Chapter 142: The Truth Machine
This is the weirdest stand-in battle Li Qing has seen since he crossed over.
is obviously a stand-in battle, but the two sides are like contestants participating in variety shows on TV, sitting here with a hammer and a stick in the west competing for knowledge reserves.
From the movement of celestial bodies, down to the trajectory of ocean currents, the history and literature of the East and the West, the geography of the world...
Adam and Fogg asked each other questions, each asking more and more tricky questions that made the people next to them listen to each other.
Before you know it, this strange Q&A challenge has reached its seventh round:
"In a nutshell, what is the time dilation effect in special relativity?"
"This.... Think about it... In the theory of relativity, the scales of space and time change as the speed of the observer changes. β
"Correct."
"Panakoda Fogg, one minute for questions."
The light curtain showed Fuge's name again, but Fuge, who had just successfully answered the seventh question, was already sweating profusely:
The four-eyed uncle on the other side, how does he seem to know everything?
At first, Fogg was a little confident about the challenge:
Because human knowledge has developed to such a point, its content has been enriched to the point that it can never be carried by a single human brain.
There can be no omniscient and all-powerful person in the world, and a person knows at most about his own field of expertise, and at most he has heard of other aspects of knowledge.
Adam was actually like that.
Indeed, his knowledge of most subjects is only superficial, almost the level of having read popular science books.
And most of the questions he asked to Fogg were popular science knowledge that ordinary people could understand by self-study, and they were not professional enough to be answered only by academics.
But the problem is that this guy has "heard too much".
Like most children of wealthy families, Fogger's major in college was actually humanistic law.
To Fogg's embarrassment, Adam seems to have the same knowledge as he does best.
There was no way, Fogg could only give up the idea of attacking the enemy's weaknesses with his own strengths, and then try his best to take out all the cold knowledge he knew about various categories to ask the other party questions.
But until now, there was nothing that Adam couldn't answer.
At the same time, the questions that Adam posed to him became more and more obscure and tricky, making him more and more powerless to parry.
"Damn..."
"Who has nothing to do to understand so much useless popular science knowledge!"
Fogg tugged at his hair tightly, his expression gloomy:
"It can't go on like this..."
"If I want to win, I'll have to come up with at least one question that he can't answer!"
At this moment, the countdown on the three-dimensional light curtain was passing by second, and it was silently urging Fogg to make a decision quickly.
"What, can't you think of a suitable question?"
Adam urged in his unhurried tone.
"I..."
Fogg held his breath tightly, and finally stubbornly held back a question:
"Answer: How far is the end of the universe?"
As soon as the words fell...
The heavy book, called "Do You Know", suddenly trembled violently in mid-air.
The beam of light projected from the open page instantly became a hundredfold stronger, and the chain connected to Fogg's brain began to slowly pull outward, as if it was about to drag his soul out of his body in the next second.
This was immediately shown on the stereoscopic light curtain
"There is an irregularity in asking questions."
"Panakoda Fogg, the challenge fails."
"What?"
Fugar's face turned pale.
The feeling of being pulled out of the soul is not painful at all, but it can make people feel a horror from the depths of the soul.
"Here's what to do!"
"Didn't you say fair challenges?"
Feeling his instantly cold body, Fogg struggled to concentrate his gradually blurring spirit, and roared unwillingly:
"You obviously didn't answer my question, why did you count me as a failure?!"
"This..."
Adam was slightly stunned at first, and then couldn't help laughing:
"Hahahaha, because you fouled it!"
"If you ask a question that you don't know the right answer to, you'll be judged a failure."
"Nonsense!"
Fuge's soul had been dragged out of his body.
The ethereal spirit body with a golden glow appeared in front of everyone like this.
He can no longer control his body, but just like he can speak as a stand-in for the "soul clone", this does not prevent Fogg from speaking directly with his own soul:
"Who said I didn't know the answer?"
