Trick 23 "Lost Memory"
There are too many strange and unreasonable things in this world, such as why are our memories blank when we are very young? Why do we find out later that we only remember some things that we remember? Why is something like a bug stuck somewhere at a certain time...
Killing those who know martial arts, drowning those who know water, this famous warning sentence since ancient times, has made many people daunting, and also made many people pay a painful price.
I don't know if you have the experience of dying, helplessness and despair, but the person who can save you is clearly in front of you, but you can't do anything to call for help. I had a time when I was swept away by a torrent for a long distance in full view of everyone, until the neighbor's uncle noticed that it was abnormal and saved my dog's life. When I think about it afterwards, I feel really scared, but when I mention it to my family, the whole family is like memory loss, and no one remembers such a time.
This made me wonder if there was a problem with my memory, but when I went back to my hometown and met my neighbor's uncle, I confirmed that there was indeed such a thing, but it seemed that we had real memories of this incident. Sometimes this world is really strange, sometimes a very strange thing or thing will appear in a certain time and place, and when you think about the reason, you will feel that there is an inexplicable force to stop you, or directly erase your memory.
In the countryside of our hometown, in the summer, the people in the village will go to some ponds and rivers to swim and bathe to relieve the heat, and the adults who have been farming for a day bring soap and towels, and a group of children chirp and follow behind, and go to the river pond to swim in the wilderness. The place we often go to is a broken bridge in Wuhe, as mentioned earlier, Wuhe is a branch of the river on Yimeng Mountain. When I was a child, the water was very clear, and as long as the water was not released upstream, the water of the five rivers was not deep, and I could see small fish, shrimp, and crabs at a glance when I stood in the water up to my knees. I spent most of my childhood here, catching fish and shrimp, catching snakes and screws, and I remember one time I caught seven of them out of a shrimp hole.
Once, on a Saturday afternoon, I took my brother to catch crabs, and we stood in the middle of the river that was not deep, searching for small shrimp and crabs at the bottom of the water. Because I was so focused that I didn't realize that we had gradually walked far away, I got up and looked at my surroundings, and found that I had come to a place that I rarely visited, and the river in front of me was a big turn, and after turning around, I entered a large forest. I turned my head and called my brother to wait for me in the same place as I was going to explore the path alone, and I slowly walked forward with the water dripping. After the bend, the current was a little faster, and I walked forward a little further, and suddenly I found a small beach behind a tall grass near the shore!
There was about the size of a basketball court, and in the light of the setting sun, it felt a bit trance and unreal, which I had only seen on TV at the time. The sand glows with a golden light, and the contrast with the surrounding environment is very strange and obviously out of place. I was a little hesitant to go over, but looking at the sky, I decided to go back first and come back at daylight, so I turned around and left. The next day, when I came with someone to look for the little beach, I couldn't find it, and we walked along the bank for a long time, and there was nothing but weeds and weeds on the bank.
The little beach that appeared and disappeared bothered me for a long time, and then the strange little beach appeared in my dreams a few times, I was standing alone in the middle of the beach, a little dreamy, but the beach disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally it was as if it had never appeared.
It was also in this year that I came up close and personal with the gates of death. It was an uneventful Friday afternoon, and my dad took my brother and me to swim at the broken bridge in the five rivers, and when we arrived with towels and soap, we found that there were already a lot of people. Five or six adults were bathing in the water very close to the shore, and a group of children about my age were jumping down a rock in the middle of the river to play, I didn't know how to swim at the time, but the water was not deep, so I couldn't wait for my dad to get there, so I couldn't wait to join them. We played more and more, jumped higher and higher, and the two friends in front of me jumped "plop~plop~". There was a big splash of water, I stood on the rock, this height, my heart was still a little scared, just when I was stunned, I suddenly found a black shadow floating under the water, and before I could think about it, the partners in the water began to coax me to jump.
In the midst of the noise, I jumped up and threw myself into the water, and suddenly I saw that the black shadow was where I was about to fall into the water. As soon as I entered the water, I felt that something was wrong, the river was waist-deep, but I felt like I couldn't touch the bottom, and I began to pull the water upwards, trying to surface as soon as possible, but the strange thing was that no matter how hard I tried it, it was as if I was standing still. At this time, the speed of the water also increased inexplicably, when I found that I was being pulled and rushed out, I only felt a pain in my thigh, as if I had hit something, I desperately rushed to the water, and my head was finally exposed, and then I found that I had been washed out of the distance of two meters. But the strange thing is that the adults around me and the friends who are playing in the water seem to be unable to see me, and they panicked all of a sudden, and before I started to call for help, my legs seemed to be pulled by something, and I was taken out far back.
I rose and fell in the water, my throat seemed to be stuck in something, I couldn't make a sound, and I had a strong desire to survive and I desperately went upstream, trying to get out of this predicament, but it backfired, and my strength couldn't resist this inexplicable force that wanted me to drown. Seeing that I was being swept out for thirty meters, I was desperate, and as the strength of the resistance became weaker and weaker, my belief in survival became lower and lower. At this fateful moment, my neighbor uncle finally found me, he had just come ashore from the water, he was wiping his body with a towel, and he turned his head to see me who had been washed out of the way by the current, as if he had suddenly seen me. Uncle didn't hesitate, I watched him run two steps along the riverbank, then jumped into the water and swam towards me, and swam in front of me in three or two clicks, and when he grabbed my arm, I felt that the force pulling in the water disappeared inexplicably.
When I was rescued to the shore, I was not relieved for a long time by the fear of the aftermath of the catastrophe, but strangely, except for the uncle who rescued me, no one else seemed to realize that I had just escaped death. My dad was rubbing my brother's body and urging me to get ashore where I had just dived and played, as if everything that had just happened was my own imagination. But the feeling of dying convinced me that it had really happened.
Later, I asked my dad if he had noticed that I had been swept away by the current, and my dad's answer made me a little scary. He said that he had been watching me and the kids were diving on the rocks and had not noticed that I had been washed away, which means that there might have been another "me" playing with everyone during the time I was swept out by the current! The people present, except for the uncle who rescued me, didn't notice that I was drowning at all, and their memories were blank, or it seemed that the setting of the original memory had been forcibly modified by something.
These are two strange things that happened to me, and I never went to Wuhe again, and even if I had to pass by, I would take a detour. The sand that shouldn't have been there and the drowning experience that disappeared into everyone's hearts made me highly wary of this place, and I couldn't be sure what kind of monsters and unknown powers lurked in that place.