Chapter 18: Faceless
"Can't remember?"
"yes, I can't remember. The meaning of being unremembered is the meaning that people can't remember. If you want to be remembered, you have to make yourself very, very ordinary, without amazing behavior, without amazing appearance, not only not amazing, but trying not to make an impression.
Now, you stare at me, I count to three, one, two, three, all right, turn around.
Now, tell me about my physiognomy features. Tell me what I look like. ”
"I didn't see it clearly!"
"Bastard, say as much as you remember!"
"It's a man, you're a man, aren't you?"
“......”
"Hair is neither long nor short, the figure is neither high nor low, the face is not too round or square, eyebrows, eyes, nose ,..."
"Anything else?"
"Clothes... It's ordinary, is it the Taoist uniform of the Tiantai sect, age... Not too old and not too young,..."
"If you were asked to draw it, would you be able to draw my appearance?"
"I didn't learn to paint!"
“... , no wonder the stupid master before you couldn't teach you well, you are really... It's a bit hard to teach. In this way, you close your eyes and carefully recall what I look like and see if you can see clearly. ”
"Okay, I'll try. ”
As he spoke, Wen Tian closed his eyes and calmed down, trying to recall the appearance of Wu Lao.
"The face seemed to be very blurry, as if something was in front of it, and it was getting more and more blurry, and it was completely difficult to see. ”
"Alright, turn around. Making others unable to remember themselves is one of the most basic skills for our disciples to walk in the world. Even if someone has met you, talked to you, and dealt with you, after the incident, they need to forget about you completely. Not only can't I remember what you look like, but I can't remember you as a person. I can't remember this, but there are two key points, one is to make yourself ordinary and featureless. Ordinary, without features, others will not be impressed, and vivid memories will not be formed. ”
"Why is it that your face, when I recall, felt like a veil was covered, and then it became more and more blurry, and then I couldn't see anything at all. ”
"This is a little spell of my own making, called Faceless. ”
"Faceless?!"
"Yes, faceless. It's a very small spell that's always activated automatically because you're used to it. In fact, it is very simple, that is, through spiritual power, the line of sight is refracted in front of you, thus forming an invisible and invisible protective film. So, even if you are face to face with me and you really see my appearance, but in your memory, my appearance is automatically wearing a mask, and besides, my faceless and automatic elimination ability, you will soon not be able to remember until you completely forget it. This brings us to the second thing that I can't remember, which is elimination, or purging. Once you have done something and have been targeted, we can erase the traces of physical evidence through restoration and the like, but it is more difficult for human evidence. Even if you kill the witness, his memory is still there. Moreover, if you kill one more person, you will leave more clues. So, killing is not a better solution. The best thing to do is to erase the other person's memory, or even change his memory. ”
I've only heard of soul searching, memory erasing, and memory erasing, but I've never heard of memory changing. ”
"If you just simply clear your memory, you can still find clues when you meet a real person with a heart, and if you clear other people's memories, you will actually leave clues. Therefore, the real master, after clearing the memory, has to fill in a very reasonable memory for the witness, so that it looks flawless. Otherwise, there is a gap in one's memory, which in itself is a big hole. ”
"I see that it is mentioned in the classics that in the secular world, there are some charlatans who call psychotherapy, they use some hypnosis and psychological suggestion and the like, is it what you said?"
"Almost, those hypnosis in the world are actually the lowest level of soul searching, and what psychological hints are there, that is the most basic brainwashing. Of course, you can also start with these rudimentary things later. Speaking of this, Wu Lao asked casually, "Do you remember coming here?"
"I don't remember it, I don't think I've been here, I don't remember it. ”
"You've been here, through this wood, there is a lake in front of you, and there is a girl named Xiaoqing in the lake, and there is a girl over there. You've seen it all last time you've been here. ”
"Yes, why don't I remember at all?"
"Come and see," he said, no old hand wiped in the void, and a light curtain appeared, and what was staged on the light curtain was the scene of Wen Tian accidentally entering the mysterious medicine garden last time, "See, there is that fire holy fruit, that is Xiaoqing, and that girl is a female baby." ”
"It looks like it's real, but why don't I have any impression at all?" Wen Tian knocked on his head.
No veteran touched it again, and the light curtain disappeared.
"Actually, this is my world. My world and your world are two worlds, and my world will be automatically cleared, including any memories of me in your head. So, now that I'm talking about all this, you need to keep it in mind. I'm going to condense the content of these three months into three snap-and-go clips, and you'll need to go through and review them every day, or you'll soon forget them all. ”
"Ah?!Will it be like this?" Although Wen Tian was already numb from shock, Wu Lao's words still made him feel very stunned. If there is no old man, the amount of information is too large, so he is completely confused, what is your world my world, is there still a world in this world. What is the meaning that the memory will disappear automatically, and what is the condensation of three months into three snaps of time fragments, and I have to review it every day.
"So, it's not easy to be a disciple of this sect! Okay, let's talk about the next point of covering the heavens, that is, you can't find it. In addition to what I said earlier, I can't find it and can't remember it, and the third one is that I can't find it. Even if you reveal your whereabouts and the other party finds you through clues, we will not let him find out. Of course, the easiest thing to do is to run. In addition to running, there is also camouflage, disguise and other identity changes, as well as stealth evasion, etc. You will need to realize this for yourself later. ”
"But why are you chasing us from above? Where you can't see the light?" Wen Tian wanted to ask directly, could it be that this sect is an evil demon and an outer way, so it is not tolerated by heaven and earth, why does the above have nothing to do, and they have to hunt us down.