Chapter 120 Memories That Don't Belong to This World

Memories that don't belong to this world?

Lin Xian heard this familiar phrase.

The last time he saw CC in the First Dream, CC had said that she had many fragments of memory in her mind that didn't belong to her.

One of those memories was the "One Piece declaration" of a middle-aged man with long hair and a beard...

Saying that if you want to know the truth of everything and the past, then come and open Lin Xian's safe!

This was the only segment in CC's memory fragments that had anything to do with him. She said that the long-haired, bearded man's voice sounded a lot like his.

That was all.

In the First Dream, Lin Xian asked CC many times if she recognized him or if she had ever seen his face.

CC's answer every time was firm.

No.

Even when she had a gun pointed at her head, she said it very firmly.

No.

But...

Why did CC in the Second Dream change her tune?

She directly admitted that she had seen him in the memory fragments.

So...

Was CC in the First Dream lying?

Or...

Was there another secret?

"Tell me the specifics of what's going on," Lin Xian asked, taking the initiative. He wanted to hear what CC had to say first.

"It's just that since I was little, my memories have been very chaotic," CC said softly. "I can't describe the feeling. It's like there are many memories in my head that don't belong to me, but they are also my life experiences. It's like... another world, another life of mine."

"I couldn't figure out what these fragmented memories were all about. They were all very real, and the girl in the memories was also me. But those people, those things, I'm sure I've never seen them or experienced them. Until—"

CC stared straight at Lin Xian. "Until I met you today. In my memory fragments, there are things about you."

"What is the specific plot?" Lin Xian asked.

"This memory fragment is very short and fragmented, but the general plot is... you, me, and Big Face Cat, using a flamethrower to burn a safe, but ultimately failing to open it."

"This feeling is very strange... I know this is not something I've experienced, and it's impossible for it to happen in this real world. Although this memory fragment is very real in all aspects, my reason tells me that it is not real, which is very contradictory."

"But today, you actually appeared. And judging by your appearance, you're not unfamiliar with me. Can you tell me what that memory fragment is all about?"

Hmm...

Lin Xian didn't speak.

He was very surprised.

He had thought of many possibilities for CC having seen him… but he never expected it would be this situation!

CC in the Second Dream actually had a fragment of memory from the First Dream appear in her mind out of thin air!

He looked down at the ants crawling out of the anthill, watching their antennae collide with each other before entering another anthill...

The "burning the safe" scene that CC mentioned was indeed one of the countless loops in the First Dream.

For Lin Xian, it was actually something that had happened just a few days ago.

But according to CC, she had this memory fragment in her mind since she was born.

She had always thought that this memory fragment, like all the other memory fragments, was unreal, at least… in the world she was currently in.

However.

After seeing him today, the idea she had always believed in wavered.

Because he, a living person, collapsed from her illusory memory fragment into reality.

For her, this was perhaps a not small impact.

"Hey, say something." CC nudged Lin Xian with her elbow, frowning. "What's going on with these broken memory fragments of mine? Do you know something?"

Lin Xian raised his head and looked at CC. "In your memory fragments, is there also that long-haired, bearded middle-aged man who told you that all the past and the truth are in the safe?"

"Yes, you know a lot." CC looked at Lin Xian in surprise. "Do you know anything else? Can you tell me the truth about these memory fragments?"

"I can, but let me think about it first." Lin Xian reached out his hand, signaling CC to be quiet.

Then he began to summarize his thoughts.

From what he could see, one thing was certain—

CC in the Second Dream had a scene that she had actually experienced in the First Dream in her mind.

This was unbelievable.

In the First Dream, the time when Lin Xian and CC had the best relationship and the highest favorability was during that burning the safe operation.

In that operation, everyone was united against the common enemy, and they cooperated together unprecedentedly.

Although they ultimately failed to open the safe.

But the trust and friendship between them reached its peak, and CC even opened up to him and smiled at him for the first time.

Perhaps it was because of this memory fragment...

That was why CC's attitude was so good to him today, and she was willing to cooperate so well in answering his questions.

But then again.

The First Dream had clearly looped so many times, so why did CC only have the memory fragment of this one loop of burning the safe in her mind?

This was the question that Lin Xian couldn't understand the most.

