Her surroundings, which had been clear and solid a moment ago, had become distant and thin in an instant. It was as if she was looking around in a dream, but it didn't feel strange at all.
Lin Sanjiu looked at her grand prize, who was waving and shouting at her from afar. She thought to herself, "No wonder the posthumans didn't notice anything wrong when they entered the pocket dimension."
Just like dreams and memories, the boundaries of reality had been blurred. The floor, the masts, the clouds … Everything was liquid and flowing. As she turned around and raised her hand, the space between heaven and earth would correspondingly bend and melt a little.
It should be a strange phenomenon, but it couldn't be any more normal. It was as if the world had always operated this way.
"Sis!" The grand prize's shout turned into a gust of wind in the sky. It pounced forward, glided away, and disappeared.
Quan, who was standing in front of her, sighed softly.
"Memories will flow out from every person who enters the pocket dimension. They will envelop me like a starry sky." This time, he was holding a teacup in his hand. The teacup was still empty. It hadn't been filled with her memories yet.
Perhaps, it was about to be full.
"Just like a picture, the edges that have been worn down by time, the color that has been changed by the master's will or subconscious, I can all sense it." Ah Quan followed her gaze and lowered his head to look at his own teacup. "To the owner, the most precious, the most important, and the most crucial … will float in front of me."
Lin Sanjiu remembered that she had asked, "What are the rules of the pocket dimension?" "So … Quan was telling me slowly?"
"I basically don't have a choice. The memories that float in front of me are the targets that I have to manipulate. For example …" Quan narrowed his eyes slightly and continued, "The first part is about your parents."
Lin Sanjiu felt as if someone had suddenly hit a row of piano keys in her mind. She was caught off guard by the sudden impact. Her tears fell uncontrollably.
"From today onwards … I am a person without parents in this world." She squatted down slowly as if she had returned to her teenage years. She whispered, "No one will miss me. No one will care about whether I eat properly at work or not. There are only strangers in this world. I don't have parents anymore … "
"Quan!" A shout suddenly came from nowhere, startling her. After the initial shock subsided, the clear and gentle voice suddenly became familiar, "Stall for time!"
The urgency in the voice seemed to be washed away by the water. "Quan, can you hear me? Don't do anything to my sister. Stall for as long as you can …"
"It's the grand prize." Lin Sanjiu raised her head in confusion.
The boy stood at the end of the horizon, anxious and eager, as if his life were weighed down by a rock, and he were trying to extricate it.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. She felt a little better.
She raised her hand to wipe her eyes and stood up again. Her movement attracted a bewildered "Eh?"
Lin Sanjiu turned to the source of the voice and saw a man with a small build. Even though his face was blurry, Lin Sanjiu found him very familiar. He was standing not far behind Ah Quan, but it was as if they were worlds apart. Even the thought of walking toward him made Lin Sanjiu feel powerless. It was as if she was dreaming of a mountain road that she could never run across.
Some of the other passengers on the airship were glaring at her, some had retreated far away, and some were whispering to each other. "Are they real people? Or are they just the background of a dream? "
Quan, the only person in Lin Sanjiu's eyes who was clear and familiar with nature, turned his head to look at the grand prize. Then, he looked back at Lin Sanjiu.
"Ji Shanqing is a very smart person."
He seemed to have understood the grand prize's intention. With a look of realization, he said, "Generally speaking, the rules of a pocket dimension are used to restrict people from entering the pocket dimension. However, this one is different. Almost all of its rules are to restrict me. Now that you are here, I have to do a series of changes to your memory according to the requirements of the creator of the pocket dimension. The only thing I can control is the 'speed'.
"Have you ever wondered why they created a pocket dimension that can change people's memory? What's in it for them to change someone's memory? "
Lin Sanjiu shook her head slowly. The short man behind Quan did not seem to hear their conversation. He craned his neck and frowned as he stared at Lin Sanjiu anxiously. From time to time, he would cast a wary glance at Ji Shanqing from afar.
Lin Sanjiu used her Higher Consciousness to separate the small man from the grand prize. Initially, it was to ensure the grand prize's safety, but now, it had become a barrier to protect the small man.
"If the person who is sent here has some kind of obsession in his heart, I will be the one to dispel it. If it is nostalgia, obsession, or greed, I will replace the target … To put it bluntly, I need an example. Let's use you as an example. "
"This is probably his way of stalling for time," Lin Sanjiu thought. The small man seemed to be very anxious, but he could not rush the NPC of the pocket dimension.
