After Breaking Up, I Married the General-Chapter 128 - 127: Locking Memories

Chapter 128: Chapter 127: Locking Memories
After the meeting within the ninth army, Mervin, who was responsible for communication, contacted the guides association and the families of all the guides they rescued.
They held a lot of meetings afterwards, but it was no longer necessary for him to be in the meeting. So, he started going back to his laboratory to continue making potions with the materials they got from Planet 125.
All the material they gathered from Planet 125 was in his laboratory. He also had a lot of samples from the herbs he didn’t need for the potion he was making. He should be able to study them after making all the potions he needs for the tests.
He would also sometimes visit the guides to check in on how they were doing together with Lyre, who was currently tasked with group guiding guides. It might not be as effective as himself, but Lyre was also an S level guide, so his guidance was still effective to some extent.
Instead of group-guiding sentinels, because of the special circumstances of the guides they rescued, Lyre’s first task was to do group-guiding every day.
With Lyre’s personality, he immediately became one of the people who the guides talked to. At least those who were recovering were able to talk to others now without suspecting that they had bad intentions.
When they were allowed to call and talk to their families, most of them started to get better. They started to be more cooperative with their treatments and other things.
But the most worrying were still the 12 guides that protected the others. They still wouldn’t respond to anything, even when they saw their families. They were still like broken dolls, unable to respond to anything, which was really heartbreaking.
After a lot of meetings and seeing the conditions of the guides, all the parties involved finally agreed to perform a special intervention for the guides.
Mr. Hanes also started teaching him about memory locking. After learning the theory, they had to perform.
It was agreed that Mr. Hanes would handle the memory locking of half of the guides, and he would also handle the other half, but he would handle the mental locking of the 12 guides with the most serious problems.
They decided to do it as soon as possible because the guides needed to recover quickly and then go back to their homes.
So, Mr. Hanes would do it first while he was observing to consolidate what he learned.
After he finished learning what Mr. Hanes taught, they immediately arranged for the guides to undergo memory locking.
All the guides were first put to sleep before they began, and the first guide who would undergo memory locking was Lana.
Mr. Hanes entered her mental sea, and after 30 minutes, he opened his eyes, which meant the mental locking was done.
"Ok, I’m done; you could see what it looks like after entering her mental sea."
Ryzel entered her mental sea and carefully went deep inside it. She saw that those with the darkest colors on the seabed were trapped in a layer, becoming disconnected from everything. Those should be their most traumatic experiences.
According to what Mr. Hanes taught, memory locking could only be possible with at least 2 years’ worth of memory of the person because they still haven’t submerged deep into the seabed. Which is why they could still see their memories at that time and lock them up.
When they were guiding, they were always careful to just let their mental tentacles pass by and only touch pollutants or spread them to calm the mental sea of the person. They never tried to go into deeper layers because it was considered taboo, and they might experience a very huge backlash.
Fortunately, they were entering a guide’s mental sea, so it was gentler than a sentinel’s mental sea, so they weren’t worried about any backlash. However, they still used sedatives that could effectively relax them so that they wouldn’t be on their guard.
Ryzel watched Mr. Hanes do it two more times before he was ready to do it on his own.
When Ryzel started performing it, he was very careful to tap into the guide’s mental sea. When he reached the one with the darkest strand deep inside, he began to collect them to lock them up. While he was collecting the strands, he could see their memories in them.
Even though terrible memories kept flashing in his mind, he still concentrated on gathering the memory strands to lock them up. He needed to be careful not to let go of them just because of the memories he was seeing, because once he did, it would cause a backlash.
He carefully sealed the memories he collected in a tight barrier made of his mental power. After everything was done, he went out of the guide’s mental sea.
"Mr. Hanes, please check it?" Ryzel offered. It was the first time he had done it, so Mr. Hanes needed to check if he did everything correctly.
"Everything is correct; you did very well. Are you feeling alright?" Mr. Hanes said after checking the mental sea of the guide.
"Yes, they are manageable," Ryzel said.
"If you are uncomfortable, you need to rest first before you continue," Mr. Hanes said.
"It’s okay; I can still continue."
It’s just the first patient he had. He still had to do it at least 50 more times.
Ryzel continued doing memory locking for the guides for the whole day. Which is why he managed to finish locking the memories of 35 guides.
After a whole day of seeing terrible memories, Ryzel was exhausted but wasn’t able to sleep because of the terrible memories that kept appearing in his mind.
"Ryzel, it’s already 12 a.m. You need to sleep," Layton Lewis said while looking at him worriedly.
"I can’t sleep."
Ryzel also knew that he needed to sleep as he still has to continue locking the memories of the other guides tomorrow, but he just can’t fall asleep.
"Ok, then what do you want to do? I will accompany you until you fall asleep."
"I don’t want to do anything," Ryzel said.
"Then, I’ll just hug you until you can fall asleep," Layton Lewis said, gently caressing his head and back to let him sleep.
Ryzel was only able to sleep when it was already near dawn.
In the morning, Ryzel went to the headquarters to start locking up the memories of the other guides.
"Why don’t you take a rest today? You look terrible," Mr. Hanes said as soon as he saw him.
"Yes, you should really rest first, Ryzel," Layton Lewis, who accompanied him, persuaded him again.
"I can still do it. I will rest after I finish locking up the memories of the 15 guides that were left," Ryzel answered.
So, at his insistence, he started locking up the memories of the rest of the guides.
However, when he was performing the memory locking of one of the 12 guides who have the most terrible mental states, he nearly lost control of the memory strands he was collecting because of how terrible the memories he was seeing were.
When he locked up the memories of the other guides, he also saw what happened to the 12 guides because they are considered to be one of the darkest memories of all the other guides.
However, the vividness of the memory as well as the feeling of despair he could feel from the memories can’t be compared with what he already saw from the other guides.
He immediately controlled his mental power to hold the memory strands properly and continued locking them up with his mental power.
"Ryzel, you’re crying; you should stop first," Layton Lewis said while wiping his tears with his hands.
"No, I need to finish everything as soon as possible because I don’t think I will be able to continue if I delay it. I will rest after I finish everything," Ryzel said honestly.
Ryzel really doesn’t think he could continue locking up the memories of other guides if he doesn’t do it soon. He wanted to finish everything while he still had the will and strength to do it.
The memories he had were all very terrible, and he knew that those memories were trying to eat him up.
Ryzel could now deeply understand why only a few guides were capable of doing such a thing and why it was a forbidden technique that could only be used a few times.
The burden it could cause to the person locking up the memories of others was too big. The more terrible the memory was, the more it caused a strain in the mind.
He could feel that those memories he saw were eroding his will, so he needed to finish everything because he didn’t have confidence that he could still do it if they moved it tomorrow.
Ryzel indeed finished locking up the memory of everyone, but after he finished everything, he collapsed.