I Became a God in a Horror Game

Liao Ke asked: “You are feeling sad for Bai Liu’s sadness, but you are not actually sad, right?”

The stethoscope hummed.

Liao Ke lowered his head and wrote: “You and Bai Liu empathized.”

Stethoscope asks, “What is empathy?”

“Empathy is because you two have similar experiences, or the other person has a very different special meaning to you, which leads to your being able to empathize with the other person’s emotions.” Liao Ke wrote in his notebook, “Spades, do you know why you feel sad because of Bai Liu’s sadness?”

The stethoscope answered honestly: “I don’t know.”

“You actually lack the basis for empathy. Your experience is too blank, which makes it impossible for you to imagine what another person would feel in that situation based on your own experience.”

Liao Ke explained: “Most empathy is based on mutual understanding, but this does not apply to you and Bai Liu. You don’t understand Bai Liu, or in other words, you don’t understand anyone. You don’t even understand the mechanism of human emotion.”

“So it’s very strange that empathy appears in you.” Liao Ke raised his eyes, “Based on my understanding of you, I think the only explanation is——”

“But correspondingly, although you feel it, you have no way to handle such complicated emotions.” Liao Ke smiled, “To put it in an analogy, if Bai Liu’s emotions are some special data, and you are a computer, and you do not have the ability to process this special data, the influx of this data will cause you to have a very strange reaction.”

Stethoscope asked, “What’s the reaction?”

“In order to process this special data, you will also keep producing special data to respond to the other party.” Liao Ke smiled gently, “Sometimes people will fall in love with those who love them, and hate those who hate them. This is a kind of human emotional feedback. You can feel the other person’s emotions, and accordingly, you will also generate emotions to deal with the other person’s emotions.”

“Bai Liu is sad for you, so you will also be sad for Bai Liu.”

Liao Ke continued: “But we need to find the source of this empathy together. That is, among all the people around you, Spades, why did you instinctively or subconsciously choose Bai Liu instead of others to feel their emotions?”

The stethoscope seemed to be thinking, and drooped slightly: “Bai Liu…is different from others.”

“How is he different from others?” Liao Ke said softly, “This question may be difficult for Spades to answer. Let’s cite the progressive relationships around you, Spades, to explore why Bai Liu is different.”

“For example, the strangers in the game pool, what’s the difference between them and Bai Liu to you? Why don’t you choose to empathize with them?”

Stethoscope was silent for a long time: “These people are afraid of me.”

Liao Ke nodded as if he had realized something, expressing his understanding: “Because these people are afraid of you, there is a natural barrier of empathy between you. They have ill will towards you, so you will shield them accordingly.”

“In fact, normally speaking, if Spades was a human who grew up in a normal environment, his first reaction to being frightened by a large crowd would be to be infected. He would subconsciously fear and hate himself, thus aligning his ideas with those of other humans, seeking a sense of spiritual identity, and avoiding being isolated by the group.”

“Humans are social animals and instinctively avoid loneliness, but Spades is not like that.”

Liao Ke looked at the Reverse God standing beside him: “Spades must have always been in an environment where he was highly excluded. He is used to this state, so when he is feared on a large scale, he will just think it is normal and ignore the other party, instead of seeking recognition from these people who fear him.”

“I want to ask you, Reverse God, do you know the circumstances of Spades’ birth?”

The Reverse God silently clasped his hands together and placed them against his nose. After a pause, he spoke: “This Spades guy… logged into the system from the single-player game in Siren Town.”

“Tawil, the previous evil god, became good friends with a human. After being forced into a deep sleep and falling, he drifted to the real Siren Town map.”

“From that time on, the new evil god punished Tawil by letting it drift between various games in a dormant state. It was beaten by players as a wandering god-level NPC, and was also cut into various evil origins to create and design game copies.”

“In order to go back and find that human, Tawil returned to the Siren Town where he first drifted into the game instance. While the new evil god was diverting his attention to finding his successor, he severed his soul and flesh there.”

“Tawil let his soul be trapped in the game and suffer forever, while his body transformed into a human form, sneaked in when a group of new players logged in, and finally logged into the game through a dead player’s small TV.”

Liao Ke realized: “Before, they said that there was an extra small TV in the new single-player game copy, and it was blocked so that the content inside could not be seen. Is it referring to Spades?”

The Reverse God hummed and said, “Spades was born from Tawil’s mermaid body. When he was born, although the player and the main NPCs were already dead, the game was actually almost completed.”

