ATFBETIBM Chapter 576

The remaining three people stared at Ran Jingjing’s neck.

The line on her neck was very clear and obvious from a distance, as if two dolls of different skin colors were pieced together.

[Ding! Congratulations, player Bai Lixin for finding Su Xiaohua +70%.]

[Task 1: Please find Su Xiaohua’s whereabouts. This copy is a single-player copy, and the task difficulty is S-level. After completing the tasks, you can receive rewards based on your performance. (Task completion: 90%)]

**The task was 20% complete when he found the head. So with the added 70%, it comes to 90%

[Task 2: Survive in the copy for 15 days. (Time countdown: 12:18:23)]

Upon hearing the system prompt, S419M exclaimed excitedly, [Lord Host, the task is completed!]

Then it realized, [No, there’s still 10% left.]

Escape System, [It’s Su Xiaohua’s severed leg. It’s stored at the police station and is not on Su Xiaohua’s body.]

S419M added, [I’ve realized it too. Lord Host, we need to leave here quickly and go to the police station to find Su Xiaohua’s final part. The current countdown shows 12 hours, but time in this wooden house flows twice as fast as outside. In other words, we only have six hours left.]

Ran Jingjing tilted her head stiffly, droplets falling onto the floor, “So you suspected me from the beginning?”

Bai Lixin: “You could say that.”

Ran Jingjing: “Then why didn’t you expose me and let me continue doing evil?”

Bai Lixin: “If it were killing others, I would stop it, but I can’t stop someone from killing themselves.”

“What do you mean by ‘killing themselves’?” Pictures that went against common sense and science were thrown in front of Mrs. Shen, and she was nearly driven mad. Her expression was ferocious, her pupils contracted to tiny dots and her eyes were red. She stared at the photos on the table, “What the hell are you talking about?”

Bai Lixin explained, “This isn’t the real world, but the spiritual world of the mentally ill Xiaohua. The obsessions and desires buried deep in Su Xiaohua’s heart have materialized into concrete people, which are you all. Each of your persistent desires represents the desires of Su Xiaohua in the real world. Each of you is Su Xiaohua, and yet not Su Xiaohua.”

“You’re insane, completely insane.” Mrs. Shen’s face turned ugly, “I’m a normal person. How could I be Su Xiaohua?”

“But I believe one thing you said: this isn’t the real world. I must be dreaming. Otherwise, how could I encounter such bizarre things? I just need to wake up, I just need to wake up, wake up…”

“I want to wake up, I want to wake up now. You monsters can’t trap me in this nightmare.”

Mrs. Shen muttered to herself. She looked around the wooden house blankly, chanting repeatedly, and suddenly rushed towards the wall of the wooden house.

Fortunately, Wang Tou was agile enough and caught Mrs. Shen before her head hit the wall, preventing a tragedy.

Wang Tou restrained Mrs. Shen, who kept struggling. She pleaded hysterically, “Let go of me, I want to wake up, I want to wake up from this nightmare, please let me wake up!”

Wang Tou’s temper flared up, and his voice was urgent, “Stay calm, this isn’t a dream! Pinch yourself and see if it hurts!”

Tears of fear trickled down the woman’s cheeks. She pinched her thigh hard, and her expression contorted in pain.

“Ouch,” the woman whimpered with tears, looking helplessly and desperately at the police officer in front of her, “It hurts so much. Is all this… real? It’s so scary here, I don’t want to stay here, I want to go home, I want to go home. Officer Wang, please save me, I want to go home, wuuu, wuuu…”

“Go home?” A cold sneer sounded from behind her, and Ran Jingjing said coldly and expressionlessly, “Didn’t the note say it already? Only one person can leave. We’ve chosen that person, Xiao Xin. Now that Xiao Xin’s gone, no one in this house can escape. No one.”

Mrs. Shen’s red eyes glared fiercely at Ran Jingjing. It was unknown where she suddenly got the strength, she pushed Wang Tou aside and angrily lunged at Ran Jingjing on the sofa. She grabbed her by the neck and cursed viciously, “You bitch! Ran Jingjing, Su Xiaohua! It’s you who brought me to this damned place, you want to kill me, I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you! Bitch, bitch!”

Ran Jingjing made no attempt to resist, letting the woman use all her might.

The woman’s knuckles and fingers bulged with veins and Ran Jingjing’s neck visibly contorted under her grip.

Everyone could even hear the “click-click” sound of bones breaking.

Yet Ran Jingjing seemed oblivious to the pain. She lay on the sofa, a mocking smile on her lips. Her empty eyes stared coldly at the thoroughly deranged woman in front of her.

“Crack!”

Suddenly, a crisp sound echoed from under the woman’s palm, and Ran Jingjing’s neck immediately twisted at a bizarre angle.

Seeing this, Mrs. Shen suddenly calmed down. She hurriedly let go, frantically shaking her arm as if she had touched something filthy, backing away as if fleeing for her life.

