Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 435 Rewind
"Where did you go that night and where did you leave your schoolbag?"

Duan Mingyuan was stunned by Jiu Yue's question.

She put forward a hypothesis that seemed far-fetched but was not impossible upon careful consideration. It was not difficult for him to fabricate a past.

Seeing that Duan Mingyuan couldn't answer for a while, Jiu Yue continued to speak out her own guess, "Everything that is happening now is the content of the short story "Resurrection of the Dead". The way to enter the abandoned construction site and the things encountered along the way are exactly the same."

This novel was published on a niche supernatural website shortly after the blogger disappeared, and it also kept up with current events by incorporating the website's hottest topics recently.

"If you want to forge a memory, it must be based on self-awareness. When you were collecting news in the early stage, you must have also found this short story. So you imagined yourself as the four college students and forged what happened in the novel as your own experience, adding some personal emotional color to it."

Jiu Yue saw anger in Duan Mingyuan who was charging forward. This was the emotion that most people felt after reading "Resurrection of the Dead".

The four encountered inexplicable malice and torture in an abandoned construction site. The twisted monsters and phantoms of fanatics made the readers, who put themselves in the shoes of the four students, feel deep despair. Because it was published on a niche website, it did not need to go through layers of review, nor did it have to give the four a lucky ending.

Therefore, the atmosphere of the whole novel is like those B-level movies with blood plasma as the theme. After suffering inhuman torture, none of the four people survived and all died in the construction site, while the evil in the construction site still exists, waiting for the next victim to enter here.

This is a typical work that ends with the villain's victory. Even the reviews on the website are mixed, with many people saying that such an ending made them feel uncomfortable.

"However, from a psychological perspective, this is actually a very common phenomenon. In their research on patients with delusional mental illness, experts have found that although the world they see is different from that of ordinary people, it is not without trace. The bizarre world may come from the novels or movies they have read. Under the influence of delusional disorder, they regard fictional things as reality."

Jiu Yue said confidently, "And Mr. Mingyuan, in your case, it seems more like you artificially fabricated this memory."

So in this fictional memory, Duan Mingyuan fought his way up to the upper floors of the abandoned building, destroying all the twisted creatures and phantoms of fanatics he encountered along the way.

After he killed the evil spirit that built its nest with his own hands after a fierce battle, this land cursed by evil spirits finally achieved true peace.

In the context of "The Dead Resurrection", this is undoubtedly an ending with a strong sense of personal heroism.

"Where did you hear these theories?"

Duan Mingyuan asked curiously, he didn't expect that this little fox could speak like a professional psychologist, even he had never heard of these theories.

"It was said by a famous cosmic psychologist. Her name is Olivia Fox September."

At the end, September's momentum was noticeably weaker.

However, she felt that even though the famous psychologist in the universe was herself, it did not hinder the correctness of the diagnosis.

Because in this fictional memory, which is full of uncertainty, there is no correctness.

"Even though you just returned home as usual that night, you couldn't calm down after reading this novel, so you improvised a memory."

"But that doesn't explain how my bag disappeared."

Because this theory was too bizarre, his subconscious mind seemed unwilling to accept it, so Duan Mingyuan put forward a key piece of information.

He was a methodical man and would never lose his customary bag out of thin air.

Even if September's theory was true and he had never been here that night, something must have happened to cause him to lose his schoolbag.

"That's true." September did not comment.

If these inferences were applied to her, it would be very natural - she was so engrossed in reading a novel the night before that she forgot to do her homework, and then when she arrived in the classroom the next day she could only tell the teacher that her schoolbag was lost.

But this kind of out-of-line behavior is impossible to happen to Duan Mingyuan.

"But at least you acknowledged the possibility of not coming here that night."

September said, “Then next, we need to find the point of divergence between fiction and reality.”

"The divergence point?"

"This is also one of the theories proposed by cosmic psychologist Olivia Fox September. This is the key to distinguishing between the patient's delusion and reality. Mr. Ming Yuan, let's get back on the subway again."

As he spoke, Jiu Yue changed his clothes again.

She discarded her folding fan and gavel, and put on a white coat that represented the profession of doctor, a pair of black-framed glasses, and a medical record card in her hand. She changed her aura and made herself look like a sophisticated psychologist worthy of trust.

“The differences are in the details.”

The entire "deep memory" space began to rewind, like a movie being rewound.

The two returned to the subway station along the same route they came. During the journey, they once again saw the black car passing by them, this time it passed them in reverse.

The car windows were difficult to see, and even with the "pause" button pressed, they couldn't see the driver clearly.

"what happened?"

Duan Mingyuan asked September who suddenly asked him to press the "pause" button.

"Mr. Mingyuan, according to your original theory, there are only two possibilities. First, you didn't see the person in the car at the time, so no matter how slow we slowed down or even stopped the car, we couldn't see a person who had never appeared in your memory. Second, according to my theory, you actually never came here, nor did you encounter this car, so it is impossible for you to know someone you have never seen."

This corresponded to the scene they saw at the high school gate, where they only saw the sneaky middle-aged man getting into the black car and could not make out the driver's appearance at all.

September also noticed that the black sedan had no license plate.

"And this street, we didn't encounter any pedestrians along the way."

Jiu Yue gestured to Duan Mingyuan to take a closer look at the empty street.

Duan Mingyuan's "subconscious" explanation is that recent rumors about the abandoned construction site have caused residents to stay away from the area.

"There is no description of the abandoned construction site in "The Dead Resurrected". When the story begins, the four college students have already entered the construction site. This is an area that cannot be covered by fictional memory. You have never been here, so it is impossible to know who passed by here that night, so your brain makes a simplistic processing."

September paused for a moment.

The Void Demon had finished telling its final circle story, and now it was her turn, "This means that you did not get off at this stop that night."

(End of this chapter)