Day of Imprisonment

Xu Lin was very clear that she was just a pawn.

Like a component in a huge and complex machine.

What a pawn has to do is to do what it should do; she doesn't know about other things, nor is it necessary for her to know.

“Luo Xi, I am your hidden piece. Thirty cycle days ago, you assigned me a task to stay here and pretend to be your mother, and you gave me some pills to make sure you take your medicine on time every day.”

Xu Lin's eyes held a kind of worship and awe.

As if the person standing in front of her was the supreme deity in her heart.

Luo Xi could see this from her eyes.

But Luo Xi might not believe it.

She herself had said that she was an actress.

However, Luo Xi didn't kill her. Instead, he turned his head and walked to the side of the man who still had a breath left. First, he searched the body, taking off everything on the other person, including his clothes. The card ring on the other person's finger was also rudely torn off.

Even the hair and teeth were checked by Luo Xi.

The man trembled, staring at Luo Xi, his eyes filled with fear, but even more so with anger.

“Who are you?” Luo Xi asked.

The other party had been stripped naked, the card ring taken away, and there couldn't be any cards on his body. That is to say, if he died, he would lose his memory and become an amnesiac.

From a certain perspective, it is equivalent to death.

Facing the question, the man showed a hideous smile, even though blood was constantly pouring out of his mouth, his expression seemed to indicate that he was the victor, and in a condescending manner, he despised Luo Xi in front of him.

“Luo Xi, you are destined not to succeed. Numbers are the only eternal existence.”

This guy seemed to be shouting a slogan, but the previous injuries were too severe, and he didn't shout clearly or say everything before he widened his eyes and died.

Judging from some of his previous performances, this person seemed to be a deeply brainwashed cult member, the kind whose brain circuits were completely different from normal people and who liked to go to extremes.

“Numbers? Eternal existence?”

Luo Xi was thinking about the meaning of it.

As for the other person, because he didn't grasp the strength, he directly twisted the other person's neck.

This is the problem.

Because before killing the other party, he didn't strip off the card ring on his body. In this way, after the Memory Retriever dies, if there is still a memory card, then his other cards will also be sealed with his death, and other people will not be able to obtain them. Those things will be inherited along with the next cycle day of the Confinement Day, and what is inherited together is the memory of this cycle.

In other words, today's matter cannot be kept secret.

Luo Xi walked back to Xu Lin again.

The other party was still kneeling respectfully on the ground, but she was no longer trembling, and her emotions seemed to have stabilized a lot.

“Numbers, eternal existence, what kind of organization is that?” Luo Xi guessed that Xu Lin knew, after all, the other party seemed to be colluding with those people, and even at first glance, they were a group.

Luo Xi didn't say anything.

He was thinking.

He understood the Eternal Society's philosophy.

Because if you look at it from another perspective, the Confinement Day can indeed achieve a similar 'eternal life' effect.

A constantly repeating day, as long as this cycle is 'infinite', then the people existing in this infinitely repeating day will naturally achieve a certain meaning of 'eternal life'.

It's just that this kind of eternal life is obviously controlled by some kind of power.

Even the so-called 'eternal life' is not true immortality. Even if it is, there is a price to pay: every cycle requires a [Memory] card.

Of course, in the eyes of those low-level lunatics, perhaps 'amnesiacs' are also eternal beings.

Luo Xi believed that this must be the case, because he belonged to a high-level lunatic, and it should be easy to understand the thoughts of those low-level people.

What's more, Xu Lin said that he used to be a member of that group, which was very interesting. So, did he agree with this philosophy in the past, or did he also regard the Digital Society as some kind of pawn?

“According to what you said, I assigned you the task at that time, so besides pretending to be my mother, are there any other tasks?” Luo Xi asked.

But Xu Lin shook her head.

“I have said everything I can say. I can't tell you anything else.”

“Why?”

“Because this is also part of the task.”

“That is to say, it must be kept secret, and even the object of secrecy includes me?”

“Yes!”

Luo Xi didn't continue to ask. He sat on the sofa, seemingly lost in some kind of thought.

After a while, he shook his head.

“No, as expected, maintaining basic sanity in the Cleaner state is already the limit. It is still too arrogant and unrealistic to think in this state.”

Luo Xi looked at the watch on the wall.

He calculated the time.

“There are less than fifty minutes left… and that's under the most ideal circumstances!”

He muttered to himself, because after taking the 'poison' that transformed him into a Cleaner, although he gained inhumanly powerful strength, his lifespan would also be fixed at one hour.

