Chapter 43: The Invisible Hand of Fate
"Modify the memory!" Xing Tianyu heard this word, and immediately instinctively gave birth to a trace of vigilance in his heart, in his opinion, memory represents the value of a person's existence, it can be said that people's existence is composed of memory, if the memory is modified, then the whole person means that it is completely different from the previous self. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
If you forget your true past and your mind is filled with a bunch of fictitious memories, is you still yourself?
Thinking of this, his eyes when he looked at Song Leshui immediately became a little more hostile.
However, he didn't show it immediately, Song Leshui would directly say that this idea came out, and there must be an explanation for him.
"Your tone sounds like it's a good thing, tell me, why should I change my memory?" Xing Tianyu asked calmly, but Song Leshui still instinctively felt a trace of 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 would not be possible 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 have been born and died on the battlefield in the past, killed countless people, and are used to seeing life and death, then you can naturally be full of courage.
But if you have never encountered any danger in the past, have never even seen blood, and have not even walked through the night, then you are naturally susceptible to fear.
Although we can use psychological reflexes to temporarily awaken a memory to obtain an emotion, but this awakening is actually very limited, think about it, in the memory you just found, you just mustered up the courage to fight with two little ruffians to save a girl, do you think this act is very brave? Yes, when you were younger, this kind of behavior was almost considered a warrior, but for you now, can you still think so? You should know that those two little ruffians won't really treat you at all, and they will just beat you up.
Even if I set a trigger switch for you, the courage you bring to awaken the emotions of this memory is very limited, I don't know why you want to wake up the emotions, but judging from the requirements you gave, it doesn't seem to meet your expectations.
However, if we re-edit this memory of yours, replace the two little ruffians with a group of underworld thugs, or even replace them with a group of professional killers, each of them with a submachine gun, and the little girl with your relatives, and then in this memory you single-handedly kill these guys and save your relatives, then when you awaken this memory again, you can feel far more courage than the original memory. β
Xing Tianyu was stunned when he heard this, what Song Leshui said was very reasonable, but he just wanted to learn self-hypnosis, why did he make so many moths out at once?
"So will this altered memory have an effect on my personality?" Xing Tianyu asked noncommittally.
Song Leshui nodded, "That's very likely, human character is created by past experiences, once your memory is modified a lot, it will naturally affect your character to a greater or lesser extent, so I didn't directly modify your memory just now, but first woke you up to ask for your opinion, after all, this kind of thing depends on the customer's wishes." β
And you don't want to take this effect too seriously, people's memory itself is very easy to be affected, let me tell you a story, when I was young, I especially liked to eat a kind of instant noodles, and this brand of instant noodles in my memory has a very special fragrance, but this kind of instant noodles gradually did not sell, which makes me very regretful.
A few years ago, I found out on the Internet that this brand of instant noodles was still in production, so I immediately bought a box online, but when I sent it to me and ate it again, I found that it was very unpalatable, not at all as good as the taste of ordinary mainstream brands, and there was no fragrance in my impression when I was a child.
Later, I went to consult and asked them why they changed the recipe, and no one eats it now, but guess what those workers said, they said that the recipe of instant noodles has never been changed, and it is exactly the same as back then, so the question is, why does the instant noodles I ate when I was a child taste completely different? I'm sure you've encountered something similar. β
Xing Tianyu nodded, indeed, many childhood memories often find some changes when they are revisited. "You mean that a lot of the things we remember are exaggerated by some kind of emotion we have?"
"That's right, that's it, our memories will 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 residential building, the terrible monster in your memory may be just a dirty wild dog, memory will gradually change over time, and it is precisely our brain that promotes this change.
So you see, changing your memory is not as scary as you think, because our brain itself often modifies our memory, and what we do is at most to increase this change, of course, I suggest that the premise of your memory is because you want to strengthen your emotions, if you don't let me edit your memory, just mentally reflect you according to your past memory, you can't get much emotional enhancement at all. If you're not desperate for this need, and you're afraid of the side effects of modifying your memory, I don't want to say it. β
Song Leshui cleared his tone, but Xing Tianyu saw it, Song Leshui must have wanted to do such an edit, he guessed that it was probably very rare for Song Leshui to have such a situation.
Song Leshui analyzed the stakes of the matter very well, and it didn't seem to be very terrible to modify the memory, although there were some hidden dangers, but the benefits were great.
If he added four new paragraphs to his memory and strengthened his four emotions, then Xing Tianyu would almost be confident that he would be able to exert his mind magic to the fullest, and in that case, the threat of the Nightmare King would seem to be solved at once.
It's just that Xing Tianyu still instinctively wants to refuse, Xing Tianyu is worried, changing memories is different from a dream, what you have seen in a dream will quickly dissipate, but memories will accompany you for a lifetime, what if you go crazy because of this?
Isn't it very likely that those madmen in the madhouse who keep saying that they have seen aliens and seen monsters that do not exist are precisely because their memories have been modified by emotions?
What if you become such a madman?
