Four Split Personalities

Cui Xiaoyu is from the Astronomy Department of the Science and Engineering College; he enjoys studying stars.

Nangong Na is also from the Medical College, like Yu Chen, but she studies nursing. By the way, the Medical College and the Science and Engineering College are located at the southwest corner and northeast corner of the campus, respectively.

Furthermore, the standard four-person and six-person dormitories are concentrated in the southern area of the school, but the two-person dormitories for girls and boys are located in the northwest and southeast corners of the school, respectively.

In summary, although everyone is studying at the same school, they’re actually quite spread out. With different majors, even within the same college, unless intentionally gathering, it’s not easy to meet up regularly.

Of course, this can’t be an excuse for Motan to continue skipping classes, especially after the vice principal who shielded him has resigned, and the school’s undisputed female leader, Yao Qianhan, who holds dual roles as the largest shareholder and director, has issued a final ultimatum: if Motan’s attendance rate remains as before, he and Yi Dong will be expelled from Tan Hua.

Regardless of Motan, if Yi Dong gets expelled because of him... Okay, Motan honestly wouldn’t feel too burdened, as without his cheating help, Yi Dong would have probably been advised to drop out long ago (though he might have worked hard and studied diligently). Even so, Motan can’t accept this possibility, because Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" are innocent; if Yi Dong were expelled because of him, causing them to be upset, it would be too harsh.

Even in the past decades, Mo has always liked Yi Dong’s parents, let alone... now that he’s understood the ’truth’ to some extent.

No matter how mysterious the reasons are, Motan is at least certain that Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" sent Yi Dong to the orphanage completely for his sake, hoping he wouldn’t suffer early demise due to reasons unimaginable to Motan. Moreover, for some reasons, they couldn’t tell Yi Dong the truth (Motan thinks it might be because Yi Dong wouldn’t believe it), leaving an unavoidable flaw in their love.

Yao Qianhan’s failed attempt at memory manipulation has opened a door for Motan, but he chose to ’linger at the door, never delve too deeply,’ except for making limited speculations and actions without crossing boundaries.

Those limited speculations include, but are not limited to, apart from Yi Dong, the elders of Yu Chen, the Ji Family sisters, Cui Xiaoyu, and others are all those Outsiders, but his friends are just ordinary people, and even Sister Xiao Le might not be simple.

He’s no fool. Combining Yao Qianhan’s previous words and recalling "Gu Xiaole’s" unintentional statements that morning like ’directly ask Nobunaga how he was burned to death,’ ’find Mitsuhide Teriyaki for answers,’ and ’the real need for inquiry is to get help,’ he quickly noticed some clues.

As for limited actions, they involve how to cope with the ’ability’ that Yao Qianhan had previously exhibited, akin to a truth detector, as he doesn’t want the matter of regaining memory (whether active or passive) to be noticed.

Frankly speaking, it’s not an easy task, as Motan knows nothing about Yao Qianhan and her ’superpowers.’

This is reality. Regardless of how superior Motan’s methods are, no matter how smart he is, he ultimately remains just an ordinary person.

Of course, maybe compared to most people, he’s actually not ordinary, and Yi Dong sometimes even thinks he’s not human. However, in front of truly ’special’ people like Yao Qianhan, what he can do is indeed very limited.

However, limited is simply limited; perhaps he has absolutely no chance of fooling a ’Superman’ focused on tailing him, but Motan doesn’t think Yao Qianhan would really have such free time.

If the situation really is as she said, discovering he regained memory was just coincidental, then Motan should still be relatively ’safe’ now.

In that office, Motan sat on pins and needles, pondering the matter desperately every minute and second.

In his view, although his mental state is rather special, he remains an ordinary person. In other words, if we optimistically estimate, it might not be impossible for someone else to break such manipulations, and assuming incidents like ’Yokai disturbance at the old power plant’ frequently occur, those Supermen would certainly display those ’amazing skills’ to innocent passersby often, so under a certain base probability, what is happening to him might not be particularly rare.

Therefore, if it’s just one incident, Yao Qianhan might accept it; if she can check the previous incident at the old power plant, that would be even better, as Motan hasn’t shown any ’signs of knowing’ since then.

However, if such incidents repeatedly occur to one person, then even from the most optimistic perspective, Motan thinks he would be ’noticed,’ and now he worries the most about being ’noticed,’ especially by a bunch of Supermen.

One wrong move, and his mental illness would be exposed, even though he thinks those Supermen don’t need to study him (perhaps even more worthy of research themselves), plus the relationship with Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" complicates things,

In summary, regardless of the normal social circle or the Aberrants’ circle, Motan does not wish to draw attention in any way, no matter which personality he is under.

Thus, after drawing an ambiguous conclusion, Motan made a very bold decision, which was to actively adjust his mental state in front of Yao Qianhan, and twice!

It was when Yao Qianhan smilingly asked, ’So, why didn’t you forget?’ that Motan, overwhelmed with complex thoughts, utilized amazing willpower to forcibly trigger his ’Absolute Neutrality’ personality. This wasn’t difficult, but quickly inducing ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality afterward was not easy.

After completing this series of complex breakdowns, Motan felt excruciating pain, yearning to collapse onto the ground in a faint.

Ultimately, he didn’t fall off the chair. In fact, at the moment when ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality completely took over, Motan began to actively control all his physiological responses.

This wasn’t a simple task, but just as professional actors can cry on cue, and professional charlatans can fake illnesses, Motan under ’Chaotic Neutral’ personality reached the pinnacle in ’acting’ and ’deception’ domains, maintaining stability.

Therefore, despite outwardly appearing to reminisce about those ’bizarrely emergent memories,’ Motan had already completed personality transformation right under Yao Qianhan’s nose.

It must be said, this was a very risky attempt, but Motan ultimately gambled, because... if she possessed Mind Reading Technique, no matter how he acted, it’d be futile; but if Yao Qianhan used something akin to a lie detector to determine truth-telling ability, then he had a chance.

Motan leaned towards the latter, because Yao Qianhan’s attitude shifted right after his line ’New Year’s party last year?’—his first lie in the conversation.

So he gambled, placing all bets on ’successfully deceiving Yao Qianhan in physiological responses under Chaotic Neutral personality,’ and subtly tested.

Then—

"I always thought it was a dream... or some illusion, not real, but now it seems..."

"You better consider it real if you can recall these messy things after leaving here."

After these two exchanges concluded, Motan finally breathed a sigh of relief, although, apart from his thoughts, none of his voice, heartbeat, body temperature or other signals revealed this ’sigh of relief.’

He bet right.

He successfully deceived a potentially powerful Outsider!

Chapter 1257: End

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