Chapter 44 Chapter 43: The Biggest Secret

This eventful summer vacation is finally over. Wan Sui'er starts school tomorrow. On this day, Dad invited Wan Sui'er to eat at McDonald's. Wan Sui'er was gnawing on the chicken wings, her mouth was greasy, and a pile of chicken bones were thrown on the table.While eating, she stopped suddenly and said, "Dad, I want to hand over the money." Dad froze for a moment. After a pause, Wan Sui'er said again: "Although this eighteen-story 'hell' is man-made, it touched me too much. Be a good person." Dad obviously hesitated: "Should you discuss it with your mother?"

Wan Sui'er wiped her mouth, immediately took out her phone and called her mother. After hearing what happened, my mother was very shocked: "You picked up so much money, why didn't you tell me earlier! Ah? Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Wan Sui'er said: "It doesn't matter how much money it is. I plan to hand it in. Dad asked me to hear your opinion." My mother immediately said, "Wan Sui'er, is your head in water? So much money, it wasn't stolen or robbed, why did you hand it in? It's our family's property!" Wan Sui'er stopped talking.

Seeing that she didn't make a statement, her mother raised her voice louder: "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Usually, I have been watching you study and study. Why? Isn't it so that you can find a good job and make more money! Now , God gave you so much money, but you don’t want it! Think about it, who would give away so much money for nothing? Think about it!” After putting down the phone, Wan Sui'er remained silent. Dad asked carefully: "Have you thought about it yet?" Wan Sui'er said: "It must be handed in, I'd rather she come back and beat me up."

Dad was silent for a while, and finally said: "If she really hits you, I will stop you!" Wan Sui'er burst into laughter: "Pull it down! Every time she loses her temper with me, you hide from sight, for fear of getting caught!" Dad's expression became serious for the first time, and he said, "Wan Sui'er, really, Dad supports you!" Wan Sui'er hesitated to make such a big decision.Seeing her father's attitude, she was a little moved.She looked at him and said with a smile, "Why don't I leave you the lockbox, I think you like it."

Dad said: "I don't have any money, why do I need a lockbox! Hehe, let's hand it in together!" Wan Sui'er said, "OK, I'll treat you to dinner someday!" Dad said: "What to eat?" Wan Sui'er said, "Seafood." Dad said, "Where did you get the money?" Wan Sui'er whispered, "Let's get some loan from you first." After Xu Li came out of "hell", he was insane all the time and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment. Originally, the procuratorate wanted to prosecute him, but he escaped. Leopard Five leaned on a single crutch.

No one dared to provoke him in the Acropolis, because he had just come out of "inside"—not a prison, but "hell"! After Langma was rescued, the house was gone, and he lived in a hotel. On the first day of school, he and Wan Sui'er went to school separately to go through the formalities, and both dropped out. "Hell" does not exist, nor does the "paradise" they imagined, there is only the world. They decided to go far away, go to work in a distant city, and use their hands to build the life they like. Wan Sui'er didn't tell her family about dropping out of school, not to mention her mother, even her father would not agree.She wanted to write a long letter to her parents before leaving the Acropolis, whether they understood it or not, this time, she must make a decision for her own life.

That afternoon, Gao Xuan called Wan Sui'er and said, "Let's meet." Wan Sui'er said briskly, "Okay, I was just about to thank you, and I invited you to dinner. What do you want to eat?" Gao Xuan said: "Let's go to the snack street, you take Langma with you." Wan Sui'er said, "Okay, you also take Youyou with you." In the evening, when Gao Xuan brought Xu Youyou to the snack street, Wan Sui'er and Langma had already arrived.They ordered a lot of beer, and they seemed ready to get drunk.The snack street is still brightly lit and buzzing with people.

In the past, Gao Xuan somewhat rejected Langma, perhaps because he was a "rich second generation", but now he somewhat accepts him. The four of them sat together and chatted about these recent events, filled with emotion.Xu Youyou was in a good mood and kept talking non-stop. While chatting, Wan Sui'er asked carelessly, "Youyou, is your father still in the hospital?" Gao Xuan saw Langma kick Wan Sui'er under the table. This topic did not arouse Xu Youyou's pessimistic mood. While playing with the cup in her hand, she said: "My father is a soldier. He gallops on the battlefield with gold and iron horses. He has overcome so many difficulties, and this time he will definitely be able to overcome them! I am very happy." he!"

