Chapter 16: Counterattack
I should sort through my thoughts, and at the end of the day I want to get to the bottom of two things.
First of all, why did Brother Shui have to do the experiment set by that Wen Bing? Even if Wen Bing killed his friend Oyster, even if he himself was extremely disgusted with human centipede experiments, he still wanted to do it. And whether the human centipede experiment, including some of the experiments he may conduct in the future, can be improved. The above things determine whether it is reasonable for me to stop Brother Shui. If I pretend that I have the results of the experiment, so as to communicate and negotiate with Brother Shui, and even cooperate, will there be a good result?
The second thing is whether the current timeline is real. If all this is just a scene rehearsed in Brother Shui's consciousness, human nature, morality, and the rule of law will become meaningless here. This matter will directly determine whether it is necessary for me to negotiate with Brother Shui.
If I'm going to prove that this world is true, I should find the key evidence that this world can't be false. Physical phenomena? Do all kinds of experiments? These things can be rehearsed correctly...... If I were asked to think as a computer science student, what is the most difficult thing for AI to pass on the Turing test, it would be an extremely complex question of human emotion. But the rehearsal of Brother Shui's brain may not work like this.
Emotion......
The journal of the software seems to have been written since a very young age. The blood stains on the diary had not yet fully solidified, so that the air in the dormitory was filled with a faint smell of blood.
I flipped the page without blood......
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Light rain
It's only been a little over a month since I entered university, and I've already made friends with all my classmates. Although there are no girls who make my eyes shine, the new student Yongqi who moved into our dormitory makes me feel very safe, and I think that Yongqi's brother is very strong. There is also Brother Ah Huan and his younger brother Ah Ping, although the two of them never walk together, maybe the brothers are not very harmonious, but I have made friends with them.
Last night, I had a very strange dream. In my dream, I saw Brother Shui and greeted him, asking him where his brother Ah Ping was. He looked surprised, saying that he had never had a younger brother named Ah Ping. He also said that he could also call himself Ah Ping, but he was used to being called Ah Huan by others. But in Brother Shui's name, there is only the word "Huan" and no word "comment"?
If it were a normal day, I would just think of it as a whimsical dream. But strangely, the dream is very real. The scene in my dream has an indescribable sense of dΓ©jΓ vu, more real than any other dream I've ever had, and it's a really amazing feeling. So, I decided to write this dream into my precious journal.
That's all for today, it's a day full of energy!
Come on!
It's really real......
If all this is fake, then Brother Shui's rehearsal is too detailed. A whole software diary written from a small age, he will deduce every complete diary every day, but also in line with the software's style, handwriting, personality......
Or is it a common rehearsal of ours, only to be possessed by the first person to go back in time?
Just as I was in a state of utter confusion, a voice appeared in my head.
"Come on!"
"Okay, you don't have to write it every day." I thought in my heart.
"No, I don't have to refuel today."
"Why?"
"I'm sorry, I'm going to die."
β¦β¦
How can there be so many rehearsed and delayed choices?
This is the real world.
This is the real world.
This is the world I'm in......
On the evening of May 28, 2022.
"How's it going, how do you feel and what do you want to tell me?" It was Brother Shui's voice full of anticipation.
I frowned: "Ah Huan, this taste is real, it's hard to say, I'll go out and tell you." β
Under the watchful eyes of our three roommates, we walked outside the dormitory door.
"Both experiments have results, and you told me too. But I want to know something, so I'm not going to tell you yet. If you don't want to waste time on me, you're going to have to do that experiment all over again. I said to Brother Shui with a confident posture.
"How do you prove that you already know the results of the experiment?"
I stretched out three fingers and pointed to them one by one: "I know the process and results of the experiment, the captcha, the checksum, everything you want to hear." I'd like to talk to you about a few things about you and your experiments. Not excessive, right? β
Brother Shui only thought for a moment and then said, "No, you don't know the results of the experiment. β
"Where does your self-confidence come from?" I asked, pretending to be calm.
