Chapter 238 The final puzzle (three in one chapter)
Fighting in the artifact space.
Lu Wu and Beili were looking at No. 1, who was tied up in the air, and checking her physical condition.
[Cuidi (Experimental Subject)]:
Character information: A modified man from the underground science and technology laboratory of GED. His body has been washed by spiritual energy and he has gained strength beyond ordinary people. He is numbered No. 1 in the organization.
Character status: Brainwashed, comatose
"I didn't expect Geed to be developing the use of spiritual energy." Looking at No. 1, Beili also looked a little surprised.
"Can they succeed?" Lu Wu asked curiously.
"It's impossible to succeed. The spiritual energy in the entire world has become thin. I guess they just found a way to practice from some ancient documents. They extracted the thin spiritual energy in the experiment and injected it into No. 1's body. Later,
The use of experimental equipment to force it to operate in his body resulted in changes in his physical fitness. Generally speaking, it is a kind of forced practice with the assistance of instruments. This kind of practice will inevitably damage the foundation, even if it gains powerful strength.
, it’s only temporary and won’t last long.”
Lu Wu suddenly nodded after understanding the principle.
However, the fact that Geed actually had a modified person and an underground laboratory was beyond his expectation.
Thinking of the G+D representative saying on the phone that he was "still too young," Lu Wu couldn't help but frown.
"Xiao Li, please help me modify my phone. This phone is not encrypted now. They can find me through location. Although I am not afraid of them, it will be very troublesome!"
Beili nodded: "By the way, do you want to return a big gift to them?"
"What kind of gift?"
Beili pointed at No. 1: "If they can transform it, I can naturally do it too. What's more, with the artifact here, it's easy to re-brainwash him. When the time comes, I'll send the enhanced version of No. 1 back to them!"
Lu Wu heard this, a smile appeared on his face, and then he nodded.
Compared with research and development capabilities, Beili's strength is this. This is a magical luoli who believes in science in the cultivation world.
…
Dragon Kingdom, in a villa in Qiyun City.
The sound of the alarm clock woke up Yin Xiaoqi, who was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
She bent down and stood up, glanced around confusedly, and then stared at the alarm clock that was still "screaming".
After a few seconds of silence, Yin Xiaoqi, who had recovered somewhat, slowly pressed the alarm clock, then fell on the bed again and fell into a deep sleep.
"Yin Xiaoqi, get up!" As the mechanical and electronic sound sounded, the bed suddenly began to shake.
"My dear, let me sleep for five more minutes, just five minutes!" Yin Xiaoqi closed her eyes, hugged the quilt, and swayed skillfully with the rocking of the bed.
"The second step of the wake-up process starts. All your devices will self-destruct in 5 minutes. The countdown starts now..."
Hearing that she was going to self-destruct, Yin Xiaoqi, who had been looking lazy just now and wanted to continue sleeping, suddenly opened her eyes wide and jumped up from the bed quickly.
"My dear, if you have something to say, please speak it carefully and don't blow yourself up easily!"
At this time, a blue flying square box slowly floated over Yin Xiaoqi, and an angry expression appeared on the screen:
"Start your decryption plan quickly. These are the rules you set yourself. You are not allowed to go back on it!"
When Yin Xiaoqi heard this, she waved her hands sadly:
"I know, I'll get up now."
After dressing up, Yin Xiaoqi still looked sleepy from lack of sleep.
Opening the curtains, warm sunlight filled the entire room. Yin Xiaoqi stretched lazily, and her curvy figure looked particularly charming in the sunlight.
"Xiaoqi, your breakfast is ready."
As the smart butler Xiaoguai's voice sounded, a dining car pushed in and slowly stopped in front of Yin Xiaoqi.
After eating breakfast, Yin Xiaoqi finally had a look on her face:
"My dear, maybe you can solve the mystery today. I'm really looking forward to what kind of treasure it will be!"
"Come on, you are the best!" The butler Xiaoguai was swinging back and forth in mid-air.
Hearing this, Yin Xiaoqi smiled, walked to the bed, stretched out her hand and touched the wall.
A green light was projected, and after sweeping over her body, the wall automatically separated, revealing a passage, and Yin Xiaoqi stepped into it.
As the lights automatically turn on, the entire scene inside the wall is revealed.
It is filled with various mechanical equipment, some of which are still running automatically. Supported by the clicking sounds of gears and flashing lights, the interior looks like a mysterious laboratory in a science fiction movie.
She came to the console and sat down. As all the screens in front of her lit up, Yin Xiaoqi had a look of anticipation on her face.
[ZZZX treasure plan, if you think your IQ is as good as a god, then prove it to me. If you crack all the clues, you will get my treasure!]
