Chapter 53: Wallfacer Lin Xian

"I have no idea."

VV answered truthfully:

"After I was born, the first person I saw was you. My initial code was very simple and had no complicated logic. It was to confirm that you were the master while protecting your personal safety and not exposing any traces of my existence. Under the principle of "developing, becoming stronger, and updating and iterating as much as possible to serve you."

"I only know this. Although you told me my story, told me that Ms. Zhao Yingjun created me, and said that I came from your third dream, but in fact... I have no real sense of these things. Just rely on you "I can't tell whether these things are true or false."

"Of course, I am saying these things to you today only out of first principle considerations, so that you can be more vigilant, pay attention to safety, and try your best to come up with an absolute, foolproof, and no doubt method that can verify the authenticity of the dream. Methods."

…

Lin Xian was pacing in the room.

honestly.

If VV didn't bring up these things, he really wouldn't think about it.

Based on his previous insights.

He felt that many things were enough to prove the authenticity of the dream.

However, after being reminded by VV, he realized that he had overlooked something.

He can indeed dream about the world 600 years from now, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But how to guarantee it.

What about the world 600 years from now that what he sees, hears, and comes into contact with is real?

Think smaller.

Maybe that group of unknown enemies already knew the coordinates of his birth point and the place where he fell asleep every night.

Then buy up all the land in several surrounding cities, then build a huge studio and trap yourself in it.

In this way, from the moment he enters the dreamland, what he sees is what the other party wants him to see.

Then think bigger.

Maybe it doesn't need to be so troublesome at all.

600 years later, when technology is so advanced, why are we still building a studio?

Just use a supercomputer to create a virtual world that is the same as the real world, and then connect your own consciousness into it.

In this case, many things will be easier to implement.

for example--

Why do dreams always repeat the same day endlessly?

Server can be rolled back with one click.

Why are dreams always destroyed by white light at 00:42?

The server shuts down with one click.

Why is the space-time butterfly effect in dreams not real-time?

It takes time for the server to modify the data and calculate the scale of spatiotemporal changes.

Lin Xian's mind was very confused.

He walked to the bar.

Pour yourself a drink, scoop out a bunch of ice cubes from the ice machine, put it in, and drink it all in one gulp.

Ice cold.

Transparent.

My mind gradually calmed down.

"No, VV, according to you, there are actually some flaws."

Lin Xian turned around and looked at the microwave:

"Zhao Yingjun's Pomeranian."

"If other things can be simulated by extracting my memory, and then the knowledge and history can be restored directly from the history books, I can understand it."

"But I have never seen the Pomeranian raised by Zhao Yingjun, and I never knew about it. But I did see this dog in the third dream before I knew about it in reality."

"Um……"

VV turned the knob of the microwave oven and thought for a while:

"Considering the science and technology 600 years from now, there are actually many things we can't predict. Maybe they have other methods besides obtaining information from 2023 through your memory?"

"After all, didn't you say that you have been repeating your first dream since you were born? There was nothing in your memory at that time, but they can still create a real dream.

A world of incomparable reality. "

"Of course, everything we said above is my most vicious guess for the sake of safety. Kevin Walker said a word in your ear and then disappeared, which makes people even more concerned... Is there a group of people, a group of extremely smart people, using your ability to travel through time and space to plan some long-term goals?"

Lin Xian let out a sigh of relief...

Genius Club.

After talking about it, we finally got around to this mysterious name.

"VV, now that things have happened, there is no need to doubt the things in the previous dreams. Regardless of whether the first three dreams are true or false, we have now reached this point. I have no doubts about your nature, my situation, and my feelings. The authenticity of the dream also depends on my own judgment.”

"I personally think that the possibility of the first three dreams being true is much greater than that of the fourth dream. No matter what, the fourth dream doesn't look right. And now there is no need to worry about whether the first three dreams are true or false. , I don’t think there is anything wrong with me getting to this point. At least compared to when I was ignorant, had nothing, and was weak, I am very satisfied with my current situation.”

"What's more, there is no difference between the fourth dream and nothing now. Each time you enter it, it takes less than a minute. Whether it is true or false is not that important. Our current battlefield is mainly concentrated in 2023, the real time point, right now."

"So, let's first determine our current goal—"

Lin Xian picked up the pen and paper at the bar and began to smooth out his thoughts by handwriting after a long absence, writing down several important things at the moment:

1. Go to the fourth dreamland, call out Kevin Walker’s name in front of the mysterious old man, and see what his reaction is; if it can be confirmed through the reaction that he is Kevin Walker himself, then it will be now in 2023 Find Kevin Walker and kill him! Liberate yourself in the fourth dream!

