I have a life simulator.

Naoe Jinnosuke's tone was somewhat amused:

"Speaking of which, I'd also like to know how you offended the Kitagawa family?"

Beichuan?

Ayanokoji Atsuomi's pupils contracted slightly as he suddenly remembered a fact he had almost forgotten.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

He suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, laughing until tears streamed down his face.

None of the children in the white room have surnames; none are fake or temporary.

Because Atsuomi Ayanokoji disliked these surnames.

He hated those who could get ahead of him at the starting line just because of their surname.

Amasawa, Sakayanagi, Kanzaki...

These surnames seem to mock Atsuomi Ayanokoji's efforts over the years.

He suddenly remembered the afternoon a few years ago when he casually made the decision to inject that child with the medication.

Atsuomi Ayanokoji is the absolute ruler in the white room.

So much so that he forgot.

The power of surnames among children who seem powerless to resist.

Ayanokoji Atsuomi was no longer able to think about who had revealed the truth; he just found it absurd, so absurd that he couldn't help but laugh.

Liang was a child who could be molded by him at will.

But Kitagawa Ryo is not.

This is the cruelest reality for Ayanokoji Atsuomi.

Chapter 114: The Recorder and the Madman

"Today is September 13th, recorded by Suzuki Kabuki."

A man's voice came from the videotape that was playing. Then, in the white room, the figure of a middle-aged man appeared. He slightly adjusted the angle of the camera and pointed it at himself.

If Kitagawa Ryo himself were there, he would definitely recognize that this man is Ayanokouji Atsuomi's assistant. Although Ayanokouji Atsuomi is indeed in charge of the White Room, he handles most of the detailed and complicated work, including curriculum development and the advancement of the special experiments for the fourth and fifth term students.

Of course, he is also a psychology expert who can tell stories.

Due to his overly radical ideas and fervent pursuit of extreme psychological experiments, Suzukage had long been excluded from the mainstream academic circle. However, the White Room needed just such talent when it was first established. In addition, after learning the inside story, Sakayanagi Shigemori deliberately distanced himself from the White Room project, which is why he was able to serve as Atsuomi Ayanokoji's assistant in the future.

Just as Ayanokouji Atsuomi harbors a secret, Suzukage also has her own hidden habits beneath her respectful facade during the day.

As a researcher in psychology and education, the stage of the white room undoubtedly gave him room to stretch his legs. Experiments that he couldn't talk about or carry out in the past could all be realized here. Every piece of experimental data can be said to be a rare and precious one. Therefore, Lingxuan could not suppress the excitement in his heart shortly after entering the white room.

He decided to secretly print out a chart of the daily experimental data from the white room and record it visually every few months, storing his research reflections on the time in his phone.

“I have been in the White Room for a few months now. After observing for this period of time, I have found that Ms. Ayanokouji does not actually care much about the care of the children in the White Room, but she is also very kind to me.”

“I think this is a great opportunity, after all, it is probably impossible to find a second facility like this.”

"The human species is really interesting, and I feel that almost every day since I came here."

"Little Albert's experiment has already proven that fear can be artificially cultivated after birth. Based on this, I started trying to stimulate their learning."

“Children are naturally curious about the world. They will automatically learn things that have not been taught, but this is an unconscious and slow process, so I try to start to speed it up artificially.”

At this point, Ling Xuan paused, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water on the table, took a couple of sips, and continued:

“From infancy, I began to imitate the Albert experiment of that time and implanted mental conditioning in those test subjects, because in my view, mental maturity is the initial direction of my cultivation.”

"If ordinary people want to become geniuses, they must put in more effort. If they can be accelerated to mature in the early stages of others' enlightenment, this precious time will become the key to narrowing the gap between them."

"So, before they understood, I used various punishments to force the test subjects to mature prematurely, to make them aware of fear, physical pain, mental pain, and any method that was effective was used. I made them realize that if they couldn't learn or answer questions correctly, they would be punished, and that was the logic."

"Of course, so far, many of the fourth generation students have fallen behind under this kind of education, but only that child—Ayanokouji Kiyotaka—is different. He has shown a remarkable ability to learn, adapt, and apply knowledge, and his abilities are improving every day, with no end in sight."