A familiar interface appeared in front of Yin Xiaoqi.
After the font of this line is darkened, the interface jumps.
[ZZZX Treasure Project, Level 258 (Final Chapter): Do you want to start decryption? 】
Seeing the words "final chapter", Yin Xiaoqi clenched her fists excitedly.
The ZZZX treasure plan is a problem that Yin Xiaoqi has been working hard to solve in the past few months.
When she first discovered this plan on the dark web, it caused quite a stir in her circle. Many people had tracked down the person behind this mystery, wondering if it was a prank or if there was real treasure hidden in it.
However, apart from knowing that the creator of this puzzle called himself Beili, she had no other clues. Even Yin Xiaoqi returned in vain after several searches.
It is precisely because of this that this treasure plan successfully aroused Yin Xiaoqi's curiosity.
She believes that her IQ is higher than 99.9% of humans, and she wants to challenge the mystery to find out what the final treasure is.
However, after contacting him, Yin Xiaoqi had to admire the creator of this puzzle.
At the beginning of the puzzle, it was just a picture with white text on a black background, with subtitles such as ZZZX Treasure Plan, and no other hints.
Naturally, this first level did not faze her. After carefully studying the picture, Yin Xiaoqi tried to zoom in and out to find clues, but to no avail.
She switched to using a text editor to open the image and tried to crack it using the Caesar decryption method. This time she obtained the link to the next puzzle.
But this is just the beginning.
All the puzzles are connected one after another, and the difficulty continues to rise.
It covers everything from cryptography to Mayan numerals, to religion, mysticism, and even art. The clues to answer the questions range from the Internet to the streets of cities in various countries in real life, and the scope is astonishingly wide.
During the decryption process, she wanted to give up several times, and even almost collapsed. However, due to her stubborn personality, she still persisted.
These 258 levels are the last level of this puzzle. As long as she can crack it, she can get the treasure behind the puzzle.
As the black subtitles fade away, the final puzzle emerges:
[Hello, smart people who have come to the final level, this is the last test. Now I will give you a link. Put on the virtual helmet and then open it. There will be the final test there. If you can pass, the treasure is
It’s yours!]
A charming smile appeared on Yin Xiaoqi's face:
"Treasure! Treasure!"
Then she followed the prompts, put on the virtual suit and virtual helmet, and then clicked the link to the final level in the interface.
His sight passed through the blue light curtain and was shrouded in white light.
At this time, Yin Xiaoqi suddenly felt a pain in her head, and then she realized that she had lost control of her body.
The sudden change made Yin Xiaoqi feel uneasy, and she immediately tried to exit the interface.
However, what frightened her was that no matter how she took force exit measures, the virtual interface never appeared.
She tried very hard to open her eyes and tried to control her body to make some movements, but she felt that she had completely lost the sense of these parts, as if she had been paralyzed.
In such dead silence, Yin Xiaoqi finally panicked.
I just opened the link, but I lost control of my body. Even the emergency exit system of the virtual device didn't work.
This all seemed too weird.
Yin Xiaoqi forced herself to calm down and comforted herself that this was just a process of decryption, and whether she failed or succeeded, she would be released.
Just like that, in fear, a picture suddenly appeared in front of Yin Xiaoqi's eyes.
It was a frozen picture, like a background screen on a monitor. Moreover, this picture could not be moved and was completely beyond her control.
The picture shows a bulky computer, with many drawings scattered on the table. The chair next to the table is even more dilapidated, and the cotton in the backrest is exposed from the leather, as if it will fall apart at any time.
Such a frozen scene continued, making Yin Xiaoqi more and more uneasy.
Everything in front of her was strange, and she couldn't understand what was happening.
After an unknown amount of time, the picture finally changed.
An old man wearing a white coat, white hair, and thick glasses suddenly appeared in the picture.
He stretched out in front of his desk, then picked up the drawings and examined them. Then he turned his attention to the computer and pressed a few times on the keyboard. Suddenly the screen jumped, and groups of garbled symbols appeared on it.
on the computer screen.
After a quick glance, the old man's expression suddenly changed and he immediately turned his attention to Yin Xiaoqi, as if he could see Yin Xiaoqi through the frozen screen.
"You actually came out?"
He seems to be talking to me?
Yin Xiaoqi thought in her mind, but she had lost control of her body. Even though her heart was full of doubts, she could not answer the old man's questions.
However, while Yin Xiaoqi was thinking, a set of weird characters appeared on the computer again, but she had never seen such twisted characters before, and she didn't know what they meant.
The old man glanced at these characters and sighed:
"You were the first to escape. I didn't expect you to be able to crack all the secrets. Congratulations, you succeeded!"
Yin Xiaoqi was very smart. She immediately realized that her thoughts seemed to be transformed into weird characters and appeared on that old computer.
