Day of Imprisonment

Luo Xi could basically confirm that he was dreaming.

Moreover, it should be a nightmare.

This was the unique effect of that numbered card.

The holder would enter a dream state while sleeping, and it would definitely be a nightmare.

Nightmares, also known as incubus or terror dreams, are a type of dream experience characterized by horror, which can manifest as fear or anxiety.

It is a sleep disorder, often accompanied by mental trauma.

However, Luo Xi was sure that, at least for himself, this was not a nightmare, and it would not cause any mental damage to him.

If there was any damage, it would be to the 'Luo Xi' outside the mirror.

Luo Xi looked over.

The Luo Xi outside the mirror clearly noticed the strange changes in the mirror and began to become more fearful and anxious.

He was so scared that he stood up from the chair, accidentally knocking the wooden chair to the ground.

"Who are you?"

This Luo Xi questioned.

It was just a little lacking in confidence.

"Us?" The bespectacled Luo Xi was never one to mince words, and sneered at this moment: "We are you, you are Luo Xi, and so are we, we are one and the same, you have encountered trouble and difficulties, tell us, maybe I can help you solve it, but, it will require you to pay a little price."

Luo Xi remembered that the other party seemed to have said this to him at some point.

"Really? Can you help me?" The 'Luo Xi' outside the mirror clearly had a tendency to clutch at straws.

"Of course, so tell me, I'll help you analyze it." The bespectacled Luo Xi further coaxed.

"Wei Si betrayed us, it killed all of us, tell me, what should we do, what should we do..." The Luo Xi outside the mirror asked with wide eyes.

Suddenly, with a crack, a crack appeared in the mirror.

Under the huge sound, the Luo Xi outside the mirror was frightened and fled in panic, and as he moved away, Luo Xi found that himself in the mirror, including the other personalities, were also rapidly moving away from the mirror, as if they had suddenly boarded a conveyor belt.

The conveyor belt headed towards the darkness.

In the darkness, as the cracks on the distant mirror that could no longer be seen increased, the huge sound also intensified, and finally, after a sound as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting, Luo Xi felt his body sink down, and when he opened his eyes again, he was already in his bedroom.

It was still that home, still that bed, looking at the time, it was July 29th, Monday, 6:09 in the morning.

Luo Xi checked the card ring on his hand, and unsurprisingly, the phone rang.

Moreover, there was more than one.

Wu Rui, Brother Mao, Guo Zening, and this time there were also Qian Pangzi and Ke Lan.

While answering the phone, Luo Xi looked out the window, the city in the early morning, seemed to be awakening, at this moment, perhaps there were also many other Memory Retrievers waking up, and there were also many people who had lost their memories in the previous cycle day, becoming amnesiacs.

After agreeing on a time and place to meet, Luo Xi hung up the phone.

What surprised Luo Xi was that the sound of knocking on the door rang at this moment.

Someone's home?

Luo Xi immediately walked over, and took a pen from the table.

Although Luo Xi didn't like Wu Rui's way of killing people, he had to admit that it was still very practical at critical moments.

Opening the door, standing outside was a beautiful woman, wearing an apron, who greeted Luo Xi naturally after seeing him.

"It's you!" Luo Xi was slightly surprised, this woman was Xu Lin, who was pretending to be his mother according to the plan he had made in the past.

A rather mysterious woman.

Her ability was to pretend to be another person, and it was impossible to see any flaws at all.

On the cycle day before last, Luo Xi had asked her to pretend to be a member of the Eternal Assembly to infiltrate them, but he hadn't contacted her since then, and he didn't expect that after a cycle day, Xu Lin would actually come back on her own initiative.

This woman seemed to only listen to the instructions arranged by 'the former self'.

So in reality, Luo Xi didn't trust her 100%.

"Luo Xi, I cooked noodles for you, and there's a fried egg, with chopped green onions." Xu Lin pointed to the dining table over there, where a bowl of steaming hot soup noodles was indeed placed.

Luo Xi smelled the aroma, and looking at the appearance of this bowl of noodles, it did indeed suit his taste.

This scent made Luo Xi recall some extremely distant memories.

In his memory, there was also a bowl of hot soup noodles with a fried egg, and his mother's nagging...

But these memories were like broken glass, not only were they messy, but every time he touched them, he would 'hurt' himself.

Luo Xi felt a stabbing pain in his head, he couldn't help but reach out and cover his temples, his fingers could feel the blood vessels under his temples throbbing.

"Luo Xi... Luo Xi..."

Xu Lin's shouts pulled Luo Xi back from a strange state.

Luo Xi looked over, with a hint of ferocity in his eyes.