She was terrified, her hair disheveled, her gaze vacant, and muttering to herself, “I killed someone, I killed someone, I killed someone…”

Everyone looked at Ran Jingjing on the sofa with complex expressions.

Ran Jingjing seemed to be dead.

She remained motionless, her neck twisted, skin paler than the plaster walls, pupils black as night, empty and numb.

Just when Wang Tou was about to step forward and check on Ran Jingjing, the woman who theoretically had no chance of survival suddenly blinked rapidly.

Wang Tou’s face turned pale and he froze in place.

The next moment, Ran Jingjing slowly sat up, dragging her head away from the sofa.

Indeed, “dragging” was the only appropriate word.

Now, Ran Jingjing resembled a zombie from a horror story, yet also like a toy broken by a child.

The rope around the toy’s neck was broken, and was barely holding the neck and body together due to a slight support from outside.

Eerie, bizarre, and chilling.

Those slender, fair arms lifted, supporting Ran Jingjing’s head and turning a few times. There was a crisp “click”, and Ran Jingjing’s head was put back.

Ran Jingjing blinked, her voice hoarse and strained, “Have you finished venting your anger?”

“Even if you kill me a hundred times, you won’t leave this place. It’s a tomb prepared for us. For Xiaohua’s sake, all of you, please just die.”

S419M was anxious: [Lord Host, it doesn’t matter if they stay here, but you can’t. You need to get out and find Xiaohua’s leg.]

Ran Jingjing stiffly turned her neck to Bai Lixin, “I’m sorry for involving you, but you’re not leaving either.”

S419M: [Fuck!]

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In the live broadcast room.

[Ah?]

[Ah?]

[Ah?]

[How do we deal with this?]

[Logic is flying in front, and my brain is chasing behind. I just accepted that Ran Jingjing’s head was placed on Su Xiaohua’s body, and now you’re telling me God Xin can’t leave? The task is 90% complete, and you’re telling me God Xin can’t leave? Damn it.]

[It’s too bizarre. The body they’ve been searching for was right under Ran Jingjing’s neck. Who could have found that? Ran Jingjing acted like nothing was wrong, and even went to the police station to handle cases.]

[I still don’t understand why Ran Jingjing killed these people. According to reason, Su Xiaohua is her best friend, she loves Su Xiaohua, so she shouldn’t harm Su Xiaohua’s other personalities, right?]

[From my guess, it’s because she loves Su Xiaohua that she did this. Ran Jingjing just said it herself, for Su Xiaohua’s sake, she asked them all to die. Judging from these personalities, the real Su Xiaohua is a severely paranoid schizophrenic. Each of her personalities is not born out of self-defense mechanisms but because her own desires were not fulfilled. These personalities almost all carry significant character flaws and risks, except for Ran Jingjing and Officer Wang.]

[And Xiao Xin.]

[Yes, and Xiao Xin. Compared to the sufficiently mature personalities of Ran Jingjing and Officer Wang, Xiao Xin’s personality is more like a reconstruction. To cure such schizophrenia, you have to systematically eliminate these risky personalities. But if you want complete recovery, only one personality can remain. To help the original Su Xiaohua recover completely, Ran Jingjing chose to let Xiao Xin survive as a reconstructive personality, while all the remaining personalities were destroyed.]

[Well… If Ran Jingjing didn’t truly love Su Xiaohua, how could she make such a decision?]

[I feel a bit uncomfortable. I’m touched and I feel like crying. Help, I’ve unexpectedly found genuine friendship in the inner world of a mental patient. I’m crying.]

[But this doesn’t change the fact that Ran Jingjing wants to harm our God Xin! I can’t tolerate this!]

[Indeed, there are still six hours left. God Xin, hang in there! You must get out, you must complete the task! We’re waiting for you to come back!]

[Yes, come on, God Xin!]

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“What happened ten years ago? Why did you change bodies? How did you kill Shen Shukuang ten years later, and then kill Su Hong?” Bai Lixin walked over and sat on an unused rattan chair. He casually crossed his long legs and looked at Ran Jingjing, “You can at least make everyone understand this, right?”

Ran Jingjing blinked her eyes up and down, “Okay, I can tell you.”

“Ten years ago, I received a call from Xiaohua. I rushed to the abandoned factory and saved her when she was on the brink of death.”

“That was the first and last time Xiaohua told the truth about her personalities. At the time, like you all, I didn’t believe it. I looked at poor Xiaohua and only had one thought: to get her to the hospital quickly, I wanted Xiaohua to live. A man means nothing. I wanted to be Xiaohua’s lifelong best friend and stay with her forever.”

“But Xiaohua told me she didn’t want to live, but before she died, she could give me a gift.”

“Just as I was about to continue treating Xiaohua, she knocked me out.”

“When I woke up again, I was in this wooden house.”

Ran Jingjing pointed to the bedroom, “I was lying on the bed in there, and when I opened my eyes, Xiaohua’s head was next to me.”