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Ten years felt like just a few minutes for Xiao Qiang, but for the ordinary Han Ming, it was an incredibly long yet fleeting journey through life. He had aged, and aside from the jumbled data cluttering his mind, he could hardly remember who was who anymore.
Yet, he remembered his wife, Fang Shanshan.
Fang Shanshan was in a mental hospital. Han Ming's time machine had two significant hidden drawbacks. She had repeatedly attempted to use the time machine to leap back into the past in search of her lost youth.
The use of the time machine was limited. For someone like Xiao Qiang, who carried Super Strong Subatomic Particles, the damage was minimal. However, for ordinary humans, the consequences were severe.
Without powerful subatomic energy to support them, frequent leaps through time would disrupt the natural order of existence, leading to chaotic memories and overturning the data of the Memory Repository. The effects on indirect users depended on their physical constitution; mild cases experienced memory confusion, weakened immune systems, and rapid cellular aging—like Han Ming.
There was another hidden drawback: a more severe type. After experiencing backward and forward leaps through time, the brain could suffer from cognitive impairment and mutations, resulting in diminished memory and intelligence, ultimately leading to dementia—like Fang Shanshan.
Lin Yu mentioned that Han Ming knew where her memory data was stored. It was contained in a slender transparent vessel filled with a bluish substance as fine as dust.
Xiao Qiang spoke up, and Han Ming paused slightly. The person before him seemed familiar yet distant.
He reluctantly extended his hand and grasped Xiao Qiang's. "Young man, you need something from me?"
Xiao Qiang felt a pang of nostalgia; the image of that once jealous young man lingered vividly in his mind. Yet he couldn't reconcile that memory with the elderly man standing before him with graying hair.
"Doctor, you once promised me that if I ever needed your help, I should not hesitate to ask. I have an urgent matter now and need your assistance. Can you agree?" Lin Yu's earnest gaze fixed on Han Ming, who was still deep in thought.
"You want the memory data?"
"Yes."
"This... are you sure? You must ensure that you do not reveal any signs of recovering your memory."
"I can do that."
Han Ming glanced at Xiao Qiang with a look of skepticism in his eyes.
"He is my boyfriend. You can trust him," Lin Yu reassured.
"Alright, you two follow me."
As they entered the monitoring blind spot of Stratum, Lin Yu quietly informed Xiao Qiang that Han Ming had also been secretly sent here by the world talent agency to work for the Vanguard Joint Defense Force. The chances of meeting Fang Shanshan were slim, as it required passing through multiple layers of security just to see her once.
Han Ming did not know Xiao Qiang, which was perhaps a good thing. At least his mistakes wouldn’t cause any trouble for Han Ming.
Xiao Qiang sympathized with Han Ming but felt powerless to help him. There was no better way to assist him unless they could defeat the Mimetic Organism and the Vanguard Joint Defense Force could evacuate talents gathered from all over the country. Only then would he and Fang Shanshan have a chance to regain their freedom and return to their own space to continue their happy life together.
Han Ming led them through winding paths into a dimly lit corridor that grew darker as they went deeper. The cold air in the passage sent shivers down their spines, and iron doors appeared one after another. He methodically extended his finger, and after passing through several fingerprint recognition systems, the iron doors opened automatically.
When they reached a room at the far end of the passage, Han Ming instructed them to remain silent and to tread carefully. As long as they crossed this infrared monitoring area, they would be able to successfully access the storage room to retrieve Lin Yu's memory data.
The invisible surveillance lines would trigger alarms if touched even slightly, causing chaos in the entire basement and its connections above. They would all be in serious trouble—who knew how it might end?
Despite Han Ming's seemingly erratic behavior, most of it was just a facade. He led Xiao Qiang and Lin Yu stealthily out of the dark room of the Memory Repository.
Upon entering this sealed Memory Repository, they immediately felt a stark difference in temperature compared to outside. The air was saturated with a chill, and every transparent container was labeled with soldier coding data.
Thousands, even millions of memory storage vessels filled the room. Without specific codes, it could lead to disaster; if by mistake they accessed a memory vessel that didn’t belong to them and injected it into their brains, it was unimaginable what kind of chaotic situations could arise afterward.
Han Ming carefully lifted a slender blue transparent Crystal and presented it before Lin Yu and Xiao Qiang.
"This is your memory. You need to lie down while I perform a small procedure on you, and you'll regain your memories."
"Procedure?" Xiao Qiang was even more anxious than Lin Yu. He wondered how this memory Crystal would be delivered into her brain and guessed that it must be a complex and risky operation. He consulted Lin Yu's opinion: "What do you think? Maybe we should just give up on this; being safe is better than anything else." Deep down, he really didn’t trust Han Ming’s current state—whether he could safely perform a memory implantation surgery.
However, seeing Han Ming’s and Lin Yu’s attitudes made Xiao Qiang feel that his worries were unnecessary.
Lin Yu reclined with closed eyes in a chair equipped with a Memory Implanter. The memory data within the Crystal would be injected at different levels by the Memory Injector into the Memory Implanter, which would then implant it into Lin Yu's brain.
Though the procedure seemed simple, it required extreme caution. Xiao Qiang was extremely tense; watching Han Ming’s calm demeanor made his palms sweat profusely as time seemed to freeze around them.
Xiao Qiang observed Lin Yu with closed eyes undergoing memory implantation; his facial expressions were unpredictable—sometimes furrowing his brows, sometimes contorting his face.
Han Ming told Xiao Qiang: "Memory implantation is completely different from memory transplantation. One involves transferring memories from a living being's brain to another living being's brain. It sounds incredible, but countless experiments have shown that memory transplantation is feasible. The other involves re-implanting memories that have been previously erased through recovery methods. However, there are still certain risks involved—memory confusion can occur after implantation, leading to events being mixed up."
Xiao Qiang did not quite understand this approach. His mind was solely focused on Lin Yu, who had already undergone the memory infusion. He wondered what her attitude would be when she first saw him after regaining her memories.
"Don't worry too much," Xiao Qiang thought that Han Ming seemed to be separated from him by centuries. The unfamiliar gaze and aged smile were gradually overturning the image of the playful and humorous person he had known since 2040.
"The memory chip can also store memories," he recalled the memories from his childhood that had been erased. He wondered if there was a chance to find Professor R and retrieve those childhood memories to implant them again.
"The risks of memory chips are smaller than those of brain extraction methods. However, Crystal's memory storage has already surpassed the energy capacity of memory chips, so you can rest assured. Right now, she is like a sleepwalker, piecing together the lost memories in her dreams."
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