"He sent you here?" Luo Xi asked.

Xu Lin nodded.

"The noodles, he asked you to make them too?"

"Yes, although I don't know what the meaning of doing this is..." Xu Lin's eyes showed a hint of curiosity.

"So you are indeed just a pawn of his." Luo Xi had returned to normal at this time: "Then what else did he ask you to do?"

Xu Lin shook her head: "Nothing, he just said that if you become a Memory Retriever, then after one cycle day, come here to make a bowl of noodles for you, how to cut the vegetables, how much water to add, how much seasoning, even the number of chopped green onions are fixed."

"These, you can say?"

"Yes, these are not confidential, in fact I also want to know what the purpose of doing this is." It could be seen that Xu Lin was really curious, why the former Luo Xi would specifically teach her how to make noodles, and just to run over to make a bowl of noodles at this time.

Anyway, this matter seemed very inexplicable to her.

However, no matter what kind of request it was, she would complete it without any discount.

Luo Xi looked at Xu Lin and said, "He chose the right person!"

"What?" Xu Lin was stunned.

Luo Xi shook his head, obviously not intending to explain, but went to get a pair of chopsticks and sat next to the dining table, and started eating the noodles.

All of a sudden, there was only the sound of Luo Xi eating in the house, very soft, even when slurping the noodles.

Xu Lin then said: "The Eternal Assembly knows you're back, and they've already started planning something against you, but I haven't found any valuable information, you have to be careful yourself, they may attack you at any time."

"I know that." Luo Xi naturally still remembered Han Lingling in the Piggy Bookstore on the previous cycle day, the other party had been hiding very deeply from beginning to end, but he had still seen through the flaws and used An Zhiyan and Aunt Qin to destroy the other party.

At that time, Luo Xi knew that Han Lingling might be a member of the Eternal Assembly.

Because, she was crazy enough.

"In addition, the people from the Eternal Assembly are also attacking the instance scene, recently, on the cycle day, they gathered their strength to attack 'Piggy Psychiatric Hospital', I heard that at least three numbered-level cards can be obtained there."

"These, he told you to say them too?" Luo Xi asked while eating the noodles.

"You told me to say them, you asked me to infiltrate the Eternal Assembly as an undercover agent, this is the information I've gathered..."

"Is there any other information?"

"Not for now, anyway, the people of the Eternal Assembly are becoming more and more mysterious, especially after you became a Memory Retriever..."

"Understood, if there's nothing else, you can continue doing your thing." Luo Xi took a sip of the soup and issued an order to leave.

Xu Lin nodded awkwardly: "Then I'll go."

She walked to the door and took the trash from the trash can downstairs with her.

Only after hearing the footsteps outside fade away did Luo Xi put down his chopsticks and cover his head again.

The pain had never been relieved.

And there were signs of gradually worsening.

It was as if something was growing rapidly in his head.

The reason for this unexpected reaction was this seemingly ordinary fried egg soup noodles on the table.

"Why would the past me specifically arrange for Xu Lin to make noodles for me at this time?" Luo Xi believed that whether it was the past, present, or future, his way of doing things and thinking about problems would not change.

That is, he wouldn't talk nonsense or do meaningless things.

In fact, the splitting headache was the effect of this bowl of poached egg noodle soup.

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It wasn't because the noodle soup was poisoned.

"It's a memory, a memory hidden in the depths of consciousness. The noodle soup is just a switch, but it's not clear whether this memory is real or fake."

Luo Xi only remembered that he didn't have a mother.

So, on the first cycle day, after discovering that his mother was impersonated by Xu Lin, Luo Xi believed that the so-called mother was just a set memory.

But now, a bowl of noodle soup has evoked many fragmented things. Some of these things are like bubbles, bursting before they can be seen clearly, while others are like sharp shards of glass. When enduring the pain to check, what you might see is just a fleeting moment.

This was the main reason for Luo Xi's splitting headache.

And the things that were making him upset were not just this one.

There was also that nightmare from before.

With a painful expression, Luo Xi summoned the card album. After opening it, he found the card numbered 044, [Nightmare].

"How long has it been since you had a dream?"

This was the last line in the card description.

A rhetorical question.

But the things it led to were very worthy of contemplation and exploration.

"If the Day of Confinement is a false world, the people trapped here wouldn't have dreams at all. After death, they would immediately enter the next cycle day. That moment is equivalent to rebirth, and then it repeats endlessly. So, in a false world, there's no need to set up a dream."

"But this card brought a nightmare, and the elements that made up the dream were also extracted from my memory."

This was easy to deduce.

