Chapter 609: Lost Hometown People
After eating dumplings, it got dark.
After cleaning up the kitchen, the family sat together to watch the evening show during the festival.
The show itself is not that good to watch, but getting together with family is the most enjoyable thing. Everyone eats peanuts, melon seeds and candies while complaining about the fun in the show and even imitates the magic tricks in the show.
Everyone was very happy, even Heigu was as happy as a dog.
In addition to Wu Xian and Heigu, there were a total of six people at the scene. They were obviously a family, but their appearances and surnames were all different, and their clothing styles were also two different ones. The sister and niece dressed fashionably, while the others looked a little rustic, as if the style was from more than ten years ago.
We watched TV until ten o'clock in the evening when everyone felt sleepy. The brother and nephew said goodbye and left the experience hall. They would not stay here that night.
Father Zhao Qingguo, sister Hao Yulan and niece Zhou Caiwei all went upstairs. The three of them lived in the experience hall. Only Wu Xian and Mei Guifen were left in the living room on the first floor.
Wu Xian said somewhat awkwardly: "I, I want to go back too."
"Where are you going back to? Isn't this your home? Why would you want to move out when you're already at home?"
Wu Xian lowered his head and said, "I, I heard that after eating here, you will become indifferent and will try every means to drive people away. I don't want to see you become like that. It's better for you to leave by yourself."
Mei Guifen smiled and stroked Wu Xian's curly hair: "Silly child, we are only so mean to outsiders. You are my son, how can parents kick their children out of the house?"
She took Wu Xian's hand, walked all the way up to the second floor, and pushed open the door of an empty room.
"Remember? This is your room. No one has lived here for more than ten years, but I clean and tidy it up regularly. You can stay here as long as you want. Home will always be your safe haven."
Wu Xian glanced around the room and saw pictures of himself hanging on the wall, as well as some pictures of him with his parents and siblings. Everything from a cabinet to a light cord gave Wu Xian a sense of familiarity.
His nose felt sore and his voice became choked.
"I never thought I would have the chance to come back, thank you..."
Wu Xian said thank you while closing the door, like a shy man who didn't want others to see his vulnerable side.
But as soon as the door was closed, Wu Xian started to curse.
But the words were stopped as soon as they came to his lips, because there was no sound of footsteps at the door, and there was a faint friction sound on the door.
One can imagine that at this moment the old lady was sticking to the door, trying to spy on what was going on inside. This perverted behavior reminded Wu Xian of an old friend.
After waiting for a few minutes.
Mei Guifen finally left. Wu Xian leaned against the door, wiped the sweat off his face, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I thank you for eight generations of ancestors, Lao Deng!"
"Never forget, never forget..."
Wu Xian kept repeating these four words, and only calmed down after a while.
The psychological pressure he felt at this moment was even greater than when he was in the blessed land.
Although there are evil spirits everywhere in the blessed land, there are very few that the relatives encounter that are completely beyond their ability to deal with. Moreover, the relatives have pre-selected props for worshiping gods and the opportunity to become stronger in the blessed land.
But this is the real world. There is no sophisticated arrangement by the gods. God knows what level of evil is hiding here. Maybe it is a top-level evil person, or an evil spirit of the evil level.
At this time, Wu Xian only had a small prop given by the City God and three ordinary props he brought from the blessed land. Even if he used one less, he would lose one. Therefore, Wu Xian did not dare to be careless. There were obviously problems everywhere, and he had to pretend to be nice to that family.
"It's confirmed, there is really a problem here!"
"There is a strong cognitive interference in the entire building, which makes people feel inexplicably identified with and close to this family. The degree of interference is even greater than the 'Five Filthy Gods' I encountered at the beginning."
Wu Xian was a man who had seen and experienced a lot, and he had a strong resistance to cognitive interference. When he just silently recited "never forget", he kept recalling his experiences in the blessed land and asked some questions that could strengthen his self-cognition. It only took him a short while to regain his sanity.
But even so, Wu Xian still felt a little unstable.
So he glanced around a few times and took a sip of the coriander lemon tea that he had never dared to drink. The rich and strange taste was like an epiphany, making him sober up a little.
"That's what it smells like!"
With the help of coriander lemon tea, Wu Xian felt more relaxed and continued to analyze the situation.
"Heigu and I both shed tears after entering. This may be related to the fact that we are all 'lost people'. This experience center may be based on whether people shed tears to select those who stay."
Before coming to the experience hall, the people from the City God's Office had told Wu Xian the information about the "lost homelander".
Every time a family member goes to the blessed land, it is possible that some native residents of the blessed land will be brought into the real world. These native residents will have their memories erased and then be instilled with false memories, so that they can completely integrate into the real world and become native locals.
But there are sometimes special circumstances.
If the natives brought to the real world are the last living people in that world, then these natives may show symptoms of incomplete memory erasure and replacement.
These indigenous people will always want to return to their hometown and have an inexplicable obsession with the blessed land.
These people are the ones who have lost their homeland.
The lost people are the last batch of fire that has destroyed the blessed land. The blessed land itself will bless these people.
When the lost people step into the blessed land again, they are likely to be blessed from the beginning.
Wu Xian is a typical 'lost man'. He is obsessed with the blessed land and is blessed once he enters it. However, the immortal god who blessed him has become 'unknown', and Wu Xian has no memory before the age of ten, which is due to incomplete memory replacement.
Most of the lost people have the potential to become high-quality relatives, and they are high-quality relatives resources for the City God's Office. Usually, the people in the City God's Office will even actively avoid contact with the lost people who have not entered the blessed land.
But since the emergence of this strange experience hall, villagers have died one after another, which is a huge loss for the City God Office.
Moreover, the core of this experience hall is only open to people who have lost their hometown, so the City God Office could only find Wu Xian and entrust him to conduct this unconventional investigation.
Wu Xian brought Heigu with him because he realized that it might be troublesome here, so he took out an insurance policy for himself. If dogs were not allowed in the experience center, he would simply withdraw from the investigation.
But what Wu Xian didn't expect was that Heigu could also be considered a "lost person". As a dog, it was so special that it was also "blessed" by that world.
"Now I know there is something abnormal here."
"But just knowing is not enough. I also need to get to the root of the abnormality in the experience center. Otherwise, even if the experience center is destroyed, a new one will soon emerge."
"In order to stay here safely, I need to clarify some things first..."
(End of this chapter)
