"So it was Bai Yan who altered your mory," Que Zelian inquired.
Xiao Jinsheng was taken aback. At this mont, she noticed that after seeing the tunnel, the five n, apart from their initial surprise, quickly accepted the issue she ntioned.
It wasn’t until Huaiqing explained to her that during her hypnosis, he discovered traces of her mory being altered, which finally made Xiao Jinsheng understand.
But what followed was even more fear.
She already knew that her mory from seven days ago was altered by Bai Yan. So, in the places she can’t recall, aren’t there possibly many other mories that have been altered as well?
Xiao Jinsheng thought this through and was terrified. She looked at the five n: "In the half-year we’ve been together, did you never notice anything strange about ?"
"When the food was ready, you’d eat; if not, you’d scold us. Occasionally, you’d argue with the neighbors, and from the start, you didn’t care for us," Yu Yunxiao recalled:
"Frankly, you’re no different from before, except now you don’t openly curse at us."
Because Xiao Jinsheng’s ability to scold had increased, she resorted to more stinging sarcasm.
"These past six months, our interactions with you were actually minimal. Even this house, the activity areas you allocated us were only the first-floor living room," Que Zelian replied.
When the five of them first arrived at this ho, Xiao Jinsheng had laid down the rules for them.
No going upstairs, no going to the backyard.
They could only be in the first floor and the basent.
As Xiao Jinsheng listened, she beca more embarrassed and quickly signaled them to stop talking.
"I rember those, no need to bring them up. Try to think of things I don’t know," Xiao Jinsheng reminded them.
"Does seeing you burn paper in the backyard at midnight count?" Mo Jiao suddenly said.
"Burn paper?" Xiao Jinsheng was puzzled: "What paper was I burning?"
"You seed to be worshipping soone," Mo Jiao replied. "After the apocalypse, very few people use this to commorate."
Because in the post-apocalyptic world, surviving humans would prioritize productivity towards food, weapons, and resources.
So finding Xiao Jinsheng secretly burning paper money in the backyard at midnight, Mo Jiao watched curiously for a while.
He hadn’t hidden himself at the ti, and sure enough, Xiao Jinsheng discovered him.
Xiao Jinsheng just glared at him, and the next day, she punished him to live in the basent.
Therefore, seeing Xiao Jinsheng completely forgetting the midnight paper burning, Mo Jiao was puzzled: "You punished to the basent because I caught sight of this, and now you don’t rember it?"
"There’s no such thing in my mory," Xiao Jinsheng thought carefully and shook her head: "I have no kin, who would I be worshipping at midnight?"
In the mories she received, she and Bai Yan had both lived with other females under the protection of the Terminal since childhood and had never seen their own kin or even knew their parents.
"Half a year ago, on October 17th, think again," Mo Jiao prompted.
He rembered that date so clearly because he was targeted by Xiao Jinsheng and sent to live in the basent the next day.
"October 17th, you say?" Xiao Jinsheng’s eyes instantly reddened with emotion: "Impossible, this can’t be! How could it be this day..."
"Xiao Jin, what’s wrong?" Que Zelian asked concernedly, holding her.
But Xiao Jinsheng was deeply trapped in doubt and bewildernt.
Clearly, in the mories she acquired as Xiao Jinsheng, there were no roles as parents or kin.
But why did Mo Jiao say she was worshipping soone at night and that it coincided with her parents’ death anniversary?
Xiao Jinsheng’s mind was chaotic, and she dashed out of the utility room and back to her room.
When the five n followed, they found her frantically searching for sothing in her room.
Everything visible, she would glance at before tossing aside.
"She seems a bit off emotionally. Should we knock her out?" Yu Yunxiao hesitated.
"She seems to have rembered sothing," Huaiqing observed. "She’s a bit stirred, but her emotions are still under control."
Hearing this, the five n, concerned and curious, silently followed behind Xiao Jinsheng, picking up the clothes and jewelry she’d thrown around.
After ransacking the closet, Xiao Jinsheng went to search her dressing table.
"Where would it be hidden..." Her face was filled with anxiety, as she almost tore the room apart but couldn’t find what she was thinking of.
"Xiao Jin, what are you looking for? Maybe we can help?" Que Zelian lifted her from the ground.
"I don’t know, but I’ve looked in every place where I like to hide things," Xiao Jinsheng shook her head. "If it were , I’d definitely leave clues in those places. If I haven’t, it shows I was afraid the clues might be discovered..."
"Being discovered?" Xiao Jinsheng’s eyes lit up, she wriggled free from Que Zelian’s embrace, her excited gaze moving back and forth between the five n.
Finally, her eyes settled on Mo Jiao, clapping happily: "It’s you, the one I have a grudge with, powerful and the one I disliked the most before."
Mo Jiao was stunned: "You’re so excited saying bad things about , what’s on your mind?"
But Xiao Jinsheng ignored him, excitedly running towards his room.
On the Mist Continent, females lived in the Terminal’s shelters before marriage.
After being matched with a spouse, they would move into a Terminal-assigned house.
Each house was pre-arranged to avoid unnecessary quarrels among the Beast Husbands in so places.
The female lived in the master bedroom.
The remaining rooms were arranged according to the Beast Husbands’ beastly animal habits and their preferences.
Each Beastman would submit their room preferences to the Terminal upon being matched with a marriage partner.
So no matter how long those Beast Husbands stayed where their female was, at least their rooms were prepared.
It just so happened that Xiao Jinsheng’s five Beastn encountered her, the peculiar one. Clearly, there were allocated rooms for each person, but Xiao Jinsheng wouldn’t let them sleep there, only allowing them to stay on the first floor.
Everyone followed Xiao Jinsheng to Mo Jiao’s room and saw her rummaging through his things again.
Mo Jiao quickly approached: "Let’s get this straight: I’m not going to stop you from looking, but you’ll have to put everything back in order after making a ss."
"Got it. I’ll tidy up after I find it," Xiao Jinsheng casually tossed him the clothes she had just picked up from the wardrobe.
She didn’t find what she wanted in the wardrobe, so she turned to search Mo Jiao’s dimly decorated room.
Seeing a bookshelf standing against the wall, she quickly went over and started flipping through it book by book: "Have you touched these books?"
"No, just dusted them with a feather duster the day we moved in," Mo Jiao replied.
The bookshelf wasn’t big, with three shelves: one with romance novels, another with academic theories, and the last with horror comics.
Xiao Jinsheng’s hand instinctively went to the romance novels but then reconsidered, stretching her hand towards the horror comics she would never typically read.
Hugging a stack of horror comics, she squeezed in between the five n before daring to start flipping through them.
The characters in the comics were terrifying and bloody, sothing completely banned in her previous world.
Not only was Xiao Jinsheng searching, but the five n were also following her, flipping through these horror comics by her side.
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