68: Chapter 68: Those who are reincarnated all die with resentment.

Xiao Yu's question had just been asked.

Jiang Zhe directly provided a case study:

"With two cases, you'll understand whether it's first-person or third-person."

"First: James Leininger from the USA, born in 1999."

"At age two, he began having a recurring nightmare—claiming he was a WWII pilot named James Huston, shot down over Iwo Jima by a Japanese fighter plane."

Hearing this, all the viewers, teachers, and experts turned on their computers and began searching for the case.

They watched while listening.

"When he was three, his mother bought him a toy airplane."

"His mother pointed to a part under the plane and said, '[This is a bomb].'"

"James shook his head and said, '[Mom, that's not a bomb; it's a drop tank].'"

"His mother was left speechless with shock by those words."

As soon as he said that, the viewers in the livestream were stunned.

"Wait, a drop tank? I'm forty years old and I don't even know what that is."

"Found it. The Corsair fighter was produced in 1938, and James died at age 21 during the battle when Japan sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor."

"Holy crap, this is the first time I've heard of this."

"The next part is the key."

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiao Yu, who had a serious expression.

"When James recalled these events, it was with the fear of a crash and the tension of combat."

"Now, look; is it first-person or third-person?"

"It's first-person!" Xiao Yu responded without hesitation.

"Very good!"

Jiang Zhe continued with another case.

"In the Golan Heights, Syria, there was a three-year-old boy."

"One day, he suddenly told his parents, '[I was hacked to death with an axe by a neighbor before].'"

"His parents found it unbelievable and thought it was nonsense, but as time passed, he kept bringing it up."

"The parents took the child to the home of his previous life, and following his lead from the house, they found the burial site—"

"Eventually, they unearthed the skeleton of a young man with blunt-force injuries."

"Then, he pointed to a red birthmark on his head that matched the location on the skeleton."

"And in front of all the villagers, he directly stated the [killer's name and the details of the crime]."

"This was originally a cold case in Syria, with the death occurring around 2011."

"Then in 2015, when the local police went with the child to the location he identified..."

"Faced with the police at his door and the child's account..."

"The murderer broke down and cried on the spot, repeatedly saying '[I'm sorry, I'm sorry]' to the child."

They originally thought a past life was just a past life, but they didn't expect there to be a cold case involved...

And it was personally identified by the reincarnated child?

At the thought of this, the viewers felt it was incredible.

A three-year-old child identifying a body and catching a killer...

This isn't just a past life memory; this is a straight-up reincarnation to hunt a killer!

Seeing Xiao Yu's beautiful eyes wide with shock.

Jiang Zhe smiled slightly. "Is this first-person or third-person?"

"It's also... first... person!"

"Yes."

"Whether it's James or this Syrian boy."

"They both experienced another [me]'s life through the identity of [I]."

"Furthermore, when the children in these two cases grew to be seven or eight years old, and their parents asked them again..."

"And even when the media went to interview them..."

"Xiao Yu, guess what happened?"

"This..." Xiao Yu thought for a moment and found she couldn't figure it out. "I don't know."

"They couldn't remember."

"What?"

Jiang Zhe said with a solemn face, "After the age of eight, when the children in these two cases were asked by the media, their answers were chillingly consistent: '[I don't remember this].'"

No...

They don't remember?

Xiao Yu was completely confused. How could they not remember?

"Xiao Yu, it's not just these cases. Follow-up research reports from around the world show—"

"That 99.9% of reincarnated people will start to forget their past life memories between the ages of six and eight, which is the age they start school."

"There are only a few exceptions, like [Chen Mingdao] in our country—"

"In his case, he remembered [every bit of his past life, everything, every single thing!] the whole time."

"When this case emerged, it practically rubbed the mysterious veil of [past lives] into the dirt!"

"Even those who don't believe in reincarnation or past lives at all would kneel down on the spot and say '[I was wrong]' after hearing this case."

"Hiss~~~"

Xiao Yu was stunned.

The past life memories from before age eight are gone?

Only the memories after age eight start to flow normally?

"Is it that they can't remember everything before age eight, or just the past life?"

Jiang Zhe shook his head gently.

"In those two cases, the memories related to the past life completely vanished. Those two children only remembered the bits and pieces about themselves before the age of eight; the past life memories were almost automatically cleared by the brain!"

"Ah..."

Xiao Yu's cherry-pink mouth hung open. "Heavens, why?"

Inside the teahouse.

Before Jiang Zhe could answer, Zhou Ming looked at the solemn-faced Xu Mu and Zheng Ming.

"That is naturally because—"

"Before a child is eight, or rather before they start school, they use their right brain to perceive the world."

"The right brain is responsible for images, imagination, dreams, and art, so it's easier to connect to the zero-point field."

"After age eight, as they gradually begin to use the left brain, the left brain takes over reason, logic, and discernment."

"Whenever a child has a bizarre thought, the materialism of the left brain tells the right brain: '[It's fake, an illusion, it doesn't exist, stop imagining things].'"

"So!"

"That's why eight-year-old children completely lose these memories."

