Chapter 049 Fictional Memories
Su Ming swallowed his saliva. He felt his temples throbbing and he couldn't calm down.
The situation before him was too strange for him to cope with.
No, it shouldn't be like this!
Su Ming's intuition was reminding him.
Something is wrong, things shouldn't be going this way.
Calm down and think carefully. Is Flora's current condition really that bad?
Actually, it’s not that bad. She’s just a little mentally disturbed. Compared with the forced love in the secret room for lovers, it’s nothing big. So why should I be so uneasy?
Is it because this spiral staircase affects my mood?
Su Ming lowered his head and thought seriously. The inexplicable feeling of nervousness that had just appeared did not dissipate as Su Ming calmed down.
But now that he already knew the root cause of his emotions, it would be much easier to deal with the next thing.
"Flora, think about it calmly. How long have we lived in this secret couple's house? Almost a week. The exact time should be eight days. Only eight days! How can we have a child? Am I right?"
Su Ming stared at Flora, and Flora also stood there in a daze, her eyes wide open with an expression of extreme shock.
Just when Su Ming thought he had woken up Flora, she suddenly said, "Eight days?! We have lived here for eight years!"
"Eight...eight what?"
Su Ming was completely confused. His original plan for awakening the enemy was completely disrupted by the other party.
"Honey, what's wrong with you? Have you lost your memory?"
Flora wiped away her tears and came over to touch Su Ming's face. Her action of touching Su Ming was very natural, without any hesitation, as if she was a wife who cared about her husband very much.
Su Ming wanted to dodge, but at the last moment he stopped his conditioned reflex and let Flora put her hand on his face.
Su Ming then asked, "In eight years, we had a child?"
"Have you forgotten Alice? I gave birth to Alice in the second year I lived here, don't you remember?"
Su Ming thought calmly for a while, then asked, "Flora, how old are you?"
"I'm 28 years old, why are you suddenly asking this?" Flora looked confused.
"What year is this year?"
"268 years."
Su Ming understood in his heart that there was indeed a serious error in Flora's memory, because he clearly remembered that this year was the 260th year of the new era!
But in Flora's memory, eight years have passed!
How did Flora fill the extra eight years of memory?
"Flora, calm down. I will go find Alice! But before that, I want to ask you some questions . You must answer me truthfully."
"You ask."
"What is the most memorable thing about our marriage?"
"Well...why are you suddenly asking me this?" Flora's face suddenly turned red.
"Answer me." Su Ming emphasized.
Flora: “The thing that impressed me most was the first Christmas. I messed up the dinner. The sauce of the braised pork dried up and the meat was burnt.
I thought you would scold me, but not only did you not say anything, you even ate up all the disgusting food.
And then...we were in the living room...do you remember?"
"What in the living room?" Su Ming asked.
Flora looked a little resentful. She raised her hand and pointed at the earphones: "Fang Ling is listening."
Su Ming said nothing and stared at Flora stubbornly.
Finally, Flora compromised. She made a circle with her left hand, raised an index finger of her right hand, and gestured with her two hands to each other.
The hint was already very obvious; it was indeed a secret that could only be discussed between husband and wife.
From Flora's answer, it can be seen that her memory is relatively rich, as if the things that never happened were actually happening.
But she is now very clear that she is being monitored by Fang Ling.
So...what is going on?
"Alice is waiting for us, shouldn't we set off?" Flora urged.
"Wait a minute! I...my thinking seems to be confused. I feel like I can't remember some things." Su Ming frowned and rubbed his temple.
In order to delay Flora and make her continue to cooperate with him in answering questions, Su Ming had no choice but to disguise himself as a person with amnesia.
He immediately asked them why they came into this underground staircase, and Flora's answer was that Fang Ling said Alice, who had been missing for a year, seemed to be here, so they came down.
She completely forgot the real purpose of their coming here: they came here to test the limits of fear.
Su Ming asked about every detail of the past eight years, and Flora answered all the questions fluently.
She can describe everything she remembers in great detail, including her feelings at the time, the circumstances under which the incident occurred, the changes in her mentality during the process of handling the incident, and so on.
Su Ming even asked her why, after eight years, our appearance had not aged at all?
To this, Flora replied that they were all old.
This fear staircase did not cause Flora to hallucinate, but instead directly implanted a fictional memory into Flora's brain and changed Flora's current cognition.
In Flora's eyes, Su Ming became the grown-up Su Ming eight years later.
At this moment, Su Ming felt an emotion he had never experienced before.
He knew clearly that all the strange phenomena would disappear and return to normal after leaving here, but now he still couldn't help but want to quit.
This feeling is a bit similar to the emotion when watching a horror movie. When timid people encounter a scary scene where a ghost is about to appear, they will curl themselves up in their quilts or turn down the volume of the TV. If they don't do this, they would rather turn it off and not watch it.
It turns out... fear cannot be suppressed.
…
In the observation room of the Analysis Department of the Investigation Bureau, Fang Ling, Zhang Tianxiao, and Sylvie were all there. There were two pictures on the big screen in front of the three of them, one was from Su Ming's perspective, and the other was from Flora's perspective.
In addition, various data of the two of them are displayed below, including heart rate, breathing rate, body temperature, and depth underground.
The data showed that Flora was now 100 meters underground, while Su Ming was 30 meters underground.
Five hours had passed since they entered the stairwell.
"Although her abilities are powerful, she is sinking too fast and she is not qualified to fight the devil." Zhang Tianxiao said expressionlessly.
Fang Ling: "It's too early to draw conclusions now. Although she is sinking very quickly, it doesn't mean that her depth will be shallow. Maybe she is the kind of person who sinks very quickly but has a very deep limit."
Zhang Tianxiao: “There are very few people like that.”
Fang Ling: “But it’s not that there is none.”
