After some conversations, Furukawa Hose learned:

It turns out that the Sigmund company mainly uses some kind of machine and technical means to enter the memories of [customers], and by changing the memories of customers to achieve their unfulfilled [wishes]

Thus a certain commission is drawn.

In the contract signed with Old John, it is clearly stated that he needs to meet his true wishes, then the contract can be considered to be fulfilled.

And these two doctors, dressed in white research coats, are actually employees of Sigmund and are also experts in this field.

……

Seeing this, Furukawa Hiroze couldn't help but be a little curious.

Huh?

It's better than I imagined.

Is it actually by changing people's memories to fulfill their wishes?

Memory is certainly a crucial part of the human makeup.

It can even be said that you are who you are, not only because you have such a physical body, but also because you have such experiences, and such experiences will eventually be transformed into memories.

A person without memory is blank.

Life is a journey, and memories are your best gift in this world.

When Hirosawa Furukawa saw this, he naturally thought about it a lot, and even vaguely felt that Pokeni's setting this time had a strong philosophical meaning in it.

Isn't it going to end up discussing such a difficult philosophical proposition as "what is memory?"

"Can you do it?" After introducing Old John's condition, the doctor asked with some concern.

"It depends." Dr. Rosalian said.

"She means yes." Neil Watts, a male doctor fiddling with the instrument, chimed in.

From Lily, the maid who has been working here for two years, it is known that old John is a taciturn man. He spent his life as a craftsman, and his wife died two years ago.

It's a bit of a hassle.

Because people's memories and desires are closely related, if you don't know the origin of your wish, it will be difficult to fulfill your true wish even if it is realized.

[There are a lot of old people's things in the house, you can go downstairs to find my two children, and let them show you around, maybe you can find any clues. The maid replied.

So Furukawa Hirosawa followed the maid's instructions and prepared to look for clues in the house.

Before leaving

The doctor stopped the female doctor, Rosaline, and handed her something. "This is a telemedicine monitoring device, and you can know the current physical condition of the elderly at any time."

Rosalien took over the small instrument, which had a small screen with the old man's electrocardiogram and a faint "drop, drop" sound, synchronized with the sound of the medical equipment on the table.

What follows is a process of searching and decryption.

Overall, the room is not very big, but it is quite warmly furnished.

Especially in the dreamy fairy tale style of Pokeni, you can really feel how much the owner of this house loves this place, and at the same time you can feel the small details of the life of old John and his wife.

This must be a warm family.

Hiroshi Furukawa sighed.

The game is actually quite special, there are no battles, the whole thing takes place on this small island, and it revolves around Old John.

It's not the same as the galgame he's played before.

But it doesn't seem to be quite like a traditional battle-type RPG.

But I can't say which type it is.

At least as far as Furukawa Hirosawa has realized, this game should be in the service of the story.

If you really want to use it to describe it, it should still be the word [stage play]

A theatrical gaming experience.

It's more like experiencing a real life.

Hirosawa Furukawa went downstairs and saw the two children playing the piano again.

After the conversation, Dr. Rosalien pulls out a piece of candy and asks them to show them around the house.

"Let's take you to the basement, it's weird!" The boy named Tommy said excitedly to Rosalin.

Going down to the basement, Furukawa Oza took a soft breath.

In a somewhat eerie room, the floor and table were littered with bunnies – little bunnies folded out of paper. Next to the doorway, there was a strange-looking stuffed platypus toy.

Seriously, it's a bit scary to suddenly enter such an environment.

Even because of the fairy-tale style of this game, it produces a creepy and weird feeling.

Especially when he saw a strange little rabbit folded out of paper, Furukawa seemed to feel that the temperature in the room had dropped by several degrees.

This room is his real room.

Even the shadows created by the shaking of the curtains when the wind blew made Furukawa Hirosawa startled.

……

Rosalion picked up the platypus, patted the dust on it, and put it away.

"What's the matter with these paper rabbits all over the floor?" Rosalion asked the two children.

"We don't know, so we think it's weird. By the way, Auntie, there are not only origami rabbits here, but there are also many places. Would you like to check it out?"

"Where?"

"Outside, on the edge of the cliff, there's an abandoned lighthouse."

Dr. Rosalien followed the two children outside, and not far behind the house, they could see a dilapidated lighthouse, the walls of which were painted and the windows boarded.

"The entrance to the lighthouse is below, so we'll have to take a detour." Tommy said to Rosalien.

The three of them returned the same way and made a detour to the entrance of the lighthouse. On the way, they met the smoking car, and the girl asked, "Is this car yours?" Why did you hit a tree?"

Rosalien sighed and said, "I didn't do it."

