55: Chapter 55: Global Shared Memory Bank

"Huh? Sugar-free cola? How is that possible?"

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment.

She had thought her brother gave her a herbal concoction, but it turned out to be just diluted sugar-free soda with salt?

If that was the case, where did the discomfort in her body come from?

*Hiss—*

Not just her, even the viewers were deceived by this scene.

Before anyone could react, Jiang Zhe smiled slightly and asked back:

"Xiao Yu, answer me now!"

"Why did your throat feel dry after drinking ordinary water?"

"Why did your temples feel like they were throbbing?"

"Why did your cheeks keep feeling numb?"

"Why did your heart rate and blood pressure accelerate and rise?"

"And finally, why did your emotions become so irritable?"

"Why would your sixteen-year-old body loyally follow my will just because of a few pieces of [verbal information]?"

As the string of explanations concluded,

Xiao Yu fell into a complete daze.

Because...

Consciousness changed reality!!!

In the livestream room, not a single bullet comment appeared; everyone was flabbergasted by this scene.

Simply by implanting [false information], Jiang Zhe could make a healthy person feel physical discomfort.

This was no different from a word becoming law!

After a long period of silence in the livestream, a few scattered comments finally drifted across.

"Our bodies... aren't as reliable as we thought!"

"According to Xiao Yu's Brother, my illness isn't even self-generated, but something I [thought] into existence?"

"My god, this is too inconceivable!"

"For some reason, my face is starting to feel numb too."

...

In a Chinese-style villa in Kyoto.

The First Senior Brother and Third Junior Sister were currently wearing expressions of solemn contemplation.

They felt that Jiang Zhe's words were far more capable of touching upon the [Dao] than their own path of cultivation!

At this moment, the Second Senior Brother also had a grave expression and did not argue.

After a long while, he stammered out two words:

"A monster!"

...

In the living room of a family compound in Kyoto.

Just as Professor Qian and Professor Wang were in the middle of a heated discussion,

Professor Chen Runzhi suddenly stood up and walked to the study with his phone.

He dialed a number directly.

"Is that Old Li? It's me, Old Chen."

His voice was somewhat urgent.

"Are you still at the military hospital?"

He then explained Jiang Zhe's livestream and the content described.

On the other end of the line, Dr. Li fell silent for a moment before letting out a disdainful sound.

"Old man, you study history; you should value real evidence more than anyone."

"When did you start believing in the gimmicks of these showboating streamers?"

"How are you any different from those old folks who get scammed into buying health supplements?"

"Giving that black water to his sister was purely for show."

"I believe him; it's definitely not just for show!!!"

"Fine!"

Dr. Li hesitated for a few seconds, but out of respect for Old Chen's request, he agreed.

"Since you're the one asking, I'll do it—I'm still at the hospital receiving the injured. I'll pick a patient later to conduct an experiment."

"But I must state that the results won't be what you want, because he's just playing for the camera; he probably wasn't even being secretly recorded by Xiao Yu!"

"Great!"

Old Chen said excitedly,

"If it's fake, I won't watch this Xiao Yu's Brother anymore."

On the screen.

It took a long time for Xiao Yu to recover from her shock.

"Brother, is there another experiment that can determine the existence of the akashic records?"

Through the placebo effect just now, Xiao Yu had personally felt the terror of the akashic records.

That was consciousness changing reality!

But while she understood, the viewers didn't; they definitely wouldn't be willing to tip and give gifts!

"This..."

Jiang Zhe pondered for a moment.

He had planned to propose the "zero-point field Theory" next to conclude the real existence of the akashic records.

But since Xiao Yu wanted to hear about another experiment, as her brother, he would naturally oblige.

"Of course there is."

"What I'm going to talk about next is the [Hundredth Monkey Effect]."

The viewers in the livestream room frowned—

It sounded like a fairy tale, the Hundredth Monkey Effect...

It was unfamiliar to most people, but some professors had heard of it.

"Xiao Yu, back in 1952."

"Scientists from the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan were conducting observational studies on monkeys."

"First, one monkey on Koshima Island learned to wash sweet potatoes in seawater, then it spread from one to another..."

"Until one day, when the hundredth monkey learned to wash its food with seawater..."

"The entire troop of macaques on the island soon knew how to do it."

As he got to this point, Jiang Zhe's expression gradually became serious.

"Perhaps there's nothing strange about 100 monkeys washing sweet potatoes."

"But!"

"Something terrifying happened."

Xiao Yu couldn't help but knit her brows.

It's just monkeys washing sweet potatoes; what's so terrifying about that?

"Just a few days later, once all the monkeys on Koshima—young, old, male, and female—had learned this skill,"

"the macaques on Takasakiyama, over a hundred kilometers away and separated by a churning strait..."

"All of them, overnight, learned the behavior of washing sweet potatoes before eating them."

As soon as he said this, Xiao Yu was so shocked she covered her mouth.

How is that possible?

A distance of a hundred kilometers!

After the first 100 monkeys learned it, the macaques on Takasakiyama a hundred kilometers away all learned it overnight?

My god!

This is impossible!

At this moment, the livestream room was silent for a split second before the bullet comments suddenly exploded.

"Damn, was this skill transmitted through the air?"

"Holy crap, did these monkeys turn on skill sharing?"

"Impossible, this is impossible, it's too fantastical!"

...

In the Principal's office.

Principal Fu stood up abruptly. "This is impossible; this violates biological common sense!"

"How could the [sweet potato washing] skill be transmitted over a hundred kilometers overnight?"

Old Wang, who was nearby, was so shocked he couldn't speak.

