Chapter 7: Failure

"What? There was no one in the basement??? I was a little incredulous, "Are you sure the search is clear?" In the basement of the Student Activity Center, there is a lot of clutter obscuring your view, please—"

"Alkane classmate, right, you reported the crime, right?" The lead police officer spoke, "You described your roommate being physically tortured in the basement, how did you know about this?" ”

How is it...... Know? Looking back in time, I am afraid that no police will believe this kind of thing.

"Your three roommates really can't be contacted by our police, according to what you said when you reported the crime, they should have disappeared after class this afternoon, right?"

"Yes......"

"The classmate you said you saw with your own eyes who stunned and took away your roommate is Xiang Qian, right? Just now we police saw him in his dormitory, and he had just come out of the bathroom after washing. According to his roommate's account, he did come back late. But he was very calm in answering our police's questions, a college student, not like the person who just did what you said, and you have very little surveillance equipment on campus, we police can't just rely on your confession-"

"No, it's not! Comrade policeman! Maybe something else is hearsay or speculation, but I saw it with my own eyes that I took away good people from money! It's just around the corner on the east side of this dormitory! "I let out a sound that bordered on hissing.

"Alkane classmates, can you calm down first? It's not that we police don't believe you, but the things you described in the basement are now hearsay or speculation. You can rest assured, we will continue to interrogate Xiang Qian with some questions, and your roommate will file a case if he does not contact us within 24 hours, I understand that you may be very worried about your roommate's situation, but many things are better to be realistic——"

"No!! I'm not worried about them, they die in an accident and I can still protect the research! But knowing that they are being abused, I can't ignore them! I saw it with my own eyes, I saw it with my own eyes! I know you police don't trust me right now, why? I have no grievances with Xiang Qian, what good will it do me if I lie? I saw it with my own eyes!! If you trust me, you will interrogate Ah Huan again! Trust me, I know the two of them did it! It must be them! I saw it with my own eyes......"

Why...... Why did it fail?

I can't remember what happened after that. It's just that the police said they trusted me, but they didn't trust me. They calmed me down and said they would get my roommate back. Retrieve, retrieve...... Using this kind of word, it means that they end up just thinking that I am a student full of lies, and this case is at best a disappearance case, and the students are petty and finally find out that it is just three roommates who go out to play until their phones run out of battery......

After the police left, my mood calmed down a bit. I should calmly think about what the reasons for the failure were.

According to my previous reasoning, the experiment on the potion on me may have been done just to find an experimenter who could go back in time. If you will use me as an experiment, there should be no precedent for success, right, Brother Shui shouldn't want the world to be full of people who can go back in time, right?

In this case, could it be that in the past two days, a new experimenter who can go back in time has been produced, and this experimenter is willing to help Brother Shui? In another timeline, after Brother Shui and Xiang Qian were arrested by the police, the experimenter relaxed himself, used a strong autosuggestion, retrospectively remembered the two days, and told Brother Shui to let Xiang Qian transfer my roommate in advance?

No, since the plan has failed, the three roommates have also been transferred by them, and even if the police finally find them, they are already ......

I still have to look for Ah Ping to go back to the time, although I don't know if I can do it again. Ah Ping has a copy of the experiment manual in his hand, and as long as he asks him, he can know if he has carried out other experiments in the past few days, and knows if there is such an "experimenter who helps Brother Shui", knows who he is, and prevents him from drinking the potion. I couldn't sleep on the night of the first day because of the potion stimulation, so I thought about a lot of questions at that time. Let's go to Ah Ping first......

Wait, I have an idea. Time regression is what I usually say, and it is essentially a retrospective memory. In this case, Ah Ping has not negotiated with me in this world. I can hypnotize myself, the present is the future, and I want to go back to the real present. If I don't need Ah Ping's help, I can complete the time regression independently, then wouldn't I be an invincible existence?

Give it a try. If I succeed, I will have countless opportunities for trial and error, and there will always be a time when I can stop Brother Shui. I started with a relaxing piece of music, lay down on the bed and began to relax myself, close my eyes, and engage in self-hypnosis. If the singing suddenly stopped, I immediately opened my eyes, tensed my body to prevent myself from falling, and calmly picked up Brother Shui's words. That way, he wouldn't have guessed that I had succeeded in backtracking.

Let's get started.

This is the picture of the moment when you drink the potion. This is now. I have to go back to the present. I can't be trapped in the future. A little sleepy as if, right now, this is now......

The singing stopped!!

I immediately opened my eyes, revealing a subtle expression of "I want to compliment you on the good taste of your drink against my will, but I can't play it anymore", and at the same time stood firm, without any deliberate tense of muscles.

"How's it going, how do you feel and what do you want to tell me?" Brother Shui spoke, in an expectant tone.

"Well, it's good, this shouldn't be a strong American, why do I feel a hundred times more energetic after drinking?"

"Is that all?" Brother Shui's tone suddenly became serious again.

"Huh? That's right, it's very refreshing after drinking, and the taste is okay......"

"Okay, get a good night's sleep, goodbye hahahaha!"

Call! He's gone. My performance was close to perfect, no, it was perfect.

I'm in bed, and if nothing else, I won't be able to sleep tonight, so let's start making a battle plan.

Should I go to Ah Ping first to find out who the experimenter was who the experiment was successful in the past two days, and then go back in time? I'm still in too much of a hurry. But it doesn't matter, I only drank the potion once, so I can only go back to this point in time. And whether time rewind can be done independently on my own, this experiment must be done by me. If, as I suspected, a new experimenter with the ability to go back in time, I failed again, and I went to Ah Ping to ask for the experiment manual, and then came back to stop it. I have had countless chances anyway.

But is there a possibility that one of my big assumptions is wrong. Is it possible that Brother Shui asked me to drink the potion, not to prove the existence of the ability to go back in time...... I'm not the first person to be able to rewind time......

The reason why I always thought I was the first time capable was because I had a question in mind. Assuming that the potion doesn't need to have any uniqueness in the physique, then Brother Shui or his loyal friend must have tried the potion before me. And if he tries to sabotage his plans again and again, as long as he goes back to the memories before I drank the potion, and doesn't let me drink the potion, I won't have these memories now. What I did became a future that only existed in his mind, but never really happened. I won't have the time to do it anymore, and I won't have the idea of stopping him. I wouldn't even know why my three roommates disappeared, as long as he went back and avoided the good people from escaping and encountering me.

If there is any compelling reason for me to drink the potion, then Brother Shui can also stop me in the first timeline, going back to before I met Ah Ping......

Wrong!!! The first timeline couldn't do that. Because I traced the memory of meeting Ah Ping back to May 28th. So unless he goes back in time, or...... Before I start backtracking, backtrack ahead of time! But this could not be done, because he had no chance to know that I had contacted Ah Ping until I went back in time.