Morioka Immortal sitting in the luxury sedan suddenly began to experience intense pain.
"Aaaahhhhh!"
Pain that could tear everything apart attacked in an instant.
It was like a calm sea suddenly surging up with waves hundreds of meters high.
Or like a deep-sea monster finally starting to hunt.
Morioka Immortal’s immortal visage shattered in an instant; his eyes bulged, saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were bloodshot.
This extreme pain spawned all sorts of negative emotions within Morioka Immortal: fear, anger, doubt.
At the same time...
Not far from Morioka Immortal, a masked female assassin appeared, a two-headed monster man appeared, and a child emitting flames all over appeared.
They represented the host of the human cave’s doubt, fear, and anger.
When they appeared, they could instantly kill anyone attempting to make the host unhappy.
But this time...they couldn’t find a target.
Hiding in the dream, the absolutely calm version of Wen Xishu couldn’t help but laugh:
"Of course you can’t find the target, because the target is outside the Human Cave Village."
The curator was simply like an antidote growing beside a poisonous plant.
Just like in martial arts novels, the heart-breaking grass beside the emotionless flowers.
Though both are poisonous, they can neutralize each other’s toxins.
Because no one had ever left the human cave before, nobody knew that leaving the cave required creating and collecting misfortune in the world of absolute happiness.
And the biggest challenge of the human cave lies in losing oneself.
All these things can be resolved through pain.
But the people controlled by Pain Currency were completely unaware of this restrain relationship.
At this moment, the pain and tearing sensation brought by the acute pain made Morioka Immortal feel misfortune.
The world of the human cave actually began to collapse, and Wen Xishu’s primary personality was not awakened because of this...
Because Morioka Immortal had never doubted himself.
But the calm version of Wen Xishu’s secondary personality was not in a hurry.
It didn’t matter that the primary personality was not awakened; he had already found the truth in Morioka Immortal’s past experiences.
Next, he just needed to constantly feel the pain and forcibly leave this world.
Morioka Immortal let out a heart-wrenching roar.
The intense pain was so terrifying that even the driver felt frightened.
And the embodiments of all the negative emotions were helpless, just watching as this world fell apart.
They couldn’t kill Morioka Immortal either, as their purpose was to kill those who tried to make Morioka Immortal unhappy.
But Morioka Immortal himself had to survive.
Since the primary personality wasn’t awakened, he naturally didn’t know how to break the pain link.
Morioka Immortal’s misfortune quickly accumulated...this immortal forcibly relied on extreme pain—collected enough misfortune to leave here.
Finally...
The world started to crack. Hujiang’s street scenes turned into a colorful tunnel.
Wen Xishu, whose gums were almost bitten to the point of bleeding, suddenly woke up.
"Where...where am I? Why did I end up here?" Wen Xishu’s expression was very frenzied.
Because of the immense pain, his entire face looked somewhat distorted.
"I am..."
"Am I Morioka Immortal? No...no, I am Wen Xishu."
Accompanied by heavy breathing, Wen Xishu gradually found himself.
"Big brother, if you keep exploring the human cave... you will truly lose yourself. You are more confused than the first time."
The little boy dressed in a white kimono said.
The first time Wen Xishu left the tunnel, he had a feeling akin to Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly.
Was it Wen Xishu turning into Yoshida Koki, or Yoshida Koki turning into Wen Xishu?
At that time, even though he awakened autonomously, he couldn’t help but feel that way.
And this time, his primary personality wasn’t awakened, meaning from start to finish, he thought he was Morioka Immortal.
He only relied on the accumulated misfortune from pain to forcibly escape.
This also made it more difficult for him to anchor himself this time.
"I am Wen Xishu... I am Wen Xishu..."
Wen Xishu kept chanting all this while disconnecting the pain link with the curator.
"I see... I understand now, I am Wen Xishu. I just entered the human cave and was playing the role of Morioka Immortal."
After repeatedly confirming many times, Wen Xishu finally anchored himself.
He didn’t deny the little boy’s words.
If he continued exploring the human cave multiple times, he would definitely lose himself in the truest sense.
Maybe next time, even after leaving the human cave, he still wouldn’t awaken his primary personality and would still think he was a being in the cave.
After a long silence, Wen Xishu said:
"I already know everything about Human Cave Village, and Morioka Immortal... is not the true bringer of happiness."
Upon hearing Wen Xishu’s words, the little boy’s expression noticeably stiffened.
"There is no Celestial Eye God, no so-called Immortal Morioka. All of this is just a version of Morioka in the human cave."
"In reality, Morioka couldn’t achieve any of this; the Morioka in the cave is just an idealized version."
"He fantasized about being an immortal, fantasized about gaining recognition by some power as a god."
"But he also had vague concerns about the backlash of this power."
As Wen Xishu spoke, he already had the invitation in his hand.
A trace of sadness suddenly appeared in the little boy’s eyes.
"Big brother... what are you going to do?"
Wen Xishu looked at the little boy:
"When Morioka Immortal transferred the misfortune of that gambler... I realized that the scenes of the black liquid being bottled were very similar to my process of collecting misfortune in the cave."
"At that time, Morioka was talking to himself. Initially, I thought Morioka had multiple personalities, but that wasn’t it."
"He was talking to himself because the beautified version in the human cave..."
"In reality, Morioka was persuading someone; in actuality, Morioka never transferred misfortune through his own power."
"He just borrowed someone’s power to package himself as an immortal."
The little boy looked at Wen Xishu blankly, as if his mind had gone blank. But at this moment, he seemed to remember something.
Wen Xishu looked at the little boy:
"The secret of Human Cave Village, the immortal who devours others’ misfortune, is actually you, right?"