Book of the Otherworld

Chapter 196 The Invisible Hand of Fate
"Modify memory!" Hearing this word, Xing Tianyu immediately felt vigilance in his heart. In his opinion, memory represents the value of a person's existence. It can be said that the existence of a person is composed of memories. Modify, then the whole person means that it is completely different from the previous self.

If I forget my real past, and my mind is filled with a bunch of fictional memories, is I still myself?
Thinking of this, he looked at Song Leshui with more hostility immediately.

But he didn't show it immediately, Song Leshui would directly say this idea, there must be his explanation.

"Your tone sounds like this is a good thing. Tell me, why should I modify my memory?" Xing Tianyu asked calmly, but Song Leshui still instinctively felt a little pressure.

He hurriedly explained, "It can't be said to be a good thing, but for you, you have more choices. Didn't you want to strengthen your emotions before? This kind of thing is impossible under normal circumstances. But now it seems that it is really possible for you to achieve your ideas. People's emotions come from what happened in the past, that is, memories.

For example, if you were born and died on the battlefield in the past, killed countless people, and you are used to seeing life and death, then you can be naturally courageous.

But if you have never been in any danger before, not even seen blood, not even walked in the dark, then naturally you are very susceptible to fear.

Although we can use psychological reflexes to temporarily awaken a memory to obtain an emotion, this awakening is actually very limited. Think about it, in the memory you were looking for just now, you just mustered up the courage to talk to two little ones. The ruffian fought and saved a girl. Do you think this act is brave?Yes, this kind of behavior was almost heroic when you were a kid, but can you still think of it that way for you now?You should know that those two little ruffians won't really do anything to you at all, most of them will just beat you up.

Even if I set a trigger switch for you, when you wake up the emotion of this memory, the courage it brings to you is very limited. I don’t know why you want to wake up the emotion, but judging from the requirements you gave , such courage does not seem to meet your expectations.

However, if we reedited your memory, replaced the two little gangsters with a group of underworld thugs, or even replaced them with a group of professional killers, gave them each a submachine gun in their hands, and replaced the little girl with your relatives , and then in this memory you single-handedly killed these guys with your bare hands and saved your relatives, then when you wake up this memory again, the courage you can feel will far exceed the original memory. "

Xing Tianyu was stunned when he heard it. What Song Leshui said was very reasonable, but he just wanted to learn self-hypnosis. Why did he come up with so many moths all at once?

"So will this modification of memory affect my personality?" Xing Tianyu asked noncommittally.

Song Leshui nodded, "That's very possible. Human personality is created by past experiences. Once your memory has been modified a lot, it will naturally affect your personality more or less, so I didn't directly Modify your memory, but first wake you up to ask for your opinion, after all, this kind of thing depends on the wishes of the customer."

And don't take this kind of influence too seriously. People's memory itself is easily affected. Let me tell you a story. When I was young, I especially liked to eat a kind of instant noodles. It has a very special fragrance, but this kind of instant noodles gradually disappeared, which makes me very regretful.

A few years ago, I found out that this brand of instant noodles was still being produced online, so I immediately bought a box online. After it arrived, I found it very unpalatable when I ate it. It was not as good as the general mainstream brands. The scent I remember from my childhood.

Later, I went to consult specifically and asked them why they changed the recipe. No one eats it now. As a result, guess what those workers said, they said that the recipe of instant noodles has never been changed, and it is exactly the same as it was back then. So the question is, why did the instant noodles I ate when I was a child taste completely different?I think you must have encountered similar things. "

Xing Tianyu nodded. Indeed, many childhood memories often find some changes when revisiting them. "You mean that many things in our memory are exaggerated by our emotions?"

"That's right, that's it. Our memories can deceive us. The beautiful girl in your memory may look like an ordinary little girl. The high-rise building in your memory may be just a five or six-story building. Lou, the scary monster in your memory may just be a dirty wild dog. Memory will gradually change over time, and it is our brain that promotes this change.

So you see, things like changing memory are not as scary as you think, because our brains often modify our memory, and what we do is at best to increase the change, of course , the premise of my suggestion to modify your memory is because you want to strengthen your emotions, if you don’t let me edit your memory, if you just reflect on your mind according to the past memory, you will not get much emotion at all enhancements on.If you are not urgent about this need, and you are afraid of the side effects of modifying memory, just ignore me. "

Song Leshui kept his tone clear, but Xing Tianyu could tell that Song Leshui must really want to do this kind of editing. He guessed that for Song Leshui, such a situation was very rare for him.

Song Leshui analyzed the stakes of the matter very well. The memory modification does not seem to be very scary. Although there are some hidden dangers, the benefits it brings are huge.

If he adds four new pieces of content to his memory and strengthens his four emotions, then Xing Tianyu is almost confident to use the magic of the mind to its maximum power. In that way, the threat of the Nightmare King seems to be solved at once .

However, Xing Tianyu still instinctively wants to refuse. Xing Tianyu is worried that changing memories is different from having a dream. Things seen in dreams will quickly dissipate, but memories will accompany him for the rest of his life. What if I'm crazy?
Those lunatics in the lunatic asylum keep saying that they have seen aliens and monsters that do not exist. Isn’t it very likely that it is because the memory is modified by emotions?
What if I also become such a lunatic?
He opened his mouth, and his cautious character played a role again, and he instinctively wanted to refuse, but this time, he didn't say the words of rejection, but fell into deep thought.

