Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 436 The Devil is in the Details

The two returned to the subway.

Compared with the relaxed and happy feeling when we came here, this time the carriage was filled with an indescribable feeling of oppression.

"Mr. Mingyuan, listen carefully."

Jiu Yue nodded at two high school students not far from them. One of the boys was holding the handrail with one hand, and was talking excitedly about the contents of the latest issue of a fighting comic. He was burning with the soul of a middle school student, as if he regarded himself as the protagonist of the comic, and shouted out the names of cool moves with enthusiasm.

The office worker next to the high school student was answering a phone call. The other party seemed to be his superior. He was very respectful and said "I know, I'll get to it right away" several times.

After hanging up the phone, the man's face suddenly changed. He glared at the phone screen with gritted teeth, as if he had already cursed his boss who called him after get off work hundreds of times in his heart.

“That’s the detail I’m talking about.”

In real memory, "deep memory" is always noisy. It stores a large number of parts that are considered unimportant by the "shallow consciousness", but at that moment, they were all transmitted to Duan Mingyuan's ears intact.

Compared with ordinary people, Duan Mingyuan's senses are much sharper. He can even hear what people are saying even though they are halfway across the carriage from him.

Duan Mingyuan nodded and accepted Doctor Jiu Yue's diagnosis. "This is a real memory."

He had been here that night, so he heard all the "noise" in this subway car.

This was the opposite direction of going home, which meant that even if he hadn't been to the abandoned construction site, he hadn't been going home after school.

Soon, the subway once again entered the platform where the abandoned construction site was located.

"Mr. Mingyuan, there is a question I have always been curious about. Is there a boundary in the world of 'Deep Memory'?"

"boundary?"

"For example, for those parts that don't exist in your memory, if we force our way in there, will your brain fill in those areas, or will we be stopped by the air wall?"

According to September's observation, their movements in the memory space seemed to be completely free.

They could follow Ming Yuan's mark from high school all the way here, and it seemed that they might also go in the completely opposite direction from him, "Or more precisely, what would happen if we didn't get off at this stop?"

Since the subway has gone beyond the boundaries of memory, will they be teleported back here, or will they fall into the bug space outside the map like in the game?
Jiu Yue stared at Duan Mingyuan in high school. Even if he had the chance to do it all over again, he would have a strong desire to get off the bus.

He got off the subway as soon as the door opened and walked towards the exit again.

However, when they revisited the old place, Duan Mingyuan and Jiu Yue both noticed something.

The pedestrians outside the platform began to disappear from this moment.

"He wants us to get off at this stop."

September said.

Once they get off here, they will repeat the memory they just experienced.

The street was deserted, with only a black car passing by them, and then the scene below was like that of "The Dead Resurrected".

“Here is the divergence point.”

It is both the dividing point from reality to fiction and the guidance of Duan Mingyuan by that forged memory, guiding them to get off at this station. It also means that when Duan Mingyuan in the past forged this memory, he did not want them to continue taking this subway.

Duan Mingyuan did not answer, but made the same decision as Jiu Yue.

They stayed in the last carriage.

Duan Mingyuan, a high school student, quickly disappeared around the corner of the platform. He got on the escalator and headed towards the haunted abandoned construction site.

The subway started running again.

This time the roar was particularly harsh, and the carriage began to shake abnormally. With a sound similar to breaking glass, the subway started to move into a long darkness, where it was pitch dark. No passengers spoke, and only the sound of the subway running on the rails made the two realize that the subway was still heading to the next stop.

The journey takes three minutes, and the time for entering and exiting the subway station is fixed each time.

At the next platform, light finally seeped in.

A blood-red light shone in from outside.

The passengers in the car did not disappear. When September saw them again, their faces were distorted, their eyeballs were missing, and their mouths were open like corpses. They looked at them together.

The silent and eerie atmosphere made her shudder, and the visually impactful scene made her tail stand on end with fear.

According to the theory proposed by Duan Mingyuan, they and these passengers are people from two different worlds.

No matter what they did, they could not affect the behavior of the passengers, and likewise, they would never notice the presence of these "intruders".

However, at this moment, the invisible wall was broken.

"Could it be that... you were planning to get off the train, but suddenly discovered that an evil spirit appeared on the subway?"

September blurted out, after all, these passengers looked no different from corpses.

"This is a warning."

Duan Mingyuan shook his head. "It should be a warning for us not to continue."

But on the other hand, this scene confirmed that he did take the subway to this platform that night, and when he subconsciously forged this memory, he warned his future self.

Warn him not to continue.

"This is not a demonic attack."

Duan Mingyuan looked at himself sitting opposite the two of them.

He had gotten off at the previous stop and appeared again, becoming the only person who looked relatively normal in this strange space.

What he was holding in his hand at that time was not a notebook and cut-out news reports, but a medical record card.

He stared down at the contents of the medical record, frowning.

The passengers became increasingly weird and twisted. Their elongated heads twitched, and they were no longer discussing the popular anime, but instead were uttering meaningless whispers.

"This is history that has already happened. I can judge the real environment by my reaction at that time."

At least, he didn't look like he was suddenly caught in an evil attack.

"Oh, hahaha, as expected, I... was not right. Doctor Olivia Fox September's theory is correct."

September cheered himself up and agreed.

The scene here made her feel very uncomfortable. This was probably the feeling people often referred to as "losing sanity". But what worried her more than the visual pollution was Duan Mingyuan's mental state.

Because that doesn't seem like the way a sane person would issue a warning.

"That's right, September. Maybe you really are a genius."

The subway started up again.

Duan Mingyuan looked relaxed and not shaken at all by the violation of the warning.

With Dr. September's diagnosis, their investigation finally made progress.

(End of this chapter)