Chapter 222

Let me do it again?

After hearing the words of the Cleaning Bureau Director, the Aquarius Director couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling that his brains were really boiling.

If one were to rank the pain in this world by degree, the process of having one's memory read by a God-tier Brain-Eating Demon would definitely count as one.

That slender tongue with purple-red flesh nodules, every time it lightly brushed along the brain's sulci, squeezing out the memories bit by bit, besides the pain of the "self" slowly slipping away, there was also the tangible physical torture.

The entire memory reading process, if completed, is simply like being kicked for more than ten minutes without stopping by hundreds of burning feet, one after another, all aiming at a certain important position—it is simply not a pain that a human can endure!

"Impossible! I..."

"Sorry, after all, it involves the Watchtower Palace, please do it again."

"Then if I do it again and it still doesn't work?"

"Don't worry, this time it will definitely be fine!"

Looking at the Aquarius Director's throbbing temples, the Cleaning Bureau Director, who also understood how painful the process was, couldn't help but guarantee with a slightly apologetic expression:

"Before you woke up, the Taurus Director had already inspected the Memory Dream Furnace and temporarily repaired the corroded parts. This time, I guarantee there won't be any problems!"

Taurus?

After hearing the guarantee from the Cleaning Bureau Director, the raging anger in the Aquarius Director's eyes finally subsided a little.

As a Palace Ascender who could be chosen by the Watchtower Palace, the Taurus Director's character is beyond doubt. Even if she stands on the "opposite side" of him, presumably she wouldn't play dirty in such matters.

Besides, the real reason the Memory Dream Furnace had problems might not really be the Brain-Eating Demon's stomach acid, but rather a mistake on his own side. After all, the brain in his cranial cavity is not the original one, so it's inevitable that some glitches would occur.

No choice, it seems he can only accept another reading.

Looking at the Director who was saying sorry but whose eyes revealed an intention that could not be refused, the Aquarius Director did not make any more futile struggles, but took a deep breath and stood in front of the God-tier Brain-Eating Demon again with a gloomy face.

When he first decided to act, he had considered the possibility of having his memory read and had prepared a corresponding solution.

Although the God-tier Brain-Eating Demon's memory reading cannot be resisted, it ultimately reads memories through contact on the "physical" side and does not involve soul-based means. As long as one changes to an identical brain, one can pass its investigation.

And in order to withstand memory reading at a critical moment, he swallowed the water of 【Twin Mirror Lake】, created a replica of the same level, and after killing it using the means prepared in advance, directly took out the other self's brain.

Next, as long as he lets this replicated brain sleep and feeds it dreams that can pass for real, he can create almost flawless false memories.

If one day it is really possible to have his memory read, he would use the brain transplant surgery of the Kroke Kingdom to temporarily swap in the fake brain. Even if it can't be 100% identical in the end, achieving 95% similarity is still possible.

The only loophole is that the memory of the other brain comes from dreams, so the squeezed-out memory is not real enough and is somewhat intermittent. If someone observes it directly, it is very likely to be exposed.

However, fortunately, the Brain-Eating Demon does not directly give the original memory, but replicates it into a dream through the 【Memory Dream Furnace】 before taking it out. And under the flow of dream-to-dream, this final 5% deficiency is also made up.

After all, he is the real Aquarius Director; although the brain is not the original one, it is also "his own" brain, and the memories in the brain are exactly the same as his own statements, just a little bit blurry, which is absolutely enough to muddle through.

As for why there is a problem now... maybe it's because the time was moved forward?

Glancing at the direction of the Gemini Branch Bureau Director and receiving the reply that no one had tampered with it and it was indeed a problem with the Memory Dream Furnace, the Aquarius Director couldn't help but sigh secretly at his bad luck.

When he was undergoing the brain transplant surgery at the Gemini Branch Bureau, the doctor who performed the surgery said that it would take about two or three days of adaptation for the new brain to be completely synchronized with the body.

And because of the sudden appearance of the Cleaning Bureau Director, the inquiry against him was moved forward by a full day, causing the newly swapped brain to not be fully awake, which is why the memory reading was not in place.

However, fortunately, he had thought of this possibility, and that doctor from the Kroke Kingdom also gave a way to deal with this situation.

Secretly pressing the thin copper plate embedded in the back of his head and increasing the current used to activate the brain slightly, the Aquarius Director and his fake brain were once again completely submerged by hundreds of tongues full of flesh nodules...

Little Li Ang... we might be in trouble...

After reading the "partial memory of the Aquarius Director" sent to her, looking at Li Ang who was talking to the Director on the main stage, the Red-haired Director couldn't help but sigh, crushed the orb containing the memory dream, and silently said sorry to Li Ang in her heart.

Although the Memory Dream Furnace suddenly had a problem, causing the Aquarius Director's memory to only be copied by about 5% in the end, with this 5% of memory, it was already enough to see the clues.

In order to be able to completely pin down the Aquarius Director in one go, she, Beverly, and the Gemini Branch Bureau Director who took the initiative to provide a large amount of evidence after learning the situation, had done a lot of investigations during this period, and it could be said that they had figured out 80-90% of his movement trajectory.

However, in this 5% or so of memory, the Aquarius Director's actual actions were vastly different and did not match the intelligence she and others had summarized at all.

So if she guessed correctly, the Aquarius Director had likely prepared other backups in these twenty or thirty years, and even found a way to deceive the God-tier Brain-Eating Demon.

Although he successfully dragged through the first wave of memory reading because of the sudden malfunction of the 【Memory Dream Furnace】, after the inspection by Taurus, the next reading will definitely not have any problems. It seems she definitely won't be able to escape the memory reading, and even Li Ang will be affected.

Really... she was still a bit too hasty in initiating the inquiry. If she could have prepared a bit more, maybe she wouldn't be so passive, at the very least she wouldn't have dragged Li Ang into it...

"I just touched it, the operation of this thing is completely normal!"

While the Red-haired Director with furrowed brows was regretting her lack of preparation, Li Ang on the main stage patted his chest hard and assured the Cleaning Bureau Director with a determined face:

"After Taurus inspected it, the effectiveness of this thing is much stronger than before, normal use will definitely be fine!"

"That's good, I hope it won't malfunction again this time."

After receiving guarantees from two "professionals" in a row, the Cleaning Bureau Director couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, never doubting that someone might have tampered with it.

And Li Ang on the side, while watching his expression, switched out 【Elite Performer】 and applied eye drops at the right time:

"Speaking of malfunction... Director, actually when I touched it the first time, there was no problem with this thing, it should be able to be used normally. Although the 【Memory Dream Furnace】 is indeed a bit old, it hasn't reached the point of malfunction yet.

And I guess Taurus should think so too, but she probably didn't find other problems, and you didn't have time to wait for her to inspect it slowly, so she could only temporarily judge that the Memory Dream Furnace was damaged."

Hmm?

After hearing Li Ang's reminder, the Cleaning Bureau Director couldn't help but be slightly startled, then first looked at the Taurus Director from afar, found that she was indeed frowning and thinking about something, and then said thoughtfully:

"You mean... the problem might be on the Aquarius Director's side?"