I looked at the man across from me, and he looked and felt the same way I had seen it in my dreams. At this time, he was frowning slightly, his lips pursed slightly, as if he was reminiscing, or contemplative, and his slightly drooping eyelids made it difficult for me to see the look in his eyes.

I rubbed my cold fingertips, wondering if there was anything missing from the dream I had just explained to him, and waiting for him to give me an answer.

This man's name is Lu Haisheng, and I'm not sure if I'm not sure if I'm a person I know.

"Do you remember yesterday in the cinema?"

After waiting for a while, Lu Haisheng looked up at me and said, but did he have any special meaning in what he said?

I looked at him strangely, "What do you mean, didn't I tell you just now, I remember we went to the movies together, there was an argument between the two couples in the back row, and at the end of the movie, you reminded me to pick up my wallet." ”

"Yes, that's right." Lu Haisheng nodded, "What I want to ask is, before the couple quarreled, did I inform you again?" ”

"Tell me?" I was slightly stunned, and I was not sure if he had told me before, "Is there any?" I'm not so sure."

I frowned slightly, raised my left hand, and pressed my index finger to my temple, but still didn't answer.

In fact, sometimes, we will have the feeling that we know the answer to one thing, and we know that there is only one answer, but if we are asked a multiple-choice question, we are likely to fall into a kind of self-doubt, as if either one is right, and it seems that none of them are right, and the original clear answer does not know where we have forgotten it.

I have such a similar feeling now, I didn't think there was a doubt here, but when Lu Haisheng asked so suddenly, I didn't know whether there was or not.

"Not quite sure what it means?"

I glanced at Lu Haisheng, who asked me, and pouted a little irritably, "I feel as if you have said it, but you don't seem to have said it, although I remember the dream, or if my guess is correct, I remember what happened yesterday, but it is not accurate to every single item." ”

"It's like the impression that if I hear someone say the same thing to me in the morning, I can realize that I heard the exact same thing yesterday morning, but if you ask me what my neighbor said to me yesterday morning, I can't tell you exactly the same thing." I shrugged, "I have an impression of the quarrel, but I have a vague impression of whether you reminded me. ”

Lu Haisheng seemed to be thinking about something, and after being silent for a few seconds, he spoke again, "It's normal for your impression to be very vague, so let me change the question, yesterday we bought a bottle of water before we went to the cinema, do you remember this incident?" ”

"Yes, I remember that." I nodded slightly, "But what does it matter?" It had something to do with that quarrel. ”

"You don't care what it matters, think about it first."

Lu Haisheng paused slightly, raised his eyes and looked at me. I was slightly stunned when I met his gaze, and then I realized that he was giving me time to remember. I didn't know what the purpose of this was, but it was a serious matter for the two of us, so I didn't do much more, obediently mobilizing my memories and thinking about the situation in my dreams.

Yesterday, after Xu Ruohan and I separated, I met Lu Haisheng. He gave me a notebook full of information about the time reset and my future me. I looked at the information and discussed it with him from time to time, as I walked with him in the direction of the cinema. Even on the way to the cinema, we bought a bottle of water at a small shop on the side of the road

"Think about it?"

Lu Haisheng's voice came into my ears, I raised my eyes to look at him, and after thinking about it quickly, I nodded again, "I thought about it, I remember this matter very clearly." ”

He nodded slightly, "Okay, then answer me one more question." ”

"What's the problem?"

"What was that bottle of water we bought yesterday? I'm referring to brands and flavors. ”

I didn't expect him to ask this question, but I remember hearing it clearly, so I replied with certainty, "Carbonated soda, green apple flavor." ”

"Are you sure?" Lu Haisheng squinted slightly and asked, "Are you sure that this memory is very clear and can't be wrong?" ”

"Yes, I'm sure of that." I nodded slightly, looked at him suspiciously, and explained, "I remember that I just wanted to buy a bottle of mineral water, or because you told me before we got to the little grocery store that I should not buy mineral water and choose another bottle, so I bought apple-flavored soda." Is there something wrong? ”

Lu Haisheng shook his head, "There's nothing wrong, I just want to confirm when that dream of yours is remembered." ”

I shook my head in confusion, "I don't understand, when are you talking about, isn't that my memory before the time reset?" Is there any other time? ”

"It's not accurate to say that it was your memories before the time reset." Lu Haisheng explained to me, "To be precise, your dream is your memory before the last time reset. ”

Wasn't the last time it was yesterday, or the last July 21st? What exactly does Lu Haisheng mean?

