"When I leave the alley, to be precise, when I can't see the vending machine, the memories disappear. Not only the memories of entering the alley, but all the memories associated with it will disappear, even the memories of the search work I had spent so much energy on before. Du Weiyan put the heather pipe in his hand and played with it, while muttering: "But this kind of memory disappearing will definitely bring a sense of separation, I can feel that I must have forgotten something, if I am given a certain amount of time, I will most likely be able to find what I have been tracking during this time." ”

"But it takes a lot of time and energy, and we need to find a way to circumvent the amnesia trigger, or try to wake ourselves up after the amnesia." Xu Xiaoming pinched his chin, "Do you want to try to write things down in the memo on your phone?" As long as this amnesia can only affect the memory, you can't modify the content of the phone, and then you can also get the answer to the memory fragmentation through the phone memo, so you don't have to spend time and effort investigating. ”

"That's fine, but it's also a problem that I don't read the memos on my phone much."

Xu Xiaoming's eyes flickered, and then his hands slapped suddenly: "In this way, you set an alarm clock on your mobile phone, and then write the notes of the alarm clock as 'There is an abnormality about the vending machine in this alley', so that your mobile phone can automatically remind you of amnesia, without waiting for you to find out." ”

"Good idea." Du Weiyan's eyes lit up, "Set an alarm clock to remind yourself that you haven't come to the vending machine to shop today!" I like it. ”

He immediately took out his phone and set an alarm clock, and wrote alarm notes, on which he would forget about things. After writing briefly, he left the alley again.

Xu Xiaoming waited patiently for half a minute, then saw Du Weiyan come back and made an OK gesture to him.

This proved that their first attempt was successful, which even made Xu Xiaoming smack his lips a little unhappily: "This is abnormal!" ”

"Isn't it because I investigated the amnesia part in advance? Otherwise, I finally ran over and found this vending machine, turned around and went out to get change and forgot everything, wouldn't I be shut up on the spot? Du Weiyan rolled his eyes, this memory loss symptom was simple for them, and that was because they had done rigorous enough preparations, "Quickly edit your alarm clock, let's go out and get the money." ”

"Oooh." Xu Xiaoming nodded, and as he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and set the alarm clock, "'There is an abnormal vending machine hidden in the alley on the right hand side of XX Road, and it needs a one-yuan coin'...... Well, that's it! ”

In today's world where mobile phone payment is extremely common, it is not easy to find a place to change change, Xu Xiaoming and Du Weiyan, who were woken up by the alarm clock when they went out of the alley, looked for a long time before they exchanged ten coins from a convenience store on the side, and no matter how many other clerks did not give it.

"Now these days, there is even a shortage of coins...... Xu Xiaoming looked at the ten coins in his hand with some emotion, and Du Weiyan and the two of them walked quickly to the original alley, "I don't know what these ten coins can buy." ”

"It doesn't matter if you can't buy anything, next time I'll bring a hundred from the bank." Du Weiyan said angrily: "You modern people are really, you don't need good money, you have to use some mobile phone to pay." ”

"Hey?! Isn't it convenient to pay for it on your phone, as if you never used it, London ancients! ”

The two of them casually walked back to the alley, but before they could enter the alley, they saw a tall man come out of it, and he still had this bulging plastic bag in his hand, I couldn't see what it contained, but it was roughly something like snack packaging. The man didn't notice Xu Xiaoming and the others, and walked out of the alley and left in the opposite direction to them, but Du Weiyan, who saw this man, snorted in surprise.

"What's wrong?"

"I know that man." Du Weiyan narrowed his eyes and stared at the man's back, "Do you remember what I said when I first found you?" ”

"Roughly remember, what's wrong?" Xu Xiaoming asked strangely, "Who is he?" ”

Du Weiyan said lightly: "The person I mentioned before, who calls himself Edmond Dantès. ”

"The Count of Monte Cristo?!" Xu Xiaoming looked up at the tall man who had gone away in some surprise, "That means it's an anomalous carrier possessed by a virtual personality, the same existence as you?" He came here by chance and strayed in? Or did you come here knowing that there was an anomaly like we did? ”

"I think it's the latter, but it's not for sure yet." Du Weiyan took out his pipe again and walked quickly to the alley, "I can't catch up, let's confirm what kind of mystery the vending machine is, I have to confirm something." ”

Xu Xiaoming had no choice but to follow him, and the two of them entered the alley one after the other, and then the lost memories returned to the two of them. Neither of them stopped because their memories were revived, but they continued to walk briskly to the vending machine. Xu Xiaoming took out the coin and was about to stretch out his hand to put the coin, when Du Weiyan, who was beside him, spoke again: "Wait a minute." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I have a question, Xu Huasheng." Du Weiyan took a puff of the pipe that was automatically lit in his hand, and even looked at the vending machine with a sharp eye, and then pointed to the plug behind it: "Was it originally plugged in?" ”

"Huh?" Xu Xiaoming was stunned, and subconsciously looked in the direction that Du Weiyan pointed, only to see that the plug even behind the vending machine was not plugged into the socket that was close at hand - although it is very inexplicable that there is a socket in this kind of alley, but this also means that the vending machine at this time is actually not plugged in, "Eh, but why ......"

But it's still on, it's working.

"I'm sure the plug was plugged in before, that is, the Count of Monte Cristo came in and pulled it out." Du Weiyan frowned, "It's not a problem for the vending machine to operate without being plugged in, if it is an anomaly, then there is something strange, and it is normal to play cards not logically...... But why did the man pull the plug out? What is the difference between plugging in and not plugging? Xu Xiaoming, plug it in. ”

"Understood!" Xu Xiaoming plugged in the plug in a hurry, he was actually very unwilling to use his brain, for him, being Watson paddling on the side was much more comfortable than being Sherlock Holmes, "It's going to be an experiment to control variables, right?" ”

"Well, let's see what the hell that Count of Monte Cristo is up to!"

Du Weiyan smiled.