*
Josh and the others returned to the rental house.
She couldn’t help but recall the scene just now; she could have refuted those things.
The love from her school was beyond doubt. If she ever doubted it, she should slap herself in the face to apologize for the training she received from her school.
But in that situation, her thoughts seed to be controlled by the other party, and she felt a sense of depression and anxiety following their words.
This monster has sothing.
By the ti they exited the ga, it was already late at night outside.
In this rundown world, it was impossible to order any takeout, so the three of them randomly found a little eatery and ate sothing before heading back to the rental house.
Josh looked at Yuze curiously, "What flaw did that monster catch on you?"
Yuze glanced at her, "What about you?"
Josh clicked her tongue, "I asked first."
Yuze ignored her and lay back in his ga pod.
Josh’s curiosity got the better of her, and she leaned over, confessing, "Mine was about my school rejecting , what about yours?"
Yuze’s mouth twitched, "I don’t want to say."
Seeing he really didn’t want to talk about it, Josh backed off a bit, "I could watch the playback."
Yuze’s voice ca faintly from behind, "Don’t worry, after entering the monster’s ntal world, the broadcast won’t show that part to protect players’ privacy."
Josh was a little disappointed; she really wanted to see what past Yuze couldn’t overco.
Yuze ignored her, turned over, and went to sleep.
Josh was about to lie down when she suddenly saw that the ga pod next to her was empty.
She looked around and saw Rob sitting on the balcony outside, swinging his legs.
Poor Little ng, just the sight of his back made him look wilted.
Josh sighed softly, resignedly walked over to sit with him, and patted his shoulder, "Still not okay?"
Rob hugged the balcony pillar gloomily, looking at the dark, empty alley below, "I’m okay."
Josh sat beside him, looked at the dark, hollow alley below, and suddenly said, "Doesn’t the alley below look like a monster lurking in the abyss?"
Rob stared at the pitch-black alley for a while, reluctantly drew his long legs back.
Josh chuckled, lowered her head to look at the alley below, her eyes pitch-black, "My master said, when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Rob shuddered, "Stop it, that’s creepy."
She swung her legs, "Right, I also thought it was creepy. Then my master said, when you feel scared, just spit at it, and it’ll run away."
"Ah..." Rob was dumbfounded.
Josh said seriously, "It can ward off evil."
Rob blinked in speechless astonishnt, "What if it doesn’t run away?"
Josh continued, "Then ask it what rank it is, is it even worthy of looking up to ?"
Rob was stunned, "... Weren’t you beaten?"
Josh smirked, with a tinge of pride in her eyes, "In the whole school, besides my master, my combat power is the highest. How do you think I achieved that?"
Rob was baffled.
Josh: "I learned to fight after being beaten a lot."
Rob realized and couldn’t help but chuckle, "Your master’s teaching thod is really unique."
Josh also laughed, rembering the carefree days at her school, it was truly good.
Besides her master, she fought the best, and her senior brothers and sisters would always call her to hold ground.
After each fight, her master would punish the senior brothers and sisters by making them reflect for a few months, blaming them for corrupting their little junior sister.
She always rembered their advice, visiting them with candied haws, baked chicken, board gas, and storybooks.
Those were really happy tis.
Josh shrugged, "It’s just unexpected to be caught by this monster on such a weak spot, even though I trust my master and my seniors so much."
Rob drooped his shoulders, "It digs out the most fragile things in our hearts."
"No, that wasn’t the deepest thing in my heart, it was the monster forcing it on ." Josh said firmly.
Rob was taken aback, "Maybe you haven’t noticed? This monster can discern our inner thoughts, digging out lingering thoughts we might have forgotten, amplifying these emotions for us to notice. Actually, when we have these thoughts, a weakness already exists."
Josh looked at him and suddenly said, "I know how the monster defeated us."
Rob was sowhat dejected, "Yeah, it’s by grasping human weaknesses to crumble our psychological defenses."
Josh shook her head, "No."
Rob looked up at her in confusion, "No?"
Josh’s deep eyes were full of determination, "No, we weren’t defeated because of psychological weaknesses; we lost because our will wasn’t firm.
At first, the monster tried to use my family to dig up my childhood experiences to defeat , then found it didn’t work, so it tried to use my school to defeat .
Later, I was very sure that the little bit of insecurity and inferiority in my heart didn’t belong to . It was sothing it forcibly instilled using so skill."
Rob looked at her puzzled, "How do you know those feelings don’t belong to you?"
Josh: "The school is my faith."
Rob was overwheld by the look in her eyes, and after a while, he finally squeezed out, "Your school must have treated you well for you to choose them so resolutely."
Josh’s expression softened, "Yes."
Rob remained silent.
Josh suddenly patted him on the back of the head, "But that’s not the point, you weren’t listening closely to what I just said."
"I was listening!" Rob scratched his head.
Josh explained, "Haven’t you noticed? The monster kept trial and error on . It dug into my childhood mories, thinking childhood and family were my weaknesses. When it didn’t work, it dug into my school, and finding that didn’t work either, it forcibly injected so negative emotions into my mind."
"If they were really able to discern our inner shortcomings so keenly, they wouldn’t need to keep probing . So many probes only indicate one problem, they also don’t know what our weaknesses are, they are just probing, trying to influence our minds by setting the atmosphere and making us mistakenly recognize and misinterpret our feelings."
Rob was sowhat confused, "You an the monster defeats us by fabricating weaknesses in us that never actually existed?"
Josh thought for a mont, "Not entirely correct. Maybe so people actually have weaknesses in their hearts, so it can seize them. For those without weaknesses, it fabricates one."
Rob suddenly realized, "I think I understand now."
He looked at Josh enviously, "It’s great that you can be so sure of your feelings for them."
Josh nodded, "Of course."
Rob was a bit curious, "Why do you call them Master and Senior Sister or the like? These titles sound a bit old-fashioned, is it from... your place?"
He didn’t dare say Garbage Star, fearing it might offend.
User Comments
0 comments from readers