abyss rose

Chapter 56

Chu Ci responded lightly to the words of the old man in front of him.

Chai Yuening squeezed Chu Ci's palm subconsciously, but she was a little surprised to see that there was no hesitation or concealment in Chu Ci's eyes.

Chu Ci seemed to have an unreasonable trust in the person in front of him.

Yes, it was only in this way that she would make such memories so calmly.

After all, she is a person who is not very good at lying. When she encounters something she doesn't want to say, she always keeps silent or changes the subject.

This point, Chai Yuening was very used to it when he was in the dungeon base.

Some words have been uttered, and it is difficult to take them back, so Chai Yuening had to look straight at Shi Wenlin vigilantly.

She thought that she would see something in the old man's eyes, such as people's desire for "hope", or the way most researchers in the Floating City Research Institute looked at Chu Ci's samples.

But she didn't.

She only saw peace in Shi Wenlin's eyes, the peace of the ancient well without waves, as if everything in the world was no longer important to him.

Shi Wenlin was silent for a while, as if he was thinking deeply.

"Floating Void City... Is it the city in the old world that used black vines as energy sources to float?" Shi Wenlin said, "The last time I saw you, that city still landed in Where's the ground?"

"Can……"

"Son, I'm not confused yet." Shi Wenlin's tone was very firm, "The year you successfully merged with Hei Teng, those redemption parties in the old world launched a nuclear war that almost completely wiped out all mankind. Each survives, after the disaster, everything is silent...I have never seen you again."

Seeing a trace of hesitation in Chu Ci's eyes, Shi Wenlin couldn't help asking, "Is your memory clear?"

Chu Ci couldn't help frowning, as if trying to remember something, but couldn't find an answer.

She bit her lower lip and said in a low voice: "All the files and records related to me in the base are written like that..."

In the small room, everyone fell into silence.

After a long time, Shi Wenlin slowly opened his mouth: "You are that child."

There was no hesitation or surprise: "I remember a little bit, I also gave you... that kind of bubble-blowing gadget, which is not something you should play at your age, but there is nothing else in the institute to amuse you." You played, do you remember?"

Chu Ci shook his head.

She doesn't remember, her memory is vague.

She didn't even know whether her memory had been so vague from the very beginning, or whether she had quietly lost part of her memories before the age of 16 during the process of recovering her memory after amnesia.

If it's only the latter, then why is there a full year difference between the time record of her successfully merging with Hei Teng in the base files and what Shi Wenlin said?

She couldn't figure it out, just like she couldn't remember where she was before the destruction of the old world.

She never seemed to deserve to know anything.

Even in this world, everyone tells her that she is very important, she is still only worthy of being a quiet sample, not worthy of having her own thoughts.

"I was the one who performed that operation." Shi Wenlin continued in a calm tone, his words suddenly paused slightly, as if caught in a flash of memory, "Everyone will become a monster after the operation, but we can't stop. Come down, the initial mistakes pushed us forward, we first studied the black vine, just wanted to heal more people, but in the end it made the world like this.”

"Are you... a scientist from the Secret Research Institute of the Old World?"

"It's a sinner." Shi Wenlin said softly, "Our research has ruined the world, and we are all responsible for dying, and we can't make up for our mistakes in our entire life..."

He said, looking at Chu Ci with a bit of nostalgia in his eyes: "Once upon a time, your appearance made me think that we could finally make up for that mistake. But child, I parted from you early, so many years have passed , What made you appear here? Is it the world outside that has never been better that Lan Yi said?"

"I'm a useless sample, I can't help them." Chu Ci said lightly, "So they don't want me anymore."

Shi Wenlin: "Your eyes tell me that you have suffered a lot."

Chu Ci: "Mister may be wrong, I'm not sad at all now."

Shi Wenlin sighed softly: "Yes, you are very calm, completely different from before."

The child in front of me has the same appearance for more than 50 years, but the emotion in his eyes that belongs to a girl, or a human being, has become difficult to recall.

She is not sad, there is no sadness in her eyebrows, but there is no other emotion.

She was too quiet, like an indifferent spectator, whether the world was good or bad, and the pessimism of the human beings in the world, seemed to have nothing to do with her.

He didn't even dare to think about what happened in the past 50 years to make that child become the calm look he is now.

"Those who took you away failed to take good care of you." Shi Wenlin said softly, "Don't be afraid, no one will bully you here anymore."

His voice was very soft and slow, full of years and past debts.

Chu Ci opened his mouth slightly, but his eyes were filled with tears, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

She seemed to be a little sad at the beginning, but she didn't know why she was sad.

Obviously the kind old man in front of her didn't say anything harsh to her, but she just couldn't help feeling a bit of soreness, in her eyes and in her heart.

Looking at Chu Ci, Chai Yuening seemed to be able to understand the sourness in her eyes.

For more than 50 years, no one has said such things to her, and no one has expressed any apology to her. She seems to be the one who really owes the whole world.

In this life, she is used to being treated coldly by others, but she can't afford any care.

Chu Ci walked forward slowly and stood in front of Shi Wenlin.

The sky outside the window was dim, a shower last night soaked the yellowed tiles on the window sill, and there was no summer temperature in the wind.

She asked softly: "Sir is also studying the fusion of species, don't you need my sample?"

