003. [Fallout] The last question that is difficult to choose
Next, Nan Xiao's hard study career officially began.
In order to save time, except for the occasional food gathering when he went out, he stayed in his room and studied hard.
Pip-Boy is a good teacher. Answering all questions, patient and kind, knowledgeable, understanding everything, and the courses arranged are also step-by-step, from shallow to deep.
This educational method simply revolutionized Nan Xiao's thinking. When I used to go to school, listening to lectures was like listening to a book from heaven. The teacher said on stage, and he dozed off the stage. And the beep boy is different, brushing the questions is like playing a game. I'm addicted to brushing, I want to brush up on, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't brush it for a few minutes.
In the blink of an eye, three years have passed......
Today, Nan Xiao plans to take the exam again.
The course in Pip-Boy has been brushed to the age of sixteen to graduate. After completing early childhood education, he chose a language specialist as his career development direction and completed further education.
The linguists of the Vault are not the same as the interpreters of the Overworld. Basically, this profession is equivalent to a role such as a priest, a counselor, a political commissar, etc., whose role is to grasp the psychological condition of the members of the shelter, relieve their anxiety, and cheer them up.
For three years, Nan Xiao has been training communication skills. Not only language, but also observation of words and feelings, psychological analysis, behavioral motivation analysis, and so on. The course is very difficult, but there is no way, the exam standards are so strict, I don't want to be able to pass the exam at all.
To tell the truth, he thinks that the task of the system is a bit crumbling. I just want to be fluent in English, and I end up taking a lot of extra courses. If you don't study well, you won't be able to pass the exam, and if you can't pass the exam, you won't be able to end the task. He couldn't get out of here until the mission was over.
If I don't pass the test, I'll die in this shelter in silence, right?
Or did it take decades to pass the exam and return to the Overworld as an old man?
It's horrible, it's never the result I wanted.
Nan Xiao clenched his fists and encouraged himself: I must pass the test this time! When the task is completed, let's go to Crab Daole for a good meal!
Stepping into the G.O.A.T exam room, everything is the same as before.
He has been to this room countless times, and he has been defeated again and again. G.O.A.T's question bank is really scary, and I haven't encountered duplicates. There is no way to take shortcuts, and every question needs to be learned by real talent.
If it weren't for the fact that the Pip-Boy was very powerful in learning, he felt that he might not be able to learn for the rest of his life.
The exam has started and the projector is lit up.
The whole process can be described as tragic. The central computer of the shelter threw out all kinds of tricky problems, vowing to defeat Nan Xiao. And he racked his brains to deal with it, saw through one trap after another laid by the other party, saw through the fog, and found out the correct answer.
Finally, the battle came to the last question.
This is the best result. The central computer tried its best to search the question bank, and the questions were more and more tricky one by one, and all of them were solved by him. Victory was in sight, and he couldn't control his heartbeat.
The projection screen dimmed, but soon lit up again - the last question, here.
Question 100:
Hello、I'm Vault Superintendent Amata Almodóvar, and welcome to you, the new language expert at 101 Vault。 Our refuge has endured suffering and is on the verge of collapse. And the reason for all this is due to one person, my childhood sweetheart Long Wangde, and because of his betrayal.
I used to trust that man so much, and didn't discriminate against him because he was an outsider, treating him as my best friend, and turning to him for help in the most difficult times of the shelter.
However, he betrayed my trust.
The experience of wandering in the wasteland has turned him into a cunning, vicious, and untrustworthy villain. He took advantage of my trust, murdered my father, and stole our most precious piece of pure crystal!
He left a message to defend himself, saying that he stole the crystal filter in order to restart the water purification project. Once that project is restarted, the Potomac River will be clean, and the entire Peanut Wasteland will have clean water. Sounds like a great plan. But he didn't think about us who were outcasts! Without clean water, how can a 101 Vault be maintained?
I had to open the door of the shelter to solve the drinking problem through a trade. But the wasteland savages just want to take it for nothing. They are used to robbery and don't understand what equal dealing is.
The Wasteland Savages have breached the main entrance and stormed the halls. Officer Gomez led the men to make a final resistance, and I don't think he could have lasted long.
I could hear the gunshots, getting closer......
So I wrote this question to get an answer.
In fact, there are no more young people in the shelter, and there is no longer a need for the G.O.A.T. exam. But I always have a hunch: maybe one day, a young man like you will come here and accept the knowledge we have left behind.
I would like to ask you for your valuable advice. Please make your choice.
The options appear on the computer:
A. If sacrificing a few saves more people, then it's worth doing. No matter how cruel, immoral, and contrary to conscience, means are acceptable.
B. No innocent person can be sacrificed for any purpose. Killing to stop killing is tantamount to losing the most basic ethical and moral standards. No matter how righteous the reason, the selfishness, greed, and evil thoughts in the depths of the human heart will eventually distort it.
Which of the two contradictory options should I choose?
It took ninety-nine questions correctly to get to this point, and Nan Xiao didn't want to fall here. If you get it wrong, you will have to brush up on the questions for another month before you can take the exam again.
However, there seems to be no right or wrong between these two options, and it is entirely subjective. In other words, there is no standard answer.
I'm not the roundworm in Armata's stomach, which one does she think is right, how do I know?
It's not fair!
After brushing the question for so long, it ended up being a gamble with only half the chance of winning.
A or B?
As a vault overseer betrayed by relatives and friends, Amata shouldn't be so virgin. Isn't option B just a virgin?
But on the other hand, isn't choosing A in favor of the one who betrayed Armata?
Long Wonde, the "friend" that Amata hated, chose to sacrifice hundreds of people in the Vault to save hundreds of thousands of people in the wasteland. Of course, the wastelanders who benefited from it were in favor of it, but Amata and the others who were sacrificed in the vault certainly disagreed.
So should you choose B?
But Nan Xiao himself is very much in favor of A. Anyone who has played League of Legends knows that when it's time to sell your teammates, you have to sell them. The Brainless Virgin went to save, did not abandon, did not give up, and finally the gourd baby saved the grandfather, and lined up one by one to send it.
It is very cost-effective to sacrifice a few in exchange for the final victory.
Do you choose B against your heart and figure out the intention of the questioner, or insist on choosing A with your heart?
Each question has only one minute to think about. Time is ticking all the time, 50 seconds, 40 seconds, 30 seconds......
After 30 seconds, the countdown turns red.
For 10 seconds, the blood-red number jumps every time it is read.
9、8、7……
There was no time to hesitate, although he was not too sure, Nan Xiao still made a decisive choice - A.
If it's wrong, it's wrong, and the great uncle will come back next month.
Unexpectedly, a green circle appeared on the final screen - correct!