052 Despair is the greatest enemy in the world

"What's wrong?"

Su Enxi tilted her head suspiciously.

Although she has no experience in feelings, she is a self-proclaimed emotional guru and feels that her judgment should be generally fine.

Whether it is emotional factors or interest factors, it is against common sense if the dignified dragon king is angry because of a cabbage that has not been raised for a long time.

If you are so stupid, you can't live now.

Jiude Mai also looked at her suspiciously, although she proposed this possibility, she really didn't think too much, Su Enxi's words just now had convinced her.

"Have you ever heard, the little match girl?"

Zero didn't answer directly, but asked a question softly.

"The little match girl? Heard. ”

Su Enxi nodded, this story is one of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and it belongs to the level of household name.

It is a tragic story of a little girl who makes a living by selling matches, and freezes to death on a cold Christmas Eve because she can't sell matches.

"Does that have anything to do with what I said?"

She asked, confused.

Zero shook his head, not answering her question, but continuing to ask.

"Why did she light all the matches in one go before she died, instead of using them one by one?"

Hearing this question, Su Enxi and Jiude Mai glanced at each other incomprehensibly.

In the story of "The Little Match Girl", the little girl tried to strike a match to keep warm before she froze to death, and every time she struck a match, a warm fireplace, roast duck, Christmas tree, and all other good things in the world appeared, and these things disappeared when the match was extinguished.

And after using three, she saw her dead grandmother, and in order to prevent her from disappearing, she lit all the matches in one go, and then followed her grandmother to heaven, and the next day someone found that she had frozen to death.

It's a story that's as simple as it gets.

"Is it because she misses her grandmother, or is it because a match isn't enough to keep her warm?"

Mai Liquor expresses her conjectures from both fantasy and physics.

The content of the fairy tale itself is that the little girl is reluctant to give up her grandmother, and from a practical physical point of view, Mai feels that a match is not enough to keep warm, maybe it is because she feels cold so she uses all the matches, is there anything wrong with this?

Hearing Jiude Mai's answer, Zero didn't give an evaluation, just looked at the two silently.

Su Enxi shook his head and denied Jiude Mai's conjecture.

"No, it's not!"

"From a real physical point of view, neither a match nor a match is enough to keep warm in the snow and wind, and the little girl at that time may not feel cold...... She was frozen to death, and those who really froze to death may not be conscious before they die. ”

"People who have been in a state of severe hypothermia for a long time will have an abnormal expansion of blood vessels, resulting in a sudden increase in blood vessel flow, a brief increase in the skin on the surface of the human body, and then the hypothalamus sends out wrong instructions, making the brain mistakenly think that the body is very hot, and even makes people so hot that they take off their clothes, which is the phenomenon of abnormal undressing."

"Andersen may not have understood this scientific knowledge, but he must have seen people who froze to death, and people who froze to death often had a smile on their faces, because they felt that they were actually warm enough to relax under the judgment of their minds."

"According to the description earlier in the story, being able to get warmth from a match proves that the little girl's brain has miscalculated, and she is already warm enough with only one match, so it is impossible to light all matches for heating."

"As for missing her grandmother, why didn't she light the matches one by one? She could see her for longer, and with her misjudgment of her body temperature, she might think she would be able to hold out until tomorrow, when matches should be her hope for survival, and should never be so wasted. ”

Su Enxi crackled and said a lot of words.

Mai blinked, and after digesting it, raised an objection.

"Didn't you say that her consciousness was no longer normal, she may not have been able to maintain her sanity at that time, and she could not think that far."

"But what if she really thinks so far?"

Su Enxi asked rhetorically.

"Remember that star, she may not have known it was her own death omen, but she definitely knew that someone was going to die."

Before the little girl struck the third match, she saw a meteor flash in the sky and remembered that her grandmother had told her that it was a sign that someone was dying.

"But what does that have to do with her lighting all the matches?" Mai asked puzzled.

"She probably knew that people would die eventually, and in her mind she might think that she would be able to hold on until the sun came out tomorrow by saving the matches one by one, but she didn't do this, and finally chose a stud and used all the matches clean."

Su Enxi looked directly into the eyes of Jiude Mai.

"If that's the case, then she didn't freeze to death, she chose to commit suicide before she froze to death, and the way to commit suicide was to use up all her hopes in one go."

“……”

Wine De Mai was dumbfounded for a while.

"But why did she do this, according to you, although it was a miscalculation, she should also feel that she can survive until tomorrow in her hallucination, why give up?"

"Because of despair!"

Su Enxi said in a faint voice.

"The boss said that despair is the biggest enemy in the world, and the little girl no longer believes in any future, so there is no need to keep hope, she no longer believes in tomorrow."

Zero nodded quietly, indicating that this was what he wanted to say.

There was a long silence in the room, as if a silent bell was slowly echoing.

Half an hour later.

Jiude Mai finally came back to her senses and shivered slightly.

"So, you mean, the little dragon girl will really destroy the world for the sake of the little cabbage?"

She finally understood what the two meant.

Su Enxi came to a conclusion within the framework of reason, combining emotions and interests, believing that Xia Mi would not go to great lengths for the sake of her family, but Zero overturned her theory.

If the presence of the little cabbage is the third match, or the last straw that breaks the camel's back, even if he and the dragon king do not have a deep relationship, it is very likely to cause the dragon king to fall into despair.

The desperate dragon king will not care about any hope of revival, no matter whether it is blood relatives or what, they will turn into flames and burn out together, for dragons, complete destruction is not an ending that has never been imagined.

"No, my previous theory has not been completely overturned, but it is just a very small possibility."

Su Enxi shook her head.

"Sanwuniu's guess does have a theoretical basis, but it is basically a small probability event, after all, no one knows how many matches the little cabbage is."

"However, our task is to avoid this small probability event, so we should pay more attention to the little cabbage these days, and avoid him from having an accident without exposing us, so we must-"

Su was about to say what she was going to do to strengthen her preparedness.

Suddenly, Zero's slightly surprised voice sounded, directly interrupting her.

"Something happened to the target!"

Su Enxi and Jiude Mai Huo Ran pounced, looking extremely nervous.

……

……

Unit 15, Room 201.

Xia Mi, who was chatting in the forum, always had hidden worries in her heart for some reason.

The monster mentioned by the [Accounting Maid] before made her always a little unable to put her mind at ease.

It stands to reason that this kind of monster should not appear in this city, but she did find similar rumors on the Internet, although it is only a few words, but it is also full of details, no matter how you look at it, it does not look like a normal animal, but a monster mixed with dragon blood.

After thinking about it, she couldn't let go of the worries in her heart, she picked up her phone and wanted to ask where Su Mo was.

At this moment, suddenly the mobile phone rang, and it was Su Mo calling.

It's only been a short time since you left, what's so important that you need to call yourself right away and can't talk about it tomorrow?

Could it be—

Xia Mi's pupils suddenly shrank, and the foreboding in her heart was pulled to the highest.

She immediately answered the phone, her hand on the doorknob, ready to break down at any moment.

"What, what's going on?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Xia Mi asked about the specific situation very quickly and nervously.

Then, she heard Su Mo's slightly tense and trembling voice.

"I'll tell you one thing, don't be afraid."

"Don't worry, I'm the Dragon King, I won't be afraid!"

Xia Mi responded quickly, her thoughts were determined, and she went straight out of the door.

"Needless to say, where are you, I'll go over!"

As a reliable boss, she never grinds and chirps.

She had already said in the forum just now that whoever dares to touch her cabbage, she will take someone's life!

The golden pupils in the girl's eyes were shining, and the might of the dragon king made the chirping cicadas shut up all summer.