Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 431 The Storyteller

Coming to the familiar street again, across the street was the high school where I went after school, but September was much more cautious.

She understood Duan Mingyuan's purpose in inviting her here.

Duan Mingyuan cannot identify the authenticity of these memory fragments, because everything he believes in will eventually become real history. The forty-year-old middle-aged man can be a hunter in the Imperial Hunting Court, or he can just be a homeless vagrant, and the only reason he appears here is because of an event mentioned by Dajiang.

That night, an entire team of hunters was killed at an abandoned construction site.

The reason was that there was a flaw in their intelligence, and evil spirits beyond the intelligence appeared on the construction site.

This kind of thing actually happens all the time, and there will always be hunters who die due to incomplete intelligence.

Jiu Yue followed Duan Mingyuan across the street. This time, she kept her eyes on the middle-aged man who was mixed in the crowd.

So……

Did this man really exist?
If Duan Mingyuan's cognition would become real history, the "Imperial Hunting Court Hunter who has long been eyeing him" generated by his subconscious mind might also become a living human being.

And this is their only clue at the moment.

Duan Mingyuan knew very well that this man had never existed, at least not before he learned that hunters from the Imperial Hunting Court intervened that night.

The subtle point is that before that, Duan Mingyuan had never tried to enter this "deep memory".

Therefore, even he could not be sure whether he had overlooked the existence of this man in his shallow memory, or whether his memory responded to his thoughts and temporarily created a person who did not exist originally.

"The target appeared, he was in front of the barbecue stall...

"Well, I'll follow him closely."

The man picked up the phone and said exactly the same words.

When answering the phone, the man subconsciously glanced at Duan Mingyuan's back. At that time, Duan Mingyuan was paying and there was no direct eye contact with the man.

But no matter what, it won't be long before the man disappears.

Either he was killed by a speeding truck or he got into a black sedan parked across the street.

There is always a car like this parked in front of the school. If Duan Mingyuan hadn't mentioned the way the man left last time, Jiu Yue would not have noticed the movements of the black car at all.

Suddenly, the man stopped and drove past him almost close to his body.

The man was startled and cursed several times at the driving truck.

It seems that in this memory, Duan Mingyuan did not want a tragedy to happen in front of the gate of his alma mater.

Jiu Yue watched the man get into the black car. After the car started, it slowly disappeared at the end of the road.

"That truck, did it exist before?"

Jiu Yue suddenly asked, what she was referring to was naturally the "shallow memory" before Oe mentioned Yu Karitei.

"exist."

After receiving a positive answer, Jiu Yue just nodded, but did not immediately express her guess, because she knew that any hypothesis she put forward now might affect Duan Mingyuan's judgment and make the subsequent "deep memory" further and further away from its original appearance.

She just secretly made a note of these unusual details.

The truck was driving very fast, almost at full throttle, and even when it nearly hit a pedestrian, it had no intention of stopping, leaving the man standing there cursing.

But this is the gate of a high school. In September's impression, this school is a combined junior and senior high school, so there must be signs to slow down on the road.

But for some reason, the truck driver ignored the sign and drove past the school gate at an extremely dangerous speed.

This made her observe the truck driver a few more times. He was not in a trance or drunken state, and he even glanced at the sidewalk when passing the school gate. However, because the image of the truck passing by flashed in Duan Mingyuan's memory, she could not study the truck driver's mental state more closely.

September felt like her brain was on fire.

These subtle movements bring about countless possibilities.

The truck driver was distracted when looking towards the school gate and did not notice the man who suddenly crossed the road; or he was heading for the man, and after realizing that he did not hit the target, he could only speed up and leave the scene.

What was worse was that she would never know the answer to that question.

Because every person in the memory will change due to Duan Mingyuan's cognition and position, and then regenerate the real history.

At this moment, Jiu Yue finally understood what Heya had said.

This world will respond to Duan Mingyuan's expectations, at least on Blue Star.

Every person he met on Blue Star was like an NPC in a large open world; a slight thought from him could directly change their lives.

The "deep memory" was not interrupted by the man's departure. In fact, it was just the beginning of the whole night.

After finishing the barbecue, Duan Mingyuan took out a notebook from his schoolbag. On it were many cut-out news clips. They all looked like printed gossips with headlines full of gimmicks.

At this time, she also heard people in the crowd talking about the abandoned construction site.

A body was found at an abandoned construction site.

Perhaps this news was truly reported by the official authorities, but it soon became an urban legend. More and more legends centered on haunted abandoned construction sites appeared on the Internet. High school students, who lead monotonous lives, were precisely the audience for these legends. These unusual, bizarre, and terrifying legends became their after-school topics of conversation.

"But, Mr. Mingyuan, this habit of yours is very bad!"

After Jiu Yue followed the high school mini version of Duan Mingyuan for a few minutes, she finally couldn't help but make a criticism.

As she spoke this time, the atmosphere between the two eased a lot.

In the past, it was Mr. Mingyuan who criticized her, but this time she finally found an opportunity. "Who doesn't look ahead when walking? I saw a news report a while ago that someone was looking at his phone while walking down the stairs and almost fell to death. Even if he didn't fall to death, it would be bad if he accidentally stepped on something."

“Accept criticism.”

Duan Mingyuan accepted the criticism humbly, but his eyes became nervous, "But now is not a good time to talk about this."

He discovered that what September said would affect some details of his "deep memory".

For example, just now, he found a pile of * next to the grass on the side of the road.

He didn't know whether it appeared suddenly or had always been there.

"Mr. Mingyuan, I suddenly figured it out."

Jiu Yue had a devilish smile on her face. "No matter how many times we repeat it, we will never find the truth in these fragments."

Because even if her analysis is wrong and completely contrary to reality, as long as it can influence Duan Mingyuan's cognition, it will become the new reality.

She thought that Duan Mingyuan must know about this, but he still invited her here.

As long as she understood the relationship, she was no longer anxious.

Duan Mingyuan wanted to hear a story.

A story she came up with through observation.

(End of this chapter)