The Truth About to Be Revealed

As the game progressed bit by bit, Dong Zhen's heart had already begun to feel a little uncomfortable.

But Dr. Neil and Dr. Eva were still working hard to make Johnny an astronaut and land on the moon.

After all, in reality, they had already signed the contract.

No matter what, they had to help Johnny achieve this dream.

Time continued to advance, this time arriving at high school, where they learned from Johnny why he liked Liva.

Because Johnny felt that Liva was special.

Here, Johnny came across as somewhat selfish, even his good friend Nicholas condemned him for it.

'Quietly feeling sorry for Liva!'

'Suddenly I really dislike Johnny!'

'+1, selfish jerk!'

'But I feel like something's off, maybe there'll be a twist later?'

The bullet comments in Dong Zhen's livestream were all chatting among themselves.

But at this moment, Dong Zhen's attention was completely off the comments; he had been drawn in by the game's story.

It seemed that Johnny's behavior here was indeed very selfish, even detestable.

Yet Dong Zhen felt that something was off somewhere.

Admittedly, this reason could explain why Liva had been folding paper rabbits all along.

But Dong Zhen still thought it was a bit forced—what exactly was wrong?

Time continued forward, arriving at Johnny's childhood.

At home, when Johnny went out for school, his mother didn't call him Johnny, but Joey.

Using soccer as a medium, Eva and Neil pushed forward again.

But everything from then on was different.

Dong Zhen, sitting in front of the computer, leaned forward slightly, his eyes wide open.

On the screen appeared a vast expanse of white, and at the same time, within this memory, Neil and Eva even smelled the stench of a dead animal.

Before Johnny's next memory segment, there was nothing but a void.

This meant that a part of Johnny's childhood memory was damaged.

And within this damaged memory, there seemed to be the bloody smell of a dead animal.

Unable to proceed, Neil and Eva decided to follow the plan they had previously set.

To implant the dream of becoming an astronaut into Johnny, so that through the special machine, Johnny could continuously advance toward this goal.

But the players were clearly not happy with Neil and Eva's approach.

'This damn memory is damaged, and you haven't even figured out what Johnny's childhood memory is about!'

'Why do you do things like this?'

Dong Zhen looked displeased. After all, compared to going to the moon, he was now more curious about the secret behind it.

And based on the current performance of the game, he had a feeling that all the previous mysteries would be revealed in Johnny's childhood.

But these two damn doctors, stopping at nothing to achieve their goals, only focusing on surface-level work—what was that supposed to mean!

However, contrary to the two doctors' expectations, an accident occurred again.

Because no matter how Neil and Eva guided and hinted at Johnny, adding astronomy courses to his elementary and middle school, changing the movies at the theater Johnny went to into aerospace themes—

everything constantly hinted at Johnny becoming an astronaut.

But none of this changed Johnny's subsequent memories.

In fact, Johnny was completely uninterested in going to the moon.

Not only the two doctors in the game, but the players were equally baffled.

In Johnny's subconscious, there was no desire to go to the moon at all.

So why would such a person's dying wish be to go to the moon?

What was on the moon that attracted him?

Time was running out; Johnny's body couldn't hold on much longer.

If they wanted to fulfill Johnny's wish, then that damaged childhood memory might be the crucial point.

Dr. Neil went to consult the company about why this situation was occurring.

And Dr. Eva was also analyzing why implanting memories into Johnny couldn't change his will.

If the machine wasn't broken, then obviously, going to the moon was secondary to Johnny.

There was a more primary condition that had altered Johnny's desire.

And Liva played an important role in Johnny's life.

They had been together since high school.

But what exactly was the element that caused Johnny's desires to change?

While Eva was pondering, Neil had also successfully obtained results on his end.

That was the reason Johnny's memories were missing: because he had taken a large amount of beta-blockers as a child.

Propranolol, a type of beta-blocker, is believed to prevent proteins in the brain from re-storing memories in their original way.

In other words, the gaps in Johnny's childhood memories were due to him consuming a large amount of beta-blockers during his childhood.

But this memory loss didn't mean the memories were completely deleted—they were hidden and ignored.

So to continue using the machine to explore Johnny's childhood, a medium was necessary.

At that moment, Dong Zhen thought of something.

"The smell of blood, the stench of rotting corpses? Right! Didn't the doctor run over a squirrel at the very beginning!? Could the squirrel's scent be used as a medium?"

Seeing the hint in the game, Dong Zhen immediately caught on.

This was all calculated from the start!

"So that's it—that squirrel was important from the very beginning!"

"You could say that squirrel died a worthy death! It was destined to die! Thanks to this squirrel for making an outstanding contribution."

As Dong Zhen spoke, he controlled his character in the game to walk to the roadside and collect the squirrel's scent.

The live-stream chat was also flooding with comments.

'Squirrel: I fucking thank you, man!'

'One of the most tragic characters: the squirrel!'

But aside from some teasing comments, most people were like Dong Zhen.

Anticipating and curious about what Johnny's childhood memories would be like next.

Amid the barrage of urging comments in the live-stream chat.

Dong Zhen used the scent as a medium and successfully entered that chaotic segment of Johnny's memories.

This was a very disordered memory, with various points in time overlapping.

So on the street, many little Johnnys could be seen.

Among them, Dong Zhen noticed one Johnny playing with a soccer ball.

This soccer ball was one of the previous mediums.

The two doctors searched everywhere in this small town but found nothing.

Just then, Johnny's mother finished chatting with someone and was about to start the car and leave.

But no one noticed that 'Little Johnny,' chasing his soccer ball, had come behind the car.

The car started. With a 'bang,' 'Little Johnny' was knocked to the ground.

What happened? Did Little Johnny get hit by a car?

So was this the reason for his memory loss?

But hadn't they said it was due to excessive beta-blocker intake?

A bit confused, but like the two doctors in the game, Dong Zhen also believed that the one hit was Johnny.

But the next moment, the real Johnny appeared.

Instantly, some of the previous confusion was resolved!

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