The fleeting image made Anna's eyes freeze instantly. A reporter on TV was interviewing people in front of a school.
In the background of the black reporter, Anna saw a familiar face walking into the school gate.
The cute girl with freckles was named Olivia. She was also present when Charles was summoned.
She should have been crazy at that time, but now she has become just like Wang Jianshe before, completely back to normal.
"Wang Jianshe is too dangerous to approach for the time being, but she should be able to. Maybe I can find out from her why Wang Jianshe has transformed into that form."
"The IMF couldn't have left much support for her. There were so many ordinary people who went crazy at the time, and she was just one of them."
The TV screen flashed again, and the previous image was replaced by the image of Tom Cat hitting a mouse with a sledgehammer.
Anna stopped and started moving again. She whispered in Chinese: "Eat quickly. After eating, we will go to Greece. We have things to do."
"Hmm!" Gao Zhiming picked up the chicken with a fork and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing hard.
After briefly saying goodbye to Mark and his wife, Anna set off with Gao Zhiming that day.
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In a high-end school in Greece, Olivia was chatting and laughing as she walked with her good friends, sharing with others the interesting experiences of her previous travels with a smile on her face.
"Let me tell you, that beach is amazing! Not only is the scenery beautiful, but the prices are also very cheap. It's perfect for us students to travel!"
As they talked, the three girls walked towards the toilet.
"And do you know? There are all kinds of crystal clear emeralds in the sand there!"
"Really? Doesn't that mean you've become a rich man?"
"Hahaha~ I was kidding. They're not emeralds, but some wine bottle fragments."
"They were washed by the sea water and turned into pieces of emeralds. Although they are pieces of glass, they are really beautiful!!"
Walking into the toilet cubicle, Olivia continued to move excitedly.
"Have you seen my Twitter? I took so many beautiful photos,"
Pressing the flush button on the toilet, Olivia walked to the sink and began to wash her hands.
"Will you guys come travel with me next time? It's really, really fun! See different scenery and meet different people."
As she was talking, Olivia, who was washing her hands, began to feel that something was wrong. No one had responded to her since a while ago. She was just talking to herself.
"Xia? Salia?"
Olivia raised her head in confusion and looked at the huge glass of the sink. There was no response from the toilet cubicle reflected in the glass. For a moment, the entire women's restroom was extremely quiet.
"Don't try to scare me with your pranks. I won't fall for it."
Olivia walked over with trepidation, gently pushed the door of the compartment and it opened. She was shocked to see that her good friend was lying unconscious on the ground.
"Thalia!! What happened to you? Wake up!" Olivia rushed over, picked her up and was about to call the emergency number 112 on her cell phone.
"Swish!" A flying knife fell from the sky and hit the screen directly, and her phone screen went black instantly.
The next second, Olivia felt the sky darken, and when she looked up suddenly, a pair of white hands reached down from the air, lifted her head and pulled it up.
She wanted to break free, but as a schoolgirl she was too weak.
Olivia was carried across the ceiling and into the grocery room on the second floor.
"It's been so long since we last met. Do you still remember the passerby who took the photo of you? My dear Olivia?"
When she saw Anna's appearance, she was completely frozen in place. Then, Anna's face was like a key that opened her sealed memories.
A flesh tree formed by deformed flesh and blood with everted internal organs emerged from the depths of her memory, and the endless fear emanating from it gradually eroded her will.
Her face, which was full of smiles a few seconds ago, began to be gradually replaced by pain, and her energetic body began to hunch over.
"Tree! Tree! Ah!!" Olivia fell to her knees, holding her head, and screamed hysterically. Snot and tears dripped from her face onto the ground.
"Hmm?" Anna looked at the freckled girl in front of her curiously. When she first came, she thought she needed some method to help this girl recover her memory. How come she recognized her as soon as they met
"Look into my eyes," Anna told her.
“Ahhh!!” Olivia screamed and knelt on the ground, shrinking into the corner of the room like a stray dog. She curled up her limbs and buried her head in her chest as quickly as possible.
Anna nodded. "Well, that's much more normal now."
Compared to the IMF's disguise, Olivia's current appearance made Anna feel at ease.
She came to her side, knelt on one knee, put her arm around Olivia's shoulders, and whispered in her ear, "What did those people do to you? What did you experience there? Tell me everything."
Olivia, who was almost on the verge of collapse, did not answer. She banged her head against the wall, trying to use self-harm to avoid facing Anna.
Anna understood that the other party was in a state of stress. If she didn't make her feel better, she wouldn't be able to ask anything.
Anna stopped her with her hands, opened her arms and hugged her completely in her arms, holding her gently and rocking her like a mother.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, and the tree in your mind won't hurt you either."
Anna used her experience with the Diva tribe and tried to soothe the other party's almost collapsed sanity in a purely psychological way.
This method was effective. After half an hour, Olivia's trembling body finally calmed down.
Although we can't restore to the way we were before, at least we can communicate. "Tell me what happened to you after you left that resort? What did they do to you?"
Olivia didn’t dare to look at Anna’s face, and said in a trembling voice: “They asked me a lot of questions, and I couldn’t answer them, so I built that thing with Lego and showed it to them.”
Now she is at the point where she doesn't even dare to call out her name.
Anna looked at the other person's situation in surprise. Generally speaking, memories of such strong emotions are difficult to modify, and even after modification, they will not last long.
More importantly, this is a memory about Charles. You know, he has become a god now.
The IMF can actually modify the memory of gods. It seems that they still have a lot of good things in their hands.
Olivia's current situation answered Anna's doubts, and Wang Jianshe was not replaced by someone.
His memory was just modified, and now he should have completely forgotten the agreement with me.
"Go on, don't listen, what else do they want you to do?"
"They...they made me meet a madman." As long as it didn't involve trees, Olivia's emotions stabilized a lot.
"What kind of madman is this? Have I ever seen one?"
"I don't know. It was just a crazy man with a beard. He was holding a big water tank in his arms. He told me that there were tree branches in the water."
(End of this chapter)