Because the personalities that appeared in the nightmare, and the words they said, were 'secrets' that only he knew. In this world, no one besides him knew about the existence of these personalities.

"In the absence of other clues, I can only see all of this as the effect of the [Nightmare] card. The dream, and the elements that make up the dream, are all my memories and experiences. But the ridiculous thing is that this card actually thought that creating a setting that swapped me and my personalities could scare me, could make me think I would be afraid. This is really too naive, too childish."

At this time, Luo Xi thought of another possibility.

Under the splitting headache, his thinking speed seemed to have slowed down a lot.

He pressed his temples hard with his fingers, as if this could relieve the pain. It seemed like it really had a little effect.

"Another possibility is that everything in the dream isn't fabricated based on memory, nor is it a reweaving of memory because of my fear. Because I have [Absolute Rationality], so another possibility is that that scene actually happened. In other words, I am also one of the many personalities, and the Luo Xi crying outside the mirror is the real body. It's just that later, I became the main body. Maybe I killed him?"

"That was the former me, the real me."

These guesses were just guesses, without any memory to support them. Luo Xi was just making assumptions based on logic and possibility.

But often, the truth is hidden among many assumptions.

The telephone ring interrupted Luo Xi's difficult thinking in pain.

The number was unfamiliar, but Luo Xi had a good memory. He seemed to remember this number, but the pain in his head made it difficult for him to concentrate on recalling it.

Answering the phone, Luo Xi pressed the speakerphone button, because when the phone was close to his head, his head hurt even more.

"Hello, is this Brother Luo? I'm Ma Ling. Do you remember me?"

"Yes, I remember."

The Memory Retriever he met in Tun Tun Bookstore, wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, was a very promising Memory Retriever. In Luo Xi's view, Ma Ling's potential was no less than Ke Lan's, and even more outstanding in some aspects.

"I'm sorry, I died at the hands of an angel on the last cycle day, but it wasn't because I couldn't hold my breath. It was that Han Lingling."

"I know everything, and I've already avenged you."

"Really? Brother Luo, you are indeed as amazing as I thought. I actually don't have any partners, so, can I follow you?"

"If it's to explore the Day of Confinement and conquer scenes, of course you can."

"That's great."

After agreeing on a meeting place and time, Luo Xi hung up the phone.

After drinking a little water, the headache seemed to have eased a little. Of course, there was also a possibility that Luo Xi had begun to get used to the pain.

"I have to get some painkillers." Luo Xi opened the medicine cabinet at home and found several boxes of painkillers that had not been unwrapped.

This made him stunned.

In the past, he never took this kind of medicine, so he wouldn't buy medicine that he never used and put it at home.

Did Xu Lin buy it?

Possibly, but she hadn't taken it either.

Luo Xi recalled that there seemed to be several boxes of painkillers here originally. They were placed before the cycle day, so every cycle, whether they were touched or not, they were there, this time, next time, the next time, all the same.

Luo Xi took them out, unwrapped the packaging, and took two pills with water.

After a while, the headache symptoms really eased a lot.

At this moment, Luo Xi looked at the painkillers in his hand with a suspicious expression. He found that on the back of the medicine box, someone had written a string of numbers with a ballpoint pen.

073216944459006600.

It was the kind of thing that was written casually, without any meaning.

But Luo Xi stared at this string of numbers, first stunned, then got up and walked to the bookshelf, and took out the book "Memory" from there.

Then he opened the pages, seemingly looking for something on purpose, and then used another pen to write text next to the string of numbers on the medicine box.

When he finished writing the last word, a strange smile appeared on Luo Xi's face.

Then, he took the book and the medicine with him and walked out of the house.

"I noticed this problem before, but I couldn't find the answer. If I used to be a Memory Retriever, then when I was a Memory Retriever last time, where and when did I wake up and enter the cycle day? It's unlikely to be in this place, because this place is fake, including my work... And this is the biggest problem. Since I'm not a customer service representative and I don't live here, then what did I do before? Where is my real home?"

"If this place is fake, then who has this terrible ability to forcibly change the identity of a Memory Retriever in the already fixed Day of Confinement setting mechanism and fabricate memories... And the other party seems to know that I will need painkillers on a cycle day, so even the medicine is prepared in advance."

Luo Xi went downstairs, looked at the breakfast stall in the distance, but didn't walk over, and chose another direction.

"What triggered the headache symptoms was that bowl of noodles, and the noodles were taught to Xu Lin by the former me, when to make them... So the former me is either the instigator of all this, or he is related to this matter."

"Who exactly was that former self?"

"And what exactly does he want to do by leaving me an address in the form of a numerical code?"