Chapter 12: The Gods
Kanagawa Prefecture, Morinaga Confectionery Co., Ltd. branch factory.
This is a factory that was put into operation six years ago, and it took only a few months from buying and selling land to building and putting it into operation, which can be called the speed of light.
However, considering that Morinaga Confectionery Co., Ltd. is the property of the Prime Minister's wife, such a speed of light is understandable.
Residents in the surrounding area also know that the branch factory produces Morinaga Dorayaki, which is the most popular in the world, and the price is surprisingly cheap, making people wonder whether Morinaga is a capitalist company or a welfare institution.
"Tsk!"
It's already a cold winter, and there are still some tenacious birds chirping among the dead branches and leaves.
Ryoko Utano sat in a car and walked through the 'production room' of the branch factory, with a metal safe on her lap.
The factory is so highly 'automated' that even during the day, there are not a few workers in the factory, but there are more security forces than real employees.
The black sedan continued to drive forward in the factory for more than 40 minutes, and even for a well-known snack company in the country, the area of the factory is too large.
"Executive Utano, we're here."
The black limousine pulled up in front of an office building.
"Hmm."
Carrying a safe, Ryoko Utano walked briskly through the office building.
Iris, passwords, voices, every door and elevator in the office building has outrageously strict security measures, not to mention a series of hidden surveillance devices in the corners.
After taking the elevator into the ground for an unknown number of meters, Ryoko Utano took a deep breath.
If you want to enter the underground space, only this elevator can take it, and there is no staircase to go down - theoretically difficult to break through from the outside, and on the other hand, the underground space staff can easily be cut off from the supply of life.
The entire factory, the entire office building, and the underground space were all used to contain the only seal.
Fortunately, this seal is not dangerous, otherwise it would not be contained next to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
"Executive Officer Utano."
The caretaker, who had already been notified, stood at the elevator entrance and waited for Ryoko Utano and bowed deeply.
"Well, let's get started, the universe is completely encyclopedia."
"Yes."
Although the Complete Encyclopedia of the Universe is theoretically a seal that is harmless to the user, Ryoko Utano still can't help but ooze cold sweat on her forehead.
In the face of these strange things that have only appeared in the last century, it is impossible to be too cautious.
She walked into a secret room made of alloy and sat down in a chair with dignity.
On the table in front of him was a book with the words "The Complete Encyclopedia of the Universe" written on it.
The appearance looks no different from ordinary books, but the thickness is amazing, thicker than the "Yuben Chinese Dictionary".
Ordinary books will not look obtrusive on the shelves of downtown bookstores.
"Click."
However, this encyclopedia has another mystery, when the pages are opened, the thick book is 'inlaid' with an old-fashioned mechanical device, which looks like a walkie-talkie device carried by infantry during World War II.
However, such an old-fashioned device can theoretically communicate with the 'Laplace demon' who knows nowhere, knowing everything in the past, present, and future.
“……”
In the secret room, in order to prevent accidents, she was not allowed to speak during the whole process, and Utano Ryoko could only briefly think about the definition of the Lower Laplace Demon in her mind.
A French mathematician once put forward a hypothesis that if there is such an existence, it can clearly know all the matter in the universe at a certain moment, including the microscopic particles, the state and position of all matter, and the force it is subjected to.
And if this being has enough computing power to analyze and process data, then all the changes in the universe will be contained in a simple formula.
So for this being, nothing can stump Him, nothing is vague about Him, everything is knowable, and the future will only appear before Him as it has been in the past—this is Laplace in the physical sense.
"Toot."
Pressing the green call button, Ryoko Utano pulled out an A4 sheet of paper from the safe.
It is written what will be questioned, and not a single word can be changed.
"At 15:56:25 on November 14, 2019, which meteorite was released at 852 meters above Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo?"
If you don't limit the content of the question to a precise enough point, the complete encyclopedia of the universe will answer the 'wrong' answer.
For example, as far as Utano Ryoko knew, the original owner of this seal was a student, so he asked the Encyclopedia of the Universe, 'What is the answer to this afternoon's homework?' A question of zero value.
As a result, the answer to the complete encyclopedia of the universe is "Homework: Assign students homework to complete at home. This is a broad answer without precision.
"Ding-ding."
There was a tinkling sound of typing inside the encyclopedia, and in no moments, a piece of paper printed with Chinese characters and kana was slowly sent out from the mechanical printing port.
【Name:God】
[Born 15 hours, 25 minutes, 54 seconds ago, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.] 】
It's a short two lines, but the Utano Leng Zi frowned when she saw it, from the heavenly inspiration to the tail bone, the cold air went down the spine, and even the heart seemed to be frozen.
“!!?”
God?
What is the name of this?
New monsters? It's still someone's name, but the birth time is just a dozen hours ago......
"Knock Knock Knock !!!"
Behind the Complete Encyclopedia of the Universe, a dorayaki suddenly appeared, and it multiplied to ten in less than a second.
Densely proliferated, one dorayaki crowded another, as if countless eyes were stacked on top of each other.
"Huh."
Picking up the answer paper, Ryoko Utano immediately exited the secret room, and a sloping passage had already appeared on the wall of the secret room, and a steady stream of dorayaki appeared out of thin air, and then was transported to the Morinaga confectionery factory.
"How many dorayaki will it be this time?"
"Fifty-three million six hundred seventy seven thousand nine hundred and twelve dorayaki."
"That's just the twenty-ninth question."
When it comes to the steady stream of dorayaki, people outside the secret room can't help but want to vomit.
No matter how delicious something is, if you eat it all the time, eat it as a task, and distribute it as a welfare, you can eat it until you vomit.
Besides, these dorayaki are all one kind of flavor!
In order to effectively eradicate dorayaki, they have come up with dorayaki tempura, green pepper dorayaki ......
The first question will appear only one dorayaki, the second will appear two, the third question will appear four, and the fourth question will appear eight dorayaki...... And if it is the thirtieth question next time, the number of dorayaki will be as high as more than a billion!
The country has a population of 120 million, and each person needs to eat nine.
"Gross!"
At the thought of dorayaki, the caregiver immediately vomited on the spot.