Dorothy said that everyone knows a little bit about the particularity of Takakawa, which is a hot topic among the researchers in the hospital, and basically everyone thinks that Takakawa's secret is helpful for the study of the group of patients with doomsday syndrome, but once the role of this secret is clarified, it is difficult to make a reply to how much help it can bring to the study of the "virus". Some researchers regard Takakawa as the core, but others oppose this attitude, because they can find more logic and evidence to prove that Takakawa's peculiarity is not his natural state as a patient, but more of an acquired human factor - it is the cautious attitude of these researchers towards Takakawa and the resources invested in him far more than other patients with doomsday syndrome that set him up as a "special" example.

On the other hand, since Gao Chuan was able to live longer than other patients with doomsday syndrome with the help of a united group, doesn't that prove that the research of himself and others is not completely stagnant? Although no key progress has been made that can be called qualitative change, as long as Takakawa is alive and Takakawa continues to live, from a biological point of view, even if it can be maintained at the minimum level of survival, it is enough to attract the attention of more investors. Because, in the comparison of Gao Chuan, other patients with doomsday syndrome will only be worse.

Takakawa is an artificially set example, and this is the most powerful argument against those who regard Takakawa as the main direction of research - whether this statement is correct or not, but it is enough to win the trust of the big people outside, increase their confidence in the hospital, and reduce the enormous pressure on research within the hospital, so as to buy time. For many researchers, there are so many samples of patients with doomsday syndrome, and if you want to say that everyone is special, everyone is a little different from others, so why do you have to stick to Takakawa? For research, the most likely outcome is a universal case, not a special case, and even if a particular case is successful, it is difficult to guarantee that it can be replicated in other cases. Takakawa's role model is even more important than the direction of research given to him by the particularity he has shown.

But in any case, Gao Chuan is extremely important in the hospital in terms of status and performance. Just when Takakawa completely collapsed into an LCL and could not be saved by any special drugs and adjustment techniques, it was a terrible setback for most researchers, which meant that their efforts in the past failed to achieve their set goals, and everyone tried their best, in exchange for a complete failure. Takakawa's death means in part that the efforts of everyone in the past, even the official team led by Dr. Ander and the unknown underground research, have been in vain.

There is no more doomsday syndrome patient who has lived longer than Takagawa. In a sense, even the connecting colors and the Dorothy in front of them cannot be compared at this level, because the alienation between the two is too serious.

In his opinion, Takakawa's death was undoubtedly a signal, and after that, the anomalies in the hospital became extraordinarily active, and the condition of patients with doomsday syndrome deteriorated day by day, and the rate of infection and onset was much faster than in the past. Many researchers conclude that this is a sign that the "virus" is more active than in the past, and that Takakawa was able to survive in the past, precisely because the "virus" was not as active as it is now, so the technical means of himself and others are enough to achieve certain results, however, the problem is that some people see "Takakawa's death" as a signal - not because the "virus" is active, Takakawa will die, but because Takakawa died, the "virus" will become active.

What the hell is going on, no one can find conclusive evidence, and then the hospital is completely mired in anomalies, and it is even more difficult to find evidence. However, in the opinion of Fusakuo himself, the direction of underground research is obviously more biased towards the statement that "Takakawa's death" was the fuse rather than the result. The situation that Dorothy is talking about today is very close to this view: it is precisely because Takakawa is special that his death will be the fuse, and conversely, as long as Takakawa is a special secret is studied, then the anomalies that are now raging in the hospital will be suppressed, and the "virus" will fall back into inactivity. However, if Takakawa's peculiarities are really a completely man-made example, then his death is too desperate, which means that no matter which patient is used as a sample, it will not help to find out the problem in a short time, because the technology that the hospital had at the peak of research has been applied to Takakawa, and now there is no way to return to that high level, because there are too many deaths, and even if the research can continue, the special materials left in the hospital will not be able to support the development of new drugs.

"I don't have any position on the issue of Takakawa's peculiarities." "We don't know much about the virus, and it's the same for other patients who are not Gaochuan. However, Takakawa's performance in the hospital alone does not prove that your ideas are correct. And, I suspect that your thoughts, like those of drowning people who are anxious to grasp the last straw, are a choice that tends to be subjective rather than objectively necessary. If the original intention is wrong, it is easy to make mistakes in the interpretation of the research process and results. ”

That is, whether Takagawa is special or not, you need a logical and factual proof? If you think about it the other way around, those performances that seem more logical and practical may be the curtain to cover up the truth. Dorothy said calmly, "These explanations stay on the surface, and they can't get into the reason why his body can withstand so many special drugs, and they can't find the mechanism that keeps his personality coming into being, do they?" ”

"Even if it's just a superficial interpretation, it's logical...... I'm also a doomsday syndrome sufferer now, and I've seen a lot of strange things, those situations that have no logic and suddenly pop out of the cracks in the stones, which make me very insecure, and I don't know which ones are real. Bu Zuofu paused before continuing: "If you try to do something, I hope you are under the premise of objective rationality, otherwise, your research will only add fuel to the fire and worsen the situation in the hospital...... I guess the Takakawa clone is a good lesson, isn't it? ”

