Chapter 807 Restart
Dickens has always been stuck in a difficult problem.
That is how to kill Lu Shen before he commits suicide.
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In the countless rounds before, Dickens chose the "violent" mode.
That is to kill Lu Shen with lightning speed.
As long as the attack is fast enough, he can kill him before Lu Shen commits suicide.
The result is naturally failure.
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Now, Dickens only has one chance left.
Although his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, all kinds of skills are maxed out.
But if he still uses the violent mode, what has failed countless times in the past, can it really succeed this time?
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Dickens never dared to underestimate the enemy, even if the opponent is just a mortal.
After some calculations, Dickens finally decided to change a way.
Facts have proved that his choice is indeed correct.
In this round, Lu Shen's strength has far exceeded his calculations.
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"In fact, there is another way to kill Lu Shen before he commits suicide."
"That is to make Lu Shen give up suicide."
"This method did not meet the conditions before, but now it meets the conditions!"
After choosing this path, Dickens recombined the skills on the game panel and finally formed a new skill.
At this time, Lu Shen said the name [Dickens] again.
Dickens' new skill was activated.
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"Restart!"
Dickens looked at Lu Shen indifferently. At the moment the skill was activated, Dickens himself turned into a huge vortex.
With no power to resist, or no resistance at all, Lu Shen was swallowed by the vortex.
After Lu Shen disappeared, only a vortex remained in place, rotating quietly counterclockwise.
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"[Restart]!"
At the moment when Dickens' skill was activated, Lu Shen felt an extremely familiar feeling coming.
This feeling was so familiar that Lu Shen did not even think of resisting.
Or in his subconscious, he thought he could not resist.
Everything was like a conditioned reflex, and Lu Shen cooperated very well to accept the "restart".
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"Is this the last cycle?"
After [Restart], Lu Shen was extremely surprised to find that he had returned to the last cycle.
At this time, he was being chased by Dickens.
"Teacher Lu, do you still remember who I am?"
Dickens, who was chasing him, asked this question again.
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Of course, Lu Shen knew the name of the guy opposite.
Even if he didn't answer, the other party didn't seem to care.
"Restart!"
Dickens stared at Lu Shen again with great indifference, and then turned into a vortex again.
This time, Lu Shen was really sucked into the vortex without any resistance.
After Lu Shen disappeared, only the vortex was left quietly rotating counterclockwise.
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"I'm back to the last cycle?"
After the restart, Lu Shen looked around in great shock.
At this time, he was being pressed to the ground and rubbed by Dickens.
This memory was already vague, but now he remembered it all.
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"Dickens, what are you going to do?"
This time, before Dickens could ask, Lu Shen spoke first.
Lu Shen had already realized that something was wrong, and he even vaguely guessed something.
"Teacher Lu, I am helping you heal your illness!"
"Didn't you lose your past memories?"
"I'll help you get them back!"
"Restart!"
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With a cruel smile, Dickens once again turned into a vortex that rotated counterclockwise.
This time, Lu Shen struggled hard, trying to resist the swallowing of the vortex.
But it was still useless.
At the moment of being swallowed by the vortex, Lu Shen suddenly realized.
The chance for him to break free from the vortex only existed for the first time.
Since he entered the vortex, there was no possibility of escaping.
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A new round of restart began, and Lu Shen and Dickens met again.
"Damn it, I fell for your psychological misleading tactics."
"I should have tried to resist and break free from the vortex the first time."
"But I thought you really started the restart, but I didn't expect you to make a pirated copy."
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After meeting again, Lu Shen was a little furious.
After all, he had a big advantage before and finally got ahead in strength.
I didn't expect the other party to play dirty.
The moment [Restart] appeared, Lu Shen really thought that Dickens had started the [Restart] of the entire Ansa City.
I didn't expect [Restart] could be fake.
This is purely bullying Lu Shen for not having enough combat experience!
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"Teacher Lu, actually you made a wrong judgment."
"Even if it was the first restart, you couldn't resist it."
"Because my skills were activated when we just met."
"The moment [Restart] started, you no longer had the opportunity to choose!"
Dickens looked at the furious Lu Shen with disdain.
He did use the "psychological misleading" technique, but it was just icing on the cake.
How could he rely on those little tricks to win?
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"Teacher Lu, do you still remember who I am?"
Dickens asked this question again.
This time, Lu Shen's face changed instantly.
Because he finally realized how he was attacked.
The next moment, the counterclockwise vortex appeared again, and a new restart began.
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"Your name!"
"Your attack actually came from your name?"
"How insidious and despicable!"
The two sides met again, and Lu Shen was even more angry.
He really didn't expect that he would fall for the name [Dickens].
The opponent was so shameless that Lu Shen thought the other party was quite polite and introduced himself politely.
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"Teacher Lu, don't be angry."
"This is all to treat your amnesia."
"The reason you forget the past is because you have lost a lot of [anchor points]!"
