I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Chapter 480 478. The Unmemorizable's Conjecture

Victor Sanatorium.

Mann stood before the receptionist at the front desk:

"Name is Mann, I used to stay here for a few years."

The receptionist looked down at the records on the computer screen, then looked up at Mann's appearance, and then nodded slightly to him, and then instructed him:

"We have approved your application, but you still have to pay attention to some things inside. Your former attending physicians seem to have left for various reasons. If I'm not mistaken…

"Doctor Li used to take care of you, right?"

Mann nodded:

"Yes, he was a good doctor."

The receptionist also showed a look of reminiscence:

"I also received care from Doctor Li when I first came in. He was such a good person. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen to him? Okay, the background check is approved."

Then she showed a look of finally getting it done, stopped talking to Mann about Doctor Li, took out a visitor pass that could be hung around her neck from the drawer, and then shifted her gaze away from Mann.

Mann put on his pass, then walked back into the familiar-ish ward.

If it weren't for Shenxiao's reminder, he might never have set foot in this dangerous place again, but since Shenxiao would let himself come back to find Cao Yan, it meant that this place was temporarily safe.

And he wasn't as easy to kill as he used to be. Now he was using the abnormal characteristics of the Rank Ⅴ Overturning Sea Scepter to ensure his safety, of course, Mann didn't underestimate the Unmemorizable at all.

He had no idea why he could come back safely, and he didn't intend to delve into it meaninglessly. He simply trusted Shenxiao, after all, it was difficult to draw any conclusions from thinking about the Unmemorizable.

Mann quickly walked through the corridor, ignoring the crowds coming and going, and flexibly shuttled through the sanatorium area according to the map obtained through other means, and accurately walked to Cao Yan's ward.

Knock, knock.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Cao Yan's impatient voice came from inside the door.

"Mann," he said outside the door, "Your Excellency, the Undead King."

The door of the ward was pushed open the moment he said his name.

Cao Yan looked at Mann outside the door with some surprise:

"I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Are you here to seek the wisdom of the Undead King? If so, I can only tell you that the knowledge I can recall in reality is even less than in dreams."

Mann asked politely and gently:

"Can we go inside and talk?"

Cao Yan nodded casually:

"Of course, please come in, it may be a bit messy inside…"

Mann followed her in, and the scene inside was indeed "a bit messy"

The floor of the room was covered with buckets containing some kind of "pigment", and there were two magic circles on both sides of the wall that seemed to be close to completion, and their complexity was so dizzying.

"Doesn't the hospital care about these?" Mann asked curiously.

Cao Yan sat on the bed casually:

"Of course not, I paid for it, and they don't know it's the real deal."

Mann looked at the corresponding magic circles on both sides and asked:

"What are these for? And I thought you didn't remember these."

Cao Yan replied:

"I did say that I discarded the heavy knowledge, but this doesn't count as knowledge to me. For any Gulamari occult scholar who has received a little education, this is the most basic thing.

"For us, drawing magic circles is equivalent to you writing. Maybe primitive people would also think that your behavior of transmitting information through words is like magic, but now I really can't draw any particularly magical magic circles, otherwise I would have taken my resurrected lover away from here long ago.

"This is just a simple little magic that allows me to temporarily remember something, but I don't even know what I will remember, and it probably has nothing to do with why you came here.

"So why did you come to me?"

Mann sat down opposite her:

"I want to ask you a question. Do you remember when I saw you in the dream, I said that our meeting might be her arrangement? This time, she asked me to come here to see you.

"She said you might know who the guy who has been targeting me lately is."

Cao Yan showed a look of sudden realization:

"No wonder he looked a little unnatural when I ran into him at the time, although he tried his best to make my encounter with him look normal, but it seems that he was still quite regretful that I saw him at the time.

"After all, he can't pretend in front of me, and he can't make me forget that memory.

"Come to think of it, he's really unlucky to have an opponent with Shenxiao's help."

Mann sincerely requested:

"Can you tell me his true identity?"

