Volume 1. Let the Game Begin
That night, I took advantage of everyone else sleeping to sneak into Liu Wanqian's room.
However, when faced with the dazzling array of antiques worth tens of millions, I suddenly hesitated.
Standing in the large study room, looking at the dazzling array of various antiques, the greed originally in my heart instantly cooled down.
Because I suddenly realized something!
The memory devoured by the Evil Spirit Form seemed to have produced some kind of influence on me!?
Suddenly realizing this, I immediately stopped my actions.
Quietly exiting the room, just like before, I used my Evil Spirit Form to pass through the door and re-lock it from the inside.
Then I turned around and limped back to my own room.
Ever since I devoured a few pieces of the Goat-headed Monster's flesh, I knew that my Evil Spirit Form could start interacting with physical matter.
Perhaps the special abilities of each monster could be inherited.
Originally, my Evil Spirit Form could only devour souls.
But after mutually devouring with the Goat-headed Monster, I gained the ability to touch physical matter.
I only discovered this ability awakening after leaving the hospital.
I did not know the exact reason, but I just knew that the Evil Spirit Form could start interacting with physical objects.
It was a strange feeling.
Even though I had never tried it, I just felt that I could.
Then, I easily extended the Evil Spirit Form's arm through the door from the outside, unlocked it, and walked in as if nothing had happened.
However, in the end, I still did not take anything.
Because I found that the Evil Spirit Form had begun to influence my own consciousness and moral outlook.
These influences were not simply the Evil Spirit Form's desires.
Rather, the memories of the people it devoured had produced some specific influences on me.
Everyone's moral standards were different.
Everyone's selfishness varied.
I had devoured at least seven or eight people.
Under such circumstances, although the Evil Spirit Form had extinguished their independent consciousness, their memories still remained in my mind, and they were even clearer than my own memories.
As a result, the education they received and the moral concepts in their minds began to conflict with my own moral concepts.
Just like the behavior just now, my heart did not feel the slightest bit of guilt, as if this criminal act was as simple as drinking water or eating!
And the cause of this turned out to be that I had devoured a little thug.
This thug before death indulged in drinking, prostitution, gambling, deceiving, stealing, committing all sorts of crimes, beating his father and cursing his mother, hitting monks and cursing Taoist priests, and even beating his sixty-year-old grandfather.
Such a scoundrel's memories had merged into my own memory, and had actually caused such a huge influence on me!
You must know, I was a person who strictly abided by the law.
The moral bottom line in my heart did not allow me to commit any illegal acts.
Yet now, I could grandly and without the slightest guilt go and take something that did not belong to me??
This was absolutely impossible for the original me!
It seemed... I should sort out these memories, and discard all the unnecessary ones.
Returning to my room, I quietly opened the door.
Although Aunt Zhao had her own guest room in this house, these days, she still preferred to stay close to me.
So tonight, she slept on the newly purchased Luohan bed.
Seeing Aunt Zhao sleeping soundly and snoring, I quietly locked the door again.
Then I quietly returned to my room, came to the window, and sat down on the balcony.
Looking at the Milky Way in the sky.
Normally in the city, it was almost impossible to see such a beautiful starry sky.
The light pollution and smog acted like an invisible mist, covering countless stars.
But in a rural place like this, where the nights were so silent and there were almost no lights, the original appearance of the sky returned to people's eyes.
Looking at the Milky Way spanning across the sky, at the countless stars, I slowly closed my eyes.
"Cannot let these useless memories affect my independent consciousness... The Evil Spirit Form should be able to pick out the useless memories and delete them quickly."
Thinking so, I quickly separated from my body.
The Evil Spirit Form reappeared in the room.
At that moment, the air in the room instantly cooled down.
The originally functioning floor heating seemed to have lost its effect.
Even though it was a rural area, the houses here still had floor heating installed.
The boiler at the foot of the mountain pumped hot water strongly to each villa.
However, if anyone else were in this room right now, they would surely feel the bone-chilling coldness driving away all the warmth in their bodies.
Standing up, the body over three meters tall almost touched the ceiling.
Looking at my physical body slumped against the balcony, I closed my eyes and began to patrol the memories in my mind.
Perhaps it was the Evil Spirit Form's instinct.
Almost in an instant, I could scan through a person's memories.
Then, I began to separate these memories.
Knowledge was grouped together.
