This result was completely unexpected.

At the beginning, he and the crow teamed up to completely eliminate Xia Wenyuan's shadow, and if he forcibly eliminated it, it was likely that Xia Wenyuan's main consciousness would also be harmed. And the intrusive consciousness in Yao's mother's mind is obviously more mature than the shadow, but a cat jumps out and meows twice, and the guy who can't get rid escapes?

"Auntie, can you be specific? Have you seen that cat before? Aoki asked.

"Of course I have seen it, it is a domestic cat raised in my own house, how could I not have seen it!" Yao's mother said.

Yao Jingjing said curiously: "Mom, when did our family have a cat, why don't I know?" ”

Yao's father said, "Yes, we haven't had a cat!" ”

Yao's mother said: "It was raised by my grandmother, of course you don't know." I was young at the time, where did you come from! When I was a child, the cat was very friendly with me, rubbing around me all day long, and even sitting with me when eating. ”

Yao Jingjing chuckled: "It turns out that my mother was still a shovel officer when she was a child!" ”

Yao's mother didn't understand, and scolded: "What kind of tragic death is not a tragic death, you curse me!" ”

Yao Jingjing hurriedly explained: "I'm talking about the shovel officer, which means raising cats, how can I curse you!" ”

Yao's mother said, "Young people try to make words that we don't understand. ”

They were there to explain the problem of the shoveler, and Aoki was lost in thought. Yao's mother raised a cat when she was a child, not to mention forty or fifty years. The average lifespan of a cat is only a dozen years, and the longest-lived cat in the current Guinness Book of World Records is only in his thirties. So the cat that Yao's mother dreamed of should have died a long time ago. Then there are only two possibilities, one is that the cat she dreamed of was copied in the dream space by her subconscious according to her memory; Another possibility is that the cat's consciousness did not dissipate after death, but entered Yao's mother's brain through some special method, and has been lurking in it.

Aoki ruled out the first possibility first, that if it was only a replica of self-consciousness constructed in the dream realm, it would be impossible to drive the intruder away. But if it's the second possibility, it's bizarre.

With the exception of hidden genetic memories, the memories of living organisms are all stored in the brain. The brain is like a huge hard drive, using the nervous system to control the storage and retrieval of information. Generally speaking, consciousness itself does not have a memory function, and it must use substances with a function similar to the brain to store information.

Leaving aside the metaphysical question of whether consciousness can exist alone after it is separated from matter and how it can enter the body of another living being, theoretically speaking, once consciousness leaves the body, or the brain of the body dies, the consciousness body will lose the authority or ability to retrieve memories, and its memories of the past will cease to exist. It is impossible for it to remember who it once was, who its friends were, and who its enemies were.

If the cat retains consciousness after death and enters Yao's mother's consciousness zone through some special method, then in fact, it has become an alien parasitic consciousness like the invading consciousness.

The so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and it is impossible for two consciousness bodies to live together in one consciousness zone, just like the awakened have to be careful when entering other people's dreams, using powerful spiritual power to disguise their existence or control each other's consciousness. Therefore, the intrusive consciousness in Xia Wenyuan's body will become his shadow to grow in such a hidden way, and because he has stolen all his memories, he will become exactly the same as the main consciousness after he grows up.

So how did that cat live with Yao's mother for so many years without violating each other?

"Auntie, have you ever dreamed of that cat before?" Aoki asked.

"Nope." Yao's mother said with great certainty.

"Never?"

"Hey—it seems," Yao's mother was also a little puzzled, "it doesn't seem to be really." Ever since the cat died, I've never dreamed of it, even if I dreamed all day a while ago, I've dreamed of trivial things since I was a child, but I haven't dreamed of this cat. ”

"That cat is actually dead, isn't it?"

Yao's mother said: "It's dead, it's long gone, and I'm going with my grandmother." When I was in high school, my dad came to school out of the blue and called me back, saying that my grandma was dying. When I went back to Jiajia Village, my grandmother was lying on the bed, and the cat was holding her in her arms. When she saw me coming back, she asked me to sit next to her. Then I fell asleep and seemed to have a dream. By the time I woke up, my grandmother and cat were gone. ”

Aoki knew that there must be an encrypted protected area in the memory area of Yao's mother's cerebral cortex, and it had something to do with the cat. There must be something in that sanctuary that the invading consciousness wants.

He decided to hypnotize Yao's mother and enter her dream to take a look. Although it may not be what he thinks, if he can unlock the secret of invading consciousness, it will be a matter, after all, he received so much money from Xia Wenyuan, but he did not completely solve the shadow. And he was also very curious about the origin of that shadow, and even vaguely felt that it had something to do with him.

However, with the presence of the cat, Aoki couldn't be sure how long it would take to enter Yao's mother's dream, and what would happen.

Although there is no time correspondence between dreams and reality, it can even be said that there is no time in dreams, because time is just a concept artificially created for the purpose of understanding the world. There is no time in the dream space itself, and the subconscious mind does not need to rely on the logic of reality to retrieve memories and construct dreams. In other words, in dreams, time has become a visible dimension, so that things at different times, the subconscious can call them up and reconstruct them at the same time. When we recall a dream, we think that the dream is very long, but it is only a moment.

In order to prevent too long a time searching for Yao's mother's memory block, or any accidents because of the cat, Aoki decided to separate Yao Jingjing and Yao's father.

"Jingjing, I'm hungry." Aoki said.

"Huh?" Yao Jingjing's body trembled. This log used to either politely call her "Stewardess Yao" or shout "hey" politely, but at this time, a sudden "Jingjing" caught her off guard. Yao Jingjing suddenly had goosebumps, but her face turned red unconsciously.

Aoki didn't feel Yao Jingjing's strangeness at all, how did he come here, he used to be called Bishenghua, he was also called Ruhua for a while, and the boss lady for a while; Call Hu Xing to call his name for a while, and call Officer Hu for a while. At this time, I heard Yao's mother keep calling "Jingjing, Jingjing", so he called it so casually.

Bishenghua said that he was from an alien, and his brain looked different from that of an earthling, and there may be several things with an IQ of only 50 living in it, and he was extremely smart when he was fit, and he was mentally handicapped when he didn't fit.