“What?”

“I’m very afraid right now that my memories will disappear.” Baiyang said. “I’ve never had this feeling before. In the past, I only gave myself subtle hints day after day, but now I’m somewhat afraid… I have many things I cannot forget, and many people I must remember…”

That familiar feeling came again… Baiyang was beginning to say things I needed to carefully understand before I could grasp their meaning.

“I don’t quite understand… Yang Ge.” I said. “You’re already an ‘Earth-level Zodiac’ now… Logically speaking, there shouldn’t be any possibility of ‘memory loss,’ right? Apart from continuing to ‘ascend’… you would…”

I couldn’t bring myself to say “turn to ashes and scatter like smoke,” but Baiyang could surely guess.

“What if I’m going to become something other than a ‘Zodiac’?” Baiyang asked. “I’m truly a bit afraid… Yan Zhichun, I’m walking a path that no one in this world has ever walked before. I don’t know what’s waiting for me ahead on this path.”

“I… I understand…”

Lu Xun said that originally there were no paths in this world, but when many people walk the same way, it becomes a path.

But if in a pitch-black direction, only one person is groping forward in the dark… can that still be called a path?

“So exactly how can I make memories engrave themselves in my heart?” Baiyang asked again.

“Yang Ge… asking me this question… isn’t that a bit…”

“No, I think you can help me answer it.” Baiyang said. “You once inadvertently solved a huge problem for me.”

“Me…?” I was somewhat confused. The only time Baiyang needed my help was to find a “face,” but that “face” wasn’t even found by me.

“Yes…” Baiyang extended his hand covered in white fur and pointed at his own temple. “That is the ‘storage of knowledge.'”

I was slightly stunned: “You should have even more knowledge than me now… but all of that was obtained from your own reading…”

“But you told me a more convenient memory method, which is to organize and categorize using the names of various effects and theorems. This way, I only need to remember a few words to access an entire chain of knowledge.”

I felt Baiyang was valuing me a bit too highly. Even if he really didn’t know the names of those effects and theorems, it wouldn’t prevent him from thinking of this knowledge himself.

“So do you have other convenient methods for storing memories?” Baiyang said. “Similar to effects, laws, and theorems—retaining important memories through minor things.”

“This…” I thought carefully for a moment. It seemed I really had consciously learned memory methods before.

But my starting point was truly quite different from Baiyang’s… Because my memory wasn’t very good when I was young, which led to poor academic performance, so I would actively learn how to improve my memory.

But did Baiyang really need these memory methods?

“Yang Ge… I don’t know if you can use this…” I said in a low voice. “If you want to remember some important things, you can use the ‘Anchor Point Memory Method,’ which is to associate some other things when you experience important events. This way, when you see those things, it will trigger the memories from that time.”

“Other things…?” Baiyang looked at me. “For example?”

“For example…”

I looked around for a long time and discovered there didn’t seem to be anything in the room I could use as an example.

I suddenly thought of something, so I reached out and knocked on the table in front of Baiyang.

“Dong dong dong!”

After hearing this sound, Baiyang’s expression clearly showed surprise.

“For example, this kind of sound.” I said. “You can knock on the table when you feel something is important. This way, the next time you knock on the table, you’ll remember what you were doing the last time you knocked on the table.”

“So this is called the ‘Anchor Point Memory Method’…”

After hearing this, Baiyang nodded. His expression didn’t look like he had learned new knowledge, but more like he had learned what a method he’d been using all along was called.

“Yang Ge… were you already using this method?” I asked.

Baiyang didn’t answer. He only sighed and said again: “Yan Zhichun, what if I have absolutely nothing at hand that can be used as an ‘anchor point’? What if I can’t even knock on a table?”

“This…” I thought for a moment and said, “Under what kind of circumstances do you need to establish an ‘anchor point’?”

“For example, in a dream.” Baiyang said.

In a dream…?

“Actually, imagined associated objects can also work.”

“Imagined ones?”

I turned my head and discovered that on Baiyang’s table there was actually a cartoon sheep pattern.

“What is this…?” I picked up that cartoon sheep and discovered it was actually made from sewn cloth.

“A ‘customer’ left it here, saying she picked it up on the road and felt it was very suitable for me, so she brought it to thank me for helping her save her path.” Baiyang said. “I don’t really like this kind of boring way of showing gratitude. She might as well have left a life here.”

I shook my head helplessly and moved the cartoon sheep forward, inserting it into the pocket on the chest of Baiyang’s suit.

“What are you doing?” Baiyang looked at his suit and frowned.

I had to say… Baiyang’s stern face paired with this cartoon sheep created an indescribably bizarre picture.

“Yang Ge, you and this cartoon sheep are extremely mismatched.” I said.

“Do I even need to say that…?” Baiyang asked in confusion.

“So this can also serve as an ‘anchor point.'” I said. “I don’t know if you can understand this example, but you normally wouldn’t wear clothes with cartoon patterns like this. But one day in a dream, you suddenly discover you’re actually wearing a shirt or suit with a cartoon pattern—you would immediately realize that ‘something is very wrong,’ things like that…”

“Oh…?” After hearing this, Baiyang slightly narrowed his eyes, then nodded. “What other examples are there?”

“Uh… there’s also…” I really didn’t know how to give more examples. “Yang Ge… what do you need to remember? I think it’s better to analyze specific situations specifically.”

“I…” Baiyang paused and said, “I need to remember a flawless symbol. She appears together with ‘summer’ and disappears together with ‘summer.’ She is pure white, serene, and perfect. Her appearance will lead us to see the end of everything.”

After hearing this, I showed a troubled expression. Baiyang’s description was somewhat too abstract.

What exactly was he trying to remember?

It was actually a flawless “symbol”…?

“At first, I need to let this symbol lead me forward courageously. Then I need to use this symbol to plunge myself into despair. Subsequently, this symbol will make me feel that ‘something is very wrong.’ Finally, she will lead me toward the end.”

After Baiyang finished speaking, he looked at me: “How can I accurately and separately remember the different states during different time periods?”

Good heavens… Did Baiyang really not overestimate me?

This was clearly no longer a question I could answer. Baiyang seemed to have revealed part of the plan in his heart to me, but every link was extremely abstract!

But I don’t know why… I always felt that the situation he was describing, I had seen in some book before.