Chapter 72
When Wen Xiaoxuan pressed Qin Zhou for an answer, the patients in the cafeteria followed her example and opened their mouths wide, silently asking the question.
Lin Yi was a little taken aback by this furious and indignant questioning.
The 16-8 Rule World was indeed associated with a split mind.
His initial guess was that due to the Split Mind disorder, the Doctor Zhu of the psychiatric hospital had produced the sanatorium’s Doctor Zhu, creating two personalities in one body.
But the way the 16-8 Monster said it made it seem that this wasn’t the case. It wasn’t looking for a split personality. It seemed to be asking after a separate individual.
— Two bodies and two personalities.
Lin Yi finally grasped the source of his uneasiness. Before entering the 16-8 Rule World, everyone had seen another of themselves, another individual that existed separately from them.
If the 16-8 Monster was not deceiving them, then Doctor Zhu’s splitting of the mind wasn’t a simple split personality. Rather, the Monster’s form was more like a single-celled organism that formed another of itself through cell division.
So who would it be?
This was tricky. If Qin Zhou gave the wrong answer, the 16-8 Monster in Wen Xiaoxuan’s body would fully materialize and it would rip apart the remaining survivors who hindered the development of the Rule World.
His mind had never turned so fast before. Although he considered the possibility of “It” appearing, Lin Yi had no choice but to keep asking himself questions in his mind.
Who was Doctor Zhu other body?
Doctor Zhu was an NPC, so his split body must also be an NPC.
The most prominent NPCs in the 16-8 Rule World were the nine patients. But none of the nine patients had lung cancer and no patient had the exactly same face as Doctor Zhu. But since it was a split, there must be a connection.
Lin Yi went through the nine patients in his mind.
The couple, Patient 101 and Patient 102, had died one after the other. Just as the 16-8 Monster wouldn’t let the Rules of Death target him, similarly, his split body must have also been kept safe.
Then the Patients 103, who had already died and the Patient 201 who got seriously ill last night could also be excluded.
The rest were Patient 202 with the botched plastic surgery, Patient 203 with the severe burns, Patient 301 with dwarfism, Patient 301 with the tongue deformity and Patient 303 with muscle atrophy.
The 16-8 Monsters wasn’t giving them time to react and think. Lin Yi could only force himself to think about the connections faster.
Of the remaining patients, the most likely was Patient 202 since she’d been the patient paired with Wen Xiaoxuan. But there was simply no real foundation for this guess. Lin Yi couldn’t think of any connection between Patient 202 and Doctor Zhu. But this wasn’t only for Patient 202, Lin Yi couldn’t think of any connection with Doctor Zhu and any of the other patients as well.
The reason was very simple. As the main body, Doctor Zhu was immortal in his fantasy. But as a dying cancer patient, Doctor Zhu wished he could live forever. Under such circumstances, even if it’s just a split body, for him to choose to be a patient suffering a painful and complicated disease was unreasonable. This was a very contradictory paradox.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Therefore, it would be impossible for Doctor Zhu’s split body to be among the patients.
Vb ktb firf kjr atfgf?
Olc Tl atbeuta bo atf vbhfcr bo mbgqrfr lc atf wbguef. Rbcf bo atf mbgqrfr tjv rwlifv ja tlw, rb atbrf mbgqrfr kfgf jirb RUJr lc atf 16-8 Eeif Qbgiv.
Vlwlijgis, Olc Tl delmxis gfpfmafv atf qbrrlylilas atja Gbmabg Ite’r rqila ybvs kjr jwbcu atf mbgqrfr.
There was no need for Doctor Zhu to kill his split body. Killing his split body would means that there was no split body so the 16-8 Monster wouldn’t be asking Qin Zhou where his other self was.
So, the implication behind this question was that the split body exists and was still alive.
Based on the tone of the 16-8 Monster, the 16-8 Monster was confident that Qin Zhou wouldn’t know.
