Doctor Gao walked beneath the moonlight, as though treading on a pure white wedding dress.
"I don't know how to kill Unknowables like you in the World of Delirium. In fact, I tried killing one of you before, but after I killed him, he came back to life in another form. It seems that only by utterly destroying your rules, completely crushing your reason, and cutting off every avenue of escape can I have even the slightest chance of finishing you off."
"So I changed my approach. Instead of trying to kill you, I would treat you in my own way and make you part of this world forever."
"I worked hard to deduce your rules, classifying every anomaly as a different illness. After a long process of elimination, I finally settled on you."
"For this moment, Doctor Bu Cunzai and I planted seeds for you in the Residential Management Zone, letting your madness infection spread to more people. Even my mother was caught up in it."
"As you watched your rules grow stronger and your faith increase, you finally took the bait. You wanted to use your own power to find a way out, but you forgot that this is the World of Delirium. Faith in this city is a contagious mental illness. How could the other Unknowables and I simply stand by and watch you grow?"
"We watched you play your trump cards one by one, watched you turn from trees into a forest, step by step. You can no longer turn back, and neither can I."
Banban and Servant lay prone on the ground, their wills battling the Forest Will. At stake was whether they were people or trees.
His heart pounded, on the verge of bursting. Doctor Gao fitted the Shared Brain Device onto the woman,