The road was not far, and they soon came to the old doorway of the lighthouse.

Not far from the doorway, a tombstone was erected, which read: "Remembrance Creek · E. Wiles".

Furukawa remembered what the maid had said, John's wife had died two years earlier, and he guessed that the creek must be the owner of the tombstone.

Climb the stairs to the top of the lighthouse, and sure enough, as the two children said, the ground is full of paper rabbits.

In one prominent place, there is also a large paper rabbit, which, unlike the others, is the only one folded with two colors of paper.

The middle part of the rabbit is bright yellow and looks like a big bulging belly.

The rest of the parts are blue.

The two colors are put together, adding a bit of weirdness.

Hirosawa Furukawa thought to himself-

This can't be some horror puzzle game, right?

Don't look at him as a man who is almost 30 years old, but in fact, he is quite afraid of ghosts and gods in his heart.

Playing here, Furukawa Ozer seems to feel a little colder again.

So he took the quilt out of the room and draped it over his body, and continued to play the rest of the game.

……

Tommy, the boy, was surprised and said, "Strange, when we came to play last week, we didn't have this big rabbit."

"Looks like John must have been here before he fell ill." Rosalien thought.

At this time, the phone rang, and Rosalien picked up the phone, it was Watts.

"Ready, ready to go, how's your side?"

"There aren't many clues, it's a little strange, I'll talk about it when I get back."

Back on the second floor of the house, Dr. Watts was connected to the device, and there was a humanoid on the screen, and his brain glowed red.

"Why did you go so long? Forget it, let's start first, your helmet is on the couch."

Both Rosalien and Watts wore helmets, and another helmet was placed on John's head on the bed. Watts nodded at Rosalien and pressed the start button.

There was a flash of white light, and the two were still in the room, but John on the bed, the maid beside him, and the doctor were gone. It wasn't the real room, they were in John's memory.

Wow.

Hiroshi Furukawa let out a sigh.

It turns out that you still need to enter the memory to modify the memory.

According to his thoughts, he thought that he was directly operating in the machine and then selecting certain clips.

Even Furukawa Hirozer guessed that the next game would be played from the first perspective of Old John, and he didn't expect that the characters he controlled were still two doctors, and they would enter Old John's memories to explore.

The production of pokeni is actually quite artistic.

In the UI section above, there are many images of John, from his childhood all the way to his old age.

Explain that these images are key points in time, and you can choose to enter the memory of a certain period of time at any time.

……

The two of them didn't travel for long, and this should be the house not so long ago.

[This is the farthest memory that can be reached by the natural state.] Let's go find out where Mr. John is. Female Dr. Rosalie Rosaline said.

The two of them walked out of the house to the edge of the cliff where the lighthouse could be seen, where the old John and the maid Lily were standing.

Once you're in your memory, you can choose whether to be invisible or manifest, and if you turn it off, you'll be able to talk to the characters you've recreated in your memory, and they'll be able to see you.

The two men ask why John wants to go to the moon.

Because only by figuring out why he wants to go to the moon can his wish be truly granted.

This reason is important.

But during the conversation, Old John didn't remember anything, and didn't know why he went to the moon.

There was a hint of sadness in his eyes, which made people look a little sad.

"I don't know." John bowed his head a little sadly.

"You'll have to tell us," Rosalien explained, "it's a little complicated, and in short, if you don't figure out why you want to go to the moon, just giving you a memory of going to the moon will probably not satisfy your true wishes." And fulfilling your last wish is our obligation in the contract."

"Want to be famous? Or do you want to get rich? You have to have a reason, right?" Watts asked.

John's head hung lower: "I don't know. I just have to go."

……

This situation has also been encountered by doctors, the customer is too old and some things cannot be remembered clearly.

So below, they need to get into John Sr.'s childhood, and maybe find the reason.

Go into the depths of memory.

But childhood is too far away to be done in a memory trip.

So they will gradually reverse jump through John's memories.

In order to jump into a memory, we need an item that is important to you as a string prop for the memory.

[Do you have some kind of memory fragment that serves as a link through time?] The female doctor asked.

The old man thought for a moment, took out a paper rabbit from his pocket and handed it to her.

This is exactly the one that Furukawa saw in the room at the top of the lighthouse, two colors.

As long as there is this concatenation of items in the past memory scene, then you can jump to the memory of this scene.

In the process of tracing forward, other memory fragments will be found as a series of objects, and each time you find one, you can jump forward for a period of time.

Everything is ready.

Another flash of white light, borrowing the time shard prop, Watts and Rosalien flashed back to the house a few years ago, and the two-colored paper rabbit was placed on the floor of the room.

