A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 231 Memory Erasure

Suddenly, I became clear-headed about the mountain scenery.

She suddenly raised her head.

Jiang Qishi and Ji Hanzhang had all traces of their relationship erased while they were still alive.

If they were ordinary people who discovered something supernatural and were subsequently erased from their memories after death, Shan Qing probably wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

But the people she knew had already been forgotten by them while they were still alive.

Shan Qing couldn't help but think—it was as if she herself had become the murderer who caused them to be forgotten, who caused them to die alone in such a nameless alley.

Shan Qing took a deep breath.

But I felt a suffocating pain in my chest.

"..." Shan Qing repeated Jiang Xingni's question in a daze. "If they were erased from my life before they died, if they were still alive when I forgot about them."

She closed her eyes, forcing herself to calm down.

Now is not the time to feel guilty, nor is it the time to feel guilty or sad because of what you have done.

Jiang Xingni only looked at Shan Qing's expression through the mask, and she keenly captured Shan Qing's momentary wavering and distraction.

—She really liked Ji Hanzhang.

Jiang Xingni thought to himself.

She must have a good relationship with her mother, otherwise she wouldn't feel so guilty because of something she said.

"So, someone is manipulating all of this behind the scenes." Shan Qing changed the subject, not wanting to continue dwelling on this emotion.

She began her analysis at an extremely fast pace.

"Jiang Qishi and Ji Hanzhang were not erased from existence because of their deaths, but rather their traces were erased while they were still alive."

Jiang Xing nodded inwardly.

She suspects that her memories have also been altered, and perhaps she will have the opportunity to recover her true memories in the future.

That will happen after we follow the main characters through the storyline.

"What organizations are in the Lower City?" Her voice trailed off. "Jiang Qishi and his group, and Lu Ming's parents—I still don't know which role Lu Ming's parents play in the research institute. They've been under surveillance ever since they arrived in the Lower City."

VOID.

Jiang Xingni silently added a sentence in his mind.

"But how do they know where we are?" Shan Qing looked up, glanced around, and asked softly. "...They've been watching us."

Jiang Xingni almost instinctively wanted to cover her mouth.

But they arrived too late.

—These words have already echoed in the air.

Jiang Xingni's vision began to expand infinitely outwards.

Until the Eye of Truth's coverage expanded to the entire lower city.

She finally saw a transparent dome.

It hangs thousands of meters in the air, with countless eye-like objects spinning around, observing them.

Jiang Xingni wanted to curse again.

What's even more terrifying is that even though Jiang Xingni could see those eyes that were opening and closing, he still couldn't feel that he was being watched.

"Is there a possibility?" The system pondered for a moment, then suggested a possibility. "You've become accustomed to this kind of surveillance, so..."

Jiang Xingni grew up in the Lower City.

She herself was a victim of VOID.

Long before their arrival, VOID had already been laying out plans in the lower city for an unknown period of time.

Her parents had been killed by VOID, and Jiang Xingni herself, after living in VOID for so many years, had long since become accustomed to this life of being monitored.

She couldn't detect the surveillance capabilities back then, and even though Jiang Xingni now has those capabilities, she still can't detect them.

Just like a baby elephant that has been domesticated from a young age will still not break free from its trainer's collar when it grows up.

It's like a form of learned helplessness.

"Alright," Jiang Xing sighed inwardly. "That's certainly a reason."

On the surface, she directly grasped Shan Qing's arm.

"Go." She spoke very quickly. "You've been spotted."

Shanqing was pulled forward by her.

"You seem to know the Lower City a little too well..." Shan Qing said in a low voice, her gaze falling on Jiang Xingni. "Why? What do you know?"

Jiang Xingni had no time to explain.

A rocket launcher flashed in the corner of her eye.

...Holy crap.

Rocket launcher.

A torrent of flames erupted from the rocket launcher, the recoil jolting the user backward as the flames hurtled straight toward Jiang Xingni and his group.

Her first thought was to use Shanlan's special ability to control the flames that were launched.

But soon after, Jiang Xingni realized that she had no choice.

Shan Lan's special ability cannot directly control flames that he did not create.

Jiang Xingni, who replicated Shan Lan's supernatural ability, naturally had no way to do so.

The surrounding temperature was getting hotter and hotter, and Jiang Xingni felt like he was about to be roasted alive—then the temperature suddenly dropped.

Shantang, with his back to them, stretched out his hand.

The fireballs that were being fired at them were frozen in mid-air.

— It fell straight into the residential buildings surrounding the alley.

The previously silent surroundings suddenly erupted in screams.

"Is this some kind of gunfight?!"

"I knew this place was dangerous, but I didn't know it was this dangerous! Wait, what happened to the gun ban? How come I'm the only one who believed it and still can't find a gun?!"

Through the mask, Jiang Xingni could see Shan Tang's pupils shrink.

The frozen fireball was indeed made from mountain soup.

However, Shantang only intended to keep the fireball suspended in mid-air and never thought of letting it crash into the surrounding residential buildings.

He suddenly lost control of his superpower at a certain moment.

He didn't do it.

The affected area is already out of control.

Jiang Xingni suddenly realized this.

Regardless of whether ordinary people knew they were superhumans, and regardless of whether ordinary people knew about the feud between monsters and superhumans, the fact remains that everyone saw the rocket launcher chasing them.

What secret does VOID hold that it would go to such lengths to keep hidden, even at the cost of destroying the veil?

—Use memory erasure.

The first thought that came to Shan Qing's mind was memory erasure.

She finally understood why memory erasure was abused to such an extent by the superhuman community.

Simply put, it's just so convenient.

All the negative impacts that cause failure in ordinary people can be resolved by memory erasure.

It was as if nothing had happened, a complete and utter disguise.

Nobody cares what actually happened.

No one cares what the dead think.

Will you become the kind of person you don't want to be?

Would you make a similar choice to them in a similar situation?

This question is not only directed at Shan Qing and his group.

It was also Jiang Xingni.