Cyrus' jaws clenched. He shut his eyes and forced out. "...You, holding a gun and killing so many people. Old and young, men and women. They were asking you for mercy but you… burned them all down. You just stayed there and watched until their cries subsided, until their bodies reduced to ash..." He let out a trembling exhale. "...until nothing remained."
Lu Yizhou's sigh puffed out in the form of billowing mists that curled to the sky. His worst, then.
Of course, with Cyrus' position as the gatekeeper of Heaven, he would definitely delve head-on toward the ugliest part of human's heart. That wasn't surprising at all. Lu Yizhou stared up at the dark, starless sky. He had been inside the simulator for so long… long enough that the hellish scene from that time had become blurred in his memory.
I'm sorry for giving you false hope :) let's save LYZ's past for the final arc, shall we?
On a serious note, yes, I love 'brain in a vat' theory! It gave me existential crisis a few years back lol. It's also one of the crux pillars in the making of VSS heheh