Chapter 641 Truth 3

Chapter 641: The Truth 3

From the director's theater, from the words of Wu Hang, the information Su Bai had received went way beyond what he could wrap his head around.

That's when it really hit him why Su Xuan and Wu Hang had never wanted to tell him this "info."

Because these were never just ordinary information.

To Su Bai, these were his memories, their memories. Things that had really happened, no matter how many times they got forgotten or how many timelines they crossed, could never be fully wiped out—a brutal, crushing, and irreversible past.

...

Right then, even though he hadn't stepped through another door, the scene around him shifted again.

He was still standing in the Human-faced Forest, with Feng Ling and the others sprawled on the ground, totally wiped out, just like in the theater before. But this time, he wasn't a "participant"—he was more like a bystander, just watching it all go down.

Unlike the memories he had just experienced, Wu Hang did not appear.

Seconds ticked by. The "Su Bai" and Feng Ling on the ground never stirred again. The entire forest was so quiet it seemed everything had already ended, and the cold, wet ground felt like it had drained every last bit of warmth from their bodies.

Su Bai frowned and said quietly, "This isn't something I went through."

«Nope, it's not.» The director's voice suddenly drifted in, light as a breeze from the sky, «I was just curious: if the Ghost Witch hadn't shown up back then, and the other one hadn't either, how would Mr. Su's 'death' have played out? So I put in some effort to run a simulation.»

«What I didn't expect—» The director's voice had a hint of excitement and amusement in it, «the dead Mr. Su is the one who's really terrifying.»

The moment the director's voice dropped, the weirdness started.

Red cracks started showing up on the fallen "Su Bai"'s body. Those cracks gave off a blinding red light, spreading like a wave, turning the whole scene red. Su Bai's vision got slowly swallowed up by the light, going all blurry.

Although he couldn't see the scene clearly, he could clearly feel that something seriously bad was going down inside that red light.

The roar of vengeful spirits, wails, and screams all mixed together, making Su Bai's chest clench.

«It's the puzzle.» Wu Hang's voice suddenly came from somewhere, calm but with a heavy undertone. «If you had actually died at that moment, all the puzzle pieces would've gone haywire with you. Not just A Xi and Huo'er, but even those things that've been quietly hiding deep in the puzzle all along.»

«If you hadn't managed to keep them all alive, the total loss of control of the 'Evil Ghost Puzzle' would probably cause some serious fallout.»

Su Bai looked up. The whole forest was blazing, blue flames covering the sky and ground, swallowing the Human-faced Forest whole. Yet he stood right in the middle of the fire, totally unharmed, like he was watching a movie in a theater.

He couldn't stop the flames or change what was happening.

In the firelight, the familiar door appeared silently in front of him, just waiting for him to come closer.

Su Bai had a strong feeling that if he kept going, what he'd see next wouldn't be forgotten memories, but futures that hadn't been decided yet.

«You can choose to stop here.» Wu Hang's voice was as steady as ever, with a hint of concern you could barely pick up on.

The voice echoed through Su Bai's mind, giving him a sense of comfort.

But he did not respond immediately.

If it were the old Su Bai, the one who didn't know anything, he probably would've taken that advice and stopped right there.

But it was different now.

He already knew that his own existence, and what Wu Hang and Su Xuan wanted to do, were all tangled up with the Red Moon Association's experiments. Everything could only really settle down the day the Red Moon Association's experiments were totally destroyed.

And they, along with all the countless humans who'd be thrown into the nightmare world in the future, didn't really have many options left.

"I can stop here, but once I leave this place, I still have to keep going." Su Bai said in a low voice.

Right then, Su Bai's thoughts and the puzzles in his head were a total mess, but he chose to push down his unease and kept walking toward the door.

For past memories, with Su Bai's permission, the director could definitely peek into them, and even simulate "possible versions" based on them.

But for futures that hadn't happened yet, the only thing the director could do was simulate.

Behind the first door, the director simulated a future where humans took on the Red Moon Association alone—total wipeout.

Behind the second door, the director simulated a future where humans fought the Red Moon Association with Su Bai's help. Because Su Bai's strength at this moment was already completely different from his previous life, the battle lines were stretched much longer, and for a time, humans even had the hope of gaining the upper hand. Every face on the human camp's front lines was glowing with hope.

But soon, hope got swallowed up by reality.

More and more humans were pulled into the nightmare world. Those without any ability, once an Eerie Entity locked onto them, had almost no chance of getting away. They became food, fuel dumped into the blood sea.

Fresh blood flowing into the blood sea just kept making the eerie entities stronger. In the end, the human camp still ran out of steam and fell apart.

After the third door opened, things changed a bit. The "opposition" under the red moon joined the battlefield, attacking the Red Moon Association as well. However, none of the eerie entities among this opposition, except Su Bai and his Evil Ghost Puzzle, would lift a hand to save humans. Their goal was clear—just to destroy the Red Moon Association and end the experiment, couldn't care less about human lives.

In the final simulation of this scenario, the Red Moon Association was indeed destroyed by the opposition, and the experiment stopped. But the human camp was almost completely wiped out, leaving only a handful of strong survivors barely hanging on.

That future had no victory and no hope.

The world under the red moon had become a scorched land facing collapse, while the real world could barely continue due to the sharp decline in life.

«Is there really no other possibility…» The director's voice grew low, as if lost in thought.

«No, it's not that there is no other possibility.»

Another familiar voice reached Su Bai's ears.

It was Mr. Administrator.

"...No, shut up! I must be able to find another possibility!" The director's voice suddenly turned strange, losing its previous playful lightness, taking on a gritted-teeth tone, as if he had been suppressed for too long and finally exploded.

It seemed that this director, whom Su Bai saw as a seeker of excitement and novelty, had invited him to be the "lead" not just for a brilliant script, but because he truly, desperately wanted to explore a "good ending"?

Su Bai didn't think Director was driven by compassion, nor did he believe it was for the sake of humanity's future. Even Wu Hang and Su Xuan probably had little interest in humans other than him.

So why did he keep simulating and trying again and again, why did he desperately grasp at that elusive "hope"?