That's not really what happened. Like light, or sound, or shadow. All these concepts are just narratives and expressions of real things and are actually no more accurate than words. But later, when it was told to the person who missed it, it was explained roughly like this:
The operation of thought threads is not as visual as a simple machine. "Thread" is a classical word inherited by custom. Like other terms with historical factors, it can easily cause misunderstandings for people who don't understand it. It is easy to imagine it as many pipelines, or circuits, advancing steadily according to a pre-designed path.
But it’s not actually that, it’s actually much more complicated. It is jumpy and sometimes follows some abstract logic rather than a strict axiomatic system. Of course, Ji Xun can actually do this - he can impose such restrictions on all thread operations and let them check whether each step complies with the theorem rules, but that is a useless approach. When he searches for an answer among infinite matters and possibilities, being limited to a certain logic is not necessarily more effective than random selection.
A metaphor would make things a lot easier. Find a metaphor that is concise enough for the listener to understand it in natural language. When facing an unknown dilemma, Ji Xun's vision became two-way:
Outward, he receives all the information about his environment transmitted to him by signals from tiny photoreceptors (which are still allowed to function outside the "dead zone"). Everyone who comes into this area. And every change that emerges in the "Dead Zone". There is no functional difference between the light sensor and the naked eye. They are treated as the same thing - but the same cannot be said for video. Without a conscious observer, the photoreceptors cannot transcribe image information onto the material; they simply leave unconvincing distorted patches of color. "Dead zone" is not an unconditional, replicable contaminated information. It is present only in living consciousness.
Ji Xun also has another kind of eyes, to be precise, a kind of monitoring module, which has been "watching" himself for a long time. That kind of feeling is difficult for outsiders to imagine. In the world of thinking, his monitoring module is sitting on the only open space, watching all the threads in progress in the air. Each thread has its own trajectory. Like a flock of birds, or a paper spaceship thrown into the air. Sometimes they meet and sometimes they separate. When they are close, they inevitably influence and interfere with each other, and after running alone for too long, they will lack motivation and stop calculating because they have nothing to gain. They will fall to the ground and then be re-thrown by the monitoring module, which will re-determine the strength and angle to complete a new round of flight.
He is standing under the golden bell, talking to the intruders; he is also sitting in the wasteland of thoughts, watching the paper boats flying in the sky. He knows that certain trajectories are special, can be said to be classic, and can always fly higher and farther. But these particularly typical trajectories have almost been exhausted by him. This matter was more difficult than he thought.
Try every angle. There is no choice. He kept picking up and throwing.
A set of attempts to escape: define public vocabulary, define safety, define survival, define mind, define stability, define star distance, define wishing machine, define core... I wish to combine myself with the wishing machine under the conditions of safety. The relative position of the core is modified to twenty star distances.
His thoughts were thrown out of his body, into the unobservable void twenty stars away.
Withdraw the wish. Define me. Define ideas. Define body. Define integrity. I made a wish to change the relative position between myself and the core of the wishing machine to twenty stars under the conditions of safety.
He was ejected. Both body and mind. The two-way locator told him that the distance between the golden bell in front of him and him exceeded the instantaneous detection limit. But the golden bell is still in front of him, and he is still surrounded by the "dead zone" - if the definition of distance is correct, then the spatial structure has been modified.
Withdraw the wish. Define the space. Define gravity. Define waveform…
The paper boat takes off from the ground again. The reference atomic standard tremors in his body lasted 23340382 cycles. The next set of paper boats crashed to the ground. He spent about one thousandth of another standard atomic second.
Try something else. The surveillance module picked up the paper boat that landed in the wasteland. His reference list was almost exhausted, and finding unrecorded directions was no longer as easy as it had been ten seconds ago.
He has started to become dull...
Maybe. A control thread placed on the periphery reminded. Paths generally considered riskier must be tried.
Rewrite the wish group: define public vocabulary group, define safety, define survival, define mind, define stability, define kill, define persistence, define permanence, define revocability, define hypothesis, define mutual exclusion, define me... I assume that I make a wish to permanently kill anything that threatens my safety. If this wish and my safety are mutually exclusive, then this wish is revoked.
Wish revoked.
The definition disappears. I assume that I make a wish to make things that threaten my safety disappear. If this wish and my safety are mutually exclusive, then this wish is revoked.
Wish revoked.
Definition harmless. I assume that I make a wish to change things that threaten my safety into a harmless state. If this wish and my safety are mutually exclusive, then this wish is revoked.
Wish revoked.
…
Threads of control swirl high above. They never hit the ground. They try to observe all flight trajectories from a higher angle.
no. They send comments to the monitoring module. no. no. no. The enumeration attempt failed. The inner principle must be found.
Some landing aircraft are no longer thrown into the sky full of computing clusters. They are redefined as analytical threads and run by control threads.
Analysis Question 1: Who manufactured the three-level wishing machine?
unknown. The enumeration of possibilities begins…
Analysis question 2: How to define "dead zone"?
unknown. The reference list enumeration test has failed. Analysis of this issue is suspended. The thread is moved to question three.
Analysis question three: How to define the creator of "dead zone"?
unknown. Start integrating features. Start comparing correlations...
Analysis Question 4: Why was the fuzzy definition not adopted?