After saying Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's name, Suzukane's expression changed; he rested his chin on his hand, looking thoughtful.

"Although the other researchers at the White House believe that they can cultivate someone of the same level as Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, in my opinion, this child is a complete accident, a more special existence produced in this distorted environment."

"He is more like a sudden mutation, an unrepeatable result."

"If the White Room project is to be realized, we need to find another possible way out."

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"Today is July 23rd, recorded by Suzuki Kabuki."

The next video clip started playing automatically after the previous one ended. It seemed like almost a year had passed, but Lingxuan's tone showed a clear change, revealing a hint of excitement.

Sure enough, Lingxuan looked much more radiant this time than she did in the previous segment.

"We made a groundbreaking discovery today."

He swallowed hard, his face pressing close to the camera with slight excitement.

"I found a breakthrough in the fifth cohort that could change our current predicament."

"That child's name is Liang, no, actually what his name is doesn't matter..."

Lingxuan's sentences were somewhat disorganized as he began to ramble on about what had happened that day.

"The rhesus monkey experiment was a psychology experiment that I was particularly fond of when I majored in psychology."

"However, in my opinion, the biggest problem with the rhesus monkey experiment is that it only used rhesus monkeys with genes similar to those of humans, and failed to actually use human babies for the experiment."

"That's true. Back then, Albert's experiment met with opposition from a group of people, but scientific progress requires a pioneering and innovative spirit!"

"Just like the doctors of the Middle Ages, they had no choice but to steal corpses to conduct human research in order to advance the field of anatomy."

Lingxuan tilted her head back, feeling at that moment as if her actions were perfectly justified.

"The rhesus monkey experiments have never been some kind of heartwarming psychological experiment offering parenting advice..."

"A confined environment, a newborn baby, a mother in cotton clothes—I have a feeling that if this perfect experiment could be done… no, this experiment would be absolutely perfect."

As Lingxuan spoke, her face flushed unusually, and she waved her hand with great rapture:

"Actually, during all these years in the White Room, we haven't found the answer to the question of whether artificial geniuses can be created. But one thing has been proven: every child has a theoretical upper limit."

“My initial expectation was to use fear to suppress their potential, but as time went on, the fear actually disappeared.”

"It's not a metaphorical disappearance, but a real disappearance. Along with the fear, other emotions also disappeared. The fourth generation of children rarely show a willingness to communicate with others, especially Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. I can't even see any obvious fluctuations in his emotions."

"Along with numbness comes their ceiling. As the difficulty of the tasks continues to increase, the elimination rate among the fourth batch of students increases almost every year."

As her emotions gradually calmed down, Lingxuan stroked her chin and said:

"So after discovering that child in the fifth generation, I was reminded of the rhesus monkey experiments."

"Fortunately, Ayanokouji-sensei is someone who focuses on results rather than the process. In fact, that's exactly what attracted me to join the project. In a sense, he truly gave me complete freedom."

"So I started the white room version of the 'rhesus monkey experiment'."

Lingxuan gave a pale smile to the camera:

"And I believe it will succeed."

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"Today is October 23rd, recorded by Suzuki Kabuki."

Unlike the previous two videos, which were separated by a full year, the third video appears to have been separated from the second video by only three months.

As always, Lingxuan adjusted the camera and began to narrate softly:

"This should be the third time I've recorded video."

"Before recording, I also took a look at the footage from the previous two recordings. Although everything I said could be found in the documents and lab reports, I made a record of it back then because I wanted to keep reminding myself not to forget the passion I had back then."

"Thinking about it, I've been here for almost ten years."

"Because I might get tired of it later, I want to show my future self the passion I have now, just like how Ayanokoji-sensei carved that quote about 'behaviorism' on his desk."

At this point, Lingxuan revealed a confident expression:

"The experiment with the fifth generation is very successful so far. It was originally thought that the enrichment of emotions would lead to a decrease in the efficiency of ability improvement, but Ryo's existence has been constantly stimulating the fifth generation's upper limit. They are like children who strive to get their mother's praise, and Ryo does indeed have rare potential."

