Chapter 148 The former self
Chapter 148 The former self
Luo Xi was basically certain that he was dreaming.
And, it should be a nightmare.
This is the unique effect of that numbered card.
The holder will enter a dream while sleeping, and it will definitely be a nightmare.
A nightmare, also known as a nightmare or a horror dream, is a dream experience characterized by fear or anxiety. It is a sleep disorder that is often accompanied by psychological trauma.
However, Luo Xi can be sure that, at least for him, this is not a nightmare, and it will not cause any mental damage to him.
If we have to say there is damage, it would be the 'Luo Xi' outside the mirror who would be damaged.
Luo Xi looked over.
Luo Xi outside the mirror obviously noticed the strange changes in the mirror and began to become more frightened and impatient.
He was so scared that he even stood up from his chair and accidentally kicked the wooden chair to the ground.
"who are you?"
Luo Xi asked this question.
I just feel a little lacking in confidence.
"We?" Glasses Luo Xi was good at talking, and sneered: "We, that's you. You are Luo Xi, and so are we. We are the same. If you encounter troubles and difficulties, tell me, maybe I can help you solve them, but you need to pay a little price."
Luo Xi remembered that the other party seemed to have said the same thing to him at some point in time.
"Really? Can you help me?" Luo Xi outside the mirror was obviously in a desperate mood to seek help from all sources.
"Of course, so just tell me and I'll help you analyze it." Glasses Luo Xi further deceived.
"Wei Si betrayed us and killed all of us. Tell me, what should we do? What should we do?" Luo Xi asked with his eyes wide open outside the mirror.
Suddenly there was a snap and a crack appeared on the mirror.
With the loud noise, Luo Xi outside the mirror was frightened and ran away in panic. As he moved away, Luo Xi found that himself in the mirror, including other personalities, were also moving away from the mirror quickly, as if they were suddenly on a conveyor belt.
The conveyor belt moves towards darkness.
"Wei Si betrayed us"
"It's Wei Si again!"
In the darkness, as more and more cracks appeared on the mirror that could no longer be seen in the distance, the loud noise became more and more intense. Finally, after a sound like the collapse of the sky and the splitting of the earth, Luo Xi felt his body sinking. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in his bedroom.
It was still the same house, the same bed. I looked at the time: July 29th, Monday, 6:09 in the morning.
Luo Xi checked the card ring on his hand, and then, as expected, the phone rang.
And, there's more than one.
Wu Rui, Mao Ge, Guo Zening, and this time Fatty Qian and Ke Lan are also here.
While talking on the phone, Luo Xi looked out the window. The city in the early morning seemed to be waking up. At this moment, perhaps many other people who have regained their memories are waking up. There are also many people who lost their memories in the previous cycle and became amnesiacs.
After agreeing on the time and place to meet, Luo Xi hung up the phone.
What surprised Luo Xi was that there was a knock on the door at this time.
Is anyone home?
Luo Xi immediately walked over and picked up a pen on the table.
Although Luo Xi doesn't like Wu Rui's way of killing, he has to admit that it is still very practical at critical moments.
When he opened the door, a beautiful woman wearing an apron was standing outside. When she saw Luo Xi, she greeted him naturally.
"It's you!" Luo Xi was a little surprised. This woman was Xu Lin, who pretended to be his mother according to the plan he had made before.
A rather mysterious woman.
Her ability is that she can pretend to be another person without any clues.
On the previous cycle day, Luo Xi asked the other party to pretend to be a member of the Eternal Society and infiltrate them, but there was no contact after that. Unexpectedly, after a cycle day, Xu Lin actually found himself.
This woman seemed to only listen to the instructions given by her 'former self'.
So in fact, Luo Xi did not trust the other party 100%.
"Luo Xi, I cooked noodles for you, with a poached egg and chopped green onions." Xu Lin pointed to the dining table over there, and sure enough, there was a bowl of hot noodle soup on it.
Luo Xi smelled the odor and walked over to see the appearance of the bowl of noodles. It was indeed to his taste.
This smell reminded Luo Xi of some extremely deep and buried memories.
In my memory, it was also a bowl of hot noodle soup with a poached egg and my mother's nagging.
But these memories are like broken glass, not only are they messy, but every touch can hurt you.
Luo Xi felt a slight pain in his head. He couldn't help but put his hand on his temple. His fingers could feel the blood vessels under his temple beating.
"Luo Xi. Luo Xi"
Xu Lin's shout brought Luo Xi back from his confused state.
