Latent Syndrome

Chapter 57 57. Man in the Mirror

"Muti...Crown..."

Stock index lines, failed marriages, vengeful souls.

Countermeasure Bureau, Latent Syndrome, SCT.

Crazy madman.

Blood red sunglasses.

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"It's really a divine method."

"I'm in the future...it's amazing."

"I gave you a psychological hint in the future, so I will smell it when you return."

"Is this the second time you have gone back in time?"

Randy pulled out six blood collection needles. Colin was already so weak that he was close to death. If he continued to collect a large amount of blood, he would die soon.

"Your body can only hold you for one last time."

"What did I say to you? That made you so desperate."

"Not just the body."

"Even the mental attack is completely useless."

"So jealous!"

"I'm really jealous of that future me."

"In this life, I haven't tasted that supreme nectar!"

"But...the next me, the last me."

"The ultimate will be reached."

"Is not it?"

Randy stopped talking.

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An hour later.

"He did something to you."

Gray arrived at the library. Even she was frozen in place, her hands trembling a little.

Although Randy knew that torture was meaningless to Colin, he still used what he had learned throughout his life to pass the boring time.

That is after all.

Randy's lifelong learning.

Click, click, click...

Wire, knife roll, cold metal.

Grind Gray and Colin to pieces.

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A spooky office building.

A huge black shadow swayed across the sky, covering the city, covering the rows of magnificent buildings, covering everything.

"Are you a catalyst, an invention, or a useless bubble produced in the experiment?"

It was an ugly monster that was about to break through the sky. It had a stooped body and crawled weirdly outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office building.

Those filthy compound eyes, limbs, mouthparts, tentacles, chitinous abomination shells, and dripping and blurry rolling flesh that are as deep as the abyss.

Hatred and sin feed it, causing it to become completely deformed.

Red and green stock index lines are continuously extracted from all computers, as well as LED screens in commercial plazas, all electronic devices, mobile phones, radios, and all connected objects.

Continuously merge into its huge body that covers the sky and the sun.

Including the human brain, the networked human brain, which extracts red and green stock index lines from the brains of the entire city. These evil lines have already taken root and spread into the entire world.

At this time, it is completely extracted, making it an abstract symbolic concept.

The writing chair was forcibly turned around, allowing Colin to look at it.

But his emotionless face showed no emotion at all.

The monster's evil face rolled with human faces, Cohen, the woman who sneaked into Eva's house, and everyone who died at Colin's hands.

Their faces twisted back and forth between despair and hatred, begging or staring furiously at Colin.

But Colin was just indifferent.

"You're talking to your imagination."

"And what I'm about to tell you is the top secret in the universe."

Thousands of sound-producing bodies were rubbing their limbs with completely cold-blooded and hollow bodies, like thunder rolling through the entire city.

Qin enters the heart and spleen, and penetrates directly into the brain.

Like the apocalyptic gospel.

"A huge conspiracy."

"No one knows about them."

"It's like they're invisible."

"The strongest among the strong, the god among gods."

"The idea of ​​capillaries dilating like crazy."

"It's so good, it's so good that it touches people's brains."

"Billions of users."

"Billions of pornographic and violent contents, military police, gangs, the poison of power, the whip of ignorance, bondage and training, sadism and masochism."

"There is no way to stop these invisible data, and the virus spreads everywhere."

The strange insect stretched out countless red and green index lines, seeped into the glass, and slowly swept towards Colin, spreading out on the ground like a red carpet for enthronement.

"Nothing is actually wrong."

"At least in your reality, what you say and do, when it appears in reality, it is automatically correct."

"The people you have killed and the beliefs you have destroyed will automatically become correct from the moment they are completed in this universe."

"Fall down, embrace the abyss, and slay the madman in his madness."

"Take the entire system offline, clean the infected servers, and restart the network."

"Investment advisor, Colin."

"This is the most profitable investment in the universe."

Those finger lines brushed against Colin's body, slowly wrapping around him.

"The most boring thing in the world is nudity."

"The second most boring thing is honesty."

“Think of sin as a kind of veil, like underwear for the face, to hide one’s identity.”

"The third boring thing is the tragic past."

"Confrontation is useless. The longer you fight, the more powerful you will become."

“Only by accepting this can you move on.”

"In the end you found a way to bury your sins, the first half of your life was full of contradictions and pain."

"It's just a deceased person."

"Only in this way can we be truly free!"

The faces of the dead raged in the faces of the monsters.

Seeing that the stock index line was about to pierce Colin's body.

But he grabbed these lines, held them tight, and broke them from the monster insect's body, causing dripping blood to burst out in an instant.

"What are you doing?"

"You crazy madman!"

The strange insect screamed.

