My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 331 Teamwork
"So Brother Zhuang, you really have no other memories?" Dong Zeyu asked again.

"Nonsense, if I had memories, I wouldn't have asked you." Zhuang Xiao unscrewed the bottle cap and took a gulp of Coke, "In fact, I suspect Yueyue and Anlan also have corresponding 'channels', it feels like they are in elementary school and junior high school, Yueyue's 'channel' is in junior high school, and Anlan's is in elementary school.

"But the problem is that it's so big that I can't find the entrance accurately."

Dong Zeyu looked at Zhuang Xiao and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Zhuang Xiao raised an eyebrow. "Just say whatever you want to say. Why are you being so shy?"

"Then I'll be frank with you, don't be angry." Dong Zeyu organized his words, "Brother Zhuang, you seem to be assuming that those places are related to you? Or they are related to the people around you, which is nonsense!"

Zhuang Xiao laughed, "You want to say that I am a little too self-conscious, right?"

Dong Zeyu also laughed, "You said that yourself."

"I didn't think so originally. I even arranged for Secretary Zhang to be prepared. Once I found out that those underground secret rooms really existed, I asked her to investigate those people who would go there regularly and analyze their movements."

Zhuang Xiao shrugged, "In the end, all the passwords were found out. The fact is that they are all people around me, including myself.

"My original idea was to find Xu Qicheng, also known as Mr. Xu, and see if I could get any information from him. But I decided not to do that."

Dong Zeyu nodded, "Yes, going to him might alert the enemy, and he may not be here now, or in other words, it's not important.

"According to what you said, Brother Zhuang, those 'scavengers' are grassroots employees. They don't know much information. There is no point in looking for him. Besides, he didn't come to cause trouble. We just need to send someone to keep an eye on him. Maybe we can find a new underground secret room."

"That's not the case. His 'passage' is the one to Dongfang No. 1 Middle School. According to the security guard, they only know their own 'passages'. Otherwise, why did he go to the school but to the hospital when he was obviously closer to Dongfang No. 1 Middle School? This shows that he didn't know there was a 'passage' to Dongfang No. 1 Middle School at all."

Zhuang Xiao rejected this view, "It is possible that they know, but without the corresponding password, they cannot go back through a different 'channel'."

Dong Zeyu suddenly realized, "So, Brother Zhuang, you think this might be similar to a 'stand-alone game', and you are the 'protagonist'? Or like The Truman Show, where you are 'Truman'?"

"Not really. I was thinking that I would go down to the basement at twelve o'clock in the evening to see if I would 'leave', and then you would keep an eye on my body to see if anything went wrong. After all, Wei Rui was completely missing, and I was very curious as to why her body also disappeared."

Zhuang Xiao asked him back, "Why do you think it's The Truman Show?"

"Oh, it was only after you, Brother Zhuang, said that your memory was fine that I thought of it." Dong Zeyu stroked his double chin, "If... I mean if, what if Brother Zhuang, your memory is really fine?
"After all, we don't remember Dong Weirui, nor do we remember what happened to An Lan later. In other words, at present, only your memory is not affected."

"That's right." Zhuang Xiao was rather curious. "No, don't you find it hard to handle? You know, we might just be virtual people, like those in Westworld, and you don't even have any reaction."

"It was a little bit at first, but I ate a piece of bread just now and it's fine." Shudie pouted and pointed at the garbage bag next to her, "At least the taste I put in my mouth is real."

Dong Zeyu said cheerfully: "There's no need to dwell on this kind of thing. There are many religions that say the world was created by their gods. What's the difference? At least I recalled my past experiences, the skills I learned, and the games I played. These are all real. That's enough."

Gu Shiyue concluded calmly: "You are asking for trouble."

"alright."

Zhuang Xiao didn't dwell on this anymore. He looked up at Dong Zeyu and said, "Master, when you asked me about my memory just now, what did you want to say?"

Dong Zeyu explained: "I just have a guess, but it may not be correct."

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "Tell me first."

"That's right. Is it possible that there is really nothing wrong with your memory, Brother Zhuang?" Dong Zeyu asked him.

