Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 182 - 173 Tailoring Reality Devil Realm 2

Chapter 182: 173 Tailoring Reality Devil Realm 2

"Cutting reality?"

I analyzed this phrase in my mind. Cutting reality, is it literally cutting? Can something like "reality" be cut?

Under my relentless questioning and the effect of the Black Rope Heart-locking Ring, the senior researcher could only endure the excruciating pain of all limbs being broken and struggled to reveal the information he knew.

First, it needed to be clarified that this place was indeed a secret base of the Human Bureau and was indeed located in Different Space.

The formation of this Different Space occurred last year, specifically the night after Lu Youxun escaped.

In the past, realizing that Lu Youxun was about to lead the Luo Mountain forces to counterattack the secret base, the Human Bureau forces here immediately began organizing their evacuation. Needless to say, they couldn’t possibly be a match for the Luo Mountain forces; their only chance was to run early. However, the problem was that they were not certain they could escape the pursuit of the Luo Mountain forces.

Based on the results now, I knew that the Human Bureau forces here eventually managed to transfer successfully. However, unlike what Lu Youxun previously thought, the Human Bureau forces did not escape through large-scale Space Transfers. Though Space Transfer is a strong and effective escape method and one of the backup plans for the Human Bureau forces, Luo Mountain forces weren’t without the technology to continue the pursuit. Lu Youxun was well aware of this, yet he couldn’t think of any alternatives.

The real game changer for the Human Bureau forces here was the super-trump card played by Ying Lingyun.

He did something earth-shattering.

He didn’t transfer the personnel and materials inside the base’s space; instead, he "cut out the reality itself where the base was located" to "a domain outside of reality."

More specifically, he cut out the segment of reality "from when Lu Chan was captured by the Human Bureau until his escape" from the real world.

This approach not only ensured that Luo Mountain could never touch this secret base again but also allowed endless supplies of demon hunter experimental subjects for the secret base—because this cut-out segment of reality could be rebooted indefinitely.

Whenever the number of experimental subjects inside the base fell to a certain level, Ying Lingyun would reboot this independent reality space, making all the experimental subjects come back to life. These experimental subjects were all victims captured in the base during that past period, and none of them remembered the memories before the reboot; each time they revived, they believed they had just been captured.

There were one or two instances when the experimental subjects struggled desperately to plot a rebellion and escape and even killed the researchers and guards inside the base. However, they ultimately couldn’t escape this independent reality—because what lay outside was not the real world, but a void. Once the base rebooted, they would all return to their original positions, and the researchers and guards would also come back to life.

And unlike the experimental subjects, the researchers and guards could retain their memories—the latter were perhaps irrelevant, but the former needed to conduct experiments and naturally required at least remembering the experimental experiences. It’s worth mentioning that the tools and devices for recording experimental data were also excluded by Ying Lingyun from the reboot scope.

Perhaps the reason I felt this space couldn’t withstand my power was because this place was "cut-out reality."

"Cutting reality, to think that even such a thing could be done... How did Ying Lingyun achieve it?" I couldn’t help feeling amazed.

"Ying Lingyun?" the senior researcher murmured.

Ying Lingyun’s true identity seemed to be a secret for these researchers, but I had no interest in keeping it for him.

The senior researcher seemed to quickly figure it out, then said, "We don’t know how Silver Mask did it, he never explained anything to us. ’Cutting reality,’ such a matter, has already transcended the theoretical boundaries of our Human Bureau... Perhaps even Impermanence of Luo Mountain can’t achieve something similar."

He was a person whose knowledge level far exceeded mine; his words carried particular weight.

Beyond theory, beyond Impermanence... In other words, was this a miracle achieved by Ying Lingyun skillfully using Divine Seal Fragments?

Perhaps even the term miracle is not sufficient to encapsulate such an achievement. This is a divine act.

"So, what about that Lu Chan?" I asked, "Was she also summoned by rebooting this reality?"

"I don’t know. In theory, it should be impossible for Lu Chan to be reproduced here."

The senior researcher continued to bleed profusely, his voice growing weaker, yet he couldn’t restrain himself from responding: "... Although the reboot inside this secret base can bring even the dead back to life, it must be based on the premise of having ’complete materials.’ That is, they must all have died here, with both their bodies and souls remaining in this place, then they can be resurrected here.

