"I used to think that after I retire, I can buy an island here and live there, which can be regarded as a retreat." Zheng Beichuan told Su Che what he had thought.
There are many people on the large cruise ship, but everyone is very busy and has no time to chat.
"It's not too late now." Su Che said something perfunctory before taking out the drawings and saying: "The Maozi have withdrawn, and the grandsons of the New American League have also escaped. We are alone and unable to support ourselves."
Zheng Beichuan nodded: "It's quite annoying, but over the years, hasn't our country always been a loner in the world? In the past, we relied on them to understand, but now it seems that there is no need at all.
"
"Then... what's the direction? Do you prefer fighting or fleeing?"
"Fight? You can't win, right?" Zheng Beichuan smiled and said bitterly: "Escape is not an option. We can't really install an engine on the earth and escape from the solar system. This method is not scientific at all."
"Yes, the public panic is secondary. The key point is that it is difficult for technology to achieve leapfrog breakthroughs." Su Che pointed out the biggest pain point of the current predicament.
"The country hopes that we will do our best, but there is no good direction. Even if we have some strength, we will have no target." Zheng Beichuan threw the fish in his hand to the seagull and then said: "Maybe we can reconsider launching the 'Central Curtain' plan.
"
Su Che was shocked when he heard this: "'Central Curtain'? Are you kidding me?"
"I'm not interested in joking now." Zheng Beichuan said: "Perhaps we were too pretentious from the beginning, just like Americans always clamored about freedom and equality in the past, it was just an expression of excessive pretentiousness, so you also
There’s no need to be so surprised, not to mention that your Su family doesn’t seem to have completely given up on this plan after all these years, right?”
Su Che stopped talking. He looked towards the sea. In a very distant place, more and more ships gathered together, like a group of onlookers, but how could they know that they were the "lively" being watched.
After a long time, Su Che seemed to have figured it out. He sighed and laughed at himself: "You are right. In the past, when we thought about problems, especially when they were related to the happiness of the world, or the survival of human society and civilization,
They have imposed too many shackles on themselves, so that they have not been able to analyze the essence of the problem in depth... But in fact, we cannot refuse development, otherwise our development over the years will be nonsense, and human civilization can continue to exist.
, those empires can still continue, and people in the mountains don’t need to know what changes are happening outside the mountains, because if the herding children don’t know that there is such a thing as chocolate in the world, some red wild fruits in the mountains can also be delicacies in the world..."
Zheng Beichuan looked at Su Che and nodded: "So...how feasible do you think this plan is?"
"It's very high. I can even restart it now and complete the initial sub-model without spending much manpower and material resources." Su Che said.
After Zheng Beichuan heard this, it was his turn to be surprised. He frowned and said, "Seriously?"
"Of course." Su Che explained: "At first, we all thought that 'slicing the universe' was a joke, similar to the frog in the well trying to fabricate the world. But in fact, for the frog in the well, the piece of sky it can see is the entire world.
If so, why should we bother with
Is the whole world real or fake?”
After hearing this, Zheng Beichuan smiled bitterly: "You confused me."
Su Che put it another way: "You can think about it this way, if it were you, what elements would you like your life to be made of?"
"This question is actually quite abstract." After Zheng Beichuan said it, he thought about it carefully and then replied: "Maybe like what I said at the beginning, I might buy an island and then hire some people to help me take care of it.
This way I can enjoy my retirement life with peace of mind.”
"Yes, that's what I want to say." Su Che said with a smile.
Zheng Beichuan hasn't fully understood yet.
Su Che explained in detail: "You see, in fact, for the vast majority of people in the world, the world and space they know and actually live in are still limited. For example, although Xiao Ming can communicate with Su's Enterprise through his mobile phone,
The free high-tech think tank provided for him can pay attention to news and information from all over the world in real time, and can even understand the solar system more broadly, and recognize the deep space of the universe beyond the solar system, but these things are out of reach for him, or in other words,
They are all illusory, and his real life may revolve around two points and one line like home, company, and home throughout his life. Even if he occasionally has travel plans, the world he can perceive is still very limited."
"Hmm... similar to the difference between open world and guided mode?" Zheng Beichuan used a more vivid example to describe it.
"Yes! It was a concept many years ago. At that time, the Su family also had many game studios. From the studio's annual report, I found that not everyone yearns for a completely open world. After all, everyone
Time and energy are limited, so we can use some necessary guidance to frame the scope of individual exploration of the world, thereby saving game creation costs. While satisfying the user experience, we can create a seemingly open world, but in fact it may only be a few
'The Truman Show' constructed with stickers."
