Although his memories of the earth are almost all blurred, Wu Qing still remembers such a story.

It's about the Taj Mahal.

It is said that the Taj Mahal was originally built by a king for his concubine, and in order to make the designer fully understand the pain of losing his wife and let him understand his own state of mind, he ordered the designer's wife to be killed as well. With this pain, the designer finally designed a beautiful mausoleum that moved the whole world.

It is now difficult for Wu Qing to tell whether his role in the current scene is a king or a designer.

Communication channels have been established, albeit inefficient, with an average of only one contact a day, limited to Earth's technology, and all communication is text-only.

But just a simple contact has an impact on the spiritual world of the three people, like a short-circuit breakdown of electrical appliances.

Xu Yan has not recovered until now, and he is still nagging in Shinto: "What I remember, I must remember...... Let me think...... 498812, or 598812...... No, no...... It's 884912......"

The string of numbers that Xu Yan tried to recall in his mouth was obviously "his" bank card password.

That was the result of a few short words between him and the real Xu Yan.

"You don't think you're real, do you?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen have all understood, don't you know yet?"

"Don't talk weird...... Who the hell are you? ”

"I am you."

Wu Qing can still remember Xu Yan's expression at that time, although he looks like a member of the Federation, the muscle movements on his face are clearly like a real earthling. Xu Yan was stunned at the time, and wanted to subconsciously refute, but he didn't know why, so he turned his head and glanced at Wu Qing first.

Wu Qing didn't know what he saw in his eyes, but at that time, it was like seeing a ghost, and he turned his head to look at Shen Wen again.

Shen Wen's eyes were the same as when he and Shen Wen first understood that they might be replicants and looked at each other.

But Xu Yan obviously couldn't accept this cruel fact, and he asked the other party a stupid question without believing it: "How to prove it?" ”

Regarding the difference between these clones and the original normal earthlings, Wu Qing and Shen Wen had a vague understanding at first, and they had also learned more technical information through the federation network for such a long time.

To put it simply, it is limited to technical means, and the memory of all replicas is incomplete.

Copying all the information in a person's brain, and then completely reproducing a person in the virtual world, this technology is also a new technology for the Federation people in the last century or two, because it is restricted by the law, it has not been applied to reality, and for a long time, it is only used as a brain medical technology.

For example, some people suffer from chronic and irreversible brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease on Earth, with the help of this technology, patients can copy all the information in their brain to the computer while their body is still normal - but it is strictly forbidden to run, and this data can only be used as a backup. Then, when the patient's condition worsens, the data is reversely entered into the brain by means of physical stimulation.

In practice, this treatment process takes a long time and needs to be professionally guided by a medical institution, and one of the most important principles of this guidance is to ensure that all the information in a person's brain has been recorded.

The principle of this technology itself is actually to analyze the specific information produced by the brain activity, or the brain waves generated by the brain activity, and the whole mechanism of information production, which is almost the logical structure of the entire brain.

If the human brain is compared to a labyrinth, this labyrinth has countless entrances and exits, and every conscious activity of the human being is like a mouse walking into the labyrinth and then coming out of it.

According to statistics, no matter how complex the maze is, as long as there are enough mice in it, you will always get the entire route map of the entire maze in the end.

At the federal level, the reliability of this technology has been largely proven and recognized by the majority of scientific researchers.

When this technology first appeared, it took at least two years of cumulative data collection to completely replicate a person's thinking patterns—or personality patterns—in the senses without being discerned by others.

But as research progresses, researchers can get more and more detailed maps with fewer and fewer mice, and they can even optimize the delivery of mice based on the data of previous brain structure - try to put more mice at the entrances that need to take a long detour, and get more information at the same time.

Until now, it often only takes a day or two or even a few hours to completely replicate a person's thinking pattern.

But there is always one of the biggest drawbacks of this replication technology, that is, this technology only focuses on the human thinking mode to a large extent, that is, it pays attention to the shape of the labyrinth of the human brain, but for the specific Chen House in the labyrinth, the patterns on the walls of the labyrinth, and the roughness of the floor...... That is, the specific memory, the amount of reproduction is very small.

This is mainly limited by two factors, first, whether it is a federal person or an earthling, the principle of brain operation is basically similar, and most people use the subconscious more in the ordinary work process of the brain.

This is like Wu Qing and Shen Wen at the beginning, they didn't feel anything strange at the beginning, because the "feeling" of the whole brain is normal, and what is copied by replication technology is the usual "normal" feeling of the brain.

In the replicated maze, the mice still seem to run in and out according to the original route, and there seems to be no problem with the generation and interaction of consciousness in the whole brain.

