Chapter 137

Kudo was still somewhat dazed. He stared at the mosaic objects in front of him before glancing at Xiao Li and Brother Memories incredulously. He didn’t understand what to do now.

Xiao Li asked Brother Memories, “How can I restore his memories?”

Brother Memories shrugged. He was about to say ‘eat it’ before turning around to see Xiao Li’s hands on the little yellow book. He didn’t want to remember the taste of Fujiang’s memories so he gave up the idea and spoke honestly, “A minute after the memories leave me, they will automatically return to the owner.”

It was as he said. After a minute, Kudo shook his head and reached out to press a hand tightly to his temple. “W-What is this place? Hercule? Why are you here?”

He felt somewhat foggy at first but soon after regaining his memories, his face changed immediately. “I remember I was eaten by him. No, according to my current situation, the thing he wants to eat isn’t me but my memories? Or thoughts? After being eaten by him, I felt like I didn’t know anything.”

“They are memories.”

Kudo glanced at the middle-aged man with fear. The other person was touching his belly with a sad face, as if mourning the loss of his dinner. There was no meaning of attacking Kudo.

At this time, there was a subtle sound in the distance. Xiao Li glanced at the source of the sound.

Brother Memories took the opportunity to observe his face. “Can I go? I’m harmless and can’t say anything else.”

Kudo: ??

What harmless ghost? Ordinary people who met him would have their memories sucked away and become a dementia patient!

Xiao Li thought about it. “Okay, let him out first.”

Brother Memories pressed the switch code of the glass door and smiled at Xiao Li before running away. Xiao Li didn’t stop him and walked forward with Kudo.

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On the other side, Xiao Li was moving forward. The lights here were still on but there were nothing in the glass doors on either side. In fact, the man who ate memories was the first living thing he had seen.

However, based on the setting, there seemed to be many interesting creatures here. Xiao Li now felt a bit of excitement.

Kudo followed him and endured it. Still, he couldn’t help back the impulse to ask questions. “Hercule, can I ask you a few questions?”

“Um? What’s the question?”

Kudo hesitated. “You… how did you get that ‘man’ to return the memories to me?”

The monster seemed to be afraid of Hercule… how did this person do it? This name wasn’t present on the reincarnator rankings.

Xiao Li tried to answer him as simply as possible. “My friend fed him bad memories.”

Kudo repeated incredulously. “Bad memories? What type of memories are bad to eat?”

Xiao Li explained, “Oh, she is a ghost.”

Kudo, “……”

Once Kudo asked this question, Xiao Li thought of another possibility. “In addition to feeding him bad memories, there should be a theoretical escape possibility…”

Kudo hadn’t yet recovered from the shock as he asked, “What is it?”

“Use fictional memories to stop him.” Xiao Li placed his hands in his pocket, eyes faintly sweeping along the glass rooms on the way. “Memories are something that can be forged subconsciously. As long as you hypnotize yourself and forge countless memories for yourself. If you make the scale large enough, you should be able to make him spit it out.”

“……That sounds very difficult.”

Xiao Li reconsidered. “Ah yes, this is my relatively simple method.”

Where was it easy?

Kudo wanted to growl out but just as the phrase squeezed into his throat, he managed to swallow it back At this moment, Xiao Li’s image in his eyes changed again.

It was unknown if the ghost had felt Xiao Li’s breath. They walked forward a long distance without encountering any other living things. Xiao Li’s face didn’t show any impatience as he continued to walk forward.

As he approached a corner, he stopped and looked at the obstacle in front of him. It was a huge human face carved into a door. Its nostrils were two holes and the mouth was a huge hole like a vortex. This wasn’t the most important feature. The most remarkable feature of this face statue was that its facial features were inverted.

The place where the eyebrows should be had a bloody mouth carved and the place where the mouth should be had the eyebrows. This image looked very strange and was psychologically uncomfortable. The eyes of the statue were originally closed. Then after discovering Xiao Li and Kudo, it opened its eyes and spoke in a buzzing voice. “Hello.”

…It was polite.

Xiao Li was in a good mood and waved. “Hello.”

“You woke me up. According to the rules, you have to answer three of my questions with the truth. Otherwise, you will hang here upside down instead of me and become the next generation gatekeeper.”

Kudo thought about it. If they could delay the time, it was best not to answer directly.

“What’s in it for us to answer the question?” Xiao Li asked next to him.

The face statue replied, “You can pass through this door behind me. It contains secrets that you want to know.”

Xiao Li smiled. “How do you know the secrets we want to know?”

The face statue squirmed.

Xiao Li immediately said, “Forget it. It is estimated that you can’t answer. Just ask the question.”

The face statue choked a bit but pretended like nothing happened. “Then I’ll ask the first question. Who are you?”

Kudo replied, “Kudo.”

“Hercule.”

The face statue asked the second question, “What is the purpose for coming here?”

Kudo nervously pushed up his glasses. “For my life.”

This time, Xiao Li thought about it. “I want to… make more friends?”

Kudo, “……”

Teacher, I want to report. This person’s painting style is different from everyone else!

In a corner that no one could see, the overhead camera turned. The person monitoring it in a room stopped writing before finally writing a sentence on the paper:

[Experimenter 003 is showing abnormal behaviour. It is recommended to continue focusing on observation.]

Rainbow Turtle: Unfortunately, from now on, I will be switching updates to once a week on Friday.

The only reason for this is that I’m almost caught up to the author. I might’ve mentioned it before but readers are currently very unhappy with the author because she has three ongoing novels (the earliest one started in 2017) that she is only updating once every three months in order to maintain her VIP status on jjwxc. Since she has been doing this for a while for two other novels, it is unlikely that she will suddenly start updating daily again like she used to.