Was that really only the sixth time?
Then, given the properties of Hidden Thread, the effects of mental parasitism shouldn't have appeared yet.
After Su Gao explained what the die did, Fu Qian fell into thought.
The Night Watchers probably wouldn't get this wrong. After all, if they wrote misleading instructions, they'd only be screwing over their own people.
But Violetta, Marguerite, Honey, Bella, and Soufflé... Fu Qian had indeed encountered five people in the mental cage before.
They had been trapped in that chaotic cage, where they could lose themselves in the fairy-tale world at any moment and never wake up again. That seemed to fit Hidden Thread's effect of "splitting and distorting, purging corruption."
Though, however he looked at it, they didn't seem like products of mental distortion.
Su Gao's mind had been cut to pieces by Hidden Thread before she even had a chance to suffer the negative effects of mental parasitism.
Her obviously abnormal state proved as much.
It was like an antivirus program so powerful it deleted system files.
As for why this had happened, he couldn't be sure yet. He didn't know if it had anything to do with Madam Madeline.
Su Gao herself didn't seem to have noticed, or perhaps she had, but chalked it up to her perception being distorted.
Looking at Su Gao, standing there like a puppet, Fu Qian sighed inwardly.
"Mr. Fu, I'm truly glad I met you."
"Even if it's only in a hallucination."
At that moment, Su Gao, silent for a long while, spoke again, her voice growing more ethereal.
"But I'm sorry. Before I lose myself completely, I still have unfinished duties."
"That criminal hurt a lot of innocent people. Adults... children... little boys... little girls..."
"So I can't stay here for too long."
"But I'm