This actor is full of tricks.

A deafening explosion suddenly erupted within the hazy space, and countless flames spread like a spider web, instantly covering the entire memory space.

"Haha, not bad, not bad, your strength has increased faster than I expected, but that's a good thing..."

The dean was thrown into the air and engulfed in flames, but he showed no sign of pain. Instead, he looked pleased, as if this was the result he wanted to see.

"I hope that when we meet next time, you will continue to surprise me and not disappoint me."

Just like last time, after leaving behind a single sentence, the dean's figure vanished once again.

Lin Jue stood there, his brows furrowing little by little.

Something's wrong! Something is very wrong!
I encountered the dean twice, and both times I got through it very easily. Although it wasn't the dean himself, it was still too easy.

The first time at school, Lin Jue thought it was just a matter of the dean's power, so it could be easily resolved. But after the incident with the extremely vicious half-finger and this time, he felt that the other party was deliberately letting him off the hook.

The power contained within the severed finger of the extremely vicious beast had already pushed him to the brink of despair, while the Dean's strength definitely surpassed that of the extremely vicious beast. However, the power he displayed on both occasions was not as strong as that severed finger, and he couldn't even break through the Hundred Taboos. This was clearly illogical.

The other side definitely let us win!
"That guy could invade my memories and attack me. With that kind of power, there's no way he wouldn't have a way to kill me. It's absolutely impossible for him not to hold back!"

“Every time he reveals his power, I have to use all my strength to neutralize it. Is he holding back to test the limits of my strength?”

"What is the purpose?"

Countless questions flashed through Lin Jue's mind. He reached out and waved his hand in front of him, and the gray space gradually changed, as if the world was being reborn. Asphalt roads were repaved on the ground, and skyscrapers rose up. He reconstructed his memories of his predecessor's time in the mental hospital.

The memory point he chose happened to be the moment when his predecessor saw the dean, and he wanted to continue watching to see what happened next.

But to his surprise, the reconstructed memories continued to play like a movie, or rather, like a still photograph. Everything around him was frozen in time, even the wind stopped.

Then, everything began to rewind, as if the video had been pulled back on a progress bar, and he was back on the bus that traveled to and from the mental hospital, with his predecessor sitting in front of him looking out the window.

Strange, is there something wrong with the hypnosis?

Lin Jue tried to accelerate the memory nodes, but this time he failed, and nothing around him changed.

what happened?

He tried again, but the result was the same, and the view outside the window kept repeating, as if a cassette tape had jammed and was playing the same scene on a loop.

"Is it almost time for the hypnosis? Am I about to wake up?" Lin Jue looked inside the bus. There were only two people on the bus, with the driver focused on driving.

Wait, the predecessor...

He then noticed that the tiger head in front of him had disappeared, and just as he looked at the figure in front of him, the figure sitting in front of him slowly turned his head at the same time.

It was a face exactly like his, only the expression was cold, as if the same features as Lin Jue had been carved into a block of ice. Clearly, something else had invaded his memories!
That was the dean, so who is this now?
Is it number 1 or something else?
"Long time no see." The former revealed a smile, but it was very stiff; it seemed like he hadn't shown such an expression in a long time.

After a brief moment of surprise, Lin Jue quickly regained his composure. After all, the dean had just appeared, so it wasn't surprising that another person would invade his memories.

"Number 1?" He already had a rough idea of ​​the other party's identity.

"It's me." The original body nodded slightly, looking at Lin Jue with a complex expression in his eyes: "You have finally embarked on this path."

"What road?" Lin Jue roughly understood what the other person meant, but there are two completely different things between knowing something himself and hearing it from the other person's mouth.

He felt a little strange. This was the second "Lin Jue" he had seen since 160230, and this one looked exactly like him, as if he were talking to himself in the mirror.

“A tool for uncovering the truth.” The original body replied softly, letting out a sigh: “I thought that erasing your memories and sending you away from the mental hospital would allow you to live a normal life and live out your days in peace, but now it seems that the trajectory of fate cannot be interfered with by external forces.”

Wait a minute...

Are memories erased by the previous life?
Lin Jue initially thought it was the dean's doing, but he never expected it was actually his predecessor who did it.

The other party's purpose was very simple: to make him forget everything from the past and become a normal person.

Moreover, there are mysterious things like the trajectory of fate. The original body's fate was death. It can't be said that being possessed by a soul from another world is also a matter of destiny. Lin Jue doesn't believe in fate. So when faced with the inevitable death of the Child of the Mist, he tries everything he can to change it.

"Since you're already here, why don't you just tell me what exactly happened in the mental hospital, what the relationship is between you, me, and that 160230, and why we look exactly alike?"

Lin Jue had too many questions in his heart, about the mental hospital, about No. 1 and himself. Now that the person in question was right in front of him, it was the perfect opportunity to resolve his doubts.

To this, Number 1 simply chuckled and did not give a direct answer: "Since you have already embarked on the path of seeking the truth, wouldn't it be more meaningful to find the result yourself?"

"No, I don't like the process. I just want an answer." Lin Jue wasn't the type to torture himself. Why go through all that trouble when the answer was so easy to get?

His answer clearly surprised Number 1, who paused for a moment, then said, "It's been a long time. You seem like a completely different person."

"I can only tell you one thing: I come from you. Not only me, but also 160230 and the tower master of Eternal Night Tower all come from you. We have no ill intentions towards you..."

"Remember...you are...the most important...one..."

Number 1's words began to come out in fits and starts, and long, snow-like ripples appeared in the surrounding scene, as if a network video had lost its signal.

Lin Jue immediately sensed something was wrong and grabbed Number 1's shoulder: "Speak quickly, get to the point, what am I?"

(End of this chapter)