"If the human centipede experiment has been completed, you won't have any memories of the experiment. And after your experiment is over, I will only take you to a full body examination after gaining your absolute trust, tell you the results of the experiment and a string of characters, and then ask you to go back in time to tell me.
So, first, you won't know that this string of characters is a captcha. Second, you won't know that this captcha contains a checksum. Third, you won't know that this string of characters represents the results of two experiments.
Then there is only one possibility, you have seen my relevant experimental documents through some means. After the human centipede experiment is over, I will go back in time to restore everything and clear some of the files. With the rest of the files in my drawer, you can't deduce the cause and effect of the experiment. So, you can only go back in time before the experiment is complete. If nothing else, it's the method that Ah Ping told you. Brother Shui confidently stated his judgment.
"No, no, no, Ah Huan," my brain raced through language, "you're thinking too simply. First of all, I will know the method and process of the captcha checksum experiment, etc., indeed because I read your file before the experiment is over. But I went back in time before your experiment was completed, and pretended to be natural enough to fool you, so I saved this memory. In the second timeline, I don't really have any memories of your human centipede experiment, but I know that you've done it, and you want to communicate the results through me. You told me the results thirty days laterβ"
"Stop!" Brother Shui interrupted me, "What day is it in thirty days, immediately-"
"June 27, 2022. This is the end time of my experiment, just before I came back. The human centipede experiment was completed on May 31, 2022, and you should go back to May 30, 2022. So in the second timeline, I remember you didn't do anything. β
After listening to this, Brother Shui lowered his head as if he was thoughtful.
No problem, right? My CPU is running dry. I pondered over and over again whether there was a logical loophole in the lies I was telling.
After a while, Brother Shui raised his head and said to me, "What you said may not be true, but it really can't be falsified." So what's your appeal? It shouldn't be as simple as tomorrow's lottery numbers, right? β
"I want to know two things, if you don't want the right results from me, you can make up stories. I got a satisfactory answer, and you will know everything you want to know. First of all, why did you have to cooperate with the experiments of the soldiers? Or is that what you want to do? β
Brother Shui let out a long sigh.
After a moment of silence, Brother Shui spoke: "Because I don't know how much you know, so let's start from the beginning." β
In the early days, Ah Huan was just an ordinary high school student. It is said to be ordinary, because there is no other shining point except for the perennial first place in the school, and the knowledge of physics and advanced mathematics at the entire university stage in advance.
Because of his intelligence and mathematical thinking beyond his peers, he was incompatible with his classmates. Whenever the people around him chatted passionately about games, celebrities, and low-level entertainment, he only felt that it was very noisy.
There was another student in the class who was also unpopular, called Oyster. Oysters have always been taciturn, and the most important daily entertainment is to look out the window and think about things. Until one time they were assigned to the same table, Oyster began to say to himself, "Man, why do you have to die?" β
Brother Shui looked at him with a puzzled expression, wondering if this person was not mentally normal. Suddenly, as if GET had reached a very strange point, Brother Shui asked Oyster, "Yes, why do people have to die?" Everyone is trying to prove this from a biological point of view, so why hasn't anyone ever questioned the rationality of the premise itself? β
Oyster showed an extremely shocked expression and looked at Brother Shui: "This is the complete mental journey I just had!" β
Since then, Brother Shui has made the first and only true friend. Their daily communication is something strange and incomprehensible to others, but they can understand each other to a high degree.
It is the norm for people to not understand each other. People who think too abstractly or ahead of their time will also find their own circle and have a way of life that makes them spiritually fulfilling and satisfied.
Until a meeting, it completely ended Brother Shui's ordinary high school life. The head teacher said that he didn't want Brother Shui to waste his talent, so he took him to meet a professor, hoping that he could follow the professor to do some research and learn more cutting-edge knowledge.
And this professor is none other than Wen Bing.