Brother Shui looked at me and asked, "Alkane, you said that you read my "Experimental Rules" in other timelines, so have you noticed that there is an experiment called 'Memory and Soul Correlation Experiment'?" ”

After thinking for a while, I nodded to Brother Shui: "It seems that there is such a thing." ”

"That experiment was the first experiment I did. I didn't look for another experimenter, but became an experimenter myself. ”

October 18, 2020. After going back hundreds of times, Brother Shui understood one thing. There is no other way to save the oysters than to actually complete those experiments. But many of the experiments in it, especially the darkest human centipede experiment, Brother Shui couldn't overcome the psychological pressure to do it at all. At that time, Brother Shui didn't know that he would make a friend who was willing to do a lot of dirty work for money in the future. At that time, Brother Shui couldn't see a glimmer of hope, and he thought of a way to escape.

The correlation between memory and soul experiment is essentially to test whether memory can be equated with the soul. Memory is the same as the soul, which is the view that Wen Bing has been adhering to in recent years. Therefore, the main idea of the experiment is very simple, the basic principle is that an operator needs to be responsible for the time after the experiment is completed, and an experimenter can test whether the time can be retraced under the premise of losing memory. When alkanes sneaked into Brother Shui's dormitory, he saw the green potion in Brother Shui's locked glass case, which was the potion that Wen Bing had prepared for Brother Shui in advance to destroy the experimenter's memory. The essence of going back to time is the jump of the soul, if the thing that determines the uniqueness of the soul is memory, the experimenter who loses his memory and the experimenter who drank the Huilin potion will not have the same soul, and going back to time will naturally not be successful.

At first, Brother Shui leaned towards the idea that the soul and memory are not identical. Based on this point of view, Brother Shui used his own handwriting to write down the words he said to his future self on the paper, including the specific method of time rewind, the specific time point when he drank the potion on October 13, 2020, the description of the corresponding picture, and some words that can convince his future self of this note, etc. In Brother Shui's imagination, after everything is arranged, Brother Shui, who has lost his memory, can return to the time point when he drank the potion for the first time with the prompt of the note. And the Wen Bing, who found out that Brother Shui had lost his memory, could quickly figure out that it was Brother Shui who drank the amnesia potion himself. At that time, Brother Shui had already lost its use value, and the soldiers naturally released oysters.

Of course, Brother Shui also imagined a bad result, that is, he couldn't succeed in going back in time, and he lost his memory again. The oyster in this timeline has died, and the soldier is likely to be trapped in prison forever. Thinking of such consequences, Brother Shui was also very afraid. But at that time, Brother Shui did not have Xiang Qian, a helper who could do dirty work, nor did he think of a way to use other experimenters to wash away the memory of the experimental process. At that time, what he was thinking about was that he absolutely did not have the ability to complete all the experiments, especially the human centipede experiment, and the other side could not fight against the civilian soldiers, since there was no way out, why not give it a go?

At that time, Brother Shui didn't believe that the soul and memory had a strong correlation or even consistency, so he naturally didn't think that amnesia would have an impact on the act of going back in time. Even if it is the worst result, he can't go back in time after amnesia, which can be regarded as an irresponsible relief for Brother Shui, who believes that he can't complete the experiment.

However, the final result of the experiment was something that neither Brother Shui nor the Wen Bing who formulated the detailed rules of the experiment had ever imagined.

The soul does have a strong correlation with memory, so Brother Shui, who has lost his memory, is naturally no longer the original soul individual. However, the process of going back in time is itself the process of recalling oneself in the future, and the process of jumping the soul to oneself in the current memory. Current memories are a subset of future memories. So the time regression itself is like a kind of rehearsal, and the final outcome of the retrospective is that the future becomes something that did not happen. In other words, the future self has amnesia itself, and the internal comparison in the future timeline is a different soul. However, the amnesia itself is only a possibility in the future, and the memory of the current self still constitutes a subset relationship, so the act of time regression is not affected.

The final result was that Brother Shui, who was originally a person all along, went to high school by himself, knew oysters by himself, and was invited to enter Wenbing's laboratory, and finally split into two complete entities.

Brother Shui's full name is Huan Ping, and from the moment the backtracking time is completed, two separate individuals, Ah Huan and Ah Ping, have been produced.

