleasure stimulated by hormones, just like catheters and drugs.”

“Long-term use of this method will lead to atrophy of the cerebellum, gradual addiction, and loss of creativity.”

“Apart from this extreme pleasure, all other emotions are unable to accumulate due to the influence of the implant.”

As Wen Xishu spoke, he immediately cut open the woman and the man’s arms and took out the implants neatly.

Although the action was quick, it still woke the man and woman up in pain.

The woman wanted to scream, she had never been so scared, and her life had never been so out of control.

But inexplicably, there was a strange sense of pleasure.

Of course, this feeling is very small and almost imperceptible under the huge fear.

Wen Xishu covered her mouth instantly.

“Quiet first.”

[Help! Help! Help! ]

Finally saw the barrage.

Wen Xishu was in a good mood.

He looked at the man and woman and said:
“I have already pulled out the code of conduct manuals from you. From now on, you’d better think carefully about my questions in this fear.”

“All your programs and works eulogize order. I want to know, what is the most out-of-control thing in this world?”

Such a taboo topic pushes fear to the peak.

Wen Xishu didn’t even need to use violence. Just by asking this question, people could feel that he was abnormal, or that he was out of control.

But there are some things that even though you don’t say them out loud, you’ll think about them in your heart.

The mental barrage still allowed Wen Xishu to see the answer.

Interestingly, both people had the same answer.

[He came here for that incident! This damn lunatic! How dare someone investigate that matter! ]

Horn couldn’t see the barrage, but he saw Wen Xishu stretching out his hand and reaching above the two people’s heads.

Under the influence of a mixture of emotions, a large number of memories began to emerge in the form of pictures.

Soon, Wen Xishu obtained all this information.

Horn could see some surprise in Wen Xishu’s expression, but soon, Wen Xishu’s expression returned to normal.

The whole process was very short, less than ten seconds, and Wen Xishu nodded to Horn:
“Horn, I’ve got it. It’s really important information.”

The man and the woman thought they were going to be tortured, but unexpectedly, the other party suddenly let them go.

Horn naturally believed Wen Xishu:
“Let’s go. We have to get out of here.”

Wen Xishu began to leave with Horn.

This time, the two of them evacuated from the elevator openly.

“We have to find a safe place first. While searching for this place, I will tell you about a loophole in this world…”

“Come to think of it, he’s also an old friend of mine.”

Horne showed curiosity.

Wen Xishu said:
“I didn’t realize that everything was connected.”

Horn said:

“I hope you’ll be like me and skip this kind of suspense and get straight to the point.”

Pushing the wheelchair, Wen Xishu said softly:

“There are many people with special abilities on the Ark, and the Ark boarded after an old friend of mine left…”

“Well, let me think about how I should organize the language.”

Horn lamented the complexity of Wen Xishu’s network of contacts, but was also curious about what had happened.

“Let me tell you about this place first. Someone has actually been here before, but that person is dead.”

“There was once a banned book here, written by an outsider like you and me. This person’s book describes a person who does not follow the rules and acts completely according to his own desires. In this orderly city, if a person does not follow the rules, then this person can definitely live well. If he is strong enough.”

“The protagonist in this forbidden book predicted several cases, and all of them happened in reality.”

“The book promotes ideas that are extremely reactionary to the city.”

“That is… do whatever you want. Don’t trust the code of conduct manual or the supreme system.” “I have to talk about the marriage system first. The protagonist predicted four things.”

“The fourth one has not been realized yet, but the first three have all been realized.”

“The first thing is that for the convenience of management, the partners here are assigned according to the system.”

“Everyone is born with the decision of who they will form a family with and who they will have children with.”

“But one day, the protagonist pulled out the implant in a woman’s arm, which was the code of conduct manual. He forced the woman to say something that all women… no, even all men who were forced to form a family, dared to think but not say -“

“I want to have an affair. I don’t love my significant other.”

Horn was silent.

Wen Xishu smiled and said:
“This part also happened in reality. The writer really did it just like in his novel. He fell in love with a woman.”

“Then the woman said something similar to what was said in the novel. She longed to choose the person she loved according to her own preferences. She did not love her current husband and children.”

“This incident caused a big stir, but law enforcement officers failed to find the writer and the cheating woman.”

Horn said:

“What about the second thing?”

Wen Xishu said:
“The second thing is about the children.”

“In a school in District 11, there was a child who was assigned to be a computer operator. But the child did not like this kind of life. At the age of fifteen, the most rebellious age, he met the protagonist.”

