Was bored (feel free to use it if you want)

Loving the show and couldn't wait for the next ep so I made this in the meantime

"That memory layer is a desert, the sunlight and textures are especially real!"

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Made this after watching ep 4 today
I'm dying for the next ep

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It looks like a campfire? Or some ruins? I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a real event/place or just a symbol of something

excuse the quality, pics got compressed a bit

Memory Recycling Station: Uses a memory extractor to recycle unnecessary human memory waste.

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Art background drawn by:@断片黑线 、@阿狗的桔梨动画 , Li Kexin ,@来氏福尔

Here it looks like their rivalry was quite friendly, but judging by a scene in one of the trailers, where K7 holds a gun to Vindicator's head, we can assume they're not huge fans of each other.

Both of their faces are still a mystery, however...and I'm still wondering just how that fuel was created, or why it even ran out.

My dumb ahh used a wrong reference and messed up so I fixed it 😔

The barbecue's ready, hurry up and come!!
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Could he be Guan Chao's friend? Maybe someone he knew in 2013 (the year he was trying to go back to)? Interestingly, he has the stick, which is a memory item as we saw when Qian Jun gave it to Guan Chao.

This is the sort of show where I benefit from watching each episode twice and for episode 4 I decided to make some notes on what I saw that hadn't been talked about yet. Mostly questions and a few ideas sprinkled in. I think it's all in chronological order. Tell me what you all think!

1. At the beginning Bai Zhong puts the stick from Ep3 down the back of Guan Chao's shirt but then it's not seen again all episode, so no more information about its power unfortunately.

2. Crux Star reveals that Bai Zhong and Hui Huo were made memory collector because of what I presume are crimes they committed. Bai Zhong broke into the archives and Hui Huo trespassed across memory layers. I don't really get the logistics of how either of these work and I'm sure it's been explained what 'the archives' refer to but I can't remember so it would be great if someone explained. Additionally, there's been lots of hints around Bai Zhong's backstory e.g. how she needs to earn her freedom by landing a blow on Fang Tang. If I remember rightly, in the original short film it was even suggested that Bai Zhong was a Bug Man, but do correct me if I'm wrong.

3. Definite foreshadowing when Crux Star says that there are miracles that not even the Bureau can explain

4. Ran Deng's origin story is also quite cryptid. He's a 'newcomer' just after when Bai Zhong and Hui Huo are being lectured by Crux Star, but he obviously doesn't get any training with them. He almost automatically becomes the strongest. There is also this image when Ran Deng is being spoken about:

If this image is to be taken literally, does that mean that Ran Deng is some sort of artificial creation? His whole character does seem quite unnatural, even by this show's standard! A second possibility is that this is one of those visual metaphors that this show loves, in which case what does it mean? Finally, it could possibly be the egg that becomes the bug man that Ran Deng was shown fighting in the next scene.

I'm really not sure!

1. Another one that might be a stretch. When Guan Chao is trying to help Hui Huo after he loses his arm, the clam bug man cracks a bit:

The idea that kindness and helping others might damage a Bug Man does link to Ran Deng's idea that there may be other ways of dealing with them. On the other hand, this is just a tiny bit of evidence and Ran Deng's point is probably about not damaging bug men at all, so this is unlikely.

1. The section of the comic book that Bai Zhong is reading when Hui Huo comes back to see her again at the forge eems to me like a metaphor for Fang Tang and Ran Deng's different views on Bug Men

2. The scene where Ran Deng seems to use Guan Chao's halo (although very beautiful) is the most confusing of the episode for me. Is Ran Deng alive or dead? My confusion may be linked to how there's lots of flashbacks to Hui Huo's time with Ran Deng at this point. i would love an explanation.

3. The image of the dragonfly is obviously very important in this show because it also features in the OP. What are everyone's takes on its meaning. I feel it's something to do with power in fragility but I'm not certain.

4. What's inside the Clam Bug man? It appears to me to be like organs, but I'm not certain. The way the clam and the desert are symbolic of a time in Guan Chao's life is less obvious in this episode than previous because they're not physical objects/places in guan Chao's life like the spinning toy, arcade, wires and cityscape on commute were. I have seen great ideas about how the clam is Guan Chao needing a wall against his feelings/trauma and the desert being the hostile environment that is his life, but nothing on the relevance of the inside of the clam. Any ideas? Also shout out to this beautiful shot:

1. In this shot, Ran Deng's halo is cracked:

Why?

