Chapter 169: Memory, Humanity, and the Past Washed Away

"Good people..."

Including the masters of the Immortal Alliance's secret department, everyone felt that it was absurd from the bottom of their hearts.

The masters of the Immortal Alliance's secret department were all doing "dirty work", but they rarely acted like this... How should I put it? The Immortal Alliance had only encountered a few large-scale attacks on intelligent life.

This was already at the level of "war".

Fan Zhongxing was furious: "How dare you call yourself a good person? How many people did you kill?"

"I didn't count the exact number, I'll give it to you." Wang Qi counted on his fingers: "The death toll in the reincarnation system was more than 100 and less than 400... Oh, 275 people, thank you, Lao Jia. Then I killed it myself... The woman who died when I first confronted the Holy Emperor should be from the Karma Fire God Lotus Sect, and her master counted as well? Although I think that was killed by the Holy Emperor... One of the losers died when he ate dust, and then he killed, um, um, and oh, by the way, that evil old ghost who said "there is righteousness in the world". The three of Ruyi Daomen , can be counted on me, Guan Wuji can't blame me anyway, right? That is definitely the fault of Saint Emperor..."

Finally, Wang Qi said: "After counting, there are only three or four hundred people who are directly blamed on me, and that time Saint Emperor killed... tens of thousands? The first person responsible for their death is Saint Emperor!"

Fan Zhongxing was furious: "I have seen more than just these few people who died in the reincarnation world..."

"Oh, if you didn't say it, I almost forgot." Wang Qi pulled down the pocket on his waist: "Here are some more."

Liu Huantang took the pocket and pointed it: "These hundreds of people ..."

"Declare them dead." Wang Qi shrugged: "In summary, I killed very few ancient cultivators directly - if you insist on counting the death of Saint Emperor as my own, then consider it as the price of my approximately 10,000 casualties to capture Linghuang Island. No Heavenly Sword Master can do better than me, unless they are Xiaoyao period cultivators."

Fan Zhongxing pointed at the people around him and yelled: "What about these people? What about them? Yes, I admit that many of them are scum and deserve to die. But, don't you consider that there are still good people among them? They are no different from dead now!"

Wang Qi shrugged: "Don't consider . "

"You..."

"If it was dozens of Heavenly Sword Envoys in the Void Refining Stage who rushed in, would the aftermath of their battle with the Holy Emperor distinguish which cultivators should die and which should not? "Wang Qi said: "The same reason, I am fighting with the Holy Emperor, and the battle affects you, it is good enough to keep a life."

Fan Zhongxing lowered his head helplessly: "This..." He struggled with himself for a long time, and then said: "What you said is indeed reasonable, but I can't accept it emotionally."

He is also a member of the "ordinary ancient method cultivators", the only difference is the false identity of "reincarnation".

"Sympathy" is an important part of the human race's psychological activities.

Wang Qi patted his shoulder: "Boy, I don't care about the kindness of letting you turn over a new leaf and become a new person, what else do you want?"

"What..."

Fan Zhongxing wanted to ask, but Wang Qi had already walked past him and looked around. He found Jia Chenglie's family leaning against the wall, and some low-level cultivators he had seen in the Tianshu Building and Xinglin Building, and said, "Elder Xu is a nostalgic person."

This was obviously done by Xu Xueqing

Xu Xueqing snorted, "I sold them for my own future, but they are loyal to me. I will take responsibility within my ability."

"Actually, it's not necessary." Wang Qi pointed at Jia Chenglie: "Can I borrow this person?"

Xu Xueqing frowned: "What do you want to do now?"

Wang Qi walked to Jia Chenglie and snapped his fingers. Jia Chenglie moved. Wang Qi shouted in front of him: "Xia Li, Xia Li, Xia Li, Xia Li, Xia Li, Xia Li."

This name seemed to stimulate Jia Chenglie and evoke some "memory". He showed an angry expression on his face. However, he seemed to have forgotten how to control his face, and his facial features were all wrinkled. Then, he shook his head in confusion and cried like a baby.

What's more terrible is that his limbs also fluttered like a baby. But he seemed to have completely forgotten how to control his hands and feet, and slapped himself on the forehead. This slap actually used the power of the Jindan level, enough to smash his own forehead. Seeing that this man was about to die in his hands, Wang Qi grabbed his wrist.

Both of them were Jindan, how could the difference between their actual strength be more than heaven and earth? Jia Chenglie was immediately unable to move.

After his wrist was grabbed, Jia Chenglie seemed to be frightened and sobbed.

Xu Xueqing was shocked: "He seems to... still remember the enemy 'Xia Li'?"

