Memory inheritor

Chapter 227 Interpretation

Chapter 227 Interpretation (Part 2)

Back in the office, Wei Hongsi and Liu Lu sat down at their respective desks and began reading "The Story of Time" in their own way.

Wei Hongsi had read this book twice before and still remembered most of the content. This time, rereading it was like recalling and organizing the entire book. He skimmed through the familiar parts, only slowing down to read carefully the descriptions related to death or the passages that he remembered less clearly.

He spent nearly two hours going through the entire book again, jotting down any questions or thoughts that arose while reading. He then compared his notes with Liu Lu's, and the statistics on the types and frequency of deaths were basically the same.

Wei Hongsi glanced at Liu Lu and saw that she was still focused on the screen. This girl's speed reading skills were indeed impressive; he could ask her for advice sometime.

He looked at his reading notes again and reorganized his thoughts.

Wei Hongsi decided to reread this book because he believed it might contain information about some drawbacks or underlying mechanisms of memory implantation techniques.

He doesn't believe that there is any technology in the world that can predict the future. Regardless of who the real author of "The Story of Time" is, it is impossible for him to have the ability to predict the future.

The deaths of Uncle Zhang and Han Tao bore a striking resemblance to the events described in the book, suggesting a possible deliberate plot. Murders mimicking scenes from novels are not only common in films, television dramas, and literature, but have also occurred in real life. This is currently the main focus of the special investigation team's investigation into these two cases.

In addition, Wei Hongsi believes there is another possibility, which is the result of memory implantation, which can be divided into three situations.

First, there's the role of the "circuit breaker mechanism." Although the memory implantation technology and the Light Guide Society of the organization to which Uncle Zhang belongs may have the same origin, the differences are also obvious. Therefore, the "circuit breaker mechanism" will produce different results when triggered.

The ways of dying described in the book—falling from a building, drowning, and car accidents—can all be categorized as suicidal acts, which can be fully explained by the "circuit breaker mechanism."

The descriptions of death from illness in the book are all rather sudden, and the cause of death is not clear, but they correspond to the situation of members of the Light Guiding Society dying after triggering the "circuit breaker mechanism".

If this is the case, it means that the organization to which Uncle Zhang belongs does not have a loose management system for its members. The life and death of members who are active outside are in the hands of the senior core, which is not fundamentally different from the Guiding Light Society.

The second scenario is that memory implantation technology has some drawbacks, which may cause the recipient to develop strong suicidal tendencies and commit suicide after a certain period of time.

This is somewhat similar to severe depression, which is caused by a dysfunction of the brain.

The third possibility is that the memory instilled in the subject is itself problematic.

Based on the information currently available, the memories instilled in the subjects consist of a large number of memory fragments, which belong to different people.

It's like forcibly fusing the genes of several organisms together, resulting in a freak that may excel in some aspects but also has irreconcilable major flaws.

Perhaps it was a problem with a fragment of someone's memory, or a problem with a certain type of memory fragment, or a problem with the fusion of certain memory fragments. In any case, these memory fragments, after being integrated together, underwent some special change, forming something like a virus.

Once the subjects were inoculated with this "memory virus," it was equivalent to having a death code implanted in them. The organization may not have been aware of this at first, only realizing it after a large number of deaths occurred.

There must be some kind of pattern or mechanism here. Hua Jianyue discovered this pattern and wrote it into "The Story of Time" through Zhang Shuqiu.

Wei Hongsi believes that the book's hallucination-like descriptions of ascension may not be metaphors for death, but rather descriptions of the memory implantation process. The members of this organization, like the Light Guide Society, may need to undergo memory implantation periodically.

As for the mirror, a reasonable guess is that it is a memory mirror, or a memory reading or uploading mechanism in other ways.

If these speculations are true, then the value of this book needs to be reassessed.

But this raises another question. After Uncle Zhang's death, everything related to that organization was wiped out, and my brother's investigation in Xicheng yielded very little. Since this book is so important, why did that organization allow it to remain in Zhang Shuqiu's house for so many years without taking it away or destroying it?

The answer to this question can actually be found through Zhang Shuqiu. Once the verification experiments at the Third Research Institute are completed, inviting her to Yuecheng might reveal the truth.

Wei Hongsi wrote down his speculations, intending to send them to the task force later.

He stood up and stretched, and seeing that Liu Lu was still focused on the screen, he didn't disturb her. Instead, he went out to check on the progress of other tasks at the project site. By the time he finished his rounds, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Wei Hongsi returned to his office and was immediately met with Liu Lu's gaze as he entered. He asked, "Have you found anything?"

"Yes!" Liu Lu nodded. "I can confirm that many passages in this novel use encrypted text, but the rules are quite complex and not easy to crack. So far, I have only cracked a few passages in the first 10 chapters and can identify a few words."

"Really? Please introduce me!" Wei Hongsi said, walking behind Liu Lu and looking at the monitor on the table.

Liu Lu showed the document to Wei Hongsi and gave him a brief explanation.

The first paragraph is excerpted from Chapter 3 of the novel, and the implied information is "the messenger of light".

The second paragraph is excerpted from Chapter 7, and the implied information is "Morning Star".

The third paragraph is excerpted from Chapter 10, and the implied information is "Venus".

These three texts used three different encryption rules, and Liu Lu believes that the three deciphered words express the same meaning, all pointing to "Venus." This is also an important basis for her viewpoint.

In addition, she deciphered three words: "faith," "suffering," and "light."

These six words are scattered across different paragraphs, far apart, and cannot be connected to form sentences or phrases, seemingly without any real meaning.

These are the results of Liu Lu's nearly three hours of work last night.

When Wei Hongsi saw these words, he naturally thought of the creed of the Light Guide Society. The two are somewhat similar, but there are also obvious differences.