Lin Yi’s mind was spinning fast and in the blink of an eye he had completely ruled out all the NPCs in the 16-8 Rule World.
He looked at the strange-looking Wen Xiaoxuan and then suddenly had a realization.
Monsters are things born of evil. The 16-8 Monster was Doctor Zhu but also not Doctor Zhu. If Doctor Zhu was suffering from the Split Mind Disorder, then did that mean that the 16-8 Monster also had a Split Mind Disorder?
So when the 16-8 Monster asked ‘where is the other me?’ it wasn’t asking where another Doctor Zhu was. Rather, it was asking where the other 16-8 Monster was.
Although Doctor Zhu was an NPC, his role in the Rule World is still human. Doctor Zhu’s Split Mind Disorder manifested in the form of hallucinations and delusions. Only the Split Mind Disorder of a Monster could, against all reason, produce an actual whole other individual as a split.
The 16-8 Monster was hidden among the nine participants. The answer was now among them.
Lin Yi looked at Chen Yang, Yi Jiayue, and Jiang Man. Although the three of them didn’t know why Wen Xiaoxuan raised such a question, the three of them felt that their lives were being strangled; they felt like their lives were hanging by a thread.
They could only place their hopes on Qin Zhou. Only Qin Zhou could save them.
There was no time to judge who the 16-8 Monster split body was through that participants’ emotional reactions. Moreover, there were too many people present that the Monster could simply copy the others’ reactions.
Lin Yi’s only option was to think back on the very sparse interactions they’ve had before.
Because he’d had almost no contact or communication, they’d even skipped the self-introductions, he had no way to lock down who the 16-8 Monster split body was. He didn’t even have a suspect.
Once again, the Monster’s question rang in his ears.
“Do you know? Do you know where the other me is?” Wen Xiaoxuan stared at Qin Zhou. She grabbed Qin Zhou’s shoulders with both hands, as if she couldn’t wait to tear the Replay-er up first. “Tell me! Where is the other me!”
From a few steps away, Lin Yi could hear the cracking of Qin Zhou’s shoulder bones.
But Qin Zhou still stood steady on his feet. Lin Yi stood behind him and so couldn’t see Qin Zhou’s expression. But seeing his straight back, his anxious mood suddenly calmed.
“I know.” Qin Zhou said lightly and dismissively.
This made Wen Xiaoxuan anxious once again. She clamped down Qin Zhou’s shoulders even more forcefully. Because of its anger, the 16-8 Monster didn’t realize that Qin Zhou was fighting for time to think.
It frantically shook Qin Zhou. “Where is it!”
Lin Yi took advantage of every split second to think…
Qin Zhou said that in the end, Monsters are just Monsters, unable to reproduce the complicated emotions of human beings. It simply cannot produce a human’s reaction to every possible occasion.
But it still had to be hidden among the participants because it wanted to lead the participants to violate the Rules of Death.
to lead, to violate…
Lin Yi suddenly raised his head. He knew the answer.
At that same moment, Qin Zhou’s furrowed brows eased. He’s also reached an answer.
And so, Lin Yi and Qin Zhou spoke in unison.
Lin Yi: “Shi Xuan!”
Qin Zhou: “Shi Xuan.”
On the first day upon entering the 16-8 Rule World, Shi Xuan suddenly called out to Zheng Anjian in Room 101. Lin Yi already suspected that Shi Xuan had intentionally done it.
But her ‘death’ on the second night naturally ruled out Shi Xuan.
Thinking about it now, this must have been a deliberate arrangement by the 16-8 Monster.
After her ‘death’, Shi Xuan hadn’t died completely, she started to mutate into a jelly comb state. Not only was she ‘immortal’ but she also had enough strength to kill participants who try to disrupt the Rule World’s order.
So that night, Shi Xuan hadn’t come to Lin Yi because she’d smelled the dead bodies on Lin Yi. She came to check whether Lin Yi had disrupted the order of the Rule World because during that morning, Lin Yi had also had that fight with Qin Zhou in the cafeteria and also faked that stomachache with his poor acting skills.
