"Is this all of a person's memories?"
Hei only asked after standing there in a daze for a full half minute.
"All of their memories? No, this is only a small portion of them," Mr. G said. "What you're seeing amounts to less than a week's worth of memories. Finding the part we need to alter is no easy task. We have to keep fishing through the sea of memories. Most ordinary people's stored memories follow no pattern, and sometimes we also have to distinguish between the target's fantasies and reality."
As Mr. G spoke, he pointed to one of the screens. On it, Mr. G was kneeling at the middle-aged man's feet, tearfully begging for his forgiveness. "See that? That's his fantasy. He probably dreamed of this happening every day. Unfortunately, he's now lying in my Memory Encoding Room."
Hei then noticed five people lying sprawled on the floor nearby. At first, he had thought they were corpses, but upon getting closer, he discovered that they had merely been knocked unconscious.
There was also a single bed in the center of the room. The middle-aged man from the screen lay on it. A rather ridiculous-looking helmet covered almost his entire face, with a tube plugged into the back that ran all the way to an oval machine roughly six meters in diameter.
Four people in blue work uniforms sat around that oval machine, all wearing the same comical helmets.
Hei had heard of Memory Encoding before, but this was the first time he had witnessed the process in person. Needless to say, those four people in blue uniforms were the technicians responsible for the Memory Encoding.
Just as Hei wanted to inspect the machine more closely, an electronic synthesized voice rang out.
"Memory segment R9041. Searching again... Keywords: Board