Luo Xi looked over with a hint of ferocity in his eyes.
"Did he ask you to come?" Luo Xi asked.
Xu Lin nodded.
"Noodles, did he ask you to make it too?"
"Yes, although I don't know what the significance of doing this is." There was a hint of curiosity in Xu Lin's eyes.
"So you are indeed just a pawn of his." Luo Xi had returned to normal by this time: "Then what else does he ask you to do?"
Xu Lin shook her head. "Nothing more. It's just that if you become a memory collector, then after a cycle, I'll come here to make you a bowl of noodles. How to cut the vegetables, how much water to put, how much seasoning to use, and even the amount of chopped green onions are all set."
"You can tell me these?"
"Yes, these are not confidential. In fact, I also want to know what the purpose of doing this is." It can be seen that Xu Lin is really curious why Luo Xi would specially teach her how to make noodles, and just come to make a bowl of noodles at this time.
Anyway, this matter seemed very puzzling to her.
However, no matter what the request is, she will complete it without compromise.
Luo Xi looked at Xu Lin and said, "He picked a good person!"
"What?" Xu Lin was stunned.
Luo Xi shook his head, obviously not intending to explain, but went to get a pair of chopsticks, sat at the dining table and started eating noodles.
Suddenly, the only sound in the room was the sound of Luo Xi eating, which was very light, even when he was slurping noodles.
Xu Lin then spoke again: "Yongheng will know that you are back, and they have already started some plans against you, but I haven't found any valuable intelligence. You have to be careful, they may attack you at any time."
"I know this." Luo Xi naturally still remembered Han Lingling at Tuntun Bookstore on the previous cycle day. The other party had been hiding very deeply from beginning to end, but he still saw through her flaws and used An Zhiyan and Aunt Qin to eliminate her.
At that time, Luo Xi knew that Han Lingling might be a member of the Eternal Society.
Because, it's crazy enough.
"Also, the people from the Eternal Society are also conquering the level scenes. On the recent cycle day, they are gathering their strength to conquer the 'Puntun Mental Hospital'. I heard that at least three numbered level cards can be obtained there."
"Did he also tell you these?" Luo Xi asked while eating noodles.
"You told me to go undercover in the Eternal Society. These are the intelligence I found out."
"Is there any other information?"
"Not for now. Anyway, the people of the Eternal Society are becoming more and more mysterious, especially after you became a memory collector." "I understand. If there is nothing else, you can continue to do your thing." Luo Xi drank a sip of soup and ordered him to leave.
Xu Lin nodded awkwardly: "Then I'll leave."
She walked to the door and took the trash in the trash can downstairs.
Only after hearing the footsteps outside fading away did Luo Xi put down his chopsticks and cover his head again.
The pain never eased.
And there are signs of gradual worsening.
It's like something is growing rapidly in my head.
The reason for this unexpected reaction was the seemingly ordinary bowl of fried egg noodle soup on the table.
"Why did I arrange Xu Lin to make noodles for me at this time in the past?" Luo Xi believes that no matter in the past, present or future, the way he does things and the way he thinks about problems will not change.
That is, not talking nonsense and not doing meaningless things.
In fact, a splitting headache is the result of this bowl of fried egg noodle soup.
It’s not because the noodle soup was poisoned.
"It's a memory, some kind of memory hidden deep in the consciousness. The noodle soup is just a switch, but it's not clear whether this memory is true or false."
Luo Xi only remembered that he had no mother.
So after discovering on the first day of the cycle that his mother was actually Xu Lin in disguise, Luo Xi thought that the so-called mother was just a set memory.
But now a bowl of noodle soup brought up a lot of broken things, but some of these things were like foam and shattered before you could see them clearly, while others were sharp glass fragments. When you endured the pain to check, what you might see was just a moment.
This is the main reason why Luo Xi has a splitting headache.
And this isn't the only thing that's upsetting.
And that nightmare before.
Luo Xi summoned the card book with a painful expression, opened it, and found the card numbered 044, [Nightmare].
"How long has it been since you last had a dream?"
This is the last line in the card description.
A rhetorical question.
But what is derived from this is very worthy of deep thought and exploration.
"If the Day of Imprisonment is a false world, then people trapped here will not have dreams. After death, they will immediately enter the next cycle day. That moment is equivalent to rebirth, and then the cycle repeats itself. Therefore, there is no need to set up a dream in a false world."
"But this card brings a nightmare, and the elements that make up the dream are also extracted from my memory."
This is easy to infer.
