Overturned Tower

"It seems you have realized it."

The inferior glanced at Russell and said flatly: "It seems that these demons are not even restricted in their freedom.

"But they have all been transplanted with another kind of chip - the control chip invented by Thoth Psychic and specially used to imprison high-risk prisoners, the 'Crayon Type 2'.

"Unlike the protective chip, this control chip exists in the form of nanometers. Once injected, it is permanently effective. Therefore, it cannot be removed."

"crayon……"

Russell murmured, mumbling this innocent-sounding and harmless word.

The inferior explained: "Some children will play a game. They use crayons to draw several roads or grids on the ground, and then define a certain color as a road, a certain color as a flame, or a swamp, and then walk on it. They deliberately did not touch other roads, as if they were walking on a single-plank bridge between two buildings."

"Ah...I've heard of that game."

Russell nodded slowly with a complicated mood: "It's ground parkour."

In this world, "parkour" is a cool sport.

It has a certain sense of resistance because it is dangerous and has a "sense of freedom"; but it is not illegal, nor will it be regarded as dangerous or aggressive behavior...just running from the roof Just passed.

Because of this kind of movement, in most cases it is yourself who is harmed.

Even if you rely on special props... such as shoes that can jump from a very high place without breaking your legs, or hook locks that can be ejected from the waist, and can walk sideways and horizontally on the building Special climbing boots and other props allow them to move forward in more imaginative ways.

But for children, it is impossible for their parents to encourage them to play such dangerous sports and buy equipment for them.

So the children like to draw lines on the ground with crayons. Imagine this is the route they would take while parkouring.

And if the shoes wiped the crayon off, it meant they had "stepped on the edge" or "slipped" - symbolizing "death."

They would build increasingly complex terrain, each taking a turn at the topic.

It's best to have a map that only you can pass and everyone else will "die".

In a sense, it's similar to Mario Maker...

This is actually the same as "police catching thieves" on earth to simulate chase battles, "hide and seek" to simulate hunting for prey, and "throwing sandbags" to simulate long-distance combat.

Children are the most innocent. Games that are popular among children generally vaguely satisfy a certain "nature"...or "instinct".

When Russell was a child, he had not yet retrieved the memories of his previous life, and he once wanted to play "Crayon Parkour" with other neighborhood children.

But he was never welcome.

Because he is too strong. So he was refused entry.

Russell gained a lot of dexterity from his psychic disease.

Not to mention this childish simulated parkour... When Russell was a few years old, he could easily jump up trees or even climb high buildings. When he first entered elementary school, he liked to climb on the classroom door and crouch quietly next to other students. And the moment they entered the door, he jumped behind them and hugged them to scare them.

Thinking about it now...

This may be the "instinctive desire to hunt" that psychic disease brings to Russell.

Although Russell didn't understand anything, he was still subconsciously imitating the hunting behavior of cats - he liked to approach others from behind and quietly pounce on them to hug them.

Nowadays, Russell can even avoid bullets and even cut them off with a knife.

Of course those kids couldn't have that level of dexterity.

This means that the questions they asked Russell back then would never be able to stump Russell; and the moderately difficult questions Russell asked himself would be impossible for those children to pass... The game therefore becomes meaningless. Russell stopped playing crayons a long time ago.

Nowadays, these demonic prisoners seem to be trapped in a "crayon" game that will never end...

"They can't leave their own 'color', can they?"

Russell murmured quietly.

He couldn't help but lament the advancement of this "imprisonment" method. At the same time, he also developed a creepy fear of this kind of control method.

It fundamentally eliminates the possibility of "jailbreak". Because they can't always walk on the same standard color ground outside.

Moreover, it can also reduce the difficulty of management to the greatest extent——

After all, each prisoner can only walk on a specific color of floor tiles. As long as they leave their floor tiles, they will immediately feel unbearable pain... Then there is no need to worry about prisoners running around. As long as the color of the corridor is changed through a machine, a certain group of prisoners can be controlled to come out for fun, while others cannot leave their rooms at all.

"...But in this case, wouldn't the prisoners fight with each other?"

Russell asked.

This restraint also means that it solves the "force gap" to the greatest extent.

Even if you can't defeat the opponent, can't you push him away?

As long as you touch the other person lightly, you will feel severe pain as if you were hit by a high-voltage electric shock. The specifications of the prosthetic body used by everyone are the same, so the difference in strength and physique is almost non-existent.

This achieves a subtle "fairness" instead.

As long as someone hates you, you will feel severe pain every day. As long as there are enough people, they are invincible.

"Because this chip also eliminates the possibility of suicide and killing each other."

