168. Chapter 168 A restricted area that even gods cannot touch
This awareness of one's own existence is what is called "soul" in the religious sense.
Although the conscious brains of vegetative patients have lost the ability to think, their awareness of their own existence will not disappear because of this, but only sink from the conscious mind into a deeper subconscious.
What Li Mengnan has to do now is to understand Ju Xiaoxing's self-existence, which may be more appropriately expressed as "soul" here, find it from her subconscious, and guide her to put those chaotic memory fragments back together bit by bit.
"Yes, your name is Ju Xiaoxing. You are a beautiful girl. You are a sophomore at Tunghai University. You have a happy family, parents who care about you, and best friends who are as close as sisters... Do you remember?"
Ninety-nine percent of human memories are stored in the subconscious mind. The memory of the main consciousness is just like a directory index. Any so-called amnesia or memory confusion is actually only the directory in the main consciousness that is really lost and confused.
It is difficult for memories to disappear completely.
However, Ju Xiaoxing's reaction was quite strange. There was a trace of confusion on his delicate face, his eyes moved rapidly under his eyelids, and his tone seemed a little panicked.
"I don't know...it's so dark here. I can't see or hear anything. I'm so scared..."
Ju Xiaoxing's body suddenly struggled desperately, and he used violent movements to break free of the oxygen mask on his face.
"Quick, help me hold her down!" Li Mengnan shouted to Wu Ansu.
Wu Ansu's reaction was fast enough. As soon as Li Mengnan opened her mouth, she rushed to the hospital bed, grabbed one of Ju Xiaoxing's wrists with one hand, and pressed the oxygen mask back on her face with the other hand.
"What happened? Is her reaction normal?"
At this moment, Li Mengnan didn't even bother to answer Wu Ansu's question. He pressed Ju Xiaoxing's other hand hard, suppressed her body's resistance roughly, and said to the paper tube: "Don't be afraid, this is your own room, you
There is a switch on the right hand side...yes, that is the light switch, now you turn it on."
Li Mengnan's expression was a bit ferocious due to excessive exertion, but his tone was as gentle as a lover's whisper. The strong contrast seemed extremely strange.
Ju Xiaoxing quickly calmed down and his body stopped struggling.
Wu Ansu breathed a sigh of relief, but still did not dare to let go, and asked: "What happened just now?"
Li Mengnan waved his hand to indicate that Wu Ansu could let go. He sat on a chair and wiped the sweat from his forehead, explaining: "Just like people who have been idle for a long time will become lazy, the human soul also loses the source of information it can process.
Will gradually fall into a deep sleep..."
"Asleep?"
"Well, this is a self-protection mechanism of the human brain. Otherwise, can you imagine what it would be like to stay in a blank world with no external information at all with clear consciousness?"
Wu Ansu broke into a cold sweat when he was shocked by the scene described by Li Mengnan. It was probably similar to the feeling of being locked up in a dark room in the army. It was a rhythm that would definitely drive people crazy.
"Every time I see a certain protagonist in an online novel being locked up in a closed space to cultivate for thousands or tens of thousands of years, I find it extremely anti-human. Not to mention tens of thousands of years, even just one year is enough to put him in trouble.
A healthy person is locked up alive and becomes an idiot... If he says that he wants to sleep, I still believe him, but he still needs to cultivate, I can only say hehe."
Seeing Wu Ansu's unkind expression, Li Mengnan also realized that the topic was going too far, smiled casually, and continued: "What I just did was to wake up Ju Xiaoxing's self-awareness from a deep sleep.
If she were a normal person, she would theoretically rise directly to the surface level of consciousness, and then wake up after taking a step further. However, because Ju Xiaoxing's expressive consciousness has been destroyed, she can only stay in a deeper level of subconsciousness.
The subconscious itself is like a warehouse. Although there is some memory, compared with its huge capacity, that memory can only occupy a small corner at most.
What would happen when you wake up in a huge space that is so big that you can’t see the edge at a glance? That is basically the feeling that Ju Xiaoxing experienced just now..."
"Then why did her mood stabilize after you said those words?" Wu Ansu would feel amazing every time he thought about the scene just now.
"If you explain this in detail, even professionals sometimes get confused. I might as well give you an analogy."
Li Mengnan pulled up the quilt on the hospital bed to temporarily cover Ju Xiaoxing's exposed naked body.
After self-awareness wakes up from a deep sleep, it needs a period of stabilization and is not suitable for immediate restorative guidance.
"You should know how a computer works, right? If human self-awareness is compared to the operator in front of the computer, then the conscious mind is the screen, keyboard and mouse, and the subconscious mind is the several large items inside the computer case... If you are not given a keyboard
With the mouse, can you input commands into the computer? If you are not given a screen, can you know what data the computer is sending to you?"
Wu Ansu shook his head repeatedly. Since humans and computers do not have common data excuses, this kind of thing cannot be done.
