Chapter 355 The Forgotten Past
"Then...let Flora stay here first, and you come out with me to use this." Xia Xiaoyu made a request.
The rebel nodded, turned to Flora and said, "I have something to do and need to leave for a while. I will also go out to investigate the situation. You stay here until I come back."
"Okay." Flora nodded calmly, showing a very cooperative attitude.
After confirming that Flora would not run around, Xia Xiaoyu took her computer and left the hidden empty house directly. She stayed at the laptop with "Restart Your Life" downloaded on it, and randomly found a cafe, ready to pull a passerby to do an experiment.
According to Zuoluanjun, after using this software, a virtual interface similar to VR will appear in front of the user, in which he can directly select the memory selection operation to be performed next. In order to verify this, Xia Xiaoyu asked Zuoluanjun to first find a passerby who was willing to cooperate with the experiment.
"I can adjust your memory and help you delete the unpleasant memories. Is there any memory you want to delete?" the rebel asked the other party.
The passerby looked at the troublemaker with curious eyes and quickly glanced around. It was obvious that he thought this was either a prank or a street survey for a variety show. From his appearance, he did not seem to mind participating in this special "activity".
"If you are willing to cooperate with me, I can give you some hard work fees." The rebel took out a few banknotes from his pocket and shook them in front of the man.
"Of course!" the man agreed immediately.
"This way please."
…
In the cafe, the man had been chattering on and on for thirty minutes about his ex-wife's story. In the story, he was a qualified husband who worked hard to improve himself, but because he was unable to take care of his wife during work, his wife eventually cheated on him and their marriage broke down.
These were not actually what Xia Xiaoyu wanted to hear; she just wanted to experiment with the software as quickly as possible.
But in order to make the man in front of them cooperate with them, she and Zuo Luanjun now had to listen to the man talking about those trivial things. The man spoke very restrainedly, and it was obvious that he had completely determined that this was a variety show and felt that he was now talking in front of the camera.
His words were full of affection for his ex-wife, but every word was belittling his ex-wife's personality. Anyone with a little bit of common sense, after hearing him say these words, would know that he was a hypocritical person, and that perhaps it was the right choice for his ex-wife to leave him.
"So, do you want to forget your ex-wife?" asked the rebellious man.
The man shrugged. "No, I think even painful memories are still memories. I want to forget my childhood experiences. You know, when I was a child, Dongyang Island had not yet been liberated by the Alliance. I went through a very painful period when I was a child."
"Understood. Please use this software."
The rebel unfolded the laptop and placed it in front of the man. When the other man saw the four big words "Restart Your Life" on the screen, he raised his eyebrows happily and thought that the variety shows nowadays are really creative and interesting.
The man pressed the use button, and at the moment he pressed it, a translucent interface floating in the air suddenly popped up in front of him.
"Fuck!" The man was so scared that he swore and almost fell off his chair.
“What…what is this?”
"I told you this is a software that can modify your memory." The Rebellious Man said with a smile.
The man looked at the rebellious man, then looked at the transparent interface in front of him and reached out to touch it. His hand passed through the interface unhindered, and the options on it could be adjusted at will according to his wishes. At this moment, he suddenly realized that this was not a variety show at all. This software had real super powers!
In other words... this thing is a containment object!
"Hug, hug, hug! Sorry! I suddenly don't want to modify my memory anymore!" The man stood up in a panic and ran out.
No matter how slow-witted he was, he knew that it was very dangerous to come into contact with these things with extraordinary powers. What's more, the Alliance's propaganda on abnormal safety on Dongyang Island was very thorough, and the common people knew that they must stay away from these strange objects and report them if they saw them.
The rebel watched the other party run away without stopping him. He said to Xia Xiaoyu, "Sit down and wait. We will be able to operate it in a while. Once you click the use button, you must click the exit button on the computer . He ran away without clicking anything, and the virtual interface in front of him would not disappear. Even if he did not select anything, the program would select the default option after the operation time is over."
"Help him to click the exit button." Xia Xiaoyu said, "Since we have confirmed that this software is genuine, there is no need to continue this experiment."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course. Do you want to play with other people's memories?" Xia Xiaoyu frowned and stared at the rebel with suspicion.
