Chapter Sixty: No One Lives Forever
Hao Qi looked at Shen Kuo silently, or the person who currently occupies Shen Kuo's body, this is a dangerous person, not a risk of strength. For Hao Qi, it is almost impossible for someone in the earth to make him feel dangerous when facing one-on-one. His strength is almost mythical in the Earth era, and belongs to humans who tear up to the level of their hands. What really makes him feel dangerous is the look of this man, which belongs to a kind of... looking down on life and death indifferent? Or he doesn't care about life and death at all. Whether it is his own or the eyes of other people's life and death, such people are in reality, but they are generally extremist organizations.
The man was also looking at Hao Qi, looking at Hao Qi with a look full of surprise, no, it should be an expression that is more exaggerated than surprise. If it must be described, it would be as if this man was watching a miracle or miracle.
"...Is it really coming to the end? But one infinity is still infinite, it makes no sense..." The man murmured to himself. Fortunately, his state did not last long. With the slight knocking sound from the cab ahead, the man came to his senses and looked at Hao Qi and Shi Zhong seriously.
"I know you have too many questions, and I am now here to answer your questions... Let's get to know you first. My name is Archimedes, and the one who drives is my partner Jiang Wengui, this... Tian Xiang is right? This is our first meeting, but Mr. Shi Zhong, it is the second time we met. I was really embarrassed and too rough last time, but the situation was urgent at the time, so I really didn't care about so many." This man spoke to Hao Qi and Shi Zhong. It was obvious that his attitude towards Hao Qi was just casual, but his attitude towards Shi Zhong was very serious.
Shi Zhong looked at Archimedra seriously, then shook his head and said, "This is not your original body and appearance, then when did I see you?"
Archimedra smiled bitterly and said, "I was in your father's body... I was so sorry. I had no choice but to do so. If it weren't for this, you and your father would enter another parallel world. We can't track you anymore, at least you on this trajectory line, so I was a little rough at that time..."
Shi Zhong's face changed, and tears seemed to be coming out again, and Hao Qi said directly next to him: "It means that you killed his father in order to save Shi Zhong?" The meaning of this was already very impolite, but Hao Qi had no intention of taking action, because he could see that the man and the driver were not hostile to him and Shi Zhong.
Archimedra shook her head and said, "Kill? No, it's impossible to kill. No one can kill anyone. No one will die. Although it seems to be dead in your opinion, I have not killed anyone... You must not understand so you will definitely not understand, right? Two little gentlemen, what I want to tell you next is the truth of everything, and it is also the cruelest truth in this universe. If you want to blame it in the future, blame everything in this universe. I just revealed everything for you. It's not me that I let it happen... Next, please don't interrupt me. We don't have much time left. Within ten minutes, we will be intercepted, so our time is only less than ten minutes."
"The beginning of everything was in 1999. In that year, a research project failed in an extremely secret base in Mexico. The research project had nothing to do with the truth of all this, nor with us. What really mattered was a byproduct of this research... You should know that when you suddenly turn on the light in a dark room, look directly at the light and turn it off immediately, the image of the light will still remain on your retina. This phenomenon is called visual retention. In the byproduct of the research in 1999, the researchers found that when humans die, their brains will also be found.
The memory images that remained about eight minutes before his death, but the technology was not mature at that time, so it was only retained as a technology inventory. All of this was not until 2022, because international terrorist attacks reached their peak again, the United States carried out redevelopment of this technology, and finally developed a practical technology generated by quantum theory and calculus technology. It can connect a person who is trapped in a vegetative state with the information of the deceased's death, so that consciousness can enter the eight minutes virtually before the deceased's death, relying on this to find the real murderer and capture terrorists..."
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Hao Qi and Shi Zhong interrupted Archimedra at the same time, but Archimedra obviously knew what they wanted to say and said directly: "The source code movie is right? That's right, this technology in the United States is indeed inspired by some of the technology from the source code movie, but from a science fiction movie to practical technological means, the gap between this is simply uncalculable. Please continue to listen to me, two gentlemen..."
