Chapter 138: The Grey Knight

Subtitle of this chapter: Code 666!

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"The sun peeked out from behind the mountain, casting a touch of golden light into the still sleeping mountain village; In the valley meadows, which were still in shadow, the dew shone with a crystal light, and one or two timid birdsongs could be heard.

The babies walked along the path towards the village, and the small figures quickly disappeared into the pale blue morning mist of the valley.

They will live to harvest a meager but real hope in this ancient and barren land. ”

"Ahh

It was not Cyris, but the American sun, which cast a touch of gold into the still deserted rosewood lobby, shining on Mr. Einstein's face.

The intense light made him can't help but sneeze. Well, there's another term for this stress response called the optical sneezing reflex.

He blinked vigorously before realizing that he had been reading the ...... in the hotel lobby all night.

The archmagister picked up the cover and looked at it, the title on it was, "The Grey Knight's Science Fiction Collection 1".

And there's a quirky proverb underneath this quirky title:

I am the Emperor's last gift to mankind.

I am the last weapon against the Void Gods.

I am the last line of defense against human civilization.

I'm the Grey Knight, from Titan, codename 666.

Well, I actually took the 666 representing the Antichrist as a code name, this "gray knight"...... Well, it should be the mysterious Oriental he waited for all night, which is really a bit shocking.

However, in Einstein's view, this Mr. Yuan's talent and brains ...... Well, imagination is a bit of a shocking thing.

There are three and a half stories in this collection of stories, each of which makes the Grand Magus unable to read himself, reading it so sleeplessly, reading it like hunger, and getting goosebumps on his body.

"Bouquet for Algernon" is a profound exploration of the relationship between humanity and intelligence.

This book proves that the author has thought, not in general, but in a profound reflection on the organic combination of philosophy and science in the existence of human beings.

Half of "Golden Fleece" describes human hibernation, space travel, artificial intelligence, and colonizing aliens, which are BS (superscience) brain holes, which also opened his mind, and he immediately discovered a new world.

Like Nikola Tesla, if the Grey Knight appeared in front of the Grand Magister at this time, the priest would definitely say this to the warrior, you kid finish this book quickly, or let you taste the great fireball!

The vacuum-tube punk background and dark humor style of "Fallout" are all a bit ahead of their time, and the vast majority of readers in this era should be GET less cool and laughable.

However, Einstein is the most likely person among the suspected time-travelers.

After he proposed the theory of relativity, mankind's understanding of the world was suddenly elevated by a large margin, so that mankind had to face a universe that was so strange that it could not be described with common sense and language, but only with mathematical tools, and human technology advanced by leaps and bounds like science fiction.

The great discoveries, breakthroughs, and leaps in science and technology in the following 100 years surpassed all the achievements of human civilization in the previous tens of thousands of years. And it all started with Albert Einstein.

So just by reading the beginning, he understood what "Fallout" was about: in the middle of the twenty-first century, there was another world war on Earth, and some kind of super-technological weapon with great power bombed humanity back into the wasteland where civilization and ignorance coexisted.

He also quickly understood what the author was trying to express: he was worried about the leapfrog development of human technology, and human beings were afraid that they would not be able to master new technology, but would let new technology destroy mankind itself.

It's just that the author disagrees with the general anti-science person, who has a very deep and forward-looking understanding of science, combined with a somewhat eccentric sense of humor.

So "Fallout", which juxtaposes pain and laughter, cruelty and tenderness, science and unscience, absurd facts and disproportionately calm reactions, is not only not a heavy tragedy, but a comedy that is very much listened to.

And "black humor" in the original timeline did not appear in the United States until the sixties. His representative works are Heller's "Catch-22", Pinchin's "The Rainbow of Gravity", and Vonig Jr.'s "First Class Breakfast" and so on.

As a result, our Master Yuan also became the world's first person in "black humor" with "Radiation". Of course, he also created the niche genre of "vacuum tube punk" by the way.

You must know that Albert Einstein is also a character with a great sense of humor, in fact, a sense of humor is a manifestation of high intelligence. It can even be said that people with a sense of humor do not necessarily have a high IQ, but people with a high IQ must have a sense of humor, unless they are neurotic like the "wisdom of mortals" Colonel Chu Xuan. Because humor itself is a higher human response.

So he immediately fell in love with listening to "Fallout" very in-the-dark...... However, the Great Magister's favorite is "The Country Teacher", and I really can't like it, so I actually read it three times in one breath.

Einstein had not yet been to China at this time, and did not pass through Shanghai until November 1922, when he went to Japan to give lectures. The Archmagus was warmly welcomed by the Serisians. It is said that when Albert Einstein walked into Nanjing Road in Shanghai, young students in Shanghai were so happy that they lifted him up with both hands.

Therefore, at 3 p.m. on January 1, 1923, after he had finished his lecture in Japan, he gave a lecture on the theory of relativity in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry in the Public Concession.

At that time, there was another thing that was not embarrassing or embarrassing, Xu Zhimo's brother-in-law...... Former brother-in-law Zhang Junmai also attended the lecture.

He was a devout psychiatrist, and after Einstein's presentation he asked questions of psychics. Albert Einstein replied, "It's insignificant."

Later, someone in the newspaper wrote that this question reflected the sadness of Chinese philosophical thought at that time. What Yin Blowing listened to was that the person who wrote this article was Zhang Junmao's ex-brother-in-law Xu Zhimo.

But Einstein had a somewhat negative impression of China and the Chinese, writing in his travel diary, "Outwardly, the Chinese are noted, for their industriousness, for their low requirements for lifestyle and child welfare." They are more optimistic and naΓ―ve than Indians. But most of them are heavily burdened men and women, who hammer stones every day for a wage of five cents a day. They seem too reckless to understand the horror of their fate. ”

He had a good impression of the Japanese people, "It's amazing to have such beautiful, kind, and kind people in this part of Japan. ”。

Little Japan is probably the nation with the greatest contrast between the surface and the heart in the world.

Of course, now that the Archmage has met the Grey Knight, his impression of "Psychics" and Seris must be very different.

And he had no prejudice against Seris at this time, but after reading "The Country Teacher", he had a feeling of empathy.

Because at this time, Central European countries are also engaged in "volunteer teaching" activities. In Europe these days, there were also rural primary schools in the middle of nowhere, where there was a lack of teachers. So a group of young intellectuals went there to become teachers. Among them was the aforementioned Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Just then, Einstein heard a commotion outside the hotel......