Chapter 162 The Memory of the World

He shuttled through endless broken scenes, feeling like he was always moving upward.

The horizon pieced together from fragments gradually curves into an arc, and the vision of desire is constantly expanding.

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

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

Above the sky, the endless bright stars in my imagination did not appear.

Isn't it the universe above the sky?

Chen Yan realized that the world view he had once created could no longer be used to explain the phenomenon in front of him.

The wish gave him no time to think.

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

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

The words of wish proved his suspicion.

‘Those sounds are [proof] that something once existed in the universe.

Those sounds and those picture fragments together form the "memory of the world".

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

More fragments and sounds appeared around me. These things filled all the space within sight in an orderly manner, flowing slowly and evenly in one direction.

Chen Yan suddenly thought that it was like time was moving forward——

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

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

'The world has recorded everything in the endless time in the past...all of which constitute the world that exists in endless time.'

There was doubt in the wish's voice.

'But what's the point?'

'What is the point of witnessing everything that happens in the universe?'

'What is the point of helping the universe remember things that once existed and record what happened in the past?'

'I do not understand……'

'do you understand?'

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

She suddenly asked an incomprehensible question.

'Did you... ever exist?'

Of course I existed! Otherwise, why would I have grown so big?

When Chen Yan thought of this, his thinking suddenly stopped.

Um?

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 prevent him from continuing to think.

'Ah...this is...'

There was a sneer in Wish's childish voice.

'This is not your dream...it's on my territory now!'

'Chen Yan, now, let's take a look and see what's wrong with you.'

Wishes have been in my dreams! They even know my name!

Could she be...

The sharp pain in his mind interrupted his thoughts.

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

It was [proof] that he had existed in this world, and it was the reappearance of the scene hidden deep in the memory of his soul.

The memories represented by those pictures are no longer complete, and in some pictures there is even only a fleeting fragment, and barely pieced together staccato sounds - those staccato sounds are too short to form a complete phrase.

Wishes was surprised to find that if memory were an onion, Chen Yan's memory was like being cut off and a large part of it was randomly thrown away, leaving only a few pieces of incomplete onion skin.

'Is it so miserable...'

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

'How could it be so miserable... The fallen spirits who have been tortured are nothing more than this.'

'Let me know if there is more...'

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

Then, his body "disintegrated".

Various paper-like fragments were constantly separated from his body. Once those fragments were separated from the body, they became "alive" - ​​pictures of constant movement appeared on the fragments, which were things that Chen Yan had experienced.

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There is a scene where when Chen Yan first came to the Empire, he was learning the Imperial language in the city center and got stuck by the chatty words until he blushed and became thick-necked.

There is a scene where I was so excited that I almost jumped up when I received the employment letter from the Byron Weiss Zoo.

There was a scene of him watching the confrontation between Green and Claude Moon when he was in Green's clinic on High Street.

…

'Huh? Why are these all memories after coming to the empire?'

'Where are the memories before coming to the Empire?'

Wishes carefully looked at the picture fragments decomposed from Chen Yan's body one by one, and carefully observed everything in the picture, but she couldn't get the information she wanted.

After a while, Chen Yan's body almost disappeared, and Wish finally captured a palm-sized piece of paper that exuded a distinctive aura.

The scraps of paper were on fire.

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

The moment her fingers touched the shredded paper, her body disappeared from where it was.

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

A river appeared in front of her...or maybe a lake. Because there were flames everywhere, she couldn't see further away, so she couldn't tell what it was here.

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

Intermittent conversations came to her ears.

"Mom, when are we going home? It's already half the morning and 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... Having said that, there is no animal in the world that is not cute when it is a baby.'

'This should be a fragment 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!'

She was thinking proudly in her heart while listening carefully to the conversation on the boat.

"The boat will always dock, and your sister is already waiting. Ayan, we have finished picking the lotus roots, and we will make glutinous rice and lotus roots for you when we get back today~"

This is a kind female voice.

She is probably Chen Yan's mother.

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

Even if there was, she must have abandoned her before - 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 not recognize her.
Chapter completed!