Perhaps, there would be some differences depending on each person's physique.

For example, Duck Prophet's killing time is only ten minutes. In reality, the killing time represents the Cleaner's lifespan.

Luo Xi knew that he could die at any moment.

The one hour of killing time is not fixed.

Especially in his case, where he uses 'Absolute Rationality' to suppress various crazy thoughts, the killing time might even be shortened.

This round can basically only be like this.

However, Luo Xi was still thinking as much as possible.

"Your name is Xu Lin, right?" About two minutes later, Luo Xi suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the room.

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"Yes, yes!" Xu Lin nodded.

"I have a question for you to answer. You must answer this question, and you are not allowed to lie, because I can recognize all lies."

"I understand. So, what is the question?" Xu Lin looked over, her eyes filled with inquiry.

She had been recalling the things Luo Xi had told her alone thirty-odd cycle days ago.

Many of them seemed very strange and bizarre to her, but she would still record and execute them unconditionally.

Because she wanted to become Luo Xi's strongest 'hidden piece'.

"My question is, as a 'hidden piece', will you steadfastly execute my orders?"

"This is without a doubt."

"Then, if I contradict my own orders, who will you listen to? The current me, or the past me?"

"." Xu Lin's eyes widened.

She was clearly a little incredulous.

Because Luo Xi had talked to her about this question more than thirty cycle days ago, and he was very certain that the future him would ask this question.

But Xu Lin was very clear that 'Luo Xi' had been an 'amnesiac' for at least thirty days. No one knew this better than her.

Because she confirmed this every cycle day.

Then, the 'amnesiac' Luo Xi actually asked the question that the past him was so sure he would ask.

This was a bit of an exaggeration.

"What's wrong? Is it difficult to answer? Or are you thinking about how to lie to me?" Luo Xi asked at this time. He already felt tired, extremely tired. The Cleaner's powerful strength was rapidly receding like a tide.

As expected, the power he gained from taking the 'poison' lasted shorter than he imagined.

"No, I won't lie to you, unless you ask me to. I mean, well, if we're talking about priority, I will definitely prioritize following the orders given by the 'past you'. There's no doubt about that," Xu Lin replied seriously.

"Understood." Luo Xi nodded, and then immediately said: "How many [Memories] did I give you back then?"

Xu Lin was stunned.

She probably didn't expect Luo Xi to ask such a strange question.

Wait a minute.

Luo Xi has already lost his memory, so how does he know that the [Memories] she has been using during this period were given to her by him?

Her mind was thinking quickly, but Xu Lin still answered seriously: "A total of forty-five [Memories]."

"Okay, then, the mission continues, but for the next mission, I want you to impersonate him..." Luo Xi pointed to the naked man on the ground: "You are colluding with the Eternal Assembly. In fact, the moment I opened the door upstairs, you attacked me with a weapon. Obviously, you wanted to kill me and take the [Memory] cards that might exist on me... But even so, I still choose to trust you, or rather, I believe in the past me. The fact that he could choose you to carry out this mission means that you are 100% trustworthy."

Hearing this, Xu Lin immediately felt a strong sense of pride and excitement, as if she had been greatly praised by the leader she admired.

It was an indescribable sense of satisfaction and recognition.

"I won't ask about the others, but I want you to impersonate this man... I don't know him, I don't even know his name, but you have been in contact with him, so you should be familiar with him. Here is his card ring and clothes. Go play him and infiltrate the Eternal Assembly."

"And then?" Xu Lin asked, suppressing her trembling voice.

"Heh, hasn't he already told you?" Luo Xi said, actually smiling, then lowered his head and lost his vitality.

The flashing lights returned to normal, and Xu Lin was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses.

"He actually knew... Could it be that Luo Xi didn't lose his memory at all? Has he been acting with me for the past thirty days?" Xu Lin muttered to herself, but soon, she shook her head: "That's impossible, he really lost his memory."

At this moment, Xu Lin didn't know what she was thinking, and goosebumps rose all over her body.

But she still got up immediately, walked over, picked up the man's card ring and clothes that Luo Xi had placed aside. She put on the card ring, and then immediately took off her clothes, completely naked, without leaving a single piece, and then put on the other party's clothes.

After changing her clothes, she glanced at Luo Xi, who was lifeless on the sofa, her eyes filled with admiration, as well as an indescribable emotion.

"I will do what you asked me to do, as always!"

After saying that, she had already transformed into the man's appearance.

She turned and left the 'home' she had lived in for more than thirty cycle days, which she was already very familiar with.