Chapter 054 I only have this one daughter!
She began to be in a daze frequently and often couldn't listen to what he said. Sometimes, she would only come to her senses when he made physical contact with her.
Although Xia Xiaoyu continued to answer Su Ming's questions accurately, her tone changed from certainty at the beginning to hesitation... Obviously, she began to doubt those answers.
Xia Xiaoyu's abnormality broke out in an instant, and even Su Ming didn't have time to react.
This time, when he asked the same question he had asked several times a few seconds ago, Xia Xiaoyu's answer changed.
"Walk a little further and you will think of yourself as a girl's mother, but that is fake. What is your real identity?" Su Ming asked.
"Honey, did you hear Alice's voice?" Xia Xiaoyu responded from behind.
Su Ming stopped suddenly, all the hairs on his body stood up, and a numbing chill swept through his body.
The companion who was fine in the last second was filled with inexplicable memories and lost his own judgment in the next second. It was like a familiar person was suddenly replaced by a stranger. This weird feeling was unbearable.
"Are you kidding? How did you answer the last question I asked you?" Su Ming asked.
Xia Xiaoyu was stunned. She was stunned for a long time before she replied, "I, we are here to test the limits of fear."
Su Ming breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask: "Now that you know this, you should also understand that everything you think of now is false, right? You don't have a daughter at all. Your memory has been rewritten by this staircase."
Xia Xiaoyu's eyes welled up with tears. She stared at Su Ming in disbelief and said , "How can you say that? Alice is your daughter!"
At most ten seconds had passed since the last question. Within ten seconds, Xia Xiaoyu's self-perception was completely rewritten.
Su Ming pinched the bridge of his nose. For a moment he didn't know where to start complaining. Not to mention that Xia Xiaoyu completely overturned his previous answer, the name of their daughter alone was outrageous enough. One of them was surnamed Su and the other was surnamed Xia, but the child was named Alice. This was considered to be the extreme of worshipping foreigners and fawning on foreigners.
But he also accepted the reality. Weirdness is such a terrifying thing. It has no rules or reason at all. It is impossible to use logic to help Xia Xiaoyu sort out the whole thing.
But since I have made so many preparations before, I still have to try it.
Su Ming took out a tape recorder from storage box No. 7 and played to Xia Xiaoyu what Flora said at that time. Then he took out the article they wrote from her, trying to prove that they were not here to look for Alice at all.
The result was that without exception, Xia Xiaoyu not only refused to acknowledge the evidence, but also said that Su Ming was crazy.
"You are affected by this staircase!" Xia Xiaoyu said very seriously, "This staircase will distort our memory! That's why we thought we were here to test some limits! Have you forgotten? You came down here because Fang Ling told you that there was news about Alice here."
"I've never heard of such a strange reason. And are you sure your current memory is the real one? What Flora said in the video just now is the same as what you remember!"
"This..." Xia Xiaoyu fell into deep thought.
After a while, she said, "Maybe this staircase read my memory and then instilled it into Flora's brain."
"Outrageous! Extremely outrageous!" Su Ming was speechless.
"Don't forget, weirdness is unreasonable. Don't use your thoughts to guess weirdness." Xia Xiaoyu said seriously. She looked at the abyss under the railing with some fear , listened for a while, and said, "Anyway, let's go down quickly. Alice is still waiting for us."
Su Ming waved his hand and didn't want to argue any more.
The two continued to walk downstairs. Although Su Ming failed to keep Xia Xiaoyu sane this time, he knew that different people would have different emotional states when their memory was distorted.
By the time Flora considered herself Alice's mother, her emotions were already very unstable.
Although Xia Xiaoyu was very anxious after she had the illusion, she was still generally calm.
Xia Xiaoyu's fear limit should be deeper than Flora's, Su Ming thought.
The two walked along in silence.
As he continued to go down, Su Ming saw that Xia Xiaoyu's mental state was getting worse and worse. As it got worse, she was rapidly approaching Flora's performance at that time.
Su Ming did not say much. It was pointless to say anything anyway. Logic was useless in this damn place. No matter how he comforted his companions, the only result would be emotional breakdown.
From a certain perspective, Xia Xiaoyu has been eliminated. She was defeated from the moment she developed the false memory. Her subsequent actions were just torment in fear, slowly approaching her limit in torment.
"Honey, Alice is crying...she is crying." Xia Xiaoyu said in a trembling voice.
Su Ming pursed his lips and said depressedly: "Can you call me Su Ming? It's so embarrassing."
Bang!
Xia Xiaoyu slapped Su Ming directly and roared like an angry lioness: "Fuck your mother! Can't you hear your daughter crying?"
The slap stunned Su Ming. He stared blankly at Xia Xiaoyu, whose eyes were tearful and her expression was angry and determined, with persistence in her fear.
Su Ming couldn't say anything he wanted to say, and finally he could only utter: "Then, what do you want me to do?"
Xia Xiaoyu glanced at Su Ming resentfully, put down the storage box No. 7 behind her, took out a bundle of ropes from it, and then took out a safety device to fix her body.
"I'm going to climb down directly from here!" said Xia Xiaoyu.
"No! This is not safe! Let's take the stairs, okay? We should be there soon." Su Ming dissuaded. He still remembered Fang Ling saying that many people jumped over the railing and disappeared.
Although Xia Xiaoyu went down hanging on a rope, Su Ming was still very worried.
"No, we can't wait any longer! If we wait one more second, Alice will be in more danger."
Xia Xiaoyu completely ignored Su Ming's dissuasion and started tying the rope on the railing.
She repeatedly intertwined the rope around the stainless steel railing, describing the structure of the movable pulley, trying to disperse the stress points as much as possible.
"No! You can't go down, it's very dangerous!"
"No matter how dangerous it is, I will go! I only have this one daughter!"
Xia Xiaoyu skillfully put on the safety gear, reached out and nimbly flipped to the other side of the railing.
She stood on the other side of the railing, staring at Su Ming, pondered for a long time, and said:
"Didn't Flora encounter a terrifying monster when she was going downstairs just now? There might be such a monster waiting for us ahead. I can't take the risk... I must rescue Alice! If we go down directly from here, we should be able to bypass the monster."
"Wait a minute!" Su Ming grabbed the man's wrist and turned to the microphone and said, "Fang Ling, I plan to hang the rope and climb down directly from here. Will I die?"
He wanted to confirm this behavior with Fang Ling.