He opened his mouth, and once again his cautious personality came into play, instinctively wanting to refuse, but this time, instead of saying the words of refusal, he fell into deep thought.
He was wondering, wondering why he had fallen into such a strange situation again, and why this tangled mentality was so familiar.
He recalled silently, I don't know when it began, he felt that there always seemed to be an invisible invisible hand of fate pushing his every move, when he lived peacefully, there was a will from Daqingshan, when he refused to enter the door, Xiao Zhen was stunned to instigate Qin Ming to open the door, when they discussed that each person would only summon once, Qin Ming had an accident, when he finally finished everything in Daqingshan, and felt that he could live freely, Qin Ming died.
When he finally escaped alive from Nightspring Town, and felt that he could finally live in peace, the Nightmare Universe went wrong again.
Every time he faced a life-and-death situation, he always chose the safe and reliable option as much as possible, always wanted to stay out of the matter, always wanted to solve all the problems once and for all, but every time, he would always be dragged into the water again.
It was as if the more he wanted to get out of all this, the more the crisis would come to the door, and he had a strong premonition at this time that if he refused to use this way to improve his strength, if he left this room, danger would likely come to him again.
He could almost deduce what was going to happen next.
First of all, due to his cautious personality, he was afraid that editing memories would bring danger, so he refused to edit memories and chose to leave.
Then, when he returned to the inn to rest, he entered the nightmare space because he couldn't stand the sleepiness, met the Nightmare King, and was locked in the position by the Nightmare King.
Then he had to run back, in order to face the upcoming pursuit, let Song Leshui edit his memory.
What if I chose to edit my memory?
Then it is very likely that he will survive the pursuit of the Nightmare King, and may even get out of this crisis, but there will be more accidents in the future, so that he will never be able to calm down, and even this accident is caused by his own editing of his memory, and then he will face more problems and choices in order to repair his memory.
This feeling came to his mind for no reason, and it lingered.
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, you know that something is about to happen, although there is no reason, there is no warning, but you just know that it will happen." β
Song Leshui thought for a while and nodded: "What you said is called 'subconscious alert', your subconscious has discovered a certain problem, but your subjective consciousness has not been able to find it, so your subconscious will give your subjective consciousness some reminders, sometimes you will dream of something that is about to happen, or you will suddenly have a strong premonition, this is the subconscious mind is doing tricks, and the things you have a premonition are likely to really happen, because the human subconscious is much more sensitive and intelligent than the subjective consciousness." β
When he said this, he suddenly smiled bitterly, "It's like I, when I was giving hypnotherapy to a patient, I felt that something might be wrong, and I could have given up that treatment, but I always felt that things couldn't be so coincidental, and as a resultβ" He spread his hands and got mixed up with this.
Xing Tianyu couldn't help but feel entangled in his heart when he heard this, could there really be such a hand of fate playing with his voice? So what do you 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 feel that all our actions are at the mercy of an invisible hand of fate? β
Song Leshui shook his head this time: "You call this 'delusion of victimization', you think that there are more than six billion people in the world, there will always be some people who will encounter some very coincidental and incredible things, and then begin to doubt life, this kind of thing is very common, but if you really doubt that you are at the mercy of some hand of fate, just test it." β
He Xing Tianyu was stunned when he heard this, yes, he really needed to test it.
He had an idea.
"I won't promise you for the time being, and I won't refuse you, because I want to leave, 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 stunned 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, while walking around and observing the surroundings, he was looking for, looking for a sign.
Xing Tianyu found that every crisis he had experienced in the past seemed to have a pattern, and every time when a mixed [event] really happened, there would always be a sign, telling himself that an [event] was going to happen, and this [event] had both benefits and risks, but at the same time, there would also be a clue to remind himself that if he wanted to escape from this [event], he might encounter a worse outcome.
If you want to find out if you are suspicious or if you really have a hand that can't see clearly, you just need to see if there is a so-called omen.
However, the night was quiet, there was no one on the street, and the signs seemed to show no meaning.
Difficulty: Are you really delusional? Seeing that he was about to return to his hotel, Xing Tianyu was a little disappointed but at the same time felt a sense of relief.
Just when Xing Tianyu felt a little funny about his suspicions, the ringtone of his mobile phone suddenly rang.
Xing Tianyu picked up the phone, "Hey." β
"Hey, Viking, it's me, Deathwing." Deathwing's voice on the phone was trembling, seemingly terrified.
"What's wrong with you? Sounds nervous? β
"I'm dying, I'm dying, what the hell, I tried to endure it again and again before not entering the nightmare space, but just now I couldn't hold back, but I was suddenly found by the nightmare king, although I woke up immediately, but I feel that the nightmare king has been eyeing me, I'm going to be finished, I called to remind you, don't enter the nightmare space, don't!"
Listening to Deathwing's warning, Xing Tianyu was completely stunned.
"Thanks, I'll be careful."
Xing Tianyu said, he hung up the phone, looked at the empty streets, the dark night and the dim street lights, and a creepy feeling rose inexplicably in his heart.