In the living room, Lin Cheng sat quietly on the leather sofa.
He looked at the faceless figure before him.
"Surely you don't actually think I trapped you in this loop with a reboot because I was afraid you'd devour Zhang Lei's memories?"
Lin Cheng's voice was quiet, yet it echoed clearly through the collapsing world.
As soon as he finished speaking.
Lin Cheng's eyes snapped wide open, and the Ghost Brain's paranormal power erupted in full.
The virtual Dachang City, riddled with holes and still being ravenously devoured, stopped collapsing within a single second.
Then the entire world began frantically rebuilding itself at an incredible speed!
Broken streets rejoined, and vanished high-rises sprang up from the ground.
But that was only the beginning.
The instant the world finished rebuilding, a translucent, intangible barrier enveloped all of Dachang City.
Then the barrier began multiplying at a frantic pace.
One layer, ten layers, fifty layers, a hundred layers!
In no more than the blink of an eye, Zhang Lei's entire subconscious world.
Had been forcibly encased in a hundred layers of memory by Lin Cheng's Ghost Brain.
From within, the entire world looked as though it had been sealed inside an immensely thick crystal ball that not even light could penetrate.
Within those thick memories, the Gluttonous Ghost's paranormal devouring failed to stir even a single ripple.
Facing those hundred layers of memory, the Wish-Granting Ghost's pale, featureless face suddenly began twisting unnaturally.
A slit slowly tore open across the lower half of its face.
It smiled.
It was an eerie smile brimming with mockery and triumph.
At the sight of that smile, Lin Cheng, seated on the sofa, obligingly adopted a frown.
As though he had suddenly realized some fatal mistake.
"True enough." Lin Cheng sighed, a trace of regret