"He remembers everything, but he can't understand his own memory." Wang Qi looked around: "You probably listened to my popular science about the Holy Emperor and thought that I used the method to deal with the Holy Emperor. You are wrongly accusing a good person!"

Fan Zhongxing was stunned: "Then you are..."

"Let's do some popular science first. Classification of human memory." Wang Qi cleared his throat and talked freely: "The memory of the human race is encoded from the dynamic changes of the connection between nerve cells - at least this is the case for low-level monks. High-level monks below the stage of distraction rewrite this process in the solidified spiritual organs that integrate the soul. And these memories are not like diaries, following a time sequence of "first day" and "second day" - before time, they must be classified according to the "format". Knowledge and experience are different."

"Generally speaking, according to the content, memory can be divided into several major categories such as knowledge memory [Earth calls it "semantic memory"], situational memory, physical memory [Earth calls it "procedural memory"], automatic memory, and emotional memory."

"In addition, according to the "content", human memory can also be divided into declarative memory and non-declarative memory. The former can be expressed in words, but the latter cannot."

If you have to make an analogy, human memory can actually be regarded as a large application. It looks like only one, but there are thousands of files running in it.

Wang Qi tapped his brain: "In simple terms, the spell I constructed destroyed all non-declarative memories, retained declarative memories, and then focused on destroying the knowledge memory in the declarative memories."

A master who was probably from Tianlingling smacked his lips: "This is cruel enough..."

The vast majority of human memories are non-declarative. Non-declarative physical memories and emotional memories account for the vast majority. Even emotional memories are more likely to be recalled than any other memory.

It is precisely because of the great priority of emotional memories that people are very likely to act against rationality when they are dominated by emotions. The huge non-declarative memory makes the terms such as "feeling" and "mysterious thinking" always very popular.

This is determined by human consciousness.

Wang Qi finally concluded: "In simple terms, they remember all their experiences-every detail after birth is clearly remembered. However, they themselves cannot understand this memory, so this memory cannot be recalled."

Still using "game" as a metaphor. Wang Qi's behavior is like deleting all the mysterious files such as checksum_manifest, anomaly_failures, story_events in a game folder, leaving only the game's running program and a large number of CGs, story texts, etc.

Human memory is a holistic thing, and it is difficult to easily delete a part of the memory without destroying its integrity.

These people's memories of language, writing, logical thinking and even other knowledge were all deleted by Wang Qi, so they could not understand their own memories.

Jia Chenglie remembered that "Xia Li" was an "enemy", but he did not understand what an "enemy" was. He also had no "emotional memory" of resentment towards Xia Li, so he showed a "confused" expression.

Other ancient cultivators were the same. They recognized their parents, friends, teachers, sects and all other social relationships, but they could not understand the meaning of this social relationship, so the relationship between them could not be established, and the human way of Linghuang Island collapsed.

Since their physical memories have also been deleted, the circuits that control "movement" have not regenerated, so they are like babies who cannot control their hands and feet, and it is easy for them to slap themselves in the face. But a baby's slap will not smear its face. Considering that the people here have at least the cultivation level of the Qi training stage, it is safer to ban the magic power of everyone here.

Wang Qi sealed Jia Chenglie's magic power and suppressed his acupoints to make him stiff: "You need a lot of early education, starting from the Three Character Classic, Thousand Character Classic and other elementary content. Since all of them have enough situational memory, they are all little geniuses and learn quickly according to preschool standards. At that time, those remaining memories can also be evoked. If they want, they can also reorganize social relationships-for example, you, if you want, you can stay in Ruyi Daomen. It's just that there is no ancient method to practice the law."

"In addition, since their emotional memories have been washed away, enemies will not be jealous when they meet-maybe they will curse each other for "morality", but they will not meet each other to death. Friends with similar tastes can rebuild their relationship-how do you say it? "Create new memories together"? That's probably what it means."

-Wash away the past...

For some reason, Fan Zhongxing suddenly thought of this sentence.

Half a bowl of Meng Po soup, wash away all yesterday's hatred, and then go to a brand new tomorrow with the people you are familiar with today... They will be cultivated with new personalities and have a more hopeful life.

Tears could not stop flowing. He wiped his eyes hard, but didn't want to thank Wang Qi, so he bowed.

"Listen carefully, kid. I told you many stories before. These stories are certainly false, but the logic behind them is true, otherwise no one would be interested. You should extract the true things from the false things and use the false to preserve the true." Wang Qi leaned back against the wall: "As for the rest - fools, whether you are willing or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you think the process is in line with your expectations, I have brought you more abundant material, a future with the possibility of longevity, a complete life, and free thoughts. It doesn't matter if you don't want it, just enjoy the beautiful life I have given you with your anger towards me - anyway, what happens next is none of my business." (To be continued ~^~)