Xie Zhi opened his eyes again.
He found himself lying naked in the hot spring with his head tilted back.
The early spring evening breeze blew over Xie Zhi's shoulders and head, bringing a chill.
The huge moon hung high in the sky, as if staring into his own pale eyes.
"I am..."
Xie Zhi's eyes showed confusion for a while, and then he felt two lumps of fat on his chest dangling below the water's surface.
I'm still in Zhang Hongmian's body...
The confusion in Xie Zhi's eyes gradually turned into clarity.
"Time has reset."
Xie Zhi murmured to himself, and then stood up from the hot spring with a "swish".
A half-dry bath towel hung on the chair beside him. Xie Zhi stepped out of the hot spring, stepped on the cobblestone outdoor floor, and then grabbed the bath towel and wiped himself.
The moisture on the body cannot be wiped off. The moment it is wiped off, new water stains will emerge from the skin again.
The body shrinks at the same speed as before when moving outside the water body. It only takes about three minutes for him to transform from an adult back to a teenager of thirteen or fourteen years old.
Xie Zhi took a deep breath and then spit it out viciously.
"Relax, Xie Zhi, you have a way."
Obviously, he is still in this spiritual illusion built around Zhang Hongmian's memory.
After Zhang Hongmian said "It's too late", Xie Zhi felt that everything around him quickly became dark in a short period of time. Then he opened his eyes again and was back here again.
He returned to the starting point where he fell when he was first thrown into the mental illusion.
It's obvious that the timeline has been reset.
Xie Zhi didn't know why the timeline in the mental illusion was reset, nor did he know how long this reset would last, but Xie Zhi could guess the reason for the reset.
Zhang Hongmian is dead.
Zhang Hongmian died under the attack of the "Shadowless Man".
Or perhaps, Zhang Hongmian died of excessive blood loss due to his own removal of his left leg after being attacked by the Shadowless Man.
Xie Zhi couldn't see the situation on Zhang Hongmian's side and could only use guesses to infer what happened on the other side of the memory.
What is certain is that while she was experiencing attacks from emotional monsters on one side of her memory, Zhang Hongmian was also experiencing the same thing on the other side of her memory.
Because my body is Zhang Hongmian's body, and what I have experienced is also an illusion constructed based on Zhang Hongmian's memory before his death.
In other words, the enemy he encountered was the enemy Zhang Hongmian encountered before his death.
Zhang Hongmian died from the attack of the "Shadowless Man". After her death, the spiritual illusion also ended.
But this is not what Sima Xi wants to see when he puts me in the mental illusion. He hopes to see me solve this illusion and clear this terrifying "game".
Therefore, after Hong Mian died, the mental illusion directly underwent a new round of reset, and I once again appeared at the starting point of the illusion.
Then here comes the problem.
What if I die?
Xie Zhi narrowed his eyes and thought.
If I die, will the mental illusion reset?
Or is it that the illusion will be reset only after the memory of Red Cotton dies? If I die, I will die directly in the real world?
Xie Zhi felt that Sima Xi, who was born in the Human Balance Organization, could do such a thing.
In other words, from the moment he was thrown into the spiritual illusion by Sima Xi, he faced only two endings.
Otherwise, Xie Zhi could clear the mental illusion in front of him and find a way to break it.
Either Xie Zhi died in this illusion and became the nourishment of memory red cotton, or he and red cotton became part of the spiritual illusion.
Xie Zhi took a deep breath. He realized that he had been in a daze on the floor for more than two minutes, so he returned to the hot spring to refill his body with water.
Time, place, plan...
Xie Zhi sank half of his face below the water and puffed up bubbles in the hot spring.
At the same time, his mind was rapidly thinking about how he should break the situation.
"The first thing to test is whether you can get in touch with Hongmian again."
Xie Zhi talked to himself, and then called Zhang Hongmian's name deep in his heart.
But all the calls came to nothing, as if Xie Zhi was singing a folk song alone to an empty valley.
Xie Zhi could only change his mind and think about how he came into contact with Zhang Hongmian in the last round of spiritual illusion.
He restrained the bandage monster's water absorption through the water vapor in the sauna. After killing the bandage monster, Zhang Hongmian's voice first appeared...
Xie Zhi remembered that moment when he stretched out his fingers to touch the "dry body bandage" left behind by the bandage weirdo after his death.
When Xie Zhi's fingers touched the dry body bandage, Zhang Hongmian's voice also appeared in his heart.
"So, the answer is a dry body bandage?"
Xie Zhi frowned slightly, then nodded slowly.
Yes, Dry Body Bandage, the first time I heard Hong Mian’s voice appeared at that moment.
Therefore, what I need to do is to kill the bandaged weirdo as soon as possible after he pushes the cart into the locker room, and re-establish the connection with Zhang Hongmian...
Xie Zhi made a fist with his right hand, swayed in place twice and then released it.
Just do it.
He exhaled, jumped out of the hot spring, and rushed to the locker room in one stride.
But when Xie Zhi rushed out two or three steps, his figure suddenly paused.
"No, wait."
