It is said that there is a psychological theory that there is no such thing as a self that can be truly known. Because in this world, everyone has a role to play. No one can truly be themselves, everyone can only be who they are in the eyes of others. The image of human cognition as a whole has become the archetype of cognition. All of them are just part of the "archetype".

This kind of theory, Mitsuki Kaihara himself only heard about it not long ago. But he felt he could understand the theory.

At least he thought, perhaps anyone would think that this theory was correct if they looked at the figure in the living room at this time.

It really doesn't get any more apt than that, and if you want to pick a "prototype" that best illustrates what a "woman" is, it's probably enough to look at her.

Her younger sister, dressed in a fluttering maid's outfit, is being instructed by two students who are working at home as a housekeeper.

Sensing his gaze, his sister turned her head slightly in embarrassment

This is not a strange preference, but it is preparing for the Tokiwadai Midsummer Festival in the near future.

As for why such a costume is requested, it can only be said that someone in Tokiwadai has a broken brain...... No, no, no. It's just a joke. In fact, it is to provide an additional income for the chaotic housekeeping who has been working with Tokiwadai all year round.

Tokiwadai's teaching philosophy is that gain is necessarily proportional to effort. Even if there is a very good relationship with the housekeeper, Tokiwadai will only provide some care in this way.

It is not for nothing that a prestigious school becomes a prestigious school.

But to be honest, although this is the way it is said in theory, as far as Mitsuki Umihara knows, there don't seem to be many Tokiwadai students who are really serious about their preparation. After all, it is not too realistic to expect these arrogant ladies to be serious in this kind of thing.

My sister is probably one of the rare exceptions. Whatever she does, as long as she decides to do it, she will be quite serious.

It looks like a good posture, but it takes a lot of hard practice to master.

Because it was so cute, Mitsuki Haihara teased her sister a few words without malice, making her blush and make a little awkward.

The students who worked at home and were working at home laughed knowingly. They have long been familiar with the siblings. A small interaction full of warmth.

"Brother, are you going out now?"

My sister asked.

Mitsuki Umihara's clothes at this time are light sports suits for summer, and he looks like a student who plans to play squash ball. At first glance, I knew that he was planning to go out at this time.

"Well, I don't think I'll be back at noon."

"Is it the matter of Senior Sister Yan?"

"Well, that's right."

"Well, have a nice trip."

My sister bent down and made a very beautiful salute.

Mitsuki Umihara touched his sister's head as a farewell.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but the location of the hotel where the incident happened is actually on the way from Mitsuki Umihara's home to the hospital where Yanbi is currently staying.

Mitsuki Haihara, who bought a student season ticket, got off here, and he was still a little concerned.

At that time, there was no trace of the sunken street, and there was no problem even if it was opened immediately. But now the site is still closed and inaccessible. From here, you can still see the large missing open space.

This is one of the reasons why Mitsuki Kaihara is puzzled......

"You were yesterday's ......"

Suddenly he heard someone calling out to him.

Turning his head, he immediately recognized the person who called him.

The black-haired girl who wasn't wearing the weird outfit and was just wearing a private suit obviously recognized him as well.

"Mitsuki Umihara, my name."

Mitsuki Umihara stretched out his hand.

Out of politeness, and how to say yesterday I had stood on the same side, the black-haired girl hesitated a little, but still shook hands with him.

"Sateola. Sathela Sekwentsya. The captain of the school park urban security maintenance force 'Black Crow'.。 But today is a vacation, not a mission. I just got a little concerned, so I came over and had a look. Ah, and yesterday it was just the driving armor. ”

Sattella noticed that the other party seemed to be looking at her clothes, and quickly added.

She doesn't want to be seen as a pervert who wears a black silk outfit to swagger through the market when she has nothing to do.

To be honest, it's not that Mitsuki Umihara didn't think of this kind of thing, it's just that what she dressed yesterday was too unusual, and it was inevitable to be impressed in retrospect.

If this is excluded, the black-haired girl in front of her can be regarded as a shrewd and powerful character.

However, Mitsuki Umihara didn't expect to learn anything useful from her at all. Judging by yesterday's conversation, I'm afraid she knows much less than she does.

That would explain why she came back here. It's impossible to say that you can't care about such a strange thing.

For Mitsuki Haihara, apart from the cause, only the last link is something he can't explain.

"I would like to ask, Sister Sateola, do you still have any impression of the song you heard yesterday?"

Mitsuki Umihara asked.

"Songs?" Sattella asked in surprise. Her reaction made Mitsuki Umihara's brow furrow tightly.

Mitsuki Umihara had imagined many possibilities, but he didn't think of this.

That singing voice was almost identical to that of his sister, which in itself was no accident. Because the now popular virtual singer software can reproduce the same beautiful sound as the younger sister. Mitsuki Umihara cares about the magical effect of the song.

But at this point, Sateola's reaction was as if she didn't know anything about the song itself.

Obviously, both of them were at the scene, but he was the only one who heard the singing.

However, Sateola gave him an unexpected answer.