For convenience, he used a voice bullet comment and sent it to the livestream.

A golden bullet comment floated across, instantly bringing realization to the viewers.

"Holy crap, so that's why!"

"No wonder, no wonder! The consciousness before age eight doesn't belong to the 'me' of this life. Only after age eight does my consciousness say: '[You old fogey don't match my body, get the hell out of here]!'"

"Hahaha, brilliant!"

"It's like a possession attempt for two and a half years, and then the possession fails!"

...

Looking at the bullet comments on her phone, Xiao Yu's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I know, it's because of the left and right brain."

Jiang Zhe had just finished a sip of water and didn't notice Xiao Yu peeking at the answer on her phone.

"Not bad, you are indeed smart, but not quite smart enough."

"Hehe~~"

In her heart, Xiao Yu thanked the viewers for providing the answer in advance.

"Xiao Yu!"

"There's actually a most terrifying question hidden here—"

"If a past life is a [holographic movie] stored in the zero-point field."

"Whether it's James or the Syrian boy, they are both playing this [past life] movie in the [first-person]."

Suddenly, Jiang Zhe's expression turned serious.

"Then how does the [present life] Xiao Yu know..."

"That you, at this very moment, aren't just another life movie being played by some other [consciousness]?"

"Huh?"

Xiao Yu's brain instantly fried; she was so stunned she couldn't speak.

In the livestream, there was a momentary vacuum, followed by a landslide of bullet comments.

"??? Holy mother of crap!"

"Playing, role-playing??"

"Huh? What does that mean? Does it mean the current me isn't me, but just reading someone else's memory? And everyone is reading someone else's memory, which finally combines into what I think is 'me'?"

"Chilling. Are we just memory players?"

...

Inside the teahouse in Kyoto.

Zhou Ming's gaze trembled violently.

He had always thought about the storage and retrieval of [memory] from the perspective of neuroscience and medicine, but he had never delved into...

The [ontological] level of [who is retrieving] our human memories.

Xu Mu's breath hitched.

This question touched upon the core of [the nature of the soul] in theology and philosophy.

Elsewhere, inside the Family Compound.

Professor Chen stood up abruptly, his voice trembling:

"Reading, playing; if consciousness really is just [reading] a piece of memory information from the zero-point field and finally combining it into a new version of 'me'..."

"Damn it!"

"Then where is the freedom and independence of the [self]?"

"Is the true meaning of life just a series of authorized [temporary reads, temporary access], where no 'first life' exists?"

"Is there only a 'me' formed by mixing countless [memory fragments] of others into a new 'me'?"

Old Qian and Old Wang couldn't help but have their pupils dilate in shock; it was chilling.

Jiang Zhe's conclusion...

Directly denied the uniqueness of humanity.

'I' am just a new human composed of fragments of countless others; humanity isn't special, and consciousness isn't special.

Xiao Yu's mouth hung open; her brain was visibly smoking.

Not just Xiao Yu, even the viewers were only half-understanding.

Although they didn't fully get it, a spine-chilling feeling arose upon deeper thought.

Jiang Zhe asked back with a smile:

"Xiao Yu, the cases are fascinating, right?"

"One remembers the details of an air battle, the other remembers a murder scene."

"Are you thinking: '[Ah, so there really is reincarnation of the soul!]'?"

A wave of comments floated in the livestream:

[What else could it be?]

[How the hell is this not ironclad proof]?

But Jiang Zhe shook his head gently.

"If you think that way, Xiao Yu, then your thinking is limited."

"Past lives aren't special at all. That's the least scary and most superficial explanation."

"Now, returning to tonight's core topic: '[Everything is a wave, and consciousness is also an information wave],' you will know everything!"

Jiang Zhe paused for a moment.

He waited until Xiao Yu recovered from her shock before continuing to explain:

"Why do so-called [past life memories] mostly occur in children under eight?"

"Because a child's brain is like a precision device fresh from the factory—brand new, but with poor filtering."

"When this machine receives signals across all bands while trying to construct the core information of 'me'..."

"It's easily interfered with by other ultra-strong signals within the zero-point field."

"What are strong consciousness information signals?" Xiao Yu asked, half-understanding but not quite grasping it.

Jiang Zhe responded without hesitation:

"[For example, the consciousness signals of someone who died with a great grievance, the information of someone being brutally murdered, the signals of extreme pain from a car accident, or the signals of someone dying after being wrongly accused.]"

"These are strong consciousness signals!"

"In countless real-world cases—especially those of dying from old age or with a happy family—the consciousness signals are actually not easily read by young children."

At this point, he asked solemnly:

"According to investigations into past lives both at home and abroad, aren't most people who 'reincarnate'..."

"People who died in accidents, were murdered, died of disease, or never truly experienced life's ups and downs; people who died with resentment, or even children who died young?"

"Essentially, they didn't want to die like that, so their signals were extremely strong, allowing them to be received by the fresh-from-the-factory brains of newborns?"

"Why is it that children can't receive the signals of those who [died naturally with a happy and fulfilled family]?"