The five shadows tried to open together.
Jiang stepped back to the fifty-centimeter marker before spirit load could rise above zero.
"One room at a time," he said.
[EMBODIED MEMORY MAP]
[Detected rooms5]
[Visible rooms requested1]
[Living entry0]
[Memory transfer0]
[Occupant ordering authority0]
[Subject withdrawal retained]
Four shadows closed. The center shadow remained as a narrow white door with no physical depth.
The old-human voice spoke behind it. "Start with the alley. Everything else came after."
Jiang selected a randomized archive order instead.
[ROOM ORDER]
[Occupant request:origin room first]
[Accepted0]
[Archive randomization1]
[Current subject selection1]
The first room opened on his youngest brother's request.
No face appeared. A small empty space formed between two human hands, sized for an object that had not yet been chosen. The archive identified the source without inventing the missing object.
[MEMORY ROOM1/5]