The bad guy spoke slowly: "Devils cannot choose to end their own lives, nor can they endanger the lives of others. With the injection of chips, their thoughts have also been stamped with steel... They can curse each other, they can curse each other, but they cannot Attack the opponent. Just like those without tails who can never remember how to use their tails.

"Their limbs have been removed and replaced with prosthetics that are similar to the original ones. This also means that their actions can be taken over at any time... voluntarily cross the line, or stop moving to accept punishment."

"And there are cameras and bugs everywhere here. In addition to the ones in the sky, on the ground... there are also everyone's eyes and ears. Everything they hear, see, and think will be transmitted to the designated Location. All instructions given by their prosthetics will be transmitted to that place, and they can intervene at any time.

“That’s where the real ‘Memory Arms’ Research Institute is located.

"—As for the demons here, they are just objects of research."

The inferior said, leading Russell towards a small room.

As he walked, he slowly explained to Russell: "The one named 'Blind Snake' just now was a volunteer in a kindergarten.

“Because the kindergarten where she was located had three consecutive deaths of children due to accidents such as falling, cardiac arrest, and sudden death at night, so we were secretly investigating.

"The place where those children fell was not in the kindergarten. It was only when we were investigating these accidents that we connected them with this kindergarten. Later, we found that there are eleven cases that have not yet been discovered... and behind these cases, It's the 'blind snake' who is murdering these children.

"Her psychic power is a kind of poison that takes effect with a delay. By giving something a special poison and letting it touch the skin of the other party. When it comes into contact with the poison, the other party will become extremely calm and peaceful. Then, She can detonate this poison at any time within forty-eight hours. It will paralyze the opponent's body for a certain period of time... The specific time of paralysis is equivalent to the time the opponent is exposed to a specific poison."

"...Then what is she trying to do?"

Russell was in disbelief.

"Not for anything."

The inferior said calmly: "When she was in her twenties, she took a banned powerful drug that can increase happiness, which caused the fetus in her belly to move abnormally and throbbing. She stepped on the stairs, slipped down and had a miscarriage.

"That's when her spiritual power was awakened. Mixed with hate and love, she had the ability to 'quiet' and 'paralyze' others. After she was discharged from the hospital, she became a volunteer in the kindergarten. After loving other people's children, At the same time, they are jealous that they can have healthy children, and at the same time they are extremely disgusted with 'active' children.

"As this psychic power develops further...she turns into a demon named 'Close your eyes and hold your breath'. Her original wish is to kill as many 'active children' as possible. Her final wish is to kill 'active children' as much as possible." It will intermittently paralyze the children's bodies at first, and if the child is on the verge of danger at that time, he will fall immediately.

"Later, if she finds an extremely active child who is lucky enough to be alive, she will angrily sneak poison into the child and paralyze him until he dies at night. This process will take several hours. The child lies motionless in bed... until the heart goes into paralysis. At that time, their parents may be around and know nothing about it."

"And such demons are everywhere here - almost every one of them holds the lives of multiple innocent people in their hands. The very few who do not have victims in their hands are also because our arrest actions are fast enough."

As he said that, he glanced at Russell coldly: "Do you understand?

"Devils have no humanity. When they truly become demons, they have only one idea left... an idea that can be ignored as long as it can be achieved. There is no point in reasoning with demons, because Demons don't care about principles, rules, or morality at all... They don't even care about the threat to life, because they are not even afraid of death. They just hope to go as far as possible on this road.

"But the demons will cunningly deceive you into thinking that they have been persuaded by you.

"If you choose to turn a blind eye...choose to help it hide, the devil will become more extreme and crazy as time goes by.

"In the beginning, the devil just wants to be loved. In the middle stage, it will distort the mind of the lover, rewrite the memory of the people close to it, and disrupt the social relationship of the person he likes. Later, he will kill himself at will. Familiar whose level has declined, he will unscrupulously deceive passers-by into his home, and when the other person "cannot fall in love" with him, he will kill him and "replace" him.

"Because the desires of demons will gradually expand and distort. On the contrary, their 'blue shift' related values ​​such as morality and rationality will gradually decay, and will completely return to zero when hatched.

"The devil's moral concept is like that of a carefree game player; compared to a player who doesn't care so much about a game and just has fun, the devil will do whatever it takes to fulfill his 'original wish'. Therefore, Demons eventually become more and more dangerous.

"In the final analysis, it is because those things that have been obtained become no longer precious. If they are ordinary people, they will be disgusted and look for other fun at that time... but the devil will not.

"Because demons only follow one path, they are only interested in one thing. So they are bound to seek stronger and stronger stimulation.

"——The cycle goes back and forth, never ending."