Chapter 940: 938: Forgetting and Denial
"Random Environment"
The group noticed this anomaly within minutes of walking in the scarlet wasteland.
Although the barren land appeared unchanged, in reality, every few meters brought a dramatic environmental shift — temperature, air composition, and even gravity would suddenly change.
For example, one second, the environmental parameters were normal, but with one step forward, gravity tripled, the temperature dropped by 20C, and air’s main component became hydrogen.
This sudden environmental change forced the body to quickly adapt, interrupting the hard-earned lost state.
Reagan showed no discomfort, quite the opposite — he was rather excited.
"Such clever setting! The sealed disaster can infiltrate through any memory associated with it, meaning the contactor must possess a certain degree of memory control, able to forget some things at crucial moments to ensure their safety, preventing the infiltration of evil.
This setting effectively isolates the containment facility from the outside world and serves as an efficient screening mechanism for outsiders approaching the facility."
"Reagan, this should be simple for you." Yi Chen remarked.
"Not bad... I’ll go in first and wait for you."With this said, Reagan directly input a special program into his brain, his gaze became instantly resolute, and his body adapted to the external environment, unaffected in any way, walking alone in a certain direction.
Meanwhile, someone else mirrored Reagan’s actions.
The chief physician from the Teeth Hall, Yousef, who conducted a special surgery on his brain, similarly unaffected by external influences, left the group independently.
After confirming the actions of the two, the Great Emperor issued an order-like suggestion, "Everyone should disperse; moving collectively makes mutual influence easier."
With this, everyone separated.
The group was made of elites, even the seemingly unreliable Lene underwent an instant change in expression.
Naturally, for Yi Chen, this was a minor issue as well; he needed only to immerse his consciousness completely into the Dead Sea, ceasing to think about external matters.
His physical body trod across the desolate scarlet land, while his consciousness floated in the vast sea.
As his consciousness made contact with the rocks, his body entered a pure white building, where a bald employee wearing a long experimental uniform stood before him.
"Welcome to Containment Facility-Site.07.
This facility is specifically for containing an unknown entity with quantity [1],
its access permissions and containment effects are of the highest level, even visitors authorized from above are required to undergo a series of inspections, mental processing, and education and preparation before contact.
Please follow me!"
"Where are the others?"
"To prevent group memory transmission and influence, any visitor coming here will be separated individually; your contact with the unknown containment will proceed singly.
Other visitors who arrived with you will leave and return to their original residence after relevant visits, experiments, contact ends, or passively interrupted."
"What about the things on me?"
"The consciousness entities worn on you will be comprehensively judged in the upcoming checks; if they can maintain a high degree of memory synchronization with you, they will be considered as part of you.
If not, they will be individually separated and placed in isolation, to accompany you upon leaving the facility."
Yi Chen couldn’t help but feel worried,
he wasn’t worried about the removal of something completely independent like Little Grape, but concerned about the status of Yellow Skin, once removed it might expose the hidden videotape inside.
...
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
A large amount of cold gas seeped through the door, and a naked Yi Chen emerged.
As expected,
Little Grape, Yellow Skin, and even Nash, parasitic in his brain, were collected. However, they seemed not to notice the videotape hidden inside Yellow Skin, which allowed Yi Chen to breathe a sigh of relief; otherwise, being discovered with malignant influences could label him an accomplice and be executed on the spot.
Nonetheless,
one item was retained, a ring compressed from Liu Xinzhi’s remains. After all, Fu Jiang’s malignancy had been erased, the ring was merely an ordinary relic creation.
The real Liu Xinzhi had transformed into a deceased entity, always following behind Yi Chen, while this seemingly ordinary ring could greatly deepen their bond.
Though the tape remains undetected, Yi Chen is still wary of William doing something underhanded, but now he can’t afford to worry about that, and plans to complete his contact with the disaster quickly, even using this chance to better understand "Disaster," to eliminate the lingering hotel-induced stress disorder within.
Changing into a vertical striped crew-neck experimental uniform similar to staff here, Yi Chen was led to a similarly cylindrical structured pure white compartment,
inside was empty, with the whiteness itself representing ’nothing’, constantly reminding Yi Chen to forget promptly.
"Mr. Yi, please wait a moment, before contacting the unknown containment entity, an expert here will provide you with individual training; only once the training is complete can the formal contact begin.
Please adhere to the expert’s requirements, or your access rights will be revoked."
"Alright."
Just as the employee left, a man with thick, curly brown hair and a lush beard entered.
Though their attire was the same, his abundant hair set him apart from ordinary containment personnel.
Approaching with a sincere smile, the man shook Yi Chen’s hand, "Mr. Yi, hello! I’ve heard of your merit, eliminating ’man’s’ evil within a mere ten days of arrival, interacting with the disaster-like ’Manager’ to escape the hotel.
Following this, eradicating the newly formed phenomenon ’Fu Jiang’ during a subsequent mission.
Your extraordinary strength is remarkably unique,
now willing to undertake the unknown, highly risky ’Disaster Evil Contact’ with us; thank you immensely!
I’m among the earliest containment staff here, a researcher deeply familiar with the containment entity, and I’ll brief you on some basic information ahead. If you’re still willing to interact with the containment entity and meet my set standards, you may proceed to formal contact."
Yi Chen mildly sensed this hairy expert being somewhat distinctive,
"What’s your name?"
The expert shook his fingers, "This is the first thing I must emphasize to you...firstly, we need to forget names, whether our own or others’.
We just need to recognize each other’s facial features, height, weight, and build.
Greetings here are taboo! From now on, I will not address you by any name anymore.
The reason is simple, once infiltrated by malice, those holding names within their memory are more easily influenced, and can more readily remember the containment entity’s name, shouting it out loud.
This is extremely dangerous."
"Alright."
"Secondly, the most crucial thing, all information about the containment entity is recorded using ’denial records’.
Before you arrived, you should have known that acquiring information about the containment entity in any form is extremely dangerous.
Even knowing its size, outline shape, or species category could be affected, infiltrated by malice, causing containment failure.
Therefore, we adopt a denial recording method,
using erroneous information recorded in books, finally deriving the accurate information about the containment entity through massive erroneous data integration.
We’re optimizing this recording mode, aiming to acquire efficient information feedback with fewer denial phrases."
"For example, how is the denial recording method used?"
"For example, this message, from employee 1092’s record return - ’Not a deceased entity’.
This belongs to denial recording, free from subject constraints means no malicious trace-back, with given denial forms indicating the entity might be a living being, or existing in a special state between life and death."
"How many denial records are consolidated currently?"
"172831 entries, categorized in detail within the information archive, facilitating our daily management. Want to view this data in the archive?"
"No, my team is better at data consolidation, just let me attempt to interact with the containment entity."
"In that case, you need to thoroughly read the key denial info we compiled, this information will determine if you encounter danger next, and the corresponding danger level."
Something resembling a rulebook was handed to Yi Chen, and he began to read in earnest.
"Mr. Yi, how do you feel?"
Yi Chen showed no reaction to the expert’s inquiry, completely engrossed in reading.
"So quickly forgetting names, nice!"