Looks Like You Can Commit Suicide, Kolk's Hypnosis

Expressions shifted across Lu Ce's mask, countless smiling and stern faces arranging and recombining before finally settling into calm.

"Ah! Aaaah! I don't know! What abuse? Who abused me? Who are you? I don't know!"

Only now did Wang Ao seem as though some switch had been flipped. He babbled madly and incoherently, completely unable to make sense of what he was saying.

Whether it was Lu Ce or the livestream audience, they all knew that question had definitely touched something buried deep within his soul.

Bang!

Without another word, Lu Ce stepped forward and kicked him, sending him sprawling to the ground.

"What's your name? Did I ask you? I haven't even asked yet!"

"Huh?" Wang Ao looked up in confusion, appearing weak, pitiful, and helpless. "Didn't you just ask?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Lu Ce said, raising his foot threateningly.

"No, no, no! Whatever you say goes!" Wang Ao hurriedly agreed. With his mind completely broken down, he was now exposing the weakest side of himself from his entire life.

The sickly viciousness in his eyes from the beginning had long since vanished. It was as if Lu Ce had completely broken the bones of his spirit.

Confusion and fear alternated within him, and every so often, he would lapse into a dazed, vacant state.

"What did you ask? You asked... no, that's not right. Medicine, kill me... let me go."

His words could not even form complete sentences. It was obvious just how chaotic his mind had become.

"Dear Mr. Qin, if you really want to die so badly, haven't you always had that piece of metal?"

"Why don't you commit suicide?"

Wang Ao:?!

In an instant, his eyes became clear and bright, as if he had just awakened from a dream.

He had never considered that question before. Yet after Lu Ce asked it, he suddenly found it strange that he had never thought of it!

Before Lu Ce raised the question, it was as though his mind had never contained that option at all, as though something had erased it.

"Yeah... it seems I can commit suicide."

He stared straight at the metal shard in his hand. Gradually, he began to stir with anticipation, struggle flickering in his eyes.

"Why... why didn't I kill myself? If I die, everything will be over."

As he struggled against the chaos in his mind, his vision suddenly blurred, and the metal shard in his hand vanished.

When he looked up, the shard was already in Lu Ce's hand. Somehow, Lu Ce had snatched it away from him.

"Student, how can you play with a knife during class? I'm confiscating it."

Wang Ao:?!

What? Weren't you the one who said I could consider suicide?!

Are you sick in the head? Can you just die already?

Barng his teeth, Wang Ao's nerves were like a wire being mercilessly bent back and forth by Lu Ce.

Now, it was clearly on the verge of snapping.

He lunged forward, only to be kicked over again by Lu Ce in an instant. Stepping on Wang Ao, Lu Ce said:

"Don't scream. I suddenly remembered what I wanted to ask you."

A serious expression appeared on Lu Ce's mask, and Wang Ao's expression turned serious as well.

Then the next question made Wang Ao seriously consider smashing his head into the wall and killing himself.

"Tell me, if you had really committed suicide just now, would this prison have gained one person who committed suicide, or lost one person who committed suicide?"

"And now that I've taken your knife, does that count as saving your life?"

"A life-saving favor is like being reborn to one's parents. Does that mean I can be considered your dad now?"

"Looks like the love I have for you counts as fatherly love..."

Wang Ao:...

Just destroy it all.

The livestream audience was already laughing themselves numb.

:Poor Wang Ao. He's been tortured over and over; at this point, he can neither live nor die.

:Tsk, but would it be one more person who committed suicide, or one less... Both somehow make sense.

:Person above, I suggest you stop thinking about it. Keep going and you'll lose your mind.

:Honestly, it feels like Masked Man gets the most information every time, and it all seems important, but he can never dig deeper.

:Obviously he can't. Wang Ao revealed a lot, but every time they start talking, he either breaks down or doesn't know anything himself. There's clearly something wrong.

:Go check on Kolk's side. That foreigner is pretty capable. It looks like he's already gotten quite a lot of information.

In Long Liu's room, Kolk, having established a certain degree of trust, was now brainwashing him frantically.

The six pills he had painstakingly pried out from Lu Ce had all been fed to Long Liu.

As for food, Kolk did not think that was important. It was garbage anyway; not eating it was no loss. He did not care whether these patients in the game went hungry.

As long as he could clear the level, that was all that mattered.

At this moment, he had pushed his Mental Interference ability to its limit. He spoke in a patient, coaxing tone while holding what looked like a pocket watch in his hand, swinging it back and forth without pause.

This was the tool he used for hypnosis. It was not a game item, but something he normally used.

To bring it in, he had actually used Lu Ce's "carry-it-close-to-the-body method."

As for how something like this could be carried close to the body... well, tucked somewhere...

No need to elaborate.

"You said just now that you were innocent, right?"

Kolk asked. This was also information Jiu Tian had shared earlier; he was guiding the other party.

"Yes..."

Long Liu sat obediently on the floor, like a dim-witted child.

"You also said that you came later? That the people before you were the guilty ones, and this place is a prison."

"Yes..."

"But everyone enters the asylum at different times. What do you mean by 'came later'? Are you saying everyone before you was guilty?"

Long Liu shook his head and replied listlessly:

"No, no... the people before us were already... guilty! We came in later, came in later..."

Kolk frowned, thinking seriously. Something seemed off.

Going by that, the people in this asylum were very likely divided into two groups.

He did not know whether this was key information, nor what basis had been used to divide them.

"The people before you, you mean they were locked up here because they committed crimes or because they were mentally ill, right?"

"Yes..."

"Then you—your group, the people who came later—why did you come in?"

"Me? Why did I come..."

Suddenly, something became very wrong with Long Liu. He looked like someone who could go berserk at any moment. Kolk's Mental Interference began to backfire, and it seemed as though a raging storm had erupted deep within the other man's mind!

"AAAAAHHHH!"

Without warning, Long Liu suddenly opened his mouth wide and roared at Kolk. Holding the pocket watch, Kolk had sensed it beforehand and leaped sharply backward, landing in the corner by the wall.

Lunch time has ended. All players, please return to the initial rest area!