99 Mysterious Dream Fairy Tale (22)
Mr. Qin, your heart is truly filthy.
The little sunflower carefully separated the happy and painful memories inside the crystal ball, then put the happy memories, wrapped in a warm-colored little sun, back into the crystal ball.
Soon, it stared blankly at the gray and black little suns.
"What should we do about these?" it wondered, somewhat bewildered.
Dr. Sunflower's psychological treatment has always involved him unilaterally stuffing little suns into the toys; he has never removed the little suns.
After thinking for a moment, the little sunflower grabbed two small suns and tried to stuff them into its body.
Qin Fu'an narrowly stopped him.
"Mr. Repairman?" Little Sunflower looked at him in confusion.
Qin Fu'an stared at the small black sun in its hand and said helplessly, "The vitality in these small suns has been completely exhausted and replaced by pollution."
It is a heavy negative emotion, a pollutant that spreads wildly and affects the mind after just a little contact, yet it is also the most beloved food of demons and monsters.
"Leave it to me." Qin Fu'an reached out to it and sighed softly, "Perhaps I have a way to recycle these pollutants."
"……oh."
The little sunflower nodded blankly, placed the little sun in its hand on Qin Fu'an's paw, and watched curiously as the little suns disappeared in just a few breaths.
"Are you sure nothing will happen?" it couldn't help but ask.
Before, it didn't know, and ignorance is bliss, but now that it knows these are pollutants, it's a little worried about whether the repairman will get hurt.
I'm also grateful that they stopped me, otherwise I might have taken the contaminants back and put them inside my body. And this is just the contamination inside one toy. What if all the toys in the entire Fairy Tale City had this much contamination inside them?
The little sunflower was hesitant to think any further. It felt a chill run down its spine. But if these pollutants weren't recycled and continued to linger in its dreams, they would only affect more toys, and the outcome might be the same in the end.
Qin Fu'an's taking over brought it a sense of relief, but also a bit of unease.
"fine."
The lucky cat waved its round paws and said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, I'll take care of these things."
Seeing his nonchalant demeanor, Little Sunflower breathed a sigh of relief and became less flustered, her chaotic thoughts starting to race again.
He placed the crystal ball on the bench, picked up the lucky cat, and continued walking inside.
Along the way, it introduced Qin Fu'an to many, many toys.
Unlike their vibrant appearance in the fairytale city, in this dream, these toys, like the crystal ball, are the most ordinary and mundane toys in the world, lifeless, unable to speak, and certainly not moving around.
They just stay quietly in one fixed place.
On benches, in the grass, on the roofs of wooden houses, in the stream...
They can be found everywhere.
"Because this is a dream, their dreams won't appear here when I don't want them to dream."
The little sunflower explained softly, then looked down at Qin Fu'an and asked hesitantly, "Mr. Repairman, do all toys have painful memories inside them? Are their recent psychological problems getting worse because of these memories?"
The little sunflower had actually guessed to some extent, but it was still very confused.
Because in its view, aren't those memories part of what makes up these toys?
After all, these were all retrieved piece by piece from various dreams. Why do the toys only want happy memories but are unwilling to accept the pain that has already passed?
Just like when Mingming first arrived in Fairy Tale City, everyone was sad but trying to live on. Later, however, they became more and more extreme, and several toys even chose to die when Mingming wasn't looking.
The little sunflower seemed to understand, yet not quite. It had never experienced being chosen and then abandoned by humans. Even though it experienced it again and again in the dreams of the toys, those toys were ultimately not itself.
Qin Fu'an looked up and saw the confusion hidden in the child's clear eyes.
It seems to be trapped in one place and can't get out no matter what it does.
Because it cannot empathize with other toys, it does not understand how much damage those enduring pains inflict on the toys.
That's why it hasn't discovered for so long that the key to treating toys isn't giving them more life, but removing the painful "rotten flesh" from their memories.
In the long silence, the little sunflower slowly walked forward, holding the lucky cat. When it encountered a broken toy airplane that could no longer fly, it squatted down and, with an experimental mindset, summoned the little suns containing memories inside the airplane.
A dense mass of black.
It stung its eyes.
At the same time, the lucky cat in its arms finally spoke, breaking the suffocating silence.
"This is not your fault."
The little sunflower froze in place for a moment.
The voice in my ear continued: "Little Sunflower, don't be so hard on yourself. You're right. Pain and happiness make up these things, but they are too fragile. They are too fragile to withstand the pain, which is why they are contaminated so quickly. This is not your fault. You have done enough and done enough."
In Qin Fu'an's eyes, there couldn't possibly be any problems with Little Sunflower.
Therefore, he would never allow the little guy to get stuck in a dead end.
"In fact, from the moment toys develop consciousness, they are not much different from humans and many other creatures."