Wan Sui'er said: "Youyou, it's great that you have become stronger!" Langma raised his glass and said, "Let me tell you, Wan Sui'er and I have already been fired from the school. We will leave the Acropolis tomorrow and go out into the world. Tonight, you have to treat us. It's for us." Practice." Wan Sui'er elbowed him: "What are you talking about! I'm treating you, it's okay." Gao Xuan was surprised: "Leave tomorrow?" Langma said, "Yes!" Xu Youyou's eyes were filled with envy: "You two are so handsome! I really want to try this kind of unrestrained life!"

Gao Xuan stopped talking and turned his head to the side.At the next table there is a little girl performing arts, playing the guitar and singing faintly——When will the bright moon come, ask the sky for wine, I don’t know the palace in the sky, what year it is now... Unknown to Wan Sui'er and Langma, the biggest secret has yet to be revealed. Only Gao Xuan knew about it. Wan Sui'er picked up the wine glass and said, "Come on, let's have one." Gao Xuan suddenly turned his face and said, "There is still something unresolved." All three put their glasses down.

Wan Sui'er asked, "What's the matter?" Gao Xuan looked into her eyes and said, "What if we go to the crematorium now and see that big chimney again?" Wan Sui'er was frightened and shivered: "What are you talking about!" Gao Xuan said, "I mean, are you sure that the thing controlling your brain no longer exists?" Wan Sui'er blinked her eyes, her face suddenly became serious, and she stopped talking. Langma asked, "What's going on?" Wan Sui'er said: "Like Youyou, I also experienced severe hallucinations..." Gao Xuan stood up and said, "Go, I'll take you to a place." Wan Sui'er asked, "Where are you going?" Gao Xuan said, "You will know when you get there." Wan Sui'er looked at Xu Youyou again, and asked, "So mysterious! Where is he taking us?" Xu Youyou said, "I don't know anything either." Gao Xuan asked Langma, "Where's your car?" Langma shrugged and said, "It's gone." The four of them left the snack street, took a taxi, drove out of the urban area, and walked southward for more than ten kilometers, finally arriving at their destination.Gao Xuan said to the driver: "Master, stop the car." This is the southern suburbs, and there is not a single light in sight. A seven or eight-meter-high cross stands beside the road, piercing into the night sky.The driver obviously couldn't figure out what these people were doing here. Wan Sui'er asked: "Gao Xuan, you won't take us to the cemetery, will you?" Gao Xuan pointed to the side of the road and said, "It's right there." There is a forest not far away, which looks like a dark castle from a distance. Gao Xuan paid the driver a deposit and asked him to wait, then jumped off the road with Wan Sui'er, Langma, and Xu Youyou, and walked towards the woods.The tall ones are poplar trees, and the lower ones are pine trees, which are tightly blocked and airtight. The four of them struggled through the woods, and saw a small gray building, with soft light shining from every window.Surrounded by grotesque metal pillars, they looked a bit like guards. Gao Xuan said: "There is an infrasonic wall between these pillars. If you rush in, you will be unconscious on the spot." The atmosphere suddenly became mysterious. Wan Sui'er asked in a low voice, "Is this a military forbidden area?" Gao Xuan shook his head and said, "This is my home." Wan Sui'er, Langma, and Xu Youyou all stared wide-eyed. Gao Xuan walked under the pillars, opened a box, pressed a series of complicated passwords, and turned around and said, "Wait for me here, I will come out in ten minutes." Then, he passed between the two pillars, swiftly walked towards the small gray building. Frogs croaked from the woods, high and low, far and near. Basically, Gao Xuan did what he was supposed to do without encountering any trouble.It took less than ten minutes before and after.When he came back, all three looked at him in silence, waiting for an answer.He let out a long breath and said, "It's all over." Langma said: "Dude, don't be a fool, what's going on?" Gao Xuan was silent for a while before saying: "The owner of this small gray building is a natural geek, just like a mosquito bloodthirsty, he likes the human brain crazily. In the early 1990s, he went to the West to study and later settled down Abroad. One year, he received funding from a certain government, returned to China, and started a special experiment in this small gray building..." Wan Sui'er said, "Brain experiment?" Gao Xuan said: "Yes, he can monitor and control a person's brain through satellites. As long as he chooses you, no matter you hide under the quilt or hide in the basement, even if you go to the ends of the earth, as long as you are on the earth , there is no way to escape the clutches.” Wan Sui'er looked up at the deep night sky and took a deep breath. Gao Xuan said: "In the eyes of hackers, a computer without a firewall is called a 'broiler'. They can enter at will and check all your privacy. Our brains have no protection at all. Every brain is a 'broiler'. Only Get caught without a fight, and be at the mercy of others." Lang Ma said, "Is there such a technology!" Gao Xuan said: "Japan can use brain waves to control wheelchairs, and can display the emotions in the brain on instruments. Our