“Under the protagonist’s instigation, the implant that could bring him great happiness and paralyze his own will was removed.”

“Without the code of conduct booklet, the child said he wanted to be a painter.”

“So the protagonist began to pursue his dream with this child.”

Horn said:

“It seems like it happened in reality as well?”

Wen Xishu nodded:

“This is the worst out-of-control incident in this city. The child said this in front of the camera: I want to choose my dream according to my own ideas.”

Choose your partner according to your own ideas.

Choose your dream according to your own ideas.

The answer is already obvious.

Horn and Wen Xishu looked at each other and seemed to realize the concept.

But neither of them said that.

“What’s the third thing?” Horn asked.

Wen Xishu said:
“It’s a memorial.”

Horn frowned slightly:

“What does it mean?”

Wen Xishu explained:

“In this city, everything must be done with a smile on one’s face. Human beings cannot be easily sad, angry, or afraid.”

“You’ve seen it, even when facing robbers like us with a knife on their necks, they are still scared, but once the amount exceeds a certain value… they will fall into a coma.”

“People are only allowed to be happy. The huge implanted happiness is almost depriving them of their real happiness.”

“Once they are separated from that huge happiness factor, can they really still be happy?”

“Here, people are worshipped after they die. But in order to unify management and facilitate the orderly operation of the city, even when worshipping the dead, the facial expressions, the number of times to kowtow, and the time when worship is allowed are all strictly restricted.”

“The protagonist takes a young boy to worship his grandfather. The boy is afraid at first, but after the protagonist pulls out his code of conduct manual… under the protagonist’s instigation, the boy slowly begins to recall every detail of his grandfather.”

“He was unwilling to accept that his grandfather was so kind, but he had to live in poverty all his life. Because in this city, everything is arranged for you from the moment you are born. All your thoughts of resistance will be made to give up by the happiness factor.”

“But when that thing was removed, the boy finally had the right to grieve as much as he wanted.”

“He also said to the camera, ‘I want to remember the past according to my own will.'”

Horn said:

“This protagonist…was created to be a heinous crime.”

Wen Xishu said:
“Yes, the author of the novel is actually a person with special abilities. I don’t know his specific abilities, but I do recognize him.”

Horn thought about it and didn’t know there was such a person on the Ark.

But this is normal. There are many people with special abilities on the Ark. Not every one of them can be recognized by the captain, and not every one of them can be naturalized by the captain.

Wen Xishu continued:
“In reality, this happened. Honestly, I didn’t expect him to be able to do this.”

Horn said:

“And the fourth thing?”

Wen Xishu shook his head:
“The fourth thing, that is, the fourth prophecy. It failed.”

“After the first three predictions came true, many people began to look forward to the fourth thing. What is the fourth prediction?”

“But not long after, the author was shot and killed by law enforcement officers.”

“To be precise, the monsters from the sea of ​​evil have begun to appear.”

Horn understood:

“That is to say… the captain has begun to intervene at this time?”

Wen Xishu nodded:

“I don’t know exactly what happened, but I guess that Sirius was probably… already imprisoned from the beginning. Or to put it another way, Sirius was actually very weak from the beginning and was imprisoned by the captain.”

“But the captain couldn’t control Sirius at that time, and the captain had been conquering Sirius’s inner world.”

“In order to save himself, Sirius contacted the author and asked him to leave four prophecies in the most crucial spiritual world… which is this city.”

“But unfortunately, he was killed after fulfilling only the third prophecy.”

“The fourth prophecy has only been released, but it has not yet been fulfilled.”

Horn said:

“Love as you will, decide the future as you will, and cherish the past as you will.”

“It seems that if the fourth prophecy comes true… some kind of shackles will be broken?”

Wen Xishu nodded:

“Yes.”

Horn said:

“It’s like a ritual. After the fourth one, the ritual is complete and it can lift the blockade on people’s hearts.”

“I think so too. So, since we have no clue, perhaps we can try to realize the fourth prophecy.” Wen Xishu said.

Horn became interested:

“What’s the name of this friend of yours?”

Wen Xishu said:
“His pen name is Santianlianghuo Jiao Peijia. His real name is Yin Junchi. I once rescued him, but I never thought that he would choose to leave that city and go to the Ark. I also never thought that he would have such an exaggerated experience.”

Horn said:

“You have a lot of experience.”

Wen Xishu said:
“If you have the opportunity to go to where I am, you will have a rich experience.”

Horn smiled and didn’t respond. He was eager to stay in the Ark.

“Tell me, what is the fourth prophecy? Let’s go and fulfill it!”

(End of this chapter)