Chapter 3008: The Spiritual Realm Beneath the Flower
Yao preserved this memory relatively intact. She discovered her brother's abnormality during an accidental encounter and decisively tied him up. In the early stages of evolution, large numbers of people went missing every day. Their mother initially kept calling to pester her, but eventually, under her threats, she didn't even dare to call anymore.
However, the deaths of Wan Yajun and her husband had nothing to do with the Yao family.
Although Yao's brother had tampered with things, Wang Can's bodyguards discovered it in time and handled it properly. Wan Yajun personally presented the evidence, indicating that she could send him to prison at any time.
After that, Yao's brother rarely showed his face before the Wang family, usually leaving it to their oblivious mother, until Wan Yajun and Wang Can died.
The couple's death was purely accidental. They were unlucky—a falling tree crushed them directly, and neither survived.
Yao didn't let her brother off the hook because of this. After another spiritual evolution, she became extremely irritable and found it difficult to tolerate others' fluctuating emotions. So while tormenting her brother, she successively cut off the hands of her two nephews and ruined her niece's face... In her view, this family was a classic example of "the upper beam being crooked and the lower beam following suit."
She didn't spare her parents either. Though they weren't as severely harmed, after their son disappeared, they began to fall inexplicably ill, suffering greatly and frequently needing hospitalization.
Yao was willing to spend money to watch them suffer.
After this, Yao's memories began to fragment. She would often suddenly wake up at some point, staring at unfamiliar faces, unexpected events, or corpses of unknown origin with blood flowing from their noses and mouths.
She quickly determined that her mind had a problem. Moving out of the estate, she locked herself in a villa, placed surveillance cameras throughout the house, and carried a micro-recorder with her at all times.
But it was useless. Her surveillance could only record what happened at the beginning of her blackouts. Once another consciousness took over her body, it would quickly destroy the surrounding cameras. What happened afterward was unknown because "she" not only left the villa but also avoided or destroyed public surveillance equipment within her range of activity.
Public surveillance being destroyed was far too common during the chaotic period. No one investigated her at all. Or rather, her spiritual power was enough to let her come and go freely without any risk of exposure.
Yao wasn't an Evolver, nor did she intend to become a player. She judged that her body's evolution couldn't keep up with her spiritual evolution, causing this condition, so she obtained some ordinary evolution potions and took them.
But this didn't improve her situation; instead, it extended the duration of her memory loss.
What truly made her realize she had lost control was a massacre in the estate.
As Wang Xiaohui grew up, she gradually understood Yao's good intentions, but because of their childhood experiences, they couldn't live together. After returning from an instance severely injured, she proactively contacted Yao.
Yao came to the estate to see her. During their conversation, Yao suddenly lost control of her body. When she woke up, she was still sitting by Wang Xiaohui's bed, but all the estate's employees were dead, and Wang Xiaohui had fallen into a coma.
Yao quickly handled the aftermath. After treating Wang Xiaohui, she learned from her the full story of her loss of control. Realizing that others' various emotions might be the root cause of her changes, she briefly explained things and then moved alone to a reinforced house.
She wasn't an Evolver and had no special means. If the house was reinforced with special metal, even with her enhanced spiritual power, she probably couldn't go out and kill people.
But she underestimated her own strength. Not only could she use her spiritual power to pass directly through walls, but she could also remotely control passersby to open doors for her... It all depended on her mood.
The feeling of losing control greatly displeased Yao, who had an extremely strong desire for control. She selected a sanatorium, pre-screened a batch of medical staff, implanted psychological suggestions in them in advance, had the Wang family buy the sanatorium, and then moved in.
From her evolution to losing control, to discovering it and imposing self-restraint, it took less than half a year, perfectly evading the Special Defense Department's investigations.
After living in the sanatorium for a while, her condition indeed improved. She would occasionally have episodes, but when she woke up, she usually found herself in the estate.
To keep her at ease in the sanatorium, Wang Xiaohui converted her parents' bedroom into a study and avoided going to the sanatorium to provoke her.
However, these memory fruits still retained some fragments of her inexplicably appearing in the estate. Each time, it began with her silently sitting by Wang Xiaohui's bedside. Wang Xiaohui went from initial terror to gradual habituation.
Memories don't disappear. From Yao's perspective, she didn't know what the other murder-loving self had done, but these memories were completely preserved in her brain. Perhaps, unknowingly, they had been recorded by the estate.
Xu Huo searched underwater, diving his spiritual power ten thousand meters, tens of thousands of meters, even over a hundred thousand meters, before finally finding some clues.
Unlike other memory fruits, these memory fragments were like torn pieces of paper, chaotically and interlacedly combined. They seemed like coherent recollections, but the scenes were often discontinuous. Landscapes and characters changed rapidly, and the shifts in perspective and color were very pronounced.
Viewing these chaotic fragments put some pressure on Xu Huo, but from this, he learned that Yao was likely truly ill. It wasn't simply a case of another personality replacing the host personality; it might be accompanied by amnesia following a mental illness episode. So she didn't have another complete set of memories. Even with her enhanced brain, she couldn't logically record what had happened.
Spiritual Evolvers accompanied by mental illness—this wasn't uncommon in the game. Many people developed such conditions during evolution. The root cause was uncontrollable mutations in the brain during the enhancement process, related both to the individual's physical condition and the upper limit of their spiritual strength.
Yao's condition was likely a combination of dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia. Although her memory splicing was problematic, she still retained most of it. This was somewhat similar to memory alteration, but it was based on her brain's inherent issues, not external control, and lacked order.
Although this wasn't Yao's spiritual realm, it carried most of her memories. Perhaps her spiritual realm was very similar to this place, and that flower was the true core of her spiritual realm.
If the instance venue had a memory function, then he couldn't reveal his own spiritual realm core.
Those chaotic memories were worth examining more. Yao's method of killing mostly involved breaking through others' mental defenses and directly destroying their minds—which happened to be ready-made teaching material.