Chapter 624: The Brain's Defense Mechanism

"Fragmented memories?" Ye Zhiyu asked in return.

Yu Dazhang didn't understand these technical terms well, but on the surface, they seemed to match his own situation.

"It means losing memories from a certain period of time," he explained patiently:

"Then, after being injured and falling into a coma in the middle, I woke up and remembered some feelings from that time, but I still can't recall the specific events."

"And the harder I try to remember, the less I can recall."

He felt he had explained it very clearly.

Originally, he had come to terms with the amnesia, but during his injury-induced Coma period in N Province, the memories that had been forgotten suddenly and inexplicably resurfaced in his mind.

This also made him curious again about what happened during his disappearance.

After returning to Songhai, he was tied up with various cases, and his busy work left him no time to attend to other matters.

Thus, all the questions about the amnesia period were temporarily set aside by him.

Seeing Ye Zhiyu today, he suddenly remembered that the person before him was capable of hypnosis, and at an extremely high level.

"No big problem."

Ye Zhiyu said in a relaxed tone:

"I understand what you mean; it's probably losing memories from a certain period of time, or the memories of an entire event."

He paused for a moment, then continued:

"This is usually called dissociative amnesia, often triggered by major psychological trauma, manifesting as selective forgetting of specific events or identity information."

Ye Zhiyu's voice gradually became serious:

"According to what you said, the patient forgot specific events but still remembers who they are."

"In my opinion, this is the patient triggering a self-protection mechanism to prevent brainless organic lesions."

Yu Dazhang blinked repeatedly at what he said.

It's just amnesia; is it necessary to be so complicated?

Dissociative amnesia?

Brainless organic lesions?

It sounds very professional.

But the more professional it sounded, the more panicked Yu Dazhang felt inside.

He was truly afraid that Ye Zhiyu's next sentence would be the two words "terminal illness."

"Are you confident you can restore the memories?"

After asking this, Yu Dazhang stared straight at the person opposite him.

"Let's try," Ye Zhiyu didn't make absolute promises:

"Everyone's symptoms are different; you have to let me see the person first."

The reaction is really slow... Yu Dazhang pointed at himself:

"The person with amnesia is me."

"You?" Ye Zhiyu looked at him in disbelief:

"I didn't see it."

Yu Dazhang then recounted the story of his nine-and-a-half-month disappearance.

Many things in there were inferred by him later, but now they can be basically confirmed.

"You say, is it possible I was hypnotized by someone?"

Yu Dazhang believed this possibility was the greatest.

Various signs indicated that during his disappearance, he had been locked up by someone.

Although he didn't know why the other party finally released him, one thing was certain: the other party must have done something to him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have lost his memories for no reason.

It was probably precisely because of the amnesia that the other party dared to send him back.

"That's possible, but the probability isn't high."

Ye Zhiyu took a cigarette out of his pocket, just as he put it to his lips, he took it down again.

From this action, it could be seen that he was currently in a state of active thinking.

"If you were hypnotized by someone, you've been back for almost a year; you should have woken up long ago."

Ye Zhiyu analyzed:

"Hypnosis has a duration; currently, I haven't heard of anyone being able to hypnotize someone for a lifetime."