This actor is full of tricks.

Spider looked into Lin Jue's sincere eyes, then his gaze fell on the backpack on Lin Jue's back. He had learned some things about this human from the little girl.

According to the little girl, although this human had a complex personality, he was generally a trustworthy person who took in a large group of strange creatures and genuinely cared for them.

After a long silence, the spider spoke up: "That was... several years ago."

"Because of my family's poverty, after being sponsored by my boss to go to university, I would do off-campus part-time jobs whenever I had free time. One day, while I was doing off-campus part-time work, a bus suddenly went out of control and crashed directly into the bus stop."

“There were many people waiting for the train at the platform, and I was among them. But I was lucky, because everyone else who was hit lost their vital signs except for me. My lower leg was caught in the wheel, and although I had to have it amputated, at least I survived.”

"But if I had known what happened next, I would have preferred, I would have preferred to have been hit and killed by that bus back then."

A strong aura of resentment began to emanate from the spider, which gave one a glimpse into just how terrible the treatment he had suffered after being sent to the mental hospital must have been.

"Because of phantom limb pain, I was sent to Yongning Rehabilitation Hospital for treatment at that time."

"At that time, that hospital was one of the best in Sanjiang in terms of treating mental illnesses, and... and they also promised that they had found a treatment plan and could provide me with treatment for free."

"Because I thought such a big hospital wouldn't lie to me... I went there, but I never imagined... it was a living hell..."

A hint of fear flickered in the spider's eyes: "When I was first hospitalized... everything was normal, but after several treatments, I found that my condition was getting worse and worse. Originally, phantom limb pain was something I would feel every now and then, but later it turned into pain all the time, even when I was sleeping..."

"The pain made me increasingly agitated, but all the doctors and nurses told me that this was a normal part of the treatment process."

This doesn't seem right.

Lin Jue clearly remembered that the medical record stated that the spider's condition was gradually improving and its emotions were stable, but the spider's account was completely the opposite.

It's definitely not the spider lying. Perhaps the record on that medical record is correct. The only problem is with the group of doctors and nurses. Their perception has been completely affected, just like their predecessor. Even though their personality split is getting worse, Qin Lang sees it as the treatment being effective.

Therefore, the so-called treatments mentioned by doctors and nurses are not actually curing the disease in the traditional sense, but rather to torment the patient, cause emotional breakdown, and worsen the condition.

The purpose of doing this may be to induce negative emotions in the patient, so that the bizarre suturing experiment can be carried out more effectively, since bizarre is a combination of negative emotions.

"After that, they moved me from a regular ward to a private ward. The private wards were located on the roof of the hospital, and each ward had a heavy iron door at the entrance and exit. Inside were the most dangerous patients in the entire hospital."

"They erased my name, gave me a number 003, and told me that the director would personally treat me from now on."

"But that wasn't treatment at all, it was clearly torture! The so-called hospital director used weird organs to stitch up my body, and eerie resentment was constantly corrupting me, turning me into a monster that was neither human nor ghost!" Spider was filled with hatred. He had finished telling his story, but Lin Jue hadn't gotten the information he wanted. He began to ask questions: "Your past is indeed heartbreaking. I've also learned about the hospital director; he's simply a beast. But I still have a few questions. I saw on that medical record that you saw some kind of Patient Number 1. What's that about?"

“Number 1,” Spider muttered to himself, nodding. “I have indeed seen him. Because each ward is independent, all the numbered patients are prisoners, and we never see each other normally. I didn’t know about the other patients either.”

He began to recall: "But one day, the door was destroyed, and a guy in a hospital gown broke into my room. He killed the doctor guarding outside, claimed to be Number 1, and said he would lead us to escape the hospital."

"I followed him as he fled. He opened the doors of each ward, releasing monsters created by the hospital director, which instigated a riot. That day, the hospital became a bloody hell, littered with corpses."

After killing all the doctors and nurses guarding that floor, he returned to his own ward and brought out a dying man.

"That man looked exactly like him; they were like twins."

Here comes the point!

Lin Jue's spirits lifted; it was at that moment that Number 1 escaped with his predecessor.

He interrupted the spider, hurriedly asking, "Are they really twins? Did he say anything strange?"

The spider tilted its head, recalling the event as it murmured, "I think I mentioned it before."

“He said that was the main body, while he himself was a personality that was stripped away by the dean. And it wasn’t just him; all the split personalities of that patient were stripped away and turned into entities that looked exactly the same as him. They looked exactly the same, yet they were independent of each other.”

These words struck Lin Jue like a meteorite. All his previous speculations about No. 1 being a clone or doppelganger shattered. Combining this with his predecessor's medical records, he finally understood the origins of No. 1, No. 160230, and the Lord of the Eternal Night Tower.

The treatment process on the medical record kept repeating the success and failure of treatment in an endless cycle. In fact, the so-called treatment success meant that a personality was stripped away.

The first successful treatment on the medical record was on February 30, 2016, which corresponds to the time when Lin Jue saw the teenage version of himself at school. That was not a clone at all, but a personality that had been separated and materialized!
Afterwards, the original self developed new personalities, which were then stripped away again. Each time a new personality was developed, it corresponded to a failed treatment on the medical record, and each time it was stripped away, it corresponded to a successful treatment.

Based on the timeline, 160230 is the first personality that emerged from the previous incarnation, which is the little tiger that appeared when the father imprisoned him.

The little tiger was nurtured until it reached a certain level, at which point it was separated by the dean. However, its predecessor developed an even more ferocious personality, which was then separated again. If we extrapolate from this, the Lord of the Eternal Night Tower should be the personality that followed the little tiger, and Number 1 might be the last personality to be separated.

This also clearly explains why 160230 is not as strong as No. 1, because the aggressiveness of the personality generated by the predecessor increases in turn, which is also clearly recorded in the medical record!

(End of this chapter)