Endless Debt.

"Church, as a child of the Bolton family, this is your responsibility."

The woman's voice rang in his ears, familiar yet unfamiliar.

"Sorry, Church, I'm sorry."

The woman's voice sounded again, she was very sorry, with deep sadness in her voice.

Church walked in the dark corridor, and with the activation of the secret energy, those long and strange memories, like the dust raised by the water hitting the river bed, rolled and flashed across Church's mind.

Over the years, Church has long been used to these treacherous hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, and he also knows who the owner of the voice is.

That should be his mother's voice.

Unfortunately, Church doesn't have many memories of his mother, even very strange. The only connection between the two, apart from the occasional auditory hallucinations, is the social relationship of "mother and child" that is deeply embedded in his memory.

At first Church had a hard time accepting this kind of thing. He woke up with a blank mind, and then a man said it was his father, and then picked up a photo of a woman and said it was his mother.

That feeling is very subtle. Apart from his own name, Church does not remember his childhood, nor does he have any family memories. He feels like an abrupt character cut in from a movie.

I was at a loss and didn't have the slightest emotion... Because I didn't have the slightest memory, I naturally couldn't feel the slightest ups and downs about all this.

Church remembered the man's face, and he tried his best to pretend to be friendly, after all, he was his son, but in his eyes, Church could see a trace of indifference and pain.

At that time, Church didn't understand why. After many years and many events, at a certain moment, Church suddenly understood the man's expression.

Church remembered that moment.

At that time, I had just experienced a deep dive, and the outside world's perception of me was distorted, and this distortion even spread to Church himself.

I stood in front of the hospital bed and looked at the guy named Palmer Clarks.

Church knew from the diary that this unlucky ghost was his partner. Palmer looked at him with a slightly strange expression, but after a while, Palmer actually remembered his identity, but unfortunately, he But because of the deep dive, he forgot about Palmer.

Facing this sincere and enthusiastic guy, Church couldn't bring up the slightest emotion. After the deep dive, Palmer was just a stranger to himself at that time.

That's right, stranger.

Church felt an inexplicable pain, and at that moment, he understood why the man who claimed to be his father looked at him with such complicated eyes.

Palmer's enthusiasm for himself and the pages of dark words in the diary all represent the close relationship between the two.

But he didn't remember all of this, and it was even difficult to have emotional fluctuations about it. Church felt great fear and sadness for this. Such a cold and numb self made him feel unspeakable pain.

Just like my father treats my emotions, I treat my mother's emotions.

Indifference and pain.

This is the curse of the Boltons.

Now, Church can't remember his mother's appearance, name, and everything related to her.

The man who claimed to be the father left a box of notes, which is said to have been left by the mother before she was completely stripped. From these notes, the mother's life can be reviewed, but Church never opened the box.

Why open this box?Want to get to know a stranger?This may just add to the sadness.

So what if you know?Perhaps some day in the future, this will be forgotten again.

According to the concept of emotion under universal values, Church should shed tears for the existence of his mother, but most of the time, his heart is not disturbed. Resentment towards oneself.

Church often resents himself, that is his mother, but he can't feel any emotion towards her, just like facing a stranger.

It's like resenting the present... I can't remember the past when I fought with Palmer, and Church can't respond to others' emotions in response to him.

This kind of self reminds Church of the people in the Zongge Orchestra, those people who have been blessed and then emotionally numb, they are so similar to themselves, but the difference is that they can attribute their mistakes to the protection, while Church At a loss, in a daze.

"This is the fate of the Bolton family."

At times like this, Church would mutter this sentence to comfort himself.

Church can only do this, just like all members of the Bolton family, Church will eventually become a person without a past, and the future will become confusing. All he can grasp is the present.

"It's okay...it's okay."

Church moved forward mechanically, murmuring repeatedly, like a wizard telling a mysterious spell.

Church had already made a decision a long time ago, and there was nothing to complain or regret.

Like his mother, Church just walked the same path as his mother... as did everyone in the Bolton family.

Become a walker.

The secret energy-walking in the narrow space completely enveloped Church, and the cornerstone of his entire existence was pried away little by little, and he was even stripped from this world.

No one could perceive Church's existence anymore. He turned into a real ghost, strode forward, easily crossed layers of defense lines, and fled towards the outside of the Fog Abyss Fortress.

Similarly, as the existence was stripped away, the memory in Church's mind also collapsed.

The Secret Power Walking in the Narrows is a very unique secret power. It originated from the Bolton family's ancient research on the debtor's gift. This secret power has multiple effects.

When the secret energy is maintained in the first stage of "stealth", it only consumes ether and reduces its sense of existence, but when the secret energy is in the second stage of "deep stealth", the strangeness of this power is revealed.

Walking in the narrow space will present a rough antimemetic effect. The more people who know Church's real information, the more they will forget his existence, and even cause outside observers to have a cognitive distortion of Church.

For example, mistaking Church for other things, all the effects on him are explained by another strange logical chain. For example, if Church kicks over a bottle, the observer will only think that the wind blows it down.

With such a secret ability, Church had to completely hide himself to prevent his friends from forgetting his existence, and this also prevented him from showing his true face to others.

The third stage of Narrow Walking is called "Complete Stripping". This is the strengthening power of deep stealth. It can completely strip Church's own existence from the world. This is not only a distortion of cognition, but also makes Church physically Forms reach another dimension and act in the physical world as projections.

The dimension that the narrow walkers arrived at after being completely stripped is in the gap between an unknown world and the material world. Now that unknown world is called by the palace of scholars... the etheric world.

Acting in a completely stripped way, Church can avoid all attacks and influences in the material world. Similarly, his existence will quickly thin out, and his own memory will be swallowed due to the complete stripping.

In order to resist this kind of memory loss, Church recorded many diaries for later memories, but the emotions and emotions during the experience cannot be made up by words.

Church also regularly reads a large number of books and uses these memories to fill his mind, so as to increase the amount of his own memory in the memory loss caused by complete stripping.

The longer he was in a state of complete separation, the more things Church forgot, until, like his own mother, he completely lost himself and lost himself in the narrow world.

Morrison's lock-chasing sword is still hunting Church, and Church only escaped temporarily by completely peeling off. He must escape to a safe place as soon as possible, before he loses all his memories and completely forgets his responsibilities. , to end it all.

When Church rushed out of the Fog Abyss Fortress and jumped into the air corridor of the sea of ​​fog, Church released the complete stripping, and his mind was muddled for a while. It seemed that he had forgotten many things, but the worst thing was that people often couldn't remember them. What exactly did I forget.

Fortunately, there are some things that will never be forgotten.

Church raised the flare gun, pulled the trigger, and a bright green light continued to rise, indicating to everyone that he was safe and evacuated from the battlefield.

"Then...then what should I do?"

Various words lingered in Church's mind, and the severe headache made his life worse than death.

The broken chains condensed again. In the Fog Abyss Fortress, Morrison looked suspiciously at the chains extending from the secret sword, and the dusty memory was pried again.

Church was seriously injured, coupled with the impact of the complete stripping, a storm of fragments rolled up in his mind, and when his consciousness was lost, another thought suddenly rose from his mind.

A selfish and strange thought.

It may have been repeated too many times. This matter has been engraved into Church's instinct. When his consciousness was clouded and his memory was shattered, he instinctively did it.

Thinking like this, Church entered stealth again, and the solid chain became illusory. His figure crossed the corridor and rushed towards the big rift.

I’ve been running around the city for the past few days, and I’m so tired that I finally settled down today, so I can code with peace of mind.