Chapter 358 Bystanders

"Matvey?" Renata was stunned, remembering the scene in the lunch restaurant in her mind. The timid and silly little boy couldn't even use a spoon. When there was a louder movement, he would hide his head and shrink down. Like an ostrich, such a person can actually resist Yelena's cognitive tampering?

"I can feel that he is very different. Very different." Elena rubbed the tin cup and raised her eyebrows. "I can't tamper with his perception, just like you, and I have also stayed in Black Swan Port. For a long time, no outsider has been seen coming in, which means that this boy is not a 'new friend' as the doctor said. He has grown up here! But no one has ever seen him! "

Have you never seen anyone of your own age since you were a child?

Renata couldn't imagine how the little boy named Matvey had lived alone for five or six years without communication or friends. If it were her, she would definitely go crazy, right?

"You should have noticed that Alyosha has left us forever and his room is vacant, but the boy has no intention of moving in with us. Aren't you curious where he will sleep tonight? "?" Yelena asked suddenly.

"Doctor's room?" Renata said subconsciously, but she immediately noticed that Yelena's gaze towards her became strange, but she herself was completely confused and didn't know what was wrong with her guess.

"Well, it seems you didn't mean that." After noticing that Renata's eyes were filled with innocence and confusion, Yelena pretended to cough twice and straightened her expression and said, "I'll just say it straight, I'm not interested in being able to get rid of me." People who usurp the ability of cognition are very interesting. I have met a total of three such people in this world, one is you, one is Matvey, and another one."

"...The Emperor?" Renata said.

"Very smart." Yelena nodded, "Just like you thought, since I have such a powerful ability, why not directly tamper with the emperor's cognition and make the other party think that I am a passerby, or a completely harmless person? But it’s a pity that I can’t do it, my abilities are completely ineffective on the emperor, and he is also terrifyingly powerful, so I can only keep running away.”

"Why can the emperor keep finding you?" Renata suddenly realized what she had been ignoring and looked up at Elena strangely.

When Yelena mentioned this matter before, she always emphasized the terribleness of the emperor, but she subconsciously ignored one thing, that is, why can the emperor always find her? According to Yelena, she has fled all over the world. With her ability, she should be able to easily hide anywhere and live freely, but the emperor can always find her.

Elena paused and looked at Renata. There was a long silence in the room.

It wasn't until finally, when the air was so stagnant that she felt uncomfortable, that she exhaled and said softly, "Okay. I admit that I have concealed some facts, that is, there seems to be an insidious connection between me and the emperor. It led Him to find me, but I couldn't cut off this connection, so He could always find me. I hope Black Swan Harbor can be my last refuge, but I always have to prepare for the worst!"

Renata's face turned pale instantly, because Yelena's words meant that Black Swan Port was not the other party's last hiding place at all. The remote location here probably only allowed the terrible emperor to find it longer, but Sooner or later, the other party will always come to the door, and the outcome will be exactly as Elena said before, the entire port is facing the crisis of destruction!

At this point, Elena's face seemed a little pale and not so good-looking, "Compared to me, he is the real monster. There are too many unreasonable things about him. I only know that after he catches me, Something terrible will happen. For this reason, I would rather run away for the rest of my life and give up all the scenery along the way. If He really found Black Swan Port, I would probably leave voluntarily, but I have nowhere to go, and I have no way to go south. Go to the north, and if you go further north, you can only jump into the sea.”

"You can tell your motherland about this and ask them to help you." Renata racked her brains and couldn't think of a way to solve this situation. In this case, the only way is to expel Yelena and leave Black Swan Port. In this way, the emperor would not cause harm to this place. But she couldn't say this, so she could only make this suggestion dryly.

"It's useless." Yelena calmed down and looked at Renata in front of her and said, "But in fact, there is no solution to this dead end. Sometimes the key is often placed in front of her, but she just can't find how to use it. .”

Renata didn't realize what Yelena meant, but she noticed that the other party's eyes fell on her.

".Me?" She pointed at herself, feeling confused.

"Actually, there is another reason why I took the initiative to find you, Renata, and this reason is also related to the question you asked." Elena looked at Renata's expression and slowly became serious, "Have you ever thought about why? Will I entertain you specially tonight and tell you these things?"