With an expressionless expression, Colin pulled all the lines out of the monster insect's body, and it continued to explode with plasma, one after another, until it completely disintegrated.

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The pleasant sounds of waves and the cries of seabirds penetrated through the arched windows.

It was a beautiful figure from behind, who turned around and threw herself into Colin's arms, unable to see her face clearly.

He remembered this scene. It was the love nest he and his wife built at the seaside villa when they were just married.

"Don't you want to see me again..."

The heartbreaking sobs of my lover reached my ears.

Do I have to do that? I completely escape from the symbolic world and sink quickly, like Di Zhu, like Ash, like SCT.

Become the same monster as the man in the bloody sunglasses.

Like every crazed madman.

"I once... read some books, but I couldn't understand the meaning at that time."

“Phenomenology of Spirit, a Dialectic.”

"Being and Nothingness."

"Relative and absolute."

“Essence and Phenomenon.”

"Freedom and bondage."

"I think I can understand it now."

Colin looked at the sinful blood flowing out of his hands.

"Freedom... sounds like freedom, but it is bound by itself. If something is completely free, it must exceed all restrictions and cannot be defined by anything. But after making some provisions for freedom itself, it has already Refuted, it becomes opposed to everything else.”

"The restraints seem to be limited, but they are within a self-consistent framework. They do not need to be opposed to anything to gain a stable identity. Instead, they become something without limitations."

"Like infinite and finite."

"The true infinity must also include the finite. This mutual conversion is the true infinity."

"Those feelings of guilt, the people I have killed, and the beliefs that I have destroyed may be correct, restrain me."

“It did become part of my destiny.”

"But now, it doesn't matter anymore."

"Society only exists as a spiritual concept, and only individuals exist in the real world."

"Both the undead and the universe are too weak."

"Perhaps this is true freedom."

Colin discovered the red and green stock index lines that had been spreading crazily since his birth.

Colin cut open his skin. He couldn't tell which ones were blood vessels and tendons, and which ones were red and green thigh lines, so he had to pull them all out of his body.

"What are you doing!"

"You crazy madman!"

This crazy scene made his wife roar.

Colin's whole body was covered in blood, and all the muscles and veins in his body were lost. He could not even convulse. Not only did he not accept the lines of the strange insect, but he pulled out all the lines of his own.

"Maybe I'm really going crazy."

Colin's face was expressionless.

Be it death, sin, pain.

They are all too weak.

The moment all the lines are pulled out.

He felt that his body was lighter than ever before, and he was stronger than ever before. Even if the entire ancient universe stood in front of him, he could tear it into pieces.

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The blurry picture was torn apart and pieced together haphazardly before my eyes.

Chaotic consciousness spreads and splits in the brain and wanders around.

Is it false or true.

The old tube TV showed boring science documentaries.

Colin remembered watching it, late at night when he was extremely bored.

Noisy color blocks caused the screen to stutter and drop frames, and the intermittent female voice turned into a weird voice between human and machine.

[If a demon knew the exact position and momentum of every atom in the universe. 】

[You can use Newton's laws to show the entire process of cosmic events, the past, and the future. 】

The screen flashed suddenly.

[All particles and quanta can not only be partially described in particle terms. 】

[It can also be partially described in terms of waves. 】

[Light waves have the properties of both waves and particles. 】

[Electrons will also have wave phenomena such as interference and diffraction. 】

[Particles are full of uncertainty. 】

The screen flashed suddenly.

[The failure of Bell’s inequality means that local hidden variables do not exist,]

[There is no need for the influence of superluminal speed to 'notify' particle A of what happened to particle B, because the entire universe, including particle A, already 'knows' what is going to happen to particle B in advance. 】

[Locality, reality, free will. 】

[The three cannot be combined. 】

A rapid fall.

Gravity was pulling Colin down, but he had no power to resist.

And this time the fall was more fierce and violent than every time before.

He has completely broken away from the symbolic world.

In a fundamentally uncanny way, he was not out of a symbol of order and into a symbol of chaos.

It is a wonderful state that can only be imagined.

He felt his spirit being shattered, torn apart by the torrent of pain rushing up from the bottom of the abyss.

Countless abstract and grotesque painful hallucinations, the fall of high-dimensional things in the three-dimensional world, and the supreme pain transmitted by the ultimate power.

It was millions of times more ferocious than the blood eagle and the torture of that sick man.

Like a river of souls, slowly flowing into the sea, it wants to melt into the sea and slowly disappear.

But this amazing will has not been diluted by the boundless sea of ​​abyss.

Under this extremely violent pain, Colin didn't even frown.

"abyss……"

"I will despise you."

"It's not you who's bringing me down."

"It's me grabbing you, like a frightened coward."