Chapter 11: The Battle for Memory
Chen Xiao opened his eyes, an unfamiliar ceiling.
"Where is this?" The first thought came to his mind.
Almost at the same time, there was a violent dizziness, accompanied by a feeling of emptiness that I had never felt before, as if a piece of my brain had been cut off by life!
He couldn't help but clasp his head with both hands, and had to shout: "Holy! β
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After a long time, the feeling of the world spinning gradually faded, and Chen Xiao slowly opened his eyes and began to look around.
He found ...... It's a closed room!
It's only about 10 square meters, surrounded by white walls, Chen Xiao reached out and touched it, it was not stone cement, it hadn't been painted, it was a strange material that was smooth and strong, similar to some kind of metal.
There were no windows, no fences, not even vents, just one door. There is a small rectangular opening under the door, just enough to deliver food inside. There was a simple single bed against the wall, and the bedding was so clean that it could barely fit a person under the bed. There is a partition in the opposite corner of the bed, and behind it is a toilet bowl that looks good.
"It looks like it's a prison cell." Chen Xiao thought about it, and then looked overhead. Then he was a little surprised to find that there was not even a lamp, but the whole room was filled with bright but not dazzling light, Chen Xiao smelled the air around him again, it was very fresh.
"If this is really a prison cell, it's a bit too luxurious, and even a little "high-tech". Chen Xiao couldn't help but sigh.
At this time, he suddenly felt a strange feeling on the inside of his lips, he licked it with his tongue, and found that it was a tooth mark, and the bite was quite hard, and it was a little swollen.
"I guess I accidentally bit it when I was unconscious." He thought about it and didn't pay much attention to it
Then he sat down on the bed, crossed his fingers to his mouth, and began to remember......
The memory is that the old man who called himself Mr. Zou dodged the shot and then knocked himself unconscious.
"Well, this should be the so-called "mysterious organization"! Chen Xiao nodded to himself, and then came to the door...... To fly is to kick.
"Bang Bang"! He sat on the ground again. (Why is there an "again"?) Hey, hey, hey)
The door didn't move at all, and he didn't even make any movement: "Well, it seems that you can't get out." β
Then he got up as if nothing was going on, went to the toilet and looked at it, sniffed it again, and found that there was nothing worth noting. The whole house is clean and can be said to be nothing......
Chen Xiao didn't know what to do for a while.
"Hey......." he sighed: "I don't know what happened to those guys, it is estimated that nine times out of ten they are also locked in this kind of small cell with themselves, what will happen to the guinea pig that does not die?" Of course, I'm going to the next experiment to be a guinea pig, and I know how to use my ass. β
It's like tossing a coin, heads, you're dead, tails, congratulations, you've got a chance to toss again.
This feeling of waiting to be squeezed dry is very bad, but Chen Xiao did not show too much disgust.
"What about Miko, maybe she was imprisoned, or maybe she was doing research, whatever, anyway, her treatment must be much better than my "consumables"! Chen Xiao lay on the bed and crossed Erlang's legs and thought.
At this time, he noticed his hand and frowned.
The nail of the index finger of the right hand is pointy and has been bitten!!
"Huh?" Chen Xiao was puzzled for a moment, because he didn't have the impression of gnawing his nails.
"Could it be that someone ...... me during the time I passed out?" Thinking of this, he felt uncomfortable for a while: "Don't make trouble, who would have a special hobby to this extent." β
He said so, but he put his finger to his teeth a few times.
"Hmm...... It looks like I really bit it myself. But why am I not impressed at all? Chen thought with a smile.
At this time, footsteps sounded outside the door, and after that, a person came to the door and knocked on the door several times with a hard object, presumably a baton, an electric shock baton, or something.
A piece of food was shoved through the window, and then the footsteps walked away.
Chen Xiao walked over and took a look.
Huo~ This meal looks like breakfast! It's really good, bread, milk, eggs, still peeled back, and even served with an apple! What kind of strange organization treats guinea pigs very well, should you consider posting an advertisement for open recruitment or something.
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Chen Xiao spit out a groat amusing himself.
But then, instead of eating his breakfast, he was slightly stunned, as if he had thought of something, and then began to run around the house, jumping and jumping.
While running, he was still full of doubts:
"Not hungry?"
"Hmm...... Really not hungry! β
"What the hell? How can you not be hungry? β
From the time he signed the contract to the present, Chen Xiao's memory should have been that he had only eaten one meal in the "single room" of his neurological hospital, and he had obviously begun to feel hungry in that orphanage yesterday.
Thinking of this, he increased the amount of exercise as if he did not believe in evil, and did not stop until he began to sweat slightly.
"So, I must have eaten!" He thought, "But I can't recall it at all, is there a piece of my memory missing?" β
As soon as his thoughts arrived, Chen Xiao jumped up and came to the toilet to slam his throat.
"Wow...... Bang Bang!! "He threw up!
Nonsense, who doesn't spit on this.
Chen Xiao didn't wipe his mouth after spitting, and immediately leaned over to stare at the disgusting pile of vomit in the toilet bowl and observed it carefully.
"Overnight food! I ate last night! In this way, I really have a missing part of my memory. β
"That is, I've been here for at least more than a day, maybe a long time."
Chen Xiao's eyes looked at his nails......
After that, he immediately ran to the side of the bed in a hurry, lying on the bed and pouting his ass all around.
