Chapter 65: Collective Amnesia
After eating this simple and hearty breakfast, the half-elf boy left the hotel by himself.
In the streets of the town, he habitually put on his hood, and went around again in this not-so-great silence.
To the east of Silent Town was a path leading to the outside world, and of course he remembered that there was a hunter's home, and Loki was impressed by the bold and enthusiastic hunter Rupert Chief.
To the west and north of the town are towering trees, like a massive barrier, as if separating the boundaries between the Forest of Secret Words and Silent Town.
Loki followed some of the townspeople and walked to the south of the town, where there were few trees and a large gentle slope under the mountains.
At this time, the sun is abundant and the land is fertile, and a large gentle slope is planted with a variety of farm crops, and many of the residents are busy here.
A quiet and peaceful town, friendly residents, and no bad practices of discrimination, isn't that the life he has been looking forward to for ten years?
In Fog Castle City, he desperately increased his ability to protect himself, and in the end, although he took revenge on some of them, he almost died.
And he doesn't have too much to worry about, Ned and Hazel have been settled, the strength of the Auyue Circus is unfathomable, he doesn't have to worry about it, Hammer Daddy has his own blacksmith shop, and mining and ironmaking are the happiest lives for the dwarves.
And this stumbled discovery of a half-elf town, Silent Town, may really allow him to stay at ease for a while and recuperate.
Maybe this is the fate that can't be guessed, right?
Loki put down his hood, his whole body bathed in the sun, and his heart suddenly looked forward to his future life.
Although there is no pressure to survive, Loki can't stop, he can't forget the painful memories that some people brought him, and he is sure that sooner or later, he will definitely enjoy the thrill of revenge himself......
Next, you can rest assured that you can devote your time to quantum biocomputers and improving your own strength.
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Walked back to the heart of Silent Town, to the barrel tavern.
Loki pushed open the hinge door, and there was not a single customer empty, the shy waitress cleaning up the tables and chairs, and the barrel owner wiping his glasses on the table.
The barrel owner said, "Hey, boy, the barrel tavern is closed in the morning, so I'll come back at noon for dinner." ”
Loki frowned at him and walked closer and sat down.
The barrel boss pinched his funny beard and said suspiciously: "Boy, I don't seem to have seen you, no, I know every half-elf in the town, but I haven't seen you, who are you?"
Seeing that this old guy didn't seem to be a fake, he felt a little strange in his heart.
Loki said, "I only arrived in Silent Town yesterday, and I took you to your tavern for an afternoon, and you charged me some intermediary fees. ”
"You're not going to want to pay off, are you?"
The barrel boss immediately got angry and said, "Outsider, nonsense, why didn't I hear of you yesterday?" I'm the most well-informed, and you dare to slander me for taking your money, I think you're a liar from outside, right?"
The shy waitress next to her was the boss's daughter Lily, and when she heard the dispute here, Lily put down her work and immediately came over to persuade her father to leave.
"You said you came to the tavern, and you said I took your money. My daughter never lies, you ask her, has she ever seen you?"
Loki was puzzled as he looked at the shy girl.
Lily shook her head strangely, and said with some embarrassment that she hadn't seen him.
Loki wasn't a very egoistic person, but his mind was just as strong, he certainly didn't think he was mistaken, and he also had a memory store that could be retraced at any time, so he couldn't be mistaken.
Norman Barrel is furious and tries to get rid of Loki, but a shy Lily persuades her father to forgive the half-elf boy.
It was strange for a moment, and Loki didn't want to stay here, and after leaving the tavern, he went out into the street again, and began to search for every townsman who knew his name and greeted him yesterday.
The half-elven inhabitants who had been questioned by Loki were almost always enthusiastic but apologetic, and each denied seeing him or knowing him.
Loki was a little dumbfounded for a moment, and his heart was filled with a strange feeling.
He was faintly stunned, and as he walked, he repeatedly checked his memory storage, and his memory would never be wrong.
So what's going on?
But none of the townspeople remembered him, which reminded him of something he had heard in the United States in his previous life.
Some of the residents of Silent Town are still around, eager to help.
Loki immediately came to his senses and hurriedly refused to leave.
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After returning to the town's inn, Loki paid a few coppers and asked the owner of SAINT ANGELO to give him a lunch.
With a tray of food, Loki returned to his room on the third floor, and after making sure that there was no one else around, he carefully locked the door of the room.
Loki sat cross-legged on the floor, food tray aside, and he munched on his food quickly as the quantum biocomputer in his brain raced.
"Ultron, mobilize the information related to amnesia in the memory store, and at the same time call up all the information related to it. ”
"Execution, Master, retrieve all information related to amnesia. ”
"Ultron, cross-exclude miscellaneous information and integrate collective amnesia data. ”
That's right, from the forgetfulness of the boss of SAINT ANGELO in the morning, to the strangeness of the barrel boss and his daughter to him. Loki was skeptical.
This forgetfulness or amnesia is not just an individual phenomenon, but later evidenced by the performance of each small town resident.
On the optic nerve image, the rows flashed quickly all the information of the 'collective amnesia'.
Comparing Loki's speculation about the collective amnesia of all the town's residents, it seems that most of the things are in line with each other.
The first was the material of a TV talk show, which recorded the strange phenomenon that occurred in a small town with a population of several hundred in California in the 50s......
There aren't many people living in this small California town, but more than one person goes missing every year, and the missing person seems to disappear out of thin air.
keeps disappearing, but no one calls the police, because even people who knew him before will selectively ignore his disappearance, and even forget that they know this person.
This small California town is mainly engaged in coal mining.
It wasn't until an outside mine boss discovered that coal mining was declining and came to investigate the disappearance.
This was a household name in the newspapers and television media at the time, and it also became an unsolved mystery for a while.
Rocky discovered this from a 20th-century American psychology talk show, through the narration of psychologists, who introduced the background of the disappearance and introduced one of the important concepts of mental illness.
"Mass amnesia"?
Use this fresh psychological case name to explain why the inhabitants of the time ignored the phenomenon of disappearance, and even forgot the memories associated with the missing person.
'Collective amnesia' and 'common amnesia' are two completely different concepts, and common amnesia is a medical term for a memory disorder, which may be caused by a physical or psychological disease of the organ.
Mass amnesia, on the other hand, is a purely psychological concept, and when all people lose certain memories together, it is impossible for everyone to suffer from the same amnesia.
So why is it a coincidence that the same memory is lost?