The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1324 Open your mind
Running away and escaping all the way, Joel called Clementine to continue traveling through his memory scenes, trying to escape the pursuit of the memory erasing program and return to the Forgetfulness Clinic to find the doctor for a solution.

However, it failed.

This is Joel's memory, and the doctor is also a projection in Joel's mind, equivalent to an image imagined by Joel himself. He does not possess any power and naturally cannot help Joel terminate the memory disappearance process.

So, what to do?
As the two of them fled, Joel told Clementine the whole story, trying to find a solution, but it was obviously not that easy.

In reality, Patrick is trying to make Clementine truly fall in love with him. He takes Clementine to the Charles River, where they lie on the ice and count the stars, repeating what Joel said to Clementine.

"I have no regrets about dying now, it's just too soon, I've never felt this way before, this is what I long for."

Just like memorizing lines.

But he never expected that it would backfire.

These identical words did not impress Clementine. She just felt irritated and flustered. She turned around and left without saying a word.

In Joel's mind, Joel and Clementine tried a childish and stupid method, but it unexpectedly made Clementine think of a possibility.

"...Joel, why don't you take me to a place where I don't exist? A place where I don't belong? And we hide there until dawn?"

In this way, Stan and the others will not be able to find Clementine deep in their memories.

Joel thought about it seriously for a moment but found that it was all in vain. "I really can't remember which memory I don't have you in."

Clementine, "Oh, that's so sweet; but, try to look at it."

Joel quietly watched the drizzle outside the window, and memories of his childhood wearing yellow rain boots and raincoat and stepping in puddles in the yard emerged.

Humm, hum, hum, Joel hummed softly the nursery rhyme he liked in his childhood. Then, it began to rain inside their apartment, and even the green bicycle in his childhood memory appeared in the apartment.

A surreal romantic scene is playing out before your eyes.

Clementine smiled widely, "I did it! I'm a genius!"

Joel takes Clementine back to her childhood memories. He becomes a baby again and crawls around under the kitchen table. Clementine puts on the clothes of her next-door neighbor Mrs. Hanlin in her memory and busy herself in the kitchen.

This scene is absolutely full of imagination——

On the movie screen, there are still Anson and Kate, but Anson, wearing pajamas, has shrunk to the size of a baby, crawling on the ground; while Kate is normal size, wearing a retro long dress from thirty years ago and has red hair.

It's not just wild imagination, it's simply...imaginative!

For a moment, Joel returned to the age of four, trying to open the refrigerator to find ice cream, and then crying because he missed his mother. There was a half-adult and half-infant soul hidden in that baby's body, which was difficult to distinguish.

There was a flurry of activity as Clementine tried to calm the baby down, and she ended up having to pull up her skirt to distract Joel.

Joel: ...evil.

Angelica Film Center, everyone was laughing like thunder, no one was exempted, the space formed by the surrounding buildings was filled with echoes of laughter and applause——

This is indeed a comedy.

To be honest, ordinary people definitely don’t have such imagination. Even if they see it with their own eyes, they will still be dumbfounded and cannot keep up with the speed of imagination for a while.

There, Joel and Clementine finally hide in his memories of being four years old. Here, in Joel's apartment, Stan and Mary, who are being intimate, finally hear the warning sound from the computer. At this time, Stan realizes that the memory erasure process has gone off track and they may burn Joel's brain.

Stan was stunned.

In a panic, Mary thought Stan should notify Dr. Howard.

Stan tries to refuse, but Mary decides they are out of options.

Stan had no way to refute it after all. In desperation, he called the doctor and waited for Dr. Howard to come and solve the disaster.

Stan didn't want Dr. Howard to see Mary, and he tried to convince Mary that she should leave; but Mary refused, and she even started to tidy up her appearance, waiting for Dr. Howard to arrive.

Thinking back carefully, Mary could not hide her admiration for Dr. Howard.

This was the case at the clinic, where Mary kept hanging around Dr. Howard; when she first arrived at Joel's apartment, she kept talking about how great Dr. Howard was and how worthy of being remembered in history.

At this time, when Dr. Howard arrived at the apartment, Mary greeted the doctor with the most perfect attitude; however, the doctor had no time to pay attention to Mary for the time being, he had to deal with Joel's condition as soon as possible.

The doctor came and solved the problem immediately.

He found Joel and Clementine taking a bath in a pile of dishes in Joel's mother's sink. With one click of a button, the two were swept into the sewer.

However, in the apartment, Joel's eyes, which had been tightly closed, suddenly opened, which scared the doctor, Stan, and Mary. The three of them leaned over Joel and crowded in the camera, trying to confirm whether Joel was awake.

The situation is not good. Very bad.

The doctor got busy again, and finally got Joel back on track. The memory erasure procedure continued, but he found that Joel and Clementine had been deviating from the track of the memory blueprint:

They were returning to the Amnesia Clinic, they were returning to the memory blueprints that had been erased tonight, and they were trying to stop the amnesia process.

However, the doctor breathed a sigh of relief: at least now he knew they were there, and as long as there was any trace, Stan would be able to erase his memory.

The doctor packed up and prepared to leave, but he never expected that Joel and Clementine disappeared again. The two figures were missing again from the computer's brain blueprint, and the doctor had to stop again.

Joel is trying to find the most shameful moment in his memory according to Clementine's idea, hiding Clementine in the corner of those memories:

When I was a teenager, I was sneaking around under the covers and was unexpectedly interrupted by my mother who came in.

The bed appeared out of nowhere on the snowy beach in Montauk to satisfy my wild fantasies on the beach, in the open air, and in the wild.

When he was four years old, he was instigated by his friends to hit a sparrow to death with a hammer, but he broke down and cried bitterly after he actually did it. Then a little girl appeared and saved him. From then on, he liked the feeling of "suffocation".

Then, they appeared again on the snow-covered beach in Montauk. Clementine realized that Joel's most private and shameful secret might be hidden in the beach house. She tried to get closer and Joel tried to pull her away. The two chased and played on the beach, laughing constantly.

Joel is hiding, Joel is hiding, Joel is opening up his most shameful memories bit by bit.

This made Dr. Howard and Stan so worried that the doctor had to stay in front of the computer all the time, ready to pull Joel out of the corner of his memory at any time.

A chase is taking place, with some absurdity, some romance, some sadness and some brokenness, unfolding slowly like a scroll.

(End of this chapter)