Finally, in one corner of the sheet, he found two traces of the silk thread cut by the sharp object.
Chen Xiao nodded with satisfaction.
"Sure enough. Do I leave some information for myself? β
"Two vertical lines...... If it were me, these two hits must be used to keep track of time, then I should have been here for two days. No, it could be three days, or even longer, because it was impossible to know that your memories were lost on the first day! β
Next to these two traces, there is another pattern, which is drawn a little further away in order to distinguish it from the "number of days".
A "δΈ¨", at the bottom of the "δΈ¨", is connected to a slightly shorter "δΈΏ"
"What does this mean? An unfinished word? No, I'm not stupid enough to do something as laborious and easy to find out as writing directly, so ...... Is it still time? β
"Well, it's the watch, and when you look at it from the center of the room, it means 7 o'clock. What happens at 7 o'clock...... I guess my memory will be erased at 7 o'clock, right? But there's not even a clock or watch here, so how do I know "7 o'clock"? β
Thinking of this, Chen Xiao looked at the breakfast next to the door.
"From dinner? Then this 7 o'clock means that it is after dinner! β
"These speculations may be correct, they may not be true, but anyway, I'm pretty reliable!" He's a pleasure.
Then I should have left myself some other messages.
Chen Xiao licked the tooth marks on the back of his lips.
"This is supposed to be my stay, too, but what does that mean?" He thought about it for a while, and found that he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't waste time on it, and began to look around the room.
After that, he found that except for the sheets, no trace could be left in all parts of the room, whether they were buckled or scratched, kicked or hit.
"So, apart from the sheets, the only thing I can do here is my own body." Chen Xiao thought.
At this time, Chen Xiao's tongue licked out a grain of rice from the back corner of his teeth......
This grain of rice is very deep, on the side of the base of the tongue, in the gap left by the teeth and gums that cannot be closed, and this position is rarely touched in any way. So, it must have been deliberately put there by himself.
Chen Xiao took the rice grains full of saliva in his hand and looked at them carefully for a while.
"Actually, I've already left a signal for myself, and I don't need to pick my throat to induce vomiting." He thought about it, and then put the grain back where it had just been taken out.
As he thought about it, he began to grope all over his body again.
"It didn't hurt anywhere, and there were no scratches on my body...... Is there anything else I haven't noticed, or that I haven't had anything to tell me before? More likely, he didn't have a chance! β
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, Chen Xiao was startled, and quickly took out the eggs and apples from the dinner plate, and then took two bites of bread.
Immediately afterward, the plate was removed from the other side of the door.
Chen Xiao grabbed the apple, sat on the edge of the bed and took a bite, and began to organize his thoughts.
Judging from the end point of the previous memory, I was brought here after being knocked unconscious by the little old man. According to the signal I left a few days ago, I should have been here for at least 3 days, and what will happen every night at 7 o'clock or after dinner, for the time being, it is assumed that at this time, my memory will be washed away, so what is the way to clear my memory? From food? No way, I should have noticed it a long time ago.
So, there's a good chance I'll be taken out of this cell. Can I do something about it then? Or maybe I've done it, but I haven't left a signal.
So why did this mysterious agency remove my amnestics? As a "guinea pig" who has no freedom at all, there is no need to think about it.
Chen Xiao just thought about it, and didn't feel distressed at all, but was very happy! So he kept a grinning expression all the time.
"I've got to find a way to preserve my memories, and I'm going to have to get in touch with my pre-amnestic self! After that, it is estimated that I will have to find a way to escape, otherwise Bacheng will hang up inexplicably one day, and I don't even know how to hang up" Chen Xiao thought "A person with no memory has to do so many things...... Hey, hey, hey! It's really fun......"
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Chen Xiao slowly opened his eyes, the ceiling was white, and he couldn't see any material.
"Where am I?"
He sat up and found himself in a closed room,
Suddenly, he felt a wave of dizziness in his head.
"Uh, what's the situation!" Chen Xiao shouted softly, so he sat down on the ground.
The dizziness gradually subsided, Chen Xiao rubbed his head, feeling a feeling of emptiness, very uncomfortable!
He slowly opened his eyes, just about to take a look around him!
Suddenly, he licked the inside of his lips. I noticed that there was some redness and swelling, and there was a dull pain.
"Did you accidentally bite it when you were unconscious?" He thought.
At this time, Chen Xiao noticed that there was a shallow blood mark on his forearm, which was scratched with a sharp object.
βD391οΌ What do you mean? He wondered.
Immediately afterward, he noticed the nail of his index finger, which had been bitten into a sharp shape by his teeth.
β...... Did I do it myself? But why am I not impressed at all? β
"Huh? It's ......"
Chen Xiao's tongue seemed to have touched something, just behind the teeth. He licked the thing out.
"...... grains of rice?"
For a while, Chen Xiao's brain automatically connected these seemingly unrelated things together, and many possibilities appeared one after another. And Chen Xiao picked out the most likely answer from these "alternative answers".
He frowned and whispered, "So it seems...... Is my memory tampered with? β
He thought, and quickly rolled over and began rummaging in bed......
Soon, he found three scratches in the corner of the sheet, and a vertical pattern.
Chen Xiao looked at these and grinned "hey, hey, hey".
"If that's the case...... It's really fun!!!! β