When Ji Xun and Zhu Er returned to the front hall of Room 3050, they saw two other people standing there. Ji Xun could recognize Kimo, a former committee member with gray semi-long hair, and Lunla, the real owner of this house who had a new life not long ago.
Xinlunla is still very young and retains most of the appearance of primitive humans, so it looks no different from them. As they walked out of the room, she waved her arms enthusiastically to Jules, who walked over and stroked her head and neck.
"Maybe you noticed," Jules said.
"Yes." Ji Xun said, "The initial names here are limited. All names are derived from members who have existed within the computing center and committee - as well as people who were executed by you. The slicer selected The range is the geographical interval between your two institutions, and the entire history. There have been three Lunla in the computing center, they were transport workers, patients with wandering diseases, and your students."
"All that is inherited are names. The inhabitants here were created by the Slicer. Perhaps it randomly combined the original factors from all of us and then gave them names. Being named Lunla does not mean she is related to my students. But we did become friends easily.”
The owner of the house looked at them happily, as if they were playing an interesting game. She asked innocently and eagerly: "Jules, was the performance just now interesting?"
"Brilliant," Jules told her. "Thank you, Lunla. You presented the story I told you with complete accuracy. Our new guest is completely fascinated."
"That's true." Ji Xun continued. He greeted Lunla naturally and thanked her for her generous help.
"Speaking of names," he said, "I'm still curious about it. In all the samples I've looked into, although some may have lied, no one has had the same initial name as you, and I've tried to find a Si or Bei, there are just some very similar pronunciations. Is this part of your peculiarity? Or is it just that my sample isn't broad enough?"
"I can't tell you everything about this place, Mr. Ji Xun. As you know, we have never ventured into this place in the past. Without you, we would still be wasting time in that little cage outside. "
"Now we can spend time together." Ji Xun said briskly, "If you are not going to take action against me - I suggest you not to do so and occupy a residence as soon as possible. If you wander the streets for several days in a row , or, by living in the house of some generous host, unless it has perfect control over its memory, the House of Ethics will come to you. The... staff there, let's call it that for now, may remind you of The old days. But I promise they are far more dangerous. The House of Ethics has unleashed powers you never had before, and your Ethics Commissioners are nothing more than branch-wielding babies compared to what they can do. "
"Suggestions worth considering. You must have studied them."
"They did pose a threat to me when I first came in. If you have nothing special to do, Jules, I also recommend that you and your colleagues avoid them. If you are brought into the Ethics House, I want to escape It’s impossible to come out.”
Jules smiled. She didn't seem to care about the warning, but was rather pleased with it. Ji Xun noticed her strange expression. He tilted his head and glanced at Xinlunla, who was listening curiously.
"You have already suffered from them, Mr. Ji Xun."
"I have no objection to saying that."
"With all your knowledge and experience, you still can't deal with them? In such a long time, you still haven't been able to come up with a clever enough countermeasure?"
"I have encountered them three times." Ji Xun explained unhurriedly, "Each time, I found that the identities of the pursuers were different. That is not individual differences, they come from different races and different rules. Different systems. These observations are enough to convince me that the enforcers of the House of Ethics are randomly created, and there is no hope of designing a countermeasure in advance unless I can predict who today's enforcers will be."
"I heard that today is a special day, and we may also encounter a special law enforcer."
"Perhaps you know more about this anniversary than I do, and the law enforcers it may correspond to." Ji Xun said, "Since the slicer selects all possible histories of your past, you may..."
"I'm sad that we don't have anything like this. These cute furry creatures and their amazing abilities have never happened in our real history. The Slicer just resurrected some of the myths for us. "
"Are you so sure?" Ji Xun asked calmly, "In the entire existence of your universe, you are just the last dry drop of water, and you are sure that nothing beyond your imagination has ever happened? All of them Possibilities are just potential history?”
"We are the final winner, Mr. Ji Xun. You can't imagine how many areas we have explored before the big squeeze destroyed our achievements. Until the end of the old world, we are the only civilization that has entered a new reincarnation. If in All the possibilities shown in this city existed in real history, and at least some of them should have been discovered by us long ago. No, they are just possibilities, some very small probability events, so they have never been on a clear timeline Appearance. Our universe can only present things selectively. In your words, it will be limited by its expressive power. In terms of the material presentation of a stable universe, reality is much narrower than the boundaries of theory. This is similar to life. - There are seemingly infinite paths in the forest, but you can only choose the simplest and easiest one. We can say that the universe is a true pragmatist, and it only allows the most practical things to stay.”
"Yes, I agree." Ji Xun said as if he agreed, "Within the scope of a stable universe."
Jules stared at him keenly. She undoubtedly heard some hint in Ji Xun's words, but she couldn't discern its exact meaning. But that didn't matter in the current situation. She asked bluntly: "What do you think of my proposal?"
"Zhu Er," Ji Xun called her again, as if with a strange closeness. He asked in a gentle, almost sympathetic tone: "Do you understand what their 'October' means?"
"I think it doesn't matter what the powerful call themselves, it's just a formality."
"Under certain conditions, form may be more important than you think." Ji Xun said, "I still want to know, when you find that your child betrayed you, if he did not resist at that time, but tried to Asking you to side with him, or at least let him go, would that make you..."
"We don't have time to waste on assumptions like this."
Ji Xun blinked. He glanced at the faces of Jin Ling and Lun La, and then seemed to smile into the distant void. When he opened his mouth again, the topic that Jules interrupted seemed to have been forgotten by him.
"We might as well discuss something more recent." He said briskly, "There are a series of conditions for becoming October, but the exploration of infinity is indeed a prerequisite. Yes, if you are interested in this, I think you do need to Get the slicer first - but how to do this? I defeated you and broke into this place. When I entered here I thought I could get out easily. I do have a lot of experience dealing with infinite machines, but It turns out that I was still too arrogant. In the end, I was trapped here and had to find a way to send a signal to attract the arrival of another reinforcement. And you, who fled before this city was established, wandered around its periphery. , afraid that this secret will be discovered by others. If you can really do it, I don’t think you will waste a second longer. Now you think you can do it - please note, Jules, it is you alone, and Not everyone involved in the project. It's a little too risky for you, isn't it? Are you tired of the country life? As soon as I show up, you immediately think you can have the slicer in your pocket. In this triumphant return to the country What role do you plan for me to play in your play?"
His concession finally satisfied Jules. She stood up and raised her hands as if she were making an important announcement to the public.
"I can't do it alone." She said, "We need two people. But luck is on our side, Mr. Ji Xun. As you hinted at the beginning, you do have some kind of restrained infinity in you. The method of exerting effect..."
"I can only stabilize the fine constants around me through a device commonly called a spiritual field shield."
"And I knew how to get to the core," Juul said. "I left a backdoor in the computing center, and I'm sure it still works today."
