Chapter 12: The Battle for Memories II

“D391...... D391......”

Chen Xiao sat on the edge of the bed and thought, "I must have experienced something, and I experience it every day. But I forgot! ”

He glanced at the corner of the sheet, where there were four marks cut by his fingernails.

It's been at least four days here, and Chen Xiao's understanding of his current situation still hasn't made any progress.

There may have been progress, but it is not in my memory.

He chewed on the bread in his mouth, which was left over from his breakfast, and it was fluffy and tasted great.

He mixed the bread and saliva well and pressed it in his mouth with his tongue to turn it into a sticky, disgusting dough.

After that, Chen Xiao put his hand into his mouth, pulled a small piece, and rubbed it with his fingers.

At the same time, he was still counting the time in his heart second by second.

It has been five hours since I woke up, and during this time, I had breakfast once, and about half an hour ago, I had another lunch. All the utensils and food are clean and nutritious, and it is clear that the incarceration here is good, or rather, the people here do not want the "guinea pigs" to be unhealthy.

When he had just finished lunch, Chen Xiao wanted to try not to return the spoon. But then, he saw a bruise on his wrist, reminiscent of the "knock knock" made by someone outside knocking on the door with a hard object in the morning, Chen Xiao knew that he must have done this before, and he had paid the price for it.

He pondered, swallowing the rest of the bread into his stomach. He picked up another apple and began to eat it.

"But why do I have to erase my memory once a day? This kind of operation full of black technology can't be said to come in waves, right?

That said, my memory has to be cleared every day for some reason.

"So, what the hell have I been through?" Chen Xiao shouted in his heart.

He looked at the "D391" on his forearm again.

This indeterminate combination of letters and numbers had been on the forearm for at least three or four days, and it had been scratched over and over again, so much so that the area around the skin had begun to redden.

"Is this a password? Or is it the room number? It is impossible to speculate yet. ”

Chen Xiao stretched out his left hand again, and in the gap between his fingernails, there was a small handful of black things. He had taken a closer look in the morning and found that it was not dirt, but dust, something left behind after burning, and he had been in his nails for a long time, and he had been wet with sweat stains from his pores!

"I must have come across something burned out after I went out......

At this time, Chen Xiao had finished eating the apple, he got up, put the apple core upright, and placed it in the corner, although he didn't know why, but when he woke up, he saw that there were already four apple cores placed side by side, so he simply put it up.

Now, Chen Xiao sorted out the information he saw after waking up.

1. Every day after dinner, I will be taken out of this cell, and then I will experience some things, after which I will fall asleep, and then I will be carried back here...... When I woke up the next morning, it was the next morning, and the memory had been erased, stuck in the time of that night in the orphanage.

2. There is "D391" engraved on his left forearm, and I don't know what it means, but I can infer that I was sitting in this code, and my hands and feet were not tied at the time, otherwise I would definitely have deliberately left strangulation marks, but there must be someone watching me next to me, maybe a guard, but it is more likely to be a camera, and there should be a table in front of me, because in this way I can quietly engrave the handwriting under the table.

3. There is burning dust in my fingernails, and there are traces of bites on the inside of my lips.

It seems that in the time between waking up and being taken out, he has nothing to do other than think and speculate on the information he left before he is in bed. And after I leave the door of this cell, it is a very critical period, and I must try to find a way to collect information and leave it to myself who has lost all my memories the next day......

Chen Xiao suddenly felt a little bored, because thinking about this information that he had thought about many times in the past few days made his brain seem to have a wonderful reaction similar to muscle memory.

For example, when he woke up, although he couldn't remember anything, he naturally felt that I had amnesia. Or when he finishes eating bread, he doesn't have to think too much about it, he knows to pull out a piece and set it aside for a while.

And this situation is getting more and more serious, so that after Chen Xiao found out that he had amnesia, he didn't have any excited feelings, but felt bored.

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If there is a book, it is long, and if there is no book, it is short.

Soon, it was time for dinner, and although Chen Xiao didn't have a clock, he could probably guess the time from his hunger level alone. The most important thing is that he has nothing to do and keeps counting the seconds.

Sure enough, footsteps came from outside the door, and then a dinner was handed in through the window.

Chen Xiao didn't pretend to have a stomachache or anything like that, because he knew that it would definitely be useless, and maybe it would be counterproductive.

Bacon, potatoes, boiled vegetables, just like Chen Xiao thought, this dinner is very good, and he eats it very carefully, waiting for the most critical moment of the day.

