Chapter 252 Meng Die's Memory Wound_2
"How should we return to the past?" Rosen raised the question.
"First, we need to find a way for Meng Die to listen to Jay Chou's 'Back to the Past'. This song possesses the ability to traverse time and space. We need to leverage the power of this song to evoke childhood memories buried deep in Meng Die's mind. However, the magic of this song can only let Meng Die's memory return to the past, but cannot actually take us back to the past."
Having listened to Xuantian's theory, Rosen asked, "So how do you plan to bring us back to Meng Die's past?"
Xuantian said, "My method is, under the catalyst of this song, Meng Die will recall the past, and we can seize this opportunity to invade Meng Die's brain. In this way, we can enter the memory from when Meng Die returned to the past, and then try to alter the trauma within his memory."
After hearing Xuantian's theory, Rosen was greatly shocked and said, "I didn't expect it could be done this way. Let's start the operation."
Then Rosen fetched a radio, and Xuantian downloaded that ancient song with magical qualities.
When Xuantian pressed the play button, the song drifted out.
The sound unexpectedly transformed into something akin to a warhorse!
"Not good, the sound might be influenced by the aura of the Barefoot Immortal, becoming extremely violent. I'm afraid Meng Die won't be able to withstand it!" Xuantian exclaimed in panic.
"What should we do then?" Rosen also became anxious.
Xuantian said, "There's no choice; it seems we can only ride the sound transformed into a warhorse to invade Meng Die's deepest memories!"
The next moment, Xuantian and Rosen jumped simultaneously and skillfully landed on the warhorse, using it as a high-frequency oscillating carrier. The two transformed into sound wave signals together and entered Meng Die's ears, converting into information upon hitting the eardrum and entering Meng Die's brain.
As soon as they entered Meng Die's brain, everything around them was white and indistinguishable, indicating a blank slate within Meng Die's brain at that moment.
However, they broke through, and an image appeared—a gigantic eye looming overhead, staring directly at Rosen and the others, thoroughly terrifying.
"Not good, it's Meng Die's inner vision ability!"
"What's inner vision?!"
Just as Rosen was overwhelmed, Xuantian explained, "It's the ability to view one's own inner state, not only their physical condition but also the depths of the mind. It highlights a significant problem."
"What problem?"
"The problem is, Meng Die clearly can see his childhood trauma, but he doesn't take the initiative to repair it, signifying he doesn't want to fill in this gap, which means we probably can't help him."
After Xuantian finished speaking, Rosen's face showed astonishment, "What should we do then?"
"Looks like we'll have to sit tight and watch how things develop first." Xuantian said helplessly.
Just then, the song capable of evoking Meng Die's return to the past also transmitted into Meng Die's brain.
In the next moment, Rosen felt as though a heavy rain poured down upon them.
"Why is it raining, and the rain is actually hot?"
Xuantian pointed at the huge eye's inner vision above and said, "Meng Die is crying!"
Rosen glanced up, "Ah, my eyes!"
Contained within Meng Die's tears was a substance very sour and hot, akin to lime burning his eyes.
"You can't just do nothing, can you? Look at me, as long as you wear swimming goggles you won't be afraid." Xuantian handed a pair of swimming goggles to Rosen.
Once Rosen wore them, his eyes were no longer corroded.
But to Xuantian's surprise, after a short while, blue smoke started rising from both of their bodies.
"Not good, the acidity is increasing! It seems Meng Die is overly sad remembering the past, causing the acidity in his tears to rise!" Xuantian said with urgency.
"What should we do now?"
"We'll have to wear diving suits too since later on the tears might rise above our heads; we'll have to wear the suits sooner or later."
The two donned their diving suits, and the scenes began to change again.
They found themselves looking at illusions, specifically the deepest memories within Meng Die's brain.
The diving suit covering Rosen and the others faded away within the illusion, and they looked ahead where everything was dark, yet a spotlight illuminated the ground, revealing a room scene.
Now, Meng Die and his sister Caidie were fighting for control of the quilt.
At this moment, the temperature dropped drastically to freezing.
"Looks like the Little Ice Age has arrived, we should quickly think of a way to help them, otherwise the disasters of the past will repeat themselves!" Rosen said seriously.
Xuantian said, "Actually the solution is simple, just provide them with warmth, to ensure they have enough heat." Xuantian said, then went up to hold Caidie.
That?!
Upon witnessing this, Rosen somewhat understood Xuantian's idea, as it was indeed a practical method for warming up.
"Harassment!"
Caidie repeatedly slapped Xuantian's face, which swelled up like a pig's head, yet he continued holding onto Caidie tightly, activating a nuclear-powered heating operation within himself, releasing warmth.
Rosen understood how Xuantian intended to avoid freezing to death during the Little Ice Age, by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion to generate heat!
Rosen could also ignite his inner universe, releasing heat for Meng Die, but considering Meng Die was his senior apprentice sister, he couldn't simply hold her without proper reasoning.
At once he approached and said, "Meng Die, I can warm the quilt for you, okay?"
Slap!
Meng Die gave Rosen a big slap and said, "You obviously just want to snatch my quilt, don't think I don't know."
Rosen initially thought Meng Die would accuse him of harassment like Caidie did; unexpectedly, he was actually concerned someone might take over his quilt?
It's just like how his inner universe exploded, intending to generate heat to stay warm, ridiculous but logical.
Given the temperature drop, Meng Die was unlikely to easily relinquish control of the quilt.
"Rosen, be quick, otherwise Meng Die is about to freeze!" Xuantian urged Rosen to hurry and warm Meng Die.
"Huh?!" Rosen suddenly felt overwhelmed.
"At this point, it's the only option left!"
Then Rosen pulled out his phone, and ordered a heating fan online along with an adapter.
"Hello, we are Dongfeng Express, leveraging rocket propulsion, we can arrive anywhere in a second, delivering goods to any location."
The staff from Dongfeng Express quickly delivered the heating fan.
Rosen's method was to channel the nuclear energy from his inner universe into steam for power generation, then use the electric power to activate the heating fan to blow out hot air.
While this series of processes seemed somewhat redundant and involved significant loss, it actually had nearly 100% efficiency, as all thermal loss contributes to environmental temperature elevation, producing a heating effect, even mechanical energy loss eventually converting to thermal energy through friction with the air.
Soon, the temperature in the room started to rise.
Xuantian, swollen like a pig, approached Rosen and complained, "Goodness, why didn't you tell me earlier you could purchase a heating fan online; then I wouldn't have risked getting slapped to conduct the rescue."
Rosen smirked and said, "Is there a possibility that you're actually an lsp?"
"Lsp? A network provider?" Xuantian shamelessly claimed.
Rosen said, "But purchasing the heating fan online consumed a lot of my money; in fact, I had to mortgage hundreds of fifty-cent special effects to raise enough funds to buy this heating fan."
"Alright, don't go on, I suspect you're about to advertise next?" Xuantian quickly stopped Rosen, preventing him from executing a commercial pitch.
The giant eye in the sky ceased shedding tears, and the acid rain stopped raining down at this moment.
Xuantian sensed something and said, "Looks like we've succeeded and altered the memories deep within Meng Die's brain."
But Rosen gazed at the dark abyss in the distance and said, "Why is that black hole growing larger? That's Meng Die's memory wound, isn't it? Theoretically, we should have filled it, but why is this wound expanding?"
Rosen's observation made Xuantian's expression intense, "I seem to understand now, actually, the inner trauma Meng Die has always harbored isn't because of his sister, but because of something else!"
Gazing at the ever-expanding wound, Xuantian said, "The only way we'll truly understand is by actively entering the wound!"