Cao Yan did not answer Mann's question:

"When he met me, he didn't really say nothing. He asked me about your situation, and although he and I can't be considered friends, we can be said to be half old acquaintances.

"But when faced with his questions, I didn't say anything.

"This is not because I want to help you, but because I don't want to help him. I have no interest or mood to get involved in your affairs, just as I kept your secret at the time, I don't intend to reveal his identity."

Mann continued:

"I understand…"

Cao Yan interrupted him without any politeness:

"What you think is not important, neither of you have anything I care about, and if we really have to compare, he and I can still say that we have some friendship, but you may have received my help instead.

"In any case, I have no reason to help you."

Indeed, Cao Yan didn't owe him anything. The loosening of his memory later on was likely closely related to his meeting with this Undead King. Strictly speaking, she did help him, not to mention that she didn't tell the mastermind his news, so Mann didn't continue to "request".

He still maintained a gentle tone and asked:

"I know, so I want to talk to you about a deal."

Cao Yan raised her eyebrows:

"What can you offer? Let me remind you, I am now immortal, and after living for so many years, I have no interest in worldly material enjoyment, and I am not the kind of guy who can't stand loneliness."

Mann looked at the magic circles on both sides:

"Didn't you say you wanted to resurrect your lover?"

The Undead King smiled:

"Yes, but I don't think you can help me. He didn't just die, and there is no well-preserved soul left. I didn't make any preparations for him before he died.

"I never thought that the accident would come so quickly, and I never thought that I would really…

"Love him."

Cao Yan looked like she was lost in memories and sadness, but she immediately put away her emotions, then looked at Mann again and said:

"If you have the ability to resurrect him, you don't need to come here to find me at all. The mastermind hiding in the dark can't be your opponent at all. You see, this is the awkward thing.

"If you are someone who can provide me with help, you don't need to make any deals with me."

Mann mentioned her lover not because he thought he had a way to resurrect him, but just wanted to say that Cao Yan did have some things and things that she really cared about, which meant that they could indeed trade.

Looking at her current attitude, she doesn't seem to particularly care about the mastermind, she just doesn't want to pay attention to anyone, and it is precisely her attitude that prevents the mastermind from getting his news.

"I still remember the last time we met," Mann said straight to the point, "You once mentioned that you are currently trapped here, right? You can't resurrect in other places, right?"

Hearing this, Cao Yan finally showed an interested expression:

"That's right, and the Victor Sanatorium is still an abnormal building, but I've only been trapped here for a few years. I'm not in a hurry to leave here…"

Mann immediately said:

"But as far as I know, the thing that is trapping you here may be a particularly dangerous abnormal entity, and if you just let him continue to affect you like this, it may become increasingly difficult to escape his control.

"Fighting him is like struggling in a swamp, and in the end you will only sink deeper and deeper."

What Cao Yan just said was the truth. Being trapped here for a few years is nothing to her. Anyway, she will always leave here again as time goes by. Nothing can resist the erosion of time.

But Mann's words made her, who was originally a little indifferent, cheer up:

"How do I know you're not just trying to scare me? And the things that are particularly dangerous in your eyes may not really be anything to me. You don't know what I've faced.

"You may not be able to understand what my immortality means."

The fact that she is still alive already proves everything. Few of the creatures in her era can live to this day. Even most of the Southern Gods have been replaced, and only Serann has not slept.

And unlike Serann, she doesn't have any power to resist danger. If Serann had the power as weak as hers, she would have definitely experienced several sleeps.

In fact, this is also why she doesn't really want to betray Serann. Although they can only be considered acquaintances, if they were both mortals, Cao Yan might have really told Mann about Serann's identity.

But for creatures like them who are almost eternal, acquaintances are a particularly valuable resource. Thousands of years later, she can still chat with Serann and talk about the Gulamari era. This experience is irreplaceable.

Mann didn't feel discouraged by Cao Yan's attitude:

"I still remember you said that you are constantly forgetting the knowledge of the past. This irreversible process is making you weaker and weaker, and the guy who is trapping you here can also do something similar."

