The Final Day (3)

The young man had been deceived by the man under the umbrella.

There was no hidden power within his body, nor had he endured ten days of torment.

People's sense of time was unreliable—or rather, the perception of time was relative.

When one felt happy, time seemed to pass quickly. Take gaming, for example: if one was focused, time would fly by.

But if one felt miserable, every day truly felt like a year, such as during class or at work.

The man under the umbrella used pain-inducing powder to stimulate the young man, keeping him from sleeping and leaving his mind in a constant state of confused excitement. Moreover, the man under the umbrella's torture followed a pattern.

That pattern made the young man instinctively believe that one complete round of torture equaled a day, further distorting his sense of time and making him think he had been in this room for many days.

In reality, it had not taken that long. Aside from the young man, everyone else was already dead. What remained were merely illusions simulated by the man under the umbrella with shadows.

Other than a few things that had been real, everything inflicted upon the young man had merely been simple stimulation of the skin.

If one looked carefully at the young man's position, one would notice that he was at the edge. He could clearly see everything the man under the umbrella did to the others, so he had witnessed how the man under the umbrella tortured them.

Thus, under the mixture of real and fake torment inflicted by the man under the umbrella, the young man believed it all. Now, with the hope of survival before him, he had completely gone mad.

In just three days, the man under the umbrella had thoroughly