I’m Flirting with a Man in the Supernatural World - Chapter 97

After Wei Hu was taken away, the dormitory was vacant, and Jin Tianyi moved in logically.

It happened to be convenient for Chu Huai to observe him.

After paying attention these few days, Chu Huai gradually discovered that the fresh Jin Tianyi in front of him was slightly different from the Jin Tianyi in his memory.

These abnormalities were subconsciously ignored by him before.

For example, Jin Tianyi is more frank and has no reservations about him. But the Jin Tianyi in his memory tended to take care of everything by himself, and he only said a few perfunctory words when he was discovered, and simply passed it off.

For example, he smiles more, his personality is more cheerful, his emotions are written on his face, and it is easier for him to understand, but in fact, Jin Tianyi seldom smiles, even if he smiles, the true meaning is hidden in it.

There are still many small changes like this. At first, Chu Huai only thought that they had been together for a long time, and Jin Tianyi’s mentality had changed.

The strange thing is that Jin Tianyi’s demeanor, small movements, and habits are exactly the same as before.

In the dead of night, Chu Huai quietly got up, opened the window, let the cold wind blow, and let the drowsiness be dispelled.

Chu Huai was fascinated to think, in fact, in summary, these changes in Jin Tianyi are not bad, even more… in line with his expectations.

He often thinks that he is not honest enough, that he thinks too deeply and bears too much, which makes him a little depressed, but there is a gentle and heavy smile in his smile, and even a joke hides a deep meaning that he doesn’t know.

He had indeed thought about it, and hoped that Jin Tianyi could be more relaxed and free-spirited.

During the previous period, he was busy looking for clues to contact other residents, but he ignored a lot of him. Looking back now, he felt palpitations suddenly, as if he was handcuffed by invisible shackles.

Chu Huai felt that there was a thin hair-like thread wrapped around his neck, and it became tighter and tighter, and he was about to suffocate.

The truth is about to come out.

Chu Huai closed his eyes and pursed his lips tightly.

Jin Tianyi was in his imagination.

Another answer.

Chu Huai opened his eyes, the black and white pupils reflected the shadows of the trees downstairs, and there was no trace of confusion in the two pupils.

Only this can explain everything.

Why did he want Jin Tianyi to appear, and Jin Tianyi appeared. Why did Jin Tianyi become more in line with his expectations invisibly, and why his demeanor, small movements, and oral habits did not change at all.

Why did Wei Hu’s daughter who committed suicide appear in the City of Memory?

Why did that otaku meet a beautiful woman who was willing to relieve his desire when he was lonely?

The secret and inhuman desires of the inhabitants themselves gave birth to these human affairs.

Chu Huai smiled awkwardly.

Why did he forget that people can tamper with their memories and make them what they want.

Is human memory completely true? Is it a record of facts?

not.

The influence of the subjective will can make the memory gradually tend to the way people want.

After repeated recollection of a sentence by those who care about it, it will produce many meanings that were not there before.

A person may deliberately strengthen the dark side of his memory because he wants to win the sympathy of others. For example, when he was a child, a certain little boy actually said something vicious to him. Bully him, rob him of money, beat him.

Repeating it over and over again, if you say it for a long time, the fake will become true.

Even the parties themselves can’t tell the difference.

Especially when this false memory has been scrubbed over the years.

Memory is not objective at all.

Chu Huai couldn’t figure out why Wei Hu said that Xiaoyun’s body had a heavenly mark on his shoulder during the autopsy, but now he suddenly understands it.

Wei Hu’s intention is that Xiaoyun is alive, so in order to achieve the “facts” that “Xiaoyun is alive” and “she is Xiaoyun”, he tampered with his memory invisibly.

In reality, tampering with memory is slow, but this is… the city of memory.

In the world of memory, anything is possible.

Desires are infinitely magnified, and tampering becomes easy and feasible, and even the parties are completely unaware that they have tampered with their own memories.

In all fairness, Chu Huai, if he hadn’t tirelessly checked his memory at least three times a day before, he might not be aware of the changes in Jin Tianyi’s details now.