As if to see that I still didn't understand, Lu Haisheng continued to explain to me, "Time reset has not happened once, but has happened many times. And your impression of time reset is a process of creating something from nothing - this is something I told you in your dream, the day before the last time reset, that you should remember, that is, in fact your impression is the result of multiple superpositions of the same thing. Therefore, when your impression of the reset of time changes again, and with the present one, the impression that you regard as a dream, there is one thing that needs to be confirmed. ”

"We need to confirm whether the impression in your dream is a memory of yesterday's events, or an impression superimposed on you by several time resets."

I pursed my lips slightly, as if I understood what Lu Haisheng meant, and after sorting out my thoughts, I confirmed to him, "You mean to say that my dream may be a memory of the designated day before the last time reset." It could also be a memory of the part of the time reset that has been repeated. And the question you asked, like the one I asked, is the criterion for distinguishing between the two? ”

Lu Haisheng nodded, confirming my guess, "Yes, that's what it means." You originally bought mineral water, not soda. Since your last change, I've been consciously, on the day after each time reset, to make small changes that are different each time, and I don't change the details of the same thing all the time. For example, last time I guided you to change mineral water to soft drink, and today I was going to change what you eat for lunch, and tomorrow I may be guiding you to change your clothes or shoes. ”

"I see, that's how it is."

"I see what you mean...... I relaxed, leaning back in my chair and rethinking the dream again...... "I think my current state should only remember what happened before the last time reset, and when I reset again, the day I remember will be replaced by the day before the new reset."

"You're saying that tomorrow, you'll only remember today's events, not yesterday's?" Lu Haisheng asked with a slight frown.

I nodded, confirming his guess.

"Why do you think you won't remember tomorrow?"

"Because...... That doesn't seem to be a real memory. I frowned slightly, like Lu Haisheng describing my feelings, "The day before the time reset, in my feelings, it was like a dream before waking up, but in fact, it was what happened yesterday, so in a sense, it should be equivalent to my memory of yesterday." ”

Lu Haisheng frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about my words, so I continued.

But when I think about the dream, I see that it is very different from the real memory. In real memory, I can remember my emotions and thoughts at a certain moment, whether it is happy, excited, nervous, fearful, these emotions should exist in my memory. At the same time, in my real memory, I should remember what I was thinking. ”

Lu Haisheng nodded, probably agreeing with my words, and asked me.

"Isn't that dream like this? You don't have emotions in your dreams and you don't know what you're thinking at the time? ”

"Yes." I nodded, "I can't remember or feel what emotions and thoughts I had yesterday, and what happened yesterday is like ...... to me Movie... Yes, a movie is the same. It was as if I was a spectator rather than a participant, seeing what was happening from the perspective of a bystander, but knowing nothing about emotions and thoughts. ”

Lu Haisheng looked thoughtful, and was silent for a while before saying, "So it seems...... Not as I originally thought. I thought you were completely unaffected by the time reset now, and now it seems that it may be a while longer. ”

I nodded, and looked up at the clock on the wall, it wasn't yet twelve o'clock in the afternoon. I canceled the agreement with Xu Ruohan on the phone before, and now I don't know what to do.

"Don't we have to do anything today?" I asked Lu Haisheng.

He looked at his watch and shook his head, "Wait until the afternoon and we'll go to the movies as originally scheduled, it's still early." ”

I nodded in understanding, and he didn't say anything more. Now that we've discussed the matter, there's another thing I'm actually quite concerned about......

"Have you been to my house before?" I looked at Lu Haisheng's face, carefully observing his expression, trying to find any clues.

However, the expression on Lu Haisheng's face did not change in particular, and he still looked calm.

"Do you want to get stuck in time before resetting? Of course, if you have been here, how will you know the layout of your house in seven years? ”

"No, I'm asking if you've been here since the time reset began, on July 21, 2005?" My eyes glanced at the door, thinking back to Lu Haisheng's previous performance...... "You know very well which door my house is, I know very well the current furnishings in my house, you don't behave like you are here for the first time." ”

Lu Haisheng blinked, and only said after a few seconds, "I did come here, and many times, there was a time before, every day during the day, we were at your house to discuss the issue of time reset, right next to this table, where we are now. ”

Really! I admired my wisdom in my heart, and at the same time I had a vague feeling that maybe we would be stuck in a time reset for longer than I thought, but ...... It shouldn't grow too much, right? Maybe...... A month or two?

I looked at Lu Haisheng and suddenly felt amazing, I didn't expect that the man in front of me was my friend seven years later.

"Lu Haisheng? How long have we known each other? I asked curiously, "I mean...... How long have you known me seven years later? ”

I saw that Lu Haisheng was slightly stunned for a moment, and quickly came back to his senses, but I always felt that his gaze at me had become a lot more complicated, as if there was something more than just now...... I don't understand it either.

"We got to know ...... It's been more than two years. ”

"So long?"

"Hmm."