Chapter 40: Fighting Poison with Poison

In today's world, where economic prosperity and material and health conditions have been greatly improved, the scale of human society is unprecedentedly large, and the groups that maintain social order and the individuals in the order interact with each other, but most of the time the distance between each other is like the distance from the atomic nucleus to the outside of the atom, which is insignificant from a macro perspective and unreachable from a micro perspective.

If we narrow our perspective to the individuals who make up society, it may appear that their situation is influenced by only a small number of people around them, and this influence is easy to observe and speculate. It's like a magnet placed above the nail, because the electromagnetic force is much greater than the gravitational force, so the nail flies into the arms of the magnet, and the result and process are clear at a glance.

But if you zoom in on the perspective, it's no longer that simple.

In fact, there are almost no independent individuals in human society, even if they don't go out all year round, it will have an impact on the sales of a certain instant noodles in the convenience store downstairs.

So, if you look at it a little higher, you will find that people are like electrons in an electromagnetic field: each electron changes the state of the electric field around the other electrons, and as long as there are electrons, the electric field changes, and the changed electric field affects the movement of other electrons.

But if you look at it again, you can see that different people form groups based on concepts such as nation, state, culture, and faith, and some of these groups are large but can work together seamlessly. These groups are like planets in a galaxy orbiting and interacting with each other, and each of them works smoothly.

So, assuming that all human beings are a sum of mutual influence and mutual stability, without being affected by external forces, are all human beings destined to continue in the original direction according to the original pace?

Or, in fact, there is no set direction at all, human society is originally a collection of unexpected factors and instability, every step is in chaos, and the future may change at any time due to the whims of an individual?

This seems to be a scientific question, but also a philosophical question, in short, it is a question that is 108,000 miles away from Fang Ziyu, but it is a question that he has to think about now.

"Hell, where did that guy come from? Why would he change the future I see? ”

In the standard room of the small guest house, Fang Ziyu paced back and forth beside the bed with a faint musty smell, talking to himself, while pulling his hair and scratching it, like a sloppy man who hadn't washed his hair for half a year, but it was not dandruff that fell down, but hair.

encountered an unexpected situation, Fang Ziyu couldn't care about hair loss, and even the original purpose of this trip was temporarily forgotten, focusing on the latest video released by the tablet in the future.

Obviously, the murderer in the second half of the video is a key figure in changing the future, but it is not clear from the video whether he knows the thin boy who was killed, whether he has old grudges, and it is impossible to determine his motive for killing.

Returning to the complex problem between science and philosophy, if there is no "fixed future", then the murderer may have killed the emaciated boy for some reason, which led to a change in the future observed by Fang Ziyu.

On the contrary, if the future does not change without being affected by external forces, then it must be an "external force" that causes the future to change.

Fang Ziyu has this magical "external force" in his hands, and he has rewritten the future more than once, which makes him can't help but think.

Perhaps, the murderer who appears in the second half of the video is also the future notebook holder? Or is it the subordinate of a certain future notebook holder, like Xu Baiyi, Sun Jie, and Feng Hao under Fang Ziyu?

Thinking of this possibility, Fang Ziyu's heart pounded.

The long-lost stimulation came one after another like a wave, forcing Fang Ziyu to speed up the rate and amplitude of his breathing.

After taking a few deep breaths, Fang Ziyu sat back in his seat with his left chest covered, and he made a decision in his heart.

You can't get out of the way, you have to get involved!

First of all, if you really happen to run into another future notebook holder, it may be a great opportunity to learn about future notebooks, and you can't let it go easily.

Second, killing emaciated boys is likely to delay the occurrence of food poisoning and treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, because the emaciated boys may not be the poisoners.

In the first half of the video, the grumpy AD contestant said a sentence after the thin boy left the dormitory: The food is cold, does it take so long to walk from the cafeteria!

The truth is that there is no need, and in the second half of the video, the skinny boy rushed back to the dormitory immediately after getting the rice bowl, neither opening the lunch box nor doing anything superfluous to waste time, from the time he left the cafeteria to the time he was killed, there were less than five minutes in total.

It's not winter in the north, it's autumn in the south, and how can the rice bowl cool down so quickly when it's packed in a lunch box?

Or, the thin boy was the poisoner, and he opened his lunch box after entering the dormitory building and poisoned it, which delayed for a long time.

Or, there was a problem with the donburi he got in the cafeteria in the first place.

At that time, the cafeteria was full of freshmen in military training uniforms, and every window was crowded with people, and you could get five donburi in a few minutes after swiping your card? Isn't it too fast?

Fang Ziyu often eats lunch in the Yinda canteen, and he knows that when there are many people, he has to eat fried rice bowls, and he has to wait for more than ten minutes just to queue up - even if the dishes have been washed and cut, the rice has already been cooked, and it takes time to select side dishes and put them in the pot to stir-fry.

Assuming that the poisoner was someone else, he might have prepared five rice bowls and hid them in the crowd in his military training uniform, and when the thin boy was pushed out, he would put the rice bowls at the window where he was picking up the rice and shout that the rice was ready.

In the noisy and chaotic canteen, who can tell who is shouting? Even the surveillance was tightly blocked by the wall outside the window, and even if the thin boy guessed that he was framed after the incident, he could not prove his innocence.

Deduced to this point, Fang Ziyu immediately thought of Jiang Lan.

"Tsk, we still have to let him come to Los Angeles." Fang Ziyu put on the voice changer, took out the spare mobile phone, inserted the anonymous phone card, and wrote a foreign number on the dial pad.

Observing the future of trajectory changes, Fang Ziyu's main energy should be invested in another future notebook holder who may exist.

As for the poisoner, leave it to Jiang Lan.

The most effective weapon against a high-IQ criminal is another high-IQ criminal.

"Hey."

After the call was dialed, an elderly voice came from the speaker of the phone.

Fang Ziyu didn't say anything, and then asked, "What's the matter?" ”

This time, the voice returned to normal, and it seemed that Jiang Lan's pseudophonic skills had improved by leaps and bounds.

"You're coming to L.A., there's a mission." Fang Ziyu gave the order bluntly.

"What task?"

"I'll ask when you get to L.A."

"Okay." Jiang Lan barely paused as he spoke, "What task?" ”

"Huh?"

"I've arrived."