Lynn abruptly gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
"That goddamn bastard!"
The surrounding Little Light Banquets froze. "Did you notice something...?"
Lynn adjusted his Monocle and took a deep breath. His expression turned solemn and cold as he pointed out the traces of tampering to them.
"If you wanted to make someone obey, what would be the simplest method for you Mechanical Bodies?"
Silence fell around them.
One of the Little Light Banquets looked at Lynn, her eyes flickering.
"Implant a distorted memory-overwrite the original memories-then he'll believe that distorted memory-was what he actually experienced-"
Lynn raised his head with resolve, gazing up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.
He tightened his fists slightly.
Although he didn't want the Light Banquets to notice, a few Little Light Banquets still spotted the fists clenched inside his sleeves.
"Exactly."
"You mean..."
Another Little Light Banquet trembled as she spoke.
The perceptive Little Light Banquet who had just spoken stepped forward. Studying the traces of tampering in the data stream, she frowned and pinched her chin.
"If that's the case-then everything makes sense-it also explains why she attacked Lynn so decisively just now-because before we absorbed her-she still believed the distorted memories were the real ones-there was no way she would hold back-"
The surrounding Light Banquets were shaken.
That Little Light Banquet crouched down and examined the data carefully, musing aloud.
"Only after we devoured her-were those hidden, true memories uncovered again-and that's why we found traces of tampering left in the data-perhaps for a very long time before this-they all believed those memories were real..."
"That's only my tentative guess-"
Bingo!
Perfect!
So clever!
Lynn secretly gave that Little Light Banquet a thumbs-up.
*She really saw straight to the heart of the matter. Exactly, that was the truth! With