Shen Qin panicked.
How could she possibly fail to remember things about her brother?
Those should have been her most precious memories—ever since childhood, she had loved sticking by Shen He's side. The happy times she spent with her brother had always been what kept her going through those years among The Forgotten.
Whenever she thought of those memories, she felt that no matter how difficult something was, she could overcome it with ease.
It had been the same after reuniting with her brother. Though neither of them retained their childhood innocence, that only made their few moments together all the more precious.
And now, she could not remember them? No matter how hard she tried to recall them, her mind was completely hazy.
That made her nervous. Although what Xu Shi had mentioned was not a pleasant memory, that did not mean she wanted to forget it—when it came to her brother, she did not want to forget a single thing.
"It was you! You did this, didn't you?!"
At this point, how could she not understand that Xu Shi was behind it?
Before, all her attention had been on whether her body had been modified, so she had not paid much attention to the mental aspect. She had instinctively assumed that the headache and dizziness from earlier were simply discomfort from having just emerged from the chamber.
"Mm... I suppose?"
Facing her accusation, Xu Shi revealed a smug smile that said, "You finally noticed." "More precisely, the 'protection mechanism' implanted in your body took effect."
Honestly, he had gone to considerable lengths for her.
The "protection mechanism" was a general term for Shen Qin's modifications. Its basic effect was to forcibly make "protecting Xu Shi" her foremost principle through a Brain-Computer Chip and neural alterations.
It was a