Chapter 584: “I feel like I forgot something…”
“I feel like I forgot something…”
A burly guy scratched the back of his head, trying to remember. He knew he had some super important task to do, but what exactly was it?
“Yeah, I’ve got that feeling too,” another man nodded, turning to the girl beside him. “Wolf Sister, do you ever get that sense that you’re forgetting something crucial?”
“I…” The girl covered her forehead with one hand, her brow furrowing slightly. “Seems like… we actually have something important to do…”
They’d traveled thousands of miles from the Southern Region all the way to the Western Region. And uh… what was it again?
Was there someone else with them? Who was that?
The man started analyzing: “This Western Region is so barren. We’re definitely not here for business. No way. Something must’ve happened here that made us rush all this way from the South.”
“Exactly! I’m a guard of the Bai Family,” the burly guy nodded again, “and Bai Family sent us here for a reason. Plus, we’re from different regions — I mean, one from the Southern, another from the Northern — and we even know each other. But I can’t remember how!”
“Maybe we’re here to clear out the Demon Path?” a woman dressed in Taoist robes suggested. “West Region’s got lots of demon cultivators. My sect’s already been wiped out by them…”
But then she hesitated: “And wait, how did I end up knowing Bai Family folks after I escaped West?”
She vividly remembered the day she was forced to flee West, and how she temporarily took refuge working for Bai Family to heal. But the part in between — her memories were a blank.
“Bai Family… I remember the White Nine Alliance’s Nine-Tailed Fox Clan was pretty close to Master Bai Feng. The weapons of the alliance were all bought from the Array Peak of the Heavenly Sword Sect. In fact, the alliance’s name even came from Master Bai Feng and the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan. Maybe that’s why we came all the way here?”
The girl pondered for a few seconds but still felt something was off. There was a key detail she just couldn’t remember.
If she couldn’t figure it out, maybe she should start thinking about other clues — like…
Suddenly, she remembered something and hurriedly pulled out a communicator from her pocket. But the next second, her expression turned blank and confused — Wait, what was I supposed to do again?
What is… this?
“Do any of you recognize this?” she held up the communicator and asked others.
The man stared at it for a long moment then shook his head. “This is… hmm, I can’t quite remember. Seems a bit familiar, though.”
“Should we go out and look for clues? Being stuck here isn’t going to help.”
“But I think staying in the city is safer. Out there, it might be even more dangerous with all this weirdness happening.”
“No, I can’t stand staying here anymore,” the burly guy suddenly stood up fiercely. “I feel my memory is disappearing. If I stay a few more days, I might forget who I am altogether!”
“I’ll go out and look around. Even if it’s d*ath, I won’t d*e in such a mysterious situation!”
“Hmm, I also vaguely remember we’re supposed to find something,” the girl nodded. “Let’s split up — some of us go explore.”
Soon, they split into a team to investigate outside. But when they reached the city gate, they turned back again.
Strangely, no one inside the city asked anything. Instead, they just raised their hand in greeting: “Wolf Sister, good morning! What are we doing today?”
“Go…” The girl froze for a second. She felt like she’d forgotten something again. After a few moments of thinking, she shook her head. “Let’s hide here for a few days first.”
“You’re not going out to explore?”
At that moment, a voice rang in their ears.
“No, right?” she instinctively retorted, then covered her forehead. “No, wait… we just said we’re going to explore, right?”
Before she could finish, the speaker continued: “Do you remember where Ling Feng went?”
“Ling Feng…”
Both the girl and everyone around her pressed their hands to their heads. They felt the name was so familiar and so important, yet their memories refused to cooperate.
“Who are you?” The burly man covered his head with one hand, eyes fixed on the stranger who suddenly appeared. He felt this person seemed very familiar—just like with Ling Feng—yet he couldn’t remember who they were.
“You just mentioned me, didn’t you? Looks like the situation’s worse than I thought…”
“You are…”
“Hmm, though things are serious, we can still fight back,” Bai Feng’s eyes flickered with determination as he looked at the black line above their heads. Then he released some divine consciousness and said to Shi Tou, “Think harder — who was the director of the orphanage you grew up in? Who was the person who dragged you to wash out the uncooked mushrooms you stole?”
“Orphanage… Mushrooms… Mushrooms!” Shi Tou’s eyes, which had been a little dazed, suddenly widened as he shivered and jolted awake. The black line above his head also snapped instantly.
“Big Young Master!”
“Wow, you woke up fast!”
Bai Feng nodded with a smile. He had planned to share Shi Tou’s childhood dark secrets, but before he could even say the first word, Shi Tou had already broken free from the black line, which left Bai Feng feeling a little disappointed.
Still, that black line was more fragile than he’d guessed.
“Haha…” Shi Tou scratched his head awkwardly, then suddenly remembered something. He hurriedly said to Bai Feng, “Big Young Master, can you save the others too? They’re all here helping because of Brother Ling Feng.”
“No problem. When you broke the black line, I also found a way to cut it.”
Shi Tou instinctively looked around, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Meanwhile, Bai Feng snapped his fingers. “To deal with this strange black line, I have two methods: one is to ‘cut’ it directly, and the other is to ‘push’ them to help recall forgotten memories faster.”
He chose the second, fearing that brute-force cutting might erase parts of their memories.
Soon, under the stimulation of divine consciousness, the black lines on everyone’s heads shattered, and their clouded eyes gradually cleared.
During this process, Bai Feng also asked Shi Tou, “Tell me, what did you guys encounter?”
Shi Tou nodded eagerly and recounted his experience.
It wasn’t complicated: shortly after entering the West Region, they encountered Ling Feng, who was exploring with the Monster Tribe. But not long after, as they rested in the city, they found it wrapped in black fog. A large number of demon cultivators burst out from the fog to attack them.
And true to his fate as the Child of Destiny, Ling Feng led Shi Tou and others to fight through the encirclement. But the eerie black fog resurfaced and seemed to come alive, trapping them. Ling Feng was taken away by the fog, and they lost consciousness and fell into a coma. When they woke up, they found themselves in this city. They didn’t remember what had happened, nor why they came to the West.
“Hmm…” Bai Feng fell silent, deep in thought. Clearly, with his immortal corpse’s strength, he probably could’ve solved this problem for Shi Tou and the others. But why didn’t he? Why did they just lose part of their memories instead of being wiped out completely?
Was it aimed at Ling Feng?