Zhuang Xiao didn't quite understand, "Hmm, so what?"

"So maybe this world really came into being for you." Dong Zeyu replied.

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Hmm? How do you say that?"

Dong Zeyu explained: "Look, if your memory is really fine, then even if this world is fake, it is actually taken from the past.

"I've played a lot of games, so I know a lot about this. For a game, especially an open-world game, it's actually very difficult to create an ecosystem. The various reactions and living conditions of different species are very messy and difficult to deal with. Countless companies are making open-world games to make them more 'real', but they all look fake at first glance. At least so far, I haven't found any games that are 'indistinguishable between reality and fantasy'.

"But our world is too 'real'. The underlying logic is completely real. Even outsiders who come in will be immersed in it. That's why we can only use extremely abstract actions like flipping a coin and getting the same side to pull his consciousness out. Otherwise, he really can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality."

Zhuang Xiao expressed a different view, "But this level of technology will be available in at least several dozen or even hundreds of years. Will there be no such level in the future?"

"Brother Zhuang, that's not the case. What you are saying is that the technology is mature and advanced, and this underlying logic cannot be generated out of thin air. So the game world must have a 'prototype'." Dong Zeyu explained it to him further.

Zhuang Xiao probably understood. "You mean our world actually exists, but the other party just cut out a part of 'history' to create this 'virtual world'?"

"Yes! That's what I mean!"

Dong Zeyu snapped his fingers, "Brother Zhuang, there must be nothing wrong with your past memories! And the situations before a certain memory node are all normal! It is also what happened in the real world!

"Until a certain point, your memories up to that point are all memories of the real world outside! And something happened to you at that point! All memories after that are in this world! But because this world is the 'history' selected and intercepted from the real world, it is 'ongoing' for you, so you don't feel the problem!

"In fact, from that point on, you have already come into this world!"

Zhuang Xiao had also watched quite a few movies, so he quickly understood what Dong Zeyu meant.

"You mean I had an accident outside, maybe I became a vegetable or I'm already dead, or at worst I'm on the verge of death, and then just like in the movies and games, my consciousness was 'uploaded' here? And this world was actually developed for me?"

"It's just the most reasonable guess based on the current situation." Dong Zeyu said, "We have to wait until twelve o'clock tonight to see the details. Maybe you, Brother Zhuang, can't get out at all."

Zhuang Xiao frowned, "Does Dong Weirui exist? And what about An Lan?"

"I guess you really have some memory loss, Brother Zhuang."

Dong Zeyu said: "Brother Zhuang, do you still remember what you told me before?"

Zhuang Xiao asked back, "I told you so much, what exactly is it?"

"As for the time travel, you told me that you had come to me before, and we analyzed it together. You said you saw two sets of toiletries in the rental house, and then I guessed that you had a girlfriend."

Shu Die blinked her starry eyes, "Is it possible that this girlfriend is talking about me?"

"It's impossible." Dong Zeyu immediately denied it. "It's either Dong Weirui, An Lan, or someone else, or Brother Zhuang doesn't have a girlfriend at all. It can't be you two." Shu Die made a "tsk" sound, and then returned to her sweet girl state. "How do you know? How can you, a single dog, comment on whether others have a partner?"

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So aggressive!
Dong Zeyu's chubby face twitched, but he knew he was in the wrong, so he explained honestly, "Because memory is very complicated, it is impossible to forget only part of the memory. Either all the memories of a period of time are forgotten, or all the memories related to a certain event or a certain person are forgotten.

"So the only ones who have lost their memories are these two. Oh, that's not right! There's also Teacher Gu."

After all, in Zhuang Xiao's memory, Gu Shiyue died in middle school.

"But it's hard to say. After all, Brother Zhuang has several copies of Teacher Gu's memories."

Zhuang Xiao's face darkened. "You mean my memory was actually tampered with, but the other party's hands were not very clean and I discovered the problem?"

"I think it's the opposite. It was when they wanted to do something that the problem occurred." Dong Zeyu asked him, "Brother Zhuang, think carefully, when was the first day you noticed something was wrong?"

"September 2024, 9." Zhuang Xiao blurted out.