Ah Ping is actually Brother Shui, who has all the memories of before drinking the potion for the first time. He realized Ah Huan's existence, imagined that he and Ah Huan were twin brothers, and made up for the memories of studying together, meeting his best friend Oyster Addict, and entering the Wenbing Laboratory together, so that everything was rationalized in his perspective.

And Ah Huan is Brother Shui, who uses the amnesia of drinking the potion itself as an overall memory to go back to time. As a result, he still has all his memories, including making his own plans, drinking the amnesia potion, and reliving time with a note.

The moment when Brother Shui drank the potion for the first time was no longer a possibility in the future, because there was no earlier time node. Therefore, in this timeline, they are indeed different independent memories, and they are not subset of each other, so they are naturally different souls and different objective individuals.

Ah Huan, who has a complete memory, that is, Brother Shui, also discovered the existence of Ah Ping. But it's not that I met.,But I also began to have the memory that I have a twin brother.,I heard that there was also a classmate in the class who looked very similar to him.,Claiming to be his younger brother.,People in the same class are used to it.。 But Brother Shui knows what the truth is, although he believes that existence is reasonable, but he doesn't know the consequences of meeting and recognizing Ah Ping, and he is also afraid that his memory will gradually blur, and his brain will make up for the memory of Ah Ping's existence.

Therefore, Brother Shui's first reaction was to go back to time many times. A comment is generated at the moment when his own backtracking time is completed, although this is his earliest time backtracking node, but if there is a slight error in the node of his own backtracking time, as long as he can do it a little earlier than the moment when a comment appears, this matter will be cleared, and the matter of his own backtracking time to produce a comment will also become a future possibility.

But unfortunately, perhaps because the time point when the potion takes effect is a precise value rather than a time period, or maybe the "coexistence of memories at similar points in time" to be verified by the human centipede experiment does exist, no matter how many times you go back in time, the existence of Ah Ping is already an established fact. And Ah Ping is the water brother who has all the memories before the first potion takes effect, including Wen Bing's exposition of all his theories and research results, Wen Bing asked his brother Ah Huan to become the first Huilin experimenter, with Wen Bing's future experiments and so on, as long as it is before the potion takes effect, Ah Ping remembers it, and the brain has modified it to rationalize his existence. Of course, Wen Bing threatened Brother Shui through oysters, forced Brother Shui to conduct a large number of human experiments, and the memory of Brother Shui's hundreds of failed resistances was naturally gone after the potion took effect.

Why Brother Shui didn't choose to go back in time to the first time he drank the potion, and then wait a while and drink the potion again as a new point in time for the time rewind experiment after amnesia, but to adopt this method of facing any unknown results and having no way out, it is actually very understandable. No matter how many times you go back in time, it is the first time for Wen Bing's perspective. As long as he doesn't have the memory of Brother Shui telling him that time rewind has been successful, he will induce Brother Shui to try time rewind, going back to the time when he first drank the potion.

If his loss of memory did not occur at the earliest point in time, Wen Bing would first be inclined to think that he had used himself to verify the correlation of his soul memory, rather than thinking that drinking the Huilin potion might cause amnesia. Wen Bing can induce the amnesiac Ah Huan to go back in time and pass on the information of the success of the time regression experiment to his past self, and by the way, see if he can go back in time and even recover his memory. With Wen Bing's intelligence, he would definitely have thought that through this method, there was a high probability that one of the two experiments would always be completed, regardless of whether the essence of the soul was memory or not. As for the essence of the soul is memory, so the conclusion of the experiment that cannot be reversed in time needs to be verified whether the time regression can be effective under normal circumstances, which can be well verified by trying to change the experimenter. If it is indeed as the conclusion envisioned by Brother Shui, then Brother Shui, who goes back in time again, is still in a state of amnesia at the earliest point in time, but he has more memories to help the soldiers pass on information, and the ending has not changed, but things will become more uncontrollable if he goes back many times.

If he was in a state of amnesia from the beginning, there was no earlier point in time, and Wen Bing would never risk asking Brother Shui to go back in time in order to avoid Brother Shui not knowing how to transmit information and causing a time loop. And if Brother Shui is indeed the first experimenter, there is no precedent to prove the harmlessness of the potion, and from Wen Bing's point of view, it is the amnesia caused by Brother Shui drinking Huilin. Before ensuring that he could go back in time, how dare Wen Bing continue to let others drink the potion? How can this major experimental negligence be explained to the police in the current timeline?

Of course, the end result of the experiment was a split soul, and all this reasoning based on false assumptions was pointless.