Chapter 168 Dissociation

Chapter 168 Dissociation

There was a knock on the door.

Has the person who delivered the painting from the school clinic arrived?

Shen Xing took off his gloves and walked towards the door.

Given Shen Xing's current special status, it's impossible for him to enter the school clinic. The paintings are now being posted and collected by Wang Xinran among those under her control at the school.

Moreover, the school clinic has been moved. The room that used to be the clinic is now a storage room for miscellaneous items, in order to prevent anyone from staying there at 5 p.m.

Shen Xing hasn't offered anything to the [01-Wall] for a long time, so it's probably in a state of extreme hunger. It's hard to say whether anyone inside at 5 o'clock would be directly devoured by the indiscriminate [01-Wall].

If they were to widely inform others not to go near that room, some nosy students would probably go in to have fun. So Shen Xing simply had Wang Xinran prohibit students from going to the administration building at will, since the teachers' offices weren't in the administration building anyway.

"Click."

Shen Xing opened the door and was stunned when he saw the person at the door.

Wang Xinran? The real person?

Compared to their last meeting in the hospital ward, Wang Xinran looked much thinner now.

When Wang Xinran was unconscious in the ward, Shen Xing didn't notice any changes in her because she was still asleep.

But now that they were meeting face to face, Shen Xing noticed a distinct sense of unease. He felt as if the person standing in front of him was anyone, but none of them were "Wang Xinran".

The difference from before is just too great.

He peeked out and looked around to make sure no one was following Wang Xinran. Then, he stepped back half a step to let Wang Xinran in and closed the door.

Shen Xing immediately squatted down, lifted Wang Xinran's long skirt to look at her ankle, and reached out to touch the GPS shackle.

It's locked very tightly; forcibly opening it might trigger an alarm, and there's no way to confirm whether there's a recording device inside.

This was the first time Shen Xing had ever seen such a new type of object in person, let alone disassembled it.

Wang Xinran looked down at Shen Xing, seemingly completely unconcerned about what he was doing to her. After a short while, she finally spoke, "There are no listening devices."

She seemed to know what Shen Xing was worried about.

"You know?" Shen Xing stood up and looked at Wang Xinran in front of him.

"I installed it." Wang Xinran nodded. "I bought it."

Her use of "I" seems to refer to someone else, perhaps the procurement personnel who bought these new equipment or the people who researched the uses of these things.

But Wang Xinran referred to all these people as "me".

"Why are you here?" Shen Xing asked.

To be honest, Shen Xing didn't quite understand why Wang Xinran would come at this point in time. Her most important task right now should be to pretend to be normal in front of the Ninth Detachment and avoid contact with him as much as possible.

"Lu Lingyun has already left," Wang Xinran said. "Apart from him, everyone else's memories from this period have been processed."

Does he know you're here?

"I know, I said I wanted to see my brother and father again."

"Um.

'

This reason is indeed good, and it can make Lu Lingyun believe that Wang Xinran still has concepts such as family affection and is regaining her emotional perception.

"Do you want to see them? The clones aren't fully developed yet. We can try to revive them as early as tomorrow. We'll have to try with other corpses today," Shen Xing asked.

"No need," Wang Xinran shook her head, "They're already dead."

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Ok?

Then why resurrect them?

Shen Xing thought carefully about the previous conversation. It seemed that reviving them had always been just his suggestion, using revival in exchange for Wang Xinran's help... But now it seemed that Wang Xinran didn't care whether they could be revived or not.

"Should the resurrection continue?" Shen Xing asked tentatively.

"I don't know." Wang Xinran shook her head decisively.

Wang Xinran's current mood is probably one of confusion.

She didn't know whether resurrecting her father and brother was right or wrong, or even if she wanted to do it.

Because now, Wang Xinran seems to have lost the concepts of "parents" and "relatives." The more fragments of knowledge and memories she has in her mind, the harder it is for her to recall her own experiences.

Wang Xinran knew that in this situation, she could seek help from the Ninth Detachment. The doctor named Liu Chunqiu would definitely come back to help her with "rehabilitation" and make her realize who she was.

But even the "self" that Liu Chunqiu reconstructed from the data is just the self in other people's memories.

That night, Liu Chunqiu and Shen Xing both spoke with Wang Xinran.

Using his professional knowledge, Liu Chunqiu helped Wang Xinran recall some things, and also enabled her to correctly perceive some of Wang Xinran's emotions at that time. In fact, at the beginning, Liu Chunqiu gained some of Wang Xinran's trust.

Liu Chunqiu wants Wang Xinran to become a normal person again, a human being with normal thinking.

In the end, however, Wang Xinran still chose Shen Xing.

Because, whether it was Liu Chunqiu or the other members of the Ninth Detachment, Wang Xinran could only sense their fear of her from their memories. They were trying their best to comfort herself and not think of herself as an outsider.

Shen Xing, on the other hand, showed absolutely no fear of himself.

Even the fact that he had become an anomaly, Shen Xing accepted it all. He accepted himself as an abnormal being at this moment.

This recognition and acceptance made Wang Xinran feel at ease.

As for what she actually wanted to do, Wang Xinran had absolutely no idea.

She travels among fragments of memories from various people. Each time the white worm infects another person, another fragment of memory is added to this sea of ​​consciousness.

Her own original memories had long been shattered and mixed up with the memories of these other people. She could be anyone, while Wang Xinran was just one insignificant little person's memories.

She felt like she was constantly falling, as if she might lose herself at any moment. Only by entwining Shen Xing and all the people important to her with herself could she feel safe enough to stop falling.

"Let's revive him." Wang Xinran looked up at Shen Xing and said, "I want to live like Wang Xinran for a while."

"Okay." Shen Xing nodded.

He could tell that Wang Xinran seemed to be in a state of severe self-identity disorder.

Is this a side effect of [03—The Hive]? Having too many memories of others, leading to an obstacle in one's own identity?

Although Shen Xing cannot directly study [03—Honeycomb] now, he seems to be able to draw many conclusions by observing Wang Xinran's behavior.

but..

If things continue to develop like this, Wang Xinran's personality disintegration seems to be a bad thing for Shen Xing.

Let's see if things improve after she lives with her "family" again for a while. If not, we'll see.

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