Chapter 4: Interpretation and Secondary Diseases
"…So, Yang Yun, aren't you going to explain it to me?"
The next day, in a room in the Capital of the Dead, Zheng Zha and Yang Yun were sitting face to face. Since Zheng Zha needed some time to recover his body, the monkey's affairs were temporarily put on hold.
"Explanation? What are you referring to?"
Yang Yun casually poured himself a cup of tea. Although the bond between the two became deeper after yesterday's incident, no matter how deep the friendship is, there are some secrets that cannot be told... Yang Yun is now sure how much information Zheng Zha has obtained in his memory.
"Don't pretend to be garlic! You know what I'm asking... Cough cough." Zheng Zha shouted loudly, but the wound was triggered by excessive force, and he couldn't help but cough loudly.
"So I said what do you want to know?" Yang Yun spread his hands, looked helpless, and kicked the ball back to Zheng Zha: "I know you must have many questions to ask me, but there must be a beginning, right?"
[With Zheng Zha's IQ, it shouldn't be too difficult to cheat... The only thing to consider now is how much he has seen.]
"Then let's start with your memory... Should I call you Yang Yun or Li Xiaoyi?" Zheng Zha thought for a while and asked.
"Yang Yun, I use this name more often now, and it sounds better than Li Xiaoyi." Yang Yun said casually, without any flaws on his face.
"... Do you really think I'm asking you what your name is?" Zheng Zha said angrily: "What I want to ask is why I see the past of two people in your memory!"
"What? What's the past between two people? What are you talking about?" Yang Yun said with a confused look on his face.
"Forget it, I'll start from scratch..."
Seeing that Yang Yun seemed to know nothing, Zheng Zha had to cover her face and repeat what she saw in her dream.
[Very good, it seems that Zheng Zha has not seen those key things, such as the plot of the novel "Infinite Horror"... In this way, you can get through it.]
Listening to Zheng Zha's narration, Yang Yun felt very calm. As long as the key things are not exposed, other things are just trivial... Don't forget that fooling is his expertise.
"Ah, you're talking about this." Yang Yun picked up the teacup and the old god took a sip of tea: "This is no big deal, right? Zheng Zha, do you know what 'second-grade disease' means?"
"Second second disease? What is that?" Of course, Zheng Zha could not know this term. With his age, he had passed the age of second-year high fifteen years ago.
"Well, the specific concept is not easy to explain to you, Loliguan. In short, you just need to treat it as something similar to schizophrenia or a second personality." Yang Yun shrugged. As he who completely devoured Li Xiaoyi's soul, he naturally also had all the memories of Li Xiaoyi. "Do you think that 'Li Xiaoyi' and 'Yang Yun' are very similar? In addition to personality and wisdom, they are very similar in experience and past?"
"Ah, this is..." Zheng Zha was stunned. Indeed, "Li Xiaoyi" and "Yang Yun" have very similarities, such as being dropped out of school because of heroes saving the beauty, and for example, they all entered the main god space because of disappointment in this matter...
However, if Zheng Zha calms down and thinks, he will find that except for this place, there is no similarity in the rest of the place...
Yang Yun obviously would not give Zheng Zha the opportunity to seriously consider it. After the concept of "Li Xiaoyi and Yang Yun are very similar" has already entered Zheng Zha's mind with preconceived ideas, he said: "In short, 'Yang Yun' is imagined by 'Li Xiaoyi', denying the cowardly self in real life and creating a perfect personality in the inner world."
"Ha?" Zheng Zha was dumbfounded: "Wait! This statement is strange no matter what!"
"What's strange?" Yang Yun said incredible words with a proper expression: "When a person always fails in real life, of course he will think, 'Ah, it would be great if I was that kind of omnipotent incarnation', and build an ideal self in the inner world. Did Zheng Zha, you didn't fantasize about 'If I were Superman', 'If I were Ultraman', 'If I were Lolik' and so on?"
"Do you remove the last one for me!" After being called Lolita one after another, Zheng Zha finally couldn't help but complain: "But this kind of thing was only thought of when I was a child, right? Who would still think of these impossible things when I grew up?"
"So, this is the youth of the second-year disease." Yang Yun took another leisurely sip of tea: "After all, 'Li Xiaoyi' is just a high school student, and there is a generation gap with company managers like you."
"One of the symptoms shown by the so-called secondary disease is that you like to be self-centered and build a world of self-identity in your heart. But often their judgment benchmarks are very good, and from the perspective of adults, they look very distorted and funny, which is the reaction you are showing now."
"...Okay, but even so, is there any causal relationship between Zhong Er disease and 'Yang Yun'?" Zheng Zha reluctantly accepted Yang Yun's fooling, and then raised a new question... and the most important question.
"It's a good question." Yang Yun slowly put down the teacup. His leisurely look made Zheng Zha want to punch him.
"Zheng Zha, let me ask you, what is your first reaction when you enter this main god space full of dangers?" Yang Yun asked.
"Well... uneasy, excited, and a little scared, right?" Zheng Zha thought for a while and replied uncertainly.
"Yes, I'm right. If you are an adult, you will be like this, then as a senior high school student, Li Xiaoyi will be even more scared." Yang Yun snapped his fingers: "Especially when he saw the two people's unknown deaths, Li Xiaoyi's fear reached a peak... So he released Yang Yun."
"...what is it?" Zheng Zha looked at Yang Yun with a constipated expression. He had no idea about the causal relationship between the two.
"Don't you understand?" Yang Yun shook his head with a look of "You are helpless", "That is to say, when facing a life-and-death crisis, 'Li Xiaoyi' chose to escape, hypnotize himself to protect himself, and to survive in the extreme danger of the main god space, he turned himself into the ideal perfect incarnation... 'Yang Yun'!"
Chapter completed!