"Once someone truly escapes, although the reboot inside the base would attempt to reproduce them, a ’data loss’ situation would arise. You can understand this kind of reboot as a region-limited rewind, and targets that move outside of the area cannot be pulled back by the rewind."

"Given that, what’s the deal with the girl, Lu Chan?" I asked. "After all, Lu Chan should be a man, right?"

"That girl appeared suddenly after a certain reboot."

At this point, he too showed a baffled expression, "We can’t understand whether she is a bug resulting from countless reboots or if this reality, sliced away from the real world, has finally started to harbor ghosts. For some reason, all the resurrected demon hunters call that girl Lu Chan, but we have no idea where she comes from.

"The only certainty is that the girl seems to be an unknown spiritual body, and both Dr. Silver Mask and Chen Long seem to understand something about her origins. After every reboot, they lock her in a special cell.

"Although we want to research her, firstly, our base here has no research needs targeting spiritual bodies; secondly, researching unknown and bizarre entities invariably carries hidden risks. Dr. Silver Mask and Chen Long have asked us not to ask too many questions, so we don’t interfere."

It was a profound mystery... that’s what I thought.

I had hoped to learn more about the girl, Lu Chan, from the senior researcher, but instead, her image in my mind became even more obscured.

It seems I have no choice but to meet her in person.

Lu Chan might appear harmless, but as the senior researcher said, she is an unknown oddity. I don’t know what dangers might occur from contacting her privately. Yet for this reason, I feel an irresistible urge to meet and interact with her.

The senior researcher said Lu Chan is a spiritual body, in other words, something like a ghost? This would be my first encounter... No, come to think of it, considering the nature of my flame, as a flame aggregation, aren’t I similar to a ghost? That would make it like members of the same kind meeting.

I asked the senior researcher for the location of that special cell, and he described the route to move from this cell after leaving it.

After jotting it down, I asked, "Then, in your view, what’s the deal with me?"

"What?" He did not understand.

I inquired carefully, "In your view, am I also one of the test subjects here that repeatedly dies and comes back to life?"

"Of course," he replied. "You were a child who accidentally witnessed us capturing Lu Chan two years ago and was captured along with him. Although I don’t know why you suddenly produced Luo Mountain’s Evil Sword, you have definitely been experimented on many times..."

"—That doesn’t seem right?" I immediately caught the contradiction, "Isn’t this the first time you’ve encountered me? That’s why Dr. Silver Mask was surprised by the appearance of this ’child’, and you also had my information for the first time and even had a verbal conflict with Dr. Silver Mask because of me... Could all these be just my misremembering?"

"Ah?..."

He seemed to realize something was off, appearing confused at first and then showing an expression of headache, as if he wanted to raise his hand to touch his forehead but couldn’t due to the severed muscles in his arm.

This reaction was indeed strange; it was as if my presence here automatically brought with it some kind of Misunderstanding Aura, making everyone think I should naturally be one of the test subjects here and even fabricating a matching background and documentation for me in their memories.

Even Chen Long, when he first saw me, seemed vaguely uncertain of his own memories, as if truly doubting whether he had seen me, this "accidental bystander," at the scene capturing Lu Youxun.

The only one who had not shown such a reaction was Dr. Silver Mask.

Thus, it seems the girl Lu Chan described by the senior researcher also has similar traits to mine.

She clearly does not resemble Lu Youxun in the slightest yet was immediately identified by the surrounding demon hunters as Lu Youxun himself upon her appearance. Unlike me, however, the researchers do not seem to be affected by her "Misunderstanding Aura."

Seeing the senior researcher becoming more entangled, I forcefully grabbed his heart, forcing his attention back, then asked, "Next question, what’s the deal with Dr. Silver Mask, is he Ying Lingyun’s ’possibility avatar’?"

"...To my knowledge, he should be a clone of Silver Mask, an avatar indeed," he answered. "But he is completely opposite to the original. Silver Mask himself can be described as the embodiment of evil and madness, forcing his subordinates to conduct inhumane human experiments, pushing us to our limits. Whereas the doctor is soft-hearted, with top-tier research abilities within the base but always struggling with not harming pregnant women, children, or using excessively painful experimental methods...

"Yet he ultimately has control over the reboots and perhaps even the core lifeline of this separate reality. Even Chen Long obeys him, so we all refer to him as ’the highest authority.’"

"What about Ying Lingyun himself?" I asked. "His avatar is here, so where is he and what is he doing?"

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