Not to mention anything else.

Just the plot between himself and CC alone had five or six versions, each different.

Logically speaking, there was nothing special about this plot.

Even from the perspective of spacetime changes, there was no pattern to be found.

Spacetime changes in the First Dream had happened many times, Rhine Cat, Academician Gao Wen, safe material… and so on, he had clearly discovered three times, and there were probably many more that he hadn't discovered.

If every spacetime change would leave a memory fragment in CC's mind.

Then she should have many memory fragments about the First Dream in her mind, not just this one.

Moreover, this only memory fragment was also incomplete.

In the complete plot of that day, CC had already explained many things to him.

But today, when he mentioned the bearded man.

CC was still surprised that he knew about these things.

This meant...

Her only memory fragment was also incomplete.

This was also strange.

Lin Xian couldn't figure out what the mechanism was.

"I've thought about it enough." Lin Xian raised his head and looked at the black hand shadow pointing with its index finger on the round moon in the sky. "According to my understanding, these memory fragments in your head should be from other parallel universes."

"No... actually, the description of parallel universes is not very accurate. It should be said that they are from other changed timelines, timelines before the change."

"I can't explain the specifics to you, but there's one thing I think you guessed right—"

Lin Xian looked down at CC, who was listening attentively. "These memories in your mind are indeed another life experienced by another you in another world. They are all real."

"But why these memories are fragmented and incomplete, and why it is this particular memory… I can't figure it out at the moment."

…

…

After hearing this, CC nodded. "I have thought so too, but I lack evidence. But after talking to you today… I think it might be the situation you described."

"Actually, this is also the reason why I came here." CC turned her head and looked at the wall of the garbage disposal plant in front of her, the hundreds of meters of steel high wall, and the New Donghai City skyscrapers that reached into the clouds and couldn't be seen at the top. "I want to open that safe, understand the truth of all this, understand the past of all this, and understand what exactly is going on with me."

Lin Xian also followed her gaze, looking at the neon skyscrapers that disappeared into the clouds.

From this perspective, you couldn't see the X Twin Towers in the very center of New Donghai City. But in Lin Xian's opinion… actually, every building was no different from that X building.

They were equally mysterious, equally unpredictable, and equally unsettling.

"But, isn't it too risky, for you?" Lin Xian turned his head and expressed his doubts. "Just for curiosity, just to find out a truth that has no impact, risking your life to open the safe… isn't that a bit too irrational?"

"Perhaps." CC replied lightly. "But I must do this."

Her eyes stared straight at the high wall of the garbage disposal plant, her rich and clear eyes seemed to see through the wall, staring at the garbage truck and safe that had not yet arrived inside. "I'm not just here out of curiosity, I have something very important to confirm, this matter is very important to me."

"More important than life?" Lin Xian asked.

"More important than life." CC replied affirmatively, without a trace of hesitation. "The things in the safe… may be the meaning of my life."

……

Lin Xian looked at CC, unable to figure out this riddle.

The things in this safe…

How is it getting more and more confusing?

CC thought the things in this safe were hers.

Lin Xian thought this safe was one he had stored.

Then, if we speculate according to the situation where both of them guessed correctly, this safe may have been stored by him at some stage in the future, set the password, and then the things inside were stored and given to CC.

But this is a bit illogical from a temporal perspective.

CC's birth and growth memories were complete, and she should have been born in this world around 260x.

Then when did he store the safe?

Did he travel to the future using a hibernation pod or something?

And what things did he store to give to CC?

Was the middle-aged man with long hair and a beard in CC's memory really him?

He turned his head.

He also stared at the high wall of the garbage disposal plant together with CC, recalling the scene of the garbage truck unloading the hafnium alloy safe yesterday.

Presumably the answers to his questions...

Very likely, they were also hidden in that safe.

……

"Do you have any more questions to ask?" Lin Xian looked at CC.

CC shook her head. "It's your turn, let you ask."

Lin Xian nodded.

He had many questions to ask CC.

But the most important one was...

"CC."

Lin Xian looked through the Rhine Cat mask at the Ultraman who was close at hand, but separated by 600 years of time and even across two timelines. "Is your real name… Chu Anqing?"