"Are you taunting me?" Anne looked at Richard with an eyebrow.

"No, I'm appreciating what you said. Richard shook his head, "I don't know if you realize that what you said already has some philosophical thinking in it." If you had behaved like that more than four months ago, maybe I would have accepted you as a student. ”

"Forget it, I don't want to be your student anymore. Anne said, "Instead of becoming stronger quickly, I just want to figure out the doubts in my heart." ”

"I can't help you with that. Richard spread his hands, "What exactly you want to pursue, you have to ask your heart." In a sense, the world may be fake, everything in the outside world has a superficial impact on you, and the answers given are naturally not true - the real answers are up to you to think and discover.

Have you ever heard of the theory that there was a man named Descartes who thought that the world we live in might be an illusion?

Just as illusion can confuse us, we may be in the midst of a great illusion, and everything we hear, see, and touch is false information fed back to us by illusions. The people we come into contact with, the communication we have may be fake, and the bodies we have may be fake.

We have a good chance that just a ...... Brains soaked in vats full of potions, or even brains. Descartes called this speculation the brain in a vat. ”

Anne's eyes widened as she listened, not knowing whether she understood or not.

Richard continued: "The most desperate thing about this speculation is that we cannot prove it. Because everything we do, everything we find, may be disguised. The only thing we can take true of is our minds, our hearts. It's like Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am'—when we think about it, we can at least be sure that we exist as a thinking subject. ”

After Richard finished speaking, Anne was silent for a while, and couldn't help but look at Richard and ask, "Did what you said help me with my question?"

Richard said: "If you think it's helpful, then it's helpful, if you don't think it's helpful, you shouldn't have heard of it." After all, according to the agreement we reached before, you help me find ore and collect information, and I help you solve some small problems encountered, which is an equivalent exchange. It's good that I saved you, but I don't have any obligation to help you in vain. ”

"You-"

Anne was a little angry, and raised her hand to lose her temper, but suddenly stopped again, realizing that she was no longer the eldest lady who could lose her temper casually.

The hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and then slowly lowered, Anne walked slowly towards the alley, saying as she went, "Okay, you're right. You saved me this time, even if I owe you a favor, I will find a way to pay it back to you. ”

"Good. Richard said.

Anne kept walking, walked a few meters, paused at her feet, turned her head and asked, "I want to ask you now, what is it that you have been pursuing, according to your previous vision, and you never doubt that you are pursuing the wrong thing? After all, everything can be fake?"

"Actually, what I'm looking for is how to tell the real from the fake. ”

"Huh?" Anne didn't understand.

"Imagine such a thing. There is a fish that has been living in a pond and is carefree. Suddenly, one day, it was thrown into a completely unfamiliar wooden basin. If other fish encounter this situation, some will slowly accept everything, and some will take the opportunity to dominate in the wooden basin.

And this fish, it's a little peculiar, and it's very curious how it got out of the pond and into the tub, and wants to see what the hand that manipulates it is, and what the world is outside the pond and the tub. That's what I'm after. ”

Richard said slowly: "Only when the truth is determined is that then good things are meaningful." As the saying goes, 'Beauty and truth are the same thing, so beauty itself must be true'. ”

"Huh?" Anne didn't understand at all.

Richard chuckled and didn't explain anymore, just said, "Okay, what I'm pursuing, it doesn't matter to you, what matters is what your heart wants to pursue." If you really don't know, then I'll give you a kind reminder: do everything you can to improve yourself, make yourself stronger, smarter, and better than you are now. If you go on like this, one day, you'll know what you really want.

In this process, don't slack off, don't stop because of the pursuit of comfort and identity, then you will quickly be assimilated by the environment you are in and the people around you. If you really do, you're going to lose all your chances. If the world is really an illusion, then you will never be able to jump out. ”

This time Anne finally understood, pondered for a few seconds, thought of something, reached into her bosom, and pulled out a black metal cylinder.

The metal cylinder is about a dozen centimeters long and one centimeter in diameter, and it looks extremely sturdy, and I don't know what it contains.

Walking closer to Richard, Anne exclaimed, "Well, no matter what, I still want to thank you for helping me. I know I owe you a lot of favors that I won't be able to pay back anytime soon, and I may owe even more in the future. However, with this thing, I may be able to compensate for some of it. ”

As she spoke, Anne unscrewed the lid at one end of the metal cylinder and poured out a slender tee of blue-gray ore.

As soon as the blue-gray ore appeared, Richard immediately felt the faint erosive energy emitted by the ore, which was not surprising radiation.

Is it a nuclear raw material ore?

Richard raised his eyebrows, looked at it carefully, looked at it a few times, and made sure that it was definitely not the piece of uranium ore he had given Anne before, but a completely new piece of ore that he had never seen before.

"You've found the ore source I've asked you to find?" asked Richard, a little surprised, which really surprised him. In his opinion, Anne will not find out for a few years.

"Nope. Sure enough, Anne shook her head and replied, "I got this ore by accident from a black market. There's very little information about where the ore comes from, and I wanted to tell you when I found it all out. However, since I owe you so much now, it would be better to tell you sooner. ”

"That's it. Richard nodded, "Okay then." Although you haven't found out where the ore came from, the news is really good for me. So, keep it up and look forward to the day when you actually find the source of the ore. ”

"I hope so, goodbye. Anne responded.

Without any hesitation, he screwed the lid of the metal cylinder, retracted it in his arms, and quickly left the alley.

Richard looked in the direction Anne had left, shook his head slightly, and stepped forward to leave.

The right foot was raised, a breeze blew, and a voice sounded from behind.

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