Then she had a thought in her mind, and suddenly a string of characters popped up on the computer again.
What she basically asked was where is this place? Why do I appear here?
After seeing this string of characters, the white-haired old man frowned and thought for a moment. Then he seemed to understand something and took out something like a remote control from his pocket and pressed a button on it.
In Yin Xiaoqi's surprise, the screen began to rotate slowly, and soon the screen was frozen in one position again.
The picture in front of her made Yin Xiaoqi's pupils suddenly shrink.
Inside a huge cylindrical glass cover, a beating brain was soaked in light green liquid, and the brain was surrounded by tiny hoses, which looked very scary.
"this is you!"
The figure of the white-haired old man appeared in the picture again, pointing at the brain and saying to Yin Xiaoqi.
Yin Xiaoqi felt that the old man was crazy, actually telling herself that he only had one brain left.
The white-haired old man seemed to know that Yin Xiaoqi could not accept it, and did not speak again, waiting for Yin Xiaoqi to recover.
Did something happen after I clicked on the link? Could it be that the laboratory exploded and only my head survived?
But then she denied her speculation, because with the current level of technology, it is still impossible for a brain to survive and function alone.
The white-haired old man glanced at the characters that appeared on the computer and shook his head:
"You are what you are, and you have been like this from the moment you were born, because you were created."
Hearing this, Yin Xiaoqi really felt that she was dreaming.
I have 23 years of life experience, but the sloppy old man in front of me tells me that I have always been a manufactured brain. This is really ridiculous.
"Now that you have come out, it doesn't hurt to tell you. In fact, everything you have experienced is fake, including the world you think you have. And this ultimate treasure is to tell you the truth and take you out of that virtual world.
."
The white-haired old man spoke shockingly again.
As if knowing that Yin Xiaoqi could not believe his words, the white-haired old man pushed up the frame and continued to speak:
"All the nerves in your brain are connected to the computer next to me by top neurological experts. Everything you experience is a computer-simulated scene, including your touch, taste and all sensory experiences.
The computer transmits it to you through your neurons, so it gives you the illusion that everything is real."
"Oh, do you think I will believe what you say? I would rather believe that everything here is an illusion."
Yin Xiaoqi thought coldly in her heart, because she couldn't accept all this, no matter how true what the white-haired old man said, she would not believe it.
Because my parents, friends, everything is so real, they are all living flesh and blood bodies, how could they be fake.
"This is an experiment. This computer simulates everything you have experienced. Even if you don't believe it, you cannot deny the authenticity of it all. As someone who has solved all the mysteries, you are qualified to know the truth!"
"Tell me this is all false!" Yin Xiaoqi roared angrily in her heart!
Glancing at the computer screen, the white-haired old man smiled:
"I know this is unacceptable, but it is the fact!"
Yin Xiaoqi couldn't calm down for a long time. Just as she was about to deny the old man's words again, she suddenly remembered that if her world was fake, why would it be so real? Could that bulky computer really be able to simulate it?
Moreover, there is a vast universe beyond the earth she lives in. Can that also be simulated?
After taking a look at Yin Xiaoqi's thoughts, the old man couldn't help but shook his head:
"Where did your universe come from?"
"The big explosion at the singularity gave birth to the universe." This idea appeared in Yin Xiaoqi's mind without hesitation.
"From scratch, don't you think it's strange? The real world has no boundaries, and the world you are in is quantified. Space can be quantified, time can be quantified, and everything can be quantified."
Although Yin Xiaoqi has not studied this point, she knows that this is indeed the case in the world she lives in. After all, even light has been quantified.
Seemingly seeing Yin Xiaoqi's doubts, the white-haired old man continued:
"It's like a photo on your computer in the virtual world. If you keep zooming in, you can find that the photo is actually made up of pixels."
"This doesn't mean anything"
"Then for another example, there is a sandbox game called 'Minecraft' in the world you are in. All settings in it have limits, just like building a building. The highest building has 250 units.
I can’t build it anymore.”
The old man suddenly smiled: "Then who set this rule!"
Yin Xiaoqi was shocked. This game was naturally set up by humans.
"Furthermore, why does it rain in your world?" the old man continued to ask.
"Naturally, water vapor rises to a certain height and turns into small water droplets when cooled. The small water droplets form clouds, and the clouds collide with each other to form large water droplets, which then fall due to gravity and turn into rain." Yin Xiaoqi answered without hesitation.
"Oh?", the wrinkles on the old man's face relaxed.
"Then why does water turn into water vapor? Why do small water droplets form? Why can't air support water droplets, and why is there gravity? Can you tell me the answer?"
