"Just you alone?"

Huo Yun asked again.

The Artist nodded. "Yes, but according to the requirements given, I can take a few people with me to that place."

Huo Yun's eyes flashed.

The Artist caught it and smiled apologetically:

"However, I'm only taking Hu Wusong with me."

"As for you... Huo Yun, I'd really like to take you, but you're different from us. You're a lab rat. I can't take you."

Huo Yun: "Kao?! Are you sick?! This apartment!!!!"

Huo Yun stood there, fuming angrily for a long while.

Then, he asked, "If you leave, what should we, the remaining members of your group, do? Have you thought about that?"

The Artist said, "Just disband. Anyway, I'm leaving with Hu Wusong tomorrow and washing my hands of all this."

Huo Yun's right eyebrow furrowed. "If you guys leave, once this round ends, I'll also be leaving Alice Apartment."

The Artist: "You could stay here and keep earning money. After all, it's ten thousand a day. Unless you go out and become a male escort, you absolutely cannot earn this much from a regular job."

Huo Yun shook his head. "Forget it. Without your protection, staying here is too dangerous. I've earned quite a bit of money here already, enough for me to live on."

Huo Yun looked at Hu Wusong again. "Did you already know he was leaving?"

Hu Wusong shook his head. "I just found out too."

After that, Huo Yun seemed as if his backbone had been sucked dry, slumping weakly onto the leather sofa. "It's so meaningless. The few friends I managed to make here are either dead or leaving."

"Sigh..."

In the Far Neighbor live stream room.

Fairy Sister: [Where is The Artist being sent?]

Domineering Female CEO: [Either to an Alice Apartment in another country, but that's unlikely. I think it's probably somewhere similar to Macedonia Island!]

Little Dragon Girl: [The Artist is truly artistic enough. Before leaving, he still managed to get a whole bunch of residents killed, really doing the apartment a huge favor in refreshing its blood supply.]

Round 31, Day 4.

A little past nine in the morning.

Huo Yun watched as The Artist and Hu Wusong, carrying large and small bags, boarded a white minivan and left Alice Apartment.

Watching them depart, he let out a deep sigh.

At the same time.

Building No. 1, Jiang Ran's 304.

Since collapsing here on the evening of Day 2, Jiang Ran hadn't moved a muscle, as if dead.

Inside his inner landscape world.

Beside the familiar fountain statue in Jiang Ran's image.

Stood a person.

It was the complete version main personality.

As for the other alternate personalities, they all maintained a certain safe distance from him.

Ever since Jiang Ran's body collapsed onto the living room floor on the evening of Day 2.

The complete version main personality had returned to the inner landscape world.

He hadn't done anything either.

Furthermore, the other alternate personalities had not resumed the lottery rotation to take control.

Both sides seemed to have reached an unspoken agreement to let Jiang Ran's body rest properly for a day or two.

Feeling the time was about right.

The complete version main personality loudly addressed the alternate personalities not far away:

"Everyone, have you thought it over? Do you still want to continue the lottery rotation to control the body?"

Over there, the alternate personalities, though mostly silent, could be seen from their faces that they certainly harbored that desire.

One of the bolder alternate personalities said, "Of course we do. After all, many of us have never been out."

"Is that so? Never been out? Then your luck is just bad, never drawing the winning lot."

"However, heh, let's just forget it. If you don't let me go out, and you go out yourselves, you'll just waste points like crazy. It's better to go back to how it was before."

The complete version main personality smiled slightly.

"At least that way, points accumulate faster, and everyone can gain their freedom sooner."

After speaking, the complete version main personality didn't wait for others to respond. His form dissipated before the many alternate personalities.

Simultaneously, the kind memories began to take control of the body, while the evil memories once again sealed and suppressed all the alternate personalities within the inner landscape world.

"Kao, what rotten luck! At least let each of us go out once before going back to the old way!"

One alternate personality said.

Another alternate personality chimed in: "What he said makes sense. Don't be greedy for momentary freedom. Let's stick to the old method! At least that way points accumulate faster."

Thus, the kind memory main personality, offline for a long time, made a comeback.

...

"Ouch, my whole body aches, so sore... and what's all this on me? Why is it so heavy?"

Jiang Ran woke up.

Upon waking, he felt that everything about his body was off.

Especially when he finally managed to open his eyes, he felt something on his face.

Thinking it was a face mask, he took it off only to find it was a golden iron mask.

After removing it, he sat up halfway and heard clinking sounds coming from his body.

Looking down, what the heck was all over him?

His brain, just awakened, wasn't fully online yet, so everything was hazy.

He touched the front of his body, tapping it.

Only after a long while did he realize it seemed to be armor?

Huh, why would he be wearing armor?

He got up to walk towards the bedroom, where the floor-length mirror was.

But due to the excessive weight of the three layers of armor, it took him several attempts before he managed to stand up shakily and reach the mirror.

The floor-length mirror revealed the truth.

Jiang Ran stared at the suit of armor with its strong traditional Chinese aesthetic covering his body.

He was dumbstruck for a long time.

"No way... I... what on earth happened again?"

He started removing the armor.

His movements in removing the armor were extremely clumsy and unskilled, clearly a novice's attempt.

After removing the outer Mingguang Armor, he was surprised to find another layer of armor underneath, though it didn't seem as heavy.

After removing the second layer of leather armor, there was yet another layer.

Only after removing the third layer of cloth armor.

Did Jiang Ran finally feel a sense of lightness throughout his body.

Despite feeling lighter, upon seeing his reflection in the mirror—covered in bloodstains and wounds, especially the caved-in area on his head—

Jiang Ran almost fainted from fright.

He collapsed onto the bedroom floor, his eyes empty.

Looking back at his reflection in the mirror again.

He was so scared he immediately turned his head away.

Because earlier he had only noticed his head, but now he realized his face and neck were also severely injured.

It was as if there were hardly any undamaged spots left on his entire body...

"Ahhhhh... Quick, think back, recall the last moment of memory!!!!"

"Yes! That's right! I remember! I was in that castle! Being chased and hacked at by an armored pervert! Then it started raining! I passed by the side of a building, and suddenly, my head hurt! After that! I lost consciousness!"

"Until now!!!"

"Now... what time is it?!"

Jiang Ran hurriedly felt around his body for his phone.

Fortunately, the phone was still in his pants pocket, but the phone he pulled out wasn't its usual clean self either.

Instead, the screen was shattered, covered in patches of bloodstains.

Sliding the screen, probably the tempered glass protector was broken, or maybe the outer screen, but the inner screen was definitely intact as it still worked normally.

He turned on the screen, checked the current time, and estimated the time back then.

There was a difference of about two months?

Meaning he had been controlled by the alternate personalities for two months?