"Your meaning is," Wei Jinna pondered He Ao's words and seemed to grasp something, "that his 'surrender' was essentially him acting as some kind of 'scapegoat,' taking all the blame?"
Her brows furrowed tightly. "Then what about the money? How do you explain all that money? Given how 'popular' White Ghost has been, the Federal currency he earned from selling stimulants over the years must amount to hundreds of millions."
She looked up at He Ao. "Even for a super conglomerate, that would be a substantial income. With so much money, he drives a cheap civilian car and doesn't seem to spend much on himself. How can he explain where the money went? The Federal Bureau of Investigation has Mind Reading methods. It wouldn't be that easy for him to lie, would it?"
"Maybe he converted it into cryptocurrency and lost it all through online gambling," He Ao said slowly as he looked at the street ahead. "As for Mind Reading, there are too many ways to 'deceive' it."
Even if the Sales Director had no relevant memories, as long as he firmly believed in the "thought" planted in his heart, Mind Reading would only conclude that he was indeed telling the truth.
What was more, those "thoughts" came with detailed "memories" of cause and effect, enough to make both Mind Readers and interrogators believe they truly were his memories.
If He Ao could not directly read memories from the bottom layer and had interrogated the Sales Director using only Hyperthymesia's ability to read thoughts, he too would have believed everything the Sales Director said was true.
Of course, someone capable of such "tampering" would likely possess considerable status and power. They were probably a High-Level Existence.
That meant this Sales Director had actually come very close to the High-Level