"This... this is fake, right?"

Only Xiao Wang, the history teacher, was searching through data with a solemn face, trying to verify it.

"Maybe it's possible, because according to the data I've found..."

"The ape-men of ancient times... they also [instantly] all learned how to use fire!"

As soon as he finished, the Principal and Old Wang immediately shut their mouths.

In the Chinese-style villa in Kyoto.

"Absurd! Shameless!"

Second Senior Brother slammed the table, feeling confident again.

"First Senior Brother, Third Junior Sister, Master, look at this."

"This is no different from wireless information transmission without electronic devices..."

"Xiao Yu's Brother is simply talking nonsense, treating reality like a sci-fi story!"

First Senior Brother and Third Junior Sister both had their brows tightly furrowed.

They also felt this was too far-fetched to be true!

Only Wang Chongyang said calmly, "Don't be in a hurry; keep listening."

On the screen.

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiao Yu's strange expression.

"Don't believe it?"

"Um..." Xiao Yu shook her head gently. "It's too fantastical."

Jiang Zhe smiled slightly and immediately threw out even more explosive evidence.

"Question one: Why are global myths so highly consistent?"

"In that era where communication was undeveloped, even ten thousand years ago when crossing the vast oceans was impossible."

"The Sumerian 'Epic of Gilgamesh' records a world-destroying flood, an ark, and even the sending of a dove to test the floodwaters."

"Later, in the Hebrew 'Old Testament' of the Bible, the exact same story was recorded."

"And between them lay impassable scorching deserts and civilizational divides."

"Then look at our own country—"

"In our mythology, Fuxi and Nüwa have human heads and snake bodies; they intertwined to give birth to humanity."

"In Ancient Greek mythology, Typhon and Echidna were also the half-human, half-snake ancestors of monsters."

"Why were the East and West able to [independently invent] creation myths with almost identical structures in ancient times?"

"Xiao Yu, do you think back then someone could use a small wooden raft to cross the oceans, ignoring the wind and waves to circle the globe—just to say, [Look, our Xia country's myth has Fuxi and Nüwa, both with snake bodies, do you have them too?]"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu shook her head blankly.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible in an era of undeveloped transportation!"

"It's impossible for myths to be so coincidentally consistent, and no one would be stupid enough to spread so-called myths that way!"

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly.

"Yes."

"Now look at historical technology—pottery, bronze, iron."

"In ancient times across the globe, from great civilizations to tribes, it was always the [great civilizations that learned advanced skills first], and then within a few months or years, countries worldwide and even tribes with poor transportation would all tacitly know how to do it together."

"It's as if [around 1200 to 1000 BC, the Shang and Zhou dynasties said: 'Brothers, I've phased out bronze here and started sharing iron technology!']"

"And then, far across the ocean: the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Indus Valley in South Asia, and many other nations all learned [iron smelting]?"

He glanced at Xiao Yu's astonished expression.

He didn't intend to go deeper into human technology.

"Look at the history of science."

"Why did Leibniz and Newton independently create [calculus] at the same time?"

"Why did Wallace and Darwin—without knowing each other—simultaneously create the [theory of natural selection]?"

"Xiao Yu, do you think this is merely [great minds thinking alike]?"

"Or is it..."

"That when [a certain concept or knowledge matures to a certain point in the akashic records, it's like a ripe apple falling simultaneously into the minds of the vanguard scientists of intelligent civilizations in the universe?]"

As this string of words fell,

Xiao Yu broke out in a cold sweat from the shock.

She had originally just wanted her brother to put on a show for the program.

But it turned out...

He was being serious again!!!

Instantly, the bullet comments in the livestream room exploded.

"Stop talking, I've got layers of goosebumps!!"

"Holy crap, if you look closely, it seems... it's true!"

"My god, I thought myths were just everyone copying each other—but hearing Xiao Yu's Brother explain it, it's terrifying to think about, brothers!"

"..."

Not just the viewers, but even Professor Chen Runzhi, Principal Fu, and the others...

They all took a sharp breath, feeling it was incredible.

They all immediately began searching for data.

And the result...

It was exactly as Jiang Zhe said!!!

These were all [highly consistent]!!!

The more they looked, the more their scalps tingled!

Jiang Zhe's words were undoubtedly a profound strike against the understanding of this world!!!

After a long time.

He looked at Xiao Yu, whose gaze was gradually becoming vacant, and reached out to pat her head.

"Think about it, Xiao Yu, and you'll get the answer."

"Monkeys learning to wash sweet potatoes across a distance, global myths being similar, and geniuses in ancient, modern, and contemporary times having simultaneous epiphanies."

"These aren't coincidences at all!"

"It's just the [synchronous data update or version update of science] within the [Earth's Human Civilization] section of the akashic records!"

"None of us humans on Earth have ever been independent [thinkers]."

"We are merely [Earth human civilization nodes] connected to a universal shared local area network..."

"The advancement of our civilization has never been a documentary of struggle, but an installation log that is slowly downloading and updating!"

"Just like the first person to make fire; they were never the inventor."

"They were just the first to successfully download a skill named [Fire] from the akashic records!"

"Perhaps even before the first person on Earth made fire, someone in an intelligent civilization on an Earth-like planet in the distant Andromeda Galaxy, or even other galaxies, might have learned [fire-making] tens of millions of years ago."

"This is the Global Shared Memory Bank, the most pointed [large-scale historical experiment] for the akashic records!"

As the string of words concluded, not a single bullet comment drifted through the livestream room.

Everyone was immersed in these words, unable to pull themselves away.