"Am I everyone from the beginning?"
Xie Zhi took the cup of steaming tea and looked at the cup.
There were some finely divided wheat husks floating in the teacup. When the wheat husks were blown away, clear tea was revealed.
Xie Zhi saw his face in the reflection of the tea.
In other words, that's not exactly his face.
Half of his face was hidden under the hood of the kendo master that was damaged by Crazy Scissors, and the remaining half of his face was exposed from the gap in the hood.
"I don't understand what you're saying, it's...a bit esoteric."
Xie Zhi raised his teacup and took a sip of wheat tea.
When I put the teacup down again, the tea in the teacup was much shallower, and the floating wheat husks gathered together again, covering the reflection of the little crazy scissors from the teacup.
"This is the Thinking Pavilion, and some textbooks call it the Thinking Palace."
Crimson Oath's voice sounded from the other side of the dining table, gentle and light.
"Have you ever heard of the Thinking Pavilion? That's where all the personality consciousness in your body lives."
Xie Zhi raised his head and stared at Crimson Oath. After a few seconds, he nodded,
"I know that I was deceived by the entity transformed from the moon virus in the palace of thought."
"I found that information in your public memory."
Crimson Oath picked up the transparent teapot and refilled the teacup in front of Xie Zhi.
"It's worth mentioning that these things are all allowed by your subconscious mind."
"The public memories before your time travel have been erased by an unknown force, but the memories after your time travel are all open to anyone."
"From those public memories, I learned about what you went through until now."
"Oh, I shouldn't have said that, I should have said, I got it."
Xie Zhi on the other side of the dining table frowned deeply, then smiled bitterly after a moment.
"I'm sorry, it's hard for me to understand... there's so much going on that's beyond my imagination."
"Especially what I have experienced in the past few minutes, from the mental illusion to the shattering of the illusion, to the baby girl appearing in my arms, the scene suddenly switched to the palace of my mind..."
"There are so many things beyond my imagination, and they are beyond all the knowledge I have accumulated since I was born."
Having said this, Xie Zhi suddenly paused, and then he looked at Crimson Oath with a pleading expression.
"Maybe you'd like to explain this part to me?"
"I don't know if I should trust you, but I feel like I can trust you."
"You know, it feels uncomfortable to not understand anything. I feel like I have been led by many forces in the past three days. Wherever I go, I will encounter new emergencies that are completely targeted at me. …”
"I mean... I feel like nothing I did exceeded anyone's expectations."
After saying this, Xie Zhi suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was much lighter.
He was indeed exhausted these days. Too many things beyond his ability, too many things that he couldn't do, too many things that he couldn't break away from were happening around him.
Xie Zhi looked at Crimson Oath across the dining table, and Crimson Oath also looked at Xie Zhi.
I don't know if it was his illusion, but at this moment Xie Zhi suddenly felt that the face of the crimson oath wearing a red skirt was a little blurry. The face seemed to gradually change from Hongmian's face to his own following his "request".
Xie Zhi saw sympathy and pity on his other self's face. After that, all the sympathy and pity turned into a sigh.
Crimson Oath's face quickly changed into Xie Zhi's appearance within a few seconds.
And when Crimson Oath's face completely changed into Xie Zhi's, Crimson Oath finally spoke again.
"You know, if it wasn't me who was here now, but any of your enemies in the real world..."
"Your opening your heart will make you die tens of thousands of times in the blink of an eye."
Xie Zhi laughed when he heard this.
"I know, can I trust you, right? Because you made an agreement with me, you will be my exclusive liaison, so you will never harm me."
At the end of the dining table, the figure in the red dress holding Xie Zhi's face shook her head helplessly when she heard this.
"I also wish I was, but unfortunately, I am not her."
"I'm not Zhang Hongmian, I'm your secondary personality born under stressful circumstances."
"Zhang Hongmian planted some of the seeds of the Crimson Oath into the depths of your consciousness from the other end of the spiritual link through the mental power of emotional incarnation. After that, when the curse of the Crimson Oath was activated, in your thinking cabinet, My very being is activated."
"In other words, I am Zhang Hongmian's back-up plan to deal with the current situation."
"But... maybe due to the entangled physique of the spirit body of the time traveler, some changes have occurred in my existence."
Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red skirt, spoke eloquently, but in the eyes of another Xie Zhi, who was wearing a blue kendo uniform and holding scissors, the narration of Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red skirt, still seemed incoherent.
After a long time, Xie Zhi in blue clothes scratched his head.
"I...still don't understand."
So Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red skirt, slowly poured himself a cup of tea.
"Then let's sit down and talk slowly. Anyway, with the dual blessings of the Crimson Oath and the Thinking Pavilion, the passage of time in the Thinking Pavilion is almost zero."
"We have plenty of time."
…
Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red skirt, said that she was originally Zhang Hongmian's backup plan in response to Sima Xi pulling Xie Zhi out from the outside. Through the projection of mental power, he remotely projected the seeds of emotional incarnation and part of the memory backup to Xie Zhi. In this way, when Xie Zhi faces a desperate economic situation, the seeds of emotional incarnation will sprout, and a temporary secondary personality will be constructed in Xie Zhi's mind.