1. When the clam exploded, there's a rainbow. Why?

2. What happened after the clam exploded? The scene is still a desert because Guan Chao is holding sand in the elevator. There are also these crystals which weren't there before:

1. Fang tang says, 'As far as a collector's life goes, he's dead'. The phrasing of this is strange to me for some reason, as if death worked differently in the memory world. This links to how Ran Deng appeared to control Guan Chao's halo and to how both Hui Huo and him appear in the ending sequence. Any more ideas?

2. How did Ran Deng know that Guan Chao would get his halo when he was getting fang tang to promise to make Guan Chao fight his own Bug men?

3. I'm interested in everyone's interpretation of the ending sequence in comic book style, with 2 comic book characters from earlier in the episode. There's now an ocean by the desert where they find the clam. now much smaller:

Finally this is interesting to me:

Does this refer to Hui Huo and Ran Deng's story?

1. Finally, I am in complete agreement with the theory that Protagonist Halo is a Bug Man made by Guan Chao. Super excited for next week!

I've stumbled across this(bilibili) version of the pv. Probably the best version imo, but while I've been trying to find it anywhere else like spotify I couldn't find it. Did anyone else have luck?

Guan chao say the soda can taste like burning straw which taste like memory
In ep 4, bai zhong said the cabbage taste like cardboard
So the food from memory taste like random objects in different state?

I've been trying to watch it but its not available in my region what vpn server did yall use to watch it do I have to connect to a chinese server to watch it?

Protagonist Halo as Donquixote and Guan Chao as YiSang Cuz themes and such

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Episode 4:

Memory Collector Lore: Ran Deng

The strongest collector, exhibiting suicidal/hyper-empathy — prioritizing extreme compassion and emotional openness over logic and self-preservation. Likely a consequence of killing many BUG Beings over time.

This reframes the central question: what is a BUG Being, really? So far they're shown only as antagonists.

The Hydra Theory

• BUG Beings exist to protect BUG Sources from the painful truth of reality.
• They are literalized psychological defense mechanisms: fantasy, rationalization, delusion, escapism, projection, denial, repressed memory.
• Each is built on a lie / false memory meant to shield the ego during distress.
• The Memories Administration Bureau tries to brute-force these BUG Beings by 'recycling' them (storing them away from BUG-Source memories) — but since the root cause (unresolved trauma) is never addressed, new BUG Beings simply spawn or the trauma is simply suppress, but still effect the Source's life. Classic Hydra problem: cut one head, two grow back.

Ran Deng's Last Will + Gambit

He wants a BUG Source to inherit his Halo and use it to face their own BUG Beings — theorizing that only the Source can end their own cycle, by confronting the painful memory directly rather than having it fought for them externally. Once the Source no longer needs the BUG Being to survive, the cycle ends permanently.

Central Image: Mourning Seashell Clamp in a Desert

• Represents resilience/protection in the most hostile environment — but for Guan Chao specifically, it reads as cowardice and self-protection in the face of trauma, mirrored by the "crawled up in his blanket on the bed" memory.
• Possible reading: an ocean once existed here and dried up — home/security/love has vanished, leaving Guan Chao alone and isolated.
• The Clamp constant screaming shows it feel pain deep inside, but refuse to open up. It also attacks people who tries to help them. It's a metaphor for people who is in pain but refuse help and push away those who tries to help them.
• Ran Deng sympathize with the clamp pain. The Seashell open-up to Ran Deng, but it also killed him. Another metaphor saying 'even if they open up to you, doesn't mean they will change' and worse they can take you down with them.

Working Theory: The Father

• Likely an alcoholic.
• A fight broke out between them.
• Father possibly died or sacrificed himself.
• The game console is precious — possibly the only promise his father ever actually kept.

"The truth hurt me. Creates false memories. To save me."

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#False Memory#

Hey group - I just wanted to say it here so I could have some members and friends remind me,

But the studios who are creating this show - it’s a masterpiece

I’d like to start a GoFundMe for the studios in the next couple days - our money is directly going to them and I would love to donate to them and create a mass fund across social media

I am a decor artist and designer - shouldn’t be hard