[Huh? No way, you’re pretending to be innocent?]
[You’re definitely not as bad as those few people, but you knowingly got involved, and you quite enjoyed it.]
[I don’t believe it, unless you let me have some fun too.]
A large amount of malicious comments appeared.
Wen Xishu didn’t stop them, Miaosa looked at these comments, wishing she were dead.
She couldn’t believe that she was the woman described in the comments, filthy and despicable.
The sheer sorrow and pain on her face even evoked some sympathy from others.
[That expression on her face, it doesn’t seem faked...]
[Although this is burning, don’t be like this, I feel a bit guilty too.]
Wen Xishu said:
"You absolutely don’t believe that you did these things, right?"
Miaosa nodded, tears streaming down her face.
At this moment, Wen Xishu said:
"Miaosa is with you now."
"She has lost part of her memory."
"She thinks of herself as a good person."
"Everyone, don’t you have any doubts? Don’t you think that, besides how Miaosa behaved in the previous stories, she’s just like you?"
As these words were spoken, everyone fell into silence, and for a moment, only a few sparse comments floated by.
"Why are you here? Miaosa died in the previous round and then came here. Have you ever thought perhaps you too have died in some previous story session to end up here?"
"You actually committed many atrocities."
[Huh? How could I have committed any atrocities? I’m just a civil servant. At most, I’d drive my boss’s car for show...]
[Me, committing atrocities? I sell fish at the local seafood market. What could I possibly do? At most, I exaggerated that a police officer had my back.]
[Impossible, I’m just a delivery person. What evil could I possibly do? I never even spit in the food of troublesome customers.]
[You’re actually comparing me to them? Sure, I did some bad things as a kid, but I changed when I grew up!]
Various comments attempted to defend themselves.
But then Wen Xishu said:
"But you lost your memory, didn’t you?"
"There’s a part of your memory, just like Miaosa, that you don’t remember at all, right?"
Everyone was speechless.
"Everyone, the game is pretty clear at this point. You, just like Miaosa, were defeated in the stories..."
"Then you died and became the audience here. All of you originally came from this small town."
"But then again, how could a town... be full of villains? A small town’s total population isn’t that large, if over a thousand people were all committers of atrocities, even Gotham would feel ashamed."
"The people of your town weren’t that law-abiding, right?"
"So is it possible that you all became different due to some external factors?"
"Is it possible that maybe the lecturer guy, the maniac, the bratty kids, they weren’t originally bad either?"
Everyone fell into silence.
Some people began to think deeply, even to the point that their heads started to hurt.
One person let out a strange cry.
"Ah... my head hurts!"
It was like a curse, soon, others also started to feel headaches.
Thinking about it seemed effortless, but when done forcefully, thinking deeply could indeed cause pain sometimes.
More and more people started having headaches and fell into deep thought.
They seemed to be suffering from some kind of special illness.
At this moment, Miaosa said:
"We... we’re actually good people, right?"
She didn’t sound confident at all.
From the previous comments, she felt how malevolent she herself had been.
But after she asked this question, countless eyes turned to Wen Xishu, longing for an affirmative answer.
We are good people, right?
More and more people looked towards Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu suddenly felt a sense of sadness.
This group of people...
How painful must it be for them at this moment?
They didn’t even know if they were good or bad.
"You are good people. With the apocalypse descending, with numerous rules and monsters being born, you are indeed a group of very good people."
"But unfortunately, under the manipulation of monsters and rules, you became villains."
"Everyone, now look at Miaosa, do you still think... she’s very bad?"
"What if Miaosa’s experience was forcibly altered by some external force. Do you still think she’s bad?"
"What if she, like all of you, is genuinely a good person? What if she was just an ordinary kindergarten teacher?"
Wen Xishu’s words once again made Miaosa the focus of everyone’s attention.
But this time, the tone of the comments changed.
[She’s here, which means she’s the same as us.]
[Wen Xishu is right... she’s not a bad person, she was probably really forcibly twisted by some external force. So... am I the same?]
[If I’m like Miaosa, what evil did I commit? Damn, I can’t remember my family! Did I do something insane to them?]
[I don’t know Miaosa at all... I just remember working at a company, but I can’t even remember my colleagues.]
[If what Wen Xishu said is true... then could it be that I once judged my colleagues, friends, and family myself?]
More and more comments started to wake up
Wen Xishu sighed internally.
They’re all a bunch of poor souls.
Is it the Aberrater?
The Aberrater can indeed twist people’s lives, turning a person evil, just like Jack.
But in this entire story session, nearly a thousand members of the audience...