Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 719: Schizophrenia, Side Effects of Upgrading the Seven Deadly Sins

"How long have you been here?"

Slowly, Lu Ce was coming to accept the bizarre situation with Xie Antong before him and asked.

Xie Antong glanced at her phone, thought for a moment, and replied.

"About five or six hours, I guess."

"I actually just woke up too. I've been very busy lately. I thought you might sleep for two days, but I didn't expect you still weren't awake even after I came here, slept, and woke up."

In reality, she had already come once two days ago, that time purely to confirm whether Lu Ce was actually still alive.

Only after checking did she leave again to attend to her own matters.

"So why are you in my bed?..." Lu Ce asked, somewhat speechless.

He initially thought Xie Antong had also just arrived, that the Heartward Drift ability had directly teleported her into the covers, but it seemed that wasn't the case either.

"Because you only have one bed here. My heart is relatively kind; I didn't move you to sleep on the floor," Xie Antong said flatly.Lu Ce: ......

He didn't know how much enhancement she had received from Pleasure now. Lu Ce felt that in his current normal state, he was starting to get a bit out-argued by her.

"Congratulations, this skill of yours... Pleasure actually gave you such a top-tier good thing."

To be honest, Lu Ce was even a little envious of this skill.

"I'm not too clear about the specific upper limits of this skill yet. For example, whether my teleportation can bring people along, or whether I can directly teleport into illusory places like inside the Game."

"However, I think the reason [Pleasure] gave me this ability might also be purely for... finding amusement..."

Xie Antong frowned slightly. Everything in the world has its own price, and she didn't know if this was good or bad.

But what's done is done. Thinking about this is useless. She opened her mouth and asked:

"How are you? Did you gain any power from Agony?"

"And, all the forms of your mask, it seems they've all reached that state of fusing with your face, right? How's the improvement?"

Reminded by Xie Antong, Lu Ce also reacted and directly responded with action—he flipped his hand and took out a mass of energy, smearing it onto his face.

"Hehe..." The moment the mask was put on, a sense of absurdity suddenly surged in Lu Ce's heart. He couldn't control it and chuckled.

"What do I look like right now?" He raised his head, looking at Xie Antong as he spoke.

Actually, just by looking at Xie Antong's current expression, he knew his current esteemed appearance was probably somewhat difficult to evaluate.

Xie Antong flashed to the side, brought a mirror, and placed it in front of Lu Ce.

In the reflection of that mirror, Lu Ce saw an image of himself he had never seen before.

That wasn't a mask, because the edges of a mask were completely undetectable, but it was also different from that state after Overload, where it fused with the face.

Because at this moment, his face had no facial features. It was a slightly convex oval surface, smooth as a mirror, as if his face had always looked like this.

And on this smooth face, seven colors were currently flowing. Those were the colors representing the Seven Deadly Sins, flowing irregularly like liquid paint.

Similarly, the flowing light of different colors also formed his expression. It was a smiling face.

Looking at himself in the mirror who was becoming more and more like a monster, Lu Ce raised his hand and touched his face. Only now did he realize he was smiling.

The Seven Deadly Sins: o(*￣︶￣*)o

Lu Ce tried to control his expression, and the expression on his face changed accordingly. But he hadn't been aware at all before that he was originally smiling...

Xie Antong opposite him was also seriously scrutinizing the face before her. This appearance was really a bit abstract; she needed some time to adapt.

However, looking at the flowing seven-colored light on the other's face, she also frowned slightly, searching her memory for that somewhat familiar feeling.

She originally had a good memory. After thinking for a long time, she suddenly realized—the seven colors of the Seven Deadly Sins seemed to be the same as the seven-colored divine light of [Pleasure].

Each mask's color had appeared separately before, so she had never noticed it.

Is it a coincidence...

Just as she was about to think more deeply, her train of thought was suddenly interrupted by some rather "noisy" sounds before her.

"Why am I smiling? I don't really feel happy."

"What's wrong with smiling a little? It's good for your health."

"Jiejiejie, in front of [Pleasure], of course you should smile. How can there be pleasure without smiling?"

"But I don't want to smile."

"I'm hungry..."

This series of noisy voices didn't come from anyone else; they came purely from Lu Ce before her.

From Xie Antong's perspective, the light on the face of this Lu Ce wearing the edgeless mask suddenly began to flow rapidly, and his mouth was also speaking at an extremely fast speed.

This whole thing was a bit like the rapid-fire dialogue in crosstalk comedy, as if afraid his mouth wouldn't be fast enough.

Xie Antong's first reaction was that this seemed quite interesting, but she quickly realized something was wrong and spoke up swiftly:

"Hey! Wake up, Lu Ce!"

She shouted sharply beside Lu Ce, calling him by his real name, causing the speed of the light flowing on his face to slow down a bit.

Lu Ce also instantly shut his mouth, not continuing to speak. Xie Antong asked:

"This mask of yours... can it still possess you?"

Her voice held some hidden fear. After all, in the last game, thinking Lu Ce had died and really turned into Agony had scared her half to death.

"No, it's all me..." Lu Ce replied somewhat blankly. Just now, for some reason, it seemed like several voices belonging to himself had simultaneously sounded in his mind.

"You're really having a mental breakdown now?!"

"That's a strange way to put it, as if you had this suspicion before," Lu Ce retorted. "Probably, it's the backlash from this mask. The main price of this thing is mental confusion."

"However, this can also be considered a good thing."

"A good thing?" Xie Antong asked in surprise.

"If you haven't had a mental breakdown, then you could have one at any time; but if you've already had a mental breakdown, you never have to worry about it again."

Seeing his serious expression, Xie Antong couldn't help but lean her head back and take a step backward.

Had Lu Ce really gone mad...

"Alright, I've slept for so long. Do you have anything else to talk to me about?"

"The main thing is, of course, that I wanted to see you," Xie Antong said, feeling a bit displeased upon hearing this.

"Of course, there are also some minor details. For example, the Grand Elder wants to see you."