But when one really tries to actively examine one's own labyrinth, calling on the real data from which it is made—the blocks of floor that make up the labyrinth—something is wrong.

Because the copied labyrinth has no floor at all, all memories are just a "feeling", and the clone thinks it "remembers", but when it really wants to open it, it finds that the floor of the memory is not the right version, or even empty.

Of course, as the time of the clones gradually changes, these empty floors will gradually be covered by the memories that are generated later, and perhaps over time, a new labyrinth will be formed.

But even that can't hide the bottom of these labyrinths, that is, the hollowness of the entire labyrinth when the entire clone personality is just established.

According to the Federalists' research, this phenomenon of "memory loss" is not only found in clone personalities, but to a large extent, the brains of Federalists and Earthlings have similar mechanisms.

Many times we can't really remember all the specific knowledge and information, more often, we just "feel" to remember, those knowledge and information are like patterns buried under the floor, if you don't open them for a long time, those patterns will sometimes be slowly smoothed out.

But no matter how much memory loss there is in normal creatures, there is always a large piece of profound content that can be verified by reality, including life memories in reality, and digital memories that are usually used more......

The real Xu Yan just asked the clone Xu Yan the simplest question.

"What is my card PIN?"

Bank card password? This still needs to be asked, Xu Yan opened his mouth to answer, but his mouth bit a few times in embarrassment, and then he was stunned and motionless.

Who is Xu Yan, Wu Qing is clear, Shen Wen is even clearer, not to mention Xu Yan himself, in good words, he is a person who is very persistent in success, and in bad words, he is a person who is unscrupulous for money. In his own words, if it weren't for his genes and his timidity, he would have done the bank robbery back then.

After receiving surgery in the Ascension Realm, although this aspect of the problem has improved a little, the behavior pattern in his bones has never changed. Before coming to this mission, he was most concerned about the hundreds of thousands of yuan he had earned before, anyway, according to Wang Youquan, when this guy was fine, he opened his mobile phone every day to check the balance, and then looked at it and laughed out loud.

Although he told Wang Youquan a lot of investment channels, and also learned about the price of a lot of cars, he was talking about spending that money all day long, but in the end not only did he not spend money, Wang Youquan also said that the whole person was still picked, and now he even goes to Wang Youquan's house for dinner.

During the time that the replica Xu Yan was in the Federation, he always nagged that when he returned to Earth, his money must be taken out and spent properly, and no one should die and the money was not spent - this would be a big loss.

Such a person who can almost be said to be addicted to money, let alone his bank card password, even if he recalls his bank card account number backwards, in Xu Yan's opinion, there is no problem at all.

But when he really tried to recall the small string, six, the simplest number, Xu Yan was extremely horrified to find that he didn't remember it at all.

He "felt" that he remembered, really remembered, that the six numbers seemed to be written on a blank piece of paper, and he could even vaguely see their shapes.

Xu Yan's eyes widened desperately, and he brought the white paper to him, trying to see them completely clearly, but the strange thing was that no matter what action he made on the white paper, there was no change in himself on it.

Xu Yan began to feel the fear that both Wu Qing and Shen Wen had felt.

Wu Qing and Shen Wen both understood this feeling, they looked at Xu Yan, and they didn't say anything to comfort them, because they both knew very well that this kind of fear could not be used by others at all, and they had to bear and overcome it themselves.

Xu Yan didn't know how to describe this feeling, as if it was at this moment that all his previous lives were shattered, and he found for the first time that the world he had always been familiar with, or rather, the world that he had always felt "natural", was false and completely non-existent.

Memory is nothing but an illusion created by the brain.

It's just that when this illusion has always corresponded to reality, we all acquiesce to his reality. Based on this, we construct the whole life of a person.

But here in the Federation, Xu Yan suddenly discovered that this illusion was actually groundless.

Just like he thought he remembered something, he had always firmly believed in it until the other party actually asked the question, and never questioned it in the slightest. It's as if these memories are the money in your bank account, and of course they should be your own, and you can bring them up at any time when you need them.

But he now discovers that the "bank" of memory has deceived him, and his account has been a blank account from beginning to end......

He thought he was trapped in this foreign land because of some accident.

But it's not.

The real one is still on the search and rescue ship, all the time, and he is living the ordinary life he used to have, watching the numbers in his bank account increase every month......

That kind of life belongs to Xu Yan, to the real Xu Yan. And ...... for yourself

Who are you?

What about Wu Xiaoqing? What about Shen Changwen?

Xu Yan turned his head and looked at the two of them, and from their expressions, Xu Yan immediately understood.