Chapter 398: The Initial Answer
“Gao Ming, I used to admire you. I saw a lot of myself in you.” The corpse puppet’s lips moved. “However, I realised I had overestimated you after knowing all of your secrets. You have to die so many times to reach me and use such a weak method to imprison me.”
Gao Ming didn’t interrupt the corpse and allowed him to continue. He was trying to discern one thing: Who was controlling the puppet? Was it the God of the Future, or was it the real Situ An?
“From many aspects, you are too banal. Do you know why Lu Zang chose you in the end?” The corpse somehow forced a smile. “It’s because he believes you are easy to control. He can have a smooth time stealing everything from you.
“In the death portrait of the bloodred city under the black lake, there are thirteen candidates. Each of them has a reason to become the new ruler of the city, but you are an exception. Your appearance is to obfuscate fate’s gaze. You are a pitiable bug that doesn’t even know his own name.
“Even now, you treat this strange title as your name. Don’t you worry that one day, people will only remember the codename, Gao Ming, and no one will remember the actual you?”
It was unknown whether Situ An was too resentful for being trapped for so long or the God of the Future had gone overboard. The puppet revealed so many things. Gao Ming derived a lot of information from it. The information might not be true, but as long as parts of it were close enough to the truth, it was worth it for Gao Ming.
“It doesn’t matter if Gao Ming is my name or not. It’s enough that I am still me.” Back in Li San Hospital, Gao Ming already knew certain things through his interaction with Lu Zang… But did that change anything?
“Does it really not matter? Then, why don’t we play a game with your parents as the bet?” The corpse puppet taunted. “Don’t you want to know what your parents are doing? Who are they, and where are they now?” The puppet smiled gleefully. He was ready to unleash chaos upon the world. “Lu Zang must have told you that Han Hai is a giant prison. Humans are ghosts, and ghosts are humans. All your memories about everything outside of Han Hai are fake. They are fabricated by fate. In that case, are your parents really your parents in your memory?”
Gao Ming narrowed his eyes. He had to admit the puppet’s words moved him. Even though he had died so many times and lost so many things, the only thing he hadn’t abandoned was his relationship with his parents.