Upon seeing this, the rebel simply clicked on Exit.
"What's next?"
"Next I will do another experiment, which is whether this software can be changed using a program," said Xia Xiaoyu.
It is a very necessary step to observe whether the software functions will change due to changes in the program. If the software functions will change with changes in the program, it proves that the software is very dangerous and its functions can be changed and manipulated at will by interested parties.
Of course, Xia Xiaoyu felt that possibility was unlikely.
Xia Xiaoyu first tried to extract the source code of the software, and then found that the developer of this software did not hide the software code at all.
Xia Xiaoyu randomly changed one of the insignificant bytes and then tried to use the software function herself. However, after clicking the use button, nothing unusual happened.
She changed the modified bytes back to their original state and tried again, but still failed.
"It seems that the code of this program cannot be changed casually. Its anomalies are of an overall nature." Xia Xiaoyu said to herself.
She borrowed Luanjun's USB drive and downloaded "Restarting Life" for the second time. When she entered the interface again, she was shocked to find that it was ready to use! A translucent floating interface appeared in front of her, with options such as memory protection, deletion, and restoration.
"It seems that there is no problem with the object itself." Xia Xiaoyu muttered to himself.
"Do you believe me now?" asked the rebel.
Xia Xiaoyu stared at the rebel with an expressionless face. As for whether she believed the person in front of her, she actually didn't. No matter how she looked at it, this guy didn't look like a good person, but the shelter she brought was genuine.
The method of using this containment object will not be changed by any external adjustments, and any changes to it will render it ineffective, which means that the effect of this thing is likely to be the same as what is written in its instructions.
In addition, considering the strange attitude of Ding Yu and the Mysterious Eye member she killed towards her, Xia Xiaoyu felt that part of her memory was indeed missing... Although she herself was not aware of it, the feedback from those people confirmed that the memory loss was a fact.
So, the question now is, is it necessary to restore one's previous memories?
Although there was nothing wrong with what she had done before in the eyes of the people present, in the eyes of the police from the Ministry of Public Security who were not present, Su Ming's escape was very strange. As a member of the Mystic Eye who had the same invisible power as her, they would definitely guess that she was here too.
Xia Xiaoyu could almost guess that there would be more people like Ding Yu arriving here next. Of course, those people would definitely be much stronger than Ding Yu .
The member of the Mysterious Eye whom Xia Xiaoyu met last time at the Lingyan Mine not only made people invisible to him, but also possessed supernatural powers. Although it can be inferred from the situation at the time that the other party cannot attack him, if this inexplicable restraint is removed, Xia Xiaoyu knows that he is no match for the other party.
"You said... before I lost my memory, even the monsters couldn't see me?" Xia Xiaoyu asked Zuo Luanjun cautiously.
Zuo Luanjun nodded vigorously: "Of course, you are much better than those people with the Mystical Eye!"
"Since you are not from the Mystic Eyes, that means you can reveal information about them, right?"
"Uh... yes, you actually knew all this. After all, you escaped from that evil organization. I have had very little contact with the Mysterious Eye, and not even direct contact with it. I learned all the information about that organization from you." said Zuo Luanjun.
After that, she paused and added: "If you regain your memory, you can remember all of this, but if you don't want to... I can also tell you again."
"I want to believe you, but to be on the safe side, it's better to be cautious."
As Xia Xiaoyu spoke, she took out a tape recorder from the box behind her. It was the Honesty Tape Recorder!
When the rebel saw the honest recorder, his smile froze.
"Anyway, can you let me ask you a few more questions? Since you were once my friend, it's okay for me to ask a few more questions, right?" Xia Xiaoyu looked at the other party and said.
"Of course... of course." Zuo Luanjun nodded slightly, "What do you want to ask?"
"Are you really here to help me?" Xia Xiaoyu asked.
"Do you think I'm here to hurt you?"
"kind of."
"Then you are wrong, I will help you!"
Xia Xiaoyu glanced at the recorder. There was no hint of lying, which meant that the other party was telling the truth.
"Did you really know me? Did we have a good relationship?"