The purpose of this secondary personality is to "explain" to Xie Zhi what is happening externally at this moment, and what Xie Zhi should do next to break the situation.
Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red dress, said that the ability of the Crimson Oath is to establish and can only establish an agreement with others that cannot be broken. When the agreement is fulfilled, both parties to the agreement will receive a certain degree of ability blessing. But when the initiator of the oath sincerely believes that the other party cannot fulfill the agreement, the effect of the Crimson Oath will change from a blessing to a curse. According to the intensity of the negative emotional fluctuations in the heart, a Crimson Oath will be summoned near the defaulting party. Cursed copy.
At this moment, outside Xie Zhi's thought palace, the girl held in Xie Zhi's hands is the cursed copy of the Crimson Oath. She also has another name, called Debt Collector.
When the debt collector appears, an active pollution field will be constructed within a radius of twenty meters with the defaulter as the center, which will move with the movement of the defaulter. In this active pollution field, the influence from other external forces and The action will be slowed down ten thousand times until the debt collector's execution is over.
Or the debt collector disappears after getting the contents of the agreement from the defaulter, or the debt collector continues to grow by absorbing the spiritual energy of the defaulter, and in the end the defaulter cannot fulfill his promise, and his body will become nothing more. An empty shell that bears no trace of spiritual existence.
It sounds like this curse is unsolvable, but in Zhang Hongmian's view, this seemingly unsolvable curse is the only way to solve Xie Zhi's dilemma.
“Fight fire with fire.”
Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red skirt, stretched out two palms, one on the left and one on the right.
"The curse of the Crimson Oath can slow down time, and debt collectors will punish defaulters in the slowed down time. The way the psychiatrist interferes with the mental illusion is to quickly distort and end the virtual world of the mental illusion until it returns to the world. none."
"We can say that the Crimson Oath prolongs time, while the psychiatrist's manipulation of mental illusions makes time quickly end and shorten to zero."
"So, when these two positive and negative effects occur at the same time, what kind of effect will occur?"
Xie Zhi already knew. At this time, the distorted and lingering scenes in the mental illusion, the fine red rain of blood floating between the ceiling and the ground, are the result of the collision between Sima Xi's mental skills and Zhang Hongmian's mental skills. .
The answer is that the effect of the Crimson Oath has gone from extending the time ten thousand times to slowing down the time about two thousand times.
From the time Sima Xi began to interfere with the mental illusion, to the moment when the mental illusion was completely shut down due to the power of the psychiatrist, it took three seconds of distortion and two seconds of field collapse. Finally, everything returned to the singularity at the sixth second, in the Crimson Oath. Before it took effect, two seconds passed. After the red rain enveloped the room, the remaining three seconds were slowed down by these two thousand times of time and became sixty seconds.
"Only sixty seconds?"
Xie Zhi was stunned. It might have been two minutes since he arrived at the Thinking Pavilion, but he had no intention of feeling Sima Xi's power again.
"This is because human thinking is also accelerated."
"When your consciousness comes to the Thinking Pavilion, which is the cabin we are in now, the speed of your thinking will also be out of balance with the speed of time passing in the outside world."
"Professional negative purifiers are generally able to accelerate their thinking by a hundred to one, and your thinking speed is faster than that of ordinary negative purifiers due to the entanglement of the spirit body. In other words, the sixty seconds you have , in the Thinking Pavilion, at least a hundred minutes."
"I said, we have plenty of time."
Xie Zhi, who was wearing a red dress, laughed, and then continued to explain the current situation with Xie Zhi, who was in a blue dress.
"In fact, according to the rules, as a temporary secondary personality, my mission ends here. Next, I should turn into pure spiritual energy and feed it back to your thinking pavilion, and you should exit your thinking. Ge, in the remaining few dozen seconds, find the button needed to lift the curse."
"However, there is now a problem in this link that Zhang Hongmian failed to consider."
"That is, what is so special about time travellers, or what is so special about the entangled spirit body that time travelers generally have."
What is so special about the spirit-entangled physique of a time traveler?
Xie Zhi laughed at himself, especially during one hundred and eighty life and death tests in one day, nine out of ten people I met on the road were members of a desperate organization who wanted to kill me?
But just as the self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips, Xie Zhi in blue suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that on the other side of the dining table, Xie Zhi in red skirt had a serious look.
"The special thing is that when I was born in your thinking pavilion, my existence was solidified."
"Due to the influence of the entangled physical body of the spirit body, I changed from a copy of personality consciousness carrying a mission to a true, stable and indestructible secondary personality."
"Explain it in words you can understand..."
"Under normal circumstances, all negative masters can only have one stable emotional incarnation, but at this moment, you have two in your body."
"One is the crazy scissors that has been fused with you."
"The other one is me."
"After Crazy Scissors merged with you, the location that originally belonged to the emotional incarnation of Crazy Scissors was released. Under this circumstance, I appeared in your thinking cabinet at the right time."
"So, I took the place that originally belonged to Crazy Scissors."
Xie Zhi opened his mouth wide and let out an exclamation.
"You mean, I can summon the Crimson Oath now?"
