Chapter 122: Sorting Memories

March.

Omid Abbott of the Mind Magic Research Group and Haldane of the Spellcasting Path Research Group found Murphy together.

"Director, we want to apply to recruit a wizard who is good at Legilimency to verify some ideas." Haldane said.

"A wizard proficient in Legilimency?"

Such a wizard is not easy to find.

Legilimency is not an illegal spell, but reading someone's thoughts at will is obviously a very offensive behavior. Most wizards won't use it, and even Aurors who might use this spell don't have many who reach the level of proficiency.

"It's like this, Director. Didn't you mention memory replication before? After detailed argumentation, we believe that to complete memory replication, we must first solve the problem of memory extraction." Haldane said.

"But the action mode of Legilimency is usually index-based, used to search for answers to specific questions in the subject's brain, just like looking up specific entries in an encyclopedia through a directory. This method is difficult to extract systematic knowledge." Omid said.

Murphy nodded.

Legilimency is like using a search engine. You can quickly get a result, but the information obtained is very fragmented.

"But we noticed that some materials show that some wizards can extract their memories and put them into a Pensieve for storage, and the Pensieve also seems to be able to generate scenes, allowing wizards to repeatedly sort out and study their memories."

"We are very curious about this and believe that the mechanism should help extract knowledge-based memories."

Murphy understood. "How about this, what kind of experiments are they? Tell me about them. If possible, I'll try it myself."

Perhaps due to the high magic power level of the Cognition dimension, Murphy's Legilimency is quite good, but this is also inseparable from the fact that he occasionally secretly practiced with classmates when he was in school.

Omid and Haldane were both surprised, but Murphy participating directly was convenient for them. After all, the research on "memory replication" was obviously conducted by Murphy for his own use.

"It would be best if you participate directly." Omid said.

"We mainly want to verify whether Legilimency can be used to extract knowledge-based memories. This might require some sorting and integration of memories."

"In terms of operation, you can use Legilimency on yourself, guide this spell, and see if it can be used to sort out your own memories and extract specific scenes or specific categories of knowledge from them."

"If possible, you can use the Pensieve to assist in practice first."

"Using Legilimency to sort out memories?"

This is a quite interesting train of thought. He had never used Legilimency on himself.

After the two left, Murphy took out his wand and aimed it at his head. "Legilimency!"

Immediately, a unique feeling surged into his heart. On one hand, he felt as if a hole had been chiseled in his brain, and memories were flowing out continuously. On the other hand, he seemed to have another perspective, trying to sort out those surging information.

This chaotic feeling almost made him vomit for a moment, but the spell ended after a few seconds.

"Hoo..." Murphy took a few deep breaths to calm down the dizziness that kept surging. "I didn't expect that using Legilimency on myself would feel like this."

It had a bit of that schizophrenia flavor.

However, he didn't retreat. On one hand, he was very interested in sorting out his own memories.

When he saw the diary being able to classify all his knowledge, Murphy was a bit envious.

Human memory is an index-based, link-based structure. A concept or knowledge is usually connected to various other concepts, knowledge, and situations, forming a network-like structure, rather than a declarative explanation like a book.

Memory of past events is also an index connected by emotional and image memories.

And recollection is the process of the brain retrieving stored images, emotions, concepts, etc., through these indices.

This way of memory facilitates human association and allows for faster recall of commonly used information, but it is not conducive to the preservation of memory. Those concepts that are not often used and knowledge that is not often applied will be slowly lowered in weight and sink into the depths of memory.

On the other hand, no one else can do this for him. Whether it is memory sorting or memory replication, it should be inseparable from the practice of Legilimency.

After feeling a bit better, he used Legilimency on himself again.

This time, with the previous psychological preparation, he tried hard to let his brain adapt to the dual-line thinking method.

Gradually, he found that his consciousness was divided into two parts. One part belonged to the subject, experiencing the pain of memories being rummaged through randomly, while the other part belonged to the practitioner, trying to find something in a pile of messy threads.

This sense of division made him extremely uncomfortable, but as he gradually shifted his attention to the practitioner's side, the discomfort eased, as if the brain being examined didn't belong to him.

Emotions flashed by continuously—sadness, joy, pain, anger—rushing out for no reason, impacting his consciousness. At the same time, all kinds of messy thoughts also rose one after another.

"God is just a powerful wizard..."

"Voldemort is just a brain-damaged lunatic, I'm much stronger than him..."

"Boobs, I want boobs..."

"I can't solve this problem..."

"What kind of game, even dogs don't play..."

"Avada Kedavra, Avada Kedavra! Hahaha, Avada Kedavra everyone..."

After a while, Murphy ended the spell again.

Headache.

What kind of stuff is in my brain?

Even those thoughts of being full of color when he was a teenager were dug out.

"It should be because the object to be retrieved was not determined, so all kinds of messy things would pop out randomly..."

"Again."

Since he was planning to copy movies recently, why not search his memory for information about those future blockbusters?

"Legilimency!"

Countless thoughts emerged again, but they were all ignored. Among the billions of memory threads, he found one of them and pulled it out.

Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Titanic...

No, no, big productions won't work.

Suddenly, a memory fragment was excavated. It seemed to be a box office ranking list.

This was a webpage he had browsed at some point. As it was rummaged out from his memory, the content on it also became clearer bit by bit. Gradually, from the full-screen mosaic, words appeared. After a while, he saw the top few of the ranking, all of which were the blockbusters he had just thought of.

But soon, as more and more content appeared, he also found other things.

"The Lion King?"

"This... seems possible..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 123 =====