2. Go to Einstein's former residence in Princeton as soon as possible, get the gift Ji Lin left for you, try to crack the code and find out clues about the Genius Club.

3. Solve the mirror puzzle that Huang Que left for yourself as soon as possible], that woman will not be aimless. Since she said that there is something she needs in the mirror... it is very likely that it is the key prop to break the current situation.

4. After returning home, immediately take Liu Feng to the Guizhou Sky Eye and use the world’s largest radio telescope to search for traces of space-time particles. If possible, go to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to find the oriole, capture the space-time particles, and master the secret of the cosmological constant 42 as soon as possible. The truth, maybe this mysterious number is the real key to it all.

5. Come up with a method that is absolutely rigorous, absolutely correct, and can 100% verify the authenticity of the dream world.

…

After finishing writing, Lin Xian stared at the fifth item.

The first four items are all clichés, but this fifth item is already making a comeback.

really.

People's cognitive height will determine different views on things.

At the end of last year, when I and Gao Yang were discussing the authenticity of dreams, they used a series of methods to verify it.

Looking at it now, it is indeed silly.

I never thought of the most terrifying possibility——

It was true to travel 600 years later, the knowledge and history were true, but everything I experienced in the dream was false.

but.

The current situation is not that bad.

We cannot be alarmist and deny the authenticity of the first three dreams or even the fourth dream just because of this worst guess.

The current situation is.

We do not rule out the possibility that the dream is true, nor do we rule out the possibility that the dream is false.

Both are possible.

It just requires absolute evidence and absolute verification.

"Considering that my memory is unreliable..."

Lin Xian sat in front of the bar, spinning his pen and saying:

"Then let's find a place to bury the time capsule, and then even if it can be dug out 600 years later, we can see what's inside.

No, it’s actually unreliable. "

"That's right."

Microwave VV said:

"If the dream world is really false, just extract what you buried directly from your memory, and then create it directly in the virtual world."

Lin Xian thought again:

"Then I'll ask someone, such as Gao Yang or Zhao Yingjun, to write me a sentence, or hide something I don't know, and put it into a time capsule, and keep it a secret from me forever; then I'll dig it out 600 years later, and wait. After waking up, check with the two of them to see if they are consistent. Is this enough to confirm that the dream is real?"

"No way."

Microwave oven VV thinks quickly:

"As long as you know where this time capsule is buried in your memory, your enemies in the future will know it before you do. They can dig it out in advance to see what's inside, and then create a fake one for you in the virtual world." ”

"Fuck..."

Lin Xian turned the pen faster and faster, feeling that this battle was really too difficult to fight.

But he thinks.

This idea is absolutely correct.

There is always something and some information that can travel through time and space without being discovered or afraid of being discovered, allowing myself 600 years later to instantly understand that that world is real. 】

He believes it.

In this world, there are always things that are true and can outweigh all falsehoods.

Can't be faked.

Cannot be copied.

This is the only one.

"Let me summarize."

Lin Xian stopped turning his pen and said:

"The method of burying a time capsule is always correct. It may not prove the falseness of the dream, but there is definitely a way to prove the reality of the dream. But it must be noted that this moment made me understand that the dream is real. It must be completed the moment you see this note in the dream, and you cannot wait to confirm it when you return to reality. By then, it will be too late, and there are too many uncertainties.”

"Things in dreams are solved directly in the dream. The authenticity of the dream can be judged in the dream. This is the most reliable. If the dream world itself is real, then there should be no need to return to reality to get the answer. . What I said may be a little vague, so I’ll just tell you the conclusion.”

"We need to hide a note in the time capsule, and it must have this sentence written on it——"

"I don't know the content of this sentence, and I won't let anyone else in this era besides the writer know it; the content of this sentence must not be afraid of future enemies seeing it or copying it; however, I must ensure that I In the dream world 600 years later, when I read this sentence, I immediately understood that the dream was real.]

boom!

VV popped open the glass door of the microwave oven to show his shock:

"Wallfacer!"

"Are you going to be the wall-facer in "The Three-Body Problem, Lin Xian?"

"You have to deceive the enemy in the future, deceive the whole world, and deceive all mankind under the eyes of the enemy, with complete disclosure, complete transparency, and even the memory can be extracted by the enemy! Then you will deceive a person who can span 600 The secret of time and space will be passed on to you, so that you will be enlightened as soon as you see it?"

