There is no doubt that Huang Yilun secretly copied the key to Ji Lan's house when Ji Lan was not paying attention.

Huang Yilun also received a request from the police that day, but he waited for Ji Lan to leave home and stole the hard drive before reporting to the police station.

"Wait!" I interrupted Ji Lan's narration and asked, "Surveillance is installed in your room, and you must have seen the surveillance video before calling the police, that is, you knew from the beginning that the person who stole your hard drive was Huang Yilun, but you hid this from the police!" What went wrong in between? ”

Ji Lan knew that the suspect was Huang Yilun, but he deliberately didn't say it, and this was not to cover up the criminal, on the contrary, Ji Lan also took the initiative to call the police.

Of course, there is a problem with this.

But I didn't ask why Ji Lan wanted to hide it for Huang Yilun, but asked what was wrong, I think Ji Lan must be able to understand what I mean.

Sure enough, Ji Lan replied without hesitation: "In order to prove—in order to prove to me, the correctness of that theory." ”

Since he was arrested, Ji Lan has mentioned the word "that theory" several times, and I have never asked a question about "that theory", I think now is the time.

"By 'that theory', do you mean the 'quantum suicide' theory?"

Ji Lan sneered: "It's not that simple. K's theory consists of two parts, the first part is based on the theory of 'quantum suicide', which can prove the immortality of consciousness by proving the correctness of the theory of quantum suicide......"

"The premise of the feasibility of the quantum suicide theory is the multiverse hypothesis, can you prove the existence of parallel universes?"

Although the only thing I know about the quantum suicide theory is that I heard it from Shen Tangzhi not long ago, this can actually be regarded as a hypothesis derived from the parallel universe theory, so I don't plan to discuss anything about "consciousness" with Ji Lan at all, it is too illusory to draw any useful conclusions.

In response to my question, Ji Lan shrugged: "Parallel universes? I certainly can't prove that it exists. ”

I raised my eyebrows and glanced at Shen Tangzhi beside me, but Shen Tangzhi was deep in thought and ignored me completely.

At this time, Ji Lan said: "It seems that Section Chief Shen seems to understand. ”

Shen Tangzhi came back to her senses at this time, she frowned lightly: "That hard drive, no matter how you or K give a hint, we can't get the content in it, this is what you call 'proof', right?" ”

Ji Lan's eyes stared at Shen Tangzhi, and the corners of his mouth slowly and exaggeratedly raised, revealing a bright smile that made his back chill.

And I suddenly understood what Shen Tang meant.

We can't find that "game", or do anything to investigate, experiment, or destroy that "game" - if the theory in Ji Lan's mouth is true, then we can't touch that "game" at all!

Because, we are not "qualified".

Because, consciousness is immortal.

Therefore, Ji Lan can unscrupulously convey the hint to the police that "that hard drive is the key to solving the case", and K can also sell Ji Lan's whereabouts to me without Ji Lan knowing.

And no matter how many prompts we get, we can't find the hard drive, and even if we do, there will be a very bizarre coincidence that completely destroys the data in the hard drive!

These actions are proof, proving to Ji Lan that consciousness is immortal.

The "consciousness" here does not refer to my consciousness, Shen Tangzhi's consciousness, Cheng Cheng's consciousness, or even Ji Lan's consciousness, the consciousness here refers to those consciousnesses that have died in reality, but are "alive" in "Eternal Life Game".

Just like the quantum suicide experiment, no matter how many times the pistol is fired, it will always make a "click" sound to your consciousness, and you will continue to live in a certain world forever.

Those who survive in "Eternal Game", they are the "qualified ones", that is, the people who sit in front of the gun, and K and Ji Lan keep pulling the trigger of the pistol, but until now, all the facts have proved that the pistol will always jam for various reasons.

I couldn't find any words to refute for a while, so I could only be silent.

Seeing that we had nothing to say, Ji Lan continued: "The second major part of K's theory is a method, a method to become a 'qualifier'. ”

"They didn't get 'eternal life,' did they?" Shen Tangzhi suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

Ji Lan pursed his lips: "Of course, why are they?" ”

"Because you're not using the right approach?"

"They're volunteers, the equivalent of testers."

"Sacrifices?"

Ji Lan thought for a while: "You can also say the same. ”

"I guessed what that was going to be, but why didn't we find it in the field? It's impossible to use your mind, right? It has to be a concrete thing. So I'm still curious about the right answer—if you'll tell me. ”

"I can't tell you." Ji Lan said, "This has a lot to do with me - I can only hint here." ”

Shen Tangzhi nodded and stopped asking.

The two replied like a code, which made Cheng Cheng a little confused, but he also knew that he would at least wait until the end of the interrogation to ask Shen Tangzhi, but judging from Cheng Cheng's expression, this had choked him enough. And by the middle of their conversation, I had a rough idea of what the two of them were playing.

The two main parts of K's theory, one is that consciousness is immortal, and the other is the method of consciousness transfer.

According to the content of the dialogue between the two of them, these 6 people died in vain, and they did not become "qualified people", unable to transfer their consciousness to the "Eternal Life Game", and became dead forever.

And the "thing" in Shen Tangzhi's mouth refers to the item used for consciousness transfer - "Eternal Life Game", which is like a carrier for storing consciousness, and transferring consciousness also requires a carrier.

After Ji Lan said this, she refused to answer any questions about "consciousness transfer", but when I asked her about the six suicides, she was very happy to talk about it.

After discovering that the hard drive was lost, Ji Lan checked the surveillance video at home and found that the perpetrator was Huang Yilun, she immediately decided to call the police - although the two knew each other, they were only known by their screen names, and Ji Lan at that time did not know Huang Yilun's real name, nor did he know his address and other information.

But just as Ji Lan picked up the phone and was about to dial, a line of subtitles suddenly popped up in the surveillance video:

Don't do it!

As soon as these five words appeared, Ji Lan suddenly remembered the opening words of the guy named "Username Does Not Exist" in the weird chat room on the dark web: "Don't do this, Ji Lan!" ”

Ji Lan was so frightened that her phone fell to the floor.

The subtitles scrolled up, all of them were instructions to Ji Lan, and the final payment was indeed "the username does not exist"!

This information tells Ji Lan the theory of immortality of consciousness and how to transmit his consciousness into the "Eternal Life Game", and the process itself will prove the truth and correctness of everything.

When Ji Lan finished reading this subtitle, he rewind the surveillance video, only to find that only the normal surveillance image remained, and the subtitle disappeared.

Ji Lan didn't dare to disobey the instructions, so he could only do it.

So, she reported the theft to the police, but concealed the fact that she knew the suspect.

Immediately after, she posted on the dark web recruiting volunteers.

Two days later, at midnight on September 12, Huang Yilun "committed suicide" and died, and the hard drive containing "Eternal Life Game" was taken.

This was the task of the first volunteer: to get the key to Huang Yilun's house from a locker in a supermarket near Huang Yilun's house, and then enter Huang Yilun's home at a fixed time and take the hard drive.

Ji Lan recruited a total of 5 volunteers, and their tasks were all the same - after the previous volunteer was ready to "commit suicide", he put his key in a supermarket locker, and then gave Ji Lan the password, and Ji Lan notified the next volunteer to get the key and recover the hard drive at a fixed time.

The hard drive where the "Eternal Game" is stored is like a baton in a relay race, passing in the hands of one "volunteer" after another.

Ironically, it does not convey eternal life, but death.

Like the volunteers recruited by Ji Lan, for K, Ji Lan may be just a volunteer.

Not the first, and it won't be the last.