"This technology is actually flawed. First, humans in the state of vegetative can be connected. Second, the human brain is only a part of the ** after all, not a mechanical part. After several use, the person will be completely dead. Because of these two reasons, the US government's practice is similar to the method in the source code, which is secret, and will never let the outside world know all this. Some of these vegetative people are people in the army and some are civilians. The implementation of this plan has allowed the US government to eliminate most of the extremist organizations that are hostile to the United States in just a few years, and also let the US government eliminate most of the hostile extremist organizations to the United States in just a few years.
Some other great powers in the world realized the advantage of this technology, so they collaborated with the United States to study this technology, and then the technology was further updated. In 2035, 19 years later, the application of this technology is no longer limited to the material of the brain of the dead. Even as long as there are cells, the thinking of the vegetable can enter the environment eight minutes before the death of this person. Therefore, some difficult mystery in history has been answered. In the earliest days, relying on this technology even went back hundreds of thousands of years ago, and then at this time…”
When Archimedra said this, he smiled bitterly, and continued to say more than ten seconds later: "There were plural ordinary civilians. They stood up to expose everything the government has about this plan, including inhuman vegetatives, including vegetatives with better quality and greater brain nerve activity, and even government vegetatives. Moreover, these civilians even claimed that they were victims of these technologies. They... Through the quantum theory worldview, in the virtual death retracement, they successfully stopped the terrorist attacks because of the brain death of the real body, and their consciousness stayed on the body of the ordinary person who had not died. Yes, it was the plot in the source code! The virtual death retracement of the eight minutes is not a real virtual, but opened the door to the parallel world on the other hand, and in our world, there are people who came to another parallel world!"
"The emergence of these people has caused the governments involved to be in great trouble. Some countries even broke out in revolutions and riots, but these are not the main things. The main thing is that scientists confirmed the existence of parallel worlds through the experience of these people, and then some new things appeared... For example, time travel services, such as rebirth services, etc. Do you still understand? Rich and powerful people, they will also get old and sick, have terminal illnesses, or are about to die of old age. Through science and technology, they will put their brain waves at the same level as vegetatives, and then inject their consciousness into a celebrity in a certain period of history, or reborn in someone many years ago, and then let their real bodies die, thus gaining the power to travel and rebirth. Anyway, parallel worlds cannot affect reality, and this will not involve any legal prohibition. Therefore, in 2035, the so-called Great Time Travel era kicks off, but..."
"What a great noun, it sounds like a great time travel, haha, is it really that simple?"
Archimedra laughed and said, "Then, the real world began to be in chaos, because it is very likely that one person will be possessed by another person in the next moment, or one person suddenly started to kill the opponent he wanted to protect, or... Do you two still understand? Yes, I didn't understand at that time either. Didn't I say that parallel worlds can never interfere with each other? Until a great scientist who is said to be a rebirth many years later, he released an extremely important argumentation information through anonymous information..."
"This information proves a hypothesis that has long appeared, a hypothesis that could not be falsified or proved in the past. The name of this hypothesis is...quantum suicide!"
"There is such a cognition that if consciousness must exist continuously in certain branches of the universe, then we should conclude that it not only exists at all times, but also forever. From this cognition, an ultimate anthropology theory that cannot be falsified or proven is born, which is called quantum suicide. This theory believes that the meaning of the universe to you is that you are still "alive" to be able to feel it. In other words, after you die, there is no meaning to all your worlds, all universes, and all parallel worlds, because you no longer exist. The information about your consciousness and information break and no longer exist, which violates the continuity and permanence of information."
"So, the ultimate understanding of this theory is that you can't die no matter what. For example, if you commit suicide, what you feel and hear will always be stuck. If you stab your heart with a knife, then the result you get is that the knife directly penetrates your heart and is unharmed when pulled out. It sounds incredible, right? But this is theoretically possible, because the knife is composed of a group of particles that meet the wave equation, so there is a very small, very small, but definitely not zero probability, allowing the knife to penetrate the heart directly, but you will not die."
Speaking of this, Archimedes smiled bitterly and took out a handful of his arms, but before he could do anything, there was another knocking sound from the front window of the car. Archimedes immediately put it down and said, "I originally wanted to experiment on the spot, but the parallel world is annoying, so I continued to say... To put it simply, this theory believes that once a consciousness appears, then this consciousness is 'eternal life' and will not die or be annihilated no matter what. The example just mentioned is a little extreme. In some possibilities of you that you will die, there will always be accidents of one kind and another that will lead to you being unable to die. For example, if the plane crashes, everyone may die, and you survived because of extreme luck. But in fact, you are actually dead in the parallel world. The reason why you survived alone is because this is the parallel world you survived. The other parallel worlds where you die are meaningless to you, and the situation is suitable for everyone on the plane."
