Chapter 210: [Blessed with Longevity] Implanting Memories
Bai Cha entered the instance this time while inside the elevator after work.
She had felt something was slightly off right at that moment.
Quietly cursing the game in her mind, the surroundings shifted instantly right afterward.
[Welcome to the B9-rank instance: “Fortune and Longevity Created by Heaven.”]
[Total number of participants in this instance: 10 players.]
[As the discoverers who uncovered this instance, the game will grant you a set of character memories as a reward to facilitate your roleplay. In this instance, you must strictly refrain from letting NPCs discover any anomalies regarding your identities, otherwise you shall bear the consequences yourself.]
[Of course, rewards and crises always coexist. You must pay close attention to distinguish your true memories from the character memories. Should you forget your real name upon departing, you cannot blame the game~]
[To prevent you from slipping up, the Secretive App has thoughtfully disabled the live stream bullet chat for you at the start. Should the need arise later, players may freely toggle it back on themselves~]
[Clearance mode for this instance: Escape Mode.]
[As long as you can escape from this nursing home named Xingfu Nursing Home, you will clear the game.]
[As instance discoverers, the game grants everyone an additional hint: Fortune and longevity are naturally created by Heaven, yet since ancient times, humanity’s pursuit of immortality has never ceased—and desire can never be filled!]
[Friendly Reminder: Due to the unique nature of this instance, players are advised to ensure NPCs do not discover you using skills, otherwise you shall bear the consequences yourself~]
[The Secretive App wishes you a pleasant life~]
Following the final chime of the voice, Bai Cha felt a splitting, excruciating headache.
A massive influx of memories that didn’t belong to her flooded into her mind once more.
In truth, they were still Li Yun’s memories.
This time, however, both her own memories and Li Yun’s memories coexisted within her mind simultaneously.
Furthermore, many of these memories differed from those she had obtained in the previous instance.
Or rather, the previous run had merely granted them a basic NPC identity without truly fleshing out complete character details.
This time, however, she obtained the full, unbridled twenty-seven years of Li Yun’s life experiences.
Bai Cha suffered a severe, throbbing headache, lying on a hospital bed, staring blankly up at the ceiling.
She made a concerted effort to sort through the memories.
This method of implanting memories indeed easily induced confusion in one’s mind.
After struggling to separate them for a long while, Bai Cha ultimately chose to give up, opting merely to isolate a few key events.
Along with continuously reminding herself: My name is Bai Cha, not Li Yun.
Her head still throbbed with intense pain.
A dizzying sensation lingered as well.
Bai Cha sat up from the hospital bed with considerable difficulty.
This was a three-bed hospital room.
She occupied the middle bed, flanked by two female patients on either side.
From her memories, she knew they were both young patients recently admitted to the nursing home.
The young people brought here all suffered from varying degrees of psychiatric disorders.
As for her—Li Yun, twenty-seven years old—she had been admitted to this nursing home due to suffering from dissociative identity disorder.
By all rights, one ought to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital, but word had it that doctors in many psychiatric hospitals employed rather harsh, heavy-handed methods.
This nursing home, on the other hand, had always maintained a stellar reputation. Many elderly residents living here appeared mentally healthy and noticeably rejuvenated, which was why a dedicated ward building had been opened specifically to receive young people suffering from psychiatric conditions caused by psychological trauma.
Li Yun’s condition split into two distinct personalities: the core personality was Li Yun, while the alter personality… was named Bai Cha.
This was likely arranged by the game.
Framing it this way held both pros and cons.
The benefit was that even if she displayed memories and behaviors belonging to Bai Cha, the doctors wouldn’t observe anything excessively anomalous.
This indeed served to better prevent NPCs from discovering their true identities.
The drawback, however, lay in the fact that Bai Cha was the alter personality.
Under normal circumstances, treating this type of condition prioritized preserving the core personality.
Yet she was Bai Cha; Li Yun’s memories were the external addition.
The origin of Li Yun’s dissociative identity disorder could be traced back to her early childhood.
Prior to being adopted by her current adoptive mother, Li Qunfang, she had been adopted by another married couple.
Then, she suffered a traumatic ordeal.
It was her adoptive father.
Yet her adoptive mother offered no help, turning intensely enraged instead, believing that despite kindly adopting her, she had brought discord to their household.
She was promptly returned to the orphanage.
Li Yun had been extremely young at the time, her memory of the event thoroughly hazy, and because she failed to comprehend the matter, it was actually forgotten rather quickly.
Following that, she was adopted by Li Qunfang.
Upon learning that Li Qunfang was a divorced, single woman, the orphanage director took Li Yun’s past experiences into consideration, exerting effort to facilitate Li Qunfang’s adoption of Li Yun, hoping she would never suffer such horrible ordeals again.
Li Yun indeed avoided experiencing those things again, yet her life was far from as ideal as imagined.
Material aspects were merely secondary; at the very least, Li Qunfang ensured she was fed, clothed, and provided with an education.
However… Li Qunfang actually suffered from dissociative identity disorder herself.
Her core personality was gentle, kind-hearted, and a truly wonderful mother.
It was predominantly her core personality that held command over her consciousness.
Except when facing Li Yun.
A manic, violent personality would surface—one that refused to view Li Yun as a daughter, believing solely that Li Yun’s existence had stolen the position belonging to her biological daughter.
Aside from her deceased biological daughter, she refused to acknowledge or accept any other child, subjecting Li Yun to severe abuse.
Li Yun would be locked inside wardrobes by her, pricked with needles all over every inch of her body, until young Li Yun passed out from excruciating pain.
The core personality held zero awareness that she possessed another alter, nor did she know what she had done.
Whenever she regained consciousness, she would discover Li Yun lying injured on the floor.
And Li Yun was terrified, not daring to utter a single word.
Later, throughout her entire upbringing, Li Yun remained trapped in such an environment for a prolonged period.
Her adoptive mother was extremely, wonderfully gentle at times.
Gentle like an angel.
Yet at other times, she was terrifying beyond measure.
Particularly because she would invariably display that gentle gaze after beating her, asking what had happened to her.
How could she dare speak? She had always assumed her adoptive mother acted intentionally.
Only upon growing up and learning about dissociative identity disorder did she roughly comprehend her adoptive mother’s condition.
In truth, however… she found it exceptionally difficult to accept Li Qunfang.
Still, considering she was the person who had raised her after all, learning of her condition lessened Li Yun’s resentment, prompting her to care for her diligently until her passing.
Li Qunfang’s death ought to have been a liberation for her.
Yet… Li Yun discovered that starting from that very day, her life seemed to shift into something else entirely as well.
For instance, she constantly felt the person in the mirror wasn’t herself.
For instance, she would inexplicably prepare a full day’s worth of meals, just as she used to do when Li Qunfang was still alive.
Furthermore, she discovered that the arrangement of certain items in the house differed from her memories.
Strange records would appear on her phone—actions she had clearly never performed.
There was even a black dog with gouged-out eyes hidden inside the wardrobe.
Assuming someone was playing sick pranks at first, she had reported the matter to the police station.
Regrettably, after investigating, zero progress was made, and they tactfully suggested she might want to get checked at a hospital.
Consequently, Li Yun arrived at Xingfu Nursing Home, having heard that a new psychiatric department specializing in psychological issues among young people had recently opened here.