"Perhaps you should have used 'The Truman Show' to express what you meant from the beginning." Zheng Beichuan pointed out Su Che's tendency to use roundabout ways of speaking.
Su Che was slightly startled and said with a little embarrassment: "You are right, the 'Central Curtain' is The Truman Show."
"But the problem is..." Zheng Beichuan still looked worried.
Su Che knew what he was worried about.
He said: ""The Truman Show" was a 1998 movie, more than a century ago. I don't think the thinking it triggered at the time and people's understanding of that world are still isolated and completely convincing today.
, like now, what else can we do? Really hit the earth with an engine, and then use a gravitational slingshot to pop the earth out of the solar system?"
"The idea is good, but the time is obviously not enough." Zheng Beichuan smiled.
"Yes, we have no time, so this plan is not feasible, but the 'Central Curtain' is the best consideration."
"Well...but I heard that there is a disagreement at Xinghan International. Some radicals plan to disclose to the world in advance the truth that the solar system is about to be invaded by a secondary civilization." Zheng Beichuan looked up at the sky, and saw the white silk in the distance.
The belt is not a cloud, but a space elevator, the link between the Shanhai International Space Station and the earth.
"What?! Are they crazy!"
"No, the analysis report shows that they are very rational. They never felt that they were doing this to retaliate against anyone. They just insisted that everyone in the world should have the right to know the truth."
"Then they know
Don’t you know that the world also has the right to refuse to know the truth? What’s more, doing so is bound to cause panic and riots, and I don’t know how many people will die in advance from social unrest.”
"That's not what they care about." After Zheng Beichuan finished speaking, he suddenly asked: "Do you really think it's not too late for me to buy an island?"
Su Che glanced at him and said, "If you want to travel, it's not too late as long as you step out of the room."
Zheng Beichuan was slightly startled when he heard this, and then laughed loudly: "You are right, I delayed for too long."
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Autumn 2114
When Su Che saw Zheng Beichuan again, he was injured and looked very decadent.
"They wanted to kill me, but unfortunately the method was too childish." Zheng Beichuan recovered well.
Su Che already understood the whole story.
Ever since Zheng Beichuan proposed restarting the "Central Curtain" that day, the fat, dark old man began to travel around the world, trying to recruit more resources. Unexpectedly, Zheng Beichuan not only ran into obstacles everywhere, but was also almost sent to the international airport.
Court, the crime is "anti/humanity".
But Zheng Beichuan was not discouraged, nor was he greatly affected. He just felt that the world was indeed more hypocritical than he imagined.
"It's clearly time to change, but they are still so pedantic. I really don't understand what's so pretentious about this."
"Perhaps it's because everyone has a ship of Theseus in their subconscious mind." Su Che brought Zheng Beichuan his favorite braised pork, which was still hot when he opened the box.
Zheng Beichuan's eyes lit up, but he didn't move his chopsticks because the doctor had told him not to eat meat or fish in the near future.
"I've read that book. To put it bluntly, people still don't understand the nature of wisdom. In other words, we don't have enough evidence to prove that the soul exists, but what is the problem? Doesn't this fall into agnosticism?
Are you in the vortex? Because you can't tell whether Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead, so you just refuse? I don't think this is pedantic or hypocritical anymore... This is his cowardice!" Zheng Beichuan said and exploded when he was angry.
Bad language.
Su Che comforted: "But we haven't gained anything at all, right?"
"Well..." Zheng Beichuan lost some of his anger and nodded: "You're right, I really didn't expect those lunatics to really mess with the 'brain-like neurons'."
"But this matter cannot be brought to light for the time being."
"I understand...but...hey...sometimes I wonder, does morality constrain human development, or promote human progress?" Zheng Beichuan smiled after saying this, and smiled bitterly: "Mom
Yes, when did I start to struggle with these issues?"
"Don't worry about that. We have already obtained half of the 'brain-like neuron' technology. The remaining half is in the hands of three people. I have already arranged for two of them. The remaining one is more difficult. Maybe you need to step forward." Su
Che said.
"In whose hands?"
"It's not in the hands of a certain person, but in the hands of a mysterious organization. It is said that they are a supernatural research organization, but from the clues we collected, it looks more like some kind of cult organization." Su Che took out the photo after saying that.
Passed it to Zheng Beichuan.
Zheng Beichuan felt that the picture was weird and distorted after just one glance.