"This world is collapsing." Shi Wenlin said, "We are lingering at the end of human civilization. I have been thinking that for so many years, my efforts to seek the truth may not be to save anything, but to die with a better understanding... If you can't do it, it's no big deal, anyway, when you close your eyes, ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

"Perhaps, when human civilization is destroyed, the sins of my life will be gone with the wind." He trembled slightly and sighed, "Of course, if you want, I really hope that I can do it without hurting you." , to take some samples from you... Although, I should not be able to do what the person who took you could not do, but doing it is better than doing nothing. "

Chu Ci unconsciously pursed his thin lips. After a few seconds of silence, he squatted down, supported the armrest of the wheelchair in front of him with both hands, and said seriously, "I am willing, sir."

Shi Wenlin's tired eyes fainted with a faint smile.

He said thank you softly, and gently patted the back of Chu Ci's hand with wrinkled hands as if to comfort him.

Chai Yuening couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Her worry seemed unnecessary.

She took two steps forward and said seriously: "Sir, the human bases outside the foggy area have not found a way to resist the mutation of the infection, but you have found it. This world may not be as desperate as you imagined. As long as you can move forward, you will be happy." There is a chance to seize hope."

"You're right, but you don't know much about this world." Shi Wenlin said, shaking his head helplessly, "Don't say it's you, I've been seeking the truth all my life, but I still can't see through this world."

"Our generation has acquired a lot of knowledge from childhood to university, but when the old world is destroyed and the new world comes, all this knowledge has become a shackle that binds our minds." Shi Wenlin raised his eyes and looked at Chai Yuening. Everything I have learned tells me that infection is a gradual process, and it takes time for the virus to spread, and people are slowly and completely eroded by the virus bit by bit during this process."

"But now, infection is no longer an erosion process that takes time. It will only make a yes or no judgment within a period of time. If it is judged no, the signs of infection will slowly subside. If it is judged yes, the human body's DNA chain will Irreversible changes occur in an instant, no time diffusion is required, it is really an instant, the whole body is changing, and there is no way to stop it through partial excision."

"Perhaps you don't know, there are many movies about the awakening of prehistoric giants in the old world. Human beings are as small as ants in front of them, but most people know that all creatures on the earth are carbon-based creatures. The molecular structure is unstable, and they cannot grow to be so large, and the gravity of the earth will make their huge bodies completely crush themselves."

"However, now you can see those behemoths living in this world. Although they are huge, they can run very fast and even fly up to [-] meters in the sky. You can't understand their body structure, and you can't imagine how they interact with gravity. How can I continue to supply energy to my huge body..."

"In the long history of the development of human civilization, people have always negated or perfected the laws discovered by the predecessors, thinking that as long as they can understand all the laws in this world, they can become the sole master of this world." Shi Wenlin eyebrows Weisuo, "The emergence of the black vine ecology has completely broken the old rules."

"The old laws no longer exist, and human beings must find new laws in order to survive in this chaotic world."

Shi Wenlin said, closing his eyes and sighing softly, "But, this world seems to have no rules."

Chai Yuening: "No rules?"

Shi Wenlin: "Have you heard of the shooter hypothesis and the farmer hypothesis?"

Chai Yuening frowned: "What is that..."

Shi Wenlin: "Maybe it's what the world is going through right now."

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The author has something to say:

The Archer Hypothesis and the Farmer Hypothesis are quite famous. I tried to retell them in my own words, but I thought it took up a lot of space, and it was not much different from what I found on Baidu. A large list of theories can be found anywhere, like It’s the same as hydrology on purpose, so I’ll delete all of them in the article, and I won’t repeat them later (I came later than usual today because I wrote such a large paragraph for nothing).Let's talk about it in the speech, so that the little angels who don't know much about these can understand the context.

The Farmer Hypothesis: You have a farm, you have a flock of turkeys, and you feed them every morning at 8:8, and if the turkeys have scientists among them, it will conclude that the food will come at [-]:[-] every morning, so Just like our ancestors discovered that the sun rose every morning.But if one day you get sick, then maybe today you won't feed them, and if you sell them, you might kill them.

Shooter Hypothesis: You are practicing target shooting, your marksmanship is very good, a series of holes are regularly punched on the target, one every centimeter, if there is a two-dimensional creature on the target, then their scientists will come to a conclusion , there will be a hole every centimeter, so there is such an extra law in the universe of this two-dimensional creature.

The farmer's hypothesis reminds us of inductivist science. Just as we didn't know why the sun rose every day at the beginning, we already regarded it as the truth. Many of our current scientific theories also come from induction.These theories are not necessarily the truth, we can use it, like the scientist in that turkey, it can get food at 8 am every day, it is indeed a benefit, but once it happens that there is no food at 8 am, don't Crash to unacceptable.Because that is not the truth, many people will collapse and even commit suicide when encountering errors in the "truth" they have believed in for many years.

The Sagittarius hypothesis goes a step further, not only whether the induction theory is correct or not, but even whether our universe is real or not, whether the truth existing in our universe is constant, or just for us now, two-dimensional creatures Scientists have discovered that there is a hole every centimeter, and we have discovered more, such as the speed of light. We found that the speed of light is the fastest and constant.But whether the speed of light is constant within our observable range or will remain constant forever, whether the speed of light has been at this speed for billions of years or has always been at this speed, we have no way of determining similar things. This may be the scariest thing for scientists. If If there really is a god, then the theories they spend their entire lives researching may just be the random creation of gods. This kind of science really makes people feel uncomfortable to study.

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