"In addition, there are many things that can actually explain this theory. For example, you have a father, so you are there, and your father must have a grandfather. From then on, there must be a man in each generation of your bloodline to pass on you. The probability of this itself is actually too small, but this itself is meaningful to you, because only if you exist, this universe is meaningful to you, otherwise the universe without you will be meaningless to you... This is a theory that cannot be falsified, such as if you cannot commit suicide, or jumping down from the world's highest building to explain, because in our opinion, you are dead, and the parallel world where you are not dead cannot interfere with the world where we are, which leads to the unfalsification of this theory until...the situation of mutual interference between parallel worlds occurs!"
Archimedra suddenly looked out the window, and a few small black dots appeared in the distance outside the window. Although it was still far away, Hao Qi could see clearly that it was obviously a helicopter flying in.
Archimedra immediately said anxiously: "It seems that we have not had much time left. I will continue to say, you... no, Mr. Shi Zhong, please listen to all this."
"In our history, starting from 2035, after the so-called Great Time Travel Age was launched, the whole world was in extreme chaos, because in quantum theory, parallel worlds are infinite and infinite, but with the confirmation of quantum suicide theory, there is a contradiction, that is, people will not die, and they will not die in any situation. But that is only relative to him, he has died countless times and countless times in other worlds. Although one infinity is still infinite, the parallel world with him will always decrease slowly. Although we don’t know what will become in the end, this is theoretically true, so the parallel world is interfered by us, and we keep interfering with the parallel world, with infinite overlap. Finally, a nuclear war broke out in 2036. Our world, no, everyone except me, died. This is actually just a parallel world where I am still alive, and the situation of others is the same."
"In this case, I activated the instrument and allowed me to travel through time myself. I don't know other people in my organization, but I have lived for more than 800 years and have not really died. But do you know? I am just a child in the organization. The one who drives, it is said that she has lived for more than 6,000 years, but she is just a child. There are still people in the organization who have lived for more than 100,000 years. It is said that in the ending organization, there are people who have lived for two million years, but they have completely gone crazy. No, it is a state that is more terrible than madness. Death... is everything they dream of."
Speaking of this, Archimedra finally stopped. He looked up and signaled to Shi Zhong. Shi Zhong did not speak. Hao Qi asked first: "In other words, are there two organizations?"
Archimedra hesitated for a moment, nodded, and shook her head again, "In my parallel world, there are only two organizations, but in other parallel worlds, there may be infinite organizations. After all, infinite is still infinite... These two organizations are the restart organization where I am, and the final organization that triggered the two big explosions in Shanghai. In fact, the final organization did not exist at the beginning, but once you live for more than 500,000 years, most people will join the final organization, including the former leader of my organization and the former leader... Is there any problem? We can stay for up to thirty seconds."
Hao Qi immediately asked again: "Then why do you chase Shi Zhong, and why do you protect him?"
Archimedes smiled and said, "Because we want to die... I mentioned a possibility before, there is a parallel world where I exist, because my death will begin to reduce its number. Although it is still infinitely large, its number ratio will always drop to a certain number in a parallel world without me. If...it continues to decrease infinitely until only the last parallel world with me is left, what do you think will happen?"
"You will die." Hao Qi replied immediately.
"No, something more interesting may happen." Archimedes laughed, and then he looked at Shi Zhong seriously and said, "We have tried many ways to commit suicide at speed, such as jumping into a nuclear waste pool, standing at the launch of Gauss' weapons, such as bombing ourselves with nuclear bombs, and even flying directly into the sun, but no one died, no one died because of this, do you understand? Those who have lived for more than 500,000 years have confirmed that they or others cannot kill themselves, so they have become the people in the end of the organization in despair, but we still retain the last hope and the hope of restarting everything, and you, Shi Zhong..."
"You are the beginning and the end, you are the alpha and Omega..."
Alfa Omega's voice became lighter and softer, and then he lowered his head, Shen Kuo's body fell softly on the seat, Archimedes... had left. (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!