Outside the waiting room lay an enormous station plaza.
The tunnel the three of them had seen from the hillside earlier led here. Electronic Sheep had seen an endless stream of trucks at the time, but only upon approaching did he realize that what came down from those trucks was not cargo at all, but wave after wave of people.
Qiu Ming continued from where he had left off.
"At first, Memory Encoding technology was used on ordinary people. Some wealthy families or upper-middle-class households wanted their children to get a head start in life, so while their children were still very young, they secretly used Memory Encoders to program all sorts of skills into them, even granting them the personalities and qualities of leaders.
"And sure enough, those children whose memories had been recoded immediately stood out among their peers, far surpassing other children their age. Once they grew up, whether they started from nothing or inherited the family business, they would rise rapidly, defeat competitor after competitor, and amass wealth at a staggering rate.
"It was practically like activating a cheat code for life," Qiu Ming remarked.
"With their success came a craze for Memory Encoding among the upper class. More and more people decided to have their sons and daughters undergo Memory Encoding. Even if it was not to turn them into winners in life, at the very least, they did not want them to lose at the starting line.
"At the same time, the market for mid- to high-end skilled workers finally became saturated due to the constant influx of New Humans. Companies and businesses needed fewer and fewer of these workers, so major conglomerates such as Shen Tang Morgan finally adjusted the training direction for New Humans, shifting them from technical backbones to blue-collar workers