"If there was music, I wouldn't have been able to hear it. Three years ago, I had some brain injuries and I didn't have the ability to distinguish music. ”

"Sorry......"

Mitsuki Haihara sincerely apologized.

"It's okay, it doesn't usually make any difference." Satella also showed that he didn't care much about this, "I'm in a bit of a special situation, for me the music is just a murmur. I don't know if there was music at the time, all I could hear was the cacophony. But that situation allowed me to tell if the noise was caused by the music......"

Speaking of which, Mitsuki Umihara has also heard of such a situation.

In fact, the brain does not use a specific thing as the basis for processing information, but uses a certain concept as the basis for processing information. This was confirmed early on by capturing the tiny electrical signals of nerve cells.

In fact, the brain's neuronal individual cells only seem to respond to certain specific, familiar individuals. For example, if a neuron only responds to a certain person, then it will only respond to that person, and nothing else will affect it.

What's even more incredible is that "someone" here is just information. Whether it's the person's voice, or a photograph, or even just writing the person's name on a piece of paper, it can elicit a response from the neuron. The object to which it reacts is the "message" itself, and has nothing to do with the way the message is expressed.

This is called "conceptual neurons", and it seems to indicate that the human brain has some very special ability to process information.

In this way, Sateola's brain must have lost the ability to process information about "certain proportions of intervals" due to an accident.

"No, that's when I didn't ask." Mitsuki Haihara thought about it and decided to cut directly to the part he cared about the most, "Don't say whether it's a voice or not, did you notice that someone was talking to you at that time?" ”

Sateola's body shuddered.

Her reaction at this time made Mitsuki Kaihara immediately realize that she had touched the core of the problem.

"Yes. But it's not so much about speaking to me as it is about conveying a concept to me. Strangely, I didn't hear any words, but I felt something. ”

In fact, that's what brought her back to the scene. In the same way, it is the reason why Haihara is expensive.

Both of them felt some kind of message being conveyed at that moment. It didn't go through any medium that could be understood, as if the message was conveyed out of thin air.

What they care about most is this sudden message.

Not the message itself, but the "person" who conveys it, or something else.

There were some "people" watching them, at least at that time. Mitsuki Umihara had no way of guessing who would be able to do this.

"No ......"

Something suddenly occurred to him.

Theoretically, there should be one more person who can do it.

His perception was different because he knew that there were people who could do that. And if I didn't guess wrong, this person should have been not far from the scene at that time. But the problem is, he doesn't think this person would do that.

"Satera, would you like to go with me to meet someone?"

He changed his mind.

"See someone?"

"Hmm. I think maybe we can get the answers to the problems we have from her. ”

Sattella raised her eyes and looked at him. She obviously had some doubts about Mitsuki Haihara's words.

"There's nothing to lose by trying anyway."

Mitsuki Haihara said indifferently.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for a girl to accept an invitation from a boy if she has only met him once. But Satéola naturally can't apply this common sense.

She was indeed very, very confused, even more confused than Mitsuki Haihara.

She could sense the curiosity of the tree at the time, and she could sense that the person sending the message had a wonderful interest in her.

Since three years ago, she has felt as if she is missing something.

A sense of absence that is difficult to express in words, like a hole has been opened in the "self".

She has an intuition that whether it is the tree-like thing or the person sending the message, what she really cares about is not herself, but the "hole" in her self.

Thinking of this, she made a decision almost immediately.

"Where to go?"

She asked, taking the communicator with her, apparently intending to contact the "Crow" troops.

"There's no need to prepare." Mitsuki Umihara shook his head. "And the place we're going to is a hospital, and we can't affect other patients."

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Regarding Landau's political stance (uploader's note):

The issue of Landau has been mentioned in the past few days, and I will say a few words here.

In recent years, many people have listed Landau as an anti-Soviet or anti-Stalin figure, which is incorrect.

There is no doubt that this view arose out of some necessity. But I want to emphasize that almost none of these claims are valid.

The main basis for this view today comes from the declassified archives of the KGB, which contain the specifics of Landau's anti-Soviet activities. However, those who are familiar with the situation of special political periods should know that the political archives of such periods are often simply untenable. Let me give you an example: the United States has "evidence" that Oppenheimer was an agent of the Soviet Union. The McCarthy-era chief counsel for the Congressional Joint Commission on Atomic Energy initiated a hearing against Oppenheimer based on an analysis of the "evidence," which became the trigger for Oppenheimer** – which, unfortunately, led Oppenheimer to leave the mainstream academic world – and we all now know how unreliable this was.

Even in terms of results, it is untenable to say that Landau engaged in anti-Soviet or anti-Stalin activities. In fact, Landau was arrested, but the charges were never announced. Landau's acquittal after a year in prison is generally considered to be the result of Kapitsa's rescue, but in fact, anyone who has actually seen the KGB archives will surely agree that if the contents of the files are true, then ten Kapitzas will not save Landau!

