Vivian looked up at Hao Ren, and this time, she no longer saw him as a stranger.
Hao Ren knew that he had made the right guess; the medium to waking Vivian up was none other than his house key.
The key represented the only place where Vivian could find peace and shelter in tens of thousands of years.
The key meant so much to Vivian that even though she had plunged into the memory whirlpool and misplaced space and time, she brought the key with her. The oxidization on the key was likely the result of space and time distortion. So, Vivian was not entirely unresponsive right before she fell into the memory whirlpool. She had seconds to grab something that could wake her up, and she chose to hold on tightly to the house key.
