"But what does 'flashback' mean?" Du Yu asked in confusion.
"It's what the mortal world calls the 'Mandela Effect,'" Dong Qianqiu said.
"The 'Mandela Effect'? That phenomenon everyone was discussing online a while ago?" Du Yu asked.
Qu Xi gave Du Yu a serious look and said, "Yes... the 'Mandela Effect' originated with the story of Mandela, the president of South Africa. In many people's memories, Mandela should have died in prison in the 1980s, but he actually only passed away in 2013."
"No... I still don't quite understand. What does whether he died have to do with a 'flashback'?"
Worried that Qu Xi wouldn't explain it clearly, Dong Qianqiu spoke up. "Simply put, the 'Mandela Effect' refers to errors appearing in people's memories simultaneously. Something lots of people clearly remembered turns out, after checking the records, never to have happened. But people don't know what causes this phenomenon. In reality, the emergence of certain important 'supreme pivots' causes history to deviate, and the world 'corrects' itself, forcibly altering everyone's memories. However, some people have special constitutions and aren't affected by this 'alteration,' so they remember things that never happened. Some of these people are themselves 'supreme pivots.'"
"No wonder!" Du Yu suddenly exclaimed. "I used to discuss this kind of thing with people all the time. There were cartoons I watched as a kid that only I remembered. Nobody else had ever seen them..."
"Although I wasn't talking about cartoons, that's more or less what I meant." Dong Qianqiu nodded slightly. "To deal with this situation, the Legend Management Bureau established the term 'flashback.' Whenever someone mentions a 'flashback,' everyone has to believe the memories they describe."
"So that's how it works..." This was the first time Du Yu had understood such a complicated explanation. "That means I really