I will casually cite the following passages in the KGB archives that are said to be the words of Landau: "It is obvious that Lenin is the number one fascist." "I think that our system, as I have known it since 1937, is entirely fascist, and it remains so and will not change much. Therefore, there are two scenarios for this question: first, it depends on the extent to which the fascist system will improve internally. Second, in my opinion, this system will always be shaken in the future. I believe that as long as the system is still in place, it is impossible and generally ridiculous that we cannot pin our hopes on its improvement at any time. I don't have any hope for that. ”

Okay, now note that Landau was released after a year in prison and was able to pursue a normal career in research (note that Oppenheimer left mainstream academia). Imagine if Landau really engaged in anti-Soviet activities, even if it was just to say the above words, is this possible?

If that weren't enough, here's arguably the best proof of this: On December 18, 1945, Goncharov wrote to a man asking Landau to lead the theoretical work on the atomic bomb (undoubtedly the most dense work). Thanks to that person's efforts, it was approved in just three months. Who is that person? It was Beria, the famous leader of the KGB!

Another rather ironclad piece of evidence is that just the year after Landau was released from prison, Kapitza nominated Landau as a candidate for academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, without political opposition. Six years later (for the reasons of World War II), Landau was directly elected as an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, without going through the stage of a corresponding academician.

From these facts alone, it can be seen that the contents of the KGB archives were never taken seriously either by the Soviet Union or within the KGB. In other words, it's not credible in any way—and there's a good chance they'll even know where the fake content came from.

By contrast, I can cite another example of persecution in the political sphere: in the McCarthy era, the famous American scientist Bohm was persecuted simply for refusing to testify about his colleagues' political positions, and even Einstein vouched for him. In the end, Bohm had to leave his homeland and leave the United States for his career in England. There is no doubt that Einstein is not something that Capitsa can match. If even Einstein could not protect Bohm's refusal to testify on behalf of his colleagues during the McCarthy years, could Capitza protect Landau's anti-Soviet behavior during the Stalin period? This is patently ridiculous. (Not to mention the fact that in the eyes of the Soviet authorities at that time, Kapica himself was not the kind of scientist who was politically "pure")

In fact, a closer look can even reveal that, in many respects, the Soviet authorities still provided considerable support and protection for Landau in the field of scientific research without political interference. For example, from 1930 to 1968, when the political situation in the Soviet Union was constantly changing, except for the year he was imprisoned, Landau's seminar was never interrupted by a political movement, not even a single date. It is important to know that this period included not only several political changes in the Soviet Union, but also the Second World War, which is extremely rare in the world. This tendency was especially evident after Landau's release from prison: his institute was not limited by budget, and he himself even had absolute personnel authority.

I had taken a closer look at the Landau case. I don't think the essential reason Landau went to prison was because he had any problems in the political sphere. Rather, in the eyes of the Soviet leadership, Landau himself belonged to the category of "not too obedient" compared to Zeldovich and others, and thought that he needed to be beaten before using him. At this time, someone falsely accused Landau, so he took the opportunity to act by the way. Judging from Landau's subsequent development (which later worked on a considerable amount of Soviet defense, and the atomic bomb was only one of them), this possibility is very high.

Landau's case has always been a hot topic in the history of science, and the right and wrong in it cannot be explained in a few words. But there is a general consensus that if Landau had been involved in the activities in the KGB archives, he would never have been dismissed so lightly. In fact, as far as I know, very few serious researchers of the history of science think that Landau was engaged in anti-Soviet and anti-Stalin activities. Of the scholars who have worked with Landau, there are almost no scholars who believe that Landau engaged in anti-Soviet activities (including Mr. Hao Bolin, who almost became a disciple of Landau). Even in the eyes of scholars in the opposing camp, Landau was always a fervent patriot (such as the American scientist Thorne). As a disciple of the extreme Wheeler, he was not as extreme as his teacher in the Soviet Union, but he was also opposed to it in general).

In this regard, Kaganov (author of The Landau School, who also worked with Landau) has systematically analyzed and refuted all claims that Landau was engaged in anti-Soviet and anti-Stalin activities, which can be consulted by those who are interested.

PS: Regarding the Landau case, Landau's attitude can explain some problems to some extent. Landau himself had always suspected that a colleague with whom he had a bad relationship had framed him (note that Landau himself also believed that it was a "frame-up"). This is indeed very probable, because of Landau's personality problems, he was already very unlikable among Soviet scientists.

Unlike scientists who have devoted their lives to revenge and personal vendetta (I won't know who I am here), Landau never makes accusations without tangible evidence, so he never says who he suspects. But I'm not as noble as he is, and I personally have some guesses about who he suspects. Of course, after all, this is a matter of no evidence, so my words should be used as a reference, not necessarily the truth.

The object of my suspicion is Ivanenko. Landau, though unlikable among the Soviet scientists, was rarely truly disgusted with him. Ivanenko is one of them.

My suspicions, in fact, have some circumstantial evidence from Landau himself. Although Landau himself never mentioned who he suspected during his lifetime, he made a noteworthy move: he specifically drew five papers from Landau's hand-picked collection of papers. And the collaborators of these 5 papers are all Ivanenko. According to Landau's colleagues, anyone who mentioned Ivanenko in front of Landau would damage relations with Landau.