This was Lu Li's first time reading a memory crystal, and the sensation was extremely strange.
His senses had not been completely stripped away, nor was he wholly immersed in the memories contained within the crystal.
It felt more like being an audience member watching a movie.
He could invest his emotions and experience every detail within the memory fragments.
He could also pull away at any moment and end the reading process.
The sound of water from the bathroom continued to rush and splash, interweaving with the sound of ocean waves entering Lu Li's mind.
The dark blue seawater churned ceaselessly, washing over shattered ruins.
Everything before him was utterly unfamiliar, things he had never seen before, yet Lu Li was able to understand and comprehend them quickly.
Information was being subtly infused into his mind through the memory fragments in the crystal, allowing him to understand what he saw as though he were there himself.
"A battlefield?"
Lu Li muttered inwardly as he looked around.
Everywhere he looked lay the dismembered corpses of sea folk and scattered severed limbs.
"It looks pretty brutal..."
Lu Li silently sighed, intending to continue surveying his surroundings.
But at that moment, the scene before him was forcibly fixed on one spot, leaving Lu Li unable to control it.
"Hm? I can't control this freely?"
Waves struck his face as his body rapidly sank.
Through the "corner of his eye" from the fixed perspective, Lu Li saw thick tentacles covered in strange patterns swaying beneath him.
Lu Li suddenly understood.
The images stored within the memory crystal came from Octopus Lady's memories.
He was merely a viewer taking on her perspective—an audience member.
Naturally, he had no ability to control it.
His earlier ability to look around freely and inspect the situation had