"..."
Du Yuheng was visibly a bit flustered: "Senior, your skill is..."
"mory theft," Jiang Ye answered quite bluntly.
Sure enough, the expressions of these six newcors visibly changed.
They all seed sowhat regretful about actively joining Jiang Ye's "comrades" small group.
However, Jiang Ye quickly added with a smile:
"You don't need to worry too much either, after all, this mory theft skill of mine is also quite useless."
"It's pretty much the sa—when used on the sa individual for the first ti, you can't see any useful information, just one or two brief flashes of images, similar to the garbled code you see when mind reading."
"And strictly speaking, the use of my skill is even more useless than your [Heart's Voice Externalized]."
"When you use [Heart's Voice Externalized], you don't need to touch the target individual, right?"
"But when I use mory theft, I need to have contact with the target individual."
"Moreover, when I use it multiple tis on the sa individual, the skill cooldown ti is as long as 6 hours. That ans, at most 4 tis a day."
After this explanation, Du Yuheng visibly relaxed.
But the other five clear-eyed and foolish youths still seed sowhat suspicious.
Their gazes shifted back and forth between Jiang Ye and Du Yuheng, obviously suspecting whether these two might have deliberately agreed to use a "useless skill" to deceive them.
Especially...
The beginning of Jiang Ye's statent used "you all" instead of "you"...
Which ant...
The bespectacled youth reacted first: "Do we also need to cooperate with you stealing our mories?"
"Of course," Jiang Ye said with a completely natural expression.
The five youths looked hesitant.
In the end, it was the cold, bespectacled youth who first asked Jiang Ye: "Can you get us out of here?"
Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow: "I'll do my best."
"Alright then, we'll cooperate with you," the youth pushed up his seemingly correct glasses, apparently having made the right decision.
So, the six youths lined up one by one for Jiang Ye to use his skill on them.
Jiang Ye still chose the sa thod as when he used the skill on He Yuliang earlier, having them press their fingertips against his forehead.
The first to have mories stolen was naturally Du Yuheng.
And when mory images surfaced in his mind, Jiang Ye's first impression was—
The overall tone of these mory images was very similar to the mory tone he stole from NPC passengers on the bus earlier.
And this "mory tone," simply put, was...
Full of the feeling of normal lighting from the real world.
Even if so people's mory images were at night, that kind of night still felt very real.
In short, it was completely different from the dim, gloomy feeling in the "doomsday" background without normal sunlight.
And the main reason for this tone might be because the Land of Exile had no "sun"?
Du Yuheng's mory images seed to show him working at a crematorium?
The visual information from the perspective seed to be Du Yuheng taking corpses that needed cremation from the crematorium's mortuary.
After witnessing family mbers say their final goodbyes, he then transported the corpses to the incinerator.
However...
The images presented in the perspective clearly recorded—
That corpse ultimately wasn't thrown into the incinerator at all.
Instead, it was transported to a hidden room.
The incinerator operated normally.
Then Du Yuheng took out cremains of unknown composition that were still hot, sealed them in a box, and finally handed the cremains box to the family...
The entire scene ended right at the point where the cremains box was handed to the deceased's family.
Strangely, throughout the entire process, Jiang Ye's chest didn't surge with any emotions similar to hatred.
He only felt an unprecedented sense of calm.
Like an outsider observing an event absolutely unrelated to himself with complete detachnt.
When he finally snapped back to reality, he didn't need any emotional adjustnt, directly returning to awareness.
Du Yuheng was sowhat nervous and asked: "Senior, what did you see?"
Jiang Ye felt that the images he just saw were a bit strange.
He thought for a mont, didn't answer directly, but said solemnly: "Next."
Next was the bespectacled youth.
He was also quite nervous, but probably felt that compared to survival, revealing his mories wasn't a big deal.
So, he actively offered his finger to Jiang Ye's forehead.
And this ti, sothing strange happened!
