The Snaketail Worm that Cell encountered must be an enchantment. So, this was what Angor needed for his experiment.
Next, Angor asked Cell about his fight with the Snaketail Worm in the Room of Heart.
He didn't want to miss a single detail, because Cell's experience could be used as a reference for Toby.
After Cell repeated the story several times, Angor finally stopped.
He sighed in relief after hearing Cell's explanation. What he was most afraid of was Toby entering the House of the Heart and being defeated by the Spirit of Extreme Resentment because he was no match for it. Toby's consciousness would also be damaged.
According to Cell, Toby fought against the Snaketail Worm in the colosseum and died in the mouth of the Snaketail Worm. He thought he was dead for good, but when he opened his eyes again, he realized that everything was just a dream.
Cell was killed by the snake-tailed bug, but he was only kicked out of the House of Heart. His consciousness was not injured. That meant Toby should be fine when he faced the Grudge Worm in the Room of Heart.
Now that he was sure the Room of Heart wouldn't harm his consciousness, he focused on something else.
"You said you survived the Snaketail Worm's attack for five minutes, right?"
"Yes. To be exact, I was running away for the first three minutes. I only fought the Snaketail Worm in the last two minutes. But it was too strong. I was taken down in a second, "Cell explained.
"Three minutes to run away, and two minutes to fight?" Freud considered. "That doesn't make sense."
Angor nodded. "The Snaketail Worm shouldn't be this strong."
Freud opened his desk drawer and took out a stack of reports. Cell took a casual glance and realized that every page of the report had a picture of a terrifying monster. Below the monster was a dense line of words. It seemed to be information about the monster.
Freud turned to one of the pages and saw a Snaketail Worm with a head that looked like a worm and ears that looked like a butterfly's wings.
Cell was bewildered. These monsters … were there so many of them? What were the origins of these monsters?
While Cell was still in doubt, Freud had already reviewed the information he collected about the snake-tailed insects.
Snaketail Worms were known for their agility, flight, and long-range attacks.
Although it was just a few words, the meaning behind it was far beyond the understanding of ordinary people.
Back then, Saber Knight couldn't even last long against Cell, who had mutated after being invaded by the snake-tailed bugs, let alone Cell, who was no different from a weakling.
If Cell had faced the Snake-Tailed Bug head-on with its true strength, he would have been killed almost instantly. There was no way he would have been able to escape for three minutes.
"In other words, this Snake-Tailed Insect's strength is unworthy of its name. Why is that? " "The snake-tail bug is Cell's inner demon. Is it just a figment of Cell's imagination?"
"That's possible. After all, Cell has never seen a Snake-tailed Insect before."
Cell suddenly spoke up. "I don't know how strong a snake-tail insect is. It didn't use its full power when chasing me. It has been asking me some … questions. Even later, when I had no choice but to fight with it, it kept questioning me. That's why I was able to drag things out for so long. "
"What did it ask you?" Freud didn't care about the insect's strength right away. Instead, he asked about it out of curiosity.
"It asked me … why did I abandon it?" Cell hesitated. "Mister Tisson, why does it keep asking me that?"
Freud chuckled. "Why do you think it's asking you questions?"
Cell didn't understand what Freud meant.
"You heard what I said to Mister Tisson. You should know that the Snake-Tailed Insect you're facing isn't a real demon. "Freud looked at Cell quietly." You still don't understand? It's your inner demon. "
Inner demons were the demons of people's hearts.
Just like a tree, without the support of the earth, it would not be able to grow.
"Inner demons may seem distant from you, but they're the source of your inner demons. However, the breeding ground for it is not someone else, but your own personality. "
There were people who fell from the clouds and willingly joined the flames of hell. But at the same time, there were also people who could remain pure even after falling into hell.
It was the same with inner demons. Some people would still think of the beauty of the human world even if they walked in the abyss and saw all kinds of evil in the world. They would not develop inner demons because of it. However, some people would start to change sides just by imagining the horror of the abyss even before stepping into it.
Cell was one of the latter. He was a coward and narrow-minded person. He only spent a few days with the Snake-Tailed Insect, and the insect didn't do anything to him, yet he already turned it into his inner demon.
The Snake-Tailed Insect kept questioning Cell, but it was actually Cell who was questioning himself.
After all, inner demons were born from the heart.
"You better remember what your inner demons are asking you. They're questions from the bottom of your heart," Freud explained.
After Cell finished listening to this explanation, he was suddenly stunned.
He remembered that when the snake-tailed bug asked him why he abandoned it, he answered that it was Angor's doing and that he didn't know anything.
At that time, the Snake-Tailed Insect said, "Because you're too weak."
At that time, Cell felt that the voice was too strange. Although it came from the mouth of the snake-tailed worm, it didn't sound like the sharp voice of the snake-tailed worm. It sounded very familiar, but he couldn't remember whose voice it was.
Now that he thought about it, it was his own voice.
Deep in his heart, he was using the snake-tailed bug to tell himself that he was too cowardly …
While Cell was in a daze, Freud was also observing him. Cell had been locked up in the library for a long time. Even so, he didn't show any signs of repentance. But at this moment, Freud saw the guilt in his eyes.
Was it crocodile tears? Or did he really learn something? No one knew.
…
While ignoring Cell's thoughts, he and Freud continued their discussion about the strength of inner demons.
Although Cell said that the inner demon had only stalled him for five minutes because it kept interrogating him, the inner demon was actually very strong.
That was possible, but it was only Cell's opinion. Compared to that, he preferred to believe that the inner demons' strength was related to their own understanding.
Simply put, if I think you're strong, the inner demons must be strong. But I don't know how strong they are.
In other words, the House of Mind might not be able to reflect the true strength of the inner demons.
Unless one knew enough about the inner demons.
If that was the case, Toby's plan of using the House of Mind to simulate a battle with Resentment would not work.
Even so, the House of Mind was still very important to Toby. It would allow Toby to face Resentment head-on.
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