Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 414 Vogt's Miscellany

When the information about Vogt popped up immediately.

Looking at that pile of catalogs, Xia Shou realized that he had underestimated the complexity of this forgotten city.

【Vogt】

[Abnormal Level: EX]

[Control risk: Unable to control]

[Danger level: No danger ~ Extreme danger]

【introduce:
Most of the residents of Vogt City believe in Momi, and everyone is influenced by Momi.

People born in the city can retain all memories within the city, but the memory of personal experiences outside the city can only be retained for one hour.

When people from outside the city enter Vogt, their memories of the city can only be retained for one hour.

The residents of the city have a great influence on outsiders within the city. The memory capacity of one hour makes it impossible for an outsider to live normally in the city. Although they can use various methods to record their own experiences and profiles and preserve and condense past memories, there is still an upper limit.

The following is an investigation experience interview of investigator A. 】

Xia Shou opened the video file and saw two people in it, both of whom were blurred.

The video prompts that there is an uncensored version, but you need permission to watch it.

The voices and appearances of the people in the basic public information will be hidden to minimize the possibility that someone with ulterior motives could use supernatural powers to influence the parties in the video.

【J (recorder): "Hello, what do you think of this trip to Vogt?"

D (investigator) hesitated for a moment and said, "Well... can you tell me everything you think?"

J: "Of course, this time we are recording without a theme."

D: “My biggest feeling is that it is very inconvenient.”

J: “Can you be more specific and detailed?”

D: "It's just memory. Just like now, I also have a very unreal feeling. I'm back and I only have one hour of memory of that city, fragmented and just some information about important people I met.

I contacted the priest of the Third Church of Momi, who was about fifty years old, with a white beard and a bald head. I then reached a cooperation agreement with him, but I only remember the result, and I have forgotten the process and details.

All the details are in the agreement, and I must have discussed everything at the time, but because I had other things to do, some of the things that had already been done had to be forgotten, and I only had a good impression of the priest. "

J: "You brought 24 people with you. Each person gets one hour, so they can remember a whole day in total. Do you think that's enough?"

D: "This method doesn't work because it's very troublesome to communicate.

Well... let me give you an example.

We are like twenty-four hard drives that can only store one hour of content.

Although we can store one hour's worth of content, it still takes time to transfer the content to each other.

Just like you are asking me a question now, one minute has passed since I answered you, and this minute also takes up memory.

So after the initial attempt, we gave up because when it came to doing things, except for me who kept the key points in mind, no one else knew what they were doing.

Everyone can only remember fifty minutes of key information, and the remaining ten minutes must be freed up to be used for real-life activities.

They are like goldfish with only ten minutes of memory. They swim from one street to the next. Once the process exceeds ten minutes, they don’t know where the starting point is, or there is a missing piece in their memory of walking.

In daily life, it’s quite troublesome, just like a semi-demented old man leading 23 other patients with severe Alzheimer’s disease.”

J: "Is it not possible to take notes?"

D: "No! That's not the case! Taking notes is a good habit. In Vogt, it is the most practical and reliable skill!"

I also often write down what I plan to do in the future and what I am experiencing currently.

But this method is not a panacea.

At the beginning, it was really good, but it became useless after a while because reading notes also takes time.

I lived in that city for half a year and wrote down several notebooks, each of which was very important, but I could never finish reading them all!

You can only read tens of thousands of words in an hour, but you have 100,000 words to read. After you finish reading the 100,000 words, you will forget everything before that, do you understand?

So I could only watch part of it.

Although I have tried to be as concise as possible when writing, there are too many important things, and the maximum time I can spend reading is one hour, which is the maximum time, assuming that you don't plan to do anything and just want to read it once.

But the reality is, you can usually only watch for ten minutes, and you have to use the remaining fifty minutes to do your work.

In addition, in the process of doing things, you have to constantly delete useless memories and keep the important parts, so there are basically no trivial matters such as eating, drinking, defecating and urinating in my mind.

In the past six months, I feel like I haven't eaten or slept at all.

Of course, I felt like I was only on a business trip for an hour, haha." (The investigator in the video laughed easily)

While taking notes, J continued to ask, "So...what's the local atmosphere like in Vogt? Do they welcome outsiders like you?"

D took a deep breath and did not answer immediately. 】

Even with the mosaic, Xia Shou could sense that this question was very serious to the investigator.

【D was silent for half a minute before he replied very carefully: "I don't know if that counts as a welcome, because people like us are easily deceived. We often encounter people we have never seen before, who suddenly appear from the side of the road and say some very strange things to us. They get our personal information from somewhere, pretend to be our friends, and then take us around and do things we don't understand at all.