“That is to say, the residents of Siren Town have basically regained their normal consciousness and are now normal humans. They know that their tragedy was caused by the mermaid who was caught at the beginning, Tawil. This makes them extremely afraid and repulsive to Spade, who was born from Tawil’s body.”

“…These townspeople tried many ways to kill Spades, such as burning him with fire and cutting him with knives. However, Spades’ resistance was too high, so these things couldn’t hurt him at all, and he didn’t feel any pain.”

The Reverse God took a deep breath and said, “Spades did not resist from the beginning to the end. Or rather, he did not understand what was happening at all. He just calmly let the townspeople deal with him.”

“But because the townspeople have not been able to kill Spades, extreme fear has driven them crazy.”

“They lined up in front of Spades, yelling at him with twisted and crazy faces, “You’re a monster!” and then collectively slit their throats and committed suicide.

“Later, Spades searched through the bodies of these people and found the body of the dead player. He took his system coin and logged into the game covered in blood.”

Liao Ke nodded as if he understood, then turned to look at Spades: “Spades, why don’t you choose your teammates as the object of empathy? Your teammates are not afraid of you.”

Stethoscope bowed his head, as if thinking seriously, and then replied: “They don’t have any special data for me.”

Liao Ke responded and laughed: “You are using my previous analogy, right? Feelings towards you are data, but your teammates’ feelings towards you are not strong enough for you to generate special data in return.”

“This is quite normal.” Liao Ke seemed to be thinking, “Just like strangers in normal human society, there is a sense of distance, but your teammates’ feelings towards you, Spades, should be stronger than those towards strangers. You should be able to feel it a little bit, and they have been with you for much longer than Bai Liu. Why can’t they give back to their teammates, but can give back to Bai Liu instead?”

This time, the stethoscope was silent for a while: “Because… the first time I met Bai Liu, he smiled at me.”

“I felt like he wanted me to hug him.”

“I felt like he didn’t want me to leave and wanted to stay with me forever.”

“Other people are not like this. They are not afraid of me, but they also don’t want to hug me and be with me forever.”

“Only Bai Liu can produce this kind of special data for me.”

Liao Ke and the Reverse God were both silent for a moment, and then Liao Ke continued to ask: “The special data Bai Liu gave you is different from the feeling given to you by others, such as your teammates, right?”

“Yeah.” The stethoscope answered quickly.

Liao Ke continued to ask: “Can you use something to compare the feeling that this special data generated by Bai Liu brings to you?”

Stethoscope paused: “When Bai Liu first met me, he held my wrist.”

“It’s warm.”

Liao Ke lowered his head and continued writing on the notebook, then raised his head and looked at the Reverse God: “I have finished asking questions. I believe that you know what the psychological problems of Spades are, do I need to say it?”

The Reverse God held his forehead with his hand and sighed helplessly: “Although I guessed it in the game, when I really confirmed it, I still felt a little…”

Liao Ke smiled, he stood up and loosened the restraints that were helping Spades, then turned around and patted the Reverse God’s shoulder: “It’s complicated, right? When my little daughter first told me that she had a crush on someone, I felt the same way.”

“On the one hand, I’m glad that she has grown up and has someone she likes.” Liao Ke turned and looked at Spades with a smile in his eyes. “On the other hand, I’m worried that this fool will fall in love with a bad person.”

“But fortunately, it’s easy for you to understand each other.” Liao Ke suddenly reached out, grasped the Reverse God’s forearm, and pulled it out violently, “I think I should not only provide psychological counseling to Spades, but also to you.”

The Reverse God was caught off guard and hissed when he was pulled out. His hands were covered with bloody whip marks when he was pulled out by Liao Ke.

Liao Ke raised his eyes and looked at the Reverse God: “You can fool Bai Yi by saying that you are not injured, but you can’t fool a professional like me. What are these whip marks? Why did you show your injuries?”

The Reverse God paused, then pulled back his hand, and said with a slightly complaining smile: “What could have happened? When I was about to log out of the game, that bastard Spades suddenly went crazy and whipped me with the broken whip. I was caught off guard and didn’t have time to react, so I was injured and kicked out of the game.”

Liao Ke looked at the Reverse God steadily: “The wounds on your body and Spades’ body are the same kind of whip marks, both with barbs, Spades’ whip doesn’t look like this.”

The Reverse God sat on the back of the sofa, lowered his head and said nothing for a very long time.

The blood from the whip marks on his body dripped onto the floor.

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