Player Reload-Chapter 455 - 421 Winner

The fierce wind whirled around, and the Horse-headed Man’s eyes shone with a bright red light, attempting to capture Li Cheng’s mind. Searching for that sense of shame.

Hmm??

Its movement paused, seeing Li Cheng’s mind incredibly clear, as pure as a diamond.

"How is this possible? Are you a saint?!"

The Horse-headed Man blurted out, genuinely doubting that any player could be so holy, having never done anything shameful in life.

"My mind and actions are as clear as a bright mirror; everything I do is for justice."

Li Cheng grinned, and Gray Rain played the role of the foil, making beatbox sound effects——of course, in the corner where the Horse-headed Man couldn’t see, a third arm grew out behind Gray Rain, already holding the Skull Shattering Power Hammer,

just in case Li Cheng lost the gamble, she wouldn’t let Li Cheng willingly become a puppet; instead, she’d directly smash the Horse-headed Man’s head and drag Li Cheng to escape.

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Five seconds have passed, and the Horse-headed Man quickly calmed down,

The first wager, the Binary Tree, tried to delete the brain’s memory related to shame, but failed.

The second wager, the Red Spider, tried to seal and suppress the emotion of shame, but also failed.

Pifu, learning from the mistakes of the first two, would not repeat them...

The Horse-headed Man held his breath, carefully searching Li Cheng’s mind.

Found it.

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These memories, whether old or new, light or heavy,

one thing is certain, at those moments, Li Cheng indeed felt shame, with a look of shame on his face.

But...

At this moment, Li Cheng’s mouth curled into a smile, completely unaffected, calmly counting, "Six, seven, eight..."

The Horse-headed Man took a deep breath, his body instantly expanding several times, almost as tall as the theater,

his two protruding eyes shone like spotlights, towering over Li Cheng.

Turning the search intensity to maximum, a shred, even just a shred of shame...

"Ten."

The timer ended, and Li Cheng glanced at the non-existent watch on his wrist, calmly saying, "You lost."

"..."

The Horse-headed Man’s body slowly returned to its original state, silently snapping his fingers.

Splat.

The puppets sealing the Binary Tree and Red Spider shattered instantly, and both fell out, gasping heavily.

Meanwhile, on the stage, the Blood Lion Roar burst forth, unconsciously saying, "This is my friend’s phone, not mine..."

Seconds later, he regained his senses, looking around in bewildered confusion.

"A bet’s a bet."

The Horse-headed Man grasped the void with both hands, tearing it apart, ripping the background of the theater stage, exposing the structure of the passage behind.

"You may go. Special existences like me, there are several in the Secret Realm. The road ahead is more dangerous."

With that, he paused, turning to Li Cheng, "If possible, can you tell me how you did it?"

"Well..."

Li Cheng gave the Binary Tree a look, which he immediately understood, got up and released skill towards the passage structure.

The green data stream first spread along the walls, then solidified, reinforcing it as if using the core tube reinforcement method, to prevent the Horse-headed Man from suddenly going back on his word and shutting the passage.

"It’s not impossible to tell you,"

Li Cheng tapped his temple with a finger, "I have no sense of shame."

"That’s impossible."

The Horse-headed Man immediately shook his head, "As the sum of social relationships, a person is not an abstract isolated entity but is shaped by a complex network of social relationships.

Family, organizations, countries, friends, lovers... it is these social relationships that form concrete individuals.

This also leads to a person’s values significantly influenced by surrounding social relationships; even if one outwardly or in behavior despises social rules, deep down, they know what is good and what is bad.

Knowing good and evil leads to knowing honor and shame.

In your memory, there are images where you felt shame. You are not a person with antisocial personality disorder."

"Indeed, I’m not."

Li Cheng smiled, "The generation of personality disorders is affected by family environment, social environment, and growth education in the Postnatal aspect,

and by gene mutations, certain gene polymorphisms, such as abnormalities in the serotonin system, in the Innate aspect.

Patients are often irritable and easily angered, habitual liars and disguisers, act without planning, do not abide by social rules, lack empathy and a sense of guilt.

I once considered modifying my brain settings, adjusting myself to have antisocial personality disorder,

but still, the problem remains, lacking a sense of shame doesn’t mean completely without shame. For example, Ding Xie."

"What kind of crab?" Gray Rain blinked, only knowing about king crabs, drunken flower crabs, and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

But Binary Tree and others understood; Ding Xie is the antagonist from the TVB series "The Greed of Man," whose character has paranoid personality disorder, paranoid and selfish, self-centered, with an extremely twisted worldview, believing only others are wrong, never himself.

As the saying goes, Ding Xie takes revenge with moderation, Ding Xie repays favor by ruining households.

"Having a distorted worldview doesn’t mean having no worldview. As long as there is a worldview, there will inevitably be a sense of shame. This is something that humans, evolved from apes, cannot avoid."

Li Cheng said, "Primitive humans, to avoid being ostracized by the tribe, developed sensitivity to negative evaluations.

Once they felt out of place or did something against the group’s common understanding, it would activate the neural activity in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, increase cortisol levels, and secrete adrenaline... also known as the sense of shame.

It can be said that it is the early humans unable to survive outside the tribe who ’evolved’ a sense of shame.

Some of modern people’s kinks, such as exposure, cheating, or dragon battles, largely stem from being able to stimulate the brain to secrete various hormones through this instinctive sense of shame evolved over tens of thousands of years."

My gosh.

The Red Spider and others listened with their jaws dropped, unable to imagine how modern people’s strange kinks could be connected to the original humans expelled from the tribe for eating a bit more food.

"...I understand."

The Horse-headed Man nodded, "But you still haven’t explained how you achieved having no sense of shame at all."

Li Cheng said, "Let’s expand on this idea. Since the sense of shame stems from the survival pressure of primitive humans, then, if a group of primitive humans had no survival pressure, would they not have a sense of shame?"

The Binary Tree responded, eyes shining. "You mean..."

"Exactly, India."

Li Cheng nodded, "The origin sites of the four great civilizations correspond to the Nile River, Mesopotamia, the Yellow River, and the Indus River, with the Ganges being wide and slow, the soil fertile, the lush vegetation, the survival pressure within the basin much less than the other three.

This means biologically, humans in the Ganges basin had less shame induced by survival pressure.

Reflected in modern times, it means Indians lack rational thinking, are idealistic, immersed in their own world, take pride in deceit and living without labor, and find hard work shameful.

I adjusted the neural activity mechanisms in my brain around the amygdala and prefrontal cortex to be closer to Indians, and suddenly the world expanded before me,

Encountering a teacher who called the wrong name? It’s because her name is too complex, not my fault.

Getting caught eating snacks in class? It’s because I used my mealtime for studying, demonstrating my diligence.

Changing the test score from 78 to 98? It’s because I have ambition.

Being counter-killed in a game solo request? It only proves my opponent spends all energy on gaming, with no better prospects than mine.

Advance, win; retreat, win; win at everything.

I have no sense of shame here, only, victory."

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