domestic military programs have also reported that American soldiers operate a computer outside the city and use mind control to make people in the city Iraqi soldiers suddenly abandoned the city and surrendered...Of course this is all confidential." Wan Sui'er said, "So, I was also selected?" Gao Xuan said: "Aunt Bao and her subordinates were brain controlled, so they created a hell on earth. That day, after you and I discovered the secret of the crematorium, the eyes in the sky immediately controlled you and made you appear You had an illusion, mistakenly thought that the chimney had been removed and everything was normal, so you had no choice but to give up, and then lure you away and fly away." Wan Sui'er said, "If I really went to Qishi Village, Yi'an Township, Yilong County, who would I meet?" Gao Xuan said: "Maybe you will really meet Langma and live happily with him there for the rest of your life. Actually, Langma doesn't exist at all." Wan Sui'er immediately hugged Langma tightly. Gao Xuan said: "When I chatted with Youyou on the Internet, I always felt that something was wrong with her. At that time, I suspected that she was being controlled by someone. This time I came back to China to help her. When she was in high school, she If she can't find the mastermind behind the scenes, she will be followed, monitored, and manipulated for the rest of her life!" Wan Sui'er said, "Who is behind the scenes?" Gao Xuan said: "It was only when I returned to China that I found out that he is the owner of this small gray building..." Wan Sui'er asked, "Do you know him?" Gao Xuan said, "He is my father." Wan Sui'er asked, "Your father?" Gao Xuan said, "It's the one who picks up the trash." Wan Sui'er was very surprised: "We were controlled by a trash picker?" Gao Xuan said: "From a certain point of view, I admit that he is outstanding. Such people often have certain eccentricities. He likes to dress up as a junk picker, wander around without brushing his teeth or taking a bath. My mother and him I couldn’t live together, and I was depressed all the time, and died when I was in the second grade of elementary school.” Wan Sui'er said, "I can't understand even if I was beaten to death..." Gao Xuan said: "He has a crazy dream, that is to be God. He is a materialist and does not believe in the existence of God, so he wants to be God. He wants to dominate the world, he wants to control their thoughts, and he wants to recreate He wants to distribute social wealth, he wants to control marriage and love in the world, he wants to control the life and death of human beings, he wants to change a person's personality at will, he wants to arbitrarily decide whether a person will be a man or a woman..." Xu Youyou interjected: "I met a lot of fellow sufferers on the Internet, most of them are born in the 90s. These people have had the experience of their brains being controlled, and they have suffered long-term psychological torture and mental devastation. They call it an 'electronic concentration camp'... " Gao Xuan said: "My father loves me very much and always wants me to help him. Since my mother passed away, I have been full of resentment towards him. As I grew older, I became more and more aware of his dark dreams and basically cut off from him. relationship." Wan Sui'er said, "I know why you don't admit your surname is Duanmu..." Gao Xuan said: "However, I accepted his invitation a few days ago and entered the core layer of this small gray building to work. As I expected, everything was controlled by him. Wan Sui'er, do you remember I told you when we first went to the crematorium, I was one of them." Wan Sui'er said, "I didn't take it seriously at all." Langma said, "What did you go in for just now?" Gao Xuan said: "For the sake of confidentiality, there is a self-destruct device in this small gray building. Once it is activated, it can never be repaired. Just now, I destroyed all the hardware equipment and software data." Wan Sui'er said: "He killed so many people, he should be handed over to the police! This is a major case that changed history and shocked the world!" Gao Xuan's tone was a little sad: "Although I have no relationship with him, he is my father after all. Before destroying those things, I used his equipment to delete his memory. He will think that he was born to be a scavenger. Yes. Now, his brain only has the consciousness of survival, eating, drinking, and scavenging, and he will not hurt anyone anymore. In other words, his technology has turned him from a god into a pig. Let him go and let him fend for himself Bar." The four of them took a taxi back to the Acropolis. On the way, he explained Xu Youyou's nightmares. Xu Youyou had eaten garbage before, so she only needed to replace the concept of garbage and delicious food in her mind.Perhaps, those people tried to make Xu Youyou eat something more disgusting, but she resisted instinctively, without success. Also, Xu Youyou once thought that Aunt Tian was the doctor who delivered her. This operation is more complicated-they have to record a video with the eyes of a newborn, in which Aunt Tian’s face appears repeatedly, and then they embed the picture into Xu Youyou brain, and then input a wrong hint to her, making her think that this is what she saw the day she came to this world. That