"I know the answer to this question:"
"According to scientists, the diameter of the universe is finite, with a maximum diameter of 156 billion light-years."
"The so-called end of the universe is 78 billion light-years away from the center of the universe!"
"Oh?"
Hearing Fogg's indignant defense, Adam's expression did not fluctuate in the slightest:
"Yes."
"But are you sure that the knowledge you come across from a third-rate popular science book must be the "correct" answer?"
"Can just human beings really predict the future of the universe so accurately and accurately?"
"What you say is just a scientist's prediction, and this answer may not be correct!"
Fugue's soul had been pulled out of his body entirely.
He felt like a cockroach that had accidentally encountered a vacuum cleaner on the floor, being pulled into the open "book" by a powerful suction:
"Bastard!"
"Do you know more about physics and mathematics than those scientists?"
"Their prediction is 156 billion light years, why do you say that this answer is incorrect?!"
"Hehe..."
Adam pointed to the glowing book floating in front of him:
"Don't get me wrong."
"The challenge is absolutely fair, and I'm just a player, and I don't have the power to be a referee."
"It's not me who is judging, it's my stand-in, this book called 'Know'."
"I'll tell you the truthβ"
His voice became extremely excited:
"This book is actually a truth machine."
"It knows the answer to all the questions in the world and will make judgments based on that really correct answer."
"If the answer you believe in itself is wrong, even if it is unintentional, it will directly condemn you to a foul failure."
"So..."
"When you ask a question, don't ask something as big as the universe, time, or space."
Adam gave a very sly smile:
"These are questions that humans can't answer today."
"If you use the brains of mortals to define the truth of the universe, you will only be eaten by your own arrogance in the end."
Hearing these words, Fuge's unwillingness still did not subside:
"No... Why didn't you say this kind of thing earlier? β
"It's cheating, it's cheating, you sinister rat who can't see the light, I don't..."
Before the angry voice could spread through the air...
It was as if someone had suddenly pressed the button on the toilet, and Fuge's soul was suddenly swept into a turbulent vortex of halo.
The vortex consumed his soul in an instant, and swept away the defenseless soul back into the open book.
Eventually, the whirlpool died down and the light dissipated.
On the open pages of the book, suspended in mid-air, the silhouette of Fuge's soul faintly emerged.
There's no way to stop it...
Everyone can only watch as the soul of their companion is sucked away by that strange book, and becomes a lifeless, sleeping silhouette in that book.
And Li Qing also took a closer look:
In that thick book, there is not only the silhouette of Fogg alone.
There are four soul silhouettes on just one page, and from a distance, it looks like a thick card collection book.
"Haha."
Adam said somewhat ostentatiously, "Noticed? β
"They were all challengers who lost to me because of their lack of knowledge, and of course, they were all my beloved collections."
"Admiring the blank gestures of their ignorant souls on the pages is my favorite way to relax after a boring technical job every day!"
"Bastard!" Naranga rushed forward angrily and grabbed Adam by the collar: "Release me quickly, or I will..."
"Kill me?"
Adam said without changing his face:
"As I said, violence doesn't solve the problem."
"Your friend's soul has now become one with this book called 'Know'."
"If you kill me, his soul will disappear from this world along with my double."
"If you don't believe me, you can try it."
When he said this, there was no trace of lying in his voice.
Naranga increased the strength of his hand, and even directly choked Adam's neck, forcing him to barely breathe.
But the violence and injury did not make him feel pain at all, but made him exude a fanatical emotion: "Do it! This barbarian behavior cannot defeat me, and I will die with the pride of Homo sapiens, along with the souls of your friends! β
"Maniac... You lunatic! β
Facing Adam, who was not afraid of boiling water for this dead pig, Naranga was suddenly a little at a loss:
"So what do you want? What needs to be done to get Fogg out! β
"It's simple."
Adam spread his hands:
"Beat me, beat me in the quiz challenge."
"The challenge is absolutely fair, as long as I lose the challenge and die, the souls of others will be liberated."