He was wondering why he fell into such a strange situation again, why this entangled mentality seemed familiar.

He recalled silently. He didn't know when it started. He felt that there seemed to be an invisible and invisible hand of fate pushing his every step. When he was living peacefully, there appeared a When he refused to enter the door, Xiao Zhen urged Qin Ming to open the door. When they agreed that each of them would only summon once, something happened to Qin Ming. When he finally finished Daqingshan Qin Ming died when he felt that he could live freely.

When he managed to escape from Night Spring Town alive and felt that he could finally live in peace, something went wrong in the Nightmare Universe.

Every time he is faced with a life-and-death situation, he always chooses the safe and reliable option as much as possible, always wants to stay out of the matter, and always wants to solve all the problems once and for all, but every time, he will always be dragged into the water again.

It seems that as long as he wants to get rid of all this, the crisis will come to him. At this time, he has a strong premonition that if he refuses to use this method to improve his strength, if he leaves this room, Danger is likely to strike again.

He can almost deduce what will happen next.

First of all, due to my cautious personality, I am afraid that editing memories will bring danger, so I will refuse to edit memories and choose to leave.

Then, when I went back to the hotel to rest, I entered the nightmare space because I couldn't bear the sleepiness, met the nightmare king, and was locked by the nightmare king.

Then he had to run back, and asked Song Leshui to edit his memory in order to face the coming chase.

What if I choose to edit memory?

Then it is very possible that I will survive under the pursuit of the Nightmare King, and may even get rid of this crisis, but there will definitely be more accidents in the future, so that I will never be able to calm down, and even this accident is my own. It is caused by editing the memory, and then in order to restore the memory, I will face more problems and choices.

This feeling surfaced in his heart for no reason, lingering.

He didn't immediately agree or refuse, looking at Song Leshui, Xing Tianyu asked the doubts in his heart: "Doctor Song, I want to ask you a question, have you ever had such a feeling that you know something is about to happen , without any reason, without any warning, but you just knew it was going to happen."

Song Leshui thought for a while and nodded: "What you said is called 'subconscious alarm', your subconscious has already discovered a certain problem, but your subjective consciousness has not been able to find it, so your subconscious will give your subjective consciousness some warning. Reminder, sometimes you will dream about something that is about to happen, or you will suddenly have a strong premonition, this is the subconscious mind at work, and the things you premonition are likely to happen, because the human subconscious mind is stronger than the subjective consciousness. Much more sensitive and much smarter."

When he said this, he suddenly smiled wryly, "It's like me, when I gave a patient hypnotherapy, I felt that something might go wrong. I could have given up that treatment, but I always felt that it was impossible for such a coincidence. As a result—" He spread his hands, and that's what he got into.

After hearing this, Xing Tianyu couldn't help feeling tangled in his heart. So it is possible that such a hand of fate is playing with his voice?So what should I do?Go with the flow, or disrupt the cycle?
Thinking in his heart, he subconsciously asked Song Leshui his own question, "Do you believe in fate? Do you think that all our actions are actually at the mercy of an invisible hand of fate?"

Song Leshui shook his head this time: "You are called 'persecution delusion', you think there are more than 60 billion people in the world, there will always be some people who will encounter some very coincidental and incredible things, and then start to doubt life, this kind of thing It is very common, but if you really suspect that you are being manipulated by some fate, just test it out."

Xing Tianyu's eyes lit up when he heard it, yes, he really needed to try it out.

But he thought of an idea.

"I won't agree to you for the time being, nor will I refuse you, because I'm going to leave for a while. I may go home, or I may just go out for a walk. I may come back tomorrow, or I may come back in a while."

Song Leshui was dumbfounded when he heard this, but Xing Tianyu smiled mysteriously, turned around and walked out of Song Leshui's house, and walked straight towards the hotel where he came. He walked very slowly, observing the surroundings while walking. Look for, look for a sign.

Xing Tianyu found that every crisis he has experienced in the past seems to have a pattern. Before every [event] with mixed good and bad happens, there will always be a sign, telling himself that an [event] It is about to happen, this [event] has both benefits and risks, but at the same time there will be a clue to remind myself that if you want to escape this [event], you may encounter a worse result.

If he wanted to figure out whether it was his own paranoia or an invisible hand playing with him, he just had to see if there would be a so-called omen.

However, the night was quiet, and there was no one on the street, and the signs seemed to have no intention of appearing.

Is it really a delusion to be persecuted?Seeing that he was about to return to his hotel, Xing Tianyu was a little disappointed but also relieved.

Just when Xing Tianyu felt a little funny about his suspiciousness, the phone rang suddenly.

Xing Tianyu picked up the phone, "Hello."

"Hey, brother Viking, it's me, Deathwing." Deathwing's voice on the phone was trembling, as if he was terrified.

"What's wrong with you? Sounds nervous?"

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, what the hell, I tried so hard not to enter the nightmare space before, but I couldn't hold back just now, and I was suddenly approached by the Nightmare King , although I woke up immediately, but I feel that the Nightmare King has already set his sights on me, I am going to die, I called to remind you, don’t enter the Nightmare Dimension, don’t!”

Hearing Deathwing's warning, Xing Tianyu was completely stunned.

"Thank you, I will be careful."

Xing Tianyu said, he hung up the phone, looked at the deserted street, the pitch-black night and the dim street lights, an inexplicable creepy feeling rose in his heart.

(End of this chapter)