"I want to help you restore your memory, and I can only use myself as an [anchor point]."
"Teacher Lu, don't thank me, this is what I should do."
Dickens explained "kindly", and then started [Restart] again.
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"Asshole, thank you for your legs!"
Lu Shen didn't even finish his words of thanks before he was swallowed by the counterclockwise vortex again.
In this way, Lu Shen was forced to start a series of restarts.
At first, Lu Shen was very resistant and wanted to struggle.
But as the restart progressed, Dickens' "treatment" method actually worked.
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With [Dickens] as the anchor point, as the cycle continued to go backwards.
Lu Shen's memory was actually recovering.
He remembered more and more things.
After a new restart, Lu Shen appeared in front of a dilapidated old house.
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"I remember it!"
"This is my home in Ansa City!"
"No, this old house is not my home."
"But this should be my home."
Lu Shen stared at the dilapidated old house with great struggle.
In his mind, two cognitions were constantly fighting.
One cognition told him that this old house had nothing to do with him at all.
Another cognition told Lu Shen that this was once his home.
It was just "tampered with".
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“It’s finally starting to work.”
“Mortals are so obsessed with the past that they always want to get it back.”
“Because in their cognition, [the past determines the present].”
“Without the past, they can’t anchor themselves and will lose themselves.”
Dickens stood quietly behind Lu Shen, with no intention of attacking from behind.
He was like a confidant who silently accompanied his old friend, and his main point was “never leave or abandon”.
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A large part of Dickens’ new skills, inspiration and technology, came from the Viscount of the Empire.
After seeing the master connect the present and the past and open up the past on his own.
Dickens’ cognition has been greatly baptized and has been sublimated.
So after seeing Lu Shen “lost himself”, he immediately thought of “treatment”.
Lu Shen’s little problem is really just pediatrics.
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“Restart!”
Looking at Lu Shen who was still struggling, Dickens couldn’t bear it after all.
So he helped him again.
So time went back another round.
With the end of the restart, Lu Shen finally stopped "struggling".
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"I remember it."
"I remember everything."
"This is indeed my home in Angsa City."
"It should be like this."
Lu Shen was extremely excited and scratched on the ground, and then a luxurious villa replaced the dilapidated old house and appeared in his memory.
This should be the case.
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"I really lost a lot of memories!"
"Who am I, Lu Shen?"
"What should Angsa City be like?"
"I need to continue to restart, I want to find my past!"
Recalling my home, this seems to be an extremely important node.
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The original Lu Shen, even if he kept falling into the vortex, the world in his mind still existed.
It's just that with each restart, it became more and more blurred.
Now, that world has finally disappeared.
Lu Shen's "cognitive split" has finally been cured.
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"Hallucination, everything before was an illusion."
"I fell into an extremely real illusion before."
"I imagined a world, but I thought it was real."
"I was really crazy before."
"I am gradually getting rid of the illusion and returning to reality."
After the cognitive split was cured, Lu Shen's cognition immediately reversed 180 degrees.
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He felt that everything before (now) was an illusion, and what he wanted to find now (the past) was real.
So Lu Shen no longer resisted "restarting", but instead wanted to speed up urgently.
Dickens naturally cooperated very well to meet Mr. Lu's wishes.
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"Lu Shen now is no different from when his consciousness entered the soul shadow and got lost in it."
"The more memories he retrieves, the more real the [past] becomes."
"Correspondingly, everything in the [present] will also be forgotten."
"If before, Lu Shen could still remember that [Restart] was fake and I forged it."
"Then now, Lu Shen has completely forgotten everything."
"It's like a person constantly traveling back to the past, but the price is that the [present] becomes the future and disappears without a trace."
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Dickens witnessed with his own eyes that Lu Shen kept "picking up" and "forgetting" again and again.
In other words, only by "forgetting" can we pick it up again.
Lu Shen now looked like a bear breaking off sticks. He could only hold the two he had just broken off.
But Lu Shen, the bear, was walking backwards.
He kept picking up the sticks he had thrown away before, and then throwing them away again.
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"Hahaha, I finally remembered."
"I have parents!"
"Little sister, I finally see you again!"
As the cycle continues to regress, the city of Angsa in Lu Shen's eyes is also constantly changing.
For example, his home is back again, even though it is empty.
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But soon, his seventh aunt and eighth aunt appeared.
Even if everyone is a little strange to each other.
Fortunately, with the appearance of his parents, the family relationship is back on track again.
Then there is the younger sister and his girlfriend Qingqing.
When Qingqing appeared in front of Lu Shen again, the latter cried with joy.
He finally regained everything he had lost.
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"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Qingqing, I swear, I will never let you leave me again!"
"No force can separate us."
In Angsa City, Lu Shen and Qing Qing hugged each other tightly.
Even though the humans around him are mutating at this time, they still can't destroy this warmth.
Not far away, Dickens looked at the couple with great satisfaction.
When lovers finally get married, it's all his fault.