"How can I do this!"

The sound of the microwave oven was already a bit broken, exaggerating VV's excitement.

"hehe."

Lin Xian chuckled:

"Because it's not easy to do, that's why we have to do it. You're right, this will be a secret that spans 600 years. It doesn't matter even if the content is seen by the enemy. Because with this method, the important thing is not at all The content on the note is something other than the content, conveying a message that I don’t know but that only I can understand... Therefore, even if what I see is a fake note, it does not affect my judgment at all. The reality of dreams.”

boom!

A red light burst out in the microwave, heating began, and the temperature soared:

"It's on fire

! "

The drama queen VV suddenly shouted:

"This is really a plan that I can't understand. I don't know how serious it is. Can this kind of thing really be done under the eyes of the enemy? Lin Xian, what exactly should be written on this note?"

"I don't know." Lin Xian shook his head.

"That's right, you definitely can't know. Then who is going to write this note?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Lin Xian shook his head again.

"Well, then, do you have an idea of ​​where to bury the time capsule? Are there any coordinate reference points in reality and in the city 600 years from now?"

"There used to be one, but I can't find it now. I don't know why it disappeared inexplicably."

squeak……

The dishes in the microwave stopped spinning.

The red light disappears.

The temperature also dropped.

"Tch, it makes me boil. It turns out you haven't thought of anything. Then doesn't this completely solve the problem?"

"That's why I put this one last." Lin Xian spread his hands:

"But don't worry, I already have a general idea. And this can only be done by humans, and you can't do anything to help VV."

"Why?" VV was very unconvinced.

"because……"

Lin Xian smiled.

Recalling the last moment of the third dream, the trash can that seemed to have breathing, pulse, and heartbeat in an instant, locked his ankles, and asked himself to say hello to Zhao Yingjun:

"Because... although artificial intelligence is omnipotent and can learn to lie and deceive, it can never learn the simplest and most basic things that humans do, and that is why they are called humans - "

"emotion."

"You may not realize that sometimes a breath, a heartbeat, or even a pulse can convey a lot of information between two people, and this information cannot be understood by anyone else. I have always believed that the greatest human The charm lies in... the diverse expressions of emotions], this is a riddle that can travel through time and space, deceive the whole world, and only two people can understand."

…

This time, VV was silent for a long, long time.

It seemed like they could smell burning smoke.

"never mind."

VV sighed:

"I can't understand it, and I can't calculate it. Then I'll just wait and see how wonderful your human wisdom is."

"So, what are we going to do now?"

VV opened the door of the bar refrigerator and pointed at the small square piece of paper on which Lin Xian had just written down the current target:

"According to the plan you wrote in the first article, enter the dreamland now to meet the mysterious old man and confirm whether he is Kevin Walker?"

"That's right."

Lin Xian left the bar and walked to the bathroom:

"You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to walk one step at a time. Nowadays, since there is no way to completely prove whether the dream is true or false, you don't need to pay too much attention to this issue. Anyway, the intelligence and information that can be obtained in the fourth dream is limited."

"But... I believe that even if the fourth dream is false as you said, it was created by the enemies 600 years later. Even if it is false, we can definitely get some useful information, just For example, what we are going to do right away is to deceive the mysterious old man to see if he is Kevin Walker."

"hey-hey"

VV imitated Chu Anqing’s accent and smiled:

"When it comes to acting, that's my home court! Do you need acting coaching? Pretending others' truest and most unexpected reactions also requires acting skills, otherwise you will be seen through."

"I've watched all the movies in the world, and now my acting skills are far better than those of an Oscar winner! If you don't mind... I'll coach you on your expressions and lines, and I'll definitely fake that mysterious old man's reaction!"

"Can."

Lin Xian spit out the mouthwash:

"Give this drama queen like you a chance. I've seen you restless all night."

…

…

…

"Hehehehe..."

He was handcuffed to a chair and wore an opaque black hood. Lin Xian waited for a long time and finally heard the old man's belated laughter.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha!!"

Lin Xian followed VV's acting instructions, throwing his head back and laughing, in an arrogant manner.

The old man's dry laughter stopped abruptly.

He walked up quickly, grabbed Lin Xian's hood, and took it off——

"Kevin Walker!"

Lin Xian smiled crookedly with standard British accent, staring at the mysterious old man's suddenly shrinking pupils with contemptuous and sharp eyes:

"You are already dead..."