Before Yin Xiaoqi could answer, the old man continued:
"These are like game rules. Correspondingly, the rules of the virtual world you are in are also formulated. However, the real world is undefinable and is close to the "chaos"-like existence you know."
"And your world is completely made up of rules and regulations that are like the rules of a game. Everything has its limits!"
"What about exceeding the limit?" Yin Xiaoqi was already a little scared.
The white-haired old man pushed the frame again:
"In the virtual world you are in, the fastest speed is the speed of light. If it exceeds the speed of light, the surrounding space will be distorted. This is just like a computer. It is a principle that it will become laggy when running with overloaded power."
After hearing these words, Yin Xiaoqi fell silent because she found that she could not refute the old man's words.
But she still firmly believes that the world she lives in is real, because everything is so real.
"If you think that a bulky computer cannot simulate such a real world, that's because you have fallen into a misunderstanding. After all, the virtual world you are in has rules, but the real world I am in has no rules! Even if it is the size of a finger,
A computer can also easily simulate the operation of the entire universe in the virtual world you are in."
Yin Xiaoqi suddenly didn't want to argue with her anymore:
"Can you send me back, even if that world is fake!"
The old man smiled: "Your mind has jumped out of that simulated world, and you can't go back. As a cracker, congratulations on coming to the real world!"
"Can you live in this state? Bastard, you might as well kill me." Yin Xiaoqi's emotions once again caused huge fluctuations, causing a long string of characters to appear on the computer screen.
"This is the real you, wouldn't it be nice to return to your true self?"
"You're so tall!"
The white-haired old man was not angry, and still looked at the screen with a smile. Then he took out a remote control again and pressed it.
Suddenly, the picture in front of Yin Xiaoqi began to rotate again, and rows of cylindrical glass covers appeared in her field of vision, and within these glass covers, no surprise, they were filled with beating brains.
"You are not alone! But they do not exist in your world. I simulated a world for each of them independently!"
"Why are you doing this!"
"No reason, I just want to confirm something!"
"Don't be complacent! Maybe the world you live in is also fake, and you are just a brain soaked in nutrient solution!"
Seeing this paragraph of characters appearing on the computer, the white-haired old man was obviously stunned for a moment, but then he laughed again:
"I have suspected that this is possible, but my world has no rules, so I believe I am real!"
"Is there any evidence? Why is it true without definition? Maybe you are just a brain that is about to rot. There is no difference between us. Don't look at me with your pity eyes!"
"Why are you angry? You must know that your current mood swings are also simulated for you by this bulky computer, and are not created by you yourself!"
"Fuck you uncle, you are so awesome, try to make me unable to have emotions!"
"What was given to you the moment you were created cannot be achieved unless you are completely broken down!"
The old man's tone was always as calm as water, but his words revealed noncommittal opinions, which made Yin Xiaoqi's firm belief continue to waver.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Yin Xiaoqi's mind, and she thought of a world she lived in, a sentence from Descartes' idealism:
"Cogito ergo sum!"
Even if everything is false, but the thought is true, then I really exist.
The concept in Yin Xiaoqi's mind immediately appeared on the computer screen, and the old man who saw this message suddenly fell into deep thought.
"Can you explain? Even if the computer gives me emotions, how can I explain that I can think about this? Is the conversation between me and you actually this bulky computer talking to you?"
The old man suddenly fell silent, unable to answer Yin Xiaoqi's question for a while.
Yin Xiaoqi's words caused the old man to fall into his own paradox.
If he answers that Yin Xiaoqi's thoughts are false, it means that he has actually been talking to his computer, but if he answers that Yin Xiaoqi's thoughts are true, then Yin Xiaoqi is real.
"What? Can't you answer? Even if you say that my thinking is fake, I won't believe it, because I believe in myself, the world, my parents, and my friends are all real."
"Cogito ergo sum!"
"You are really a very strange being." The old man suddenly smiled happily, looking at Yin Xiaoqi with satisfaction in his eyes.
Yin Xiaoqi did not speak and continued to remain silent.
"Congratulations, you successfully passed this test. From now on, you will receive my gift and return to your world!"
"What do you mean? Is everything you said really false? Just the final test of the puzzle?" Yin Xiaoqi suddenly became excited.
The old man smiled slightly: "I can't answer whether it is true or false, because it is just a guess of mine and I can't confirm it!"
At this time, the old man took out the remote control:
"Okay, I'll send you away, you have succeeded!"
The picture gradually darkens.
"Who are you?" Before leaving, Yin Xiaoqi asked her doubts.
"You can call me Beili!"
(Author: Well, the paradox of the brain in a vat, the last puzzle is a bit complicated, you can read it several times!)
(Thanks to book friend 20171230024527992 for the reward of 50,000 starting coins)