About 20 minutes later, there were footsteps outside the door, and he knew that someone had come to take him out, because usually it was one person who delivered the food, but now the footsteps were two people.

Chen Xiao unhurriedly used his fingernails to make a horizontal line on the four marks on the corners of the sheets......

"If you open your eyes again, it's been 5 days." He muttered quietly.

"Ding Ding Ding ......" a few sounds of electronic locks pressing the code, followed by a long "drop-" sound, which should be made by the door card being crossed.

Immediately after, the door opened, and two guards in black blast suits entered, just like the guards who stood outside the orphanage that day, and both wearing helmets.

"Hey, get up!" One of the guards shook the baton in his hand and said to Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao pretended to be very dazed and excited, and asked, "Where is this?" Who are you? ”

He knew that it would be useless and he would not get any information, but he still worked hard to act, because if he didn't behave like this, he might be found to be abnormal.

Sure enough, Chen Xiao could feel his impatient expression through the guard's big helmet.

"Come out obediently, from now on if you say a word, I will knock out one of your teeth, do you understand?"

The guard said, shaking his baton.

"It's so concise and to the point, and it's hard to refuse!" Chen Xiao spoke highly of this big brother's approach. And closed his mouth very cooperatively.

He looked very frightened, obediently got up, and walked out of the door step by step, leaning against the wall, and in the process, he still looked at the two guards with a frightened expression

"Hurry up boy, don't grind!" The guard shook his baton again.

Chen Xiao immediately quickened his pace and walked out of the door, and just as he passed the door, he glued the bread crumbs he had made with saliva to the inside of the door frame.

Because the door frame is against the wall, this position is difficult to spot unless you deliberately touch it with your hands.

And he also deduced from this small mark that he would be taken out of the room every day.

So at this moment, Chen Xiao walked out of his small cell

Outside, there was a wide corridor, all made of the same material as in the cell, and there were no windows or lights.

On both sides of the hallway, there are many identical doors, with a combination lock next to the door, and on each lock there is a display showing a photograph of a person's face.

"Hmm...... It seems that there are quite a few guinea pigs. Chen Xiao thought in his heart.

At this time, a guard behind him pushed him and signaled him to hurry up, and Chen Xiao had to speed up his deliberately slowed pace.

The corridors here are all the same, a wall of white flowers, and there is nothing decorated except for the doors, if it is an ordinary person wandering here, as long as it turns two corners, it is basically possible to get lost.

Fortunately, there is a sign on each corner, but it has an unknown number written on it, such as Chen Xiao has turned two corners, marked D-772 and F-1004 respectively.

Although I don't know the meaning of these numbers, as long as I think about it, I can contact the "D391" on Chen Xiao's forearm!

So, do these numbers represent rooms? But why is it that each number is preceded by a letter, and there is no order at all? He was thinking about it when suddenly, a sound similar to that of spraying insecticide came from ahead.

Chen Xiao turned another corner under the push of the two guards, and then he saw that the wall in front of him was different from the previous one, it was black, as if it had been burned by something.

"Ash!" Almost without thinking about it, Chen Xiao knew that the ash in his fingernails was deducted from here.

At this time, a man dressed in a blue, cleaner-like costume was holding a bottle of sprayer and spraying wildly at the blackened wall, and it was obvious that he was impatient.

The three of them walked in that direction.

"Hey, bro, aren't you done yet?" Guard A says hello to the cleaner.

The cleaner put on a dying expression: "Don't talk about it, you know the fire on D-416, how can it be so easy to clean up!" ”

Guard A smiled and gloated, "I know what's going on......"

He stopped and didn't continue, obviously trying to sell off.

But no one made a sound, and the scene was a little awkward.

"Okay." Disappointed, he continued, "Because D-416 was playing rock music that day!" Haha, who doesn't know that little guy only loves to listen to nursery rhymes! ”

"What? Who did this? Who was the guy on duty that day? When the cleaner heard this, he was very excited.

"I'm going to check the duty schedule! I'm going to talk to him! He roared, squeezing his fingers with a rattle.

At this point, another guard, B, spoke: "Alright, we have to go!" ”

"Oh...... Well, happy talking! Guard A waved at the cleaner, then gave Chen Xiao a push and walked forward.

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After a while.

Guard B turned around and made sure the cleaner wouldn't hear him, and then nagged. "You're always such a big mouth!"

"I know, but I can't help it. Hahaha. It's okay! Guard A waved his hand, indicating that it was no big deal.

Guard B shrugged helplessly and turned another corner.

Chen Xiao clearly saw that the sign on the wall read "D-391"

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