He didn't even have to think about the specific day this happened, after all, he had such a deep impression of that day.

"Well, what happened that day? It has to be something important." Dong Zeyu continued to ask.

"That night was my first time going back in time." After a pause, Zhuang Xiao added, "At least it was the first time I could remember going back in time."

"anything else?"

"And... I only found out later. That day was the day Xiaodie came back from the capital. Then she had a car accident in the evening. She was also stabbed to death once."

"Ah? I died so many times!" Shu Die screamed.

"It's good that you're okay now." Zhuang Xiao comforted her, and then said: "It was also after the first time I went back in time that I found an extra set of toiletries in the bathroom."

Dong Zeyu immediately asked, "There weren't any extra toiletries before that, right?"

"Of course I do that. I brush my teeth and wash my face every day. How could I remember it wrong?" Zhuang Xiao answered immediately.

Dong Zeyu asked again, "Is there anything else?"

"Yes, we had a meal together. Oh, and by the way, the Chinese national football team lost 0:7 at that time, and that's all." Zhuang Xiao shrugged.

Dong Zeyu immediately asked again, "What was our situation like in your memory at that time?"

Zhuang Xiao immediately replied, "We were fine. Xiaodie died on the day we came back, Yueyue died on the second day of the month, and Weirui died in high school."

"What about An Lan?"

"I don't remember An Lan before that."

Dong Zeyu's fat face suddenly wrinkled.

Zhuang Xiao and the other two did not interfere with him.

After about ten minutes, Dong Zeyu suddenly looked up.

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked, "Have you thought of it?"

"I've thought of it. According to my reasoning, there are probably two possibilities." Dong Zeyu looked at Zhuang Xiao, "Brother Zhuang, can you handle it?"

"I can definitely handle it, don't worry." At this time, even if you can't handle it, you have to say that you can handle it.

"Well, I currently have two possibilities."

Dong Zeyu turned around and found a notebook and a pen, then wrote and drew while saying:

"First, the first possibility is that your previous memory is normal, which means that the situation outside is that An Lan does not exist at all. She is not your childhood sweetheart, nor is she the daughter of the university teacher living upstairs.

“Teacher Gu did die in junior high school, and I did have a younger sister who died in high school.

"Then something must have happened on September 9 last year, and that accident is what brought you here. It was either a car accident, an earthquake, or you were stabbed.

"Xiaodie might have been with you, and you both had the same accident, and she died on the spot.

“Then you become a vegetative state or something like that, and things develop normally on the outside.

"It's possible that Xiaodie didn't die, but your memory should be that you two did encounter the same accident together, but your brain's defense mechanism made you 'forget' that you also encountered this incident, so according to your brain's 'normal plot development', you would think that Xiaodie also died.

"But you're not sure, which is one of the reasons that trigger the time travel back, because according to 'logic', she must be dead, but you subconsciously don't want to believe it."

Dong Zeyu unscrewed the bottle of Sprite and took a few gulps to moisten his throat before continuing, "You're not dead, but you're almost dead. I guess you can only barely survive.

"Many years passed, technology continued to develop, and then our world appeared.

“This is a project developed by a certain company in cooperation with the government. It may be in the clinical trial stage now, and you are one of the participants, so you were sent in.

“Or maybe this product is already very mature, and there are countless similar worlds, ours is just one of them, and your family bought this world for you and sent you in.

"As a result, due to a logic problem, your memory conflicted with the underlying design of this world, and then a bug appeared, which meant that your time went back. The security guard was actually a maintenance staff member who was there to fix the bug.

"Your memory conflicts with the logic of this world, causing your memory to become disordered and there are more and more bugs, so Dong Weirui, An Lan, and Teacher Gu have all been resurrected, and Xiaodie is not dead either.

"But the rational part of you tells you that this is not normal, so there are so many things happening, including the 'shadow world' and the like. This is the first speculation."

Zhuang Xiao was silent for a while, then he looked up and asked, "What about the second one?"

"The second one is a little bit worse." Dong Zeyu said: "It depends on whether someone will come to kill us."

(End of this chapter)