"That's it. Only when the conscious mind transforms information into signals that the subconscious mind can accept, can human self-awareness connect and communicate instructions with the subconscious mind... Ju Xiaoxing's current situation is like losing the operating system of a computer. What he is facing
Only the computer language composed of 1s and 0s is left, and what I am doing now is to build a conscious environment for her in a small area that she can understand."
"I always thought you could just wake her up."
Although Wu Ansu still seemed to understand, she also vaguely felt that Li Mengnan's treatment process was much more complicated than she expected.
Li Mengnan laughed dumbly, shook his head after a moment and said: "How is this possible? I am just a magician, not a real god... And even if there is a real god, he may not be able to do such a thing."
"Is it so difficult?" This was the first time Wu Ansu saw Li Mengnan be so unsure about something.
"The human subconscious actually has another name - a restricted area that cannot be touched by gods." Li Mengnan showed a wry smile, "How can an area that even gods cannot directly interfere with be controlled by mortals like us?"
"But just now Ju Xiaoxing..."
Wu Ansu was a little confused. Li Mengnan had clearly calmed Ju Xiaoxing's emotions with just a few words. Isn't it contradictory to what he said now?
"No, this is not a contradiction." Li Mengnan seemed to have guessed that Wu Ansu would have this question, and took the initiative to explain: "What I just did was not to directly interfere with her subconscious, but to indirectly guide her - my room is Ju Xiaoxing's
One of the most familiar memories must exist in her subconscious. My words did not directly create a non-existent thing in her subconscious, but just helped her find something that already existed."
It is not that the hypnotist cannot put something into the hypnotized person's subconscious that does not exist in reality, but now Li Mengnan's role is only the guide, and what really operates the brain is Ju Xiaoxing's self-awareness, so this is
This greatly limits the room for operation.
It is easy to destroy but difficult to build. This is true for everything in the world.
Counting the time, Ju Xiaoxing's self-consciousness should have almost completely stabilized in the virtual room. Li Mengnan first helped her relieve her auditory blockage, and then guided her self-consciousness to start the journey of retrieving her memory.
"Ju Xiaoxing, open the drawer in the room. There are many photo albums in the drawer. Those are photos of you and your family."
Under normal circumstances, a person's memory of his or her parents is the most profound. Even in the event of memory loss, the easiest thing to recover is the memory of his or her parents.
However, Ju Xiaoxing's consciousness seemed to be severely damaged. He shook his head repeatedly and said: "The drawer is empty, there is nothing in it..."
Li Mengnan's guidance was very intuitive, and Wu Ansu could roughly understand what he was doing. He raised his head and asked, "She has even lost the memory of her parents. What should we do now?"
"It's not lost, it's just hidden too deeply."
There is only one explanation for this situation. When setting up the logic bomb, the murderer paid special attention to the memory of the character, obviously because he was worried about leaving clues about himself.
Since there are obstacles in the memory of people, we can only change the direction and start with the memory of objects.
Judging from Li Mengnan's ability to easily restore Ju Xiaoxing's memory of the room, it is obvious that the murderer did not focus on this aspect.
In fact, comprehensive destruction of memory itself is a false proposition, because the memory in the subconscious cannot be destroyed at all. The only thing that can be done is to hide it. If some things are deeply hidden, some things will naturally be hidden shallowly - just like rice.
In a rice vat, there must always be a layer of rice exposed on top.
"It doesn't matter. Maybe the room has just been cleaned. Now open the curtains and see what's outside?" Li Mengnan continued to guide.
This guidance finally had an effect. The expression on Ju Xiaoxing's face became much more stable again and he said: "I saw the bell tower, the city wall, and the TV tower..."
Probably because he was afraid that Li Mengnan would not understand this, Wu Ansu hurriedly explained in a low voice: "The city where Ju Xiaoxing was born is an ancient city, and a considerable number of buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are still preserved in the city. In addition, the TV tower there is also a symbol of the city.
One of the sexual buildings.”
Li Mengnan nodded to express his gratitude.
After all, this was his first time doing this kind of subconscious guidance therapy. All techniques were only at the theoretical stage, and he couldn't guarantee whether they would achieve the desired results.
However, judging from the current situation, the overall trend is still developing for the better.
"Did you see anyone outside the window?"
"I saw a lot of them...but they were far away and I couldn't see clearly."
"That's your parents chatting with the neighbors. Now you open the door and go out to find them."
After receiving Li Mengnan's next instructions, Ju Xiaoxing seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep again, but Wu Ansu, who already knew something about subconscious guidance therapy, could probably guess that this was Ju Xiaoxing simulating the process of going downstairs in his subconscious.
Just when Li Mengnan and Wu Ansu were patiently waiting for the next result, suddenly, Ju Xiaoxing on the hospital bed began to struggle violently again, with a fearful and obvious cry in his voice, and an extremely painful expression, as if he had encountered something extremely terrible.