After seeing the crow's mark and recalling all his mories, Lin Yu now felt that all those movies and dramas he had watched hadn't been in vain.
Although he wasn't a genius himself, after encountering and impersonating so many geniuses, he could accomplish things that seed like they should only be possible for geniuses.
For example...
Coming up with a thod to "break the ga" within this dungeon chanism that featured "reincarnation cycles."
Even though he had received hints from gods and an unknown demigod, the thod he ultimately devised made Lin Yu want to praise himself a little.
"I'm actually pretty impressive."
Of course, the most crucial factor for successfully executing this plan was his superb acting skills—when Lin Yu fully imrsed himself in the role of "Jiang Lin," even the master of this asylum couldn't detect any flaws.
And at this very mont...
Lin Yu voluntarily ended his deception and stood before the master manipulator, possibly even the creator, of this dungeon...
This was precisely the outco Lin Yu had envisioned from the beginning.
Standing at the entrance of the intensive care unit, "Doctor Li" looked at Lin Yu's transford appearance and let out a long sigh.
"You're much more clever than I imagined. If I were in charge of the 'Psychological Society,' I would definitely put you on the key watchlist."
As he spoke, he snapped his fingers.
Two wheeled swivel office chairs ca rolling out from the end of the corridor, stopping beside the two of them.
"Have a seat... 'Director'."
He sat down in one of the chairs himself and made a "please" gesture toward Lin Yu.
"Doctor Li's" statent essentially confird all of Lin Yu's analysis.
He was indeed the first generation 'Freud.'
Therefore, Lin Yu also sat down without ceremony, crossing his hands on his lap.
"I'm glad you're willing to talk with ."
Freud smiled, shaking his head as he spoke: "My willingness to talk with you—wasn't that within your expectations?"
"Of course," Lin Yu said, crossing his legs and adjusting his sitting posture. "You're curious about how I did it... just like I'm curious about how you did it."
"Mind explaining the principles behind this intricate asylum?"
Freud nodded.
"As you said, and as you previously received hints... my core technique involves separating soul and body."
"This was also my thod back when I was a 'Player.'"
Lin Yu nodded: "Three intensive care rooms, corresponding exactly to our three players, right?... Each reincarnation cycle essentially fulfills certain conditions that allow you to activate your ability, transferring part of our souls, cognition, and mories into the hospital rooms."
"Extrely clever."
Freud marveled: "Such promising material... no wonder the gods value you."
Lin Yu looked at Freud, ignoring his praise.
"So, why?"
"What do you want from us... or rather, what exactly are you trying to accomplish by operating here?"
"I'm very curious about your motivation."
As Lin Yu spoke, Freud laughed.
"Because I died as a 'Player.'"
Although it was just a brief statent, it was enough for Lin Yu to understand Freud's purpose.
"So it's such a simple reason."
Freud had emphasized his identity as a 'Player' and his current state of being "dead" in a certain sense.
Only people with a strong desire to live would enter the ga and beco Players.
So...
Everything he was doing was obviously to escape this lingering state and "revive" properly.
"So that ans players' corpses and souls are very useful to you?"
Thinking this, Lin Yu suddenly frowned: "Oh, wait... that's not right... probably only souls are useful, and only parts of souls at that."
"Otherwise, you wouldn't have left the bodies of previous players here, having them act out roles."
"Even leaving part of their souls remaining in their bodies—that's also your thod of controlling them."
As Lin Yu spoke, Freud sighed.
"You're almost too perceptive—indeed, the setup here was too rushed. Once promising players like you recover their mories, they can even discern my needs."
"However... I'm still very curious about how you did it—I'm not referring to you disguising yourself as this girl."
"After all, I've been trapped in the Misty Islands for quite so ti, so I'm not surprised that you have identity-changing thods. What surprises is... how you ca up with the idea."
Lin Yu pointed at the intensive care unit door beside them: "The first ti I saw the soul you separated from 'Robin,' I was certain that you relied on this thod, and only this thod."
All the reincarnation cycles essentially involved him tampering with mories and souls.
The dical staff and other patients' bodies and souls had been completely assimilated by him, which even allowed things like resurrection from death—because they were essentially animated corpses, existence like marionettes.
But players who had just entered, even if their souls were temporarily stripped away bit by bit like peeling fruit during repeated "reincarnation cycles," still maintained autonomous consciousness.
"Your thods are too 'logical'—just like when you called those two chairs earlier."
"Those chairs were 'called' from the nearby office... not generated from nothing, nor appearing out of thin air."
Lin Yu sighed: "You have control over this place, but it's incomplete—I could confirm this through too many aspects."
"The god who could boldly send an incarnation directly inside, that mysterious self-proclaid demigod who gave hints."
"You can modify mories and cognition, but you can't see through the disguise on , lacking any direct thod to identify people through souls..."
"You mostly rely on those 'NPCs' perspectives to monitor our actions. Even during 'reincarnation cycles,' you can only read part of our mories rather than our souls, so I simply stopped using 【Closed Mind】, voluntarily let my mories be lost and suggested to myself not to think about my arrangents."
"This was the plan I devised targeting your weaknesses."
"Rember the octopus and ninja who were with at the beginning? Those two used complete invisibility to thoroughly explore this hospital along routes even I didn't know about."
"So, I found the 'wine cellar' outside your control..."
"Using the completely insane 'forr director' there, I accomplished the substitution of 'Robin'—the Robin there was just an illusion disguised by 'Hannah.'"
"Then, 'I' died there... If I could deceive you, of course I could deceive that crazy person too. Although she's dangerous, she's not clever enough."
"And then, when another 'reset' occurred—it happened exactly as I expected."
"The mont mories were lost, I activated 【Closed Mind】, and afterwards firmly believed I was Robin," Lin Yu took out an "Exit Permit" with "Jiang Lin" written on it, "this hospital that you don't completely control but operates according to your will would truly treat as Robin."
"Your thods all revolve around cognition and mory, so of course I could exploit that."
"As for Stiller... after all, he was trained by 'Truth Corporation.' Although he couldn't imrse himself like I did, he could still manage to empty his mind completely."
Lin Yu spread his hands: "And then... you couldn't help but appear personally."
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