Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1061 The Two-Way Choice of Music
"As our guests have probably seen, our choir members practice diligently all the time in order to deliver the most wonderful performances anytime, anywhere, and rarely have a moment of rest in 24 hours."

However, today's piece will give all choir members the opportunity to choose whether or not to relax, and everyone will have the chance to personally relive the most beautiful time of their lives.

Well... how should I put it? It's about taking out the top 2% of happiness in your life and letting everyone immerse themselves in it and enjoy it.

Then... he chose to destroy this beautiful memory using the cruelest methods he could imagine in exchange for peace and comfort during the performance.

Or, preserve this beautiful, unspoiled memory, and then do your best to put on a wonderful performance.

Think this through carefully, this is a very important choice. It might only happen once in dozens of performances, and for you, it could feel like a brief moment of liberation that you've experienced in millennia!

After saying this, the missionary turned to the guests and said:

"So what will our distinguished guests enjoy? I think everyone will have a unique experience, but at the very least, the best 2% of memories in your lives will be able to be clearly recalled anytime, anywhere in the future."

Yes, it will be very clear! You can immerse yourself in that beautiful past anytime, anywhere, through sight, smell, and touch, just like briefly entering a real time and space, and you can do it hundreds or tens of thousands of times!
But be careful, good times can be poison; don't get too caught up in them and forget about the past, haha.

Upon hearing the missionary's explanation, Xia Shou immediately understood the true nature of the concert.

By thinking from the perspective of desire, one can understand what the mastermind behind it all wants to achieve.

Xia Shou didn't know that this was his first thought when analyzing the situation.

In short, there is no doubt that this was a special rule set up by the choir to evoke the desires of the imprisoned.

For the choir, these poor souls who have suffered endless torment, being able to find peace and tranquility in a song is already a great blessing.

Just now, before the performance even started, he and Dorian Gray had only connected their nerves. The painful process, which lasted only a dozen seconds, felt like it would last for hours.

One can only imagine how unbearable and endless the suffering must have been for the person on the wall.

However, by the same token, exchanging the complete destruction of the happiest period of one's life for a little bit of painless time is nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst.

Painless periods are short-lived and have an end, but once the beautiful memories of a lifetime are completely destroyed, they are truly gone.

It's not just about forgetting, it's about destroying... It must become a painful memory. Without these few happy memories, the pain on the wall will only be more intense in the future.

Memories are probably one of the few painkillers that performers can take. Although most of them are too crazy to take them anymore, even if they are crazy, as long as the memories are happy, even if they are just fragments that flash through their subconscious, they can numb the pain.

But if even painkillers turn into poison... the future is unimaginable.

The choir may not be as bloody, violent, cruel, and direct as Avici Hell. Compared to the endless pulverization of the body and the infinite multiplication of pain in Avici Hell, the Heavenly Choir is much "gentler."

It gives you the opportunity to choose your own torture device.

Unlike the Avici Hell, where once your body is completely shattered, there is almost no chance of recovery, it will even give you a moment to catch your breath.

However... the added cost is mental self-torture.

Everyone who makes a choice will inevitably face a moral dilemma: whether or not to give up what is most precious to them.

Regardless of the choice, this decision will become a spiritual whip, lashing at the one who makes it.

If one chooses to retain the memory, then in the pain of the future, one will forever remember this rare time of peace and tranquility.

They reflected, "I should have just switched places back then. What use are the most beautiful memories in this kind of pain? I don't even have the capacity to remember them."

If you choose to destroy this memory, then the sharp fragments that turned from honey into poison will cut you countless times in the years to come, and each time you will think—how much better it would have been if there had been no exchange.

This is the gentleness of the choir compared to the deepest hell, yet also its cruelty.

The pain may not be as intense as unbearable suffering, but it may not be. After all, self-harm is not necessarily easier than being abused by others.

"Alright, everyone, just enjoy this rare moment of bliss... Even the most eccentric veteran employees have the right to enjoy happiness at this moment."

"May the wandering poet bless you, and may King Nullah bless you!" the missionary proclaimed.

When these two names reached Xia Shou's ears.

all of a sudden,

He remembered!
Wandering poet!

The reason Alice wouldn't let herself turn back was because of him!

Meanwhile, from the first-person perspective inside Xia Shou Cave, a sudden change occurs!

He saw lines of illusory text appear in front of everyone, including Dorian Gray and the other performers on the surrounding walls.

"What's going on?" Xia Shou asked in surprise.

"The influence of the wandering poets meant that all those imprisoned in the choir would have their life experiences and mental states read and recorded in the form of narrative poems the moment they entered the choir after death."

For the choir as a whole, prisoners who ultimately lose all reason and complex emotional responses are not valuable enough.

Therefore, in certain special pieces, the law mechanism of the wandering poet's imprint on the heavenly choir will come into play.

This is one of the manifestations of the power of the magic poem, influencing people through narrative. The narrative poems of the wandering poet can temporarily restore the mental state of others.

...so that they could face the impending despair with richer and more intense emotions.

As soon as Dorian Gray finished speaking, the murky, flickering eyes of those around him, who had long lost their minds, slowly cleared.

Their bodies were still in a deformed, distorted state, but at this moment, normal souls seemed to have been forcibly reintroduced into these bodies.

Then, very quickly, a human figure on the wall with its throat stretched out emitted a shrill scream, a wailing sound that echoed throughout the entire passageway.

Even Xia Shou could tell that this person wasn't crazy, but rather clearly aware of what was about to happen, which made him unable to accept reality.

Then, sobs, complaints, and clear human speech filled the passageway.

"Why...why am I still here...let me die..."

"When will this end? Is it... is it going to make me destroy my memories with my wife this time? Clearly... clearly my life with my daughter is not like what I remember."

Rational complaints, in unusual tones, emanated from the mouths and chests of these distorted humanoid instruments.

This absurd, dreamlike scene gave Xia Shou goosebumps all over his body.

After all, he had only recently transmigrated and had not yet fully adapted to the other world, so he was not able to accept such an extreme and tragic scene.

"Ignore them. Those who are already here have no value to others."

Just treat them as inanimate objects that are very much like people.

"When they are talking stones," Dorian Gray said coldly.

(End of this chapter)