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Chapter 56 Living Towards Death
Shen Wei's Evil God right hand swallowed hard, a hint of fear in its tone.
The blonde nun, who had been praying, also turned her beautiful eyes towards Shen Wei.
Shen Wei's eyes held a manic excitement, and an unnatural flush rose on his face.
"I'm saying that from beginning to end, our physical bodies have never entered the Museum of Curiosities. The Museum of Curiosities is just a collection of memory and soul fragments of an Evil God that has been divided and sealed. Only soul consciousness can enter soul consciousness..."
Shen Wei's words shocked her completely, and the blonde nun's face was filled with astonishment!
"What kind of imagination does it take to make such a bold conjecture?..."
The blonde nun couldn't understand it at all, and Shen Wei's Evil God right hand shared her sentiment, remaining silent despite its normally loquacious nature.
The lights in the fourth exhibition hall of the Museum of Curiosities continued to go out, but Shen Wei showed no sign of anxiety. He paced back and forth in the illuminated areas, as if connecting all the clues he had gathered.
"My previous conjectures had many loopholes, so I changed my approach..."
"Starting from the beginning, the gray mist, the monsters hidden in the mist, the abandoned world, perhaps they are all memory fragments of this once-divided Evil God. We enter the Museum of Curiosities, and those who buy red tickets choose to leave their consciousness outside, their bodies becoming exhibits. The living dead are also a hint to us."
"What are the living dead? Those without soul consciousness are called living dead. These bodies of the first batch of eliminated Chosen Ones are placed in the most conspicuous place in the first exhibition hall, as some kind of hint to us. Of course, what's in the display cases isn't a corpse either, just a manifestation of consciousness..."
"And the bizarre and strange exhibits in the entire Museum of Curiosities are actually fragments of the Evil God's soul memory. They are beings he has once seen or fought against, just materialized by his memory. Each display case is like a seal on his memory fragments, and the souls of the failed red-clothed Chosen Ones are the ones guarding these seals..."
After thinking for a moment, Shen Wei spoke again: "Those passages leading to the various exhibition halls are like memory corridors. Exhibition halls of different sequences represent deeper layers of his soul memory. The ticket-selling rules at the beginning also hinted at this, asking us to check the correct tickets and visit in the correct order, from the shallow to the deep..."
"And those invisible 'it' that wander in the Museum of Curiosities are actually the souls of Chosen Ones lost in the Evil God's memory. They bought invalid red tickets, couldn't maintain their own sanity and consciousness, and were eventually eroded and corrupted by the Evil God's consciousness, turning into 'it' seeking fear. It hates all living Chosen Ones, smelling fear like a shark smelling blood..."
"This is also why Rule 2 of the Museum of Curiosities Visitor's Guide says to restrain your fear and not to touch any of the exhibits, because even with the protection of the black ticket, the Evil God's consciousness is powerful and will pollute your mind..."
After thinking for a while, the blonde nun said:
"So that's the meaning of Rule 8 of the Museum of Curiosities Visitor's Guide, we are neither ticket sellers, nor exhibits, nor staff..."
Shen Wei shook his head: "Your focus is wrong. What's important is the last part of the sentence. You have to become yourself again to escape from here. This is subtly telling us that we must find our own bodies, and only when the soul and body are united can we truly survive and escape from here..."
"Here, fear is the thread that runs through the entire Museum of Curiosities. Fear will accelerate the pollution of one's mind by the Evil God's consciousness. Losing sanity will turn us into formless and intangible 'it'..."
Shen Wei's Evil God right hand rose, and the red eye pattern on its palm looked at Shen Wei, speaking seriously:
"What about the tickets? What is the incomplete rule at the end of the Museum of Curiosities Visitor's Guide?"
A helpless expression appeared on Shen Wei's face:
"Didn't I tell you? The black ticket is proof of our identity as tourists. I guess the black ticket is the key to leaving the Evil God's consciousness. Didn't you see the exhibits here trying to occupy the bodies of the tourists by any means possible in order to obtain the black ticket? And the Chosen Ones who lost their tickets lost their identity as tourists..."
"Also, the still life illusions that appeared in the third and fourth exhibition halls, that is, the modern still life exhibition hall and the ancient still life exhibition hall, are also indirectly hinting to us that we are not in a real Museum of Curiosities, but a memory illusion of the Evil God!"
"And the rules set in the third and fourth exhibition areas are actually for us to be able to fight against the Evil God's soul fragments that are gradually regaining their consciousness. The rules of the third exhibition hall allow us to gather together and integrate our strength! Through the selection of the fourth exhibition hall, the staff in red work clothes are selected. The identity of the staff can immunize against the attacks of the Evil God's soul fragments..."
"I guess Rule 7 of the Museum of Curiosities Visitor's Guide is wrong. The other us we saw in the fifth exhibition hall may be real. Could they be our bodies that are isolated outside? Rule 3 in the ancient still life exhibition hall denies that there is another us in the fifth exhibition hall. This rule tells us that we are unique. Is it hinting that we should return our souls to our bodies and merge into one...?"
"When holding the black ticket and pushing open the door of the Museum of Curiosities to enter the passage, I wonder if you turned around and saw another you smiling at yourself. Maybe that's not just a disguise deliberately made by the weird, but is the rule hinting at something to us?..."
Looking at Shen Wei, who was somewhat immersed in feverish reasoning, a trace of doubt appeared on the blonde nun's face:
"Imprudent one, although your reasoning seems to make sense, it is too bizarre. Then how do you explain the golden flames rising in the fifth exhibition hall?"
Shen Wei slammed his charred left hand hard on the glass display case next to him. The intense pain caused Shen Wei to bite his lower lip, and blood dripped down the corner of his mouth.
"He's using pain to stimulate his brain to stay awake, ruthless..."
Even Shen Wei's Evil God right hand, which had seen great storms, couldn't help but admire him.
"The golden flames in the fifth exhibition hall? That might be the final move of the Rule Anomaly, to prevent the Evil God's soul fragments from escaping after awakening..."
"You brat, then the flames shouldn't burn us who hold the black tickets, they should only kill the Evil God's soul fragments! That's very unreasonable..."
"Why? Why? Could it be because I am also a carrier of the Evil God, so I will be hurt! No, no, could it be a test for us? Remember the importance of fear? Is the Rule Anomaly laughing at us? Hiding a chance of survival in what seems like a dead end?"