As the game progressed bit by bit, Dong Zhen began to feel increasingly uncomfortable.
But Dr. Neil and Dr. Eva were still working hard to help Johnny become an astronaut and land on the moon.
After all, they had already signed the contract in reality.
No matter what, they had to help Johnny fulfill that dream.
Time continued to move forward, this time arriving at Johnny's high school years, where they learned from Johnny why he liked Liva.
Because Johnny thought Liva was special.
Johnny came across as somewhat selfish here, and even his good friend Nicholas criticized him for it.
Feeling bad for Liva.
Suddenly, Johnny seemed so annoying!
+1, what a selfish jerk!
But something felt a little off. Maybe there would be some kind of twist later?
The viewers in Dong Zhen's livestream were discussing it among themselves as well.
But Dong Zhen's attention was no longer on the comments. He had been drawn in by the game's story.
Johnny's behavior here did seem extremely selfish, even unlikeable.
Yet Dong Zhen kept feeling that something was off.
Sure, that reason could explain why Liva had always been folding paper rabbits.
But Dong Zhen still found it somewhat forced. What exactly was wrong?
Time continued to move forward, arriving at Johnny's childhood.
At home, when Johnny left for school, his mother did not call him Johnny, but Joey.
Using the soccer ball as a medium, Eva and Neil pushed deeper once again.
But everything that followed was different.
Dong Zhen leaned slightly forward before the computer, his eyes wide open.
The screen turned completely white. Moreover, within this memory, Neil and Eva could even smell the stench of dead animals.
Before Johnny's next memory lay nothingness.
This meant that part of Johnny's childhood memories had been damaged.
And within those damaged memories, there seemed to be the bloody smell of dead animals.
Unable to proceed, Neil and Eva decided to follow the plan they had formulated earlier.
They would implant Johnny with the dream of becoming an astronaut. That way, through the special machine, Johnny could keep moving toward that goal.
However, the players were clearly not pleased with what Eva and Neil were doing.
How the hell are his memories damaged? You haven't even figured out what happened in Johnny's childhood memories!
Why are you doing things like this?
Dong Zhen looked deeply displeased. Compared with going to the moon, he was now much more curious about the secret behind everything.
And based on what the game had shown so far, he had a feeling that all the previous mysteries would be revealed in Johnny's childhood.
But what the hell were these two doctors doing? They would stop at nothing to achieve their goal and only cared about putting on a show?
Yet to the two doctors' surprise, another accident occurred.
No matter how Neil and Eva guided or hinted at Johnny,
whether they added astronomy courses to his elementary and middle school years, or replaced the movie Johnny watched at the theater with one about aviation,
everything was constantly suggesting that Johnny should become an astronaut.
Yet none of it changed Johnny's later memories.
Johnny was not even remotely interested in going to the moon.
Not only were the two doctors in the game dumbfounded, the players were too.
In Johnny's subconscious, there was not even the slightest desire to go to the moon.
Then why had a person like this made going to the moon his final wish?
What was on the moon that attracted him so strongly?
Time was running out. Johnny's body could not hold on much longer.
If they wanted to fulfill Johnny's wish, then those incomplete childhood memories might be the key.
Dr. Neil went to consult the company about why this had happened.
Dr. Eva was also analyzing why implanting memories into Johnny had failed to change his wishes.
If there was nothing wrong with the machine, then going to the moon was clearly secondary to Johnny.
There was a more important condition that had changed Johnny's desire.
And Liva had played an important role in Johnny's life.
They had been together ever since high school.
But what factor had changed Johnny's desire?
While Eva pondered this, Neil successfully obtained the answer on his end.
Johnny's memories were missing because he had taken large amounts of beta blockers as a child.
Propranolol, a type of beta blocker, was believed to prevent proteins in the brain from restoring memories the way they had before.
In other words, Johnny's childhood memories were missing because he had taken a large amount of beta blockers during childhood.
But that did not mean those memories had been completely erased. They had merely been hidden and neglected.
Therefore, if they wanted to use the machine to continue exploring Johnny's childhood, they needed a medium.
At that moment, Dong Zhen thought of something.
"The bloody smell, the smell of a rotting corpse? Right! Didn't that doctor run over a squirrel at the beginning? Could the squirrel's scent serve as the medium?"
Seeing the prompt in the game, Dong Zhen immediately realized it too.
This had all been planned from the start!
"So that's it. That squirrel had a huge purpose from the very beginning!"
"You could say this squirrel died a worthy death! It was destined to die! Thank you, squirrel, for your outstanding contribution."
As he spoke, Dong Zhen controlled the character in the game to head to the roadside and collect the squirrel's scent.
The livestream comments flooded in as well.
Squirrel: Oh, thank you so damn much!
One of the most tragic characters: Squirrel!
But setting aside the joking comments, more people were, like Dong Zhen,
expectant and curious about what Johnny's childhood memories would be like.
Amid the livestream viewers' urging,
Dong Zhen used the scent as a medium and successfully entered that chaotic section of Johnny's memories.
It was an extremely chaotic memory, with moments from different times overlapping one another.
That was why so many little Johnnys could be seen on the streets.
Dong Zhen noticed one Johnny playing with a soccer ball.
That soccer ball had been one of the previous mediums.
The two doctors searched all over the town, but found nothing.
At that moment, Johnny's mother had just finished talking with someone and was preparing to start the car and leave.
But no one noticed that "Little Johnny," chasing after his soccer ball, had run behind the car.
The car started. With a bang, "Little Johnny" was knocked to the ground.
What was going on? Little Johnny had been in a car accident?
So that was why his memories were missing?
But hadn't it been said that he had taken too many beta blockers?
Though confused, Dong Zhen, like the two doctors in the game, believed that the one who had been hit was Johnny.
But in the next moment, the real Johnny appeared.
In an instant, some of the earlier doubts were answered!
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