In addition to it, there are a lot of white origami rabbits on the ground.

John was sitting on the piano and playing a tune.

On the piano, there was a stuffed platypus, exactly like what Rosalien had seen in the basement.

Rosalien said to Watts, "Turn off the visual state and the interactive state, we can't explain to him who we are every time we cross."

Dr. Watts manipulated it, and the figures of the two men became transparent.

He looked at the paper rabbits all over the floor and said, "I have a creepy feeling, maybe we should look up his mental illness."

Not only does the male doctor think so, but Furukawa Hirosawa also feels the same way.

He nodded approvingly.

There's really a creepy feeling when this game is played, so could old John really be a psychopath?

Did he kill his wife?

Wouldn't it, wouldn't it?

And then as the memories continue to be traced, when the truth is solved, it is found that Old John is the murderer, and then the two doctors are also trapped in the memory?

Furukawa Hirosawa was startled by his own association, and couldn't help but grab the quilt.

……

Near the old man, an old umbrella was found, glowing faintly.

"This could be the key memory fragment." Watts said, activating the memory fragment, and the two set off again.

White light flashed, and the two disappeared from the room.

Through that umbrella, they traveled back in John's memory for a few more years, and it was raining heavily, and the old John was standing in front of the tombstone next to the lighthouse with that umbrella.

Even the sky revealed sadness.

"It's over, Brook."

The old man looked gloomy and whispered to the tombstone, "I can take care of her every day like you, and she will never be alone again."

While I may never understand, I will remain true to your wishes. Anya must be grateful to you, too, but who will take care of us when I leave this world?"

"Who is Anya?" Watts said.

Furukawa Hiroze also wanted to know.

"I don't know, open the visual interaction, I have some questions I want to ask him." Rosalion said to Watts.

In the next instant, Rosalion and Watts appeared.

The old man slowly raised his head and asked in some surprise, "Who are you?"

"My name is Rosalion Rosalion, and I just happened to be passing by here. Is this your wife? Creek is such a good name."

"Thank you." John looked at the tombstone again, "She shouldn't have been laid to rest here, she shouldn't have done this, but she doesn't understand, not even I understand."

"Who are you talking about Anya?" Rosalion asked.

The old man shook his head and looked at the sky in the distance.

Rosalien didn't say anything more, and they disappeared and entered the lighthouse.

In the room at the top of the tower, John sat alone on the floor, silent.

"I'm guessing that's when he started making those paper bunnies." Rosalion said.

"In memory of his wife? Why rabbits?" Watts said.

"I don't know what it is?"

"Huh? It's that ugly platypus again." Watts saw the glowing stuffed animal.

"That's it, there's no clue here that we're looking for, let's move on." Rosalion said.

……

This time, through it, the two traveled forward for several more years.

John's wife, Creek, was still alive at this time, and she was lying on the bed with the stuffed platypus next to her. John stood beside her, and the two were talking.

"It's enough, even if you pay for the surgery, the rest of the money is more than enough...... So, don't worry." Johnny said to the creek where he was lying.

In fact, Furukawa knew that John had no money at this time, and he had to sell his house to treat the creek.

「. White lies." The brook whispered.

"It's really enough"

"Don't say it, I don't like you to lie. Why do you want me to go against my faith?"

John cried out in frustration, "We need that money to pay for your medical bills, Brook!" I understand that Anya is very important to you, but you. You've done so far. She's not even—"

"Do you know what makes me happy? Johnny?" The brook calmly interrupted him.

"I know." John blushed.

"yes, you know. I don't sign the treatment plan when it's sent down. As for what our money is going to be used for, it's up to you. But if you approve of my ideals, I hope you can use the money to build that house. Then, I hope that as long as you live in that day, you can take good care of her. Spend more time with her, and I hope she won't be lonely anymore."

"What about you?"

"That's where my happiness lies, Johnny." As she spoke, she handed John something, "Tell me, what is it?"

「. It's a paper rabbit."

"What's different from other rabbits?"

"Its body is yellow, and the rest of it is blue."

"That's all?" Xiaoxi's face was full of disappointment.

"Let's not talk about the rabbit, Xiaoxi, I composed a tune for you, do you want to hear it?"

"Okay. What's your name?"

"To the Creek."

Xiaoxi laughed, "Why are you so dirty?"

John didn't speak, but went to the piano and played.

Slow, beautiful music sounded.

Seeing this scene, Furukawa Haoze's eyes were a little moist.

Am I wrong John?

Looks like he loves his wife very much.

The relationship between the two is so good, Xiaoxi's departure must make him feel sad, right?

……

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There is also a shift in the evening

I should be able to finish "To the Moon" today (end of this chapter)