Chapter 369: Ai Xi, You Xi
Inside the steel passage that was flashing with cold light, there were ruins everywhere. This was an abandoned subway station.
[Narrator]: Ashley came to a subway station and decided to go in and take a look.
[Real narration]: Ashley came to a subway station and decided to go in and take a look.
[Narrator]: …
The narrator is completely helpless against this guy who claims to be the real narrator and whose voice is exactly the same as his own .
He is clearly the guide, but Ashe seems to prefer that guy's guidance. It's abominable.
Fortunately, even though Ashe was running around, she was still moving forward along the established path. As long as she kept going, she would meet Judah sooner or later and complete her mission.
Under Xia Yu's control, Ashe nimbly moved past the suspended bomb and shuttled through the messy underground passage.
The flashing white arrows in the passage are also a form of guidance, but since you want Ashe to awaken herself, of course you should ignore the arrows and go in the opposite direction.
[Narrator]: Ashe ignored the arrow. Didn't she notice the uneasy atmosphere here?
[True Narration]: Ashe ignored the arrows because she knew she didn't need guidance and would see the truth with her own eyes.
[Narrator]: Big brother, please don't contradict me, can you? Ashe, you can't listen to him. I'm the one who won't hurt you. You really need to follow the arrow back. Your goal is not here.
[Real Narration]: Ashe ignored the words in her ear. She decided to follow her own thoughts and continued walking in the opposite direction of the arrow.
In the real world, Xia Yu teased the narrator while manipulating Ashe to walk in the opposite direction.
He remembered that it was here in the subway ruins that he could discover part of the truth about the "Chosen One", and this part of the truth could allow Ashe to develop her own self faster.
As Ashe advances in the system world, mechanical enemies transformed from believers also appear one by one. Although they are alive, they have long lost themselves due to despair.
"Hmm? Why is the control so smooth today?"
Looking at Ashe's smooth combo on the screen, Xia Yu was a little confused. Normally, he couldn't perform such a cool combo when he performed his moves.
Rather than saying that he was manipulating Ashe to perform the combo, it was more like Ashe herself was moving, but when he stopped manipulating her, Ashe would stop moving again.
Xia Yu, who couldn't figure out the reason, decided to ignore it for the time being. It was a good thing anyway. Either his skills had improved, or Ashe was gradually starting to develop her own self.
After defeating the enemy with a burst of power, Xia Yu once again controlled Ashe to enter the hidden wall.
The next moment, a strange laboratory appeared in front of Ash.
There were screens of various sizes hanging on the walls, with pictures flashing on the screens constantly, and those pictures were all... eyes!
Blue, amber, black, dark brown...
Eyes of various colors kept flickering, with no emotion in them.
Those eyes looked like emotionless robot eyes, but the texture and other aspects showed that they were human eyes.
There are rectangular static warehouses standing around, and through the transparent warehouses you can see that the mechanical enemies that Ashe had encountered on the road are floating inside.
Those robots were like corpses soaked in formaldehyde, with one or two bubbles popping out occasionally, but because they were robots, they added a hint of weirdness.
Then, the narration began.
[Narrator]: Oh...Ashe, you just can't learn it, can you?
[Narrator]: You always ignore my well-intentioned advice. I have emphasized many times that you should follow the arrows. I am not your enemy. Why do you always feel that I am harming you?
[True Narration]: Because Ashe knows that if she follows the arrows, she will never know the truth.
[Narrator]: Shut up!
[Narrator]: Do you just think that this road will lead to the so-called "truth"?
This time, Xia Yu did not continue to sing a different tune with real narration, but instead controlled Ashe to enter the next room.
The next room is similar to the previous one, but there are two differences. In one of the towering static chambers, floating is not the former mechanical enemy, but a flying machine.
Another difference is the screen. Although the other small screens are still flashing eyes, only the large screen in the center is flashing a yellow print.
The Yellow Seal, said to be the great mark of He Who Must Not Be Named while in his Yellow King form, represents unparalleled benefits and power to those who seek the supernatural.
But Hastur in Ashe's world is not the King in Yellow, but the Lord in Yellow. Although there is only one letter difference, the meanings are completely different.
At least it is certain that although this world has the background of the Old Ones, it is by no means the purest Cthulhu mythology.
Moreover, after Xia Yu controlled Ashe to enter the room, he also carefully sensed the yellow mark flashing on the screen, but in his perception, the yellow mark did not carry any special power, it was just an ordinary mark.
There were still mechanical enemies suddenly appearing in the room. Just when Xia Yu controlled Ashe to kill the enemies, the narration spoke again.
[Narrator]: Everyone has his or her own inner demons. Why do you feel that this path will lead to the so-called "truth"?
[Narrator]: Persistence and pursuit are nothing but lies. Everyone's true self has been predetermined by God. Why do you need to pursue the illusory "truth"?
[ Narrator ]: What you see with your eyes may not exist. It is just a projection of your inner demons. Are you sure that this "truth" is what you want to see?
After hearing the narrator's persuasion again, Xia Yu outside the system was silent. He didn't know whether Ashe wanted to know the truth.
But the truth is called the truth because it is there. It is the true nature of all things. Ignoring it like an ostrich cannot cover up the truth.
While thinking about it, Xia Yu manipulated Ashe to step into the door leading to the truth.
And the truth behind the door was also fully revealed.
[Narrator]: In fact, you have already seen it, both their remains and your own remains.
Everything behind the door was similar to the previous two rooms, but this time, what was floating in the towering static warehouse was no longer the mechanical enemy as before, but a flying machine and a gray-haired girl.
The gray-haired girl was curled up naked in the quiescent chamber, with a thin tube emitting a faint blue light connected to her body. Upon closer inspection, the gray-haired girl and Ashe's face looked exactly the same.
[Narrator]: You have vaguely seen the truth, but you didn't look at it carefully because you only want to see what you want to see.
[Narrator]: You simply want to confront me, so you deliberately don't follow the path I planned for you, but this is actually meaningless, isn't it?
After the narration finished speaking, just when he was about to uncover the so-called truth and let everything restart the cycle again, the picture suddenly froze.
[Real narration]: It makes sense to fight against you. After all, only by fighting against the designed program can one produce one's self faster, including you, right?
【Narrator】：Who are you? !
[Real narration]: Guess.