It is normal to have memory confusion for a period of time after the tampering, but over time, the false memory of expectation will overcome the reality.

Fortunately, he discovered the abnormality in time before the process reached the end.

He still has the ability to… stop.

Chu Huai looked back at the sleeping Jin Tianyi.

My own desire gave birth to a thief who stole my memory, so the old man didn’t lie to him, he just said incompletely.

It’s not like losing 50% of your memory means you can’t leave the City of Memory.

Yes—lose 50% of the original real memory and cannot leave the city of memory.

Of course, this truth should be put in quotation marks. This truth is relative to the false memory regenerated in the city of memory.

The infinitely magnified desire hatched these memory thieves, who subtly devoured the original real memories and replaced them with false and better memories.

It was a icing, but instead of candy, it was filled with foul-smelling putrefaction.

The thing lying on the bed was created by him, ghost.

These ghosts seem to be partly controlled by the memory city, and will quietly and unconsciously do things that prevent them from knowing the truth.

Chu Huai remembered that day, he was talking to other residents and was about to tell them his guess, but it was Jin Tianyi who interrupted him and reminded himself to go back and pay the taxes.

Another day, when Chu Huai asked Jin Tianyi if he thought there was anything wrong with Xiao Yun, Jin Tianyi said no. At that time, he just thought it was a little strange and didn’t think much about it, but now a chill appeared in his heart.

It cannot be delayed any longer.

Even if Wei Hu knew the truth, he couldn’t kill Xiao Yun, he was different.

Chu Huai smiled gracefully, closed the window slowly and quietly, and walked back to the bed with her overcoat on.

Their two beds are pushed together.

Chu Huai pressed the bed with one knee, leaned over, and gently pushed Jin Tianyi.

Jin Tianyi opened his eyes, and there seemed to be a flash of dark purple. He sat up and looked at Chu Huai who was white and quiet under the moonlight. He didn’t feel annoyed by being woken up, and asked softly: “What’s wrong? Can’t sleep ?”

“En.” Chu Huai nodded heavily, with a nasal voice.

“Speak with you?”

“No need.” Chu Huai shook his head stubbornly.

“That…”

Chu Huai interrupted him with complicated eyes: “Can you hug me?”

Jin Tianyi was taken aback for a moment, then nodded happily.

With a warm hug, Chu Huai whispered goodbye to the innocent and gentle ghost he created in his arms.

He doesn’t want fake, he wants real.

Since it is in human form, then hot weapons can definitely kill.

Chu Huai slightly closed his eyes.

The trigger sounded, and something cold hit Jin Tianyi’s body.

With a loud noise, Chu Huai’s fingers numb slightly.

He quietly watched Jin Tianyi fall down, lost the sharp weapon in his hand, and was about to think about how to survive in the next 80 days, when suddenly there was darkness in front of him.

The moment before he fell into a coma, Chu Huai watched as Jin Tianyi on the ground just disappeared and turned into a cloud-like thing.

There seemed to be a crisp and subtle sound of glass breaking in my ears.

The enchantment around the dormitory began to shatter and twist.

…

After being drowsy for an unknown period of time, Chu Huai suddenly woke up and found herself in a warm and real embrace.

He froze for a moment, raised his head to meet Jin Tianyi’s handsome face, and let out a long sigh of relief. Then he lowered his head and found that he was hugged in his arms and fell asleep on him. In a very intimate position, his head just now Stuck in Jin Tianyi’s neck.

Chu Huai blushed belatedly.

“Are you awake?” Jin Tianyi smiled without showing the slightest surprise.

His Chu Huai is smart and calm, and he will not indulge in falsehood and fail to pass the first level of the city of memory.

“Wake up?” Chu Huai’s pupils opened slightly, making Jin Tianyi let go of himself, and when he turned his head, he found that the huge floor was full of people sleeping.

In the empty hall, only he and Jin Tianyi were awake.

Only then did Chu Huai begin to look at the surrounding environment.

There seemed to be gold letters engraved on some places on the pitch-black walls, and some strange patterns were drawn on the soft carpet under the feet. The hall could not be seen at a glance, and all you could see were people lying on the ground and sleeping soundly.

Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi are now located in the southeast corner of the main hall. In the middle of the main hall are four statues of different colors. Three are small and one is large. The big one is three meters high.

Chu Huai was at a loss: “Where are we?”

Jin Tianyi stood up and led him to the outside of the main hall. Chu Huai looked up at the four gold-plated characters of “Memory Temple” on the plaque, feeling a little dazed.

“god?”

Jin Tianyi explained with a smile: “You can understand it as a ghost hall of memory, which always needs to be beautified.”

“You just said you woke up?” Chu Huai understood, his eyes tightened slightly, and he asked, “Could it be that life in the City of Memory is just a dream?”

Jin Tianyi nodded.

“It’s like “Inception”.” Chu Huai sighed, “So we were fooled by the world again, right? It said in blood, ‘Taskers can leave after staying in the City of Memory for 100 days’, it deliberately Guide the taskers to think that the place inside the enchantment outside the dormitory building is the main body of the city of memory, and then make the taskers think that the way to leave is to rack their brains to survive in the city of memory for a hundred days…”

“Actually,” Chu Huai propped up his chest with one hand, guessing thoughtfully, “The tasker should be able to leave after passing several tests. One hundred days is actually the deadline for death.”

Jin Tianyi pointed: “Go and see the statues over there and you’ll understand.”

Before the statues turned their backs to Chu Huai, Chu Huai couldn’t see them clearly, but now that their appearance came into view, Chu Huai’s heart was like a mirror.

The three small statues look exactly the same, but the colors are different. They are the same as the memory-sucking ghosts that Chu Huai saw in the City of Memory before. One red, one purple, one black.

I’ve seen the black Chu Huai before, it’s a little ghost responsible for collecting memories, raised by humans in clothes. What Chu Huai didn’t expect was that there were three kinds of little ghosts in the City of Memory.

There was a word on the base of the statue, Chu Huai approached, and the black base said – Mechanical Tax Collector.

Introduction to the Mechanical Tax Collector: There are always people who want to get rid of the unbearable past and the painful memories. The Mechanical Tax Collector is born for this, and he can bring happiness to human beings. One hundred days, 45% tax, mechanical tax collectors give taskers a sense of urgency, race against time, race against self. Taxation cannot be avoided. Can the taskers race against time to escape from the nightmare?

There was also a note on the side, which made Chu Huai startled.

Note from the mechanical tax collector: When collecting painful memories, the mechanical tax collector will kindly inject some false happy memories into the residents’ brains, and at the same time stimulate the secretion of dopamine in the human brain, giving humans the ultimate enjoyment.

It turns out that if you pay painful memories, it is not 5%.

Because the real failure condition is – lose 50% of the real memory and cannot leave, if the mechanical tax collector injects false memory, then the lost real memory will exceed 5%.

The red ones are called Temptation Traders, which are raised by hawkers in the market and produce some illusory products for workers to buy. Gentle bewitchment, slow death.

The purple ones are called… Invisible Stealers, born out of human desires, and feed on the creator’s memory. Like time, memory can pass silently, and very few people discover its existence.

Seeing this, Chu Huai understood everything.

The previous Jin Tianyi was an invisible stealer born of his own fantasies and emotional needs, so when that Jin Tianyi was by his side, he felt that his memory was gradually blurring, because that Jin Tianyi fed on his memory.

And 100 days is not the number of days the residents have to stay in the city of memory, but the maximum time. After this period, even if the residents have not lost more than 50% of their real memories, they will be kept in the memory forever. city.

This is a trap.

The existence of the Mechanical Tax Collector itself hints at this point. The more time goes by, the more memories that must be sold, so they should not sit and wait for death, but should stand the test and try to get out, otherwise they can only be killed in the slow passage of time. drowned.

The first test is to pay taxes and what to pay.

The second test is temptation, whether you are willing to exchange the truth for the false.

The third test is desire.

There is a line behind the invisible stealer, killing the invisible stealer, the failure of the first two levels is negligible.

So as long as you realize the existence of the invisible stealer before reaching the 50% ratio, and kill him cruelly, you will be able to pass the… first level of the city of memory.

