In his memories, he had stood before this machine and used it to search for something. After that, the "confusion" had disappeared.
What had I searched for back then?
Mo Ling gently lit up the machine's screen. A sense of familiarity washed over him. He seemed to remember how to operate it and knew how to search, but when he opened the search bar, he froze. He could not remember what he had searched for. Those memories were far too specific, and he could not recall them at all.
Mo Ling patted his cube head, trying to awaken those dormant brain cells, but his recollection had stalled right there. The machine's screen was lit, yet he had no idea where to begin...
Perhaps sensing his hesitation, the machine promptly began playing a tutorial. It was a program designed to guide beginners who did not know how to operate it. Mo Ling did not interrupt it and listened carefully until the entire tutorial had ended.
In his memories, he seemed to have watched the tutorial all the way through as well.
What exactly had I been doing back then?
It seemed like I was looking for something...
What was I looking for?
Though he could not determine what he had searched for at the time, he could still peel away fragments of his thoughts from those memories.
Back then, he seemed to have been looking for something.
Looking for a Relic? No...
It seemed like I was looking for someone!
Mo Ling kept narrowing it down through elimination. When the possibility of "looking for someone" surfaced in his mind, that familiar sensation returned.
*That's right! I was looking for someone! I was looking for someone in Dawn City! At first, I didn't know what kind of place this was. Then I