Chapter 229 Dormitory Upgrade Package (Part 3)
Searching for keywords in a long memory is not as simple as following a map.
Even after reviewing all the big and small moments in the past 20 years, and freezing it to the day when the nightmare first appeared, Tang Xinjue did not find any particularly prominent clues.
"I remember you said, Xin Jue, that everything started with a car accident."
Zheng Wanqing speculated, "Could that [strange incident] be related to the car accident?"
"It was an accident that has already been determined." Tang Xinjue shook his head. "The driver was drunk and collided with a large truck on the road, and then collided with our car. When I woke up, I was already in the hospital."
The driver drove his car into a deep ditch on the side of the road. When she was discharged from the hospital, the driver's first seven days of mourning were over and the matter was over.
Although the hospital diagnosed her with no head injuries at the time, perhaps due to this, she had little recollection of the accident. It wasn't until seven days later, when her first nightmare struck, that her memories suddenly became clear.
"According to Awan, everything should have been foreshadowed. The nightmare might not have started with the car accident. So the timing of [that incident] might have been even earlier than the car accident..."
Zhang You's brows furrowed. If possible, she even wished she could recall the past for Tang Xinjue. Unfortunately, Tang Xinjue hadn't started college yet, and they weren't roommates yet, so there were no shared memories to trace back.
"But Xin Jue, aren't you a psychic?" Guo Guo asked, scratching his head. "Even with awakened psychic power, is there no way to locate memories? Or is it that your psychic power can't be used on yourself?"
She asked because she truly didn't understand. But after she asked the question, she saw Tang Xinjue pause while drawing a thought map on his notebook, and his eyebrows raised:
"you're right."
Guo Guo: “?”
What did I say?
Tang Xin Jue Guan He Notebook: "There is no saying that a doctor cannot heal himself, and there is no such saying about the added four-dimensional attributes."
As the four of them passed the exams one by one, their physical attributes soared. Even Zhang You's severe myopia had long been cured, and the physical illnesses she had left over from the car accident in her early years naturally no longer had any reason to exist.
With the blessing of her mental strength, even if she couldn't remember every minute and every second, how could it be difficult for her to recall some details from several years ago?
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
Tang Xin Jue smiled and said, "It's because I've always been accustomed to not reminiscing that I've been blinded by it. After all this time, I still haven't realized this."
——The so-called vague memories she couldn’t recall were not because of her limited memory, but because they were deliberately covered up.
This is the clue that is right at hand!
Tang Xin Jue immediately opened the shopping list again: "I need an auxiliary prop."
Since she can't remember it on her own, she might as well use the help of outside forces to break through her memory defenses.
Thought control device, disposable puppetry, brain cell enhancer... flipping through a few pages, she tapped lightly on the phone screen:
"That's it."
[Deep Hypnosis Potion: For 1v1 use only, this high-end truth serum is a must-have for gossip lovers. Just one drop, and you'll know everything except the other person's genetic sequence! Of course, its high quality and low price are justified. Its only drawback is that it has a certain user threshold—if your brain is just a fistful of muscle, I suggest you never again become curious about other people's browsing history.]
[50 points/stick, valid for 35 minutes]
Guo Guo read the product introduction and finally understood: "Jue Shen, are you planning to use it on yourself? But if you hypnotize yourself, wouldn't it be a bit difficult..."
"No." Tang Xin Jue said firmly: "You come and hypnotize me."
Guo Guo: “???”
Guo Guo: “!!!”
Tang Xin Jue's choice wasn't without reason—in fact, Guo Guo's Yin-Yang Eyes and Heavenly Eyes were inherently closer to the spiritual realm. If we truly considered the richness and acuity of her spiritual power, Zhang You and Wan Qing were far inferior to her.
In the face of key information, the passive effect of Sky Eye may be triggered at any time. When the time comes, the mall may make a profit, but they will definitely not lose money.
A pale blue glass bottle appeared in my palm, with only two tiny drops of water spinning inside. Beneath the bottle was a small hourglass, signaling the beginning and end of hypnosis.
"You take one drop, I take one drop, and then we each close our eyes. You ask the questions you want to ask in your mind, and I answer you in my mind."
In order to prevent accidents, Tang Xinjue connected the spirits of the four people in advance, so that if Zhang You and Zheng Wanqing noticed anything unusual, they could immediately stop the action.
The mission came unexpectedly. Guo Guo took two deep breaths to prepare herself mentally, her nerves so intense that it felt as if she were the one about to be interrogated. Before taking the hypnotic water, she cautiously said, "Don't worry, Jueshen! I won't ask for your web history or bank card password!"
Tang Xin Jue: "...It's okay, it's more important for you to relax first."
The two of them lay on the chairs. The moment the potion dripped into their heads, Zhang and Zheng felt that the "accounts" belonging to Tang and Guo in the chat group in their minds suddenly darkened and sank into the depths of their sea of consciousness.
…
It’s so dark.
Guo Guo opened his eyes from the dizziness and found his surroundings shrouded in endless darkness. Thick fog hung in the "air." Looking upwards, he saw that the cave resembled a triangular bottle, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.
Combining some of the information Tang Xinjue had told her in her memory, she immediately realized: This is Tang Xinjue's sea of consciousness!
She had previously said that hypnotic water was powerful, but she hadn't understood what it meant specifically. Now, she finally understood... This was the deepest part of the other person's consciousness, the core and source of their mental strength!
Just airdrop her here like that?
Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Guo Guo tried to take a few steps into the cave. Fortunately, there was no rejection reaction. Everything was very quiet. Gradually, he could see some very faint light shining out from inside, and the shadows of objects were looming in the light.
Guo Guo called out quickly, "Are you there, Heart Technique?"
She took two more steps deeper into the mist, and the next second the fog suddenly dispersed, and a huge, turbid yellow eyeball looked right at her.
Guo Guo: “…”
--Help!!!
She subconsciously turned around and was about to run, but when she turned around, she found a glass bottle floating behind her, with red sand and stones rotating inside, which made her feel inexplicably familiar.
A light bulb went off in Guo Guo's head, and he remembered: This seems to be the bottle of the dungeon BOSS Li Xiaoyu... Is it a ghost mark?
After calming down and looking again, although the yellow eyeball looked scary, the center of the pupil was out of focus. It was motionless like a glass bottle, with no signs of life.
But just by looking at it, Guo Guo still felt his scalp tingling, and he quickly and carefully walked around it.
It turns out that Xin Jue's sea of consciousness has to bear these things every day... This is after the reduction. If you add the two pieces that have been peeled off, four marks floating side by side here would be too dangerous and terrifying.
"Xin Jue, where are you? If I can't find you, how can I ask you questions? Hiss..."
In order not to waste the few minutes the medicine lasted, Guo Guo could only continue to search inside. However, from the moment she crossed the mark, the originally faint chill became more and more obvious, until it penetrated into her bones layer by layer, making her shiver.
Just when Guo Guo was struggling to move forward, a warm current suddenly surged between his eyebrows. The moment the warmth emerged, not only did his narrow vision become much wider, but the coldness around him was also dispelled a lot.
She was stunned, touched her eyebrows, and suddenly understood why Tang Xinjue chose her to come in.
The Eye of Heaven is protecting her.
At this moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure passing by in the corner of her eye. She immediately ran after it and finally saw a human figure at the end of the floating cave platform.
"You are, the Heart Technique?"
Although the silhouette of the other person reflected on the stone wall was exactly the same as Tang Xinjue, Guo Guo was a little hesitant to recognize him.
Even if Jueshen is a little different in the sea of consciousness, it shouldn't become so dark, right?
The shadow didn't answer, slowly moving to a certain spot and then stopping. From behind it, countless similar shadows gradually emerged, densely packed around the edge of the cave.
...The scene of countless sliced shadows that are exactly the same as Tang Xin Jue standing in front of him is hard to say whether it is reassuring or weird.
Looking around, Guo Guo vaguely understood something and mustered up the courage to ask tentatively, "I have a question for you, Xin Jue. When was your first nightmare?"
As the voice fell, a group of silhouettes gently fluttered in the darkness. A moment later, a slightly stronger figure emerged. A suction force emerged from it, and before Guo Guo could react, he was sucked in front of it in the next second. Strange memories instantly flooded his mind:
Car accident, hospital, nightmare...
Scenes flashed through his mind quickly, exactly the same as what Tang Xin Jue had described.
When Guo Guo pulled herself out, the shadows had returned to their original positions, looking at her quietly.
"Huh... I understand."
Guo Guo rubbed his swollen eyebrows and understood what he should do.
She silently repeated what Tang Xin Jue had taught her, then calmed herself down and said, "I want to know about the strange memories related to [ghosts], [games], and [university town] before my first nightmare."
This was the criteria they had previously developed. If all abnormalities in life were taken into account, they would likely be faced with at least hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of choices. Therefore, the hint Awan mentioned must be closely related to the game's key words.
In the cavernous sea of consciousness, the silhouettes remained motionless. Guo Guo held his breath, his heart in his throat, as if he could hear the countdown for the drug's effects to wear off.
Suddenly, a shadow moved.
The next second, countless chaotic fragments of memory rushed over him, causing a sharp pain in his mind. However, Guo Guo still tried to open his eyes and look, trying to discern certain characteristics - wait, this! !
She reached out her hand and grasped the coldest shadow, which was also the only one shrouded in gray in her colorful memories .
…
[May I have your name?]
[Tang Xin Jue]
[We are very satisfied with your qualifications. Congratulations, you can officially start working.]
What are my responsibilities?
[It's simple. This is a university town, so your duty is of course...]
"It's time, wake up!!"
Inside the dormitory, two girls sat on chairs, their faces pale and their breathing weak, yet their expressions were calm and oblivious. In front of them, the glass hourglass had already reached its end.
Zhang You and Zheng Wanqing started shouting for help. Zheng Wanqing had already raised her fist, ready to smash the table, using the noise to force them to wake up, and finally the two showed signs of waking up.
"Heart Secret!"
The moment she truly opened her eyes, Guo Guo jumped up and went to find Tang Xin Jue. She didn't bother to prepare herself and asked directly, "During the summer vacation of your second year of high school, did you take a part-time job?"
Tang Xinjue seemed to have no recollection of what had happened in her sea of consciousness during hypnosis. After thinking for a moment, she confirmed, "That's exactly what happened."
"At the time, I applied for an outsourced customer service position at a university in the suburbs of neighboring City A. My main responsibility was to answer calls and answer questions according to regulations and procedures. The part-time period was 10 days."
Tang Xinjue didn't have much of an impression of this part-time job. It was only when Guo Guo suddenly asked her, "What happened?" that she began to recall.
Before Guo Guo could answer, Zheng Wanqing frowned and asked, "A suburban university in City A?"
"I grew up in City A. There's only a large, abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of the city. There's no university there."