Because he is special, can he be immune to cognitive usurpation? Elena hopes that she can keep her promise and not expose her existence?

Renata thought so, because Yelena also said so before, but the next words of the other party broke her cognition.

"If I am really afraid that you will expose me, then why don't I just eliminate you as a threat?" Elena said, "My ability is to usurp cognition. I can't usurp your cognition, but I can usurp other people's. , making them think that the person with the problem is you, not me, and that the person living in Room 38 has always been Yelena, not Renata."

Renata's expression changed after hearing these words, but Yelena sighed and comforted, "Don't worry, I said I'm not a bad person, so I won't do this, but have a good drink with you. East and West negotiate conditions and trust each other, including now. I have spoken out and said these words to show my sincerity."

After hearing this, Renata's face recovered a little, and her mood felt as exciting as a roller coaster.

"But Renata, do you know? I was not joking when I said you were the key to me getting rid of the emperor. I said you could ignore my cognitive usurpation. This seems to be a very unreasonable thing, but in my case Judging from the feeling here, it is like I have released a domain, and you are covered with an insulating film, which completely excludes my domain, so my ability cannot be effective on you, and you are useless to me. It's like being protected by an airtight ball inside! What does this mean?" Elena paused before continuing, "It means that if I can find a way to make you immune to my ability, I will think about it again. If I can recreate it, I might be able to block the Emperor's perception of me, so that I would be completely free and He would never be able to find me again!"

Renata seemed a little at a loss because of Yelena's remarks, thinking that she still had this ability? But there is nothing special about her at all. She should eat and sleep. She only occasionally runs out at night to act wild and takes Zorro to the library to have a barbecue or something. She is not as powerful as Elena said. .

"It seems like you don't know why this phenomenon occurs in you." Yelena's eyes gradually softened and she nodded, "But I will find the reason."

"You just said that the little boy named Matvey is immune to your abilities just like me." Renata thought for a while and hesitated, "So are you going to find him and tell him these things?"

"I will. There must be some commonality between the two of you. This means that this special possibility can be repeated. Once I can find this commonality, maybe I can isolate the connection between me and the emperor and let him return. I can’t be found either.” Elena said seriously.

"But Matvey doesn't live with us. Do you know where his room is?" Renata asked.

"I know." Elena nodded, "Actually, I planned to go find him first tonight, but I changed my plan when I met you halfway. It's still early, maybe we still have time."

"us?"

"It's a rare opportunity to have an adventure. Are you willing to go with me?" Elena turned her head and looked at Renata and asked with a smile.

"I" Renata opened her mouth, and finally closed her mouth and nodded slightly.

"That's great." Yelena clapped her hands, stood up, put the iron cup from which she drank milk on the bed, ran towards Renata, grabbed her hand and walked out of the room.

"Don't worry." Renata seemed to be frightened by Yelena's enthusiasm. Her face was a little red after being held by someone for the first time. She staggered and was pulled toward the door. "Aren't you going to close the door?"

"No need." Elena looked back at the room, as if she saw someone, and smiled inexplicably, "Remember to close the door."

Renata also subconsciously glanced back at the room, but saw nothing, then turned around and stumbled out of the door. The two girls' backs ran farther and farther in the dark red corridor, and their footsteps became smaller and smaller until they disappeared into the darkness.

After Renata and Elena left, the corridor fell into complete silence. The red light on the freezer radiated dark red light, the fan whirred, and the whistling sound of wind and snow could be heard outside.

But at this time, in the silence, a hand stretched out from the pink room that was supposed to be empty, and the iron door was slowly pushed open by this hand from the inside.

Lin Nian pushed open the iron door, walked out of the room, and stood in the corridor.

He stood at the door and looked at the two disappearing figures. The red light above his head shone on his face, outlining the dark shadows.

"It's interesting." He whispered.

Emperor, Tampered Cognition, Renata, Black Swan Port.

What on earth do you want to show me?

The blonde girl or should I say, Yelena?

ps: The next chapter begins with Lin Nian’s main perspective