The moment he saw his wife and son, his eyes welled up with tears.

And when his wife and son saw him, their eyes also brimmed with tears.

Mark wanted to walk over and embrace his wife.

But his wife said: "Mark, don't come over!"

Mark obediently listened to his wife's words and said excitedly: "Honey, you and our son, are you like that Jiang Ran, coming back to life?! Coming back to me?!"

His wife shook her head, tears streaming down her face.

"No, Mark."

"Our son and I died long ago, we've left this world."

Mark shook his head frantically: "No, no, you're still alive!"

He roared unwillingly.

His wife continued shaking her head: "We're dead, that's the fact, Mark. Our son and I have been watching you from heaven all along."

"Where has the Mark who once vowed to protect America, protect the world, and fight all evil gone?"

"How have you become such a murderous demon now?"

As these words ended, the figures of his wife and son seemed to turn into powder, dissipating with the wind.

Mark let out a heart-wrenching roar and ran over, trying to keep his wife and son.

Manager Xiao Zhang had never been frightened by anything in his life, not even when watching various horror movies as a child.

But today, he was truly scared.

Mark, who was following him to kill Jiang Ran.

Suddenly stopped not only that, but also started screaming and crying incessantly toward the empty space behind them.

What baffled Manager Xiao Zhang was.

There was absolutely no one behind them...

Manager Xiao Zhang only felt creeped out, goosebumps rising all over his body.

He had been to Macedonia Island before to participate in the special live stream.

Therefore, he had known Mark before this, as could be seen from their cooperation during this special live stream.

After all, if two people were truly meeting for the first time.

Forget that they were both deranged killers who murdered without blinking.

Even if they were two ordinary people, could they cooperate so well on their first collaboration?

Therefore, he also knew what had happened to Mark.

When he heard Mark screaming desperately toward the empty space behind them, calling for his wife and son.

Manager Xiao Zhang felt his mind blown.

Was Mark suffering from excessive longing, developing mental problems?

Or had he seen ghosts?

"If there really are ghosts in this world, they'd just be chopped up by my chainsaw."

Manager Xiao Zhang said viciously.

Back then, after killing his girlfriend, her affair partner's entire family.

His own grandparents, and several uncles' entire families.

He had been arrested.

After being imprisoned, he shared a cell with a university psychology professor.

The man was in his fifties.

No one knew why he had been imprisoned.

Anyway, he and that psychology professor had pleasant conversations.

That professor told him that in this world, many deranged criminals, many deranged serial killers.

All had serious psychological disease problems.

Many were triggered by the environments they found themselves in.

Including many ordinary people - because social pressure was increasingly growing, many people were actually psychologically unhealthy.

Just like having suboptimal physical health.

Manager Xiao Zhang couldn't remember how many people he had killed to date.

Could it be that he too had some psychological disease?

Mental illness?

What kind of joke was that?

"Mark! Mark! I don't care what you're seeing! Wake up!"

"Even if you have mental illness! Don't have an episode right now!!!"

Manager Xiao Zhang began trying to wake Mark up.

After shaking him frantically with no response, he directly slapped him.

Only then did Mark, who was kneeling on the ground crying bitterly, gradually come to his senses.

After regaining consciousness.

Manager Xiao Zhang asked Mark what he had seen?

Mark said he had seen his wife and son.

Manager Xiao Zhang said: "No, you were hallucinating. I didn't see your wife and son at all."

Mark seemed dazed: "But I saw my wife telling me that she never imagined I'd become a murderous demon... She must be very disappointed with who I am now, right?"

Manager Xiao Zhang stood up and said coldly: "Alright then, are you saying in your words that you want to quit? Then you can quit right now. Once you decide not to do this anymore, wait to go back to prison!"

"Don't forget, the reason you can jump around alive here is because you can produce value. Once you can't produce value anymore, you're finished."

Mark seemed to take it in.

He shakily got up.

Picked up the black military crossbow that had fallen to the ground.

And followed Manager Xiao Zhang, continuing toward his hotel room.

Manager Xiao Zhang originally thought Mark was quite a reliable teammate, but then he suddenly pulled this stunt.

It was truly baffling.

He couldn't understand the feeling of seeing hallucinations of one's wife and son.

Even if he had similar hallucinations, seeing his own parents.

He would absolutely not withdraw from this path.

Because he had already fallen in love with this feeling.

The two quickly arrived at the entrance of Mark's hotel room.

They didn't see any sign of Jiang Ran.

Manager Xiao Zhang suspected he might be hiding inside waiting for them?

So he told Mark to use his room card to open the door.

When the room card opened the door.

The moment the door opened, the room was completely quiet.

The two searched inside but found no trace of Jiang Ran.

"Where is he? Could it be that he came here, couldn't find anyone, and left again?"

Manager Xiao Zhang went back to his old trade of checking surveillance footage.

As it turned out, he discovered that after Jiang Ran met with him and left.

He never went looking for Mark at all.

Instead, after reaching the hotel's first floor, he left the hotel.

God knows where he went after that.

Manager Xiao Zhang was so anxious he was scratching his head and ears.

He truly felt Jiang Ran was the most troublesome lab rat he had encountered so far.

Like an unkillable pest, absolutely annoying.

...

Jiang Ran didn't go looking for Mark.

He knew that if he went looking for Mark now, there were two outcomes.

First, he wouldn't find Mark. Second, he would encounter both the chainsaw murderer and Mark together.

If he encountered the second situation, there was a high probability he would die at the hands of these two people.

After leaving the hotel, he just walked randomly in one direction.

While walking, he thought about things in his mind.

But what he was thinking about wasn't how to kill those two people at all, but something more important.

"According to the memories I received after waking up and taking control of the body during my dormant period, all alternate personalities, after being randomly selected by the System to help the main personality with kind memories resolve crises, get forcibly shoved back in."

"If I never help him resolve the crisis by killing those two people, wouldn't that mean I could keep controlling the body indefinitely?"

Every alternate personality wanted to gain freedom and control the body for extended periods.

He was no exception, so he deduced a pattern from other alternate personalities who had been out before.

Just as he seemed to have discovered a bug exploit point, the System's voice rang in his mind:

[Warning alternate personality! Don't entertain such crooked thoughts, otherwise we'll directly pull you back to the inner landscape world, switch to another alternate personality, and you will never be randomly selected again afterwards.]

The sudden mechanical, cold voice.

Made Jiang Ran's heart jump with shock.

This made no sense?

He was only thinking in his mind - could this so-called System actually read his thoughts?