Auntie Tian was also controlled. The reason why she saw herself getting younger in the mirror was also an illusion. When Xu Youyou was in her second year of high school, one day she suddenly wanted to kill V. It was because they gave her brain an order to tell her that this boy was evil.They also took control of V, making him hate his gender so much that he finally had sex reassignment surgery.When the transgender girl returned to the Acropolis for the summer vacation, they issued another instruction in her brain, telling her that Xu Youyou is evil... Those people are doing experiments and playing games. When Xu Youyou was in the third year of high school, they intercepted some TV images of the Changyu earthquake many years ago, and stuffed them into Xu Youyou's sleeping brain over and over again.Xu Youyou's classmate Li Xiaohui lives in Changyu, and she decides to warn her.However, the phone number had been modified during the transmission from the eyeball to the brain, so the call was made to a kindergarten in Changyu.There was a teacher in that kindergarten, also named Li Xiaohui, who died in the earthquake.Xu Youyou's classmate Li Xiaohui was also controlled. She firmly believed that she was that kindergarten teacher, so she dropped out of school and went to that kindergarten to apply for a job... After Xu Youyou entered university, they randomly found an article in a magazine, and entered it into Xu Youyou's brain word for word.When Xu Youyou saw this magazine, she thought it was her work.The previous memories of this article were all forged by them - from writing to submission to publication, it took more than two months. However, the memory is only a few seconds, and the principle is like a dream. Xu Youyou and Gao Xuan came out of the movie theater together, and Gao Xuan's father bumped into him. He quickly found out that this girl was a "broiler chicken" controlled by them, so he came out to interfere.They recorded a voice, entered it into Xu Youyou's brain, and modified her voice recognition system at the same time, making her think it was Gao Xuan's voice, and it came from the phone. If one plan fails, another plan will be born.Gao Xuan's father "cast" his own image in Xu Youyou's eyelids, warning her to leave Gao Xuan.Again, that has nothing to do with vision, it's still an illusory brain activity. After Xu Youyou was rescued by throwing himself into the river, Gao Xuan's father made up a "story" that allowed her and Gao Xuan to meet her dead father at the same time, and firmly disagreed with her dating Gao Xuan... Again, that was not a real experience, but just Forged memories. Aunt Bao is just an "official" under "God" who is in charge of the 18th floor of "Hell".At critical moments, "God" will of course assist her.He discovered that Wan Sui'er was chasing "Hell", and immediately controlled her brain. After she and Gao Xuan discovered the secret of the chimney, he suddenly gave her a strong sense of fear, and gave up at that time.Then, "God" deleted this memory and replaced it with another memory - the chimney was blown up, and there was a flat land below... After returning to the urban area, Langma sent Wan Sui'er off, Gao Xuan sent off Xu Youyou, and the four separated. At the gate of Yishuiqinglai community, Gao Xuan suddenly said, "Youyou, I'm going back to America tomorrow." Xu Youyou was stunned for a moment. Gao Xuan smiled: "What's wrong?" Xu Youyou's tears flowed out immediately, and he asked in a low voice, "Are you... coming back?" Gao Xuan said: "I have been working and studying in the United States, and the economy is not well off. If there is no major event, I will not come back." He knew that Xu Youyou had affection for him, and in her hallucination, she even accepted his passionate kiss—of course, that was a scene created by Gao Xuan's father, but there was a delicate relationship in it— Gao Xuan's father has been monitoring Xu Youyou's inner activities, including every time she misses, imagines, and thinks about Gao Xuan. That is to say, in Xu Youyou's heart, first love has sprouted... However, Gao Xuan has no feeling of love for Xu Youyou. He returned to China to meet her only out of sympathy and hope to help her, which is a bit like the relationship between a doctor and a patient. Xu Youyou asked puzzledly: "We... have no future?" Gao Xuan said: "Of course there is. I believe that our future will be very good." Xu Youyou lowered his head and stopped talking.She understood, Gao Xuan didn't regard her as his girlfriend. Gao Xuan said, "In the future, if you go to America, I will be your tour guide." Xu Youyou looked at his toes, but didn't speak. Gao Xuan said: "We will often meet online." Xu Youyou still didn't speak. Gao Xuan said: "Youyou, you have to live a good life, promise me!" Finally, Xu Youyou raised a pair of tearful eyes, smiled at Gao Xuan, and said in a trembling voice: "In my lifetime, we meet on a narrow road. Thank you." Then, he turned and walked into the community. Gao Xuan lived in the house of his aunt in Weicheng. It was already midnight when he returned to his aunt's house, the road was empty, and the street lamps were sleeping with their eyes open. Beside a trash can, a lone figure appeared, a short man with a big head, wearing a shabby armed police uniform, concentrating on picking out trash.