When he said these words, the ease and casualness in Cao Yan's expression disappeared instantly, and her expression became particularly serious. Even her sitting posture became more upright.

"Do you really know what you're talking about?" Cao Yan looked at Mann suspiciously, as if she was thinking and judging whether he was telling the truth or a carefully crafted lie.

Faced with her question, Mann just asked back:

"Remember the last time we met, I mentioned the person you couldn't see? The guy who only exists in my memory and perception, and you can only detect him indirectly."

The suspicion in Cao Yan's eyes began to slowly dissipate:

"Sorry, I was a little excited just now, remember? The last time we met, I mentioned that I used to be able to resurrect in my full state, until one time when I opened my eyes…

"The Gulamari Empire has been destroyed for who knows how many years."

Mann nodded slightly:

"I remember, you also said at the time that after that, you would lose some power every time you were reincarnated, and you also said that after that, no one ever remembered the Gulamari Empire…"

The more Mann spoke, the more he paused, and then he suddenly thought of some terrifying possibility.

The last time he heard this sentence, Mann thought that this situation was because the era when Cao Yan was resurrected was too far away from the Gulamari Empire, but if he thought about it from another perspective, there was another possibility…

That is, the memory of the existence of the Gulamari Empire was erased, and the perception of it was also shielded.

And according to Cao Yan's own statement, her memory has been constantly dissipating since then. At that time, Mann also thought that this was because her ritual or magic was destroyed, but now that he thinks about it…

Isn't the dissipation of memory the Unmemorizable's specialty? And before he was discharged from the hospital, both Cao Yan and the Unmemorizable must have stayed here. If that's how he thought about it, maybe…

The Unmemorizable was originally following Cao Yan, and it's likely that it's been more than just these few years.

Thinking of this, Mann immediately said:

"Here, there is a humanoid abnormal entity that I call the Unmemorizable. I don't know if he is still in the Victor Sanatorium now, and I don't know if he is near us.

"Because he can erase anyone's memory, and he can transcend our perception. Even if he is next to us at this moment, or even has physical contact with us, we can't feel it.

"The smiling face person you couldn't see at the time may be the residue of his power in my brain. Before I was discharged from the hospital, I was affected by him, and after listening to what you said…

"Now I'm starting to suspect whether he came here with you."

Cao Yan seemed to realize something in an instant, and suddenly began to look around, then showed a look of reminiscence, and as time passed, she gradually showed a dazed expression, as if she suddenly realized something that she had ignored in the past, but then she frowned and fell into thought.

She said suspiciously:

"Could it be? No, impossible, or he hasn't realized the essence yet, or…

"But if he can detect it, it shouldn't be that dangerous."

Mann raised a heavy question:

"Do you think he has anything to do with the destruction of the Gulamari Empire?"

Cao Yan looked up at him, and after thinking for more than ten seconds, she said:

"I also had this crazy idea in my mind just now, but after thinking about it, I don't think so. Since you can detect the existence of the Unmemorizable, then he couldn't have destroyed the Gulamari Empire."

“I know very well how great we are.”

Hearing this, Mann calmed down a little:

“I remember that Shenxiao seemed to have noticed his influence before.”

Indeed, according to this King of the Undead, there might have been many great powerhouses in their era who were not inferior to Shenxiao, and the Unmemoried might not be as dangerous and powerful as he is now.

Moreover, even I can sense his existence. Even if I wasn't as weak as I was when I was just discharged from the hospital before encountering the Unmemoried, I couldn't have been that strong.

Thinking about it this way, either there used to be abnormal entities similar to the Unmemoried, but stronger.

Or it's...

Cao Yan nodded slightly, and said Mann's speculation:

“Then that's right, he couldn't have destroyed the Gurama Empire, but if I'm not mistaken, he is likely to have something to do with the Gurama Empire being forgotten. Maybe this matter was not entirely achieved by him.

“But I think he is likely to be one of the participants responsible for the aftermath...

“A cleaner.”