Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 359: Diary of a Tokyo Madman
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In the void, Jiuzhou Cheng opened his eyes.

The surrounding scene was as abstract and dreamy as Van Gogh's starry sky, and Kyushu Makoto was floating in the air.

This bizarre scene made Jiuzhou Cheng immediately realize that he should be in a place similar to the "spiritual world".

Recalling those extremely horrifying memories, Jiuzhou Cheng trembled all over and just hoped that he had just had a nightmare.

"What happened to me?" Jiuzhou Cheng slapped his forehead in confusion and groaned in pain: "Who am I and what is going on?"

"This is the soul space." Suddenly, a young man's cold voice came from behind him: "To be precise, it is the soul space of [Jiuzhou Cheng]'s body."

"Who?!" Jiuzhou Cheng turned his head in surprise, only to find a young man floating behind him.

The boy made him feel very familiar, as he was the one who pretended to be his master in that strange dream before.

However, when Jiuzhou Cheng looked closely at the boy's appearance, he was shocked.

The boy looked exactly like Jiuzhou Makoto himself, only a little younger and immature, and had a dejected face as if he was thinking about whether he would die tomorrow at any moment.

Just like before he traveled through time, Kyushu Makoto was the poor guy who lived in despair every day and considered suicide at any time.

"Hello, nice to meet you. To be more precise, this is our first formal meeting since your personality was born." The boy's tone was filled with sadness, and his voice was drawn out:
"Although I really don't want you to know the truth, I can't hide it anymore."

Under Jiuzhouce's confused gaze, the boy cleared his throat and said hesitantly:

"In fact, I am Jiuzhou Cheng's original consciousness, and you are my second fantasy personality that I created because I admired that great hero too much."

"What are you talking about? What personality or no personality. I..." Jiuzhou Cheng showed an incomprehensible expression, trying to deny these nonsense, but he felt a sharp pain in his head, and some memory was about to come out:
"Wait a minute. I am Chen Jiuzhou. No, Jiuzhou Cheng. No, uh, Chen Jiuzhou who traveled through time and space and became Jiuzhou Cheng. Wait a minute."

"In order to make you play the role of the great hero more perfectly, I used the authority of the master personality to modify your cognition." The boy sighed in frustration. He couldn't bear it any longer and continued to explain:

"But now things have come to this point. Even if I don't tell you, you will recover your memory soon, and then you will definitely hate me even more. So I will return your true memory to you now, and you will remember my apologies. I hope you will hate me a little less."

The next moment, memories and images like thousands of needles flooded into Jiuzhou Cheng's mind.

The amount of memory was not large, but it was extremely impactful, causing him unbearable pain. He could only hold his head and dry heave, his body twisting violently.

After a moment, Jiuzhou Cheng half-knelt in the air, holding his head and muttering in a daze:

"I am Chen Jiuzhou. After I was killed in Akihabara, I was in a morgue. I was eaten by me and then I became me."

"No! No! No!"

"My name is Kyushu Makoto. I was taken to a place when I wanted to commit suicide and then I woke up in a morgue. I was very hungry. I ate "me". I became "me"."

“Ahhhhhh! Aaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Jiuzhou Cheng let out an extremely sharp roar, as if he wanted to vomit out his own soul.

"What's going on? What ...!"

"What the hell is this! What are these things!! Why are they appearing in my mind!! What are these things!!!"

Jiuzhou Cheng roared inexplicably and insanely.

"During the May Day holiday last year, I chose to commit suicide." The young man lowered his head and said:
"Since I was born, I don't think I've had a good day. My parents are scumbags, and people around me look down on me. Besides, suicide is not a rare thing in Wano Country anyway. Rather than fighting to death for an illusory future, it is an easier choice for me to live in despair and die."

"So I chose a quiet place and planned to die alone so I wouldn't cause any trouble to anyone but just before I died, someone found me."

"They claimed to be the KJ organization and showed me a contract."

"Your father Jiuzhou Moefan and mother Jiuzhou Mihua have sold you to us to pay off a debt. We own all your property, including your labor and body. This is what they say in the contract."

"At that time, I finally understood why the gangsters didn't force me to pay off the debt after my parents disappeared. Although they said that it was to comply with the law that "a son should not pay his father's debt", in reality, it was because their debt had already been paid off with their son."

"I didn't dare to refuse the KJ organization. It's better to say that I didn't have the power to refuse. They kidnapped me without saying a word. I couldn't even commit suicide."

"Later, I was blindfolded and tied up in a laboratory. I vaguely heard the sound of waves. I used to work at the docks in the port area, and I recognized the sound of waves there, so it should be in Tokyo Bay."

"Then. Then, they started to use me for experiments. They were all very horrible human experiments. I couldn't resist. I was in pain and scared. Every day I felt like my body was going to be torn into pieces. I felt like I would die in the most miserable way. Every day I regretted that I should have committed suicide more decisively."