Although he didn't want to ruin the scene, Dickens still appeared in front of Lu Shen.
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"Lu Shen, you promised me."
"As long as I help you find everything you lost, you will admit defeat in our battle."
"Only in this way will everything you have now not disappear again."
"This world cannot tolerate the two of us."
"After you admit defeat, I will leave here."
"From now on, this world is yours."
Dickens appeared in front of the young lovers with "murderous intent", like a debt collector.
Lu Shen firmly protected Qing Qing behind him and glared at Dickens.
It was precisely because of this guy's trouble that he lost everything.
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Lu Shen, who had been lost in the past, had his perception changed again.
Lu Shen only remembered that the world was constantly changing because of his fight with Dickens, and then he lost everything about himself.
But also because he lost everything, he became stronger.
Dickens was no longer his match.
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But Lu Shi has also lost interest in defeating his opponent. He just wants to get back the "[past]".
So with the cooperation of Dickens, they reversed the world and returned to "before the war".
This is an extremely important node. If the two start a war again, the world will change.
Lu Shen will lose everything he finally found.
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As for why Lu Shen's cognition changed like this?
Of course it is the result of Dickens's "unfailing" companionship.
With Lu Shen's "cooperation", he can of course influence the other party's perception in a subtle way.
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"Lu Shen, tell me your decision now."
"Do you want beauty, or do you want to decide the winner?"
"You're not going to regret it, are you?"
"If war starts again, I guarantee you will never get back what you have now."
Dickens didn't rush him, he just stood in front of Lu Shen and waited for him to make a decision.
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If Lu Shen chooses to "give in", then he will be completely devoured by Dickens.
But Dickens did not deceive Lu Shen. He would stay in this world forever.
Dickens, who completely devoured Lu Shen, naturally completed Mission 2.
This is Dickens’ new “god-killing” model.
After all, Teacher Lu is a man known as the God of Comics.
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Dickens had done all he could.
According to his calculations, Lu Shen had a 99.99999% chance of admitting defeat.
After all, in Lu Shen's understanding, they turned the world around and recovered their past.
This world is real.
What humans fear most is losing again.
And it is only after losing that we learn to cherish.
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"Dickens, I choose..."
Looking at Qingqing shivering behind him, Lu Sheng hesitated for a moment and finally decided to admit defeat.
He can't kill the other party at all. If the two sides continue to fight, it will only happen again.
Lu Shen had too many bonds in Angsa City. He didn't want to lose these, so he had to admit defeat.
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In a trance, Lu Shen had a dream, dreaming that he and Dickens were fighting to the end, starting a cycle.
In the end, not only did he lose everything, he even forgot who he was.
Lu Shi didn't know whether this dream was considered "past" or "future".
But he would never let this dream happen again.
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"Dickens, I choose..."
"Boom"
Just when Lu Shen was about to admit defeat, the world suddenly shook violently.
It was as if some huge thing was about to break through the boundary and enter.
Amid the violent shaking, the world remained intact.
However, Lu Shen, who was originally "lost", suddenly "awake".
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Lu Shen remembered that he was fighting Dickens and was trapped in a counterclockwise whirlpool.
Then continue to "restart".
Lu Shen's [present] and [past] were actually connected, or penetrated.
He remembered everything completely.
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"Fake, everything is fake!"
"Dickens, this is not my past at all, but yours."
"This is a world built on your memory."
"Once I admit defeat, it means that I will be completely swallowed by you."
"You are so vicious!"
Lu Shen, who was completely awake, was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
He was just a little bit away from death.
The opponent in front of him was too terrible.
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"Alas, the accident happened after all."
At the moment when the world shook, Dickens sighed helplessly.
The biggest drawback of the new mode is that "killing is not fast enough" and it is easy to be interfered by external forces.
And now it has come true.
But Dickens did not despair.
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"Teacher Lu, you are right."
"This is indeed not your past, but mine."
"Everything in this world is shaped by my memory."
"The reason why you mistakenly think it is yours is because we are too familiar with each other in the long cycle. The memories of Ansa City are almost universal and indistinguishable."
Dickens admitted everything very frankly, but before Lu Shen could "feel proud", he was thrown into the abyss by Dickens' next words.
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"Lu Shen, your past has long been lost!"
"It may have been erased, or it may have been picked up by someone else, and it can't be found at all."
"You can now remember your parents, your younger sister, and your girlfriend."
"You even know that you are an amazing cartoonist in the real world."
"It is precisely because this is the world I have woven for you."
"With my memory as support, you are the [God of Comics] Teacher Lu."
"Once you leave this world, you will still be the [Lu Shen] who doesn't know what he is."
"So, Teacher Lu, what will you choose?"
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Dickens bluntly revealed the cruel truth.
Leaving this world, Lu Shen will lose everything again.
And staying here, it is so real that Lu Shen can live happily and happily.
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Live in a perfect past, or live in an incomplete present.
This is the "killer move" Dickens prepared for Lu Shen.