Ye Qing listened quietly. When he heard that Wang Yao had carved into his own body, even his eyelid twitched.
It was hard to imagine how far he had been pushed to endure the pain of cutting into his own flesh.
Wang Yao smiled and continued, looking at the ceiling. "You might think the process was painful, but I really wasn't all that afraid at the time.
"What frightened me most... was actually forgetting..."
The word seemed to remind Wang Yao of what had happened back then. He fell silent for a long time before continuing, "But even carving into my body couldn't stop me from forgetting.
"Gradually, I forgot my parents, forgot you, and forgot Sceptile.
"In the end, I forgot myself."
Ye Qing listened quietly. That fear of the unknown really could drive someone to mental despair.
"Then Yingzi appeared. She felt very human to me, as if she were the only truly living person in the village.
"After that, she stayed with me day and night. Although I'd forgotten everything, since it was all forgotten, none of it mattered anymore... I was a completely new person."
Wang Yao stopped there. Ye Qing could guess what had happened afterward.
As the illusion shattered, the consciousness space Wang Yao was in had collapsed along with it.
Ordinarily, an illusion should not have been as terrifying as what Wang Yao had experienced. At most, it should have been a deception like the village.
The reason Wang Yao had entered such a terrifying illusion was probably the work of the Alakazam sealed inside the Spoon. Perhaps Imprison had already begun to loosen back then.
After hearing Wang Yao's story, Ye Qing understood that, to Wang Yao, Yingzi was the lover who had spent ten years by his side. This was not