Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 431 - 350

"Mr. Mingyuan, someone has their eyes on you."

After an indeterminate amount of time had passed, the noisy sounds had faded away. Jiuyue, like a detective who had seized a fleeting inspiration, could hardly wait to tell Duan Mingyuan about her discovery.

She had also sharply identified the source of the sound from the crowd.

It was a man in his early forties, blending into the crowd and pretending to be a parent picking up a child, but Jiuyue had observed the man’s gaze shifting toward Duan Mingyuan intermittently.

Jiuyue had always been highly sensitive to people’s gazes, especially when someone was stealing glances at Duan Mingyuan.

The protective nature of the Fox Demon endowed them with a keen insight, enabling them to discern people’s inner thoughts through eye contact.

Clearly, this man had no good intentions.

Duan Mingyuan nodded. It wasn’t his first time here—these were fragments of his memories, and he could replay this segment countless times like manipulating a film. This allowed him sufficient time to learn what everyone at the school gate had said that afternoon.

This is the magic of human memory.

Humans tend to believe that they only remember important things, and that unnecessary conversations and sounds are isolated outside by their brains. However, during a visit on the Eco-Ship, Fu Ling shared some interesting views, proposing the concepts of "superficial memory" and "deep memory."

She believed that the human brain was a precise machine, and in fact, those parts deemed unimportant were stored in deep memory.

Most people in the world couldn’t grasp the method to access deep memory. However, the Department of Life Sciences had developed a means to help people unlock their "deep memory."

This method required the use of a probe, which would display a complete image on a device based on the memory holder’s brainwaves, allowing everyone to view the incidents inside that memory segment from a god-like perspective.

This meant they could transcend "superficial memory" and reveal all those sounds once deemed unimportant by the brain.

"Who do you think he is?"

"Perhaps a Hunter from the Royal Hunting Court. You had dealings with many evil spirits in high school!"

Jiuyue didn’t recognize the middle-aged man, so she could only guess his identity based on her understanding of Duan Mingyuan.

During Duan Mingyuan’s high school days, the Royal Hunting Court still existed, and Hunters were the main force against evil spirits, so it wasn’t surprising that they noticed Duan Mingyuan through some events.

Regrettably, the voice from the other end of the phone hadn’t been recorded in the memory segment.

"So, what’s his purpose?"

"Maybe he noticed that Mr. Mingyuan is highly skilled and wants to invite you to join the Royal Hunting Court."

Hearing this, Duan Mingyuan just nodded without responding further.

This, however, piqued Jiuyue’s curiosity, making her somewhat restless.

She asked eagerly, "Am I right? Is he really a Hunter from the Royal Hunting Court?"

"I don’t know."

"You don’t know? This is your memory, how could you not know?"

In the "Fox Demon Chronicles," Fox Demons are described as the most intelligent monsters, stemming from their keen curiosity. Once their inner questions go unanswered, it drives them to frustration.

Jiuyue walked straight toward the man with the phone, studying him for a long while. She even tried to search his pockets to see if she could find anything that might identify the man.

However, her hand passed directly through the man’s body.

This was just an afterimage in the memory and lacked physical form.

"I didn’t do that back then."

Duan Mingyuan provided the answer, "’Deep memory’ can only record what I know."

"What about afterward? If he was following you, you must have met him later."

"Maybe we met, maybe we didn’t."

This response almost made Jiuyue’s delicate eyebrows twist together. Mr. Mingyuan was acting strangely today, speaking almost like those old monks in the temples.

Could it be that Mr. Mingyuan, feeling guilty of becoming a kidnapper, decided to repent and change his profession to a man-eating monk?

"Mr. Mingyuan, don’t be like those monks!"

Jiuyue didn’t like temples, and she liked even less those monks in the temples whose nine out of ten statements were incomprehensible. The only understandable one was usually asking for some incense money.

However, she also knew that she couldn’t change Duan Mingyuan’s mind.

If Mr. Mingyuan was determined to become a cannibalistic Monk, then she could only hold the last line of defense, "Even if you want to be a Monk, just make sure not to shave your head bald. I heard that monks nowadays don’t necessarily have to be bald."

"What do you think will happen next?"

Duan Mingyuan asked again.

"Why are you suddenly asking this?"

Jiuyue’s tone suddenly weakened, today’s Mr. Mingyuan not only spoke strangely but also asked some frightening questions.

Although it was a very mild question, it made many terrifying thoughts flash through her mind.

Mr. Mingyuan had mentioned that today was a special day, surely something profound must have happened after school.

"Could it be... he died?"

Jiuyue took another deep look at the man.

It was not that she was saddened by a life about to pass, but once the man died, she was doomed to never unravel the mysteries in her heart.

This was Duan Mingyuan’s memory, already more than a decade old.

"Indeed, that’s a possibility."

Duan Mingyuan neither confirmed nor denied.

While speaking, the man finished his phone call, and the person on the other end seemed to have given him some sort of instruction.

Having received the instruction, the man immediately hurried towards the opposite side of the road, completely oblivious to a speeding truck.

A sharp braking sound rang out, followed by blood splattering onto the curb.

The memory was cut off there.

Back in the room, Jiuyue’s complexion turned pale, and after a long silence, she asked, "Was there a car accident that afternoon at the school gate?"

Duan Mingyuan did not give a definite answer, but he began searching for the answer to this question through his actions.

He typed the time and place into the search engine on Blue Star.

Less than a second later, old news appeared.

On a certain day of a certain month, at the gate of a high school in Yunlong City, a car accident occurred, resulting in the death of a male.

In this report, the identity of the man was vaguely mentioned.

A vagrant, with no actual identification.

No one knew why he appeared at the high school gate, nor why he had crossed the road in a hurry.

"This rather seems like a Hunter from the Royal Hunting Court..."

Jiuyue murmured to herself.

Although this confirmed her suspicions, it was in a way that she had not anticipated.

"It seems, this time he was a Hunter from the Royal Hunting Court."

"This time?"

Jiuyue was stunned, staring at Duan Mingyuan in astonishment.

"The last time he didn’t die, but got into a black sedan parked by the roadside."

Duan Mingyuan’s words suddenly filled Jiuyue with a chilling realization, and her mind began to race, trying to grasp the deeper meaning of his statement.

Duan Mingyuan added, "I first saw him after Da Jiang told me that day a Hunter from the Royal Hunting Court had come by."

This was the reason he needed Jiuyue.

This discovery did not match with the theory Fu Ling proposed.

His memory would change based on his inner thoughts, and these changes, in turn, would affect reality.

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