"A person like you," Quan said as if he was telling a story, "What kind of price do you have to pay to wear a robe that covers you from head to toe? You have to be respectful, fearful, and grateful to your master? You have to smile and look at your master with one eye to see if anyone is dissatisfied with your master? There is no such price in this world, right? "
"Yes."
"What if I delete all the things your parents have repeatedly said to you? What if you have forgotten what happened when you were eight years old and your mother quit her job? If the consequences of the school strike when you were a child were different … "As Quan made his assumptions, his eyes swept across Lin Sanjiu's body. It was as if all the memories that formed" Lin Sanjiu "were laid out in front of him." If Ren Nan didn't want to eat you but kept you as a pet instead … If all these key events were different in your memory, would you still be the Lin Sanjiu that you are today? "" What if? What if Ren Nan didn't want to eat you? Instead, he wanted to keep you as a pet and let you live a life where you have to look up to him … If all these key events were different in your memory, would you still be the Lin Sanjiu you are now? "
Lin Sanjiu was speechless for a moment. She could only shake her head vigorously.
"This is a series of tedious and complicated tasks, but when you walk out of this pocket dimension," Quan exhaled slowly, "you can be a good servant. Of course, you are an extreme example. Normally, you don't have to go to such extremes to achieve your goal. "
"The person who started the pocket dimension …" Lin Sanjiu mumbled. Quan understood what she meant.
"After the pocket dimension ends, the person who started it has a very clear picture of what his target will be like." Quan smiled bitterly and said, "For example, if the person who started the pocket dimension is rich and turns you into a greedy person, once you walk out of this pocket dimension, you will undoubtedly become his prey because he has a comprehensive understanding of you. This time, the situation is special. The person who started the pocket dimension just wanted to attack you … He wants me to turn you into a coward. "
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but smile.
Quan smiled as well. He looked out of the pocket dimension again.
Her senses were affected by the pocket dimension. Her senses were wavering and sticky, but Quan's mind was still clear. He seemed to be looking in the direction of the grand prize. Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to turn her head to look, he suddenly turned his head and said, "I just realized that a part of your memory is missing."
"Yes," Lin Sanjiu answered, "Puppeteer told me …"
"I know," Quan said as if he was comforting her, "I saw it all."
"Then, the memory that I lost —"
Before she could finish her sentence, Ah Quan shook his head and cut her off.
"Even the cleverest housewife can't cook without rice," he said apologetically, "I can only change and delete the things that exist. I can't do anything about the nothingness that doesn't exist in the first place."
"Can't you … restore it?" Lin Sanjiu asked blankly. It had been a long time since she sat in the office. She remembered that even if she deleted a computer file, she could still restore it.
"Memories are different from computer files," Quan answered after listening to her question. "The special item that Gong Daoyi used has the effect of making a part of your memory disappear completely from existence. It's not like a computer file that just moves from one location to another, and the process is recorded. "
"If he doesn't have a backup, then I won't know what memory I lost?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help shuddering.
Based on Gong Daoyi's personality and methods, it was possible that he had made a 'backup'. However, she was almost certain that if Gong Daoyi had really taken out a backup, there would be an even greater shadow waiting for her.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know if she should hope that Gong Daoyi had a backup.
"I can only tell you that that part of the memory has been deleted very well."
Quan didn't seem to have the heart to answer her directly, so he avoided her question and said, "All the parts that are directly related to it have been preserved as much as possible. The logic, the time, and the content have all been cleverly modified. Your memory of that period of time is very smooth … If I didn't happen to see it, you wouldn't be able to find anything wrong no matter how hard you try to recall it. Even if my ability is [Memory Master], I can't determine what the forgotten content is from my current memories. "
Lin Sanjiu shuddered and stared at him.
"Wait a minute, did you say 'that period of time'?" She asked immediately, "You … you know which period of time my deleted memory belongs to?"
"Yes," Quan nodded and said, "It happened in your hometown, Hyperthermal Hell."
You can't say that I'm a clickbait, right? After all, the clickbait title should be "The memories extracted by Gong Daoyi are finally revealed today?" Something like this: I operate in good faith, deceive neither the old nor the young.
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