Because Jiang Ye discovered—
The mory he stole from this bespectacled youth was actually exactly the sa as the mory he just stole from Du Yuheng!
Both were scenes of pretending to cremate bodies at a crematorium while actually pushing corpses into a secret space!
This...
What's going on?!
This ti when he snapped back to reality, Jiang Ye's entire mind was going berserk!
What? How? How can two different people share the exact sa mory??
Could it be... I'm the clown here, and you two are actually clones sharing consciousness?
Of course, based on the stolen mory images, Jiang Ye had another speculation in his mind.
After a mont of silence, facing the bespectacled youth's nervous inquiry, he still didn't say much, only calling out "next" in a business-like manner.
However, the next four "Foolish Youths" all provided him with the sa version as Du Yuheng's mory!
Even the duration of the mory fragnts was exactly the sa without any difference!
The last four youths didn't actively ask him what he saw.
Only after all six of them had completed the mory theft process did they look at Jiang Ye together, their eyes showing unconcealed confusion.
Jiang Ye thought for a mont and directly asked: "Have any of you six worked at a crematorium?"
All six of course shook their heads repeatedly.
"I'm still studying, how could I have work experience."
"I haven't either, even if I work in the future, I wouldn't choose crematorium work."
Right.
All six answers were negative.
From this answer, combined with the future mory Jiang Ye just stole from He Yuliang.
Perhaps it could be inferred that these six people would experience crematorium work at so point in the future.
But this most intuitive speculation was directly rejected by Jiang Ye.
Because the mory tone of the crematorium work just now clearly didn't belong to the Doomsday Prison background.
If the Doomsday Prison background was really the hidden past of the Doomsday Apartnt.
Then these six people's "future" couldn't possibly experience that normal-toned imagery with normal sunlight.
So...
Then the answer to this question should only have two possibilities.
Either, it's the upcoming "Ideological Reform" in this Grand Auditorium!
Or, it's the so-called "Dreamland" after 23:00 at night!
These two scenarios could potentially inject the sa mories into these six people.
For example, Song Jie gave "watching movies" as an example of an ideological reform project.
So that crematorium work scene might be sothing they would see while "watching movies" in this Grand Auditorium.
Including the mysterious "Dreamland" segnt could also potentially cause such effects.
And this movie-watching-like scenario could well explain why all six of them would have the sa mory.
It seed the problem of identical mories was explained.
But there was still one detail—
Even if all six would acquire that crematorium work mory in future "movie-watching" or "Dreamland" segnts.
But Jiang Ye's [Grudge mory] for mory theft clearly displayed as "random theft"!
How could "random theft" on these six different people yield exactly the sa result?
This identical result clearly violated the "random" principle of the skill!
So...
Jiang Ye imdiately thought of the results Du Yuheng got when using [Heart's Voice Externalized] on players for the first ti.
Although it seed like the externalized heart's voices he got were also "random."
Actually, within this "randomness," there existed certain patterns.
The heart's voices those players first externalized were basically 100% related to their firmly believed "convictions."
Then, could the mories Jiang Ye's [Grudge mory] skill first stole also have so pattern within the "randomness"?
Actually, during previous skill use, he had already discovered so localized patterns.
For example, the mories stolen from Xiao Hei and from the giant turtle both spanned long ti dinsions.
And both were related to their special experience of being "arrested."
Li Ku's mory showed his future downfall.
Song Jie's mory showed him being forced to fall/corrupt by Superior People, which could be seen as a life turning point.
The scene of the bus driver being expelled from normal cities might also foreshadow so hope being shattered, a desperate life turning point...
Of course, there were also mory images provided by so NPCs... which might be like the pure garbled code Du Yuheng read, not having reference value?
Because those NPCs, like those numb hollow people, were almost equivalent to having no souls.
So synthesizing these patterns...
Perhaps, the mories Jiang Ye first stole from individuals using his skill were also similar to the "convictions" manifested by [Heart's Voice Externalized], being a "key mory"?
Key mory...
