Dr. Ander tossed and turned in bed, the difficulties he faced now were unimagined, like a fog obscuring his mind, and although his mind was still quick and clear, he could not grasp the key to solving the problem. As a researcher, he not only pays attention to the accumulation of quality in ordinary times, but also pays attention to occasional flashes of inspiration. Leaving aside the quality of his own research, although the idea of a flash of inspiration may seem elusive and like a stroke of luck, in a sense, this phenomenon, which is mostly considered a "flash of wisdom", has not been included in the scope of scientific research, as if it were mocking people's self-proclaimed worldview and methodology as a source of progress. There seem to be many people who can make achievements in history, but they are very rare in the total number of human beings, and the difference in proportion almost makes people can't help but believe that "God" exists, and the so-called "wisdom" of human beings is not produced and increased by human evolution itself, but because "God" sets such a rhythm for people to discover and follow.

In the past, Dr. Ender used to be a theist, and then in the process of becoming a scientific researcher, he gradually became an atheist, and when he came to this island hospital, after witnessing the fact that science is powerless, and after realizing the weakness and powerlessness of human intelligence in the face of the accelerating disaster, he also began to hope that there really is a so-called omniscient and all-powerful God, and he hopes that this God can be merciful, not to mention that it can directly solve the root cause of the disaster. At the very least, I hope to give humanity time to grow.

In the face of that inconceivable and incomprehensible "virus", if there is no savior, and there is no reliance on the words of the gods and gods, human beings alone will never be able to overcome this catastrophe in a limited time—although this idea is full of negative factors, but everything that Dr. Ender knows, and the conclusions that he has come to by logical thinking according to what he sees, tell him this result.

Some scholars have long pointed out that the most critical reason why human beings have been able to grow and expand on this planet is not that human evolution is correct, but because human beings have the time and space to evolve. On this basis, the enemies that human beings have to face often show a certain intermittent and stepped nature, and in a sense, because of the relative problem of intermittent and stepped laws, the planet can be regarded as a closed environment, and an ideal closed environment model can be used to deduce theories, and then from theory to practice, to transform themselves or their own environment.

It is a relatively standard, perfect, growth environment that can produce and be guided by a universal theory, and it is very stable, allowing human beings to evolve and understand themselves and the outside at a relatively safe pace that they can adapt to. And it is only in such a relatively safe environment, which is determined by many factors, that human beings can have enough time and space.

The soil for the development of science is also determined by such an environment. When science becomes important in human civilization, the more it adapts to the laws and pace of human evolution and growth, and it will not become faster or slow down suddenly. Science that has grown up in this way has kept humanity from self-destructive, and has ensured that humanity has the ability to solve problems when it is frequently exposed to the dangers of ascending heights.

But this is also the most terrible danger: all dangers that conform to the law of ladders cannot destroy humanity, but only become food for human growth, and conversely, mankind has fully adapted to the current law of the ladder of dangers. So, once an enemy has arisen that violates the law of this dangerous ladder, can humanity readapt before it is destroyed?

It's like a relatively fixed food chain in a forest, and suddenly break into a terrifying existence at the top of the food chain. In the process of reconstructing the new food chain around it, it is likely that many of the lower layers of the food chain that cannot adapt to this change will be extinct.

There is no doubt that even though science has shown infinite possibilities and a vast future, it will still take time for it to develop. Moreover, this time depends on the speed at which the ladder of danger that humanity needs to face progresses. As a kind of worldview and methodology that grows like climbing steps, once you encounter cliffs, oceans, and ravines with no end in sight, how can you cross the past? Of course, if you have enough time, you probably can. However, the so-called sufficient time still depends on the law of the ladder of danger, and people who have adapted to the law of the inherent ladder of danger will always lack time in the face of sudden changes that have departed from the law of the ladder of inherent danger.

Such an idea or theory, although it has been around for quite some time, is not liked by people, is regarded as non-mainstream, or even not regarded as a scientific category. When Dr. Ender heard about such ideas and theories in the past, he did not scoff at them, but at best he listened to them as an unconventional anecdote.

The most central factor in human evolution and growth is the existence of stable time and space, and both depend on the regularity of the dangerous ladder to which humans have adapted in a relatively closed environment – which seems to be telling the story of a caged bird.

Are humans caged birds? Dr. Ander didn't think so in the past, although he didn't think about this issue in particular, but, like most people, he always felt that human beings can be more proud, can take a long-term view, when their own thoughts and thinking become full, that broad vision always makes him feel that the future of human beings is the sea of stars, and such human beings, how can they be caged birds?

However, when he came to this isolated island hospital, recognized the existence of the "virus", and tried all means to prevent those terrible disasters from happening, a huge sense of powerlessness suddenly reminded him of the theory of the regularity of the dangerous ladder. He had to suspect that the "virus" that mankind is facing today is something that is out of this dangerous ladder of regularity. In this theory, when faced with such a "virus", human beings will completely lose the time and space to make progress and growth.