"If we don't have a husband, we don't have a choice." Dorothy's still calm tone made her husband choke, and what she said was really bloody, "We don't have a choice from the perspective of objective reason, and besides, in today's hospital, do you think there is still objective reason?" Don't forget, we're all doomsday syndrome sufferers, and what we see as objective reality is what we don't see in normal life. All patients with doomsday syndrome, no matter how rational they may be, are inherently irrational because we have lost the ability to observe objective standards. You have always advocated rationality and objectivity, so how do you distinguish whether the things that appear in front of your eyes are objective things or just your own illusions? Is it simply because they don't look like anything they've seen in their daily lives in the past? You are also a senior researcher, and using the so-called objectivity and rationality to prevaricate yourself is not what an expert should do. ”

"You think I'm prevaricating myself?" The expression of the husband was a little gloomy and unhappy, but there was a little pinprick pain in his heart.

"Is it prevaricating other people? So what's the point of doing it? It doesn't make sense to me, and the person asking you here may seem to you to be me, but it's actually you. Dorothy's answer made the husband sweat profusely, and for a while, he only felt that his head began to swell again, "Don't you really realize what kind of state you are in now?" ”

“…… Are you saying that all the questions and answers I'm going through now are just dreams? "It's a little hard to be a husband," "So what the hell are you?" Is it another me? Are the ideas about Dorothy and artificial hubs just delusions on my part? Is it just that I'm looking forward to it that much? ”

"No, it's not reality, but it's not just a dream either." Dorothy's voice replied, "Don't you have any doubts?" How exactly this underground facility was built and why it was so large, Dr. Ender has been kept in the dark, and in fact, only people have heard of underground research, but no one can actually find them. Do you really think that the buildings built in the hospital have never been inspected by Dr. Ender? Our research activities are enormous, and although rigorous, it is absolutely impossible not to leave any traces. ”

"What do you mean......" Busakuo tried to think in a certain direction, but the active mind suddenly led him to an idea that he couldn't believe, "Actually, the main body of underground research is not on the island at all?" ”

"Not on an island that you can see under normal circumstances, to be exact." Dorothy didn't seem to find a suitable explanation, and after a pause, she said, "If you believe in the parallel space theory, you can think of the location of this underground facility as a similar situation, although the actual situation is far from this theory. ”

"Parallel Space...... But what you meant before was a dream...... No! Bu Zuo felt that he might understand, "This is a dream-like space?" Can a man's dream itself become a spatial structure? ”

"That's one of the things we've gotten from our research." "It's a ready-made, dream-like space, but there's room for real feedback — we call it 'Dreamland,' and we didn't come up with the name ourselves," Dorothy said. ”

"Dreamland...... I just feel that there are more mysteries, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"It was originally an argument that originated in the hospital that patients with doomsday syndrome did not die from personality even after being incarnated into LCL, and since their personality was still active, it meant that LCL was actually a basic structure capable of maintaining the spirit, like a liquid brain. In this way, the patient is indeed dead from the point of view of the 'human body', but from the point of view of vital activity, he is still alive. Their personality and spirit exist in a network shared by all people with doomsday syndrome, however, because their original bodies have collapsed, they cannot even realize that they are living in such a network, not physically active, but only personal. ”

"It turned out to be this argument, like the legendary completely submersible virtual experience game." Buzuofu nodded, this argument is actually just a joke in the hospital after dinner, and no one analyzes it from the perspective of virtual experience, because if it is only a virtual experience, the level involved is too superficial. It is important to know that the LCL formed after the collapse of the patient is in some way completely different from the human body.

"Yes, it's a virtual experience, but it's not quite. As I said, it's a dream, but everything that is done here forms an objective and real feedback. You can be born, grow, age, and die here as you normally would, not in a virtual experience, which is simulated by data, but in the changes of yourself, your personality, your spirit, and your body, all in sync with that. Even so, there are many things that were not anomalous in the 'real world' that people used to think of, so in order to distinguish them from dreams, we called them phantom dreams. ”

"I see." The husband roughly understood what Dorothy meant, but more questions arose, such as: "In other words, all the anomalies actually happened in the dream world, and the ordinary world we have been living in the past still exists?" So, when did the ordinary real world enter the realm of dreams? And how can I get out? You already have some dream-related technology, right? That's why we were able to hide in a place where no one could find it, build such a huge base, and carry out such an active operation. ”

"The dream is complex, not only layered, but also regional, it is not a whole piece of common sense, nor is it just a thread sticking to it, like a cut cheese. We don't know much about the overall structure of the dreamscape, but it might be more accurate to imagine that it is like the face of a diamond, and the more faces, the brighter it becomes, and the illusion used by this underground facility is just one of these faces. Further, patients with doomsday syndrome are more likely to be on the other side of the illusion after the collapse, and for convenience, it also has a name: doomsday illusion. ”

Buzuofu was silent for a moment, and then said, "I don't think you should be called Dorothy, you should be called Alice."