They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 228: Cutting off people and making money
"That group of people has indirectly told me that they have a way to suddenly restore my memories. If they use this trick during the critical period of my performance as the Guardian, my performance will be a complete failure."

As a spectator, Chaofan's tastes are undeniably discerning; once it feels it's been tricked into a cheating scheme involving amnesia, it's capable of doing anything extreme.

"I'm so grateful to them for telling me about this loophole; I need to take some time to thank them."

Ria pulled her hat brim up a bit. The way meme acting is judged to be successful has always been very abstract, and some people will take the opportunity to disrupt the patients' performance process.

To be honest, it's very troublesome to do this, because to do it this way, they need to first understand what meme the patient is going to play, and also figure out their main meme. If the patient changes their mind halfway through and plays a different meme, they will also fail.

Therefore, Ria believes that those who want to disrupt memes are simply looking for trouble when they have nothing better to do.

Paramemes are not significantly affected by anisomemes after successful interpretation, but main memes remain constant. Therefore, main memes are extremely important to patients and should be kept out of reach as much as possible. Paramemes should be used to cover up the main memes.

But Ria usually exposes his identity as a black marketeer for scheming purposes, and no one can do anything about it—can they make him hate money and become a philanthropist?

Unless an idiot suddenly appears on Ria's meme card, those people are just delusional.

A moronic black market merchant is simply a fool who can't make money. Black market merchants have an obsessive fanaticism for money. There used to be a saying in their world: "Cutting off someone's path to wealth is like killing their parents."

It's not hard to understand why Ria harbors such deep resentment towards Gain; besides Gain, she also won't let go of anyone who tries to sabotage her other meme interpretations.

"This time I need to make sure my memories don't suddenly return. Normal methods won't work, so I have to turn to the abyss for help."

Ria looked at the sacrificial array pattern on the ground, which had not completely dissipated and still had an eerie halo flowing over it, and comforted the little Swarth who had sprouted bristles from her shoulder.

"Don't get so worked up. I'll still remember you. It might be a while before we meet again."

Goodnight, Black Angel.

Ria made a joke at little Swarth. He was always good at telling corny jokes that no one would understand. After he finished speaking, Ria put little Swarth down on the ground and walked step by step toward the abyss ritual circle.

His figure was bathed in a halo like a silent sea, and the patterns of the sacrificial array seemed to come alive, converging around him and crawling all over his body until they disappeared.

All the light was hidden.

With the deal between Ria and the Abyss completed, he will not face the distress of having his memories suddenly restored until the meme transformation is successful.

Ria still retains Johnson Lee's memories, and he stares at the little Swarth on the ground with a complicated expression.

“The fact that I appeared before means that I was definitely being watched, and he used methods I don’t know to get rid of the person who was following me.”

We'd better go and discuss the next steps with Mr. Ivand, since one person can't portray the guard alone."

He tucked the little Svalbard into his pocket and headed toward the office. Just as he was about to knock on the door, it was opened from the inside.

The student who had previously asked Ria for help to write a paper was unable to get any, so he had to ask Ivan for help. However, Ivan refused, citing a hand cramp as the reason.

The students were extremely disappointed. When they saw Lia as they opened the door to leave, their eyes lit up, but then they seemed to remember something and became disappointed again.

Ivand told them that after Ria lost his memory, he liked to stick a big beard on his face, and told them not to make a fuss or tell anyone. He said this to tell the children that he hadn't fired Ria, that he wasn't an untrustworthy, cold-hearted, or fickle person, and that they could still come here to play whenever they wanted, even if they didn't have any requests, just to chat.

In addition, he suggested that the children spend more time chatting with Ria. Ivand said that Ria actually likes it when people chat with him, but he never expresses it. If someone can make him laugh with his corny jokes, he will be in a good mood all day.

So when Ria appeared outside the door, he saw the students surrounding him. They asked him to tell a corny joke, but Ria said expressionlessly that he couldn't tell any corny jokes. Then everyone burst into laughter.

That day, Ria looked at everyone with a "you're all sick" gaze, and the students patted him on the shoulder and ran off happily.

"Detective, what nonsense have you been spouting to everyone this time?"

"No, absolutely not."

Ivand raised his hands to prove his innocence. His expression was very serious, and he didn't seem to be lying, but Ria still felt that he was deceiving people.

"Johnson, you don't look well. What happened?"

Should I trust this person?
At that moment, this question inexplicably flashed through Ria's mind, but he quickly calmed down and decided to learn to trust others. If no one around a person can be trusted, what is the value of that person's life?

"I'm being followed."

After thinking for a moment, Ria decided to tell everyone about being followed and her memory problems.

After venting all of this, he immediately felt much lighter, and Ivand slowly lowered his hand.

“Bachlowe may have his eye on you; your meme contains the magician.”

What happened to the magician?

“The circus is recruiting magicians, and what could be more suitable than a patient’s magician meme? Others’ telekinesis may just be an illusion, but you can involve extraordinary means related to time and space.”

“But I always felt that Bucklow wouldn’t target you for such a simple reason.”

After all, Ria is a disordered being, and it's not worth it for him to make an enemy of the Keepers of the Secrets for the sake of a magician. Those plague doctors aren't just sitting around doing nothing either, and besides, their committee members descended upon the place not long ago.

"Do you have any past grievances with Bucklowe?"

Evans believed that the Joker's affair had little to do with Ria; he hadn't killed the Joker, and the body wasn't in his possession. Bucklow should target Faflorence, not Ria, if he wanted to make a move.

Fafnir, the fifth meme, is not easy to deal with, so they want to start by targeting Ria.

Ultimately, Ivand was merely a consciousness entity; he could not know everything, and he had already expended a considerable amount of energy when he was chased by the Plague Doctor last time.

But he was certain that Bucklove had no good intentions this time. His family was just a pawn to him, and the only thing he cared about were the mutated corpses.

Not long ago, Ivand had thwarted Barclay's prophecy and even extended his consciousness to pollute him with some mental pollution.

(End of this chapter)