"It doesn't matter, it's just a fragment of consciousness. I'll recover it after a few days of rest. However, how do you know my name? The madam hasn't woken up yet, right?" [Pioneer] raised an eyebrow and asked, puzzled.

To him, this body was nothing more than a mousetrap, and the consciousness fragments stored inside were like cheese. Capturing mice with it would be ideal; if he couldn't, he wouldn't be heartbroken abandoning it.

The key point now is not only did the mouse come out without taking the cheese and getting caught, but it's also talking eloquently about the cheese's origins and production techniques.

Isn't this somewhat creepy?

In this new world, his life story until the day when his last memory was restored in the cave had no intersection with Wu Xiaoyao's family before.

Where did this kid learn the name "Yin Qiming"?

"I told you, whether you live or die now depends on my decision, even if it's just a fragment of consciousness!" Wu Liang said coldly.

Saying that, he grabbed the Nightmare Mask from the void and suddenly covered the other's face with it, with a strange purple light flashing at its eye position.

At first, [Pioneer] didn't realize what he wanted to do.

After all, his current body had become a [Mental Cage], and this kid wouldn't dare to invade the consciousness arbitrarily. It would be easy to detonate this part of the consciousness fragment when he wanted to leave after the conversation.

He now was like a troublesome remote-controlled bomb; the other party couldn't hold him nor throw him away.

But in the next second, [Pioneer]'s face changed drastically!

He put away his previous joking expression and asked word by word, "What... have you done?"

He discovered that the instant the mask was covered, he was completely unable to control this part of the consciousness fragment to self-destruct or perform other actions!

Even the link between the consciousness fragment's thoughts and the main body was completely severed!

This means that from this moment, his main body wouldn't be able to know what would happen next.

"Ha, nothing. You like hiding in a turtle shell, don't you? I just helped you 'reinforce' the shell; it's now bulletproof," Wu Liang said with a sunny smile, kneeling down and patting [Pioneer]'s face.

Indeed, he didn't do any trap-like offensive behavior.

Instead, he let Nightmare do his utmost to fortify this [Mental Cage] to become impregnable, even further preventing [Pioneer]'s consciousness fragment from self-destructing within.

This intensity is far more terrifying than the spiritual power restrictions of the Zodiac Rabbit!

Now, the body's limbs had been cut down by Wu, and its mental consciousness had been completely sealed.

[Pioneer]'s consciousness fragment was truly hard-pressed even to wish for death.

"Hahahaha! What good does it do you to trap me? I'm just a fragment of consciousness; why don't you first think about how to unlock the madam's curse? That's a very interesting curse indeed!" [Pioneer] said, with a playful look again after being shocked for a few seconds.

Even if Wu Liang restrained him, what could he do?

Torture him?

The torture he suffered over the years far exceeded this current pain; torture was a matter truly insignificant to him.

Probe memory?

This consciousness fragment only contained memories about the curse; Wu Liang couldn't get any clues about the [Promised Land] or the location of the main body from him!

"Ah, indeed, this curse is quite interesting." Wu Liang raised the Ruby towards the sun, slowly admiring it, and said, "In a certain sense, it is even an unbreakable curse."

At this moment, a series of supernatural information provided by the [Ghost Compendium] appeared on the ruby in his eyes—

[Reality Cursed Gemstone]

[Soak this gemstone and the object that the target cherishes most in the target's blood for more than a day, and a curse will be invoked, causing eternal sleep]

[There are two ways to break the curse—]

[First, the target will get everything they want in the dream and lose all their memories. If they recover their memories when awake and return to reality, the curse will dissipate (Note: the target cannot wake up on their own, and recovering memories in the dream will lead to never waking up)]

[Second, the curse will cause anyone attempting to awaken the target to offer their soul and successfully awaken the target (if the target does not recover their memory upon waking, their soul will also disappear)]

These pieces of information seemingly have no problem.

But when you think carefully, you'll find that the curse invoked by this supernatural object is inherently contradictory.

The condition to remove the curse is for Yao Qingxue to recover her memories and wake up, but she cannot restore her memories in the dream nor wake up by herself.

It requires external intervention for someone to offer their soul to awaken her, but she must recover her memories upon waking.

This leads to only one way to completely lift Yao Qingxue's curse—to awaken her during the moment when her memories haven't been restored in the dream, and then restore her memories at the exact moment she wakes.

The difficulty of achieving this is extreme!

Even if Wu Liang has the ability to enter dreams, once there is a reminder in the dream, it may prompt her to recover memories, but waking Yao Qingxue without any reminder will make it impossible for her to recover memories out of thin air.

This is an impasse, a dead end, whether to proceed or not.

"Are you satisfied with this curse? I sacrificed the avatar of the entire city of Gu Mountain for this!" [Pioneer] said somewhat frantically.

With this sentence, Wu Liang's thoughts instantly recalled the clues provided by Zodiac Pig at that time.

Gushan City was one of the two cities leveled when the officials purged the [Promised Land] back then.

Did he mean...

"Hahaha, yes, yes! If I had truly intended to flee, how could the newly established officials have the capability to capture all the members of the [Promised Land] in the entire city?"

"Kid, you underestimated me."

"I intentionally let them flatten the entire city and then made this cursed gemstone using all the lives from [Ghost Valley]."

"Thus, in a way, the officials are one of the helpers forming this curse! After all, I couldn't destroy the entire city at once back then."

[Pioneer]'s sentences were like venomous snakes creeping into the depths of Wu Liang's heart.

He smeared all the sins like dirty mud on the official's golden plaque.

Attempting to shake Wu Liang's beliefs even slightly.

Unfortunately, he made two misplaced calculations.

"Hehe, firstly, I don't care about those who are bewitched by the [Promised Land]. Their hearts were filled only with filth; even if I were to do this, I would have flattened that city."

"Secondly, you underestimated me too. You always think the supernatural rules are iron laws, unable to imagine any power that could surpass them."

Back then, Wu Xiaoyao using the [Unlimited Transmission Chip] thought the same, and when I broke the 'uninterruptible' effect of the chip, he was so astonished.

Now, it is so once again.

Saying that, Wu Liang reached out and pulled out an ancient-looking book from the location of his temple.

It had only two words written on it—Ghost Compendium.

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