Bait

"This is truly amazing. Because I'm skilled at manipulating cognition and Memory, did they actually start with what I'm best at and play tricks on me...?"

Freud was not angry; on the contrary, he admired it.

"That's wonderful! You've really delighted me!"

Lin Yu laughed, "Alright, now that we've both laid our cards on the table... it's time to talk about the benefits."

"You want to Resurrection, don't you?"

Freud nodded. "Of course... your Divine Rank is too low to understand the principles behind my arrangements."

"But all you need to know is that as long as there are enough souls, I can be 'resurrected' and no longer trapped in this tiny Mist Island Asylum... and I will also gain a very high Divine Rank."

Lin Yu shrugged. "I have no problem with this. You just need to keep it running, and Player will keep coming in—I promise I won't write any guides after I leave."

"Just let me pass the level."

Freud looked at Lin Yu and shook his head slightly. "But I can't bear to part with it—what you just said is wrong, I don't need a soul."

"The Player's body, still retaining a portion of their soul... can also provide me with great value."

Lin Yu said, "You can't do it—the manipulations you can make of the soul and cognition are only possible if we satisfy certain behaviors."

"Leaving the hospital, exploring forbidden zones... In other words, you can only wait for it to be triggered passively."

"If I do nothing, you can no longer move my soul."

"On the contrary... because I'm trapped here, neither dead nor cleared the level, this [Instance] isn't over—do you think new 'Player' will enter here?"

Lin Yu said in a cold voice.

"Moreover... the avatar of Deity came here, probably not just to join in the fun."

"Based on their hints, while you're coveting Player's souls, others are also eyeing you."

Freud said, "That's true, but would it be more beneficial for you if we dragged this out?"

"I can't interfere with you on a spiritual or cognitive level, but..."

As Freud spoke, the stairwell door opened.

The door was filled with expressionless patients, some dressed in medical staff uniforms and others in hospital gowns.

They spoke almost in unison.

What if I tried to kill you on a 'physical' level?

Lin Yu remained calm despite witnessing this bizarre scene.

"Is this the confidence that allows you to talk to me for so long, gathering all these guys to corner me here?"

"But you also said I'm fairly smart... so is it possible that I'm also stalling for time?"

Freud laughed. "You're trying to get your two 'Summoned Creature' to the wine cellar, aren't you—that's exactly what I expected."

"Although the wine cellar is outside my control, but..."

Freud snapped his fingers.

The crowd in the stairwell parted, and some battered medical staff escorted Stiller, who was bound hand and foot, through the stairwell.

Next to them were Hannah, locked in a glass box, and Max was also tied up.

"I can handle that crazy woman in the wine cellar once, and I can handle her a second time."

Stiller let out a sigh of relief.

"Sorry, Director —there are too many of them."

Lin Yu looked at Stiller: "It's alright, it was expected."

Max, on the other end, was completely bewildered. "What's going on?! Am I having a relapse? No, wait, do I have schizophrenia? Is the Doctor here? Can you give me a larger dose of my medication? I'm Hallucination!"

He ignored the noisy Max.

Freud spoke again, "You seem to have another card up your sleeve?"

"Of course, they were just bait," Lin Yu sighed. "Didn't you realize that if I impersonated Robin, and my Summoned Creature impersonated me... you didn't actually know Robin's real location?"

Freud narrowed his eyes. "So what? Even if she's good at hiding and managed to evade one 'cognitive modification,' half of her soul is already in my hands."

What can she possibly do?

Lin Yu curled his lip.

"Then why don't you open the ward and take a look?"

Freud's face darkened. "What trick are you playing now?"

"It's nothing, I just... got her a little wine—although I switched her in the wine cellar, but," Lin Yu laughed, "She's not in the wine cellar now."

"It must have been tough for Stiller. He had to carry someone else on his back when he went out, and pretend he was alone..."

"They clearly possess Item to alter perceptions, but the mechanism by which that Item works is rather rudimentary..."

Lin Yu said calmly.

He had figured out Freud's methods of erasing Memory in one cycle after another.

It's the "fog" of Mist Island.

The mist formed by the vaporization of the liquor.

This is not hard to understand, since Freud was relying on the mechanisms of the Asylum itself for most of his methods at that moment.

Its greatest function used to be extracting souls to brew wine.

The confusion between "Memory" and "cognition" is essentially a form of "drunkenness" that Freud could control!

Therefore, even without using Closed Mind, there are still ways to withstand this revision for a period of time.

For example, covering the mouth and nose.

For example...

They get the other person drunk with a "liquid" of higher concentration.

"The Clearance Conditions for this Instance is leaving the island, not the Asylum, which confirms that there are other places to explore on this island besides the Asylum."

"And someone as clever and cautious as you, your 'true form' or 'core' certainly wouldn't be in this Asylum."

As Lin Yu spoke, he calmly stroked his chin.

"Although I've never told her about my plan, she's reached Tier 3, so she shouldn't be too stupid. Plus, she's been to this Instance once before, so she's probably not completely unaware of your methods... Judging by the time, she should be finding your hiding place soon."

As Lin Yu spoke, Freud's expression Cataclysm.

"You... you never intended to negotiate with me, you were planning to kill me?!"

"Aren't you afraid of a fight to the death with me?"

Lin Yu smiled and shook his head.

"No—what I just said wasn't even for you."

"Did you know that if you're fishing in a river, you only need loach or worms as bait?"

"But if you're fishing in the deep sea, and you haven't prepared good bait, you can use worms to catch small fish and then use them as bait to catch bigger fish."

Lin Yu let out a breath and looked at Max.

"Alright, sir—and who are you from?"

"Having come to this Instance and watched me running around doing all this... what are you planning to do to reap the benefits later?"