He Really Was Sick!

"Why do you say that so easily, officer?" Jiang Chen said.

"The Great Demon Bai Ye is standing there, wreaking havoc on the world. The eighteen warlords are preparing to attack him, but if they fail, they will be doomed forever."

Do you think you can stay out of it then?

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Yang Lin turned to look at Nightmare, "If all the eighteen warlords you mentioned have failed, what difference does it make whether I'm one more or one less?"

Nightmare looked up. "There's a difference. You might be special."

"Your name is Yang Lin, right?"

"It's an honor for you all to know my name," Yang Lin said speechlessly. "So, may I ask, what's so special about me?"

"I can't explain it, but Bai Ye may have been watching you for a while now," Nightmare said.

Yang Lin frowned. "What do you mean you've been watching me for a long time? What did I do?"

Nightmare took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. "It's a coincidence, because it all started with a Containment Object, which is the sword in your hand."

"He is your father."

"I know."

You know?

"He told me," Yang Lin said, gripping the hilt of his sword.

Nightmare asked in confusion, "He told you that? How did he tell you that?"

Although being transformed into a sword by Sword Forger doesn't mean you can't speak, it doesn't mean you can't.

"Okay, I won't ask any more questions. I'll just give you the results."

"I don't know why Bai Ye cares so much about your father, but it stems from that. He has asked us to investigate you on several occasions."

"We have investigated you in secret many times. I have seen you, but you have not seen me."

"And the results of several investigations during this period were that you are an ordinary person, but Bai Ye does not seem to be satisfied with this result."

"The matter was not closed until the fourth investigation was completed."

"But in recent years, Bai Ye has gone mad."

Jiang Chen: "When has he ever been normal?"

Yang Lin: "Don't interrupt."

Nightmare continued, "By chance, I overheard Bai Ye's secretary saying that Bai Ye's mental state is getting worse and worse."

"Because of excessive worry at the time, the secretary brought in a mental health expert to examine Bai Ye."

"And the result of that examination was that Bai Ye was diagnosed with hysteria."

"However, there is no need for a diagnosis at all. The entire Nine-Tailed Fox knows that Chief Bai is ill. When he is alone, he sometimes cries and sometimes laughs, and his laughter is quite eerie."

"Sometimes he goes crazy, but of course I've never seen him go crazy, I've only heard about it from others."

"Especially in recent months, people have often heard him shouting alone in his room, muttering something incessantly."

"Bai Ye's secretary told me that he had a habit of keeping a diary, so one time I secretly sneaked into Bai Ye's room and found his diary."

"But I don't understand it."

"The writing on it is incoherent and illogical; perhaps only he himself could understand it."

"At times like this, we usually don't look at the content."

"I started flipping through the diary page by page, and gradually, I realized that something was wrong."

"Bai Ye's handwriting became increasingly rough, filled with red ink, and he kept repeating these three sentences."

"I don't want to die."

"I can't die."

"I will not die."

"The further you turn the page, the shorter the text becomes, until only the word 'death' remains."

"He wrote with great force, even tearing the paper. His diary entries after that were all red lines with no words, just crisscrossing lines."

"After that, I never wrote a normal diary entry again."

"From that moment on, I was certain that Bai Ye might have gone mad."

"After that, I searched through the other cabinets and found a bunch of medicine bottles, a spray, and a note."

"That spray should be Leviathan's saliva, the kind of Forgetfulness Spray we often use, but the bottle is empty and it looks like it hasn't been refilled in a long time."

"And that pile of medicine bottles all contain the same kind of medicine, which can treat bipolar disorder."

"Bai Ye should have used the Forgetfulness Spray many times before, but he hasn't in recent years; he's been taking that drug all along."

"Finally, there was that note."

"There was only one sentence written on the note."

"If I am to die, all sequences will perish with me, including the Nine-Tailed Fox."

Jiang Chen suddenly realized, "You betrayed the Nine-Tails because you saw this?"

Nightmare: "Who said I betrayed the Nine-Tails?"

"Then why did you save us?"

"I'm not saving you, saving you is just a side effect. I only want to save Yang Lin."

What's so special about him?

"I have no idea."

"Then why did you save him?"

"It is precisely because we don't know that we must save them," Nightmare said.

Jiang Chen didn't understand. "What kind of logic is that?"

Nightmare looked at Yang Lin, "Bai Ye is afraid of something. He feels that thing might be related to you, but he's not sure."

"So the fact that he didn't kill you immediately shows that he was uncertain."

"But what if it really is you?"

"So, if it really is you, you need to think carefully now and figure out why Bai Ye is afraid of you."

Yang Lin and Nightmare locked eyes. "From what standpoint are you telling me all this?"

Nightmare said, "It could be a human, Nine-Tailed Fox, or even myself."

"From a human perspective, Bai Ye's methods are cruel and he doesn't care about sacrifices. The current situation is stable, and it's not a time of chaos. Bai Ye is not suitable to lead this situation and should step down."

"As far as the Nine-Tailed Fox is concerned, Bai Ye has certainly made contributions. I admit that without Bai Ye, the Nine-Tailed Fox might still be fighting to the death with the Chaos Splitter."

"But the current Bai Ye is no longer suitable to lead the Nine-Tailed Fox. He is more paranoid than before, and he now values his own death more than humanity as a whole."

"His extreme ideas and his abilities are a ticking time bomb."

"Personally, I don't think I'm that selfless. Bai Ye want to kill all the sequences, including me. I won't gladly accept my death."

Yang Lin nodded, "That makes things easier. Since you all want to kill Bai Ye, then our goals are the same."

Jiang Chen asked, puzzled, "Didn't you just say you wanted to run away?"

Yang Lin looked at the sword in his hand. "You said it yourself, I can't stay out of this. Besides, I only said that to test this Nightmare's attitude."

Hearing him say that, Jiang Chen was puzzled. "But I think what you said before makes a lot of sense."

"If those monsters can't defeat Bai Ye even if they form an alliance, then even if the three of us are added, it probably won't change anything."

Yang Lin nodded. "That's true, but since he's led me here step by step, is it really up to me to decide what to do?"

"Who is he?"

"Master, you should stop hiding it. Your Mental Power is too strong; it's impossible to hide it."