After all, if she switched to the isolated brain domain.
For Yun Ruoxi, it was equivalent to temporarily using a virtual machine instead of a real computer, that is, using a virtual personality stamped with a mental brand to replace her primary personality.
This virtual personality’s character was set by Yun Ruoxi herself, exactly matching her current persona.
It could perfectly display the pain and struggle she felt when being brainwashed.
The only downside was that the virtual personality’s brain domain was too small.
She couldn’t use her Yi Neng, nor could she inherit all her memories.
But because of this, she didn’t even need to worry about the risk of being replaced by the virtual personality.
This was also one of the reasons why [Advanced Brain Domain Isolation] was such an expensive skill.
Pa!
A snap of fingers rang out, and Dr. Forefinger released his control over the girl.
The girl immediately let out a piercing scream, her body suddenly convulsing.
“No, no, I don’t want to become like I was before.”
“That’s not up to you.”
Dr. Forefinger sneered repeatedly, quietly watching the trembling, wailing girl, utterly unmoved.
Quite a while passed.
Only when Yun Ruoxi stopped shaking and suddenly bowed her head did he step forward and remove her mask.
At this moment.
The blue-haired girl’s gaze had already become dull, a terrifying urge for violence and destruction welling up from deep within her eyes.
Dr. Forefinger nodded with satisfaction, slowly squatted down, and whispered in her ear:
“Don’t hold back. Anger and destruction are human nature. For revenge, you need them.”
“But at the same time, you must learn to control and deceive.”
“Don’t show your ugly side in front of those you like. Only then can your feelings last forever.”
“Do you understand?”
“I understand.” The girl nodded, a bit of liveliness returning to her eyes.
“If you ever feel like you can’t control yourself, just come here. I’ve prepared plenty of things for you to take it out on.”
Dr. Forefinger pushed the chair, bringing the limp girl sitting in it to the back of the laboratory.
“Look, this is a rabbit, this is a puppy, and this one’s a kitten.”
He pointed at the iron cages stacked up like a mountain in the room, introducing them one by one.
He opened one of them and took out a snow-white rabbit, handing it to Yun Ruoxi.
Yun Ruoxi blankly looked up, gazing at Dr. Forefinger.
He shrugged, smiling as he gestured, “What are you waiting for? I know you’re very angry and upset right now. Since that’s the case, just vent all the most cruel means you can think of on it.”
“Vent on… it?”
Hearing Dr. Forefinger’s words, the girl’s gaze shifted to the adorable rabbit in her arms.
She picked it up, gripping it, her ten fingers slowly tightening.
“Gugu! Gugu!” The rabbit squealed in pain, struggling and screeching frantically.
But the girl remained unmoved. Instead, a hint of delight appeared on her face, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily curled up.
Pa pa pa!
Dr. Forefinger gently clapped from the side.
“That’s it, there are plenty more here. From now on, every late night, this place will be open only to you. You can do anything you want here—no one will come here…”
He pressed Yun Ruoxi’s shoulder, leaned down, and whispered softly:
“To bother you! Not even Lin Zhen will. This place is a paradise just for you.”
As his words fell.
Pa!
The rabbit in Yun Ruoxi’s hands was crushed in an instant, blood and pieces of flesh splattering everywhere.
The girl’s clothes were instantly covered in blood.
And Dr. Forefinger didn’t escape unscathed either.
He wiped the blood away, smiling helplessly.
“You really are something, child—so impatient. Remember to clean yourself up before you return to the dormitory, so Lin Zhen and the others don’t notice anything strange.”
“Do you like the War Camp, do you like the Sacred Hand Society?” he suddenly asked.
The girl, covered in blood, was momentarily stunned. “I don’t kno… um!”
Before she could finish her last word, she clutched her head in pain, her face twisting.
“It’s alright, take it slow,” Dr. Forefinger said gently. “You’ll come to love it here.”
“To you, this place is paradise, isn’t it?”
The girl looked up, repeating the words “paradise” to herself, a fresh glimmer returning to her eyes.
Seeing this, the doctor struck while the iron was hot, quickly resuming the brainwashing that had been forcibly interrupted earlier, “Here, you can gain the power to take revenge on the Overlord. Here, you can also walk into the hall of marriage with A Zhen, the boy you like.”
“The Sacred Hand Society will be happy to bring you two together.”
“Revenge… and marriage…”
The girl began to repeat these two keywords to herself once more.
Dr. Forefinger wheeled her back to the front, placing the mask on her face again.
Watching as the girl started convulsing once more, he softly instructed:
“When you wake up, you will remember everything here, but you won’t be able to mention it to any students. You’ll feel pain, which will turn into anger, and coming here to vent will be your best option.”
“Alright, get ready to go back. Oh, and before you go to bed, remember to wash yourself clean.”
With that, he reached out and removed the mask.
The girl, her eyes once again vacant, slowly climbed down from the chair.
She staggered out of the laboratory, shuffling toward her dormitory like a living corpse.
Along the way, all the dormitory doors were forcibly locked, and every path where a student might appear was sealed.
This was a passageway opened exclusively for Yun Ruoxi to be “brainwashed” late at night.
Such an honor.
But all Yun Ruoxi could feel at this moment was an immense chill.
Dr. Forefinger, this guy…
He already seemed mysterious and disgusting in the original rough outline.
But she hadn’t expected that in reality, he would be even more malicious, his methods far more ingenious.
He’d actually eavesdropped on Lin Zhen and Chicha’s conversation, then turned the brainwashing from the open into the hidden.
With this, it was like a time bomb planted inside the protagonist’s group.
No matter when Lin Zhen tried to escape, no matter how perfect the plan, Dr. Forefinger could activate her brainwashed self in time, utterly ruining everything and cutting off any hope of escape for Lin Zhen.
“What a terrifying opponent!” Yun Ruoxi muttered to herself.
But then again, the plot had developed this far because she had chosen to take the blame for Lin Zhen, severely derailing the original storyline, which led to this sudden escalation.
But fortunately, it was she who got brainwashed, and not anyone else other than Lin Zhen, like Aili.
If she was brainwashed, she could still manipulate the situation and help Lin Zhen and the others escape from here.
Otherwise, things really would have gone terribly wrong.
But… blessings and disasters are intertwined.
Dr. Forefinger’s scheme at this moment might also be a chance for her to once again harvest the audience’s emotions.
She had originally prepared for herself a grand exit, but it always felt like something was missing.
Now it seemed, it must have been the enemy’s cooperation she lacked.
Only the strongest opponent could deliver the most dazzling clash.
Now, with Dr. Forefinger as her hidden card, she was confident that her final performance this season would bloom as brilliantly as fireworks.
It’s time for the finally. Seriously, thinking it was resolved just for it all to seem useless at the last moment and for her to be left behind heroically. Though I wish the red hed would go with them, since she could be used to explain Xiao Xi’s background to them in the end of Season 1 or during Season 2 or a later Season.