He waited for Luo Ling to appear, and when he saw her running downstairs with a frown on her brow, he knew that she must have also successfully preserved her memory.
"Sure enough, the meditation world is effective." Luo Ling came up to him and said.
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "We should think about how to get out of this world now. The person who plotted against us, or something else, seems to have captured a short period of time in our memory, from when I was waiting for you downstairs to when we came out of the cafe. Do you remember what happened next?"
"No, and I have confirmed with my spirit servants that the visit to Zhang Miao should have happened today. There should be no subsequent erasure of our memories."
Xiao Chen said: "We have no memory of what happened afterwards. Does that mean that we were attacked in the sea of the first world right after we visited Zhang Miao in the second world? And the effect of this attack is that our main consciousness was pulled back to this world and fell into a short memory loop?"
"It's possible." Luo Ling pushed her hair behind her ears. "So, I thought of a method that might be useful. You see, before we woke up, we were all following the 'script' here to develop the story. This is the basis for the memory to function reasonably, but what if we don't follow the script? For example, if we just wait here and don't go to the cafe, will this memory be destroyed? Then we can get out of it."
Xiao Chen said: "We don't have to wait foolishly. We can try to go outside the school and see if there is a boundary in this world. Maybe if we break through the boundary, we can also end this illusion."
The two left the Chemistry Building and walked out of the school. It must be said that this world was extremely real, and all the details were exactly the same as the real world. Xiao Chen was not sure whether this was a side effect of the attack itself, or whether this world was constructed with the help of his and Luo Ling's extraordinary memory and mental power.
They walked all the way outside the school and crossed two streets, but the scenery around them did not change.
Luo Ling said: "This should be a world created based on our memories."
Luo Ling pulled Xiao Chen into a small alley and asked, "Have you been to this alley before?"
Xiao Chen said: "I've been here before. There's a very good bun shop here."
"But I've never been here, so the scene here is generated based on your memory." Luo Ling said, "Take me to a place you haven't been to either."
Xiao Chen scratched his head and thought for a while, then pulled Luo Ling through the alley and walked to the entrance of a dirty alley. "I've never been here before."
Luo Ling said: "I don't have one either, let's go and take a look."
The two walked into the alley and found that the scene inside was still very natural and real. There were doors and windows everywhere, trash cans in the corners, clothes hanging on the clotheslines, and even a cat running past them.
Xiao Chen said: "It's impossible to tell the real from the fake."
"I am very familiar with this alley. It shouldn't be here." She pulled Xiao Chen to a door with a sign that read "No. 16 Huairen Road".
"Huairen Road? Isn't it next to your parents' house?" Xiao Chen said.
"Yes. So this alley was created based on my other memories. This magic is really powerful. It can actually search for the memories of a great magician without anyone noticing."
"It seems that it is impossible to break through the border geographically." Xiao Chen said.
"How long have we been walking now? It was exactly ten-thirty when we left just now." Luo Ling asked.
Xiao Chen raised his wrist, only to find that the hands on his watch pointed to 10:31. "Time has stopped."
But the pedestrians and vehicles around them continued to move as usual without stopping.
Luo Ling came over to take a look and said, "It seems that as long as we don't move forward according to the plot, time will probably stay here."
The two returned to school again and walked towards the Encounter Cafe. Sure enough, when they set foot on the road they were supposed to take, Xiao Chen's watch started moving again.
After walking outside the cafe, they waited for a while and observed Zhang Miao's performance in the cafe. They found that Zhang Miao did not react to the passage of time and always sat in his seat looking at his mobile phone.
Luo Ling said: "It seems that it is difficult to break through this cycle in terms of time and space."
Xiao Chen said: "Why don't we try to find a breakthrough with Zhang Miao? What do you think will happen if we talk to him about something else?"
Walking into the coffee shop, the two exchanged pleasantries and sat down in front of Zhang Miao. Xiao Chen said, "Teacher Zhang, I'm currently working on an article about pollution emissions. I know that the country has recently introduced a series of policies to regulate energy conservation and emission reduction. Could you please analyze from a theoretical perspective the impact of reducing nitrogen oxide emissions on air quality?"
Zhang Miao asked, "Are you asking me to discuss this? Shouldn't you ask the teachers at the School of Environment?"
Xiao Chen said seriously, "After all, pollutants will also produce chemical reactions in the air. Readers will definitely have more trust in a chemistry teacher like you."
"Well, I'd like to talk about the problem of nitrogen oxides causing acid rain and smog."
When Zhang Miao was talking, Xiao Chen and Luo Ling released their mental powers, not only observing his performance, but also observing the changes in the people and environment around him.
They would ask all kinds of questions from time to time, and Zhang Miao's answers became slower and slower. Sometimes, he would have to think for a while before answering an irrelevant but simple question.
Xiao Chen clearly felt that the space around him was also somewhat delayed. Although this change was very small, only a fraction of a second, it could not escape his mental observation. Whenever Zhang Miao started to get stuck, the waiters and guests in the background would stop talking.
Xiao Chen winked at Luo Ling, asking her to continue talking to Zhang Miao. He got up on the pretext of going to the bathroom and walked to a booth for three people. There sat a pair of male and female students and a foreign student. They seemed to be talking to the foreign student about going out to play on the weekend. Xiao Chen sat down next to the foreign student and asked in front of the three people's astonished eyes, "Three of you, do you want to know about insurance investment?"
The boy said hurriedly: "We don't need it."
Xiao Chen put a hand on the foreign student's shoulder and said, "You don't need it, but this brother does. We are new here and we don't know anyone here. How can we be protected without a full set of insurance, including critical illness insurance, accident insurance, and life insurance? You said the school has insurance? How much use is that? Come on, let me tell you about the projects of our Suero Insurance Company. There is always one that will rip you off."
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