“Using Liang as a model, we found individuals similar to him in the fourth cohort.”

"The opportunity to observe and capture was triggered by a smile."

Lingxuan couldn't help but smile slightly as she said this, but quickly regained her usual seriousness:

"Aside from the fifth generation, among the fourth generation and even in the entire White Room, Xue was the first child who would smile on her own initiative."

"The essence of a smile is an expression made by the facial muscles, the orbicularis oculi muscle around the eye socket, and the corrugator supercilii muscle around the eyebrows, but it has been given a series of connotations. No, it is not given, humans are indeed creatures that can be healed by smiles."

"Through that smile, I saw the same affability and potential in her as in Liang."

"However, compared to Liang, Xue is still too inexperienced, even the smile that made me notice her, she has never shown it again on her own initiative."

"So I decided to place her next to Liang. Children of this age have a strong sense of imitation. She will learn communication, comfort, and encouragement skills from Liang, and of course, a genuine smile."

"These are all abilities to love someone. In order to speed up the process, we decided to make Xue fall in love with Liang. Through constant visual and auditory disturbances and stimulations, as well as psychological and behavioral suggestions, we artificially created this feeling."

“The experiment was a success.”

"She 'liked' Liang, and she became a 'lovable' girl who 'could love'."

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"Today is May 30th, the recorder is Suzuki Kabuki."

Suzuki Kaji looked quite somber that day, and even started sighing in front of the camera.

Forcing himself to pull himself together, the man slowly began to recount what had happened in the past few days:

"Ryo left the white room; he was taken away by the Sakayanagi family."

"Although it's a pity I couldn't witness the complete death of this test subject who had given me so much joy, he was actually a ruined child."

“A six- or seven-year-old child cannot survive in an environment where he is physically injected with large amounts of addictive drugs and psychologically brainwashed. He will die if he stays here, but he will die even faster if he leaves.”

Even when death was mentioned, Suzuki Kagetsugu's eyes and facial expression remained completely unchanged, as if he were narrating something insignificant.

"However, before the quilt was taken away, Ayanokouji-sensei asked me to do a DNA matching test."

"It is said that the sole heir of the Kitagawa family may be staying in the White Room, so I searched for matches among the fourth and fifth generation based on their ages."

"We did find it. What surprised me was that the child was Liang."

"However, I didn't have any other emotions at the time; I even felt a little bit of subtle pleasure."

"Just thinking about how I conducted these experiments on the only son of a chaebol family over the past few years..."

Lingxuan licked her tongue, pursed her lips, and finally couldn't help but smile:

"I know the Kitagawa family. They're a huge conglomerate that could crush me with a flick of its finger, but what does it matter?"

"The White Room has rejected too many children over the years. They were either sent back to their parents or sent to welfare homes. But in either case, these rejected children are ruined and have broken down mentally. Sure enough, Ms. Ayanokouji easily concealed this matter."

“There’s nothing more fulfilling and interesting than this. After Liang leaves, there will be other test subjects. I’ve long been prepared to dedicate my life to this crazy plan.”

Lingxuan Forging snapped his fingers:

"By the way, I also heard that the Sakayanagi family and the Kitagawa family have a marriage agreement across generations. If it weren't for the fact that telling the truth might affect the White Room, I would really like to see if the Sakayanagi family would accept such a child who is riddled with holes."

At this point, he suddenly whistled and reached for his phone to stop recording.

"To be honest, I really wanted to tell all this to the child I created on his deathbed..."

"He could have had a completely different life—"

"I destroyed it."

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"So, these are some of the video materials that were searched from the home of Suzukage Kager, the assistant in the white room."

"After the white room was exposed, Ayanokouji Atsuomi quickly sealed off and destroyed all past experimental reports and data, but he probably didn't expect that his assistant would have such a habit."

"Of course, our police are also conducting a thorough search for more evidence."

Sakayanagi Arisu just stared blankly as her father negotiated with the police.

A few brief clips barely sketched out Kitagawa Ryo's experiences in the white room over the past few years.