"During this period, I heard that they were conducting [Soul Science Experiments]. They believed that there was a substance called [Soul] in the human body, and that as long as this substance was thoroughly mastered, it would be able to exert unprecedented power. According to them, it was a terrifying power that was on par with nuclear energy, or even stronger than it."

"Not only that, they have achieved many remarkable results in this experiment, and are even preparing to carry out a big plan, a huge conspiracy they call the [Gensokyo Project]."

"And one of their projects is a human weapon experiment called [Zombie Weapons], which is also the experiment they did on me."

"When a person dies, the soul leaves the body. However, through special scientific rituals, the soul of the dead can be bound to the body, making it a being that can neither die nor live. In other words, it is a living corpse."

"It is almost impossible for zombies to die again, and they can quickly recover from serious injuries. And because the body's protection mechanism is activated, zombies can burst out all the strength in their bodies. For example, a normal person's body only allows muscles to exert 20%-30% of their explosive power, otherwise the muscles will break, but zombies can exert their strength to 100%."

"Not only that, they can also strengthen and modify zombies at will. Whether it's installing combat prosthetic limbs or taking strengthening drugs, zombies can easily withstand even the degree that is enough to kill normal people."

"But the success rate of creating zombies is very low. It is said that they experimented for nearly ten years and consumed tens of thousands of talents, but in the end only six succeeded, and one of them was me."

"But they didn't know at first that I had survived the experiment. They thought I was dead, too, so they threw me into the morgue and planned to get rid of me."

"Then... when I woke up in the morgue, my first reaction was despair and sadness, and my second reaction was hunger."

"I don't know why, but I'm so hungry. I saw other people in the morgue. They were probably going to be used for experiments, or they were consumables for failed experiments. I'm so hungry."

"I saw little blue ghosts floating in their brains. These little ghosts were like tempting fruits. I was so hungry. Really hungry."

The boy showed a guilty and sad look, and after hearing this, Jiuzhou Cheng also recalled that memory. He subconsciously covered his mouth and wanted to vomit.

"So I started eating, peeled off the skin, and ate the red fruit." The young man covered his face with his hands, wanting to cry but unable to, but drooling uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth, which made his tone even more miserable, and his throat felt like it was being cut by a thousand knives:

"Why? They are all human beings, and so am I. I am so scared and disgusted. But I can't stop. It's like an animal's instinct to eat. I'm so scared, I must have turned into a monster." "And every time I eat a fruit, I will gain new memories. Those are their memories before they died."

"The KJ organization said that the human soul resides in the brain, so even if the heart is destroyed, the person can still survive for a while, but brain death is an immediate death without any chance of recovery."

"So to be precise, I am actually longing for their souls because my soul has long been tattered."

"While I was eating, I saw their memories. Most of the people who could come here were miserable, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen to the point of being used by the KJ organization for such horrific experiments."

"I kept eating and eating and couldn't stop because I was so curious."

"I wonder how other people in this world are doing, and whether they are all having the same miserable life as I am."

"But the more I ate, the more confused and angry I became. The more I felt that the world was unfair."

"Yes, everyone who comes here has a miserable life. There are disgraced idols, penniless gamblers, bankrupt businessmen, and homeless people who have nothing. There are also many ordinary people who are unlucky and have reached a dead end because of many small tragedies in succession."

"But no matter what, no matter what their final outcome was, they had some happy moments in their lives and had people worth caring about."

"They once loved their family and friends, had a wonderful youth in school, had a crush on a perfect girl, ate their favorite food, visited places they wanted to travel, found a job they loved, and worked hard for their dreams. Even if they ended up like this, they all had happy and beautiful memories."

"What the hell? In the end, I am the only unlucky person left. I have no good memories since I was born, and all I have are pain?!" The boy's tone became broken:
"The more I eat, the angrier I get, so I want to keep eating. I don't know if it's because I want to vent my anger on these poor corpses, or if I want to continue to confirm whether the world is biased towards me."

"It wasn't until I ate the soul of a Yanhuang man named 'Chen Jiuzhou' that I finally stopped. I was shocked by him." The young man took a deep breath and said tremblingly:

"He was a tourist from a foreign country, yet he dared to stop a gunman in Akihabara with his bare hands. Unfortunately, he was killed by the police as a suspect."

"A great hero like Chen Jiuzhou is actually a poor fellow like me, abandoned by his parents and unloved since childhood."

"But he is different from me. He has far higher ideals than I do."

"Mingming experienced a great tragedy when he was young, but he only received a little light, and decided to love the world without hesitation and expand this light infinitely."

"Even before he died, his biggest concern in his memory was whether he had saved everyone, and secondly, he hated the corrupt police officer who killed him."

"After digesting his memories, I also began to think about my life again. When I was a child, there was a neighbor sister who often brought me lunch boxes. My math teacher in middle school also cared about me and called the police for me to investigate my family situation. Xiujin High School gave me a full scholarship because they sympathized with me. Manager Saito also pitied me and gave me such a good job."