All these had been seen by the hidden Monster.
If Lin Yi had made it back to the room any later and wasn’t there when Shi Xuan knocked on the door of Room 203, Lin Yi suspected he’d be six feet under right now.
The moment Lin Yi thought of Shi Xuan, he was already certain of his answer.
Monsters wouldn’t let the Rules of Death target them but Shi Xuan was just the Monster’s split body. So long as the main body didn’t violate any Rules of Death, the Rule World would continue.
Once Lin Yi and Qin Zhou gave their answer in unison, the 16-8 Monster in Wen Xiaoxuan’s body was enraged. More black mist overflowed from Wen Xiaoxuan’s body, finally condensing into the form of Doctor Zhu.
Chen Yang and the others were stunned. They didn’t know what was going on now. Why was Wen Xiaoxuan threatening Qin Zhou? Why did Wen Xiaoxuan turned into Doctor Zhu? All their expressions looked really bad. This bizarre and absurd world made them feel extremely scared.
The 16-8 Monster withdrew its hands that had been about to crush Qin Zhou’s shoulders. Losing strength, Lin Yi saw Qin Zhou’s figure tremble and he rushed to support Qin Zhou. “Senior ,you……”
Qin Zhou’s lips were pale and his forehead was covered with a sheen of fine sweat from the severe pain. “It’s just a small thing.”
Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, then we…”
Qin Zhou: “We answered right.”
They got it right.
The 16-8 monsters looked back and forth between them with hostile eyes, as if to remember their faces so that it wouldn’t pull them in again for future instances.
This process lasted about ten minutes. Lin Yi was very nervous. He was very much afraid that the 16-8 Monster would turn furious and just decide to tear them all to pieces.
Qin Zhou felt Lin Yi’s hold on him tighten. He titled his head slightly to comfort him. “We just need to wait. So long as the Replay is correct, we can leave. This is also regarded as a rule.”
Lin Yi: “Oh, good.”
He continued to wait. Qin Zhou had managed to relieve his nervousness he couldn’t help thinking about something Qin Zhou had said to him before.
About how the entire campus can be regarded as a Rule World because of its many rules. Once such rule is that students cannot leave the Unnatural Engineering University. And now, this, being able to leave if the Replay is correct, is another such rule
Then, Lin Yi thought of the 2-6 Monster’s resentful words.
‘You broke the rules…’
Lin Yi was impatient to leave this place, to leave the 16-8 Rule World. He knew that he must have passed the test to join the patrol team and given the difficulty of the 16-8 Rule World, he was probably going to be ranked high, enough that he should have the right to view the Student Union information.
This thought made Lin Yi anxious once again and at this moment, there came a white light lit up. It wasn’t as dazzling as the previous two Rule Worlds and the light was only a small spot.
When this white light pierced into his eyes, Lin Yi’s view went dark.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the remodeled lecture theater. The sign on the bunk on their side said ’16-8′.
Lin Yi was the second person to wake up. The first must have been Qin Zhou as he didn’t see Qin Zhou anywhere.
“Lin Yi.” Seeing that Lin Yi had woken up, Ou Ying came over and handed him a glass of water.
“Zhou Ge went to bid Luo Yi good-bye.” Ou Ying explained where Qin Zhou had gone to. She then asked, “What happened to you guys? Zhou Ge looked very angry.”
As she spoke, Ou Ying glanced at the four people who hadn’t woken up yet. “He said they were going to have their credits deducted.”
Lin Yi briefly explained the situation to Ou Ying.
“Taking others down with her? This kind of mentality is unacceptable…” Ou Ying’s expression turned grim. “She certainly must be punished. She’ll be deducted half a semester’s credits.”
Yes! Punish that bitch
Like I kinda get why she did that, but ughhhh really >:(
This new monster is terrifying.. If only this one also could be obliterated !!! But that Lin Yi and Qin Zhou aren’t OP also makes it better..
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
i actually want to beat that scum up….