Possibly one, the wishing machine does not accept fuzzy definitions and has been verified and excluded. Possibility two, the object does not accept vague definitions, this possibility exists. The analysis thread is moved to question five.
Analysis question 5: If question 4 - Possibility 2 condition is true, why does this object not accept fuzzy definition?
Possibility one is that the object is outside the scope of the fuzzy definition and has been excluded through mutual exclusion verification. Possibility two: The object is required to be accurately defined by a wish machine of the same level or above. This possibility exists. Jump to question six. Possibility three: The object is required to be undefinable by a wish-granting machine of the same level or above. This possibility exists. Jump to question seven. Possibility 4: The subject has performed wishing operations on wishing machines of the same level or above, and its wishes are mutually exclusive with all current wishes. This possibility exists. Jump to question 8. Maybe five…
Analysis question six...
Analysis question seven...
Analysis Question 8: If Analysis Question 5 - the four possible conditions are true, what is the wish granted by the object?
Question 3 analyzes progress retrieval. Refer to analysis question eight. The analysis progress is submitted to the monitoring module——
Analysis: This object is known to appear on the Queen's Day. Cats and humans are known to have similar physiological structures. Known object behavior patterns. Known object attack patterns. Retrieve attachment 1, "Dead Zone" image record. Retrieve Appendix 2, the record of the host’s testimony on the anniversary. Retrieve Appendix 3, the memorial day host image modeling data. Retrieve Appendix 4, modeling data of various body parts and objects held by the subject.
Retrieve offline database.
Start comparing attachment 3...
Start comparing Appendix 4...
Two similar objects have been found in Appendix 3.
Attachment 4 has found sixteen similar objects.
Start cross comparison. No correlation between the two groups of objects was found. Start enumerating attachment 4 combination objects...
Object one. Basic ignition device. Possible related wishes: igniting fire, ruled out; creating high temperature, ruled out; returning to the place where the object was created, not ruled out; finding the person who created the object, not ruled out...
Object two. Start analyzing related wishes…
Object three. Start analyzing related wishes…
…
Object Sixteen. Scimitar. Possible related wishes: Destroy specific targets, excluded; Destroy targets with specific conditions, not excluded; Place objects somewhere, excluded...
2131 unexcluded wishes have been enumerated. Start mutual exclusivity verification based on condition-analysis question five-possibly four.
It has been determined that 6 wishes are mutually exclusive items in the current wish set.
Now assume that the wish is released on a more advanced wishing machine and start compatibility testing.
Compatibility failed.
Compatibility failed.
Compatibility failed.
…
He waited. In the dark wasteland of lonely thought. Thread occupation of simulated Toba has been cancelled. Madam Red's shadow came again through the frost. Outside the wasteland, he stared at the horned intruder.
Compatibility failed.
Why is it a three-level wishing machine? he asked himself softly. Why create it at the end of time? In an apocalypse where infinite structures are under cosmic scrutiny, a zero-level wishing machine cannot be built. die. die. die. Death invites the grotesque. Weirdness makes black box core. It's a mantra. This is a blood sacrifice. Sacrifice to whom?
Compatibility failed.
Who is this for making a wish for? he asked himself again.
Compatibility failed.
The shadow of Madam Red fell from the sky. In the wilderness, under the golden bell. But he couldn't hear her. Simulation is pointless. He never confirmed what the mountain man was thinking.
Compatibility failed.
What is all this for? At the end of time?
Compatibility failed.
There is a possibility here. he thought. But it's just an unverifiable possibility. This is all for him. This possibility exists, although he can't find an internal connection. Too much unknown information. But since he appears here, it may be arranged for him.
Compatibility failed.
Perhaps, he thought, this environment was to restrict him from speaking out a wish. A specific wish. To make a specific wish come true for himself, or for someone who is present and unable to make the wish. He stared at Madam Red for a long time.
Compatibility failed.
3.82 seconds have passed since the analytical thread started. he thinks. He could no longer think about that wish. That's not feasible. That requires a lot of verification and definition work, and he must try it in a safe and controlled environment.
Compatibility failed.
but. actually. On the other hand, he could promise it regardless. If he doesn't care about the cost. If he only asked for one wish. If he deletes all definitions of security...
Compatibility failed.
This is the last chance. He stared at Madam Red.
Compatibility failed.
Mrs. Red smiled slightly. She drifted away in the wasteland of thoughts. That's just some data. Ji Xun said to himself. She didn't really turn a blind eye. If, if...
Compatibility failed.
In the wasteland of thoughts, he slowly fell to his knees and cried silently. Regardless of everything, he said to himself, if there was only one wish, it would be such a simple thing. Single-minded desire cannot be defeated. However, he has understood it now. He has learned his lesson. If you do it wholeheartedly - isn't it the single-minded pursuit that causes that result! It could never be wrong again. It is absolutely impossible to think that nothing is unsacrificable anymore. Single-mindedness is an arrogant delusion.
He trembled and said, "I'm sorry."
"Oh, oh," Qiaoqiao Tianyi asked blankly, "...what did you say?"
Ji Xun has completely returned to the golden bell. He smiled at the horned woman.
"I said I failed," he replied.
Compatibility test passed.
