Scarlet Descent-Chapter 46 - The Demon’s Directive

The weakness of this ability was that the creator of the knowledge prison couldn’t set puzzles they themselves didn’t understand.

What was frightening was that even simple middle school problems could be unsolvable for many people…

Wei Wei didn’t try to solve the chains. Instead, he looked through the flying papers at the girl lying on the bed.

She locked eyes with him for a moment before continuing to write furiously.

Her bulging eyes and the veins on her forehead showed her life was at its limit.

But she didn’t stop.

It seemed she had eyes only for this task.

The symbols she wrote were generating an abnormally powerful force, affecting countless people in Iron City, like an unyielding hand rummaging through their minds.

Wei Wei held his gun but didn’t raise it. He was filled with questions.

What was she doing?

Suppressing his desire, he listened carefully.

The papers filled his vision, with twisted symbols jumping and changing on them, forming one question after another.

These questions connected, creating new ones, as if cheering and leaping into Wei Wei’s brain.

Being trapped by the ignorance chains for longer would lead to being polluted by more knowledge.

Eventually, one might either have their brain burst, becoming an idiot, or be captured by the knowledge demon, becoming its follower.

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But Wei Wei didn’t resist these twisted symbols and questions, allowing them to flood his mind.

The dense questions and speculations hit his brain like a tide, enough to corrupt any human mind.

However, Wei Wei remained unaffected.

Compared to the mad murmurs he heard every night, this level of questioning was weak.

Even when facing the upper totem of the death system, he could stay clear-headed.

Because his demonic power was so active, it left no space for other demonic powers to occupy.

So, Wei Wei let these doubts and symbols enter his mind, filtering out information.

The characters in the knowledge prison contained the girl’s chaotic spirit and memories.

A feature of the knowledge demon system was its ability to devour, view, and even search others’ memories, but it was also defenseless.

As Wei Wei allowed the chaotic forces to flood his mind, overlapping images appeared.

A failed father, a smart daughter.

The girl came from a poor background. Her mother left early, tired of her father’s lack of ambition.

The father was a gambler and drunkard, often coming home late, only working odd jobs when they couldn’t afford food.

But no one expected such a smart girl to emerge from this family.

She excelled in school, despite wearing tattered clothes and oversized shoes.

Her classmates respected her, and teachers liked her.

The father was moved, realizing his daughter was truly intelligent.

He decided to reform, focusing on caring for her.

He left money for breakfast when he gambled and brought back used textbooks from his odd jobs.

He devoted himself to nurturing her, commanding her to study hard, even relieving her of household chores.

He gave her her first toy: a lantern made from a rotten pumpkin.

The girl was obedient, always doing well in school, until the day of the entrance exams.

Everyone said she would definitely get into a top middle school, even with a scholarship.

The father believed it too, buying a bottle of good wine to celebrate.

But things didn’t go as expected. The girl fainted during the exam, leaving only a mess on her paper.

The father was disappointed, feeling his years of effort were wasted.

The girl cried silently in her room, listening to her drunk father curse her mother and slap himself, saying they were both destined to stay at the bottom.

He smashed the pumpkin lantern, saying it was because she was too playful.

He tore up her homework, saying all his efforts were in vain.

He looked at her angrily, asking why she couldn’t try harder.

Then, a nun visited the father. She was a teacher from the top middle school and said they had heard about the girl.

They offered a consolation fund and a problem for the girl to solve, promising that if she solved it, she could attend the school with a large reward.

The father was overjoyed.

He couldn’t understand the twisted symbols on the paper but knew his daughter was smart and good at solving problems.

So, he agreed.

Those people not only gave the girl an opportunity but also sent her to the hospital, providing nutritional fluids that supposedly contained “smart drugs.”

The man also quit his jobs to care for her, encouraging her to solve the problem.

The girl did well. On the first day, she said she couldn’t understand the problem.

On the second day, she said she could.

On the third day, she found a lead.

On the fourth day, she said progress was smooth.

On the fifth day, she said the problem was difficult and she felt tired…

The father repeatedly told her not to be tired, that it was just a problem, and that thinking shouldn’t be harder than his physical labor.

He reminded her of the good food and fruit she was eating, things they couldn’t afford before.

On the sixth day, the girl firmly told her father she would solve the problem that day.

She was close to solving it, with countless ideas flooding her mind, almost seeing hope.

At that moment, she didn’t want any distractions, just to solve the problem, overcome all obstacles, because her father said it was their last hope.

…

“Whoosh!”

Wei Wei’s pupils turned slightly red as his crimson power burst forth, his sharp energy tearing through the surrounding papers.

The twisted, powerless white papers rustled as they fell in the room.

He had understood the situation and no longer needed to listen to the useless murmurs.

The paper wasn’t a problem; it was a directive.

The girl was under demonic influence.

She thought she was solving a problem, but she was executing a demonic directive.

As she worked on solving the problem in her mind, she began influencing the entire city of Iron City through the demonic directive.

She was immersed in solving the problem, and her spiritual power had seeped into the city.

She thought she was overcoming obstacles, but she was actually conquering the minds of Iron City’s residents.

Starting with one or two, she found a lead and expanded, delving deeper into the maze, building a massive demonic field based on her initial advantage.

She believed she was searching for an answer to the problem, but in reality, she was searching through the memories of the entire city.

But what answer was she trying to find?

Or what was this demonic directive trying to find through her?

…

As Wei Wei understood the truth, with bloodshot eyes, the frail girl on the bed suddenly lifted her head.

She looked through the falling papers and stared blankly at Wei Wei.

She seemed to have woken from a dream, her face showing a mix of surprise and confusion:

“I found you…”

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