Qingmu was naturally interested in the origins of the spirit, and in some ways, all his doubts could be answered through this question.
Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Why am I different from everyone else?
He always felt he had an unknown mission, but he would get a headache whenever he thought about things, especially when he tried to find his past memories. This made him a dreamless person, because dreaming necessarily requires searching for memories, and he had no memories, or rather, he was unable to search for them.
His subconscious was like a rootless Ghost, drifting between heaven and earth. He even wondered if he, like those invading Parasitic Consciousness, had simply found an unreliable body on Earth. But where did his instinctive reactions and perceptions come from? It was because of this doubt that he established a cooperative relationship with Zhao Pengcheng, hoping to find some clues through this partnership.
Perhaps locking his memories is a way for the messenger of his mission to protect him; before he understands the world and possesses the ability to complete his mission, he cannot unlock his memories.
Su Huilan's words reminded him: if he kept improving his Mental Power, could he unlock his memories, or even his genetic information?
Before this, he had never thought about increasing his strength, nor had he ever tried to find the limits of his Mental Power, let alone know how to improve it.
It's time to give it a try. Perhaps this island is the key. The spiritual energy on the island is so strong that it makes the islanders' consciousness inherently stronger than that of people outside, and they are also immune to mental hypnosis. Petru also said that he found his Mental Power could be enhanced after staying in Tapu for a long time. Does that mean that as long as you stay on the island, your Mental Power can be strengthened?
He shared his idea with Su Huilan, but Su Huilan was not as optimistic as him. "It might work for the weak, but it probably won't be very effective for someone as strong as you. If it really can infinitely enhance a person's Mental Power, then our upcoming troubles might be quite significant."
Qingmu understood what kind of trouble she was referring to. "You mean there might be islanders with very strong Mental Power on the island?"
Su Huilan said, "Look closely at that old man, and at the scepter in his hand."
The dream continued. Tafiti and her man walked on the rainbow, while the people on the beach knelt on one knee, their hands clenched into fists, watching them. Only the old man still held his scepter high, as if the rainbow would fall from the sky if he lowered his hand.
"The origin of this dream is likely a wedding ceremony, but those two huge pyramids can't be real. Even if they existed, they couldn't possibly be related to their wedding," Su Huilan said. "I guess it might be like this: it's a kind of totem information in their genetic memory, but it requires someone with strong Mental Power to awaken it, and the trigger for awakening is the wedding ceremony."
Human weddings have always been sacred. Of course, in ancient times, they might not have been called weddings, but simply rituals of sexual intercourse. These rituals were sacred because they symbolized the hope for the continuation and development of the race. When a man and woman in a tribe were to unite, an elder—perhaps the tribal chief or a shaman—would preside over the ceremony, awakening their genetic memories and allowing them to see sacred totems.
Qingmu felt that Su Huilan's words contained a lot of information. If her guess was correct, then it meant at least three things:
First, their tribe has a Mental Power shaman. How powerful? When presiding over a tribal ceremony, he can easily hypnotize everyone and awaken their genetic memories. Keep in mind that under the interference of the island's spiritual energy field, neither Qingmu nor Su Huilan could hypnotize them without any obstacles.
Secondly, their genetic memory contains information about the pyramids, which implies a connection between them and Ancient Egypt civilization; at the very least, their ancestors must have seen the pyramids. Could it be that the Ancient Egypt truly crossed the ocean from Africa to the South Pacific and built the underwater pyramids and these Tapu?
Third, the scene they witnessed may not actually exist, but rather resides in their genetic memory, which the great wizard allowed them to see through the Group Dream Realm. In other words, the image of the old man holding a scepter might be one of his methods of casting a spell.
Su Huilan said, "Look at the scepter in that old man's hand. Although it's simple, doesn't it look a lot like the scepter of Ancient Egypt pharaoh?"
Qingmu hadn't paid much attention before, but Su Huilan pointed it out and he noticed that the old man's scepter had a hook at the top, which did indeed resemble the scepters in Ancient Egypt murals.
At this point, the dream had changed; the scene had become a forest, with two men and a woman dressed in modern clothes running ahead, and a group of islanders chasing closely behind.
A man turned around and raised his hand; a gunshot rang out, and the savages fell to the ground in fright.
The gunshot was exceptionally loud; Tafiti must have been terrified by it before, leaving a deep-seated fear in her memory. She probably didn't see the gun clearly, or didn't know the sound came from that small object in a person's hand, so there was no gun in her dream, only the man turning around and raising his hand to fire.
The dream ended there; the gunshot shattered the entire dream space. Although both Qingmu and Su Huilan were capable of protecting the space from collapse, they both believed that watching any further would be pointless. Even if they captured Tafiti's consciousness and communicated through question-and-answer sessions, they might not be able to extract any more information, as Tafiti clearly knew only limited details.
After exiting the dream, Tafiti did not wake up. Unless it was a terrible nightmare, people don't wake up immediately after a dream, especially since Tafiti wasn't sleeping but in a coma.
Qingmu found the corpse on the ground that Tafiti had once picked up. It did indeed resemble the person with three feathers in his dream, only not as young and handsome as in the dream.
"What do we do now?" Su Huilan asked.
Qingmu followed the footprints to the stream and said, "Let's go after them."
"We're not familiar with the environment, and we might not be able to catch up. If we don't, they'll definitely be caught by the island's savages, and then there will be no saving them," Su Huilan said.
"It won't be long, they can't go far. And at least one of them is injured, it'll be hard for them to escape." Qingmu threw away his cigarette butt; the fight had lasted exactly the time it takes to smoke a cigarette. "As long as the Boss Coal is with them, I have a way to contact him."
"What should we do with these two people?" Su Huilan pointed to the unconscious man and woman on the ground.
Qingmu said, "Let Petru handle it."
Su Huilan also thought it was a smart decision, so she turned around and gestured to Petru, meaning: You come down, we'll go first, and you can catch up in a bit.
Seeing her gesture, Petru on the mountain said to Hanran with displeasure, "Your master wants me to clean up the battlefield!"
He saw Qingmu and Su Huilan walk towards one side of the valley, but after only a few steps, Su Huilan came back and squatted down to help Tafiti lower her grass skirt, covering her private parts, before standing up and following Qingmu.
Petru yelled, "Damn it, they don't trust me! Do they really think I'm a beast, that I wouldn't even spare a savage?!"
With Hanran nonchalant meow, its glance clearly said: I think so too.
Petru raised his fist as if to punch him. "Don't think I won't dare to hit you just because your master is backing you up..."
Before he could finish speaking, his vision blurred, and a huge white cat suddenly appeared in the void. Its white body resembled a massive snow-capped mountain, and its imposing aura made him feel a bit oxygen-deprived and experiencing altitude sickness.