While walking on the street, Zhou Yu saw more strange sights.
Most of them are very old "people", but there are also one or two office workers in their thirties and forties. Although the time showed midnight, they were still in the street but were dressed formally, as if they were still walking on their way to work. Zhou Yu even discovered a breakfast shop that was open. The owner stood alone in the shop, maintaining the posture of scooping up some kind of fried food. However, the frying pan in front of him was empty, and even the fire on the stove was not lit at all.
"Li Li, I have a question. The time in this city is not synchronized with the stationary time of the residents, right? So what if there is a contradiction in positional relations? For example, a person who was climbing the stairs ten years ago when he died came to The ladder he stepped on didn’t exist in this city, so what would happen?”
"So far, I have not seen this situation arise, sir. As I told you just now, the birth of Migenzhu City is much shorter than we imagined, so many problems have not yet occurred. "
After Li Li made this answer, he thought for a while, and then said: "When this kind of situation occurs, there may be two ways to deal with it. One is to keep the rules unchanged - given that everything here is a 'specimen' ', it can overlap people together, or hang them in the air, which will never be more difficult than creating a city out of thin air. But I think that if there is some kind of will behind this city, it will not would take such a rough approach."
"The reason is?"
"Look around you, sir. It takes a lot of effort to make an elaborate dollhouse model, but an isolated city is much more complicated than that... The city is not a closed system, it needs to be informed by the external environment. Only by obtaining resources can the balance of various subsystems be maintained. There is no need to witness any supernatural phenomena. As long as you carefully study the various government public data of Migenzhu City, you will find that it is theoretically impossible for this city to operate successfully. It relies on some kind of strange force to exist. This is a very difficult balance maintenance process, so I think its creator has invested some emotion in it. It has a clear intention to imitate a modern city, so among people It created all kinds of miracles in the end, but was not willing to cheat in front of others. Since it has such a tendency, it is hard to imagine that it would be so rough and brutal in dealing with the citizens. Overall, I guess the current situation is just a temporary strategy. When the city accumulates enough people, maybe it will use other mechanisms."
"for example?"
"Such as re-activating the city. With a gap of ten years, Cage City and Migenzhu will become two independent time and spaces... This is an optimistic estimate."
"Is there anything else that's not optimistic?"
Li Li paused slightly. "I thought it might be a backup," she said in a strange tone.
Zhou Yu looked at her questioningly.
"When I first arrived at 'Hongluo' and 'Wangshu', I was really shocked by the scene there, Mr. Zhou Yu. They are two extremely exquisite models of ancient cities and tribes, both dating back hundreds of years. Thousands of years later, every detail is still vivid. If you have time, I strongly recommend you to visit it in person. However, even though I know that the two are far better than Cage City in terms of viewing quality, I still insist on asking you to witness it with your own eyes. Here. This is because it is essentially different from the other two. It and Migenzhu were so close in time that there is almost no essential difference between the two. It is very unusual to separate it without special intention. choice. From what I see, this is like a pre-crisis behavior - because the running system faces some kind of devastating risk, its state at a certain time in the past is copied and saved until the existing system collapses. Replace. This is a very typical backup and restore mechanism."
Her words made Zhou Yu feel more or less confused, but at least he was not completely clueless. After a brief digestion, he said: "Does this look like a software system to you?"
"Yes, I dare say this is a pretty amazing system." Li Li replied without any pause, "Although there are still many imperfections, it is more magnificent than any program we have seen. , exquisite and real. If it is not limited to one city, but can extend to a wider space and time, who can distinguish its authenticity? Sometimes this even makes me feel worried. Mr. Zhou Yu, after witnessing the How do I convince myself that everything I've experienced in the past is real and not just a house model? This fear always pops up when I start investigating."
"You are thinking too much. Since it is something that cannot be proven to exist, there is no need to think about how to prove it."
Li Li smiled complicatedly: "Fear is something much more complex than cognition, sir. It is only partly about facts and more about imagination."
"Compared with this, I would rather know what happened to the people in Migenzhu City. You said this is under the Yellow Spring, right? If so, where did the local residents here come from? Are they also fake?"
Zhou Yu had already learned a lot of information from Hong Ye, and vaguely understood the lies of this city. Therefore, when Li Li told him all this, Zhou Yu was not surprised, but felt relieved that everything had been confirmed. The only remaining issue that deserves special attention to him is those who claim to have grown up in this city.
If they, like the city, are some kind of forgery that transcends common sense, are Zhang Mumu and Chen Wei also fake? This was beyond belief.
"I don't know where they come from," Li Li said. "The professor I visited before was a local who grew up in Migenzhu. According to him, he never left in Migenzhu. This city, however, his erudition is among the best among the many scholars I have met. His words and deeds are completely true, making it difficult to believe that he is just some kind of illusion. Maybe he comes from a different place like us, but follows Some different rules for identifying oneself as native-born - although I hope so, another possibility exists. Yes, maybe all natives are just sub-programs of some system that they were created to The purpose is to populate the city and regulate outsiders.”
After hearing Li Li's words, the first image that came to Zhou Yu's mind was not Zhang Mumu for some reason, but Chen Wei's appearance while chatting.
"If they were just created things, wouldn't they be too real? I can't see any difference between them and real people."
Li Li fell into a strange silence. After a while, she said slowly and steadily: "Strictly speaking, Mr. Zhou Yu, we may also be created."
“Do you believe in creationism?”
"That's not what I meant, sir. What I want to point out is that, in essence, we are just an integration of many physical changes and chemical reactions, a structure carefully built with material materials according to genetic drawings. If we delve into its essence, we and inorganic matter The boundaries are very blurred. In order to integrate the body, our brain has built a complete operating system and set its surface operation interface to be very intuitive, which is the cognition of 'I'. We can recognize 'Self' exists, so we believe that we are unique, and even construct the concept of 'soul' for this purpose. But in fact, maybe it is just a part of the overall structure, an illusion caused by the continuous operation of some kind of program. Maybe we originally It is just some kind of 'Chinese Room' that is complex enough that outsiders cannot correctly identify whether we are intelligent or not, and even we ourselves have the illusion of 'free will' due to the complexity of the system. In physics Randomness doesn’t exist.”
Zhou Yu listened to her words blankly. This time he really couldn't understand it at all. The only thing he could distinguish was the gloomy look on Li Li's face. For a brief moment, some kind of crazy haze seemed to pass through the other party's eyes full of intellectual light.
