Did the world end today?

Chapter 350 Memory Replacement
An eternal dream.
Upon hearing those words, Yu Shiliang felt a chill run down his spine.

Such a description is simply too bizarre.

I'm clearly awake, but I'm dreaming?
The boundary between reality and dreams had become completely blurred, and he didn't even know if what he was hearing was real.

Or is this just an incredibly long dream I had after entering a higher-dimensional channel?
He thought he had returned to reality, to the Earth he was familiar with, but in reality his body was still floating in the void, cold, and boundless universe.
if it is like this.
Should I try to break free from the dream and return to reality?

But if I really return to reality, can I withstand the shock of that immense despair?

He remembered watching an animation before, about an astronaut who was stranded on an alien planet and was living a simple but regular and happy life.

But in this kind of life, he discovered more and more illogical details.

When these details piled up to their limit, he finally began to doubt the reality of the world.

Finally, he escaped the illusion, but what awaited him was a reality that was absolutely impossible to accept.

The surrounding alien environment was terrifying, disgusting, and filled with the stench of decay. He was paralyzed and his body was completely rotting.

Even the "wife" he saw in his hallucinations was nothing more than a conscious plant capable of accessing the nervous system and creating hallucinations.

In that story, the astronauts' fate was not shown on film.

But Yu Shiliang could fully guess what his ultimate fate would be.

so.
If you're dreaming, is it really necessary to wake up?
He slumped weakly in the chair, his eyes darting around aimlessly.

Everyone else seemed busy with their own work, eager to verify and implement this crucial clue after discovering it.

Sitting alone in the middle, doing nothing, I became a bystander.

This made him feel a huge sense of loss, and for a moment, he even began to doubt whether there was any point in him staying here.

But he soon realized that he had been worrying too much.

In just a few minutes, all the plans were finalized.

Julius walked over again and spoke to him:
"We need your cooperation to conduct a three-day uninterrupted experiment, simultaneously testing your brain activity, and attempting to conduct further, more detailed and specific research."

"We need to find a way to determine whether there is any connection between your current state and high-dimensional adaptability."

"If necessary, we may need you to enter the higher-dimensional channel again to test whether you can truly adapt to higher dimensions."

"However, this is just my initial idea."

"A more specific plan can only be decided after discussion by the physics experts."

"Don't worry, we will do everything we can to ensure your safety."

"understand!"

Yu Shiliang nodded emphatically.

But then he suddenly realized something and immediately asked:
"Three days of uninterrupted experimentation. Does that mean I haven't been able to sleep for three days?"

"Yes."

Julius nodded and replied:
"This is also part of the experiment."

The next day.

in the office.

Lin Xu held the latest report in his hand, his eyes serious and his brows furrowed.

Sitting opposite him were Qin Feng, who had already obtained all the information from the interrogation, as well as Julius and Guo Aixia, who had just finished working all night and were taking a short break.

Lin Xu put down the report, let out a soft breath, and then asked:
"So now we can confirm that Yu Shiliang's 'high-dimensional adaptive performance' is related to the so-called 'lucid dream state,' right?"

That's how it seems at the moment.

As soon as Lin Xu finished speaking, Guo Aixia immediately replied:

“We have analyzed Ivan simultaneously, and his brain activity showed similar characteristics.” “The only difference compared to Yu Shiliang is that his characteristics were not as prominent, so we did not pay attention to them before.”

"Just like when Julius first saw such brain activity, he subconsciously regarded it as an activity in some kind of 'memory' and 'forgetting' process."

"But in reality, forgetting is indeed forgetting, but a more accurate term would be 'the active replacement of short and long memories during sleep'."

Lin Xu's expression changed slightly, and he immediately asked:

"What does it mean?"

Guo Aixia pondered for a moment, organized her thoughts, and then replied:

"As we fall asleep, our brain organizes and summarizes the memories we received during the day."

"It will actively choose to forget some memories, while at the same time converting some short-term memories into long-term memories."

"It can even replay some of our memories that evoke strong emotions in order to help us desensitize ourselves to similar scenarios."

"We'll call this process 'memory replacement' for now."

"Yu Shiliang's current situation is that the process of his memories changing is happening all the time."

"His memory turnover rate far exceeds that of ordinary people, and the duration of his memories also far exceeds that of ordinary people."

"This gave him extremely different physiological functions. The most direct manifestation of this is that his ability to remember specific things and events far exceeds that of ordinary people."

"In this respect, I'm very similar to you."

It's more than just similar.

Lin Xu nodded slowly.

This is almost a carbon copy of itself.

Of course, the ability to remember many different pieces of information at the same time is due to the ability to quickly read information that I gained after the so-called "dimensional ascension".

But this only solves the "input" part.

To re-output this information, he relied on the same "memory replacement" ability as Yu Shiliang.

He had lost count of how many times he had experienced this feeling.

Information that seemed to have been forgotten was suddenly transformed into long-term memory and imprinted in one's mind at a certain moment, and then emerged one by one in the form of short-term memory at the moment one needed it.

The whole process was exactly as Guo Aixia described—but Lin Xu always felt that it was just a design that allowed him to smoothly obtain information from another world, and he did not connect it with "high-dimensional adaptability" at all.

Now it looks like.
Is this "ability" actually just a side effect?

Is this just a side effect of "high-dimensional adaptability"?

Lin Xu subconsciously rubbed his wrist, and after a moment of silence, he asked:
Can you determine how this effect occurs?

"What I mean is, can we determine how this design enables it to have high-dimensional adaptability?"

"uncertain."

Julius interjected in reply:
"We need further experiments to determine the underlying reasons for his brain activity producing high-dimensional adaptation."

"But now, we can make some speculations."

"It is very likely that this kind of 'continuous memory replacement' is a kind of information anti-interference mechanism."

Information interference resistance?

Lin Xu's expression suddenly changed.

He recalled the information he had received from Jiang Xingye in the world of "Leap Forward Era".

There is an elite world, and this is how high-dimensional adaptability is achieved.

These are the two options.
Could it be based on the same principle?
(End of this chapter)