The Control Bureau gave the twenty-four of us a contingency fund of ten million, but within the first month after entering the city, nine million of us were gone.

We don't know what the money was used for. We may have wanted to trace it before, but precious memories only last an hour. Now I have left the information I just told you, which is 'One month after entering the city, 9 million was defrauded'.

I have forgotten all the other details. They should have been written in the notes I brought back, but I haven't reviewed them yet.

Moreover, taking notes is also a technical job. Generally, you write down a line of records and then delete the related real memories, otherwise there will be trouble.

You have to remember the reality that you have already written about this thing, otherwise you will be writing about the same thing over and over again.

But this will cause your memory storage to be occupied very seriously.

Therefore, it is best to write something down and then delete both the thing you wrote and the thing you experienced in real life. This way you won’t write the same words repeatedly.

But the downside is that if you overlook some details when you record them, but then delete your memory, that part of the information will be lost.”

J: "It can be recorded in more detail."

D: “Haha, I tried it at first, but it took too long to read the notes, so I gave up on this strategy. The purpose of writing a notebook is to get to the core points, and writing too much detail loses the meaning.”

J: "I see. But I think you were cheated out of the 9 million. Are you too trusting of others? If you don't trust anyone, you won't be cheated."

D: "I think so now, but I have developed a predictive mindset. If I don't trust anyone I meet after entering the city, will I not be cheated?

I thought the answer was yes, but it turns out I was still deceived.

I don’t think I’m that stupid, so there must be some reason why I think this strategy of not trusting anyone is wrong.”

J: “That sounds a bit complicated.”

D: "Let me give you an easy-to-understand example. Would you eat shit?"

J: “No.”

D: "What would you think if you suddenly traveled to the future and found yourself eating every day?"

J: “What’s the reason that makes me eat shit every day?”

D: "That's it! This was the situation I was in. When I realized it, I was in a situation I thought I would never be in. The only thing I can be sure of is that I'm not stupid, and something caused all this."

J: “But being cheated out of nine million is a bit…”

D: "Well... although I don't want to say this, there is a possibility that I collaborated with the locals and embezzled the nine million... This is the most reasonable explanation I can think of at the moment."

J: “I’m all ears.”

D: "It's like this. Nine million is a lot for an operator in my position, but it's not that important. I have no reason to embezzle it, and my leader thinks the same.

But the unexpected fund of 10 million is really not that much, so I just need to cooperate with the locals, forge an ingenious scam that is unrememberable and does not exist at all, and say that I have been cheated, then the 9 million will safely go into my pocket.

Because I have forgotten all of this, there is no way to detect it, and because this matter is not very meaningful, the control bureau will not investigate it.

I have mentioned three times that I want to investigate this matter in detail, because I am really curious about how I was deceived, but because there are too many other things that need to be researched and analyzed, no one pays attention to me! Hahahaha!"

J: "But there is absolutely no need for you to embezzle the nine million. It is not that attractive to you."

D: "But if there is a chance, I can pick it up like picking up money, I might pick it up. To be honest, rather than being cheated by others, I would rather I set up this trap myself... At least I won't be regarded as a fool."

J sighed: "Interesting and novel idea."

D: “It’s a really strange feeling. There were 24 of us, and five of us came back disabled. One became a vegetable. The notes recorded all the hardships we went through, but in the end I only remembered some trivial key information.

Everyone thinks you are a hero, but you don't know what you did to become a hero.

It’s really unreal.”

J: "Let's stop here for now. This city is really interesting!"

D: "Yes, even in a dangerous city, the bad memories you have will only last for an hour at most. It's really sad."]

Then, one line later, Xia Shou saw the follow-up results of this interview.

[After investigation, it was found that all members of the first diplomatic team sent by the Control Bureau to Vogt had committed fraud.

Team leader D donated nine million to the priest of the Third Church and cooperated with him to forge the team's six-month experience in the city of Vogt.

According to the investigators' reports, Team Leader D and his team of 24 did not encounter any unusual incidents from beginning to end, and they finalized the cooperation agreement a week after entering the city.

However, in order to increase his own reputation and enhance the significance of this first diplomatic encounter, D conspired with the priest to fabricate a series of unusual events, wrote them down in his notes, and finally deliberately forgot all relevant content of the conspiracy.

There is no conclusion yet on the cause of the casualties of the 24-man team. 】

When Xia Shou saw this, his brows furrowed.

This is only the first record in Vogt's file, and the content does not directly indicate Vogt's danger.

But Xia Shou seemed to feel something very absurd.

What kind of image does the experience of being in that city create for outsiders?

(End of this chapter)