What happened to Isaac?

"Hello, Earthlings."

The angel on the electronic screen said so.The background is the protection room with the lights turned on. The boxy iron box room does not look humane because of the warm energy-saving lamps.

"This is the second day after I received the memory cleansing. After I lost my memory, I couldn't speak the Celestial Common Language. If you don't understand English, there are subtitles below. To be honest, because I don't remember anything, Even the loss of a memory was told to me by someone else, and I don’t have any real feelings, and you will probably feel the same way, everyone is the same, so don’t be too scared.”

At this moment, someone off-screen said something.The angel moved away from the camera, tilted his body halfway and asked, "I have nothing to say, can I follow the editing later?"

After getting an affirmative answer, he turned back to the camera: "Let's see you in a few days."

The screen went black for a few seconds, and the angel appeared on the screen again, with the same opening words, waving his hand and saying, "Hello, Earthlings."

"This is my third week of the memory cleanse, and I'm feeling—nothing bad. To be honest, I had a bout of migraine at first, maybe lasted a day or two, but it healed quickly. So far, the body There is no discomfort," he said, "I have learned the Celestial Common Language, and I am the best one in the training class. The teacher said that I learned it thirty times faster than the first time. Of course, there is no reward. After all, I also Can’t be regarded as a new student with zero foundation. I hope this can encourage you: memory cleaning is not deleting, it’s more like tidying up. Imagine your brain is a house, so-called cleaning is to lock wrong memories in a small attic, it will never Belongs to you and will not leave your house. I can attest to that from my own experience.”

Xavier switched channels expressionlessly, so the screen turned, and another angel appeared on it, in the same environment as the previous one, adjusted the camera, and said:

"They said that they don't need to prepare lines for the video, just talk about real feelings. My feelings are blank because I don't know what I forgot.

"At first it was very difficult to accept that I lost a memory. I almost went crazy because I didn't know what I did wrong to have my memory erased. I thought, maybe someone deliberately framed me? Maybe I once mastered Is there an answer to life or the world? Is it possible that I had everything and was forced to let go of my glory, and now I am doing nothing? In fact, anything can happen and I will know nothing. Someone else made the choice for me .Of course...for now, everything is fine, life must go on, at least the memory cleanse has not affected my body. That's it."

Her video was short, just this one sentence, and Xavier didn't press pause and let it play over and over again.In the dark protection room, his thin figure sitting cross-legged was reflected by the weak eye protection fluorescence on the player screen.

Xavier was indeed thoughtful.What he felt terrible was not just the loss of a piece of memory, but the fact that he had no choice but to compromise and accept his fate among the two preset choices.

But like the angel said, being amnesticized can also be revenge, like him, just happened to know something.But does he have another choice?Soon, he will forget the secrets he originally knew, as well as love and hate.He will even become friends with Gordon, completely unaware of the undercurrent surging behind that lazy smiling face...

Distraught, Xavier tuned to the next channel, which he hadn't been paying attention to, but the pre-recorded video was still babbling:

"...I do care what I forget, but I've come to believe it because people say it's bad for remembering. After all, there must be something wrong with me, and—very wrong, I'm afraid, No doubt about it, right? If I had done nothing wrong, there would be no need to go through this."

He switches to the next one, and the angel inside says:

"…Overall, I hope we can all repent. Memory cleansing is about giving us the opportunity to reform ourselves, to forget our mistakes and become better people again."

What is the logic?Even assuming that there is indeed a mistake worth using memory cleaning - what people need is to correct the mistake, and forgetting directly cuts off this way.Forgetting your own evil deeds is just covering up your mistakes, but the wounds that are not exposed to the light will only fester faster.

"You gotta get used to it, that's the way life is."

said an angel.

"What else can I do?"

said an angel.

"Hell is turning left on the way out. I'm not going anyway."

said an angel.

**

Xavier raised his hand to turn off the screen, and the protection room was once again plunged into darkness.

After a while, the door was pushed open, but it was not Bicurisita who heard footsteps.Xavier turned his head and saw Gordon standing at the door with a smile:

"Is the TV not good? I'm afraid you're too lonely."

Xavier turned his head silently and ignored him.

"Actually, the memory cleanse is really the best option, Langdon. What do you think?"

"Don't call me Langdon."

"Okay, Langdon."

Xavier looked up at him, sighed, and spit out a word.

"No," said the angel behind the desk, "no, you can't visit Archangel Landon Xavier, your visitation request was rejected."

boom!

Isaac slammed the table and stood up, causing the angels next to him to look sideways: "What are you kidding! You made me fill out forms for four hours!"

"I'm very sorry, but this is the rule, Mr. Demon," the angel behind the counter said helplessly, "I must remind you that controlling your emotions is very important, and you have already posed a threat to me. Now the relationship between heaven and hell is very tense, maybe I have to get you out."

"How can you do this?" Isaac was still yelling as he was being dragged away, "Hey!"

The glass door closed behind him, Isaac walked out angrily, and slammed into someone's arms, and the two took a step back at the same time, letting out a cry of pain.

"...Isaac?"

the man said tentatively.

Isaac looked up and saw Bicurisita standing in front of him.He was about to get angry, but instead he snorted heavily and was about to walk away.When passing by, he suddenly rolled his eyes, and hurriedly grabbed Bicurisita's arm.

"What are you doing?" Bicurisita said.

"Come, come," said Isaac, "let's take a step to talk."

"...Don't!" Bicurisita withdrew his hand as if he had been shocked, looking alert like a rabbit with ears pricked up, "You succubi are very bad, Gast told I don't want to run around, or I will be molested."

Isaac:?

"A succubus came up and touched my chest!" Bicurisita complained angrily.

"Did I touch your breasts?" Isaac asked back.

"......Nope."

"That's right!" Isaac rolled up the documents that had become waste paper in his hand, and angrily knocked on Bikulisita's head, "I don't need to moles you! I don't even look at it Who has bigger boobs!"

Bikulixita yelled "Ouch", covered his head and thought about it for a while, and felt that the words were convincing and convincing, so he was happily led away by Isaac.

"Ah!" Suddenly, Gast sneezed.

......

As Xavier lay on the floor with his eyes closed, he felt a ray of light.He raised his eyelids and saw Bicurisita looking down at him, showing a simple and honest smile, and said mysteriously, "Isaac asked me to bring you something."

"What?" Xavier got up from the ground, feeling a backache.

Bicurisita stuffed a cold little thing into Xavier's hand. He opened his hand and saw that there was a small piece of iron lying in the palm of his hand, which was strung together with fine hemp rope. It was very rusty and its edges were blunt. There is a coordinate on one side and a blank side.

This is a small ornament that Isaac often hangs around his neck, and he is not willing to take it off even when he goes to prison.Its background is still unknown to Xavier because of the confidentiality agreement, but now it is enough to know that it belongs to Isaac.

Xavier held it in his palm until it was warm to body temperature; he bowed his head after thinking for a moment, and tied the dog tag around his neck.

He thought, maybe this is Isaac reminding himself not to forget him.