Because the personalities that appear in nightmares and the words they say are "secrets" that only you know. In this world, no one except you knows the existence of these personalities.
"Without any other clues, I can only regard all this as the effect of the Nightmare card. The dream and the elements that make up the dream are all my memories and experiences. But what's ridiculous is that this card actually thinks that it can scare me and that I will be afraid just by swapping me and my personality. This is really too naive and childish."
Luo Xi thought of another possibility at this time.
With a splitting headache, he seemed to think much slower.
He pressed his temples hard with his fingers, as if this could relieve the pain, and it seemed that it really had a little effect.
"Another possibility is that everything in the dream is not fabricated based on memory, nor is it a re-weaving of memory due to my fear. Because I have [absolute rationality], another possibility is that the scene really happened. In other words, I am also one of the many personalities, and Luo Xi crying outside the mirror is the real body. It's just that later, I became the main body. Maybe, I killed him?"
“That was me in the past, that’s the real me.”
These speculations are just speculations, without any memory to support them. Luo Xi is just making assumptions based on logic and possibility.
But many times, the truth is hidden among many assumptions.
The ringing of the phone interrupted Luo Xi's difficult thoughts in pain.
The number was unfamiliar, but Luo Xi had a good memory and he seemed to remember the number, but the pain in his head made it difficult for him to concentrate on recalling it.
After answering the phone, Luo Xi pressed the speaker button because his head hurt more when the phone was close to his head.
"Hello, is this Luo Ge? I'm Ma Ling, do you still remember me?"
"Yes, I remember."
The memory collector he met in Tun Tun Bookstore, who wore glasses and a plaid shirt, was a very promising memory collector. In Luo Xi's opinion, Ma Ling's potential was no less than Ke Lan's, and even better in some aspects.
"I'm sorry, I died at the hands of an angel on the last cycle day, but it wasn't me who couldn't hold my breath, it was Han Lingling."
"I know everything, and I have avenged you."
"Really? Brother Luo, you are as amazing as I thought. I don't really have any partners, so can I follow you?"
"If it's for exploring the Forbidden Day and conquering the scene, of course you can."
"That's great."
After agreeing on the meeting place and time, Luo Xi hung up the phone.
After drinking some water, the headache symptoms seemed to be relieved a little. Of course, there is also a possibility that Luo Xi has begun to get used to the pain.
"I need some painkillers." Luo Xi opened the medicine cabinet at home and found several boxes of painkillers that had not been unpacked.
This made him stunned.
In the past, he would never take this kind of medicine, so he would not buy medicine that he never used and keep it at home.
Was it bought by Xu Lin?
Maybe, but she hasn't eaten it either.
Luo Xi recalled and it seemed that there seemed to be several boxes of painkillers here, which were placed here before the cycle day. So every time the cycle came, whether they were moved or not, they were there, this time, the next time, and the next time, it was all the same.
Luo Xi took it out, opened the package, and ate two slices with water.
After a while, the headache symptoms were indeed relieved a lot.
Luo Xi looked at the painkillers in his hand with suspicion. He found that someone had written a string of numbers on the back of the medicine box with a ballpoint pen.
073216944459006600.
It's the kind of thing that was just written down casually, and there's no discernible meaning to it.
But Luo Xi stared at the string of numbers, stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked to the bookshelf and took out "Memory".
Then he turned the pages of the book, as if looking for something purposefully, and used another pen to write something under the string of numbers on the medicine box next to him.
When he finished writing the last word, a strange smile appeared on Luo Xi's face.
Then he took the book and medicine with him and walked out of the house.
"I have discovered this problem before, but I just haven't found the answer. If I was once a memory collector, then when was the last time I was a memory collector? When did I wake up and enter the cycle of days? It is unlikely to be in this place, because this place is fake, including my job. And this is the biggest problem. Since I am not a customer service staff and don't live here, what did I do before? Where is my real home?"
"If this place is fake, then who has such a terrible ability to forcibly change the identity of a person who has recovered memories and forge memories in the fixed confinement day setting mechanism? And the other party seems to know that I will need painkillers on a recurring day, so he even prepared the medicine in advance."
Luo Xi went downstairs and looked at the breakfast stall in the distance, but did not walk over there. Instead, he chose another direction.
"It was the bowl of noodles that caused the headache, and the noodles were made by my former self, who taught Xu Lin how to make them and when to make them. So, either my former self was the instigator of all this, or he was related to this matter."
"Who was that me in the past?"
"And he left me an address in a digital code. What on earth did he want to do?"
(End of this chapter)