The boy's clear and gentle voice, like a babbling brook, slowly said, "Just as they hate humans because they feel that humans are fickle and abandon them, those painful memories are also constantly hurting them when they refuse to accept and resist them."
“You did nothing wrong. It is these toys that, after dying once, are drowning in pain again, trying to kill themselves once more.”
"Little Sunflower, it's a biological instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm. You've saved them many times already."
What Qin Fu'an didn't say was that seeking advantage and avoiding harm is a biological instinct, but every Xie Yunhuai he met seemed to lack this instinct.
Just like the little sunflower in front of me, it has been using its own vitality to ensure the survival of the toys from beginning to end.
Qin Fu'an would never do such a thing.
Xie Zeyuan will try every means to kill the one who takes away his life.
Even the toys in this instance are trying to survive in their own way.
Xie Yunhuai is either being hurt by others or actively hurting himself.
Cycle of rules, curse of the mountain god, utterly corrupted, yet life force sustains it...
Qin Fu'an sometimes wondered who was plotting against Xie Yunhuai behind the scenes, causing him to be harmed and tainted time and time again.
Those tentacles that should have been lush and green were forever replaced by a dense, dark black.
This is why Qin Fu'an always tries to abduct the little cloud from the dungeon.
I have a feeling that if I stay in this strange game, sooner or later it will be completely corrupted, or it will quietly die out.
But he couldn't really alert the enemy, so Qin Fu'an could only patiently search and locate them one instance at a time.
At that moment, his words of comfort seemed to have a profound impact on Little Sunflower.
The little sunflower stood there, stunned, staring blankly at him, as if looking through him at the vast, dilapidated, and desolate amusement park.
The little sunflower understood Qin Fu'an's words.
It was precisely because it understood that it felt dazed.
Wasn't it my fault?
But it was it that brought these toys to Fairy Tale City, and it was also it that treated these toys whenever they were in pain.
It has been responsible for the lives of these toys, but has failed to discover their true cause of illness.
It's hard for the little sunflower not to feel guilty.
In its unguided self-perception, isn't the very purpose of possessing such an ability to alleviate the suffering of others?
Otherwise, Little Sunflower could simply see herself as an ordinary toy, rather than the only psychologist in Fairy Tale City.
It brought everyone home, and it repeatedly searched through dreams to retrieve fragments of memories, hoping that they could live well.
"I understand..." The little sunflower lowered her head and said softly, "Mr. Repairman, thank you for your comfort. I will no longer blame myself."
There are many, many more important things to do than feel guilty and blame yourself.
You have to select and erase memories from over a hundred toys, maintain the dream world, help the repairman perform the restoration surgery, and trade for enough toy hearts...
After leaving the dream, the little sunflower suddenly became very busy.
It first invited the crystal ball that it had chosen to erase the memory of last night.
Qin Fu'an and Xie Zeyuan followed behind it.
They soon saw the crystal ball.
It was already very broken.
Compared to what I saw in my dream, the crystal ball in front of me was in a state of disarray, with almost no crystals left on it.
To their surprise, the crystal ball did not feel any pain.
It is happy.
It said happily to the little sunflower, "Dr. Sunflower, you've come at the perfect time! I feel like my mental state has improved a lot today. I even feel like the person I used to be in so much pain no longer exists. I can't remember why I was in so much pain at all!"
"In fact, I feel like I should be this happy. The sky is so beautiful, the fairytale city is so beautiful, and even seeing you now is something to be happy about, isn't it? I feel really great right now. The physical pain is real, but I'm lucky to still be alive, aren't I?"
Its happiness was so obvious.
It can even speak of the love it once received, so abundant and so real, that it can still raise a gentle smile even when facing physical pain.
"Is this your method?" Xie Zeyuan's voice reached Qin Fu'an's ears, tinged with a barely perceptible sneer: "Remove the painful memories, leaving only the happiness and love, making these already dim-witted toys even dumber and more naive?"
"It turns out that this method is very effective, isn't it?"
Qin Fu'an raised an eyebrow, not angry at all, but instead chuckled and replied, "Besides, isn't it good for them? Anyway, they will never be able to leave Fairy Tale City in their entire lives. Rather than being trapped in the memories of the past every day, it's better to be happy and simple fools. At least that way, Little Sunflower won't have to worry about them anymore."
"...So that last sentence is the only reason, right?"
"Mr. Qin, your heart is truly filthy."
The little black metal bird actually managed to roll its eyes.
The black teddy bear innocently curved its lips into a smile and chuckled softly, its silent answer speaking volumes.
[Author's Note]
It's so hot in Chengdu lately!! I don't even dare to go outside. I feel so sorry for the students starting school these past few days, it's so tough. Do the freshmen also have to do military training...?
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