Memory inheritor

Chapter 186 Anchor Point

Chapter 186 Anchor Point (Part 2)

The thought that a group of malicious people were secretly watching him made Wei Hongsi feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable.

He stood up and looked back warily, then walked to the window and looked outside, afraid that someone was watching him from the 18th floor.

The east was already showing the first light of dawn, the sky was no longer so dark, and the city was still very quiet at dawn, with a few garbage trucks driving by on the road.

Wei Hongsi chuckled self-deprecatingly and said softly, "This is C country. It's not that easy to sneak around and do bad things in secret."

He paced around the room twice, saw the headphones hanging on the bookshelf, went over, took them down, put them on, turned them on, connected them to the computer's Bluetooth, and played Shen Qing's new song "The Brave".

In his current memory, this is the first time in his life he has truly listened to a song.

The intro, featuring a guitar as the main instrument, begins, and after about ten seconds, Shen Qing's singing voice comes through the headphones.

The verses are in a lower register, but Shen Qing's breath control is very steady, and she handles every syllable and every word very cleanly.

As the chorus begins, the vocal register suddenly shifts upward, and Shen Qing's singing style transforms from calm to a powerful burst, with full but not harsh high-frequency overtones.

Wei Hongsi was truly astonished. He found it hard to believe that Shen Qing, such a slender girl, could possess such immense energy, interpreting the lyrics so perfectly that it sent chills down his spine and made his neck and back stand on end.

He couldn't help but sigh softly, "Wow, Miss Qing, I'm a huge fan of yours now."

Wei Hongsi listened to it twice in a row, but still couldn't hum along.

This song has a high information entropy value and a low predictability of melody, but it hits a not-too-outside point. Some fans may not be able to accept it, but it is precisely this delayed fulfillment of auditory expectations that brings a multiplied aesthetic satisfaction to the eventual "guessing it right".

He set the player to loop each song so he wouldn't have to click play every time he finished listening. Although he had no experience listening to music, using this kind of user-friendly software required no experience.

After receiving the "Heroic Buff," Wei Hongsi continued to ponder the previous questions.

Is he being targeted by the Light Guide Society or other organizations?

After careful consideration, he concluded that this possibility was unlikely.

Uncle Zhang died during his sophomore year of college, five years after the appearance of the mentally unstable man. If he was someone the organization was focusing on, it's impossible that nothing happened during such a long period.

According to Uncle Zhang's words in the memory fragments, he had long reached the age of "integrating experiences." The organization had created (Wei Hongsi firmly denied that what Uncle Zhang did to him counted as cultivation) a valuable tool, and after waiting for so many years, there was no reason to just let him go.

Therefore, that organization should not know of his existence; he was just one of the many tools created by Uncle Zhang and that organization.

No matter how advanced the equipment Uncle Zhang uses, it's impossible to guarantee success for every person being indoctrinated. Everyone who receives this indoctrination is essentially a guinea pig; as long as a certain probability of success is guaranteed, the benefits can be gained.

Since tools for memory implantation exist, the appearance of the "Mental Uncle" is easily explained. Presumably, before Uncle Zhang died, his memories were extracted by his organization and then implanted into the "Mental Uncle."

It's hard to guess what the main body of the memories the mentally unstable man obtained was, but the part including Wei Hongsi's should be considered incidental, an inconspicuous part stuck to that memory network, which the organization was unaware of when it extracted and implanted them.

To the best of Wei Hongsi's knowledge, there is currently no means to accurately distinguish memories, at any level.

So what caused the mentally ill man's accident?

He thought for a moment and typed four words on the computer.

—Anchor of consciousness.

Through contact with the mentally unstable man, it can be basically confirmed that his "self" regarding Han Tao has been severely eroded. At least every time they meet, he exhibits more of the "self" belonging to Uncle Zhang.

These two opposing forces, competing and inhibiting each other in the mentally unstable man's brain, are likely the root cause of his mental instability.

But why would that organization let him escape? The mentally unstable man appeared in Yuecheng for many days before dying in the same way as Uncle Zhang. That organization must be involved.

Yong-ge's investigation into this case has been suspended, but it's not closed. Should we explain the situation to him and continue the investigation?

Wei Hongsi put a series of question marks under this question, finding it difficult to decide for a moment, so he skipped it for now.

Based on the mentally unstable man's condition and the childhood memories he regained, Wei Hongsi could deduce why his second personality had emerged.

He was certain that Uncle Zhang had implanted memories into him more than once, which was determined by the structure of the brain and the mechanism of memory formation, and no matter how advanced the organization's equipment was, it was useless.

The older brother said that for a period of time he often had nightmares because after being indoctrinated, fragments of memories that did not belong to him surfaced in his dreams.

If this situation continues, Wei Hongsi will lose his "true self". He was still young at the time, and he will grow into a completely different person without anyone noticing, not even himself.

It was probably around that time that he developed his second personality. Generally speaking, multiple personality disorder is mostly related to childhood psychological trauma, and those fragments of memories of killing others are undoubtedly his psychological trauma.

But that's not enough. To prevent the "id" from getting lost, a conscious anchor is needed to keep it constantly aligned with its position.

His anchor point was the content of that ghostly text.

One must become a person who contributes to human society.

This is truly remarkable. Wei Hongsi couldn't help but praise his younger self and also wanted to thank his older brother. Only such lofty and difficult-to-achieve beliefs can become an eternal beacon in the sea of ​​consciousness.

If he had set his anchor point as something very practical, like having lots of toys or making lots of money, he probably wouldn't exist now.

What kind of freak will he become, having grown up constantly influenced by Uncle Zhang's special memories?

Thus, Wei Hongsi understood why totem-like and creed-like statements appeared in the minds of the members of the Light Guide Society.

He was absolutely certain that those were the anchor points for the members of the Light Guide Society: Chen Xuemin, Mu Jie, Zhou Huai, and the three Finch professors, all of whom had received memory implantation.

Using religious beliefs as an anchor is indeed a good method, but it also makes it easy for the leaders of the Light-Guiding Society to firmly control one's thoughts.

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