Chapter 17: Helplessness

At first, Brother Shui didn't learn anything useful in Wenbing's laboratory. Every time Wen Bing was asked what kind of experiment they were doing, Wen Bing only vaguely told him to develop a potion that could transcend time.

Later, Brother Shui felt more and more that Professor Wen Bing was just missing a little assistant. It wasn't until he graduated from high school that Wen Bing began to slowly teach him some time to go back to relevant knowledge, as well as experimental methods for some experiments in the future. However, this knowledge is too niche, and it is all based on the extension of time regression research, and it is still unclear whether time rewind will succeed. If it weren't for the considerable part-time salary, Brother Shui would have to quit.

Until one day, Wen Bing found Brother Shui to talk.

Wen Bing told Brother Shui that during this period of time together, he saw that Brother Shui was a smart child. Therefore, it was decided to tell Brother Shui his research results and all theoretical knowledge in full.

Since 2011, Wen Bing has been developing a potion that can highly stimulate the potential of the human brain to receive future brain wave signals, so as to achieve a similar effect of time rewinding. In his early years, due to Wen Bing's lack of deep understanding of the soul in his early days, he always demanded that the experimenter drink the potion and immediately know the future and feel what will happen in the future. If it can't be done, it is considered to be a problem of insufficient efficacy. He hadn't thought about having to go through the timeline first before he could go back in time, and he didn't know how to go back in time.

Until one day, he understood the nature of the soul. After a few years of precipitation, I also understood the need to achieve soul regression through self-hypnosis. After years of improvement, Wen Bing firmly believed that this potion would achieve the desired effect, and named it Huilin. So he found Brother Shui, explained everything, and hoped that Brother Shui would cooperate with his future experiments and become the first experimenter to successfully rewind time.

In fact, in the course of the first two years of experiments, Wen Bing also found a few experimenters who could be completely trusted to drink the unsuccessfully mixed potion. The half-finished potion and the Wen Bing didn't know the specific method of going back in time, so they naturally ended up failing in the end. But this time, Wen Bing seems to have known that this time it will definitely succeed. He no longer looked for other experimenters in the laboratory, but designated Brother Shui to be the first experimenter to drink the potion. Not just because of trust, but also because he needed the experimenter to be smart enough. Because future experiments will be done by this experimenter. Of course, in the previous exchanges between Wen Bing and Brother Shui, Wen Bing did not mention those human experiments that touched the bottom line. When talking about the experimental method of Huilin's tolerance experiment, Brother Shui has already expressed his opinion that this is unethical and unacceptable.

Brother Shui, who didn't know what would happen in the future, thought of the fear of being unknown for a lifetime due to missing this opportunity that was enough to subvert history, and the fear brought by the unknown was already insignificant in comparison.

On October 13, 2020, Brother Shui drank the potion and successfully completed time rewinding, becoming the world's first successful time regression case. At the same time, October 13, 2020 has also become the earliest time retrospective node in human history.

However, when Brother Shui knew that he would need to do a lot of confirmatory experiments on Huilin potions in the future, including human centipede experiments and many human experiments, he retreated. That's when he discovers that his only friend, Oyster, has gone missing.

It turned out that Wen Bing was not only interested in Brother Shui's wisdom, but also in his withdrawn personality, having the only best friend and other characteristics. Brother Shui is not a fish and meat, and he is slaughtered by others. He knew that as the earliest time backer, he had enough capital to compete with the civil soldiers who kidnapped Oyster and wanted to blackmail Brother Shui. As a result, Brother Shui began hundreds of battles with the civil soldiers. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that he should not try to rebel against the civilian soldiers. The wisdom of the civil soldiers is far above all people.

Long before Brother Shui drank the potion, Wen Bing's accomplices had already kidnapped Oysters. Therefore, by going back in time, it is impossible to reach the point in time before the kidnapping incident.

The accomplices of the civilian soldiers kidnapped the oyster in a closed house in the suburbs, and there were people around it who were in charge of guarding. At first, Brother Shui's idea was very simple, to try to rescue the oysters directly. The first step is to go back in time and hide the fact that the experiment has been successful. Wen Bing kept trying to get Brother Shui to self-hypnosis to rewind time, but Brother Shui just pretended to cooperate, and naturally nothing happened. After that, I cooperated with the police, anyway, I had the ability to go back in time, and if the rescue failed, I tried repeatedly, and every time I went back to the time, I pretended that the experiment failed to confuse the soldiers, and there was always a time when I was able to retreat and save the oysters.