"Of course! We used to have a very good relationship! We called each other sisters! You called me Sister Luan, that's what you called me before you lost your memory!"
Xia Xiaoyu looked at the recorder, but it still didn't give any reminders, which made Xia Xiaoyu a little confused. To be honest, she felt that what Zuo Luanjun said was nonsense. Xia Xiaoyu didn't think that they would become good sisters.
Could it be that the honest recorder is broken?
"Su Ming doesn't like me." Xia Xiaoyu said.
[Falsehood]——The honest recorder detected the lie.
Xia Xiaoyu nodded, thinking that the recorder was indeed not broken. It seemed that she and this woman were indeed good sisters before.
"It's really... unbelievable." Xia Xiaoyu sighed.
The rebel laughed heartily and said to himself, "I know I look like a bad guy, but you can't judge a person by appearance. Sometimes people who look like bad guys are actually good guys, and people who look like good guys are actually bad guys. Judging by impression is not as accurate as the containment."
"How did we meet then?"
"Hmm... well ," Zuo Luan-jun stroked his chin and fell into deep thought, "I can't quite remember, but it seems like we met in the Mechanical City. At that time, you had just escaped from the Mysterious Eye, and then we met by chance. Later, I helped you escape the Mysterious Eye's search."
The honest recorder still did not sound the alarm, and everything this person said was true.
Xia Xiaoyu's eyes fell on "Restarting Life" on the computer screen, then glanced at Zuo Luanjun and asked, "So the effect of this program is exactly the same as its description. If I choose to restore all my memories, there will be no risks?"
"Of course, the effect of this containment object is exactly as described." said Zuo Luanjun.
Xia Xiaoyu looked at the recorder, but still no prompts.
The rebel sitting opposite sighed and said, "I didn't expect you to be so cautious, Xiaoyu. Although being cautious is a good thing, isn't it too cautious? Don't you trust this recorder? Then I'll tell you a lie - I don't like Xia Xiaoyu."
[Falsehood]—The recorder reminded again.
"I like Xiaoyu, I like her very much!" said the rebel with a smile.
The recorder was completely unresponsive.
Xia Xiaoyu's cheeks flushed slightly. Ever since she became invisible, no one had ever taken the initiative to say these embarrassing words to her. Even Su Ming would only say that he liked her when she asked, "Do you like me?"
"Okay, got it." Xia Xiaoyu muttered and put away the honest recorder, "Let's go back to Flora first, and then I'll use this program to restore my memory."
"It's up to you. I will protect you when you recover your memory."
…
Thirty minutes later, Xia Xiaoyu and Zuo Luanjun returned to the empty house. Flora stayed in the house very well and didn't even move.
As soon as she saw the rebel come in, she asked hurriedly, "What's the situation outside?"
"It's okay. We are sure they won't be able to find this place in a short time. It's very safe here." The Rebellious King said perfunctorily.
Xia Xiaoyu sat down on the edge of the bed, turned on the computer, opened "Restart Your Life", entered and clicked the use button. A translucent interface appeared in front of her. She was ready to restore her memory.
After her memory is restored, she will obtain information about the mysterious eye, and when she can contact Su Ming, she will tell Su Ming this information.
In addition, she can also make her power stronger, making it invisible to monsters... Wait, make it invisible to monsters? !
Xia Xiaoyu was shocked and asked, "Even the strange one can't see me, will you, Su Ming, also not be able to see me?"
"Don't worry, the ability to make monsters invisible can be controlled." The Rebellious King replied.
Xia Xiaoyu nodded with assurance, controlled the transparent pointer in the air, clicked the option, and chose to completely restore her memory. The moment she clicked, her consciousness disappeared instantly, and the world fell into darkness.
…
"Enjoy this banquet." said a beautiful woman.
"Of course, this is the best party I have ever attended," said the guest, raising his glass.
In the gorgeous banquet hall, several huge balloons were floating in the air, forming a line of words - Happy Birthday, Xia Xiaoyu!
It's her birthday... Yes, that's right, it's her birthday, she remembers it!
It was on that day that she became a child that no one could see... and no one could remember.
