Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 162 The Memory of the World

He shuttled through the endless broken pictures, only feeling that he was always going up.

The horizon made up of fragments gradually bends into a circular arc, and the horizon of desire keeps expanding.

He was farther and farther away from the arc formed by the horizon, and that arc became more and more complete in front of him.

Until the curved surface formed a complete circle, the entire planet composed of fragments clearly appeared in front of him.

Above the sky, the imaginary endlessly bright galaxy did not appear.

Above the sky, isn't it the universe?

Chen Yan realized that the worldview he had shaped could no longer be used to explain the phenomenon in front of him.

Wish did not give him time to think.

As his field of vision continued to expand, he heard a noisy conversation, which came from nowhere and filled all the space around him.

Chen Yan thought, maybe that is not the sound that is being made now, but the echo of things that once existed in the universe.

The wish words proved his conjecture.

'Those voices, [proof] that something once existed in the universe.

Those voices and those picture fragments together constitute the 【Memory of the World】.

These ubiquitous scraps of paper are [memory fragments of the world]. '

More fragments and sounds appeared around, and these things filled all the space within sight without order, and flowed slowly in one direction at a uniform speed.

Chen Yan suddenly thought, as if time was moving forward——

This long river composed of world memory fragments can be measured by time.

When the vision stopped, as the vast and endless river of fragments appeared in Chen Yan's vision, the voice of wish also appeared again.

'The world recorded everything in the past endless time...all these constitute the world that existed in endless time. '

There was doubt in the voice of wish.

'But what's the point? '

'What's the point of witnessing what's going on in the universe? '

'What's the point of helping the universe remember things that once existed, record what happened? '

'I don't know……'

'do you understand? '

Chen Yan didn't understand at all, he didn't even know the meaning of the question itself.

She suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

'Have you... ever existed? '

Of course I existed!Otherwise, how could it grow so big!
When Chen Yan thought of this, his thoughts suddenly stopped.

Ok?
Where did I... come from?

I... where am I going?
I... what am I going to do now?
When these thoughts appeared in Chen Yan's consciousness, a mysterious force appeared from the mirror of his incomplete soul, and tried to stop him from continuing to think.

'Ah... this is...'

There was a sneer in Wish's immature voice.

'This is not your dreamland... now it's on my land! '

'Chen Yan, now, let us take a look together, what's wrong with you. '

Wishes have come to my dreams!Even knows my name!
Is she...

The sharp pain in his head interrupted his thoughts.

The severe pain caused the brain to go into shock instantly. What Chen Yan couldn't see was that some fragmented memory images were pulled out of his soul——

That is the [proof] that he once existed in this world, and it is the reappearance of the scene hidden in the memory deep in his soul.

The memory represented by those pictures is already incomplete, and in some pictures there is even only a fleeting fragment and staccatos that are barely pieced together—those staccatos are so short that they cannot form a complete phrase.

Wish was surprised to find that if the memory is an onion, Chen Yan's memory is like a few pieces of incomplete onion skin after being cut off and throwing away a large part at random.

'Is it so miserable...'

Wish didn't realize that his tone was very similar to Chen Yan's.

'How can it be so miserable...the fallen spirits who have been tortured are nothing more than that. '

'Keep me well, is there more...'

After the sound fell, Chen Yan's "body" materialized in the river formed by the fragments of the world.

Then, his body "disintegrated".

All kinds of paper-like fragments were continuously separated from his whole body. Once those fragments were separated from the body, they became "fresh" - pictures in constant movement appeared on the fragments, which was something that Chen Yan had experienced before. .

When Chen Yan first came to the empire, when he was learning the imperial language in the city center, he got stuck in the babbling words until he blushed and had a thick neck.

There is a picture of jumping up excitedly when receiving the employment letter from Byron Weiss Zoo.

There was footage of him watching Green confront Claude Moon at Green's clinic on High Street.

……

'what?Why are they all memories after coming to the empire? '

'What about the memory before coming to the empire? '

Wishing to carefully look at the fragments of the picture broken out of Chen Yan's body one by one, carefully observe everything in the picture, but she still can't get the information she wants.

After a while, Chen Yan's body was almost disappearing, and the wish finally captured a palm-sized shredded piece of paper exuding a distinctive aura.

A fire burns on scraps of paper.

She stood barefoot in the endless river of debris, silent for a moment, and stretched out her hand.

The moment her finger touched the shredded paper, her body disappeared in place.

The light in front of her eyes dimmed and brightened suddenly, and she had already appeared in the world recorded in the scraps of paper.

A river appeared in front of her...or maybe a lake. Since there were flames all around, she couldn't see the reason further away, so she couldn't tell what it was.

She was standing on the water, with a small boat beside her. There seemed to be two figures on the small boat. She couldn't see them clearly, because the flames burning in front of her separated her from the two people.

There were intermittent conversations in her ears.

"Mom, when are we going home? It's already half the morning, I'm so hungry..."

It seemed to be the voice of a little boy.

'Listen to this voice... Chen Yan was quite cute when he was a child... After all, there is no animal in the world that is not cute when it is a cub. '

'This should be the fragments of the world from his childhood. Let me just say, how can there be no trace of a person's past. '

'The world has faithfully recorded everything! '

While thinking proudly in her heart, she listened carefully to the conversation on the boat.

"The boat will always land, and your sister is already waiting, Yan, we finished picking lotus root, and I will make glutinous rice lotus root for you when we go back today~"

It was a kindly female voice.

Probably Chen Yan's mother.

She felt a little sour because she didn't know where her mother was.

Even if there was, it must have abandoned her once - she didn't like mothers who abandoned their children, and she thought angrily that even if she saw her mother in the future, she would never recognize her again.

(End of this chapter)