But Wen Bing seems to be sure that the time backtracking experiment has been successful. Brother Shui pretended that he couldn't go back in time, and the soldiers didn't let go of the oysters. And as soon as a police officer approached the house, the accomplices of the civilian soldiers in the room did not hesitate to kill the oysters, no matter how many attempts were made. The house was airtight and there was more than one accomplice, so there was no chance that the sniper would kill the kidnappers with a single shot. The accomplices of the civilian soldiers are also very decisive, and there is no room for negotiation at all. No matter what method is used, how many attempts are made, the rescue ends in failure. Wen Bing seems to be sure that the experiment has succeeded, so he dares to kill the oysters with impunity.

At this point, Brother Shui began to wonder if there was another person with the ability to ventilate the news, or if it was Wen Bing who had drunk the potion himself.

But every time he goes back in time, Wen Bing seems to really only know what happened before October 13, 2020, and no matter how he talks, he doesn't leak anything. And Wen Bing is also a personality guarantor, and Brother Shui is the first and only experimenter so far.

Later, Brother Shui changed his thinking. Isn't what Wen Bing wants is the experimental results of hundreds of experiments? Wen Bing's request is clear, and he knows that he may go to prison in the future because of his love for oysters. He asked Brother Shui to go back to October 13, 2020 after completing all the experiments, and inform the experimental results of all the experiments. In this case, as long as you make up some reasonable experimental conclusions and try them repeatedly, you will always be able to tell all the experimental results that can convince the civilian soldiers, right?

But Brother Shui found that no matter how he tried, Wen Bing would tell Brother Shui very clearly that he did not carry out these experiments. Later, Brother Shui thought of a way. He can go back in time repeatedly and lie to Wenbing that he has just done a specific experiment and the conclusion is what. There are some things I don't understand, so I went back in advance to ask Wen Bing for advice. As long as you go back a hundred times and know what the conclusion of each experiment can convince the soldiers, the problem will be solved.

But the first time, Brother Shui hit a wall. He tried to go back in time, and lied to Wenbing that other experiments hadn't started yet, but he had just done the most difficult human centipede experiment. But no matter whether the conclusion of the experiment is a success or a failure, Wen Bing will know that Brother Shui is lying.

It's very, very unbelievable. After Brother Shui completes the experiment, he will go back in time, and he will erase the memories of other people in the same timeline. Not to mention that Brother Shui is the only person who drank the potion, even if he really has other time abilities, how can he be sure that Brother Shui did not do the experiment?

And all kinds of different experimental conclusions are unacceptable to the soldiers, and they all ensure that Brother Shui is lying, how is it achieved?

There are many other things that are equally difficult to understand. For example, why was Wen Bing so sure that the experiment would be successful this time, kidnapped Oyster in advance, and could kill him without hesitation, even if Brother Shui seamlessly disguised himself to go back in time without success? Why didn't Wen Bing drink the potion himself to do the experiment, and had to give up the earliest time backtracking point to Brother Shui, and then force Brother Shui to do the experiment?

But at least Brother Shui figured out a truth. The things he could think of, Wen Bing must have thought about it. What Wen Bing could think of, he probably couldn't understand. Completing all the experiments with the soldiers is the only way to rescue the oysters. So after the last attempt, the oyster was killed as expected, and Brother Shui began his long experimental journey. Compared to living a life of fear in a closed house, a temporary death is also a relief for oysters.

In the next year or so, it was Brother Shui who carried out various experiments. Brother Shui took a fancy to the characteristics of Xiang Qian and loved money as his life, and used his time backtracking ability to speculate in stocks and investment, earning a lot of money and attracting Xiang Qian. The vast majority of experiments require backtracking time, after which other people's memories will theoretically be erased. But once told Brother Shui that he would have some very real and clear dreams from time to time, and the content of the dreams was that Brother Shui used money to instruct him to do all kinds of bad things. Brother Shui was also very surprised, so he took advantage of this and accurately said the details of Xiang Qian's dream many times in advance, coupled with Brother Shui's unfavorable investment, so that Xiang Qian had to believe that Brother Shui had the ability to predict the future. Therefore, when he is doing things for Brother Shui, he will be unscrupulous and dare to do anything.

So far, this is what has happened to Brother Shui in recent years.

"Listen to what you say...... I think I'm probably smart again. You were the first to drink the potion, and I thought that as long as you were unwilling to experiment, there was always a way, and no one could threaten you. If so...... The second question may not be necessary for me to ask. I'm wondering if there are a lot of experimental methods that can be done just to verify the coexistence of memories at similar points in time, and it's not necessary-"

"There's really no need to ask." Brother Shui interrupted me, "If you can figure out some of the parts of this experiment, I can figure it out too." I can think that there is no need to kidnap or kill people in this experiment, and Wen Bing can naturally think of it too. But he still set up this experiment in this way, and naturally he has a reason. Wen Bing was admitted to the best medical university in China at the age of 15 and completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies in three years. Our thinking is not at the same level as his, so don't bother yourself, just follow his experimental process honestly. Otherwise, a lot of effort will be spent, and the results of the experiment will still be denied by the civilian soldiers. ”