Jiang Ye pondered these words in his heart and couldn't help but draw another bold conclusion—
Perhaps...
If every player experiences a final flashback when dying, with life experiences flashing through their mind like a revolving lantern.
Then among the countless mories flashing through those dying players' final monts, the most deeply imprinted scene in their hearts might be the mory stolen when [Grudge mory] is first activated?
Precisely because [Grudge mory]'s search range is a player's entire life...
That's why situations occur where "future mories" are stolen!
If a player already has the most profound mory of their life, then what Jiang Ye steals is a past mory.
But if the most profound mont of their life hasn't been experienced yet, then he can steal future mories?
But if this is really true...
Then why would the mories first stolen from these six new players appear as exactly identical, watched mories?
Hiss...
What if this kind of mory isn't sothing they "watched" like "watching a movie."
But rather, like lab rats in a laboratory... had this mory injected into them?!
Hiss... ideological reform... personality reconstruction...
Jiang Ye suddenly shuddered, having to re-examine this "Personality Reconstruction School"...
His gaze fell on these six newcors again.
And these six people felt their scalps tingling under his strange stare.
Du Yuheng couldn't help but ask: "Senior, what exactly did you see?"
"Did you see us working at a crematorium?"
"Could your skill have malfunctioned like when I read minds and get garbled code?"
This casually ntioned possibility indeed gave Jiang Ye a new line of thought.
Jiang Ye took a deep breath and suddenly asked Du Yuheng for more details: "How exactly are the 'garbled code' you see presented? Is it Chinese character garbled code like decompression errors? Or is it like AI-generated garbled code that isn't even Chinese characters?"
Du Yuheng answered this question without hesitation: "It should be considered AI garbled code, those ssy symbols that can't be called characters, even mixed with incorrect foreign languages."
"And those garbled codes look very blurry, not mosaic-like blurry, but like poor eyesight blurry."
As he spoke, Du Yuheng also speculated with chin in hand: "Actually, I also suspect whether it's because my own ability is insufficient, or my 'pupil power' is inadequate? That's why I can't see those garbled codes clearly?"
He Yuliang listened thoughtfully and couldn't help asking Jiang Ye: "What exactly did you see from them that made you react so strongly?"
After all, when Jiang Ye saw his "monster" perspective, he hardly reacted at all, still rationally analyzing the possibility of confusion state with him.
He Yuliang really couldn't imagine what he saw from these six newcors.
Crematorium?
But what's so scary about a crematorium?
Could it involve so information about the "later world" underground cetery?
Many speculations bubbled up in He Yuliang's heart.
Then he heard Jiang Ye hesitantly give an answer.
But not an answer to He Yuliang.
Instead, he directly addressed those six youths:
"I saw exactly the sa mories from all six of you."
"This 'exactly the sa' ans from the beginning to the end of the mory, even the duration of the mory images... are like copy-pasted, exactly identical without any difference."
The announcent of this information indeed caused all six to show expressions of confusion and shock.
Actually, they didn't understand Jiang Ye's so-called mory theft skill.
But even without understanding the skill, they vaguely felt that such a phenonon shouldn't occur.
They were six different people, how could they have the sa mory?
Imdiately, one youth gave the sa answer Jiang Ye had speculated:
"Could the identical images you saw be mories we'll all receive together during the upcoming 'Ideological Reform'?"
He Yuliang also nodded, agreeing with this speculation.
But Jiang Ye noticed...
After he publicly revealed this answer, Du Yuheng's expression showed a brief, montary abnormality.
Actually, all six showed either shocked or confused expressions.
Only Du Yuheng's shock and confusion contained a montary strange emotional change.
Jiang Ye actually didn't catch exactly what that montary abnormality was in terms of emotion.
But he clearly perceived—
Du Yuheng deliberately concealed that trace of emotion!
And this phenonon made Jiang Ye suddenly develop another new idea.
He looked at Du Yuheng and directly asked: "What do you think?"
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