"So," Tian Bufan said, "do you still want to talk about this?"
"I do, but... I don't want to discuss some broad concept I've never encountered. It's like someone suddenly shoving a copy of 'One Dragon-subduing Slap' into my hands and telling me internal energy exists, and that cultivating it lets you run across rooftops and strike an ox through a mountain..."
"There's too much I need to adjust to. I want a moment to breathe..."
He spoke with some difficulty.
But then he froze.
Because he had inadvertently said the words "adjust to."
"Adjust to? Are these concepts things you can 'adjust to,' too?"
"But I... don't seem to remember anything?"
Lin Yi's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He remembered the words Tian Bufan had, deliberately or otherwise, guided him into saying earlier-"He had only come here to earn thirty thousand yuan toward Grandmother's medical bills."
But...
No matter how hard he thought, he could find no trace of anything related to "Grandmother" in his memories.
It was as though Grandmother had never existed in his world.
A sudden chill gripped Lin Yi's heart as two terrifying possibilities occurred to him.
Either someone had used something like hypnosis to make him forget Grandmother.
Or... he really didn't have a grandmother.
But if so, why had he firmly believed from the beginning that he had come here to "earn money toward medical bills"?
That motive was too flimsy. So flimsy... it was as though someone had overwritten his motive!
If it had been overwritten, what for?
To make his entry into the Campus more plausible?
He remembered Boss's words-"It's hard to imagine you could make it here alive."
He remembered the Head Teacher's words-"With your inspiration, you couldn't possibly have passed the screening."
Yes, he shouldn't have been able to