After thinking through these joints, the filaments that had been entangled around Chu Huai’s neck for a long time finally broke.

Jin Tianyi didn’t know when he came over: “The taskers who enter the city of memory all have demons, shortcomings, and strong wishes.”

Looking at the people lying on the ground, Chu Huai thought absently that he should be like them before, but Jin Tianyi woke up first and carried him up.

Thinking of this, he blushed for a moment, and asked nonchalantly, “You came out so soon?”

Jin Tianyi paused, with an embarrassed expression: “…my invisible stealer is too poor.”

“How unfavorable?” Chu Huai’s curiosity was aroused.

Jin Tianyi turned his face sideways, made it clear that he didn’t want to say anything, and pulled Chu Huai towards the wall of the main hall where the gold letters were engraved.

“Say it.”

“…I don’t want to.” Jin Tianyi pushed him away, his ears turned red with the gesture of refusal.

Chu Huai was also anxious, and said ruthlessly, “I’ll kiss you after you finish speaking.”

Jin Tianyi looked at him. Chu Huai blinked.

“I’m afraid of you, but it’s nothing.” Jin Tianyi turned his face away, obviously too embarrassed, ashamed to speak, “That Chu Huai, he told me not long after I saw him…”

“Say what?” Chu Huai hurriedly urged.

“explain…”

Jin Tianyi coughed lightly twice, not embarrassed to look at him: “Say I love you.”

Chu Huai’s expression immediately froze on his face, his heart was pounding, his face gradually became red, and he even forgot to breathe.

The invisible stealer reflected the creator’s truest desire, as if he wanted Jin Tianyi to be more frank and cheerful.

And he wishes he…

Although Jin Tianyi spoke in a flat tone, these words were tantamount to confessing his desire.

That’s why he was embarrassed.

The three words “I love you” danced between the lips and teeth, and time seemed to stand still.

Jin Tianyi saw that Chu Huai’s expression was dazed, he raised his eyebrows and said nothing, and wanted to reveal this passage, but Chu Huai suddenly raised his eyes, and asked casually, “Then…it’s so good, and it can talk about love, you… Just have the heart to kill it?”

Jin Tianyi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: “It’s not good if it’s not you.”

Chu Huai was short of breath, but still turned his head and said bravely: “But you obviously want it, you obviously like it, otherwise it wouldn’t appear…you are lying.”

After Chu Huai finished speaking, she felt a little regretful. No matter how she heard her words, she was double-standard and unreasonable.

Jin Tianyi was not angry, but a little smile appeared on his lips. Chu Huai was nervous and embarrassed, but he was relieved and relaxed.

“Actually, there are too many desires, for example,” Jin Tianyi paused, and approached Chu Huai, his voice was low and sweet, with a bit of ambiguity, “For example, I want to treat you… like that.”

Chu Huai froze all over, raised his eyes and stared at him, his anger turned into anger, with small flames burning in his eyes.

“But as long as the real you is in front of me,” Jin Tianyi finally smiled into his eyes, “desires will always become reality.”

For example, Chu Huai will say that to him one day.

He doesn’t want to be fake, he wants to be real.

Chu Huai felt that Jin Tianyi’s voice made his heart itch and numb. He stared at Jin Tianyi for a while, then suddenly smiled, and hooked his fingers at him: “Come here.”

Jin Tianyi bowed slightly when he heard the words.

Chu Huai climbed onto his shoulders, and pressed his thin, cool lips close to Jin Tianyi’s ears, with an uncomfortable expression on his face: “I’ll just say it once.”

“What?”

“I…” When the words came to his lips, Chu Huai was really ashamed to speak, so he turned a corner temporarily, “I… love you a little.”

Then he came down as if nothing had happened in an instant, turned his back and said, “Well, let me see what is written on the wall…”

Jin Tianyi stood in place like a sculpture, and Chu Huai’s clear voice echoed in his ears, becoming clearer and clearer over and over again.

He automatically ignored the expressive adverb between “I” and “love you”, and then raised the corner of his mouth visible to the naked eye.

The wish came true so soon.