"005 altered different people's memories to completely different degrees," He Ao said, holding a ballpoint pen and staring at the words in the notebook before him. "More precisely, it worked in layers."
First were He Ao himself and Li Cheng. Judging from how Wu Ganglie had waited for Li Cheng to leave before making his move, combined with Hao Yi's "cooperation" with Li Cheng in the ruins—
Li Cheng still had a relatively positive impression of K and did not believe K was an Evil God. In other words, 005 had most likely been unable to directly alter Li Cheng's memories.
Of course, it had most likely managed to influence Li Cheng's memories indirectly by affecting the people around him, making him slightly change his view of K.
Li Cheng's powerful, urgent "desire for advancement" was very likely something 005 had influenced from behind the scenes.
And aside from Li Cheng, 005 had not directly altered He Ao's memories either.
The common ground He Ao could find between himself and Li Cheng was that Li Cheng also possessed an Angel-level item, but that did not seem to be a complete explanation.
He Ao could understand why 005 had refrained from acting against him out of fear of being discovered.
After all, he carried so many Transcendent Items, and the Eye of Truth came with a piercing effect. Even if He Ao had stood in 005's position, he would not have acted against himself so easily.
But why had it not acted against Li Cheng?
Although the Spear of Andarville possessed powerful offensive capabilities, it did not actually have any particularly effective means of dealing with this strange ability to alter memories.
He Ao did not believe 005's ability would be completely ineffective against Angels, because his own Hyperthymesia ability could