"I thought of a better way."
Xie Zhi said to himself, and then laughed.
…
The outdoor hot spring is connected to the indoor hot spring, and the indoor hot spring is connected to the locker room.
The sound of wind chimes rang from the entrance of the locker room, and the putrid smell of the bandage weirdo floated out from the lifted door curtain, followed by the fully loaded dining car and the bandage weirdo behind the dining car who was pushing the dining car forward.
Bandage Face pushed the dining cart to the entrance of the dressing room and stopped. Then seeing no one around, it gently lifted off the silver-gray velvet covering the trolley.
But the absence of people around does not mean that there is no one. On the west side of the entrance to the locker room, there is a row of long lockers. There are the tool cabinets of the hot spring room, and the long mops and brooms are all placed. Place it in a long locker.
The locker is not big, just big enough for one person to stand in it.
At this moment, Xie Zhi was standing inside the locker, his eyes peeking out from the grid at the same level as the bridge of his nose, intently observing the behavior of the bandaged face.
The moment Bandage Face opened the dining car, Xie Zhi pushed open the locker door and rushed out.
"It's now!"
Xie Zhi shouted loudly, and while attracting the bandage weirdo's attention, he threw the off-white bath towel directly towards the bandaged face.
The off-white bath towel was soaked by the hot spring from top to bottom. Even when flying in the air, a thick curtain of water kept dripping from the corners of the towel.
The bandage weirdo couldn't dodge, and Xie Zhi covered his head and face with a towel.
Immediately, Xie Zhi's eyes narrowed.
In just an instant, half of the water on the bath towel was absorbed by the bandaged face!
If Xie Zhi cannot seize this opportunity, in the next few seconds, even his other half will be sucked dry by this so-called "dry body bandage"!
"Crazy scissors!"
Xie Zhi took a deep breath and shouted the name of Crazy Scissors in his heart.
A cold phantom humanoid appeared behind Xie Zhi, and while the blue flames rose again, Xie Zhi's right hand had its fingers together, and the five scissor blades thrust forward quickly!
And the destination of those five fingers is the throat of the bandage weirdo!
"That's it!"
The sound of scissors tearing the fabric was heard through the back of the paper.
The bandaged monster turned into a puddle of pus, and the black water sprayed from the monster's throat splashed everywhere. From the dining car to the nearby lockers, it seemed to be stained with a layer of dark ink, and a putrid smell was everywhere. .
Among them, there was even a little "ink" that sprayed directly onto Xie Zhi's face.
The smell quickly spread from Xie Zhi's face to Xie Zhi's nasal cavity.
Xie Zhi suddenly felt like his whole stomach was churning. He released the transformation form of Crazy Scissors, ran to the sink nearby in three steps and then vomited out all the contents in his stomach with a "啕" sound. I kept vomiting until finally I could only spit out sour water.
The only good news is that the rancid smell goes away just as quickly as it comes.
After washing his face two or three times in front of the sink, the body of the bandaged man lying on the floor turned into a shriveled bandage skin again.
Only this time, it seems that due to the lack of moisture in the surrounding air, the bandage skin is not as white and moist as it was in the sauna room before, but is somewhere between dry and moist, showing the appearance of gray dead skin.
When Xie Zhi stretched out his fingers to touch the bandage skin, Xie Zhi clearly felt the water in his body being absorbed.
"Red cotton, can you hear me?"
the answer is negative.
Xie Zhi didn't feel that his spiritual connection with Zhang Hongmian had been reestablished, as if the bandage had no effect at all.
Could it be that the bandage skin is not moist enough?
Or is it that I can only contact Kapok in the sauna?
Just like in those video games that I played in my previous life, the player has to go to a certain place to hand over the next stage of the task?
Xie Zhi thought for a moment, grabbed the bandage and walked into the steam-filled sauna again.
The bandage skin in his hand gradually became whiter and moister, just like dried longan turning into longan again, and the bandage cover even became a little crystal clear.
Xie Zhi finally heard Zhang Hongmian's voice again.
"Perhaps this bandage can suppress the water loss in my body."
The girl's voice talking to herself appeared in Xie Zhi's ears again.
"Zhang Hongmian! Can you hear me?"
Xie Zhi called Hongmian's name in his heart.
At the other end of the memory, the voice of the girl whose name was called suddenly paused, as if she heard Xie Zhi's thoughts, but also seemed not to hear them.
Hong Mian continued to talk to himself, as if it was a predetermined script.
"Maybe I should put the bandage on myself."
Xie Zhi felt the urge again, and he eagerly wanted to put the bandaged body in his hand on his body.
But Xie Zhi still held back.
"Zhang Hongmian! I am Xie Zhi! You said you would be my exclusive liaison! Now tell me how to get out of this illusion!"
Zhang Hongmian's voice paused again.
After a long time, the girl finally spoke again, but this time there was a hint of sadness in her soliloquy.
"I...don't remember anything about Xie Zhi..."
"But I believe you know me, because I know what it means for you to be able to talk to me."
"I'm dead, right? Maybe I've died more than once in this mental illusion?"