Personal moral concepts were grouped together.
Entertainment and other skill-type things were grouped together.
The first to be deleted, naturally, were the personal moral concept memories.
These were things changed by certain personal education or personal cognitive moments.
Deleting all of them, along with some useless memories, instantly removed more than half of the eight people's memories.
The memory knowledge was really all kinds of miscellaneous things.
Management methods, key duplication methods, formulas, high school and university knowledge, and some other messy stuff.
As long as it was these things, I kept all of them.
Then I quickly processed the entertainment-related things.
Among these, ninety percent were useless and were all deleted.
The remaining ten percent were mostly harmless things, so I kept them all.
After going back and forth like this, the memories left were less than one-tenth of the original.
"Looks like... humans really don't like... learning..."
The Evil Spirit Form's voice echoed in the room, and the eerie dual-layered voice made people's skin crawl.
I also went through the memories of the people Fang Zheng had killed, but they were basically of no help.
Speaking of which, I could be considered to have avenged those people killed by Fang Zheng.
I reorganized the remaining memories and sorted them out.
After confirming that there was no memory capable of affecting my independent personality, I finally returned to my body.
"Hu..."
Slowly opening my eyes, after having the Evil Spirit Form, my body could enter deep sleep at any time.
Thus, my physical health could already be autonomously controlled to a certain extent.
"That was close. I didn't expect such an influence to slip past my own perception. Is this a side effect of the Evil Spirit Form? Looks like in the future, when eating people, I need to be more careful and try not to leave behind things that could affect my consciousness... Eh, why am I taking eating people as a given!"
Sure enough, the Evil Spirit Form's influence still existed.
Originally, I had planned to eat some souls at home.
But thinking about it... I gave up.
These people were all old members of the Liu Family.
Eating their souls would cause significant side effects on their bodies.
I was also afraid that the Evil Spirit Form might lose control after eating souls, so it was better to avoid it.
When I returned to the city someday, I would go find some criminals' souls to eat.
At least this way, my guilt would be lessened a bit.
As those memories were deleted, gradually, I felt a slight change inside my heart.
Yet it also seemed as if nothing changed.
But overall, at least at this moment, my moral values had returned to normal.
"Sure enough, dangerous things are always dangerous no matter when. This Evil Spirit Form is truly a double-edged sword!"
After a moment of silence, I began to think about my future.
With the Evil Spirit Form having expelled those memories that severely affected me but were useless, my calmness, rationality, and true personality had started to return to normal.
"Hu... No wonder I had been living in such a daze these past few days. So this was the cause~ Good thing I found out early. If I had waited until the influence became serious, would I even still be myself?"
If I ended up doing something irreversible, then even if I later returned to normal, I would probably carry that guilt forever.
Shaking my head, feeling a clear mind, I looked at the starry sky outside the window.
I could feel my leg slowly recovering.
The ticklish sensation crawling inside my calf made me want to scratch it badly.
Devouring the soul of the Goat-headed Monster had really been a huge nourishment for the Evil Spirit Form.
At least for now, the speed at which the Evil Spirit Form was healing my body had greatly increased.
At this rate, the leg probably wouldn't even leave any scars.
It seemed that the worries from a few days ago were completely unnecessary.
After getting rid of those useless memories, I became much clearer in my mind.
Other than Liu Yunyan's memories, which had to be kept due to the condition of the body, the rest basically would not affect me anymore.
"I have to... find a way to support myself."
First of all, although the body was Liu Yunyan's, I was not Liu Yunyan.
I was Zhang Yiwei.
Because of the influence of those memories, I had subconsciously forgotten this fact.
After clearing those memories, I finally realized it.
Using points to exchange for money... that was almost impossible.
Every game point was extremely precious and could not be easily abandoned.
Using them for money was even more impossible.
I had to find a job I could do.
First, writing could be considered.
But... it always felt that this job was not good for my health.
After all, when writing, it was hard to leave the room for a whole day.
Yet in the future, I would often need to use my body, so physical training could not be neglected.
Then... what should I do to support myself?
I had a million in hand, and the house did not need my worry.
Overall, although I felt guilty about it, at least this body belonged to the Liu Family.
Having received such a big benefit, I felt somewhat uneasy in terms of pride.
But at the very least, from now on, I would live on for Liu Yunyan.
The unfilial things she had done in the past, I would help her make up for them little by little.