"In fact, there were people who helped me in my life, and my life was not all bad. But I forgot and ignored them all, was completely ungrateful, and even actively pushed away these kindnesses."

"I only remember how this world made me miserable, so I blamed this world and never cared about those who were truly kind to me. This is the difference between the lowly me and the [great hero] Chen Jiuzhou."

"So even if I, a lowly person like me, was given Chen Jiuzhou's life and had a master like him, I would definitely be ungrateful and become a messed up person!"

"But Chen Jiuzhou is different. As long as there is someone willing to give him a spark, he will stubbornly burn the flame all over the world. If you want him to die completely, I'm afraid the only way is to extinguish his fire completely, bury the ashes with water, and there will be no possibility of it rekindling."

"So after eating Chen Jiuzhou's memories, I felt extremely guilty, and realized how despicable I was for hating the whole world."

"But a lowly person like me then had a hateful and greedy thought."

"I want to be Chen Jiuzhou. I want to live like him and live a life like him. In fact, even though I am such an incompetent person, I have also dreamed of becoming a great hero. I also want to be a hero who saves everyone and is praised by everyone."

"But I can't do it. A lowly villain like me and a hero like Chen Jiuzhou are opposites, like light and shadow, like a rat in the sewer looking up at a person on the street. They are two completely different species. Even if I master his memory, I can't become him. I can't even put myself in his shoes."

"Then, in extreme mental pain and desire, my consciousness split. When I came to my senses, I had already developed a second personality, which was you." The boy pointed at Jiuzhou Cheng and said:
"You think you are Chen Jiuzhou, or Chen Jiuzhou who traveled through time and space into Jiuzhou Cheng's body. In short, you don't think you are Jiuzhou Cheng himself, so you can play Chen Jiuzhou without any psychological burden."

"After splitting off my second personality, I discovered that as the main personality, I have priority in controlling this body, which means that I have more control over this body than you do. I can modify your memory, pull you into a dream, and forcibly replace you without you showing any strong resistance. Of course, I can also make you unaware of my existence, and you will always be observed by me."

"Not long after, the KJ organization came and found that I had turned the morgue upside down. They immediately arrested me and took me for examination."

"They found that I had been successfully transformed into a zombie and gained a rare special ability, the Ghoul. As long as I eat someone's soul, I can obtain their memory."

"But there is a problem with this. My soul will become turbid, just like mixing Sprite, orange juice, Monster, sake and countless other drinks into a bottle of Coke. It can no longer be called Coke."

"Actually, this doesn't have much impact on me, because no matter how many memories I devour, I still know clearly who I am."

"But for the KJ organization, this is a major crisis."

"They will install a [Wedge] on each zombie weapon. This is a scientific device that can take root deep in the soul and completely control the body."

"You just experienced it. Even though you couldn't control your body, it made so many strange movements on its own. This is the purpose of the wedge. Because zombie weapons are a valuable combat resource, the KJ organization cannot allow them to have any thoughts of resistance."

"However, because my soul has been contaminated by countless other souls, it will take a long time for [Prologue] to completely analyze my soul. It will take at least half a year to a year longer than usual."

"If I use my Ghoul ability to devour souls during this period, my soul will be polluted again, and the Prologue will take even longer to analyze. It's simply a bottomless pit."

"The KJ organization originally planned to imprison me until the [Wedge] took effect, but they were also worried that I would resist and escape during this period. Because when they were trying to capture me, I accidentally ate the souls of two researchers, and I already knew the structure and geographical location of this laboratory, and even some of the KJ organization's plans."

"If I insist on resisting, no matter how well they imprison me, I will have the chance to cause a big commotion, and even expose the KJ organization and these inhumane experiments to the public."

"As a second best option, I can also find an opportunity to devour the souls of one or two people while I am imprisoned, so that [Wedge] will have to spend time analyzing my soul again."

"As the sixth successful zombie weapon in the past ten years, the KJ organization is reluctant to kill me. Otherwise, a lot of their efforts will be wasted, and their subsequent plans will also be affected."

"So for the KJ organization, they created a monster that they couldn't control but they were reluctant to kill."

"So." Jiuzhou Cheng swallowed and tried to resist the urge to vomit before asking, "If I'm not mistaken, the [Prologue] is now complete, right?"

"Yes, [Prologue] has completely mastered this body now." The boy nodded: "To be precise, it was completed on Christmas Eve, so they arrested us in the early morning of that day."

"So, what happened during this period?" Jiuzhou Cheng took a deep breath and asked, "Didn't you say they couldn't control you?"

"I'm sorry." Hearing this, the boy scratched his nose and became ashamed: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

"Don't just apologize, what happened?" Jiuzhou Cheng was anxious. He didn't even care about whether he was a [second personality] or not, he had to figure out what happened.

"I'm sorry, you will be angry after hearing this." The boy lowered his head.

"Because... they made a deal with me. If I obey them, they will let me have a beautiful dream of becoming a great hero."

(End of this chapter)