Chapter 6: The Truth That Quietly Strikes

"From the time I started to know about the [truth], it must have been three to four months ago, and although I can't remember exactly when it happened, it must have happened last semester......

Lin Jiaojiao's ambiguous statement about time did not cause Wu Ming to have much thought, but it was Zhao Jida who interrupted the girl who was about to start reminiscing.

"Excuse me, the term 'last semester' has a large time span, even if you give the condition of 'it happened three to four months ago', the rest of the time span is still very large, can you be more precise about the specific time? Since it is difficult for human memory to recall things that long ago to the exact point of minute and second, and to restore them exactly minute by minute, please try to be as accurate as possible within a month......"

Faced with Zhao Jida's somewhat difficult requests, Lin Jiaojiao was obviously a little embarrassed: "This ...... I can't remember exactly what month it started to catch on...... At that time, I didn't have much interest in this kind of thing, so I only remember a rough time, it should have been a while before the midterm test......"

As Lin Jiaojiao said, the kind of urban legend that was a trivial matter to her a few months ago is a normal thing to not remember the specific time of its occurrence.

Human memory is actually a very unreliable thing, generally speaking, such as eating, sleeping, drinking water, this kind of information that is not cared about, and the trivial things of life that will not be deliberately written down can basically be kept for about 24 hours in people's memory, even if it is very good, it can be maintained for 36 to 48 hours, it can already be regarded as a very amazing memory, if you can also immediately and clearly recall the content of the chat with colleagues the day before yesterday, how many glasses of water a day, what time did you eat lunch at what time......

It is recommended that you see a doctor.

But on the other hand, it's amazing that if you slowly push back your memory time to 72 hours ago by gradually recalling the way of related things, and you can't remember what you ate at noon that day, if suddenly someone comes up to you and swears that you ate a plate of pasta that made you diarrhea that day. After a brief moment of doubt and confusion, your brain will automatically fill in all sorts of details to prove the truth that you ate spaghetti the day before yesterday.

This kind of detail includes but is not limited to the texture, taste, whether it is cooked and how many times you have diarrhea after eating it, even if the pasta that makes you diarrhea is not the day before yesterday, your brain, your memory will try to make you 'believe' that this is what happened at noon the day before yesterday.

This is a very cruel fact, people's senses, memory is actually not enough reliable things, the eyes will cause illusions because of the effect of visual deception, the sense of smell will feel the smell because of the strong aroma, it is difficult for people to distinguish the difference between vegetarian meat products made of plant protein and normal meat only by taste and taste, slight pain can be transformed into pleasure to be felt, and your memory will also become far from the objective facts or simply contrary to the relationship between self-beautification and external interference.

Now in the memories that Lin Jiaojiao is reconstructing through language, it is not yet known how much of it is a statement of objective facts, and how much of it is a subjective private product that has been mixed in with self-beautification and brain supplementation over time.

After the scene was deadlocked for a moment, Wu Ming waved his hand and said: "Okay, Lao Zhao, don't embarrass Lin Jiaojiao, after all, people's memories are not as reliable as machines, words, and words, and it is simply impossible to let a person recall the trivial things that happened a few months ago......"

Zhao Jida saw that Wu Ming said this, and had to make concessions: "Okay, then you go on." ”

"Oh good, that was what happened last semester, I can't remember if it was three months or four months ago, but it definitely caught on before the midterm test." Lin Jiaojiao frowned and tried to recall the relevant memories, "At that time, there was an urban legend among the students in the class that suddenly began to become popular in private, saying that if you eat a health care product called [Truth] that is said to be able to nourish the brain and strengthen the body, you can greatly improve your learning ability and concentration, and you can achieve twice the result with half the effort when studying, and no one cared about this kind of thing at the beginning, and there was no way to verify it, so everyone kept listening to it as a joke like 'Brain Black Silver' and 'Life No. 2' until the test that day...... ”

"Every time I hear the word "do more with less", I feel very scary." But before Lin Jiaojiao could say two sentences, Wu Ming whispered beside him with a frightened face, "The matter is obviously only half completed, but the work has been more than doubled." It's horrible......"

Zhao Xida's eyes flashed with white light, and she glanced at Wu Ming: "Please correctly understand the era in which the idiom is located and the meaning it refers to, and don't add personal understanding to it at will." ”

"It's the first time I've seen someone understand gong as the one who does the gong......" Lin Jiaojiao muttered in a low voice, because Wu Ming was so slappy, and then turned her head to continue the topic, the girl was also a little dumbfounded: "Wait a minute, where did I just say......?" ”

After Wu Ming was twisted by Zhao Xida several times, he had to seriously open his mouth to pull the topic back: "It's time for the test." ”

"Oh yes, quiz. It could be a weekly exam or a quiz with a casual test, and there are a few ......"

Before Lin Jiaojiao finished speaking, Wu Ming grabbed the conversation again: "There are a few students whose academic performance is not very good, just like a hanger, and their grades rush from the end of the class to the top level, and then they are a blockbuster, right?" ”

"Right...... No!? How do you know? Lin Jiaojiao's eyes widened in surprise, her watery eyes full of doubt and surprise.

"Nonsense, joint context, this is the most basic speculation. If you take the initiative to talk to me about these things, you must have felt that there is an evil spirit in this matter. Wu Ming rolled his eyes and said, and then he was not ashamed to poke his chest with his thumb and boasted, "And I, as you can see, the three times we met to save you from fire and water, every time you get into an extraordinary incident, I rushed to solve it in time, and there must be a demon when things go wrong, if you want to figure out this kind of evil thing, you must first ask me, a master of the world without a white beard." ”

As he spoke, Wu Ming shrugged his shoulders slightly: "Besides, if there is any food safety problem, you won't look for me, the head teacher, the school, and the parents of those students are afraid that they have already made a fuss in the morning thirty minutes of the local news channel, and I will still take a look at the news, I have not seen the impression of a news headline like 'black-hearted health products mutilating students' in the past six months, so I boldly speculated." ”

Lin Jiaojiao, whose mind was broken, sighed and said: "Actually, it's not bad, just like Brother Wu Ming, you said, their test scores are abnormal, even the teacher is wondering if these students who usually don't have good academic performance are cheating, but suspicion is suspicion, and the teacher didn't find evidence to prove that they cheated, and in the end, it didn't find out why, and the results of those students were quite stable after that, basically stable at the top ten level of the class." ”

"At that time, I hadn't come into contact with [the truth], and those scumbags didn't talk about the secret of their successful counterattack. I didn't know how they did it until one day, when my good friend in the class stopped me after school and brought me the real thing. ”