That's what frightens people the most - Ender thinks he's a pretty good group of human beings, and he's confident in human growth and problem-solving skills, but if humans don't get the time, space, and opportunity to do so, they're suffocated in an invisible cage......

Those who can still grow have been stifled like this, and those who have almost grown have died like this...... All kinds of memories and imaginations about it come to Dr. Ender's mind when he closes his eyes: as if he killed a mosquito, trampled an ant's nest, poured water into the frog's stomach and let it die, or inadvertently broke a flower and stopped its pollination.

Sometimes these behaviors are deliberate, sometimes ignorant, most of the time they are funny and selfish, and sometimes they are forced, and the reason why they can do such things is simply because, in the eyes of human beings, these harmed things are like being trapped in a small cage, so powerless and vulnerable, even ignorant or unintentional actions may cause them to suffer a catastrophe.

So, in the face of the "virus", are human beings so vulnerable? Could it be that the catastrophe of the spread that we are witnessing is nothing more than an ignorant and unintentional act of the terrible "virus"? Or is it funny and selfish? Is it intentional? Was it forced? But in any case, it wreaks havoc in the hospital, showing terrible signs in the environment outside the hospital, and in the face of such movements, the powerless people do feel like they are trapped in a cage.

Dr. Ender didn't want to be killed like this, so he died, and he felt that there would be people who wanted humanity to end up like this. However, just as ants, frogs, flowers, and mosquitoes failed to resist their own intentional or unintentional malice in the past, can human beings resist this invisible malice? He tossed and turned, unable to find a reason to comfort himself anyway.

He coughed, his mind was confused, but he couldn't really fall asleep, so he opened his eyes and walked to the other side of the room, driven by a confused emotion. He paced back and forth, and as he passed by the doorway, he could vaguely feel that behind the shadows, there was some seemingly non-existent activity, like the researchers who had not yet fallen asleep were busy, and it seemed like something other unusual was active. The fear that came to his mind made him afraid to open the door in the middle of the night, and he could still recall how those "Takakawa clones" could easily and quickly hunt the survivors of the hospital, and all kinds of grotesque phenomena that were almost only heard of in mysterious stories, in the mysterious nights and corners.

The hospital has become so dangerous that even if you get out of it, you can't leave the island, and there is no safe place on the island anymore - although everyone seems to have been here for a while, who can be sure that the dangers that have eroded the hospital and the island will not enter this patient dormitory that seems to hide some secrets?

Sakiya, Hakkei, and Marceau have clues that attract some survivors, who believe that the cards made by the three girls hide the secret of the "virus". Dr. Ender can't say they're wrong, but the evidence that they are right isn't enough. When he heard the leaders of the survivors tell their inferences and conjectures, he was sure that they were just desperate, desperate and stubborn to confirm a path that would reassure them and others - in fact, they didn't care if their theories were correct and feasible, they would continue as long as there was no evidence to prove them wrong, and they were not so keen to find evidence of right or wrong.

Dr. Ender, who was also interested in their theory, found it difficult to approve of it, and promised to study the data that had been collated and help them get more relevant data, not because he wanted to be one of them. A sense of persecution was always present in him, and he was desperate to find a "more correct, more promising, more suitable for himself" path, method, theory, or something, but the flash of inspiration that had appeared in the past had not appeared in him for a long time, and he could not do anything about it.

Dr. Ender felt that he had aged much in a short period of time, both physically and mentally, with a twilight that frightened him.

He wanted excitement, he wanted inspiration, he wanted everything to be groundbreaking, he wanted to break free from that invisible cage.

The more you fear, the more you want.

Dr. Ender paced back and forth in the room, round and round, his mind full of thoughts, and he began to wonder what he was thinking. He was irritable, frightened, but afraid to leave the room. From time to time, he would go out of the window, wanting to see through the glass window if there would be some unexpected changes outside, and to find inspiration that would give him a flash of inspiration. However, every time there was only disappointment, and each disappointment brought a stronger sense of despair, and each deepening of despair made him feel like he was going crazy, and even as he paced, he was not sure if he was still normal.

There was a voice that kept screaming in his ear, telling him, either substantially or implicitly, that he had become a madman, a mental patient like the patients under his control, and that all those around him were insane. Staying here by yourself is nothing more than learning from an ostrich to bury its head in the sand.

There is no hope, there is no hope, there is no hope...... Dr. Ender thumped his head, squeezed his eyes, and covered his ears, trying to block out the crazy voices and thoughts, and wanted to hide in the once daunting "silent and dark little dark room".

He looked out the window again, and then, stunned.

He saw a moon of this size that he had never seen before, a standard sphere that was completely different from the actual data, and the outline of the crater on the surface was so clear. It was a clear and huge sight, as if it were about to fall from the sky. Moreover, there was a faint layer of red that gradually covered the bright yellow light. Dr. Ander didn't know how to describe his feelings, because the sight of the moon was beyond his knowledge, and it was a sight he had never thought would actually appear in reality.

The doubts and madness in his heart made him wonder if he had walked into a ridiculous and mysterious story.

“…… hat_The_Fuck！？ ”