Chapter 646

Xu Tian carefully examined the password lock in front of him again.

This lock had been moved by someone before. He knew the mechanism of this kind of password lock; if it were just three incorrect password attempts, it absolutely couldn't be locked for two hours directly.

It must be that someone had come to the study before this and found this box with a password lock.

As for why they didn't take the box away if they couldn't unlock the password, Xu Tian didn't know.

But his intuition told him that the things inside this box were of vital importance; opening the box might reveal why Tang Bingyan went missing.

But he didn't know the password, and he didn't have time to wait for the lockout to be lifted.

Xu Tian lost his patience and simply smashed it with a punch. He originally thought this kind of password lock would be very hard, but with this punch, the lock was actually smashed open.

Xu Tian:...

If he had known, he wouldn't have wasted time cracking the password just now.

After opening the box, Xu Tian discovered a stack of documents inside.

The documents were in English, and except for some obscure professional terms that gave him a headache, most of the content could be understood.

But as he delved deeper into this document, Xu Tian's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

This document was about memory formatting and overwriting.

The so-called formatting was a professional term in computer science, meaning to initialize a disk or disk partition; after formatting, the files inside the disk would all be cleared.

Then, memory formatting should be to completely wash away a person's original memory, and then through hypnotic means, implant a complete set of memories into their brain.

But why would such a document appear in Tang Bingyan's study, and be saved in an encrypted way?

He didn't remember the Tang Group being involved in related projects.

With questions, he continued to flip through the documents behind.

After the complex and boring literature, there was a two-page table index list, and after the list was detailed information data. After a rough look, these data recorded the detailed information of dozens of people, including their date of birth, family background, and photos attached.

Xu Tian discovered that the people on this were all young people around twenty, and everyone had passed away due to accidents.

Just as he was browsing the information above at a glance, he suddenly discovered a familiar name.

Xu Tian, male, twenty-two years old, adopted son of the Xu family

... already died in an accident.

Xu Tian looked at those shocking words; this was not the same name and surname, but his own information!

He hurriedly flipped to the end and actually saw the two big words "Qualified" at the end of the data.

What does qualified mean?

Among dozens of pieces of data, he only saw the two words "qualified" written at the end of his own data.

Xu Tian continued to rummage in the box and found a thumb-sized USB flash drive.

He immediately opened Tang Bingyan's computer and plugged in the USB flash drive. There was a video format file in the USB flash drive.

Xu Tian took a deep breath and clicked on the video.

"Miss Tang, as the project leader, I guarantee to you that the success probability of memory formatting and transplant overwriting is as high as ninety-nine percent, and there will basically be no problems."

A middle-aged man in a white coat in the picture said.

"That is to say, there is still a one percent failure probability." It was a cold woman's voice.

"To ensure the rigor of the experiment, there will be a one percent error. Miss Tang, you also know that there is no experiment in this world that is one hundred percent safe."

"What I want is not the experimental result, but one hundred percent no risk."

"I can understand your mood, so to ensure that this one percent probability will not happen, we need to find someone who can completely match him in terms of candidates."

"Did you find it?" the woman asked.

"Very lucky, we found it, right in the list you provided." The middle-aged man answered.

"Xu Tian, adopted son of the Jiangcheng Xu family, the similarity in appearance is as high as eighty-eight percent, and the most important thing is that he is an adopted son, his biological parents have long since passed away, he has no relatives, the Xu family doesn't care about him, and his identity background is clean."

After a pause, the middle-aged man continued.

"As long as Miss Tang, you can ensure that the news of Xu Tian's accidental death is sealed, you can let him continue to live as Xu Tian."

"After memory overwriting, he is Xu Tian."

The scene in the video changed, and the middle-aged man appeared again in a room filled with various precision instruments, similar to an operating room.

"Miss Tang, you can start."

"Once memory formatting and overwriting are performed, his original memory will be completely wiped out, and it is irreversible. There is

no room for regret."

"Miss Tang, do you need to consider it again?"

"No need to consider it again." Tang Bingyan said without a trace of hesitation. "Are you sure his original memory will never recover?"

"Sure, there is absolutely no possibility of recovery."

"Hmm, then leave it to you." Tang Bingyan's cold voice echoed in the operating room. "I want one hundred percent success, and there must be no safety hazards."

"Understood." The middle-aged man answered.

The next second, the video screen shook, and the camera aimed at the young man lying on the operating table.

After Xu Tian saw the young man's face clearly, he almost jumped off the chair.

He was very familiar with this young man; it was... himself.

It was really too fantastical.

His back was soaked with layers of cold sweat, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his face was full of disbelief.

If Xu Tian had already died at the age of twenty-two, then how could he still be alive?

If he was not Xu Tian, then who was he?

Even if he had the experience of rebirth, he would die two years later, not at twenty-two.

Assuming "Xu Tian" really died, then he couldn't figure out why Tang Bingyan would want to instill "Xu Tian's" memory into his own brain.

Moreover, there was another question that made him even more unable to accept.

Who exactly was he?

The encounters in the Xu family, the experience of growing up all the way, these profound memories were not his; how could this be possible?

And was there really such a hypnotic technique that could completely wipe out memory and directly turn him into another person?

Xu Tian's brain was very messy. Tang Bingyan's unknown whereabouts were already enough to make him worry, and now with this strange video, he seemed to have accidentally stumbled upon a terrible secret.

He didn't know the truth or falsehood of this secret, but if he really wasn't Xu Tian, then was there a bigger conspiracy hidden behind it?

Xu Tian couldn't accept that his memories were all fake. If the joys, sorrows, and joys of the past could all be instilled by someone, then did it mean that he as a person was also fake?

What was the difference between a person without their own memory and a marionette?

He forced himself to calm down, turned off the video, used the computer to open the search engine, and looked for relevant data literature on memory formatting and transplantation.